OldNYJim

I would really like to see more of whatever this project is!

That suspension, like all your work, is a work of art in itself. Stunning!

I love this! Is it a little piece of vinyl, or similar, under the paint? Love the timing marks too!

Aww man, that looks amazing! WAY cool Tom!!!

A lot of the old AMT kits had bongos - I've never seen a uke but the recently-reissued L'il Gypsy Wagon has a little fiddle, which would be about the right size and loosely the right shape to modify into a ukelele

An excellent start! I'm excited to see it with the tape pulled off too! I would've shot the white first and then the pink, but it looks good in the pic above to me!

Nice setup! Same here - not much sun in grey Indiana right now, so if I invest I'll likely need the 'baker' too. I'm really excited to see the bananas stuff you come up with with this thing! I think you're getting 99% of what it's possible to get out a scrapbook cutter, so this is the next logical step!

It's really cool that they've priced these at $16 rather than $30 or so like I expected. For that I'll grab one of each just for slump-busters and to fill out my AMT Slammer collection!

Good news! Still curious what that white rectangle where the roof insert should go is all about...I assume the art just isn't finished unless they're putting some factory-esque wooden framework or something in there

Those 3D printed parts look great! I've been casually looking at one of these...did you have to buy something to cure the resin or does it set up ok without UV light? Think of the crazy frames you'll be able to make with that thing!

You might also notice a broken alternator bracket, when you get that far. Every one of my kits had had that part broken (and sometimes with chrome over the split, so it was bust before they even chromed it.)

There was a bunch of discussion about this on the Ollie’s thread when they had stock of these recently - if you ordered from Amazon it might well have just been a seller who had bought a bunch of them from Ollie’s and resold on Amazon.

Love that color!! ?

Absolutely! And actually, the weird mix of skills that helps me with my job actually came mostly FROM modelling! Working with architectural and engineering plans I use scaling every day, knowing how to paint is useful, knowing how to cut vinyl and some knowledge of glues and soldering, LEDs, all kinds of stuff - and on the best days I get to design something in scale and see it blown up to real life size! The ultimate modeller’s job! ?

I've had 2 of those do the exact same thing. Seems like these kit's chrome parts don't have the yellow-y lacquer basecoat under the chrome that we often see...not sure if that's relevant or related...

That caught me out too - I was like "what on earth is a Camaro Yenko Delivery?!" Needs an Oxford comma, or the German equivalent

I never get to talk about this stuff on here because it's usually not relevant to the discussion My ears (eyes) perked up when I saw mention of that Roland VS tho! Most of what I do (without giving too much away or boring anyone) involves nationwide rebranding for large companies - and they typically want the, say, green color on their signs to look the same as the green on their vehicles to look the same as the green on their business cards. Can be a challenge making, say, a lit up sign displayed 40 feet up in the air look the exact right shade of green all day long regardless of light levels, illuminate correctly (which is where printing ultra-thin layers of ink often comes in) and be designed in such a way that it's actually feasible to make it. Ditto, doing an entire rebrand for a company with 5000 vehicles where they want the color of the driver's shirts to match the glossy paint on the truck to match the area manager's business cards. I'm much more involved in the design side of this stuff, but I have to know a bit of everything to make sure I can actually make a color palette work across a bunch of mediums - plastic bags, shirts, a truck, a billboard sign, painted fixtures at a building....or even a sheet of decals

I've been saying to my wife since March that I'm surprised Apple didn't add an iOS update that could compensate for a mask being worn whilst out in public and still allow the phone to be unlocked by the right person (but not the wrong person).

Yeah, I get it - much like the Tampo printing you see on a Hot Wheels. And yes, exactly that, you need to do some thorough cleaning on ANY machine or be prepared to switch parts if you're switching out colors and getting away from the standard CMYK setup. Totally doable though. The Pantone matching in Roland's Versaworks works great for almost all but the pickiest client with the hardest to match color - there's some shades that are just hard to match 100% without mixing something from scratch. Some greens and oranges, for example, or certain purple tones - but 99.99% of the time you'll be able to get really close on these new machines. A lot of the design work I do for bigger clients requires the minimum thickness of ink to be applied to whatever the surface is, and usually to very specific color requirements - can be challenging!

The model that one particular vendor mentioned can run custom mixed ink, so you actually wouldn't get any dot pattern of mixing of colors assuming you get the right color ink from the get-go and tell the machine to run that color. Just the same as buying the right color paint to paint something! The Roland Color Library system would almost certainly match any color that one had a Pantone code for though I haven't really noticed the print on these solvent ink Rolands to be any thicker than any other method of printing - although your mileage may vary depending on the inks used, ink build settings etc.

Oh really? That's a bummer - I expected it to probably be delayed somewhat what with all the 'rona stuff but I hadn't read anything to suggest it was unlikely to be re-released. What did you hear?

No sign of the 30 Ford...or is this list just what the German arm of Revell is releasing?

ALPs printers are maybe 16" wide (at least, the one I had) and use dry ink applied from a cartridge - almost like those correction tape dispensers you can get at Staples. They also run off a serial port and can be difficult to get to run on modern operating systems. Not impossible, but you need to know how to get them to work. As such, a smart decal printer will be using something more modern where you can get supplies off the shelf and run on any recent-ish laptop or desktop machine. That Roland printer is a commercial grade machine that sits about 5' wide and 4' high and costs anywhere up to $15k when new. It uses solvent ink, which is actually closer to paint in terms of how it works than regular ink...it definitely can print white, and do a nice job of it. Ditto silver, ditto gold. Ditto, actually, any color you can get a Pantone code for or a color match for - the machine will figure out the colors for you if they're in the document you supply the printer, but you can also have custom ink mixed to match about any color imaginable and have it use that instead. I have used both, and the Roland machine will definitely be able to provide what you need, assuming you can arrange for the art to be in the correct format. A bitmap, Microsoft Paint file or anything other than a vector will NOT work for this machine, because of the way the Roland software prints.

I use those a lot - and if you have one of the rotating Tamiya paint stands, they fit in the slots on there perfectly to hold the parts

Ohh, this’ll be a cool one! Watching! ?