bobthehobbyguy

Whatever you do don't put the thinned paint back with the unthinned paint. You run the risk of all of the jar going bad as the thinned paint composition has been changed.

A stunning model. It was fun following the journey.

Great project. Well done.

These decisions have to be made on a case by case basis. It depends on what Round2 feels what the market on what they do. Regardless of what you or anyone wants to believe Johan is dead and no amount of wishful thinking is going to change that.

Considering that almost a year has gone by and the Powell is still not available in any form. The missing print sample and the master do no justify this delay. I believe in 6 months we will have seen no more progress on this project. If your desire is to get any of the Johan kits then you will need to buy one now as they aren't going to get cheaper. Mikos if you want to pitch a proposal to Round2 then research what it costs to make a kit and put together a proposal to show why it's going to work. The two quotes below are good insight into how the modeling business works.

First off the original question is 3d printing scratchbuilding. I think the following quote sums this up. I agree 3d printing is just another tool if taken in the context as just another tool. As far as contests go I think 3d printing will have less impact than everyone expects. When aftermarket parts first came out the concern was that it was going to make ruin contests becuase of the cost. Regardless how you create your own unique parts those parts have to be assembled with the fundamentals in mind. A model with bad paint or glue smudges is not going to do well regardless how you have created your parts.

Although good points Bill. Model building requires motor skills. Despite how you create your parts thats isn't going to change that.

From some of the posts there are some who think that is the case. Whether you resin cast or 3d print your own design parts it requires learning new skills. The same applies to using a lathe. They all require learning new skills.

Exactly and isn't the goal to produce the best model possible.

Exactly. Scanning an old kit is only a small part of the cost. There is a tremendous improvement to the model quality by scanning the actual car .

Lots of the Renaissance masters had apprentices working for them.

As far as contests go the first criterion is how good the paint and over all parts finishing is done. With two models both the same then the degree of difficulty comes into play. And that's where the question of how the parts might come into play. So if you are going to be concerned about how the parts are made; what about the person that scratchbuilds one part and resin casts more for a project vs someone who scratchbuilds all of the parts. Scratch building is the process of building a scale model "from scratch", i.e. from raw materials, rather than building it from a commercial kit, kitbashing or buying a pre made kit

I'm sure that when models transitioned from carving blocks of wood to plastic kits there were those who said all the skill was going away in model building. Before resin casting if you needed 10 of something you had to make ten. Does that mean you are less skillful if you choose to resin casting those parts does that mean you are less skilled? No you have to learn another skill if you are going to make the parts. If you choose to scratchbuild all your parts fine. But recognize that there are new ways to do things that require learning new skills. New technology provides another tool in the toolkit for building models. Choosing the right tool to accomplish the goal is a skill.

If something is being created from nothing then it is scratchbuilt. The only difference is what tools being used to get there. The tools being only as the person who is wielding them.

Difficult people can really ruin your day when their fantasy world shapes their difficult behavior.

I agree with Bill. If you are creating your files yourself then you are creating the parts from scratch. I see it as another tool in the arsenal and there will be those who do it really well and those that will do an OK job. Check out this series of creating a model from the files from a new video game using 3d printing. It uses a wide variety of disciplines to create it ,including scratchbuilding where it is more appropriate than using 3d printing.

Very cool. Nicely done.

In the current market new tooling requires several versions based on a kit to make a kit financially viable. That's.limited by the subject matter. For example a Tucker just doesn't support that model. It would have to be a more expensive kit. The real strength of being able to 3d scan parts is to replace missing tooling or heavily modified tooling. Even better is the ability to scan the actual car. The new Revell 1971 Mustang is a great example.

The biggest issue I see in all the posts that call for just scanning the old Johan kits is that it is an easy way to get them back on the market. What is missed is the fact that creating a kit represents a significant amount of manpower and financial resources. That means the demand has to justify those costs. It would be great to see some of those older kits brought back but I just can't see there is the necessary return on investment. I've got no ill will against Okey but in the 20 plus years he's owned the Johan name he has not done very much.

It's not letting Johan die it's been dead for a long time. Buying the name would have little value because for the most part a majority of modelers the name would have no meaning. If you really want any of the Johan kits you need to buy an old kit. Round2 has list of projects they want to do and quite frankly I doubt doubt they would want to drop projects to take on trying to revive Johan. Revell definitely wouldn't be interested. Mobieus has found their niche and I don't see them.be interest. And finally Atlantis has found their niche.

Hpiguy does about 100 reviews in a year. That's building and painting the model, shooting the video ,and editing the video in 3 days. His goal is to review a lot of kits. He would not be able to do that many if he spent the time cleaning up mold lines, sink marks, and ejection pin marks.

Great project. Coming along nicely.

Doubt at this point it would be a plastic kit. Doubt many even know about it. The other problem is there were only 50 actual cars built and there weren't enough for a drag racing or stock car version. If anything it's more likely there would be a 3d printed version.

Sorry didn't realize that was the wrong video. Here is the correct link.