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I had to roll my eyes at the latest in the line of these videos that has a video thumbnail that states "Over 1,300 Model Kits Found!" Found? Did ya? I find 1,300 model kits everytime I turn on my basement lights...but they didn't just magically show up one morning...looks like this thread and other chatter has conjured up a video from one if his friends claiming we're "hating" on this epic amazing find of a lifetime.

True...BUT Remember Round2, et al sell the bulk of their kits to weekend warrior builders who are picking things up at Hobby Lobby. Advanced Builder Beat Your Face Off These Mods type kits aren't going to sell to a guy who's building things on the weekend on a card table in his living room. I point you to any and all online howling that has occurred about the quality of the old molds they've reissued (90s era kits aside, although again how can you tell what is what as a casual observer with it all in "retro" box art). Again we here all understand what we're buying, but Mr. Cardtable just wants a kit that he can build over a couple of weekends that isn't a box of flash and ill-fitting parts. That's the part (body proportions notwithstanding) that Revell perfected since the late 1980s when the '69 Camaro and '32 Ford kits were released.

I'm beginning to think if people even cared half as much about what was IN the box, than what was ON the box, there'd probably be more than one Tamiya in the world. Or is it a - We know the contents are some highly dubious 1963 era parts, and so instead of addressing that, and the fact "new" Revell wanted no part of it - we're going to have an advertising art lecture?

I've watched the various hype videos and and his friend have put out, and discounting the hype nature implying that the Ark of the Covenant was in this collection, the majority of what has been shown has been a snooze fest. Even the JoHan stuff looks to all be USA Oldies boxings which aren't THAT old and most have all the optional parts that were in the original 60s flat boxes long gone by that point. I remember those kits on the shelf at one of the hobby shops here in Pittsburgh as a kid - and my memory is about 20yrs younger than the guys who'd really want those kits. I suspect the great majority of the things that might truly be interesting will disappear into the personal collection of Andy and other locals in Arizona, but that's the way of the world with these things. Here locally we have a few people that buy up old collections and the two car focuses clubs always get a "Member's First" look at the goods before they ever get to retail...

Latest HLJ shipment.

What does this have to do with listening to a podcast? You clearly have a computer, otherwise you wouldn't be here. A podcast isn't social media, it's a pre-recorded audio program you can listen to from anything that connects to the internet. I listen to a few from my phone while making the commute to and from work. But they're also great for tossing on in the background at the bench while building.

They already did this Studebaker a few months ago.

Got my Pre-Order in this morning. Bring on the Super Snake! ?

In case people are wondering what the included decals are supposed to build out to look like... Tabu Design actually snuck the decals out a couple of months ago to do the one-off Senna tribute car as well. https://blog.dupontregistry.com/mclaren/mclaren-p1-gtr-mso-ayrton-senna-beco/

No it's barely even out in Europe at this point.

Some secondhand things from Yahoo! Japan Auctions, along with fresh decals to fit the Hasegawa Evo 3. When reissued recently the kit does not include the Winfield tobacco markings.

Well we knew this wouldn't be a single use tool, after all nothing is these days. So upcoming is Version 2 of the LB Huracan. The one originally mentioned in this thread should be released before the end of June.

I believe Frankie's (S.K. Decals) sheets for it are still available. The only other sheets were from AutoColour which is BeemaNuNu's in house decal brand and have been OOP for awhile now...except the livery that comes in the box, that was an AutoColour sheet back in the day.

To answer the early question of "Why 2k?" Several years back the common "go-to" lacquer clear was Tamiya TS-13. Then Tamiya had to temporarily stop importing it to comply with changing labeling requirements - ya'll will recall this when people hoarded TS-29 like it was atomized platinum. People freaked out, rumors spread that Tamiya sprays were never coming back, and so on and so forth. People needed a clear, many experiments were done... This also happened to coincide with the rise of color matched hobby paint, which is of course two part requiring a clear coat. Well wouldn't you know it, those paint companies had a solution...automotive 2k clear coats. People adopted it, modelers are herd animals for the most part, and it became "THE ONLY WAY" to clear coat something. Nobody cared about warnings. It was an relatively easy to use airbrushable clear...rejoice in newfound shiny. Years have passed now, Tamiya TS Paints clearly went no where but back in stock. But this cult of 2k now exists that insist you HAVE to use it - which of course you don't. Not even for those fancy color matched paints. They just need *A* clear, not THE clear. 2k is substantially harder than regular clear, and for the person who's not at all concerned with realism, accuracy, or anything other than how shiny the model is afterwards you can just hose on the 2k and have a super duper glossy finish. 2k being urethane won't eat decals, and doesn't care what paint you used under it. Arguably (again if you're just in it for the shiny from the gun) you might not need to wet sand/compound it like you do a traditional 1k clear to achieve the same level of super duper shiny. To me 2k has no place outside of a show car or Custom with a K (Kustom) build. It's way, way, WAAAAAAAY to glossy for any realistic application beyond that. Frankly (IMHO) if you don't flat sand it back and compound it out it looks like you dipped the body in donut glaze. It's shiny. But it's also puffy and looks toylike. In the end using it, it's all about personal taste, and objective of the builder. But I find it hard to believe any finish it really worth exposing yourself (and your family) to what is basically atomized CA glue compounds. Depending on humidity and temperature it takes an hour or more to be touch dry (aka not smell anymore), and if you can smell it, that means you're still breathing in those vapors...all to maybe kinda sorta save a couple of hours of polishing the paint.

The thing is liquid plastic cements are a few percentages removed (like 52/48) to straight lacquer thinner, that's why it melts plastic. You can actually glue things with thinner if you had to...using Tamiya TS Paints is constant reactivating the putties (particularly the Tamiya White since it's basically just solidified lacquer thinner). When you used the Bondo was it God's honest two part body filler or just the single part glazing kind? You either need a 2 part epoxy based putty - like sincere Bondo, Tamiya Epoxy, etc. Or put down a primer coat of something like Badger Stynlrez (which is an acrylic polyurethane) to seal in that body work. Otherwise the lacquer thinners in the TS Paints are going to keep chemically reactivating the lacquer solvents in the glue, putty, etc and you'll play Whack-a-Hole with it until there are enough layers of material (primer/paint) on there that the thinner can't go deep enough to effect the fillers.

I would presume the same legal protections that "prevent" that from happening now. Movie theaters already don't get physical copies of a reel to reel film like they used to, they pay a certain fee for the "rights" to screen the movie, receive a heavily encrypted digital copy, and then it's up to the theater (theater chain) to charge an appropriate amount of money to turn a profit. If your employees start stealing things from say Disney or MGM I suppose there a variety of financial and opportunity related consequences that occur. I would imagine legal too, but I'm not sure how much jailhouse you can drop on a rank and file minimum wage employee vs. recouping millions from the chain for not properly safeguarding the material.

It's not really terribly different than how real art and collectibles are dealt with on an investor scale. Unless you have a place to display fine art - not to mention the staff to curate and care for it, it's most likely locked away in a perfectly controlled vault somewhere like the Geneva Freeport never to be seen again. With a NFT of something truly digital (there are some NFTs attached to physical assets as well) then ultimately you have complete control over it. You want to print a single copy for your wall and be the only person ever to see it, or license it out for t-shirts and model car box art. A good example of that is the concept behind Kevin Smith wanting to sell his next movie as a NFT. If you purchased it you could hide it away or, as the only person with a copy you could distribute the film and in turn earn all the profits from theatre revenue and streaming/DVD distribution - or anything in between. Put it a single theatre for a weekend for 5 showings and sell tickets at $1k a pop. People would pay it just to be one of a handful of people who could say they saw the movie.

Multi, it's the same Ole same Ole Revell kit from the 50s.

The Deluxe version of the kits has the figures in it.

Pretty sure Windows 7 was equipped with the first version of the integrated security/anti-virus suite now known as Windows Defender. So the anti-virus might still be getting an update or two, but the actual O/S hasn't been touched since 2020, which means you aren't getting those "Cumulative Security Patch" updates anymore. Any exploits that have been found/created on W 7 since last Spring are no longer being closed .

Wait wait wait...you mean to tell me that in a model car club the members can't cough up some kits out of their own stash to "donate to the worthy cause"? Give him some decent Revell kits that were made since his parents were born instead of burying him in a bunch of 40-60 yr old model kit reissues that didn't assemble that great when they were new.

The world is coming to more people not having the slightest clue what this engine is for because they weren't building models when the kit was released with the Turbine engine in it, considering it was only released that way once. Heck we're probably in a world where 50% of modelers weren't even alive when the kit came out in 1971. I mean that IS 50 years ago now.

The Fujimi GT40s are on a constant reissue rotation, you just have to know which kits at what time since they only run off a few hundred and they usually sell out pretty quickly.