Modelmartin

I just build a subject that I want and I don't care that much if the subject is a really great or a so-so kit. I just do what it takes to finish it and to a level of build quality that satisfies me.

I am with you on this one, Art! For several years I was getting ready and doing some initial work on a Protar Honda RC166 GP bike. I loved the idea of really going through it and detailing it and adding all kinds of cool parts and accurizing some incorrect details. Then Tamiya goes and releases the same bike and the danged thing is near perfect! I lost all interest.

Three-wheeler? Sorry. Could not resist. Actually I really like 1/32 kits. I hope you finish restoring it.

It has little to do with the topic but it does have something to do with many of the responses! As far as the topic goes - you are right. It is amusing how simple things are badly done in some kits. Oh! The Humanity!

I wasn't thinking of you. You are the life of the party, actually! You just correct the problem, get it done and move on to the next one. I know that you were just making an observation that is interesting. It is some of the people who then piled on to the manufacturers who seem to be unhappy. The harping about kits has been a constant background noise in this hobby forever. I find it amusing. I have heard all the arguments pro and con so many times and I don't need them recited again. Buy the good kits and don't buy the bad ones, already! I produced my own resin kits for a while and still dabble in it. I have been an avid and serious model car builder since I was 7 (50 years ago). I have built plastic, resin, metal kits in many scales. I have been around and have seen sublimely awful kits and incredibly good ones. In my opinion people who need to tear down every kit that comes out are not happy people.

Wanna bet!

George, It is the distributors who make them seem like they cost twice as much. In reality they only cost a bit more than our kits ......In Japan! I just got the Tamiya 934 kit from Hobby Link Japan for $23.00.

This thread has been fascinating. It truly illustrates how some people get really bent about stuff and other people prefer to enjoy life.

I think half of the fun of building models is making them more accurate and correcting mistakes. Perfect model kits are SO boring. Where is the challenge? Not tongue in cheek. I am serious.

It's old.

You know, Harry, Some people out there are just out to make money. "Good enough" is their motto. Why sweat the details and delay the onset of sales just to get some details corrected. That is for hobbyists or enthusiasts, not businessmen! Seriously though, you need to check out some of the 60s, 70s Heller kits. They had accurate bodies but they just guessed at what type of details were under the skin. Sometimes honest mistakes are made. Maybe the car they patterned the kit after was a hermaphrodite of some sort. It has happened!

Bellisimmo!!

I would just add that sometimes I use something stronger than plastic to reinforce. Some thin sheet brass would be really strong. On thicker parts I drill into both sides of the break and superglue brass rod or piano wire in. My models have to be strong enough to survive me building them!

Now that is a proper model car!

HSO also included the Pro-stock Comet and the old Sox & Martin Cuda. They had a whole bunch of the Flintstone kits - must have been at least a dozen of them or more.

Ok Charlie! I have to call you out on that statement. I am not someone who speaks in hyperbole. I have seen Wingrove, Manuel-Olive Sans and other outstanding high quality model cars in person. Your work is definitely in the same class. I have seen your models in person too at GSL and NNL East. I enjoy your work tremendously.

That looks great. I started that same kit and am building it OOB.

I once tried to catalog all of the S&M cars by going through my extensive magazine collection and reading National event coverage. I got dizzy! At one race they showed up with three 67 GTXs! At some races Ronnie was doing wind sprints through the pits trying to race multiple cars! I think I cataloged almost 30 cars or major variations of the same car. I also was listing drivers who raced for S&M and there were 9 that I found. I am sure I didn't discover all of the cars or drivers! From what I have read I would agree with the RR being a hemi and the GTX a 440.

They were married 59 years! I think she was older than 61. Very sad but she had a long and rich life.

Here in Mpls/St.Paul we have Scale Model Supplies which is one of the best hobby shops I have ever seen. Kits and supplies selection is second to none. We also have Hub Hobbies with two stores and they are excellent also. There are a few Hobby Lobby and Hobbytown type places in the metro area but I have not been in them. Some go to to Michaels for kits but I do not.

Seriously! 35 years! Holy Merc, Batman!

One needs to be careful. It is easy to become typecast. A breakthrough is needed...........or maybe an intervention.

They are actually quite nice if you can handle the idea of multi-piece bodies and plastic tires. They are quite accurate and well detailed. I find them to be fairly easy to build for a reasonably skilled builder.

I think they had a decimal problem. Those usually sell for $300-400.00 bucks. A little pricey for the quality but that is what they go for and they do sell them.

It isn't yellow and it has one too many wheels!