Harry P.

Both are very nice, but that stock one blows me away! Fantastic!

Any good reason why this isn't in the Trucks section???

A southern "draw?"

The only thing good about a Hummer is that you can melt it down and re-use the metal to make something useful to society...

Right. It should say "My grammer is more better"...

I'm wearing a lei, sitting on the lanai, and having a mai-tai in your honor...

Like Ethel Merman sang... there's no business like chrome business, like no business I know... Right now you're all scratching your heads and thinking... "Ethel WHO???"...

To paraphrase Dorothy Gale from Kansas (and her little dog, too)... There's no paint like chrome... there's no paint like chrome... there's no paint like chrome... But this does come fairly close!

That's why you ask here first... then order online.

That's exactly right. Kit makers all have websites... why not take full advantage of that and make your website work for both the customer and for the manufacturer? Eduard and Italeri have the right idea... why can't Revell and AMT and the rest see the value of interacting with their customers directly via their respective web sites? At the very least I expected an answer, but I didn't even get that. Just an automated "thank you for contacting us" form email.

I think that would be a fantastic idea. They could collect data directly from their customers, and adding a poll page to their websites would cost almost nothing. In fact, I emailed a couple of the kit manufacturers with that exact suggestion about a year ago. Never got an answer.

Easy: Ask here first!

So I've been watching this post "develop" (and I use the word "develop" to mean "deteriorate")... Some people have made some excellent points here (and on the previous leather interior "tutorial"), but I haven't seen a whole lot of actual tutorial. Since Dave himself has said that he's done here, I assume that there won't be any tutorial coming any time soon, so I'm locking this. Dave, I assume you check out this thread every so often to see where it's headed, so my advice to you is, the next time you post a tutorial, please actually post a tutorial! That way the natives won't get restless and all of this silly drama will be avoided. We've gone round and round here for several days on two separate threads and nobody has seen any leather tutorial yet. Tutorials are great, and plenty of people here would like to see your leather tutorial. So if one exists please post it. Until then, this little party os over.

Yeah, it's called market research. They do it. It's in their own best interest to have a feel for what subject matter would sell well enough not only to recover their initial investment, but well enough to also make a profit. They don't just invest thousands of dollars into random subjects and then put them on the market and hope they'll sell... they manufacturer kits that they believe will sell well, based on their research and business experience/knowledge of their market. Individual modelers who want a kit of this truck or that truck to be manufactured are not using market research, they're using their sense of "this is what I want and I know it will sell because all my friends want it too." But the business world doesn't work that way. No kit manufacturer is going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars based on a handful of people promising that they'd buy the kit if it was produced.

I don't know how detailed Dave plans to get, so we'll wait and see what he has in store for us. But IMO, a "tutorial" should be 100% self-explanatory, with no assumption that the readers necessarily already have any knowledge of the subject matter. Sure, some people will already know how to do "step 1," for instance, but a good tutorial takes you through the process step by step, starting at the beginning, and covers each step in detail. A tutorial has to be "idiot proof," so to speak (no offense intended guys, but you know what I mean)... it has to explain everything. An effective tutorial should assume that the reader has no experience with the process or techniques you're "tutoring."

No offense, but just for the record, I totally disagree with that. Boasting and being arrogant aren't what I would consider to be positive character traits. And we are certainly not all made that way. Just my 2¢. Now on with the tutorial...

You can all go ahead with your petition, or whatever it is, but here's the real deal: Model manufacturers do their own market research and they produce kits based on what their own research tells them will have a reasonable chance of success. They know the market better than you do... because it's what they do for a living! Sending a model manufacturer a petition with a couple hundred signatures might make you feel better, but it isn't going to have any effect whatsoever on what they produce. Sorry to burst your bubble, but "them's the facts"...

Hmmm.... doesn't quoting yourself lead to hairy palms or insanity or whatever the nuns always warn against?

Is quoting yourself allowed here???

You could have a screw loose, you could play fast and loose with the facts, or you could be loose-lipped... but you can't "loose" your mind...

Uh, you mean lose your mind.

The problem is that the people who are the worst offenders as far as posting intelligently, in proper English, and with correct spelling and punctuation, are the very ones who couldn't care less.

Well....... I can't say I love the interior color (I would have gone with black or white), but otherwise very cool.

I can't make it too easy for you guys!

Hokay then... real or model? The answer: REAL!