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Corvair...not Corvette. I have the original kit and have seen the real car in person so that someday I can build it competently. I might get the new kit to have some fun with.

He has been on a ton of podcasts recently, I've seen this one and several others. I was wondering if that was some kind of a sign. I realized the sign was the recent Monterey Car Week where every automotive influencer known to mankind was there to make a whole bunch of content.

Them? Moebius or the young man who is N.Y.S? N.Y.S is a talented builder from New York State and has a YT channel, he's not an industry insider. He shared images from the internet, and made a minor mistake sharing the image on a product that isn't ready to show publicly at this time, therefore there's no news but lots of eager anticipation. Eric Solie posts here and is an insider, between he and others involved w/Moebius there will be plenty to see when they decide to make it public, when that time comes everyone known to mankind in this hobby and especially those with vested interests on the various social media platforms will be tripping over themselves to share the news.

Error is on N.Y.S.

Bill Cunningham was/still is an amazing designer/machinist/fabricator long before he graduated/shifted gears to 3D design and printing. Different process but it took him years to perfect it. Just a different skill set, tool set and materials. The actual printing takes less time, but the work to print parts to that level of perfection each time takes him countless hours of time and countless test prints until he's happy. I watched a master machinist at the shop take weeks to get a fairly new CNC machine moved over from Mazmart's old engine shop to work properly, with help from 2 others at the shop and lots of video conference time with the manufacturer. Meanwhile I was playing with quarter scale models, now complete...

The only safe one I recall is IMPS because people mis-type it all the time. And Imps perfectly describes some of their membership...

IIRC Bandai, the producer of the lion's share of Gundam kits, is the largest plastic model producer in the world. I'm glad that there's something that younger builders actually want to build. Car modelers got a big boost from video games/gamers. I know a bunch of car enthusiasts in their 20's-40's, some of them are now model car builders, they're into it due to life playing video games. I had a Playstation 5 and wore it out. I know the Nurburgring better than my own driveway 😆 . I wasted countless hours, but I also built models of some of my favorite cars. I didn't dare go out and drive after playing Need For Speed Underground....

If a person uses CAD to design a part from scratch, and 3D prints it, and uses traditional finishing techniques to detail it, how is that any different than if they drew up plans in pencil on vellum (or a napkin...I don't care) and then machined or scratch built the the parts from various materials? It could be equal effort in time alone. It's one thing if someone buys a ready-made 3D part vs. designing it from the ground up. This is a big problem with IPMS. In previous efforts to frustrate modelers they had strict rules about using more than X% metal/metal components in models because they can't get past their "International Plastic Modelers" moniker and get with modern times. They help create all the hilarious acronyms for IPMS...many that I don't need to spell out for obvious reasons (on this forum).

I was chapter contact for many years. Then they "upgraded" their process to renew the club charter to online only. The website is so frustratingly over-complicated, spent hours on the phone with them 3 consecutive years, and then gave up and handed it off to another club member to deal with. Despite national support for our show, including some IPMS higher-ups coming to our show to see how we do it and are so successful, yet the organization just isn't in step with the times or anything outside of their sphere of aircraft/military. I will say we have a local IPMS contest that's excellent as they have a car guy running those categories. And doing it right. But he's definitely an outlier.

To clarify, I have no issues whatsoever with anyone actively competing and building for competition above all else. Personally I just don't do it myself. To me the models themselves are the true trophies, along with all the friendships and camaraderie along the way. This past weekend was just one example...the COMA dinner hosted by Randy Derr, the Gem City NNL, and the Dayton Concours d'Elegance invitational model car display and the car show outside. It was all spectacular. Well worth the ride, well worth the worry over carrying the wind tunnel models 500+ miles each direction for the Concours display. An endurance test for their trip to the ACME show next month...

He found out the hard way about "contest rules". IPMS doesn't allow a model fully 3D designed, printed and built by the creator to be considered "scratch built". That and other reasons mean I no longer am an IPMS member after decades of supporting them. Too many rules, too many of which make no sense to the model car community. I build for me, I don't build for trophies, I show my models at NNL style shows more often than contests. Why winning a $5 trophy to assume notoriety or dominance in this hobby is something I just don't quite understand. Yes, it's nice to win something, but I prefer to be pleasantly surprised than actively trying to win an award, and I'm honestly thrilled for my friends/competition when they win a trophy, including when my model is in the same category. I'm just weird that way 😁

IIRC the Modelhaus offered a '60 Dodge wagon in resin, and it would have been plated in that same fashion.

Because those that view "latest" posts see all chronological posts in their feed by everyone that posts. Sometimes an ignored member posts a rash of comments/posts and it can be annoying to some degree to have to scroll past so many posts. It's kind of like Facebook, but at least on FB you won't see posts by the "unfollowed". Not everyone has the time or desire to see everything that's out there.

Looks like a great kit, but I'm still perplexed by Honda making it so bland looking and that Tamiya developed the kit! The Civic Type R is quite popular, yet no model kit of it exists unless you want a boutique resin kit. Now if Honda wants to add a bit more spice to the Prelude, maybe some of the 3D wizards will make some goodies for this kit and offer as prints or files on Cults for home printers. Kinda like this:

The real car isn't quite available yet, there are some review videos on YouTube, it's even too soon for actual driving reviews. I'm on the fence about getting the kit until after I actually see the real cars.

That's one of my favorite channels on YT. Love the cars she builds and how she accomplishes things and her sense of humor. I would kill for a drive in the V8 Celica. And wonder upon wonders, the new CRX project, one of my favorite old Hondas...I can't believe they're that old, I remember when they were new, for the day they were quick little buggers.

I've seen/heard nothing about a stock hood. That said, I'll bet there will be more '64 variants of this kit down the road. I have the stock AMT Craftsman kit and never found it enticing enough to actually build it. The street machine of this new Moebius '64 is on my radar.

I often spray my chrome plated bumpers with Tamiya LP clear in case I need to handle them much during paint detailing/attaching headlight lenses, etc.

Novus #2 fine scratch remover/polish for plastic. A lot of hobby shops carry it. It will remove adhesive residue and do a fantastic job polishing the foil to make it look even more realistic. It does not contain silicone, it's also great for polishing the paint job itself. Been using it for 4 decades. If you screw up something along the way, it won't create fisheyes in subsequent layers of paint. Back in the day (mid-80's) I got my first bottle of Novus (at a motorcycle shop, it works well for cleaning/polishing face shields) and realized that it was identical to the polish that Bare Metal Foil used to sell under their own label, I used it a lot. I'm pretty sure it's the exact same stuff as Novus #2. Some people swear by "The Treatment", but I tried it and and hated it. I swore at it. It has some sort of solvent in it that can soften various paints, probably fine for old 1:1 cars with single stage paint, but in my experience for model paint jobs it failed. Novus has none of those hidden solvents, I can tell by the smell of certain polishes whether or not it will work for model car paint. WD-40 has no value to me whatsoever on my model workbench, it can stay in the garage where it belongs 😊

If perhaps it gets reissued at some point they'll likely add the seat pattern decals, something they've been doing on some of their latest vintage reissues.

The only one I remember Juha doing for RMCM 20-25 years ago was a cool custom "new edge" style '46 Ford coupe that RMCM sold for a number of years. Have one in the stash to build "someday". Rik Hoving (from the Netherlands) did a lot of masters for RMCM.

That's Rik Hoving's site and it's not Swedish, he's in the Netherlands.

A year ago it was estimated these kits would be out around now. Nowhere in sight. I'm okay with that, let Moebius get 'em right. Not like my stash is going to evaporate any time soon...

I bought a new 1986.5 B2200 SE-5, great little truck. The example shown is a B2600 extended cab, that's a Mitsubishi engine. 3100 lb. truck w/122 HP from the factory. If you want to do an engine swap, consider that this is a vehicle that weighs 800 lbs. more than an early Miata. As an example, my Mazda-obsessed buddy got a B2600 extended cab and did a 13B rotary conversion for a more modern '80's take on the Mazda REPU from the 70's that was based on the Ford Courier. In theory an interesting conversion for overall horsepower, but reality is it felt like a dog because rotaries make all their HP above 5,000 RPM. It was totally gutless in normal traffic. Probably needed a different transmission with shorter gears. He ended up selling it to someone else. It was a quality conversion by a master Mazda mechanic, but the results were underwhelming. Trucks need some torque. You aren't going to get a bit of torque out of an early Miata engine w/o a turbo or supercharger. 3rd generation (06-'15) Miatas ran a 2.0 MZR. A popular swap for them is getting a 2.5 out of something like a Ford Fusion which revs a bit slower but makes more HP and torque. If you're going to go to the effort of a motor swap, you need to do a lot of research. That truck doesn't need a ton of HP, it needs torque. In theory a Miata motor might be a fun idea, but reality is it'll be a lot of work for a very underpowered truck. I'm sure if you dig around you can find some information on what other people have put into the old Mazda PU's for more HP at minimal cost for a decent junkyard engine swap.

A lot of 3D printers include a wash and UV cure station for the parts. I've heard that you can put old yellowed decals in one of those boxes for curing the resin and it'll do the same trick as putting the decal sheet in a window and letting the sun do it's magic.