Ace-Garageguy

I think we have a stench winner. Too bad there's no smellivision via youtube.

Bizarro, indeed.

Very different in a very good way.

Exactly. Thank you. AND...EXACTLY the SAME drawings and tooling COULD HAVE BEEN USED IN BOTH KITS...SAVING MONEY. That's why all the cost-control excuses just don't wash. Again, Moebius is doing a GREAT job in spite of the difficulties. The other guys need to watch how it's done.

BIG issues. Rooflines 2" wrong, that spoil the look of the car (to anyone who has any concept of what the REAL one looks like). A 1/32 scale engine in a 1/24 scale kit. Inexcusable. 2 Dodge Hemis, current production engines for which factory drawings DO EXIST, EASILY ACCESSED, that SHOULD BE IDENTICAL IN TWO KITS FROM THE SAME MANUFACTURER, but are in actuality 1/4 inch different in length. Gross errors ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. People are PAID TO GET THIS STUFF RIGHT. WE PAY FOR IT every time we buy a model. Small errors, no problem. Fix it or ignore it. GROSS ERRORS...may as well buy Palmer kits.

How about the brains from a living monkey that's had its skull cracked open at the table, screaming, after which the "diners" pick the brains out ? A "delicacy" in parts of Asia. Oh, humanity.

Don't know what they smell like cooking, but...

When all is said and done, marketing peoples' arbitrary deadlines notwithstanding, it's MUCH better to wait a little while and get the big bugs worked out BEFORE going to production. All anyone has to do to see the truth of this is to look at GM's little ignition switch fiasco. Why is this simple and obvious fact so hard to grasp? I'll continue to BUY WITHOUT COMPLAINING anything Moebius puts out if it's up to the level they've achieved so far. I don't care if it misses a projected release date. Get it close to right but "late", I'll buy several. Get it badly wrong but on-time, I won't buy any at all, EVER.

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That does it. I'm moving to Chicago.

Never happen. This particular seller lists one mirror for $6, or a set of 4 wheels for $38, and parts out EVERYTHING, rare or not. I'll often do a generic "parts" search, and have come up with lots of great deals on things I'd forgotten I even wanted, but I'd prefer to have the 3000 or so hits from Mr. Pig Greedy not be displayed...SO I DON'T HAVE TO WADE THROUGH THEM. I don't care anymore WHAT he might have after seeing him hogging bandwidth for thousands of things that will probably never sell, relisted over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

I have to compensate for excuses from engineers and production people every day of my professional life. I tell it like it is. My post was in no way critical of the models I've seen and BOUGHT MULTIPLES OF from Moebius. What does your comment mean, exactly?

I think you're missing his point. Ebay allows YOU to customize YOUR OWN interaction with the site. Allowing a user to block out a specific seller from searches would streamline the interaction. Of course it would be ludicrous to expect Ebay to block a seller from being generally visible based on someone's idea of fair-pricing, but to allow a SPECIFIC USER to block that seller makes perfect sense to me. Like Mr. Pig Greedy from a previous discussion. He at one time listed THOUSANDS of tiny parts at insane prices. Blocking HIS listings, and others I'd never buy from EVER would save me much search time.

I almost always have an idea, a pretty explicit idea, of how far I'm going to go with a particular build. When I reach that point, i quit. That said, I've stopped in the middle of quite a few builds because either my skills weren't up to the vision I had quite yet, i changed the vision as the build progressed, or I found I needed to do a lot more research for one reason on another. I certainly don't strive for anything approaching perfection, but my concept of good-enough is pretty high, so it takes a while to get there, and usually a lot of do-overs to get to the level I'll settle for.

FREE ONLINE MOLD MAKING VIDEO SERIES. http://www.freemansupply.com/video.htm NOT amateur youtube stupidity, but professionally produced REAL and CORRECT information. Produced BY A COMPANY THAT MAKES THE MATERIALS, how to do it RIGHT. The FIRST TIME.

You might consider carefully wiping your model down with 70% isopropyl alcohol before you re-commence painting. Use CLEAN, WHITE cheapo paper towels. I've had SEVERE fisheye problems after letting a lacquer-primered model sit around before painting. Contaminants from the air most probably settled on it, and could have been anything from furniture polish to pollen. Once I started ALWAYS wiping down carefully with iso (I do in now on full-scale work too), no more fisheyes.

I've been impressed favorably across the board with the quality and accuracy of Moebius' offerings. I also think it's incredibly funny that the new-improved-oh-so-much-better digital and outsourcing means of producing models is being blamed for the delays in production and poor accuracy (I assume in your competitors' products), as all of this new-improved stuff was SUPPOSED to speed and simplify production and lower costs. Interesting how that has all played out in reality, eh? NONE of the excuses or reasons cited in ANY WAY EXPLAIN 2 SCALE INCH discrepancies in roofline height, or supposedly 2 identical engines in the same scale that are 1/4 inch REAL difference in length, or an engine released in approximately 1/32 scale in a 1/25 scale kit. Small errors are quite acceptable and expected. Gross errors like I mentioned above (NOT Moebius' products, obviously) are sloppy and incompetent. I'm also fully aware of what IS and is NOT possible in working in CAD, and how long it takes to perform "corrections". Again, CAD was SUPPOSED to SPEED the development of product and streamline the correction process, and the fact that digital "drawings" can be transmitted instantly to just about anywhere on the globe, corrected in a matter of minutes or hours at most, and re-transmitted for approval (we used to have to wait for our drawing corrections and revisions to be physically mailed, AFTER they were drawn by hand and THEN turned into blueprints... if you recall) would make one wonder where, why and HOW the bottlenecks are occurring.

Man James, NICE striping. Wow.

Really like how you did the injector plumbing. Your front leaf-springs and the use of scale-correct plug wires look great too. And those MicroNitro wheels are things of real beauty.

It's an OK smallblock Chevy with a 4-speed trans. It can be built several ways and includes rams-horn exhaust manifolds, headers, and a blower setup too.

The flip-nose on yours certainly fits better than most of these that get built. Nice job with that.

The real '36 Ford hood opens like this...not easy to do with a model in 1/25 scale. One of our members built the model in this video, and if you watch, you'll see that if you fit the hood sides carefully and glue them to the hood top, you can remove the entire hood assembly to view the engine.

Well, Casey makes some of the best looking, cleanest, most defect-free parts I've ever seen, period. I make fiberglass parts that are pretty nice too.

If you look around a bit, you'll see that just about everything on the forum between Nov. 25 / 26 and yesterday is gone. Hopefully it will be recovered shortly.

Google "model railroad snow". Everything you could want to know. (That rhymes. )