Ace-Garageguy

For the 100 dozenth time, NO ONE expects perfection. GROSS INACCURACIES ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE, and IT DOESN'T COST A PENNY MORE TO GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. It takes better communication, more caring about quality-first, and management commitment. I've spent considerable time in product design and production engineering during my 45 year working life. Getting it right the first time IS POSSIBLE IF IT'S A PRIMARY GOAL. PERIOD. People ALWAYS whine and complain when you demand they consistently perform quality work...if you let them...but a truly effective executive will find a way to motivate his people to deliver first-rate product the first time...or get new people.

Looks good, perfect for a wild and crazy exhibition car, tire-smoking all the way down the 1320.

Even more amazing is that these weren't jet-fuel-burning turbines like most helos are today, but gasoline-burning flat-six-cylinder aircraft engines standing on end. Much less power for their weight than turbines.

Exactly.

GREAT looking project.

That is sad. No more beautiful workmanship from a talented and highly skilled craftsman. His engines were a great benefit to the hobby. He'll be remembered.

I think it's good to be able to compare and contrast the excellent work Moebius has been consistently doing in SPITE of the difficulties that Mr. Metzner has cited, with the less-than stellar work some other companies have been content to let slide, and that many seem to want to excuse as "too hard", "doesn't matter", etc. Moebius models look right, they look like what they're supposed to be, they don't need excuses for being oddly proportioned or too big or too little, and they fit together quite well. If Moebius can do it this well every time, excuses from or for the other guys just don't fly.

This headlight looks like the first-time effort of someone trying to learn...NOT the output of a supposedly world-class model company. Real car on right. Do you consider this to be acceptable??

Neither do I. But I don't build every model out of the box, either. You CAN'T swap the ridiculous WAY TOO LARGE late-model Hemi engine into anything and have it fit like it would in reality. NOR can you use the ridiculously TOO SMALL AMT Hemi from the Ala Kart. It's a tiny little joke of a thing. I build REAL CARS. I build MODELS LIKE I BUILD REAL CARS. These things matter. I KNOW what's right, and I NOTICE immediately. I DON'T GET PAID TO DO CRAPP WORK. WHY SHOULD I EXCUSE IT IN THE MODELS I SPEND MY HARD-EARNED MONEY ON ??? If I made a 6" or a 2" or EVEN A 1/4" MISTAKE, I WOULDN'T BE EMPLOYED VERY LONG.

Love it. All of it. I assume you know that Thompson actually DID build hemi heads for the Poncho engine.

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.