Joseph Fuller Intro

[Joseph Fuller]

Hello All,

I just wanted to stop in here an introduce myself.  My name is Joseph Fuller and I live to the Raleigh-Durham NC USA area.  I have put a few plastic car kits together (Revell mainly), as well as some ships and trains but this was some 15+ years   I am interested in getting back into the hobby.  I am very impressed with the level of molding on the new kits.  As a teenager, I, with my Dad, built the Revell Constitution 1/96.  I hear that kit still uses the same molds from way back when.

 

I will start another thread in the General section on what I am thinking about... I read great reviews on Tamiya kits and I would love to build an Impreza since that is what I drive.  The Tamiya Impreza kits look great... but there are so many of them. I am thinking of the 24281 kit. 

 

Thank you,

Joseph 

[Jantrix]

Welcome to MCM forums.

3 minutes ago, Joseph Fuller said:

  I hear that kit still uses the same molds from way back when.

This is the same on the scale auto side. Molds are serviced and refurbished but almost never are they outright replaced.

[Joseph Fuller]

29 minutes ago, Jantrix said:

Welcome to MCM forums.

This is the same on the scale auto side. Molds are serviced and refurbished but almost never are they outright replaced.

Thank you Rob.  I did not know that but it makes sense... I am sure these molds are quite expensive.

 

Joseph

 

[Ich_Will]

Welcome to the forum. You really can't go wrong with a Tamiya kit. I've had very good success with all that I've built. I'm just starting two Tamiya kits in parallel, they're different generations of the same car.

 I'll be spending some time in Raleigh Durham in the future. I'm on the design team for the GoTriangle light rail project. I look forward to seeing your city.

[D. Battista]

Welcome to the forum Joseph..!

[Joseph Fuller]

16 hours ago, Ich_Will said:

Welcome to the forum. You really can't go wrong with a Tamiya kit. I've had very good success with all that I've built. I'm just starting two Tamiya kits in parallel, they're different generations of the same car.

 I'll be spending some time in Raleigh Durham in the future. I'm on the design team for the GoTriangle light rail project. I look forward to seeing your city.

Hi William,

Thank you for the welcome.  The Tamiya kits do look very nice... now deciding which one to build.

 

I've spent time in the Twin Cities for work... beautiful area with a great light rail... with the grow rate of the Triangle, I hope we can someday have a good light rail.

 

Hope you enjoy your trip here... sounds like it will be over a long period of time... hope its not just the hot summer months for you.  We moved here from California and love it.

 

 

Joseph