Feb 2023 Round 2

[Smoke Wagon]

2 hours ago, stavanzer said:

I do wish though, that he would use a different script when he does his updates

There is no formal script. He just regurgitates whatever he reads on the kit boxes as he’s showing them. You can tell that he did no research on the subject matter ahead of filming. That makes me roll my eyes more than his verbal crutches. 

[stavanzer]

4 hours ago, Smoke Wagon said:

There is no formal script. He just regurgitates whatever he reads on the kit boxes as he’s showing them. You can tell that he did no research on the subject matter ahead of filming. That makes me roll my eyes more than his verbal crutches. 

Yes, I agree with you!

[RSchnell]

They need to get the guy from the Heller video posted here earlier this year to do the Round 2 videos. The Round 2 guy is terrible! For someone who is the face of the company of those films, he sure doesn't do much to help sell the kits.

[mikemodeler]

5 hours ago, Smoke Wagon said:

There is no formal script. He just regurgitates whatever he reads on the kit boxes as he’s showing them. You can tell that he did no research on the subject matter ahead of filming. That makes me roll my eyes more than his verbal crutches. 

While I totally agree with you, it wasn't that many years ago we had to wait for a kit to show up at the hobby shop before we could decide to buy it. And the magazine reviews were always a few months behind due to lead times.

I've seen Chad at the MCACN show in Rosemont IL, not sure how much of a "car guy" or modeler he is, especially based on his videos.

[Robberbaron]

17 minutes ago, mikemodeler said:

While I totally agree with you, it wasn't that many years ago we had to wait for a kit to show up at the hobby shop before we could decide to buy it. And the magazine reviews were always a few months behind due to lead times.

I've seen Chad at the MCACN show in Rosemont IL, not sure how much of a "car guy" or modeler he is, especially based on his videos.

During the covid shutdowns, I seem to recall Chad posting videos from his home garage, with a 1:1 Datsun Z car (I think first gen?).  I suspect his interest is mostly Japanese brands, so the bulk of the Round 2 subject matter probably isn't his cup of tea.

He very well may not be a modeler at all.  Keep in mind the majority of each monthly R2 video is their various diecasts and slot cars.

[GarryR]

If one keeps up with this forum, most of the content of the kits, the box art, and the approximate release dates are known well before the video is released. The video is a confirmation that the kit is actually in the pipeline. I don’t keep up with the other categories, so find it interesting to see the breadth of Round 2’s product offerings.

The presentations certainly could use some refinement and finesse, but detailed unboxings and builds follow quickly for most kits. Chad does seem personable and approachable. I would like to have beer and pizza with him and hear about the day-to-day grind at Round 2.

[oldcarfan]

For me it's going to be the Mustang and the Sodbuster. I remember my dad having that Mustang both in 1:1 and kit form when I was little. For a guy who grew up poor on the south Texas coast, he always imagined himself as a LeMans driver. He raced that car around every curve he could find. The Sodbuster kit was the first I ever bought on my own and I built and rebuilt that kit until there wasn't any thing left of it.

[Rob Hall]

Lots to look forward to from Round 2...looking forward to the Coronet convertible, '66 Mustang, the reissue of the '66 T-Bird (looks like it has some new/restored parts), the Sodbusker pickup, the GTO recreations, etc..

[Daddyfink]

19 hours ago, Robberbaron said:

During the covid shutdowns, I seem to recall Chad posting videos from his home garage, with a 1:1 Datsun Z car (I think first gen?).  I suspect his interest is mostly Japanese brands, so the bulk of the Round 2 subject matter probably isn't his cup of tea.

He very well may not be a modeler at all.  Keep in mind the majority of each monthly R2 video is their various diecasts and slot cars.

I highly doubt his lack of domestic kit knowledge is based on his taste for foreign cars. I own a Datsun 510, and that has yet to make my memory dump domestic knowledge. He probably just doesn't research much or is not that much of a car guy. 

He was most likely asked to or volunteered to do these vids. And he is doing what they want, to show you what is next. They could just do a slide show with some release dates and that would work just as well. 

I am just goofing on his repetition of certain lines that make him appear nervous or unprepared. 

 

 

[Rodent]

For those of you on Instagram, he is there. https://www.instagram.com/ay_chaychay/

He is definitely a car guy and is part of a LeMons team. https://www.round2corp.com/johnny-lightning-goes-lemons-24-hours-of-lemons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=johnny-lightning-goes-lemons-24-hours-of-lemons

 

[niteowl7710]

Everyone always wants to give Chad a ration of nonsense, but apparently it's never occurred to anyone who's doing it that...

1 - This place isn't the target audience

2 - The videos are done the way Round2 wants them done

These videos, which gave been consistently "incorrect" in showing what kits are coming in any given month from the very beginning are for the dopes on the R2 YT Channel and FB Feed that don't even know who made any given kit - See monthly requests demanding R2 reissue a Revell kit, or that they tool up a new series of 65-72 Ford Trucks because they don't know the Moebius kits exist and so on and so forth.

Everyone here knows what's coming months and months in advance between Steve posting here and the people who troll the Steven's International list for new additions. 

The videos are meant to tip off the truly uninformed and do it in an approachable, golly gee shucks over-friendly Midwestern way.

[1930fordpickup]

I am glad they have a video of what is coming out.  I can't tell you how many times before this  Kits came and went I knew nothing about that could have been ordered. Yes I am referring to before the web at my house. Even the magazines did not have a complete list that I recall.  Is he my cup of tea, nope. I would rather have a nice young girl wearing ( your choice) do the showing of the boxes and die cast. 

[Scott8950]

These guys are hitting home runs with these old kits being brought back.

I will buy multiple gto & mustang kits and atleast  one sod buster..

[tim boyd]

I don't know many of the details of Round 2's future "cloning" strategy, but from what i do know, as Bachman Turner Overdrive used to say, "you ain't seen nothin' yet..."  TB 

[GMP440]

12 hours ago, tim boyd said:

I don't know many of the details of Round 2's future "cloning" strategy, but from what i do know, as Bachman Turner Overdrive used to say, "you ain't seen nothin' yet..."  TB 

     Absolutely!   Just scratching the surface now.  Just imagining kits we wish to could come out again could very well become reality.

[1972coronet]

13 hours ago, tim boyd said:

I don't know many of the details of Round 2's future "cloning" strategy, but from what i do know, as Bachman Turner Overdrive used to say, "you ain't seen nothin' yet..."  TB 

Can I get a "Whoa Bundy!" on the idea that the 1970-1971 Challenger may be receiving 'the treatment'?

[charlie8575]

I would love to see the Caravan and Mark V get turned into 1/25 kits. The GTO will happen.

Charlie Larkin

[Daddyfink]

On 2/3/2023 at 4:31 PM, Rodent said:

For those of you on Instagram, he is there. https://www.instagram.com/ay_chaychay/

He is definitely a car guy and is part of a LeMons team. https://www.round2corp.com/johnny-lightning-goes-lemons-24-hours-of-lemons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=johnny-lightning-goes-lemons-24-hours-of-lemons

 

I stand corrected! 

[ncbuckeye67]

On 2/2/2023 at 10:32 AM, mikemodeler said:

This is a handy reference tool.

 

http://www.73-87.com/7387info/7387trimlev.htm

  Home of NASCAR ? Are you located in N.C.?

[mikemodeler]

1 hour ago, ncbuckeye67 said:

  Home of NASCAR ? Are you located in N.C.?

Yes, yes I am.

 

[ncbuckeye67]

On 2/2/2023 at 10:32 AM, mikemodeler said:

This is a handy reference tool.

 

http://www.73-87.com/7387info/7387trimlev.htm

  Home of NASCAR ? Are you located in N.C.?  Me too! Kernersville

[Jon Cole]

As far as a Dodge Caravan; should the former Lindberg tooling ever be reissued, it could definitely benefit from smoke tinted windows. It's not my cup of joe, but the finished product looked more like a portable display case with all the windows.

 

[peteski]

27 minutes ago, Jon Cole said:

As far as a Dodge Caravan; should the former Lindberg tooling ever be reissued, it could definitely benefit from smoke tinted windows. It's not my cup of joe, but the finished product looked more like a portable display case with all the windows.

 

The problem is that the windshield and front side windows should be clear.  If it is a 1-piece glass then that will make all the glass areas tinted.  Not good.

Model windows can easily be tinted using Tamiya's Smoke paint, or even the 1:1 automotive window tint.

[Jon Cole]

21 hours ago, peteski said:

The problem is that the windshield and front side windows should be clear.  If it is a 1-piece glass then that will make all the glass areas tinted.  Not good.

Model windows can easily be tinted using Tamiya's Smoke paint, or even the 1:1 automotive window tint.

Pete: While film is workable on the side windows, I am not certain that the rear window is perfectly flat both vertically, and horizontally. And as such, no guarantees the film would adhere.
Tamiya Smoke; I have read poor reviews of. I would need more information before attempting.
But the bottom line really, is why couldn't they just include one window set clear; and another set tinted? Gassers and dragster kits frequently are made available with both clear, or in color. 

 

[stavanzer]

3 hours ago, Jon Cole said:

But the bottom line really, is why couldn't they just include one window set clear; and another set tinted? Gassers and dragster kits frequently are made available with both clear, or in color. 

 

This! Give us one tinted & one clear.