What would a car modelers Hades be like:

[Goose1957]

Every kit is in a different scale, just like diecast cars. 

Jeff

[NYLIBUD]

Promos are the only available models that you can work on,?,without painting any of them.

 

[NOBLNG]

There is only one 60 watt bulb for light directly behind you at the model bench.?

Edited January 28, 2024 by NOBLNG

[Ace-Garageguy]

Ghosts of all your evil exes would take turns hammering spikes into your head and nails into your hands while you try to work. 

[Classicgas]

All kits have Palmer Corvette instructions.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, Classicgas said:

All kits have Palmer Corvette instructions.

Or all kits are Palmer Corvettes.

Of course, the minor proportion and line errors wouldn't bother some folks.   

 

[Classicgas]

Absolutely nothing wrong with that body!???

[NYLIBUD]

There’s no longer any quality model glue,and all you can use is Elmers.?Yikes!!

[NYLIBUD]

No kit bashing of ANY kind!?And you are not allowed to have any extra parts left over,upon finishing.?

[Ace-Garageguy]

No matter how stunningly perfect your builds were, some orange-peeled, glue-smeared, poor fitting, rocking-on-three-wheels model that had every conceivable PE and 3D part stuck to it crookedly would win every contest.

[Little Timmy]

Plastic injection molding machines were never invented.

Model manufacturers  give you a box ( with incredible artwork on the top ) but inside is a block of wood.

The instructions say " take block of wood, ...make look like car".

 

 

Edited January 29, 2024 by Little Timmy

[Keef]

6 hours ago, NYLIBUD said:

There’s no longer any quality model glue,and all you can use is Elmers.?Yikes!!

Or Testors blue tube ?

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, Little Timmy said:

Plastic injection molding machines were never invented.

Model manufacturers  give you a box ( with incredible artwork on the top ) but inside is a block of wood.

The instructions say " take block of wood, ...make look like car".

That's the way it really was when I was a kid, back in the days we had to walk to school barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways...

[Little Timmy]

I do remember a model railroad company  actually doing the block of wood kits.

Just a picture of what you were supposed to build, no instructions whatsoever.

I attempted one once, but as a 10 year old using Grandpa's band saw to rip individual planks from the block, I gave up on the passenger car it was "supposed" to be and managed just a flatcar.... and it wasn't pretty either.

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

59 minutes ago, Little Timmy said:

I do remember a model railroad company  actually doing the block of wood kits.

Just a picture of what you were supposed to build, no instructions whatsoever.

I attempted one once, but as a 10 year old using Grandpa's band saw to rip individual planks from the block, I gave up on the passenger car it was "supposed" to be and managed just a flatcar.... and it wasn't pretty either.

IIRC, this Ford kit was similar, but not quite that bad. circa 1949

Pretty much just a block of wood, profile-cut with a bandsaw, some wire for axles, maybe a molded part or 5, and minimal instructions.

This is a WW II 6X6 CCKW.

Model railroad kits were often similar too, with the clerestory part of passenger cars, for example, requiring carving, shaping, sanding, and sealing prior to painting. Most of 'em came out pretty awful.

I've been collecting wooden RR "craftsman" kits from the '50s through the '70s. They're essentially just a box of sticks and blocks of wood, usually cut to length but not always accurately, sometimes with a few cast metal or plastic detail parts, and it really takes some effort to make a nice model...but it IS possible, and it's very satisfying if you have patience and enjoy a challenge. Below is a 70 foot Missouri Pacific refrigerator car. Modelers today really do have it pretty good.  

 

Edited January 30, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

[Little Timmy]

Got a few of those myself.

 

 

Edited January 30, 2024 by Little Timmy
Stupid fingers don't mix with technology

[Classicgas]

14 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

That's the way it really was when I was a kid, back in the days we had to walk to school barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways...

You forgot walking into the wind ?

[stitchdup]

the front glass is missing from every kit

[Ace-Garageguy]

13 hours ago, Little Timmy said:

Got a few of those myself.

Love those diecast kits, and the ones with the printed and/or embossed sides too. 

[NYLIBUD]

Not only must you read all the instructions,you have to memorize them too.?And after you have to take a 100 multiple choice questions exam.

[Ace-Garageguy]

2 hours ago, stitchdup said:

the front glass is missing from every kit

And of course, what with it being Hades, you don't have any plastic pop bottles to make them from.  

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 minute ago, NYLIBUD said:

Not only must you read all the instructions,you have to memorize them too.?And after you have to take a 100 multiple choice questions exam.

You must also write a 2000 word essay on the real-world function of every part you model.

[Little Timmy]

All part numbers are the same..

 

" take B-34, and attach to B-34."

" put sub assembly aside ".

" now take part B-34 and attach  to B-34. Attach  assembly beneath part B-34 and with a twisting motion break part B-34 free of subassembly."

"You should now have a spare part B-34 "

 

[Classicgas]

All instructions for factory stock are for the drag variant.

[Rodent]

Look on the bright side: You won't need a dehydrator.