Attention to detail (kinda Re: "best kits")

[Matt Bacon]

So there I am, attaching the mirrors to my Tamiya LFA. They have little squarish recesses on the body, and a small square "plinth" on the mirror stalk. I put them on, and they aren't symmetrical. I clean off the glue, and try again. Same result. Then I clean up the plinth and the socket and try again. Still not the same. And then it occurs to me. They aren't MEANT to be the same. Mr Tamiya has engineered the kit so that the mirrors are in the correct positions as if a driver was behind the wheel. The nearside is pretty well at 90 degrees to the body, for a view straight back, and the offside is at 45 degrees or so. I can't think of any other kit I've built where the mirrors are deliberately offset asymmetrically to the correct positions...

Wow...

bestest,

M.

[Scalper]

I do that with my mirrors and rear view.

but pretty cool they come like that out of the box

[Danno]

Yikes. And the funny thing is, probably very few people put as much thought into it as you did, Matt.

Think of it - all the contests where judges (or shows where spectators) look at the model and think, 'Jeez, this guy didn't get the mirrors on the same from side-to-side. Fail.'

[pharoah]

Very clever.

[Greg Myers]

Yikes. And the funny thing is, probably very few people put as much thought into it as you did, Matt.

Think of it - all the contests where judges (or shows where spectators) look at the model and think, 'Jeez, this guy didn't get the mirrors on the same from side-to-side. Fail.'

put that on the list