TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
Nice work Katman and others. That Yamaha at thread start looked sweet. I found a awesome series of tutorials on youtube once from some Japanese model tv show, the detail that pro guy did was amazing.
Been making models since about 12-13, never been an expert but all good fun mucking about. Started with mostly planes/cars then moved in to bikes trucks ships and military later.
I tend to rush them a bit but here's some of my humble efforts and occasionally made up paint schemes.
Bikes:
RGV500 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0N...ew?usp=sharing
Crafar Redbull Yamaha https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0N...ew?usp=sharing
50 tonne rotator wrecker 1/25 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0N...ew?usp=sharing
RNZAF 50th Herc' with custom camo 1/72 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0N...ew?usp=sharing
with 1/72 Orion and SU27 Flanker https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0N...ew?usp=sharing
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
1. Anyone else spot the Tamiya NZ Ministry of Transport CB750 Cop bike currently on TradeMe?
I tried to paste the link twice sorry, so you'll have to search it
2. I'm really keen to collect a few models - what scale should I go for to give the best selection and quality please? I'd prefer not to have 2 or 3 different scales. - thanks in advance
Pete
"If you haven't grown up by the time you turn 50, you don't have to!"
Aaahhh the modellers nemesis, conflicting scales....
Pretty much all the bike stuff is 1/12. Cars and trucks all 1/24-1/25 (cant really tell the difference), Military is 1/35 and 1/72, ships 1/350 1/700 and other in betweeneres like 1/400 etc...
A lot of the cheaper Chinese kits like Dragon and Trumpeter are very well made now, the tooling is up there with Tamiya and hasegawa etc...
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
Are you looking to assemble kitset models or just collect models already built?
I only bother with the 1:6 scale models as the smaller ones don't have anywhere near the same detail.
Tamiya never made a huge selection of models in that scale and they have only released one new one in recent years - the HD Fatboy.
Just looked on their site though and noticed a suggestion that there are more 'coming soon'.
It will be interesting to see what they have chosen to produce. I could never figure out what criteria they used when selecting the models they produced back in the 80's.
I'm not thinking along the lines of free magazine models, myself
"If you haven't grown up by the time you turn 50, you don't have to!"
This set of models is interesting. They are about 1/16th scale and are cast metal.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/378443174910880338/
I have the Katana one and while they don't make any real pretense of great detail they have some very interesting models in the series.
Goodness knows where you get them from though.
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