Kitset Models

[Big Dave]

I had the camera out and the macro lens on to take this bit of chain
http://www.davidcohen.co.nz/rk_june_kr_v2.jpg
so i snapped a few of my minatures too
http://www.davidcohen.co.nz/captrender

[justsomeguy]

You da man Dave......

You not only get to ride the real ones you also have the toy ones.......

Cake-have-eat-still have------

[Blackbird]

Where would I go to get one of these models of say a.. Yammaha XV1100? Preferably around Hamilton or somewhere online.

There is an excellent model shop in the main shopping street of Frankton and they carry all the paints too. There's another superb one at Greerton on the main drag into Tauranga.

[Wolf]

I had an excellent kitset of a WWII BMW R75 (without the sidecar) that I spent months putting together and it went the same way as my HMS Victory and a balsa-and-doped-tissue rubberband powered plane kit I had - mum trashed it.

Honestly, if your parents are still alive and planning a visit, lock your kitsets in a bomb-proof vault. Parents just have no fucking idea about kitsets and how long it takes to assemble/paint them. Especially mothers. Not a clue.

Both the Victory and the R75 were stored safely up high, both took a short uncontrolled flight into terrain. The plane was on the wardrobe floor as it was so large, mum came to stay and dropped her suitcase on top of it.

Have wanted for years to replace the R75 but it was a bloody expensive kit (large scale around 1:8 or 1:9) and I haven't seen another.

That kit was teh beginning of my "love-affair" with BMW horizontally opposed twins and the cause of some mirth: when I took the R100 for a test spin, I told the guy at the shop I loved BMW HO-twins because of the WWII R75 and he said "You've aged well." I replied "Thank you, after the first ten thousand years it gets easy."

[Odin]

.......... Especially mothers. Not a clue.

Be nice to your mother.... , did she not get you your first kitset ? And are you not a parent you self ?

[Paul in NZ]

I've been a naughty boy....

I bought a couple of litle r/c cars so we could race them in our driveway but they were a bit... mmeeehhh!

So I bought a bigger one.... A Porsche GT3 .. Fark! $39 at Mitre 10. Comes with rechargeable AA's in a pack and a charger and even the 9V for the controller. It is WAAAAAYYYY faster outdoors and on the smooth concrete in the garage I can do burnouts, donuts and slides / drifts and stuff. Megga fun for $39..... The bloody batteries probably cost that much (they were $120 at xmas)

Ha! Now I'm looking at the ole electric weed eater and thinking hmmmmmmm

[Wolf]

Be nice to your mother.... , did she not get you your first kitset ? And are you not a parent you self ?

I'm nice to mum - every Samhain (there will be those here who get the reference).

Yep, she did get me my first kitset - and a fair few others.

And I'd like to think I'm the sort of parent that would respect my kids' kitsets (or at least look into a wardrobe before slinging my suitcase in).

I've actually already bought Taliesin's first kitset, bought it when he was only a few months old as I knew when I saw it it would not be available when he was old enough for it, so it's carefully packed away against the day he's old enough to assemble it (age on the box says 10 years).

Now I've got to find something comparable for Tangwyn.

[gav]

I've been a naughty boy....

I bought a couple of litle r/c cars so we could race them in our driveway but they were a bit... mmeeehhh!

So I bought a bigger one.... A Porsche GT3 .. Fark! $39 at Mitre 10. Comes with rechargeable AA's in a pack and a charger and even the 9V for the controller. It is WAAAAAYYYY faster outdoors and on the smooth concrete in the garage I can do burnouts, donuts and slides / drifts and stuff. Megga fun for $39..... The bloody batteries probably cost that much (they were $120 at xmas)

Ha! Now I'm looking at the ole electric weed eater and thinking hmmmmmmm

I built a Tamiya electric race car awhile back, a TA02 chassis with BMW body kit, ending up costing over $500 once I'd built R/C unit and hand piece, spare batteries etc
http://www.tamiya.com/english/produc...b02r/index.htm
Never raced it though, just more interested in builkding it up, ending up giving it to my nephew who ended up smashing it up and moaning coz it was broke, dude.
Would love to build a gas powered one, one day
http://www.tamiya.com/english/produc...mo_z/index.htm