wunwinglow

Typhoon.....

Ultimately, it is a numbers game. If enough folks buy them, there will be more. This applies to all commercial products, not just model kits. Moving' on...... Tim

So sorry to hear this news. Brian and I would occasionally compare notes on all sorts of problems, and folks may remember our PP Models Fairey Firefly kits, Brian made the patterns for the Mk 1 version for us, and a number of our other products. His skills with shapes and materials, especially brass, were just phenomenal, I learned so much from his gentle guidance. And we had had the same model Kawasaki motorcycles too! Kindred spirits. My sincere condolences to you and your family, Chris. Your dad was a gent, and I am so glad our paths crossed.

At least you are not suffering from this terrible affliction... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_induced_sneezing

Words fail me! So I'll have to make one up! Fablus! Just Fablus! Tim

Folks discovering how involved it ACTUALLY is to go from idea to a batch of successfully sold products. The Road to Perdition is paved with good intentions. And before anyone asks, yes, I have several of those tee shirts.....

Funny, I'd do them the other way up, so all the supports were on the joining surfaces or inside, so all hidden away. Also, would avoid any 'cup suction' effects, but hey, if it works, it works!

,,, and look out for reflections, I thought I was safe until a neighbour parked her car opposite and the windscreen reflected the sun STRAIGHT into my garage JUST as I was clearing parts off my FormLabs 2 platform. 27 hour build ruined in a couple of seconds..... wun

Fablus!

Phwoooar!!!

Why? I find it irritating beyond belief. No one has yet given me a cogent reason why this is a good thing. Just a vague shrugging of the shoulders, and some ill considered resignation that 'it is what it is'. If the scale of the model is not important to some folks, fine. It presumably would not matter then, if it was one scale or another. So it strikes me as odd, especially when there IS an established scale, AND there is some seriously useful interaction between the kit subjects, say, airfield refuelling vehicles, that a manufacturer would go out of their way to alienate a serious portion of their potential market. Why would you produce kits of subjects which have no contextual link to AFVs, but a MASSIVE contextual link to a huge range of existing kits, with an equally huge established fan base presumably hankering for kits of your chosen subjects, and thus alienate those potential customers? I just don't get it!! There are dozens of existing Japanese carrier based aircraft, in 1:32, with a fair number coming from Tamiya of all people. So why produce kits of aircraft carrier decks, and then aircraft too, which are INCOMPATIBLE with those existing kits, but, and this is what I really don't get, compatible with a range of kit subjects THAT HAVE NO POSSIBLE CONTEXTUAL LINK, and utterly no interoperability. And then try and sell that incompatibility as some kind of commercial advantage!! My point about Tamiya redoing all their armour kits in 1:32 is entirely valid. They did EXACTLY that with their 1:48 armour kits. They wanted a new range, understand that. But they tapped into an existing fan base. What they didn't do, this time around, was invent some new and close, but incompatible scale. In short, why go out of your way to alienate potential customers? Unnecessarily. I just don't get it! Any more than I would buy a 1:35 kit, to go with my 1:32 aircraft models.

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...and I would laugh like a drain! 🤣

It is all my fault.....

Imagine the uproar if Tamiya decided to revisit their entire tank range in 1:32, to be compatible with all the aircraft kits they already make......