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| Subject: | I WANT indy links! |  |
| Date: | Nov 14, 2004 |
| From: | Matthew P. Toms | |
I can't understand the guys who love Aber PE sets, which require neurosurgeon's tools and microscope, but decry gluing together 160 easy track links. I have always loved Dragon kits for thier in-the-box indy tracks, but now I'm going to have to shell out $20-$30 bucks for tracks for my M4A2, which has every bell and whistle in the box, but rubber tracks. I just got a Ryobi detail sander, which I love now, and I can fill, sand, cut, clean, and assemble any track set in 2 hours. Indy tracks look so much better, have better detail, and take paint and weathering better. Rubber tracks, even on an M4, bow out around the idler and sprocket and many times look just terrible. I do lots of eastern European kits too, and thier rubber tracks look more like rubber worms for fishing hooks! I guess one of my most annoying parts of the hobby is having a model come out beautiful, then having to part with $30 to put good tracks on a $20 kit!
Also annoying:
Guys who trash a new kit's fit and finish, but never build anything.
"Super-Experts" whose only tank crew experience is driving thier RC one.
Guys at shows who obviously live in thier mother's basement and very rarely (if ever) bathe.
People who think your finished model came out of the box like that!
Kits that make it painfully apparent that nobody at the company tried to build it before they put it in the stores.
Instructions that are a bad Xerox of somebody's drunken sketch on a cocktail napkin, showing an exploded view with arrows that point nowhere in particular.
Guys who buy finished kits and show them as thier own.
Seeing someone walk out of a shop with the kit you went there for.
Buying 4 different bottles of green, just to find out that they all dry the same shade.
Running out of glue/paint/putty 5 minutes after your local shop closes, or on the only day of the week they're not open.
Finding out about a new conversion kit right after you've just finished scratchbuilding it.
Getting extras of stuff you'll never use, but the critical, unscratchbuildable small part there's only one of goes springing into the black hole beneath your bench.
New kits that never get PE sets made for them.
People who want you to build doll house furniture for them.
Bad roads and huge potholes between my house and show venues.
Great kits that go OOP, while crappy kits get re-issued forever.
Getting socks, underwear, and a sweater for Christmas, even though the only thing on your list was models.
Oh well.
Best,
Matt
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 | What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Frank Forster - Nov 13, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Dave Williams - Nov 13, 2004 |
| . . . . . . I WANT indy links! - Matthew P. Toms - Nov 14, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: I WANT indy links! - frank Forster - Nov 16, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Philippe - Nov 13, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - frank forster - Nov 13, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Philippe - Nov 14, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Rob Knight - Nov 13, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - frank forster - Nov 14, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Edward Moore - Nov 15, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . You said it mate. a dozen Tigers and not one Char B1 bis - Jay Laverty - Nov 16, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Stuke Sowle - Nov 14, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Mike Duguay - Nov 14, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Clair Greenwood - Nov 14, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - tracklinks hater - Nov 14, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - frank - Nov 16, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Ck LOO - Nov 23, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Cliff Mathewson - Nov 14, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Steve Allen - Nov 14, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Dave Williams - Nov 15, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Bill Goodrich - Nov 15, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - John F. Steinman - Nov 15, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - frank forster - Nov 16, 2004 |
| . . . Different take - Eric McClure - Nov 16, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - James Waldron - Nov 17, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Resin Plugs.... - Michael Karnowka - Nov 17, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Philippe - Nov 18, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Ross Hillman - Nov 18, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Paul A. Owen - Nov 18, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Philippe - Nov 18, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? [IMG] - larry starling - Nov 25, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Steve Sutton - Nov 26, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - jason gaskill - Dec 2, 2004 |
| . . . Re: What is the most annoying part of our hobby? - Brian Bocchino - Nov 26, 2004 |
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