Which re-pop is gonna be next?!?!

Peter Baxter wrote: : : Italeri re-release of the AMT kit. : AMT soo screwed the pooch on that kit.

Everybody remember the "Limited Edition!" kit, with a poster thrown into the box, sans protection? Nice mangled poster, AMT. Good move.

Oh, and "1 of 15,000!" counts as limited? Whisky-Tango- Foxtrot?

And then there was the subtle hand of the AMT Star Trek trenchers on the kit. Either it was a trench, or it was a nice, soft, nothing.

Yeah, I wanted on bad. Then I saw it. Sorta like a want a XM-70 bad. But, then I remember how bad the Aurora kit is...

Bruce

which was the first fully autonomus and unmanned bolo? i'm thinking the mk 9, but it's been a long time. want a dinechrone brigade kit. with damage parts, of course, like the dozer blade and scraper.

it's a lot like the music biz. bad releases keep showing up. look at all the hendrix crap released after his death. hendrix and (pick name) which were almost every piece of crap studio recording he played on. no matter who he played for, it was released as his. i stopped counting at 23, but i bet there are twice that by now. i don't see much diffrence in the ethics. it's not like the modeling community isn't vocal. hell, we bitch about imperfections that are almost comically small. but does this make a dent on the flow of crap? my modeling budget won't grow and with price increases, this s*it is depressing.

well, i can relate. i still have every record i ever bought that i liked. i have the first one i bought, a johnny ace 7" when i was 7. and i have lots of other crap, too. toys, games, teddy, wood trains, electric trains, wind up trains, model trains, it's insane.

You can do the zwilling by buying two of Minicraft's He 111s in

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Having photo'd every buildup and kit that I've sold hasn't made their departure all that much easier. I was trying to organise the pics the other week and it hit me just how much I had and that I missed them. I shouldn't let 'things' mean that much to me (but they do).

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

eball

I think most of us collect a lot of the same junk we had as kids. A combination of nostalgia and pack rat.

True enough, and the thought had occurred, but what about the Me321? I remember a hand made resin one I saw online a few years ago, but it looked iffy. And very expensive.

i did give up on the chemistry sets. too many blown out windows and cop visits to the house. in the 60's, it was untenable. worse today, i bet.

was the 1/48 a vac kit? there was one in the vegas hobbytown behind a 1/48 zilling. apparently a rich collector offered them a buttload of money for them.

snipped-for-privacy@some.domain wrote: : : which was the first fully autonomus and unmanned bolo? i'm thinking the mk 9, : but it's been a long time. want a dinechrone brigade kit. with damage parts, : of course, like the dozer blade and scraper. : Depending on how you define "fully autonomous" :-), it could be as late as the Mk XXII(I)b, from, IIRC, "Long Way Home".

The Mk XXII(I)b was "misplaced" during one of the infestations of the Concordiat, and was later "found" and given to a "mental case" (for losing his Bolo) to de-activate.

Anyway, the upshot of all this is that the Mk XXII(I)b was the first Bolo that could be safely left in the "Battle Reflex" mode without risking any "unfortunate incidents". :-)

For "Battle Reflex" mode awareness, I am thinking it was around a Mk IV or VI? There was a short about a Bolo in South America(?) that was described as "a trucated cone". The operator died due to wounds received, but the Bolo continued to operate autonomously for several days/weeks before anybody wised up. Not that any of the friendlies really wanted to admit that they suspected the jig was up...

Bruce

what model was the one in the square? the one that the local used as a lighter? i really only care about laumer stories, so anything else is unknown. wish i had his car collection. or his island. or his time machine....or his....

OM wrote: : : ...Off-topic question: Bruce, did you ever work at Dell? Your name : sounds *VERY* familiar. : Dell, no. But, if you go into the rec.models.scale voting history, you will find out where I was working "back then" :-)

Bruce

snipped-for-privacy@some.domain wrote: : : what model was the one in the square? the one that the local used as a : lighter? : That sounds vaguely familiar. Most of the stories like that I believe are all 'teens Bolos.

It is always a chuckle today with GHz processors to read of a Bolo "dedicating 0.26 seconds" to a problem. :-) : : i really only care about laumer stories, so anything else is unknown. : Agreed. Was it Weber or Ringo who recently wrote about an "insane" Bolo? Ummm, "insane"? Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot?

Oh well, as it is, if a 36,000 ton machine decides it wants you dead, who you gonna call? :-)

Bruce

don't know anyone but laumer. i've ignored everyone else.

snipped-for-privacy@some.domain wrote: : : 36000 tons? which was that? : Mk XXX and beyond were in that range. :-) They were not transported inside a transport, but rather, strapped TO the transport, and became its' defensive batteries.

Bruce

don't remember that one. non laumer?