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davetwin wrote:They certainly know how to pack things really well. You're going to run out of office space soon  Do you actually do any work or just lock the door and crack on with modelling, go on you can tell us It has happened. I have the benefit of being responsible for developing solutions to problems people have in obtaining/filtering/analyzing information. So no one bats an eye if I hermitize myself in my office for a week then come out with a ready made solution for whatever the problem at hand is. The bosses know I need a certain amount of leeway and distraction to get the problem solving process flowing, so while they are not exactly happy with me burying myself in a pile of plastic, they begrudingly accept it. Also my bosses boss is the biggest fan of my modeling work. They tried to proper me up once, you know, the whole "wear a tie, be at your desk, stop surfing the net, don't doink the cute redhead paralegal from next floor in the office" deal, but that ended with me an alcoholic and nothing getting solved, so that experiment was ended for the benefit of both parties. Carl, I did not even try. I cleaned out one of my cabinets yesterday and moved everything out of the matryoschka boxes in there.
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To wit:  20 years worth of CD-ROMs and DVDs moved out of my "software archive" to make room for Aventador parts. I STILL had trouble fitting all of the parts in the cabinet.
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Tomick wrote:greyhawk wrote:Or designs them.
Say, is it okay if I copy a picture from your thread from time to time for the benefit of my German readers so they can see the difference between an OOB and a Thomasso transkit build? With proper attribution of course.
Your gonna be as sick as a parrot to discover that we have a unique can't buy elsewhere version of the Pocher Aventador coming  This is now doubly intriguing. Now that I've had a chance to compare the Pocher Aventador and DeAgos Countach, I can confidently say that the Countach has better parts quality wise. That's not to say I'm disappointed with the Aventador, it is awesome, but there's a notable difference here with the Countach being even bettererer. This cooperation might be a really interesting learning experience for Hornby.
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greyhawk wrote:Tomick wrote:greyhawk wrote:Or designs them.
Say, is it okay if I copy a picture from your thread from time to time for the benefit of my German readers so they can see the difference between an OOB and a Thomasso transkit build? With proper attribution of course.
Your gonna be as sick as a parrot to discover that we have a unique can't buy elsewhere version of the Pocher Aventador coming This is now doubly intriguing. Now that I've had a chance to compare the Pocher Aventador and DeAgos Countach, I can confidently say that the Countach has better parts quality wise. That's not to say I'm disappointed with the Aventador, it is awesome, but there's a notable difference here with the Countach being even bettererer. This cooperation might be a really interesting learning experience for Hornby. Are they really better? I think they are just different, it's comparing apples to oranges a bit. Countach is designed to be built out of the box. Aventador CAN be built out of the box, but the general assumption is that it is to be built using general modelling techniques, including painting and so on. Just the fact the parts are on the sprues should give you a hint about the difference between the two kits. As purely OOB kit, indeed Countach is much nicer - I agree. Any images I post on my personal builds are free to be used and shared under Creative Commons Attribution license, which means you can do what you want with them, on the condition you mention I'm the author.
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Thats what I meant. 
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Looks a really nice kit. Would love to have one but way out my price range. Chris On the bench 1/350 Revell Tirpitz Platinum Edition (Pontos PE and Wooden deck) plus extra Eduard PE set and extra MK1 door sets.
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Tomick wrote:greyhawk wrote:Or designs them.
Say, is it okay if I copy a picture from your thread from time to time for the benefit of my German readers so they can see the difference between an OOB and a Thomasso transkit build? With proper attribution of course.
Your gonna be as sick as a parrot to discover that we have a unique can't buy elsewhere version of the Pocher Aventador coming This certainly piqued my interest 
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greyhawk wrote:Thats what I meant. But the bodywork and paint job is pretty amazing OOB, don't you think? :) Any images I post on my personal builds are free to be used and shared under Creative Commons Attribution license, which means you can do what you want with them, on the condition you mention I'm the author.
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michu wrote:greyhawk wrote:Thats what I meant. But the bodywork and paint job is pretty amazing OOB, don't you think? :) It's good, but not flawless. I may actually be redoing part of it in the long run. At least the part where the front windows sits could use a freshening up. I have a set of polishing cloths arriving to see if thats all thats needed. But the blue parts are all good as far as i've checked, yes.
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And we're on. Got the first sub assembly sorted, which is seats and the middle console.  The seats put up quite a fight. The vinyl cushions steadfastly refuse to take their place in the correct position (or at least parts of the cushions). After an unsuccessful run with ABS cement I've now forced them into place with CA glue. Let's hope they've given up now. Decals are... well some are great (like the screensaver pictured above), some are abysmal (like the DVD player). I'm going to take off the latter again at some future point. The decals are however extremely nice to work with. No tendency to flip over and muddle themselves up into a mess like so many others.
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Nice work! About the seats, I found mine fitting quite well. The thing to check is if you have correctly delivered left and right, with bases it's easy as you will have controls on either left or right, with cushions you would have to flip them over and look at the edges. The wider/narrower segments of edges should be a mirror image between two seats. I had a lot of fit problems at first before I realised I received two bases of the same side (cushions were correctly L&R) - I can imagine that it can be other way around in other kits. Although I guess it's too late for you now ;-) I'll be going with Carbon fiber seat backs and darker interior colour scheme so any fit issues won't be as visible. Any images I post on my personal builds are free to be used and shared under Creative Commons Attribution license, which means you can do what you want with them, on the condition you mention I'm the author.
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I really love the look of the centre console
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That looks very nice indeed. Really envy you having this one to build as it looks fantastic. Happy Modelling
BUILDING: Hachette Spitfire Mk 1A, Constructo Mayflower
SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETE (Awaiting building): USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, 1:200 Bismarck (Hachette)
COMPLETED: Porsche 911, E-Type Jaguar, Lam Countach
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One thing I am going to change is the order in which subassemblies are built so we get a more "organic" "bottom to top" order to things. I have enough unfinished subassemblies flying all over the place as it is.  Which is why I now jump to phase 3, the footwell. This may be the easiest and shortest of all building phases. Just a footrest and pedals are added to the first metal part of the model. Altogether now: 
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Now I know why Lambo drivers always lean out of the door with their whole body when driving backwards. They only have a spyhole to look to the rear.  Is this the Aventador or is it a Batmobile?  Rear wall + side walls added to the current mock installation. 
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Looking pretty sweet 
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Yeah, it's starting to look like a car thingy now  Roof lights, sun shields and rearview mirror on the inner windscreen cladding. Tried to correct the error Pocher made with the "open door" middle decal. Unfortunately after cutting it up so it can be installed correctly the lower part (which is a 0.3 mm wide and less than a mm long white line) became so fiddly to handle it catapult jumped to somewhere else on the white paper I had below the model or to my white desk. Or to my grey floor. In any case, it's gone. Doesn't matter, the upper part survived which is the important one. Anyone know what this button even does? It's a car with one door open seen from the top. I don't drive cars, I don't know these things. You may notice the mirror isn't perfectly horizontal-vertical and that's good, because these things also are not in real life. I'm not sure if Pocher intended this or what but it perfectly aligns with the driver seat like this. The roof part installed to the middle chassis and everything else so far test fit: 
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Switching to the motor side for a bit, I don't trust myself to do the dashboard just yet, I'm still a bit ill and thus shaky and sneezy. You know, michu is usually right about a lot of things and one of the things he's most right about is "you can't really build the Pocher Aventador unpainted and be happy with the result, at least not with the modern Pocher". Pocher spends a lot of effort making the things you see directly look very very good. Unfortunately that means they don't spend much of an effort on the parts you're only likely to see when looking for them specifically. Which leads us to this blob of unsightly badly poured plastic, which is supposed to be the engine of the Aventador, or at least the central part of it, it's not done yet by far.   This is a bit disappointing and it also means when my plan of an unpainted OOB build is done, I am going to take the whole thing apart again and repaint it after a while. I only hope the add-on parts spruce things up a little. The Countach again serves as an example on how the engine could and should look.
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I haven't reported much on this build, which is mostly related to me being angry a lot (trying to bend 5mm strong metal struts into place so they fit, with your bare hands, is the antithesis of fun) BUT, I'm almost done with the engine, so here's a sneak preview 
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Loving watching this come together so much! That last picture of the engine looks like some sort of alien aircraft
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