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July 8th, 2014, 02:48 PM
#21
I never like Testors paints. I always had terrible results. My second go at building them - around Y2k - I used Tamiya paint and was much happier with them. I've never heard of Humbrol - maybe a locality thing.
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July 9th, 2014, 09:38 AM
#22
Parts Guy
I despise Testors. Tamiya paints all the way. They're worth the extra dollar or so per jar.
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July 9th, 2014, 11:20 AM
#23
Subaru Unimpreza
Humbrol has a wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbrol
The paints were available in Canada, and if they ever marketed models in Canada, it was after I'd largely stopped building them.
A 14ml tin is 1/2 floz, I guess. About a 1 inch high cylinder with about a 1 inch diameter.
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July 15th, 2014, 05:08 PM
#24
Retro
Me, I've never seen Testors here. I've read about them, of course.
Tamiya is relatively new in the market here, when I grew up it was almost exclusively Humbrol, and the odd Airfix tin (taller but narrower).
The oil-based Humbrol paints are relatively forgiving when you apply them, so the acrylic-based Tamiyas almost drove me nuts when I tried to use them Humbrol-style.
My Mitsubishi Raiden pics upthread contains a Humbrol tin as well as Tamiya jars in different sizes, and there's even a matchbox for reference.
Although our matchboxes are bigger than the ones I've seen abroad.
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July 16th, 2014, 07:03 PM
#25
mAdminstrator
The "big" boxes of kitchen matches (250 matches, or so) are about 3inx5inx1in (76x127x25mm ish).
The "small" boxes (32 matches) are a little less than half those dimensions in all axes.
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July 17th, 2014, 06:47 AM
#26
Subaru Unimpreza
In another forum I used to frequent, "matchbox" might refer to a diecast model car.
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July 17th, 2014, 07:40 AM
#27
Retro
I'm currently looking for an english box of matches that I know I have lying around somewhere, and when I find it, I'll post a picture with a local matchbox, the english one, and a matchbox car, so that there's absolutely no confusion about scale.
Maxbotch cars got their name because they fit inside a box of matches*, didn't they? I've always assumed as much...
*after you take out the matches, obviously.
(I love how threads get derailed on this forum )
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July 17th, 2014, 05:01 PM
#28
Subaru Unimpreza
At one time the Matchbox brand was extended to include model kits.
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July 18th, 2014, 05:18 AM
#29
Retro
Yeah, I had a bunch of those.
The kits came in 3 (I think) different colours, I guess so they should look better if you didn't bother with painting.
I had a 1/32 Messerschmitt 109, this was in my more clumsy and casual building days, I would love to have that now.
The small military vehicles were great, they came with their own little dioramas. The Wespe had a little piece of desert with a palm tree on it, there was a Puma on some street, and the Sherman had part of a bridge.
Hold on, I just remembered that I'm on the internet:
There were many others, but those are the ones I remember, for some reason.
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