Don’t know that language, so I have no idea as to your meaning on that. But yes, spending money on a scratch build or conversion project will get me what I want. If it’s within my skill set…
But wish in one hand and crap in the other to see which fills up first.
It is Latin Carlos. It is a phrase that basically boils down to making the mistake of assuming that something happened because something else happened before it. You jokingly said ‘scratch build something and someone will release a kit when you finished’ and Kurt replied on a more literal basis that it will never happen that way.
Mind you, I have scratch built 3 separate models only to have a mainstream kit released months later ( but let’s not mention the others I scratch built and a mainstream kit has never evolved… 
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Probably not relevant to the core conversation Kurt. 1/16th is a burgeoning market with not a lot of subjects released (although there are a few Shermans, granted). We are talking 1/35th with the plethora of options available.
Hey Sarge…I feel your pain and agree with you. Ugh.
What? Things cost Money? pfft. let me whip out my wallet. 'ere you go Takom/Tamiya/ryefield/Border/Bronco. Will half a mill do?
I want a model of what I think is an important type. In injection molded plastic. with link and length track for about $50. economics be d*mned.
Yeah, I figured that it was Latin. It’s just not a language that I speak, or have a working knowledge of. I love when folks throw it into everyday conversation when plain English will do quite nicely. And I’m with you on tempting fates. I know logically that there is no relation between improvising something and model company new releases, but it sure feels like universal karma. If I do the other projects that I have in mind, all the other modelers with similar interests will surely benefit sometime soon afterwards.
Wikipedia is your friend with this.
“Quite nicely”?
Latin: Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Plain English: The common error of thinking that event Z happened simply because event A happened before it
While plain English may be great for people who don’t know all those fancy words, you aren’t out of the woods because these are the same folks who get lost because there’s more than eight words in a sentence.
KL
or eight letters in a single word …
Non disertus sum Latine, sed scio ubi interpres invenio
Non disertus sum Latine, sed scio ubi interpres invenio
Egg-zactly.
KL
Well, I can read or write more than eight words of plain English in a single sentence. And some of those writings have had plenty of effect on the lives of people that I encountered in the course of my professions. I still feel no need to throw such phrasings into my writings, in or out of any woods.
Habeas corpus?
Legal technical terms… habeas grabbus when suspect one of one is out in public and fair game… American juries don’t speak or understand Latin… give it to them in plain English that they understand and be amazed at the actual results.
Simple me fails to see where Latin and paper Panzers fall into the same thread.
Well this doesn’t exactly fit here either but under the current “latin” circumstances I am gonn’a post this anyway.
This is a paper panzer. (the paper was mine.)
And yes there is a full Bergepanther winch tucked in there!
I call it my Sd.Kfz. M88
Custom Designed Haul-Back
Design inspirations here are drawn in part from the M32, the M728 and the M88 as well as all the German Berges.
Given my last name; (even though my family hails, pre-war, from the Netherlands) I figure my napkin doodles are every bit as valid as anyone else’s relative to imagined German Armor!
- p.s. I also have a fully worked out, real-life procedure for un-pinning that main boom and laying it back. Hence the steps in the middle of that big “tool tray” on the rear engine deck. The main boom on the model can actually be un-pinning at the top center and the legs of the boom laid back into the stirrups you see on the two rear corners of the vehicle.
Now that I like!
He-He
You want a plastic kit of an un/important rare/common paper/real tank? seems you need to lobby World of Tanks to include it in their lineup & someone will make it happen?
Having said that, we are seeing plastic kits of vehicles & MV’s I never thought would ever be done in plastic (affordable or not is another matter!)
I guess i feel like a lot of people,build what you like.I have only built one what-if,it was a Trumpeter Paper Panzer,l just build what I like no matter what it is,nor do I get upset when companies put out a paper panzer instead of something from my wish list,they have to make money and maybe it will catch my interest.
Tony, I agree, yet still disagree. Haven’t done any Paper Panzers myself, not likely will I ever. That’s just not my cup of tea. Yet, I’d be quite willing to build the what if/also ran postwar/modern stuff kits- a US MBT-70 or XM-801, or the GM XM-1 prototype. I suspect that there are few more out there who would also buy up such subjects. Dragon dabbled a bit down that path, but then stopped.
As far as the real world missed subjects go, Takom looks to be going down that route slowly, so I have cautious optimism with them.