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Re: World War Toons Tiger and Panther
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 3:58 pm
by BlackSheep214
Duke Maddog wrote:While I know of a couple people who hate these things, the vast majority recognize them for what they are: pure fun! I have done a couple egg planes myself; one was a done for a one hour build challenge at a club barbecue. I was the only one who got mine to the decal stage, so I won a 1/32 scale Visible Mustang kit as a prize.
I also remember at the most recent IPMS nationals, one person built at least one of every egg plane, toon tank or chibi ship there is and placed them in a chicken coop setting; including a couple of them in nests surrounded by broken eggshells.
You did a fantastic job on these kits! Way to go!
That... I would have love to see. Did you take a photo of it?
Re: World War Toons Tiger and Panther
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 4:12 am
by Dragline
I know more than a few model car builders who hate Tom Daniel. Tom Frikkin Daniel? It's hard to believe but yes. "It's a toy", "It cannot be taken seriously". Kind of like a figure builder who only builds models of actual living or once living people only. How boring!
There are a great many people who take themselves entirely too seriously. ME? I'm not one of those people.
Re: World War Toons Tiger and Panther
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 11:25 am
by BlackSheep214
Hey now... when I was a young-un, I loved Tom Daniels design kits.
It was those Monogram Tom Daniels Design kits that got me hooked for life. I built a lot of them in my youth years. Vandal. Vambulance Cherry Bomb, Bad Medicine, Tijuana Taxi, and by golly I can't remember the others I've done.
Let's not forget the Street Vette that I'm currently working on now. In fact, it is a model of his real Corvette creation.
Yeah, they may be corny or toylike but hell, they were fun to build.
Re: World War Toons Tiger and Panther
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 4:47 pm
by Duke Maddog
Blacksheep, I do believe I have some pics of that display I'll have to search through my millions of pics to see where they are.
Bob, I agree; I have too much fun to simply dismiss others who love having fun with this hobby as well.
Re: World War Toons Tiger and Panther
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 5:03 pm
by LyleW
I, personally, don’t care for the egg stuff...but to each his/her over own. I’ll agree they can be fun to look at. Just not my cup of tea.
Daniels stuff? My older brother did some of that genre a long. Long time ago. Seems we had a bunch of those molded,,, hard plastic things..about six inches tall.
Re: World War Toons Tiger and Panther
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 6:42 pm
by keavdog
I built a bunch of Tom's stuff years ago. Great fun to build back when I was suffering from AMS with the planes and figures. My favorite was the Red Barron. For fun check out his site:
http://www.tomdaniel.com/. The first model I ever built was the street cleaner snaptite.
Re: World War Toons Tiger and Panther
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:43 pm
by Floki
I've missed this somehow, very fun looking builds! I've thought about getting one but I've got too many projects lined up.