A piece of my mind

I madee a thread about possibly rolling wheels on my model and to my surprise, not only did I not get an answer, I was rudely responded to by some of the people in this forum so to all the smarta$$e$ that replied, First off it was just a simple question. If you dont know or dont care then dont f&*king respond. Like all of you came out of your mothers womb modeling cars and knowing all the answers. You're always talking about, "Do a search, do a search!", well I did and came up with no answer. That's why this is a forum to hopefully get the answers to questions and make comments on a professional level.

I hope I can find a thread where one of you asked a question and someone responded to you like you did me. Im going to post it in my sig everytime I post a message, to let the whole site see you're not as smart as you would like to think. Secondly, Im not a newbie, so dont try and belittle me with your rude a$$ comments. I've made the wheels roll before but the kit included 2 metal rods that made that possible, I was wondering if it were possible without the rods.

If your reply was not intended to be a smart one then please disregard this post but if it was then this applied to you full throttle. Also to any moderators that come across this, I apologize for this but I wasnt going to sit around and be the butt of these jokes.

geez!This is a community.Jokes are common in communities and i dont think any of them were hurtful or even directed at you. I saw two answers in that thread ie: using polycaps or metal rods.It is also true that models with rolling wheels are more susceptible to damage. lighten up and you'll like it alot more here.:2cents::disappoin

geez!This is a community.Jokes are common in communities and i dont think any of them were hurtful. I saw two answers in that thread ie: using polycaps or metal rods.It is also true that models with rolling wheels are more susceptible to damage. lighten up and you'll like it alot more here.:2cents::disappoin


dude I have one of the biggest sense of humors around, but i know whats intended to be a joke and whats not, but thank you for sort of helping me cool off, I'll try not to take this stuff too personal, I just had to let off a little steam.

You made your point alright. I agree that some people can be really annoying, but please don't start with putting 'stupid' questions of other people in your sig. Then it'll get from bad to worse. It'll ruin this great forum.

Now about the wheels, real wheels use bearings. I missed this thread completely, so maybe the same has been said before... You could try to replicate simelar bearings. You won't be able to replicate ball bearings, but maybe you could try 'slide bearings' (don't know the exact word in English :uhoh:). This is practically the same as Tamiya uses and I think it's the best solution to replicate bearings.

Your rolling wheels thread is totally harmless. A little sarcasm and joking around. For the most part that's how we are around here.

To answer your question. All the models we build around here have rolling wheels. Tamiya, Fujimi, Aoshima, Revell etc. all have the ability of rolling wheels. To be honest, I don't know off the top of my head any kits that don't have rolling wheels.

BTW, you might have been building for a while but you are a newbie here. 9 posts, joined Sept. '04. As with all internet forums there is a welcome and an occasional hazing.....harmless mind you. Don't feel bad. Everyone gets owned every-so-often. LOL




So, WELCOME allparish12. I hope to see some of your projects......now go buy a modern model and enjoy the rolling wheel. (that last part was sarcasm)

Welcome, allparish.

Well, I didn't see your thread, but I have to ask if you posted on what kit you wanted to make the wheels roll (btw. what kit is that? I never heard about a kit without rolling wheels until now, that is if you don't count the kits were people were so dumb and broke something on the suspension, so they had to glue the wheels on - like me :D ). It would be best, for such a question to add a description of the wheel attachment to the chassis, maybe with photos. If you only posted: "How can I make the wheels roll?" then I wouldn't expect a useful answer. You have to give a little more information than that.


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I now read your thread and must say that I can't see what you are complaining about. That's all harmless joking.

Welcome, allparish.

Well, I didn't see your thread, but I have to ask if you posted on what kit you wanted to make the wheels roll (btw. what kit is that? I never heard about a kit without rolling wheels until now, that is if you don't count the kits were people were so dumb and broke something on the suspension, so they had to glue the wheels on - like me :D ). It would be best, for such a question to add a description of the wheel attachment to the chassis, maybe with photos. If you only posted: "How can I make the wheels roll?" then I wouldn't expect a useful answer. You have to give a little more information than that.


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I now read your thread and must say that I can't see what you are complaining about. That's all harmless joking.

Ok Ok enough already, I get it, I cant take a joke(ha ha ha) see Im laughing now, but the car is a revell ford focus tuner series that looks like thishttp://www.megahobby.com/cgi-bin/shopper.exe?preadd=action&key=REV2187

I've done a search on polycaps and that's exactly the problem Im having, I cant get the wheel to stay on. Is the female fitting supposed to snap into the engraving for the polycap?

I agree, your last thread was all jokes, but I can see how you'd think they were directed at you. Most of thoese guys I talk to frequently and I'll tell you right now those jokes were about modelling in general, and certainly not directed at you specifically in any way.

I don't know many (any, really) people that want their wheels to roll. The last thing most people want is for their models to be mobile, 'cause that will end up with them being mobile right off the shelf and onto the floor.

But if you want them to, you just need to follow the instructions and assemble it all very carefully. I know that's weak advice, but, what else is there to say?

From your last thread, I figure you to be building a Revell kit, one of those tuner ones? I have to admit, these are the absolute worst scale suspensions and wheel attachements I've ever seen. Basically, as the instructions say, use the little metal pin to hold the wheel onto the brake. Since the pin is metal, it will spin in the brake hub (this is your bearing) and will press-fit into the wheel (the hole in the wheel is of slightly smaller diameter). If you must, use a TINY bit of epoxy in the wheel, but not enough to squeeze out and get on the brake hub (epoxy, not superglue, I've had things stick together just from the super glue fumes that get everwhere, not to mention that awful hazing you'd risk getting on your brakes or chrome rims).

Now here is the awful part (though it would have worked if their engineering was as clever and molding as precise as Tamiya's). You have to somehow, carefully, or magically, or with divine help, or with the patience of some... really patient thing, apply plastic cement (really, it must be plastic cement) to only the part of the brake that will mate with the control arm. If you want your wheels to roll, avoid at all costs getting cement on, or near the metal pin, as the plastic will melt and gum up and cause the pin to bind and not roll.

Hope this helps, good luck, and I hope you have a little magical model-helper; I rarely can get my models to roll even if I try (which I don't).

thanks a whole lot willimo, the help and advice was greatly appreciated.

To everyone else sorry for the confusion I hope to be able to post up pics like some of the ones I've seen since becoming a member of this site.
Hopefully I didnt rub anyone the wrong way.

I just read the "wheels" post..kinda funny...but that's neither here nor there. I think I may have figured out your question. Is the hole on the back of the rim too big for the pin to fit into? If so, then you need to put the poly caps into that hole before putting them onto the pin. The poly caps should be in the same bag as the rims. They are on one sprue and are either black or clear and look like little cylinders and are made from a more flexible material than the rest of the kit...probably PVC or some such.


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I have read the thread and cant really see much to complain about. Almost all the threads here will have some sort of joke etc posted into them, but you will also get some good answers too. I dont see it being a attack on you.
You can see by the reply's in this thread that people will help you out in time.

PMan

I believe on the Revell kits, they supply a metal pin which goes onto the back of the wheels. If that's the case with the Focus, all you have to do is open up the hole in which the pin passes through the brake disks. This would allow the wheels to roll freely.

For the Tamiya kits, open up the inner diameter of the polycap housing that is behind the brake disks as well as the ID in which the wheel pin passes. This would allow the polycap to rotate freely which should allow your wheel to roll freely as well.

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Thanks guys for all the helpful info and tips, once again I apologize for gettin all bent out of shape. I take this as my official welcome.

I posted one joke in that thread, in response to something silly somebody else posted, but I also posted this which YOU never responded too:

May I ask this.
Why does it matter if the wheels on a static display model roll?
Personally, I'd rather mine don't roll as it reduces the risk of them getting bumped to the floor or into something if they can't roll.

It's just the internet buddy, relax. :)

I posted one joke in that thread, in response to something silly somebody else posted, but I also posted this which YOU never responded too:



It's just the internet buddy, relax. :)


To be honest with you its just a little sentimental thing b/c the first ever car I put together about 9 years ago rolled (1991 5.0 mustang convertible), and I just wanted to recreate that feeling again. After this then I make another car that rolls. Thats all.

Like was also said in there, Tamiya's have always rolled for me and went together very well. I love revell models as well but they're hit and miss whether they will roll properly and look right.

Good luck with the models.

William