Wierd subjects for kits

[Weaver]

NOTE: I've now changed this into a generic Wierd Subjects thread instead of being just about the Aoshima stereo, so feel free to post your own discoveries on here if you want. 

It's not often you see a completely unfamiliar genre of kit these days, but this is new one on me: a 1/6th scale model of a Pioneer SK-900 Runaway  'ghetto blaster' stereo:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PIONEER-SK-900-RUNAWAY-1-6-MODEL-KIT-AOSHIMA-JAPAN/124086237202?hash=item1ce41db812:g:~qsAAOSwbI9d7T21



Apparently there was a whole series of these, but they don't seem to be in production at the moment.

[PR19_Kit]

One can but wonder why.................? 

[Weaver]

One can but wonder why.................? 

I have a friend who really loves 'perfect little things', i.e. miniature replicas of anything... They don't have to be exciting or unattainable things like jet fighters or battleships, or even aspirational things like flashy cars. She gets just as excited over a box of 1/72nd tools or a stack of 1/35th beer cans. It's the miniaturization itself that's the thrill: the subject almost doesn't matter.

[PR19_Kit]

Yeah, I guess I can understand that. 

I'm the one with a complete 1/24 scale workshop tool kit for my dragster collection after all. 

Does it actually work? It looks like it has batteries, cassettes and a mike included in the kit.

[Weaver]

Yeah, I guess I can understand that. 

I'm the one with a complete 1/24 scale workshop tool kit for my dragster collection after all. 

Does it actually work? It looks like it has batteries, cassettes and a mike included in the kit.

Don't think so, but the only features I can find about it are in Japanese. Here's some pics of a made-up one: the cassettes are 1/6th scale too. Wonder if they come with a 1/6th scale pencil for untangling them? 





Now what would be funny would be to hide a modern bluetooth speaker inside it (paging Strobez...), play music through it from a concealed iPad and tell people they have to look really, really closely to see the tapes going round....

[PR19_Kit]

Now what would be funny would be to hide a modern bluetooth speaker inside it (paging Strobez...), play music through it from a concealed iPad and tell people they have to look really, really closely to see the tapes going round....

LOVE it! 

[kerick]

Now what would be funny would be to hide a modern bluetooth speaker inside it (paging Strobez...), play music through it from a concealed iPad and tell people they have to look really, really closely to see the tapes going round....

Anyone under 30 wouldn't know what you were talking about!

LOVE it! 

[Weaver]

Okay, I'm turning this into a generic "Weird Subjects for Kits" thread, since I've now found this:



Never seen a kit of a bicycle before! It's currently on US ebay here:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Entex-Derailleur-Racing-Bike-Plus-Touring-Accessories-Model-Kit-1-8-Scale-new-/303104461902


For that matter, I didn't know that Entex had made motorbike kits, which arn't an unusual subject, but a 1/3rd scale motorcycle engine certainly is:



Also on US ebay, here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/222762600396

[PR19_Kit]

Never seen a kit of a bicycle before! It's currently on US ebay here:

[Cycling JMN mode on]

That's a pretty vintage bike with the gear change lever on the top tube! Not only that, the wheels are both 36 spoke, the front wheel should be 28 spoke at max if it's a 'racing' bike.

[Cycling JMN mode off]

[zenrat]

I see your bicycle, and raise you a schoolgirl cycling in the rain...


https://www.hlj.com/1-12-scale-jkbya-12s-japanese-kawaii-high-school-girls-mk2jkbya-12s

...which had to be japanese didn't it.

Her shirt is cast in transparent resin for that authentic wet look.

[PR19_Kit]

Her shirt is cast in transparent resin for that authentic wet look.

Well it would be, wouldn't it? 

I'm amazed she 's even wearing one!

[Weaver]

We can go down that road if you want, but it's getting awfully hot, isn't it?

That's what she said, but I said it too....

[PR19_Kit]

We can go down that road if you want, but it's getting awfully hot, isn't it?

That's what she said, but I said it too....

[rickshaw]

I note that is actually just the figure.  The bicycle is sold separately....

[NARSES2]

Never seen a kit of a bicycle before! It's currently on US ebay here:

I've seen a couple at various shows and at least one mini diorama of the Tour de France lead group which I think was 1/32. No idea who they were by.