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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Here is another Aoshima Knight Rider plamo build! When last we met, I was but a learner. Now I am the master! Well, not quite a master, since I made some mistakes. I did Season 4 before, but this one is Season 1. Plus, this time I'm installing the Aoshima LED unit for KITT's scanner!
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That's so amazing work there you have done Greg.
I just love it.
Awesome build! That LED scanner is fantastic , but you did a really nice job.
I went to Free Time back in November when I was in Atlanta for a model car show. It's the best hobby store I've ever been to. Great place, great people. And I bought this kit from them! lol...
Loved this build watched every minute of it. Great work Greg. Very cool kit I may have to go look for one now!
That build was a struggle but it paid off handsomely. Love the lighting.
Great job! You have the best build video by my opinion.
I bought from ebay the season 4 model.
I'll follow your useful tips.
Keep up the good job!
"I am your master now" - you sure are Greg. Looks great! :-)
Thanks! I'm flying to the USA today. I haven't been to The Great Satan in over four years. I expect plenty of reverse culture shock.
stevethefishdotnet I'm sorry about that Greg. What forced you making that extreme decission?
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I'm going to attend a modeling event tomorrow. I'm in the USA. Just arrived today.
stevethefishdotnet Wow..... take care there! ;-)
I just recently bought season 1 & season 4 KITT from Freetime Hobbies both models for about $45 you can't beat that👍.. now if can get my hands on them impossible to find scanners & if you do find them they want $200 -$300 for the unit alone ..NO WAY!!!! & I have seen yellow K.A.R.R. version for $600😱 looks like I'm going to make my own LED scanner🤞
Yeah, the price of those scanner units are ridonk. I'm glad I bought a few when they were still a decent price, including KARR's orange scanner. I knew that Aoshima's warehouse was running low on the red ones and were already out of the orange ones, and that they had no plans to make anymore of them. So I bought a few for myself.
@@stevethefishdotnet smart man👍... since aoshima isn't going to re-release the unit I wish someone would make a replacement copy at least & I don't see why aoshima ever released the Knight Rider model without the scanner that was the main gimmick of why people wanted to buy it? They should have advertised it as an limited edition LED scanner version I would have picked a few of them up when they were first released
Beautifully finished model of KITT :) Going to watch your 4th Season KITT video next, as I have the 4th season modelkit too, but never finished it. Have the scanner electronics for it as well. It's the best model scanner ever, not even 1/18 scale KITT models have as nice scanner as this Aoshima one.
Who makes a 1:18 scale KITT model? Is it resin?
@@stevethefishdotnet Hotwheels and ERTL did but they are no longer in production. Both did the 1st-2nd season version with 2tv dash. They did the KARR version too from the 3rd season KITT vs KARR episode.
All these are diecast metal with opening parts :)
Smooth looking paint job dude 👍 👍
Thanks! The crazy thing is, I wasn't even trying that hard. I was rushing the job a bit, even. Maybe I've just gained more experience.
Looks really great! I'm still looking forward seeing your time machine completed. If I ever get one, I'm thinking bare metal.
Yes, I resumed work on the Delorean back in March or so, but this past month I've been working on this KITT instead. I will get back to the Delorean.
i thought you lived in japan?
Nikola Bakich
I do live in Japan. I am currently visiting the USA.
I’ve have done pretty good results using a tiny drop of black in lacker to get the tinted effect for the roof panels.
Thanks for the tip! I might try that someday.
Like the video would it be possible to get the knight rider 1.64 scale with working lights
Awesome kit!!
I use SPAZ STIX window tinting spray and works very well.
have you thought of just using actual car window tint. Its a lot easier to do
I love knight rider and did not know they made a kit with the light I have the mpc kit still in the box with a framed auto of William Daniels(voice of kitt) and an auto of hasslehoff for my knight rider memorabilia secrion
sweeeet! Have a great trip!
Great job
When you put the Body on, i was waiting for the Windows to Crack somehow..
Da vid put me sleep😴it's all about da ASMR voice of da guy😴
Well, "da guy" reads all "da comments" on "da channel." Not sure if "da comment" is "da insult" or "da compliment," but thanks for watching "da video" anyway. This isn't a "da ASMR" video.
looks awesome!
excellent work!
Hi, I have seen it already:) its great too
That scanner bar look more cloudy than mine
Good observation. I noticed this as well. Incidentally, I placed another LED scanner unit for the Season 4 KITT model I had completed prior to this one. It was not cloudy like this one. I wonder how I may have made the clear red plastic diffused like that. Weird.
@@stevethefishdotnet It looks cool like in the old KR ads, was just wondering if you did that or if a version came like that i wasnt aware of. DId you use the original scanner that came with it or a different one?
I've only bought the official Aoshima scanners. For my Season 4, I believe I had dipped all of the clear parts in Future, so I thought maybe that was the reason why. Actually, I worked at Aoshima for 7 months, during which time I built this KITT model featured in this video to be used as a display model for the Wonder Fest event in Kentucky that year. I actually built this model for work, and recorded the build for this video.
That year, they still had these LED scanner units in stock, but that was the last of them and they were selling out. I cannot remember the story clearly, but there was an electronics factory in China that was manufacturing them, which went bankrupt or something. Whatever the reason, they'll never have these units made again. I bought a few for myself with my employee discount, and I managed to get a KARR scanner (it's orange) on Yahoo Shopping Japan for a decent price, because those had already sold out and were climbing in price.
The Back to the Future Delorean photoetch sets were made by a company in Korea, and that's something else that will never be made again. It's a shame. I had suggested that they make the effort to have these made again, but I was ignored. Pretty much everything I suggested was ignored, so thus I quit and went back to teaching and made far better money without the stress.
@@stevethefishdotnet Yeah the scanners are rare & hope mine stays in good condition, ive had it since 2008 & its still going strong! I swap out the season 1 & 3 front ends & dashboards for different looks from time to time because i only have one scanner. I saw not too long ago a guy from Japan was selling the scanners on ebay but they were not from the model kit but looked like a exact copy! Were these left overs from the factory? They are re-releasing the model kits again just not KARR & not the scanners which is a shame!
Did those scanners come in a box? Perhaps a stash was found somewhere. I remember while I was working there, a carton or two of the Mad Max Interceptors must have been found by a wholesaler somewhere and suddenly HLJ and other retailers had them up for preorder. People started contacting me, asking if Aoshima had somehow bought the license for Mad Max. I had personally pursued this myself when I travelled to Los Angeles that year and I knew that it was just not possible. Recently, Greenlight made their own "Interceptor" car but I believe they did so without using the licensed name. (Similarly, Fujimi released Blade Runner models without using the movie's name.)
Anyhow, I don't know if those Mad Max preorders were ever fulfilled, but I suppose it is possible that a carton of those scanners could have been found in a warehouse somewhere and put up for sale. When I worked there, I was told that they were only going to focus on the Season 1 and 4 KITT cars as the Season 3 version was only slightly different. They also were not keen on releasing the Pursuit Mode. Something happened apparently, because after I quit, the not only released Season 3 and the Pursuit Mode models, but the Knight Industries semi trailer and KITT set (it's in some weird scale like 1:60 or something). AFAIK, KARR has been ignored.
I believe Aoshima released two versions of KARR, both as unpainted and prepainted. As he first appeared, he was pitch black and identical to KITT the first time. Then later he had a repaint and was painted gray along the bottom. I was able to obtain Season 3 and KARR parts for "personal study" purposes from the parts department, but I just got a regular KITT body because Aoshima's prepainted KARR had it with silver along the bottom instead of gray. I figured I'd just mask it off and do my own. I also got a defective orange KARR scanner, although to my untrained eye I cannot see any flaw in it.
The job didn't pay what I was used to, but one of the perks was that I was able to obtain model parts like that for kits I wanted to build for personal purposes. If the boxing department had spare, unused flattened boxes, I could snag them and build my own box since they were just unused leftovers going to waste.
As long as I wasn't abusing the system to sell kits on my own like a jerkass, and as long as I wasn't just abusing the system otherwise, I was allowed to get kits I was interested in like this. It was rather nice. Then later after I quit, I saw the models that I had seen being developed in CAD. Five years have since passed, and I still contact a few guys from there who have also moved on.
I have the super pursuit version
Cool model, rather expensive and I've only ever seen one for sale.
That is awesome, great job. Just a question were did you get that scanner. Can you provide a link? Please. Thanks in advance
Thanks. I got the LED front scanner directly from Aoshima. This build was a gift for Freetime Hobbies. I bought one to put into my own KITT and a few more for future projects. These LED scanners are no longer in production, and Aoshima's warehouse has since been depleted of these. They now command a rather high price, so you most likely won't come across any without paying a lot of money.
めっちゃ作るの上手ですね！！！
カッコいいです :)
ありがとうございます。いつかこのナイトライダー模型をまた作りたいです。でも、次回透明レジンなどでヘッドランプやモニターなどを電飾したいです。
@@stevethefishdotnet レジンの活用いいアイディアですね‼︎
ナイトライダー同級生で知ってる人いないのでこう言う動画をみるととても嬉しく感じます
ありがとう。ちなみに、僕の日本人の妻は小学生ころ、家族と一緒にナイトライダーを見たて。2016年に７ヶ月だけアオシマで働きました。そして、アメリカの「ワンダーフェスト」という展示会のサンプル製品のために、このナイトライダーのプラモを作りました。
Hi again, so i found you season 1 build. I see you hqbe the same targa roof glas molding defect. Mine has it too. Im so afraid to smoke the windows. I habe no airbrush and i want to tint the rear windshield too. So if i mess up with this tamiya, then its removable with window cleaner? The plastic dont gets foggy or stuff? Im really thinking of buying the season 1 somi dont have to tint. By the way how comes that your season one dosnt have tinted windows from factory? Normally it should be tinted. I will customize this with led lights.
Yeah, spraying with clears was very difficult for me. I had a lot of problems with this one. Then I learned to just wait until it dries before doing anything rash. I have Tamiya Smoke in a rattle can, but since it is lacquer, soaking it in window cleaner won't help any. Unfortunately, Aoshima won't make anymore LED units. I might suggest it to them, but I doubt that they would consider it. Their priorities are rather odd anymore.
i see. I totaly messed up my kitt! Damn it! Can you tell me some techniq to remove the spray? Ive used some car paint shit. I will take this litte thing to a car painter give him 1 euro and then it will look like it should.
I had so much fear and now my nighmare came true. Should i just send it down or...?
What did you use to spray paint the model with? What happened? Have you ever spray painted a model before? If you are using a rattle can, you have to begin spraying away from the model and pass over it quickly, back and forth. Never point the spray can at the model and push the button or else it will spray splattered paint and look horrible. Since I cannot see what you've done, I think you could wet sand your model. Depending on how bad it is, you can just wet some 800 or 1000 grit sand paper and smooth it out. Just keep that sandpaper wet with water.
ive used a spray can. First coat was ok, than ive sprayed secon coat...was okay. After the third coat ive watched the outcome and i saw that the lower segment of the door was not so shiny and you could see that there was not enough paint to make an even and covering surface. So i decided to take the car to the fresh air and give it another coat. That was the end......ive tried to spray only the part where some more paint was needed and te fog laid down on the other segments of the car too. So it started to getting mat(not glossy). Then i left it on the air to dry and the paint was getting a surface where you could see that the light is breaking unevenly like an orangeskin or somethin. I gues the cold air(10 celsious) did hurt the paint. So now i have a half striped down body. I tried to take the color down with nail paint remover. The plastic dosnt got destroyed. But the procedure would take a lifetime, becuse the paint is going down so slowely. I need some other stuff to remove it.
the car body landed in the trash bin today :( So sad. Now i need the aoshima season one because of the tinted windows. One question! Ist the season 1 and four identical in terms of the body? Because i want to use the season 1 body with the season 4 dashboard and front fog lights
Tamiya rattle can. 'Smoke'. TS-71, great for tinting model kit car windows.
I have Tamiya's rattle can Smoke and have used it before, but it was too runny. I didn't use it right. I wanted to try something new, too. I think I could've done another coat or two of this and it would've turned out better.
The tamiya smoke requires about 3-4 coats (more depending on how dark you want the windows tinted) around 2 mins apart. Mask outer glass and spray the inner side. Works a treat.
I have used this method several times as it allows you to spend a lot less time detailing interiors.
How can I get the same scanner kit for mine. Mine didn't come with One. I have season 4 as well. The kit Number is different. KR-03.
Well, you are in luck. I was just looking at news from the All-Japan Model Hobby Show which took place a few weekends ago and Aoshima has announced that they will resume selling these LED units for their Knight Rider models again. They sold out 6 years ago and I believe had a supply problem with the manufacturer in China. Apparently that's been resolved.
@@stevethefishdotnetOk. But where and when?
I took a closer look at the info I saw, and this time I read what is written in Japanese. Look at the bottom of the page:
hobby.dengeki.com/event/1685728/
June of next year it says, but this time it's a different device than before. Looks like it will come packaged with the model and not as a standalone unit, at least for the time being. It's a new electronics unit, and this time it will speak. I am guessing it will be the Japanese voice though. It says that
As for the old version LED unit, those are long OOP as I mentioned. Your best bet to find one of those is eBay, but expect to pay a lot. You may want to get this new model when it comes out, or wait to see if they sell the LED unit by itself like they used to.
Aoshima used to sell these Knight Rider kits as standard and deluxe versions. It says on the box that it comes with the LED unit, plus the box artwork is different. Even in Japan these go for a lot. About 4 years ago, I got the Season 3 version with the LED unit for a decent price at a secondhand store here in Japan.
hello, where did you find the white rear window? I bought season 1 aoshima and in the box my back window is tinted? I would like to have a transparent window. Thank you very much.
White? You meant to say clear, right? That's weird. To the best of my knowledge, only the Season 4 should come with the tinted window. I cannot explain why yours came clear.
yes transparent lol .. not white :)
can be an exchange of pieces by the seller ..
I would have preferred transparency rather than tinted ..
Thank you for your answer
My Aoshima K.I.T.T has the l.e.d scanner too but I had to buy mine as a separate entity. Can't find it anywhere now
As I mentioned in my response to Cesar's question in this video's comments, these LED units are OOP and I imagine that Aoshima is not considering making more. It's a shame.
Ah right. That'll explain it then lol
I used to work at Aoshima for about 7 months, believe it or not. When I worked there, there was a large stash of these in the warehouse. I bought a few for myself with my employee discount. ;) I also managed to buy an orange KARR scanner on Yahoo Shopping from a store that didn't yet realize that those were going up in price. These LED scanners were made by an electronics company in China, IIRC, and I would not be surprised if Aoshima has no plans to have more made. It's a shame, but they are not making very wise decisions. (One of the reason why I quit.) Now sellers are expecting a LOT of money for these LED scanners, but I wonder if people are truly paying that much for them. My former team lead at Aoshima has started his own company, Rocket Models. My friend Tokyo Model Detective has recently uploaded a video of these models, and I plan to feature a build of one on my channel soon.
I'll look forward to seeing it. K.I.T.T looks the mutts nuts
This Season 1 was made for Freetime Hobbies. I'd already made a Season 4, so I got another scanner for that one. I will make another Season 1 someday, along with a Season 3 and KARR. I'll build those all... someday.
what do u use glue or cement I'm using all the recommended cement but it does stick especially the windows and front suspension
I use Tamiya glue. I think you can see me using it in the video.
stevethefishdotnet I'll try that In future thanks
By any chance, what is the wheelbase measurement on that kit?
Wheelbase... Uh, wheels make car go. Seriously though, I dunno what you're talking about.
@@stevethefishdotnet lol u don't know what a wheelbase is? From the front axle to the back axle measurement.
@@stevethefishdotnet in millimeters?
Actually, I've never heard the term before. I was guessing it meant the distance between the left and right tires. I measured the model for you and it's rougly 11cm between the forward and rear axle.
@@stevethefishdotnet cool thanks. The reason I ask is because I was hoping that I can use that body shell for my kyosho mini Z rc car. If you're not familiar look it up.
Good job. What paint do you use for body ?
I used Tamiya TS-14 Gloss Black for the body.
@@stevethefishdotnet Thank you. Do you polished it ?
I don't remember. You'd have to watch the full video. I may have. I usually do polish my car models.
No one ever flocks the carpet or seats.
Yeah, I've never tried that yet. Do you have experience with flocking?
stevethefishdotnet yes, I made a replica of my first car, double flocking the seats to simulate sheepskin seat covers
Gift me this car please. 🙏🙏🙏
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