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Did I Say Boring? Sorry!

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  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted by Real G on Friday, September 25, 2020 12:31 AM

Good God, is it that costly to Australia?  And I thought the FedEx/DHL rates we have to use right now are high.

Pre-COVID, I was used to paying about 15-20% postage based on the cost of a kit from Japan to Hawaii.  Now it’s 50% or more.

I just checked the price tag on the spaghetti kit, and it was ¥2,200, or about $22 USD.

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

  • Member since
    August 2019
  • From: Central Oregon
Posted by HooYah Deep Sea on Thursday, September 24, 2020 10:54 PM

Hey, if it's $50 to Australia, it's twice that to the Continental US !!!

"Why do I do this? Because the money's good, the scenery changes and they let me use explosives, okay?"

  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: Sydney, Australia
Posted by Phil_H on Thursday, September 24, 2020 9:58 PM

I'd hate to think how much it would cost to get one of those kits here to Australia. I was looking at the cup noodle kt and that one would be somewhere in the region of $50 (AUD)

There's a whole slew of interesting videos on that guy's channel. The fried rice one comes out looking quite realistic. Looks ike he scratcbuilds miniature appliances for dollhouses too. 

  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted by Real G on Thursday, September 24, 2020 9:27 PM

Phil_H

It seems you don't even need glue for this. Just a bowl of hot water. 

Hey I bought that kit for one of my friends!  You are great inspiration Phil - I forwarded the Youtube videos to my friends that got the food kits.  I’m going to ask them to watch the videos, do their kits, and bring them over for a photo shoot.

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: Sydney, Australia
Posted by Phil_H on Thursday, September 24, 2020 8:18 PM

It seems you don't even need glue for this. Just a bowl of hot water.

  • Member since
    August 2019
  • From: Central Oregon
Posted by HooYah Deep Sea on Thursday, September 24, 2020 4:32 PM

You got it, Bill; I saw a TV program a few years back on the advertising industry, and they were examining food commercials. The show displayed the process of photgraphing and/or videoing food and all of the 'tricks' they use to make everything look "fresh and delicious". Freaky and disgusting was more the case!!! 

And I don't even want to bring up the actual color of hotdog filler .  .  .!

"Why do I do this? Because the money's good, the scenery changes and they let me use explosives, okay?"

fox
  • Member since
    January 2007
  • From: Narvon, Pa.
Posted by fox on Thursday, September 24, 2020 2:35 PM

I know a few guys that have restored older cars and street rods. They make up trays that look like drive-in food and hang them on the door for display at car shows. Some of them look pretty good.

Jim Captain

Stay Safe.

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  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted by Real G on Thursday, September 24, 2020 11:45 AM

One shop that provides faux food for the Japanese restaurant industry is Ganso Sampuru (Sample).  They have a retail outlet in Kappabashi in Tokyo, which I have visited on several occasions.

The most amazing thing is that you will not see spray painted fried chicken anywhere.  Rather, they make molds from real food where possible and sell reproductions in resin or vinyl.

Where this has some interest to us modelers is the paint application.  I have no idea how they do it, but they nail it!  I marveled at the seafood, wondering how they got the tiny chromatophores on the squid and the complex coloration on the fish, shrimp, crabs and lobsters. I was tempted by the king crab, but it was too big and quite pricey!

Don’t like seafood?  They also sell beverages in glasses, like beer with foam on top, fancy colorful drinks with whipped cream and a cherry on top, and regular soft drinks.

I think the store is mostly for us dumb tourists, since they customize each dish for their business clients.  A friend bought ala carte components (pork cutlet, rice, shredded cabbage, and pickled ginger) to make a meal.  Final cost?  $80!

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

  • Member since
    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Thursday, September 24, 2020 10:51 AM

I've been a resource in a little food photography. You would definitely NOT want to eat the specimens.

Unless you like your fried chicken spray painted brown.

 

Bill

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Did I Say Boring? Sorry!
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Thursday, September 24, 2020 6:36 AM

 Ya Know:

       I will admit I never thought about it very deeply. Then I got to reading a book ,or Booklets.These were about what people collect. There were some very intriguing things in there. Like a specific company's take on Dinosaurs. Another's on machines and the list goes on.

    Well, shiver me Timbers, I actually found a collectors book that belonged to a friend. What did it contain? Models and toys of Crawfish, Crabs and Lobsters etc.. I have recently been researching Food Models. There have been , over the years at least 26 different toys and models based on the ordinary ( to us anyway) hamburger!

      The one that really caught my eye was the tremendous following a firm in Japan has. They manufacture " False Food" for window and store displays. They have customers worldwide. Maybe American food purveyors should take the hint and show us a delicious Burger with all the fixins that doesn't waste about ten pounds of Beef and Condiments, Just for that Perfect Burger shot. Well, today they're probably photoshopped anyway! that get thrown in the garbage instead of the less perfect ones given to hungry folks nearby. 

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