If I read one more "shake-n-bake" comment....(rant)

Those were funny commercials, and they seem really cheesy now.  I think the issue people have with the shake n bake being used to describe a kit is they perceive that as being a negative comment in that it implies it requires no effort, no skill what-so-ever to make the kit.  But in reality it implies that the kit is easy to make and doesn't require tons of additional work (filling, sanding etc) to build the kit into a decent model.  So, that's not a bad thing, although some grognards think it is.  To each their own.

Yann Solo wrote:

Ha Ha Ha!  That is really funny, but ajlafleche is right about the chicken.  Toss the chicken in and shake the hell out of it, toss it in the oven and voilà!  That means it is easy to do.

Shake-N-Bake also makes some tasty porkchops! MMMMMMM pork fat rules...

H2O_MARK wrote:

Shake-N-Bake also makes some tasty porkchops! MMMMMMM pork fat rules...

With a side dish of Trumpeter quick-fried tower.... Tasty......

Sorry shooter, but I'm as guilty as anyone with that reference, and I actually see it as a term of endearment.  I have been at the event horizon way too many times where I've seriously considered going to a club meeting with every kit and modeling tool I own and saying, "Here, it's all yours, I'm done, adios", all brought on by the frustration of trying to get it, whatever it may be, as good as someone else in the club, or what I see in contests, or in FSM's gallery.  My wife tells me just build OOB and be done with it, but that need to go further and the fact the kits I was building were such absolute PITAs, I couldn't do it.  So I'd change subjects, from aircraft to sci-fi to armor to whatever, hoping things might change, but they didn't.  Then I bought my first Tamiya kit, a KV-1B at a show because it was a deviation from the norm, and it was cheap.  Yeah, I know, it's an old kit and not dead on accurate, but I started it one Friday night about 8:00, and by the next afternoon it was assembled and ready for paint.  There was zero flash, no warpage, the seams were straight with no canyon-sized gaps to fill and sand, parts fit just the way they were supposed to, and dammit, I was actually having fun, what a concept!  I instantly thought of that reference, and had to agree.  So, if using S-n-B to describe something great isn't to your liking, I'll try one from Chef Emeril Lagasse when he whips up a dish with near orgasmic results, "Oh yea Babe!!".  Better?

Disco wrote:

So, if using S-n-B to describe something great isn't to your liking, I'll try one from Chef Emeril Lagasse when he whips up a dish with near orgasmic results, "Oh yea Babe!!".  Better?

how about this cooking term instead if the model goes like that S&B

we can say BAM just like emeril

The comment I hate the most is "Nice build, looks great!" Now that takes some ingenuity!

I think that's something people say when they want to say something nice, but have no idea what is good on the model.  I've said it, but it was because I get long winded in my analysis.

It's easy to feel redundant. I mean when I (we) look at armor, what do we check the most? Camo? Tracks? Fit? Weathering? So you see, it's the same things for the usual evaluations. There is only so much to critique. I do say the same things too, and feel embaressed by them sometimes. I do try to add a question or two if possible and point out the good as well as any errors. Just my

tigerman wrote:

The comment I hate the most is "Nice build, looks great!" Now that takes some ingenuity!

Guilty as charged. But in most instances, that's what people will say. I can only judge a model according to my own tastes, and those tastes probably don't agree with many other people. Thus, would I not be wasting my time by commenting something about the model that I don't like?

zokissima wrote:

tigerman wrote: The comment I hate the most is "Nice build, looks great!" Now that takes some ingenuity! Guilty as charged. But in most instances, that's what people will say. I can only judge a model according to my own tastes, and those tastes probably don't agree with many other people. Thus, would I not be wasting my time by commenting something about the model that I don't like?

Even that comment is better than someone who sees the post and doesn't leave any feedback. I think we are all guilty of that-eh?