Hooben Mark IV Male Kit

[Xiaoshan_Sailor]

Here's a sneak preview of what I was able to see looking through Hooben's workshop window. It appears to be made out of metal & the translation from what I could make out from the box says MECCANO.

[SoCalBobS]

If it doesn't come with all the electronics, that might be a plus. Put your own in. One has to read these flyers with a grain of salt, but all metal except for the tracks? Well, maybe Heng Long will 'borrow' the molds and make one for $200. In the meantime, theye's Tamiya's 1:35 scale r/c version:

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[c.rainford73]

That is a very interesting piece, very tempting

[Xiaoshan_Sailor]

A sneak preview of one of the ALL METAL options you can expect to see offered with this kit.

[B_Man]

After reading the horror story thread on their last release over on the RC Universe forum I wouldn't touch anything Hooben these days.

[Xiaoshan_Sailor]

Well there's one thing you won't have to worry about with this release, assuming it does come about, & that is you won't be dealing with faux rubber tyres due to Hooben's notorious distaste of anything that smacks of NBR or TPU.

Even this latest prototype they flashed today on our hobby groups show's he's still adverse to the idea.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

NBR? You gots me, Xiaoshang! I tried various; the saddest was "no beer required."

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/NBR
https://www.acronymfinder.com/Slang/NBR.html
https://www.allacronyms.com/NBR
http://acronymsandslang.com/NBR-meaning.html

Now as to TPU, I came up with the rather uninteresting, https://www.abbreviations.com/serp.php?st=TPU&p=99999; and the downright risque, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tpu.

[Tiger6]

Wow, some of that is more than a little NSFW... I dread to think what the rest of your browser history looks like

NBR = Nitrile Butadiene Rubber
TPU = Thermoplastic PolyUrethane

@ Sailor - that 'Blitz looks like crap, have they deliberately flattened out the contours of the cab so that its easier to FDM print it? The grill should lean backwards and the doors are not flat...

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[Herr Dr. Professor]

So now, Tiger 6, I had to look up NSFW. My browser history is, alas, rather uninteresting to those of a prurient bent. But those dictionaries of slang sometimes do have surprises. Language always has been full of fun; otherwise, I would never have survived a Ph.D in Rhetoric and Linguistics. I don't come from a long family line of scholars; in fact, I'm still the oddball.

[Tiger6]