![]() That’s true from the bride and the groom, but also and mostly for their parents and their siblings! You can be sure we will enjoy capturing this moment. But it’s not rare to see at least wet eyes and even better (for the photographer) some tears. So, all depends on the bonds between people and their sensibility. If weddings rituals are often quite identical, it doesn’t mean that these are not highly emotional moments. You can let them set all in the same corner to encourage interaction and unexpected events. The more kids you have, the funniest it is. Also this contrast usually creates some very funny situations that your photographer will be more than happy to seize. Their parents’ faces would be a mix of shame and desperation trying to discipline them, in vain. ![]() If most of your guests usually behave correctly during the ritual, kids are the ones who remain wild and natural, they are just curious and want to play. When there is not a lot of light, cameras can struggle to properly adjust the focus. Indeed, sunlight is usually much brighter than the indoor low light, creating a strong back light. Second, ask someone to close the door after you enter.Indeed, you don’t want the picture to be rotten by your aunt standing in the middle of the central path struggling to take a picture with her smart phone. First, ask your guests prior to the wedding not to stand in front of the photographer when the bride walks in.To help him capture great images, you could do three things. Also it is one of the most important pictures for your wedding photographer to catch. ![]() The father walking his daughter on the aisle is probably the most popular image when you are thinking about church wedding ceremony pictures. If they are toddlers under three years old, I would recommend their parents train their kids before the D-Day! The Bride Walking Down the Aisle They are then called flower girls and ring bearer. If you want to include kids (like your nephew or niece), they can drop flower on the ground, carrying wedding signs, or bearing the rings. ![]() Usually, each groomsman enters with a bridesmaid. There are many possible options to choose for your bridal party order. And if he starts crying and will have some memories! The Bridal Party Entrance, Flower Girls and Ring Bearer Indeed, I am usually standing very close to the groom when he first discovers his beloved one entering the church. Or he can walk down his family members, such as his mother, his grandmother, or sometimes the bride’s mother.Ī great picture I like to capture is the groom’s reaction, and especially when he starts crying. The Groom Waiting and Cryingĭepending on what scenario you will choose, the groom can stay close to the altar and wait until her fiance joins him. Indeed, when people just arrive, they are both time lost, impressed and extremely excited. The photographer can take interesting photographs when ushers convey your guests to their respective seats. Ushers are usually men, but I have already seen women doing it. It’s not rare that they are dressed with the same style as the bridal party, but usually with a small difference. The usher is usually a good friend, or a family member you couldn’t include into your bridal party, but that you cherish and want him/her to be part of your wedding. The usher role became significantly famous during these past years. Make Sure the Officiant Is Professional Photographer Friendly.Tips for Better Pictures During Ceremonies at the Church.Other kinds of pictures where you can take advantage of your church.The Bride and the Groom leaving the church.The Bridal Party Entrance, Flower Girls and Ring Bearer.
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![]() This movie is horrible, boring, weird and stupid. But I didn't realise it meant things were this bad. When de Armas realised how bad the film was did she ask for her nudity to be cut out? When this film got pulled from its theatrical release at the last minute I had a bad feeling. It keeps hinting at things and starting intimate scenes, only to abruptly cut away. The film can't decide if it wants to be erotic or not. They are in a loveless marriage so I guess that would make sense. There is zero chemistry between Affleck and de Armas - which to be fair is kind of the point. Surely a scene was cut out, but in the cut we got it seemed utterly bizarre. And before that, where did the guy even come from? He just appears in the middle of nowhere with no context or reason for him being there. Instead as a big finale we get a shocking chase scene between a bike and car - where the character in the car actually says "what, are you going to chase me down on your bike?" - and then yes that's exactly what happens. From there you are just left asking yourself, where is this film heading? Is there some twist that's going to come out of left field and blow me away? Nope. But no, even that they had to spoil by revealing all their cards incredibly early. It could've worked as a mystery if nothing else. I was shocked at how straight forward the story was. This film had none of those things I'm sad to say. With Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas on board I figured they must've been lured by a very good script that would be full of twists and seduction and style, much like 'Basic Instinct'. ![]() I'm slightly ashamed to admit I had 'Deep Water' on my list of 10 most anticipated films for 2022. Criticize Zach Helm and Sam Levinson for the absurd script, but not these two actors. If it had a better screenplay, I would have given it a much higher score. Despite the screenplay, Ben and Ana made it entertaining. If you are hired as a contractor to build a house but the buyer provides you with cheap materials, you can't blame the contractor. They are doing the best they can with was provided to them. Especially Affleck since we have other films of theirs to judge their skills. Hey, these actors are incredibility good. Edit 3/24/22 - I see a lot of criticism about Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas. Well, a part of me loved when Don Wilson drove off the cliff in his Subaru Wagon. My one problem is there doesn't seem to be a point to the murders. I still remember Gone Girl (2014), that was a really great film by Ben Affleck too. Affleck is particularly good at these psychological crime dramas. The film is extremely well acted by both Ana de Armas and Affleck. The more Vic inflicts his rage, on the younger men, the more sexually attractive Melinda becomes to Vic and the more she is disposed to him. With some victims, Vic makes some careless mistakes while other murders are discreet. The film keeps you riveted to find out the motivations. Does she measure Vics love for her by how far he will go to dispose of her casual suitors? What does Vic get in return? Apex male standing? Or is this just a sick and twisted game that both Melinda and Vic play to serial murder many young men. Melinda childishly provokes jealously and hostility in Vic and for a not understandable reason, Vic put up with it. Melinda enjoys the company of many other younger men she brings home with her while legally married to Vic - Husband. ![]() We find ourselves watching a volatile marriage on the edge. ![]() Top Edit: If you're looking for a gun and don't see it on this list, then check here. Who finally got a PS4? Norsefenrir! Happy birthday! 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Keep it Civil: Follow proper Reddiquette when submitting and commenting. Weekly Reset in 6 days 20 hours 56 minutes Daily Reset in 20 hours 56 minutes Community Links Light Mode Become a Guardian of the Light Daily Reset Thread | Daily Questions | Bungie Plz | Bungie's New Player Guide (Lightfall) | State of the Game | Focused Feedback: Riven's Lair and The Coil Perks and Abilities Spreadsheet with Numbers. ![]() Buffs and Debuffs - The Statistical Spreadsheet.Destiny 2: Known Issues (Comprehensive).Sunday Plz - Reissue Season of Dawn weapons.If you’re looking for any more information about these machines, or the intralogistics industry in general, you can contact us or browse our range of trucks today. Since both counterbalance and reach trucks have unique designs and their own benefits, it’s important to choose one that most suits your operations. Now that you know a bit more about these two pieces of machinery, you’ll need to consider your operations and logistics to determine which is best for your business. While STILL’s counterbalance forklift can reach up to 8 metres high, which is still impressive, our reach trucks can extend as high as 13 metres.įundamentally, both types of forklift trucks are very different and come with their own benefits and considerations, from basic operation and load handling to operator training and maintenance. When it comes to reaching objects or goods that may be higher up on the shelves, a reach truck is the obvious choice. Typically, reach trucks are used indoors, however select manufacturers like STILL do offer reach trucks for combined indoor and outdoor use, giving you the best of both worlds. This allows them to work in narrower aisles and tighter spaces, making them perfect for smaller warehouses or more intricate work. Standard reach trucks have, on average, a 35% smaller turn radius than counterbalance forklifts. If you’re looking for a machine that’s nimbler or operating in narrow aisles with high racking, a reach truck is likely to be what you need. As an example, STILL’s heavy-lifting counterbalance forklift, the RX 60, can lift up to 8 tons, while our popular reach truck, the FM-X, can lift up to 2.5 tons. Due to their design, counterbalance forklifts can lift heavier loads when compared to reach trucks. ![]() ![]() Why can’t I see all the options with the Snipping Tool app? Tick the box next to “Always copy snips to the Clipboard”.Use the Eraser to undo and edits made with the Pen or Highlighter.Use the Highlighter to highlight parts of the screenshot.How to edit screenshots with the Snipping Tool app You can choose a delay of up to 5 seconds. To take screenshots with a delay, open the Snipping Tool app, and press the arrow button next to Delay. This is an excellent option for capturing images of objects that reappear. New in Windows 10, you can set Snipping Tool to take screenshots with a delay. How to take delayed screenshots with the Snipping Tool Select Full-screen snip to capture the full screen.Select Windows snip to select a window to capture, like a dialog box.Select Free-form snip to draw a free-form shape around an object.Select Rectangular snip to drag the cursor around an object to form a rectangle.Press the arrow button next to Mode in the menu.How to take a screenshot with the Snipping Tool app How to open the Snipping Tool app in Windows ![]() It’s been around since Windows Vista, though earlier versions were available for some Microsoft tablets. The Snipping Tool is easy to use and lets you take screenshots, edit them, and annotate them in Windows 10 and other Microsoft operating systems. While using the “PrtSc” key is still popular, there’s a more robust option. Perhaps you want to share an image still from YouTube with a friend or maybe you need to save a copy of a price quote from a website. Sometimes you need to visually document what’s on your screen. Score: 8 out of 10 The Audio Grounded For Life: Season 1 offers a Dolby digital 2.0 track, which captures the series' aural demands in fine fashion. Also, the pre-filmed, single camera bits help give the series the sense of elevated production values, both because of more realistic outdoor settings and the ability to shoot 360 degrees. In fact, the show is lit quite brightly and populated with lots of primary colors, which make for a palatable visual palette. There is no discernible grain or discoloration. Score: 6 out of 10 The Video Presented in 1.33:1 full screen enhanced for 16x9 televisions, Grounded For Life's transfer is a solid duplication of its small screen experience. While a definite nod to show's Fox base camp, plotlines like these handicap the show somewhat as a "tweener," making it a bit too out-there for family viewing. Finnerty, You Have a Lovely Daughter," which drag sex into the proceedings, and "Jimmy Was Kung Fu Fighting," in which Lily gets her tongue pierced. ![]() This is most uncomfortably evident in episodes like "Rubber Sold" and "Mrs. On the downside, Corrigan over-dials the eccentricity as Eddie, and, more unnervingly, Lily is a thinly veiled iteration of Kelly Bundy from Married… With Children - the teen daughter sexpot-in-waiting, albeit more persistently petulant than airheaded. The energy of the cast is what most helps sell Grounded For Life, along with its fresh parallel construction. Things end up in the emergency room, with Walt shot in the rump. Other episodic highlights include "You Can't Always Get What You Want," in which Sean and Claudia tell Lily they can't afford to send her on a class ski trip, but she finds out her dad spent money on a guitar and "Jimmy's Got a Gun," in which Walt, against Sean's instruction, gives his grandson a BB gun for Christmas. Goode," finds Sean catching Lily making out with the nerdy next-door neighbor, and responding in a very unorthodox way - by lobbing fried chicken at the car in which they're sitting. The general conceit is that there's some argument, mishap or misadventure, and this in turn spins back into different memories of the past that inform or relate to the situation, with these being the pre-taped bits. The series' novelty is in the fashion that it blends traditional, studio-taped segments with single-camera bits. The meddling of Sean's judgmental, arch-conservative father Walt ( Office Space's Richard Riehle, in a role originally written for Office Space's Stephen Root), and the presence of his kooky, loafer brother Eddie (Kevin Corrigan) - embodying all of Sean's daydreams of unfettered independence - ensure plenty of contrasting dispositions and opinions on everything from Lily's nascent dating practices to familial shopping trips and birthday gift compromises. Ergo, they bicker and flail as they cope with parental responsibilities, each feeling their way through the dark, so to speak. The rub, of course, and the source of the title, is that in becoming parents so young, Sean and Claudia - despite their love for and unyielding commitment to one another - aren't really fully settled adults themselves. Now in their early 30s, the excitable couple have three kids - headstrong teen daughter Lily (Lynsey Bartilson) and two younger boys, Jimmy (Griffin Frazen) and Henry (Jake Burbage). The story centers around both Donal Logue and Megyn Price, who star as Sean and Claudia Finnerty, a fun-loving Staten Island couple who met in high school and got married when a teenage pregnancy forced their hand. ![]() Minions are biologically wired to seek out and serve the most terrible of villains when they have no "boss" to serve, they become depressed and listless. Minions, the 2015 animated feature film, shows that they have existed since the beginning of life on Earth. While shown as somewhat absent-minded and having very mischievous streaks, they also possess exceptional engineering abilities, being able to design and construct spaceships and playthings for Gru's adopted daughters, particularly the youngest, Agnes. After leaving their home country of Switzerland in favor of a new life in America during the late 1960s, their clothing consists of blue overalls emblazoned with Gru's logo, black rubber gloves, shoes, and goggles. Most Minions appear either bald or with a few wispy strands of black hair on their heads. They are also shown without ears but can hear and respond to sounds. They have no discernible noses but seem capable of smelling, as they are shown smelling fruit and are affected by the Fart Gun. There appears to be no other difference between the two types beyond the number and color of eyes, and their height. They have three fingers and toes per hand and foot, respectively. They have one or two eyes, and their irises are almost always brown (except for Bob, who has one green and one brown eye). They are depicted as being roughly one-third to one-half the height of humans but they were later revealed to be 3 feet 7 inches (1.1 m) tall. ![]() The Minions are small, yellow capsule-shaped creatures with round gray goggles. They were created by Eric Guillon, Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. Many other Minions are mentioned by name in the films and other media in the franchise. Kevin, Stuart, and Bob are three of the most familiar minions, who appear as stars in the film Minions (2015) and its sequel Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022). The Minions serve as the official mascots for Illumination, and have also been described by The New York Times as "corporate icons" for Comcast in the years since their 2013 purchase of Illumination's parent company NBCUniversal similar to Mickey Mouse for The Walt Disney Company, Bugs Bunny for Warner Bros., Woody Woodpecker for Universal Pictures, SpongeBob SquarePants for Paramount Global or Mario for Nintendo. They are characterized by their childlike behavior and their language, which is largely unintelligible. ![]() Minions ( / ˈ m ɪ n j ə n z/) are an all-male species of fictional yellow creatures that appear in Illumination's Despicable Me franchise. (From left to right) Stuart, Kevin and Bob, the main Minions seen in the film Minions (2015) ![]() Lastly, you will explore some authentication techniques to secure your application. OverDrive is a free service offered by public libraries that lets you borrow eBooks and read them on your Kobo eReader. Also, while implementing a full-fledged RESTful service, you will use Swagger to document the API and implement automation tests for a REST-enabled endpoint with Mocha. You'll learn to set accurate HTTP status codes along with understanding how to keep your applications backward-compatible. Not all manufacturers support the EPUB file format. After writing a simple HTTP request handler, you will create and test Node.js modules using automated tests and mock objects explore using the NoSQL database, MongoDB, to store data and get to grips with using self-descriptive URLs. Downloading your books in EPUB or PDF format lets you export them to read on devices or apps from other manufacturers than Kobo. ![]() You will begin by understanding the key principle that makes an HTTP application a RESTful-enabled application. You will be introduced to the latest NPM package handler and understand how to use it to customize your RESTful development process. This third edition of RESTful Web API Design with Node.js 10 will teach you to create scalable and rich RESTful applications based on the Node.js platform. Node.js, with its asynchronous, event-driven architecture, is exactly the right choice for building RESTful APIs. What You Will Learn Install, develop, and test your own Node.js user modules Understand the differences between HTTP and RESTful applications Use self-descriptive URLs and set accurate HTTP status codes Eliminate third-party dependencies in your tests with mocking Implement automation tests for a REST-enabled endpoint with Mocha Secure your services with NoSQL database integration within Node.js applications Integrate a simple frontend using JavaScript libraries available on a CDN server In Detail When building RESTful services, it is really important to choose the right framework. ![]() Some knowledge of REST would be an added advantage, but is definitely not a necessity. Review a case study on the industrial software API testing processĪPI testing aspirants, developers/architects, project managers, and non-technical team members who may want to understand how APIs are being tested.Design and implement scalable and maintainable RESTful solutions with Node.js 10 About This Book Create rich and scalable RESTful API solutions from scratch Explore the new features of Node.js 10, Express 4.0, and MongoDB Integrate MongoDB in your Node.js application to store and secure your data Who This Book Is For If you are a web developer keen to enrich your development skills to create server-side RESTful applications based on the Node.js platform, this book is for you. Understand API testing paradigm (internal/external APIs, CDCT) Explore software web application architecture, API testing, coding practices, and the standards for better API test automation development and management. Work with different tools like RestAssured, Curl, and Postman Learn API Testing is your pathway to understanding a typical software web application, its requests and responses, and the properties of a good test script.Įxamine practices, standards, and guidelines for effective test automation Finally, you get to write your own API test script. As the book progresses, you’ll learn about the test pyramid, how to test an API, what makes a good test script, and various coding guidelines. The book then moves on to the authentication standards used in the software industry, and the tools, the frameworks, and the libraries used in API testing. You’ll begin with an introduction to API testing and software web applications involving APIs. This book focuses on aspiring software testing engineers currently working in API testing, and those starting their journey in the field of software testing. Explore software web application architecture, API testing, coding practices, and the standards for better API test automation development and management. ![]() Clark marked it as a "good wintering Place" (William Clark, Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, November 3, 1805), although it lost out to the Clatsop area farther west as the expedition's 1805-1806 winter home. They passed the mouth of the Washougal River while traveling down the Columbia on their voyage to the Pacific Ocean in November 1805. The Corps of Discovery led by Lewis and Clark left a better record. Earlier that same year American fur trader, Robert Gray (1755-1806), was first to enter the Columbia by ship, but he did not go upriver as far as the Camas-Washougal area. ![]() Broughton and his men rowed in their ship's cutter to a point about four miles upriver of present-day Washougal, and they no doubt had some contact with the people who fished there. With the exception of early trappers and traders, the first contact the indigenous people of the Washougal area had with the white man was most likely in October 1792, when Lieutenant William Broughton (1762-1821) was sent by Captain George Vancouver (1758-1798) to explore the lower reaches of the Columbia River. Among the names attributed to them over the years, in addition to Watlala, were Cathlakaheckit, Cathlathlala, Cathlayackty, Clahclellah, Katlagakya, and Yehuh. As no authoritative records exist, it's impossible to identify with certainty which specific groups moved in and out of what is present-day Washougal. It was after this plant that Washougal's neighbor city of Camas was named. Besides the rich fishery of the Columbia and other local rivers, these Native Americans were drawn to the site by the abundance of camas lilies, the bulbs of which were considered a delicacy by tribes from the Great Plains to the Pacific. They were specifically identified as the Watlalas by several sources, but the population of the area was variable, and several different bands of Chinook-related Indians came there to reap the bounty when the salmon were running. The indigenous people of the Washougal area were Chinookan-speaking Indians classified by early explorers as part of the "Cascade peoples," after the Columbia River rapids upstream to the east. Much of this growth is attributable to residents who work in urban Vancouver or Portland, but choose to live in the much smaller and more rural Washougal. Although Washougal is suffering from the same economic woes as many other cities and towns, its population continues to grow. Today (2010) the city's economy is led by manufacturing and retail. An enduring link between past and present, and Washougal's largest employer for 100 years, is its woolen mill, built in 1910 and now part of the Pendleton Company. The first non-Native settlers came to the area in the late 1830s or early 1840s, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Washougal became a center for agriculture, dairy, and logging, and a terminus for riverboat traffic. The area was accessible to early travelers coming from both the mouth of the Columbia on the Pacific Ocean to the northwest and from upriver to the east. ![]() The Washougal River wends its way through the western half of the city, emptying into the Columbia at Camas. ![]() The city's western limits blend with neighboring Camas, and on the east give way to fertile lowlands, prairie, and forest that lead to Skamania County, Bonneville Dam, and the scenic Columbia Gorge. Reed Island, near the eastern edge of Washougal, is the southernmost point in Washington state. Vancouver, the Clark County seat, is approximately 18 miles to the west and slightly north, linked to Washougal by State Route 14. The City of Washougal lies along the north bank of the Columbia River in the southeast corner of Clark County. git push Push the branch to, along with necessary commits and git clean -n Use the -f flag in place of the -n flag to execute the clean. Shows which files would be removed from working directory. immediately merge it into the local copy. This unstages a file without overwriting any changes. Remove from the staging area, but leave the working directory Fetch the specified remote’s copy of current branch and git reset git pull unchanged. Leave off, then apply it to the current branch. git revert Create new commit that undoes all of the changes made in git fetch Fetches a specific, from the repo. After adding a remote, UNDOING CHANGES you can use as a shortcut for in other commands. git remote add Create a new connection to a remote repo. Show unstaged changes between your index and git diff REMOTE REPOSITORIES working directory. For customization see additional options. git log git merge Merge into the current branch. Display the entire commit history using the default format. Drop the -b flag to checkout an existing branch. git status List which files are staged, unstaged, and untracked. git checkout -b Create and check out a new branch named. Add a argument to git branch "" a text editor, use as the commit message. GIT BRANCHES git commit -m Commit the staged snapshot, but instead of launching List all of the branches in your repo. Replace with a to change a specific file. git add Stage all changes in for the next commit. Add -relative-date flag to show date info or -all to show all refs. git reflog user.name commonly use -global flag to set config options for current user. ![]() Devs Show a log of changes to the local repository’s HEAD. git config Define author name to be used for all commits in current repo. branch name, a tag, or a relative reference to HEAD. can be a commit ID, git clone git rebase located on the local filesystem or on a remote machine via HTTP or SSH. ![]() ![]() Original repo can be Rebase the current branch onto. Clone repo located at onto local machine. Use with nothing staged to edit the last commit’s message. Run with no git commit Replace the last commit with the staged changes and last commit arguments to initialize the current directory as a git repository. Git Cheat Sheet GIT BASICS REWRITING GIT HISTORY git init Create empty Git repo in specified directory. Atlassian-Git-Cheatsheet.pdf - Ahsan Please enable JavaScript to view the full PDF ![]() First up, let’s talk about what the Vanquish and VQS have in common. In fact, from what we have seen, not much has changed other than a few key improvements. It’s clear that the VQS remains faithful to its Vanquish roots. We utilized a MaxAmps battery to power the buggy. VQS’ battery door is secured and released by two body pins. Set to release about the time you are reading this article, the long-awaited Vanquish rerelease features all of the things that made the Vanquish sought after and even better. Well, get ready folks, the Vanquish is finally getting rereleased, this time under the VQS moniker. Vanquish starved fans asked when or if Tamiya planned on rereleasing the Vanquish kit. Even the Avante and its variants have seen multiple rereleases since their initial drops.ĭue to its rarity, collectability and lack of a rerelease, the secondary market for vintage Vanquishes over the past few years, for even well-driven examples, would fetch prices north of three to four hundred bucks and sometimes even more. Every rerelease gets gobbled up by Tamiyaphiles worldwide. Since then, Tamiya has rereleased many of its most iconic RC kits for old and new generations to enjoy. Unfortunately for drivers and collectors, Tamiya ended production of the Vanquish in 1992. The Vanquish quickly became a favorite among Tamiya fans for its good looks and unique mechanics. Like the Avante, the Vanquish featured a jet fighter-like body replete with a clear canopy, helmeted pilot and jet-like “air intakes.” Its aesthetic is sleek and aggressive and looks like it could comfortably live on an aircraft carrier’s flight deck. So much so that at the time of its release, the Vanquish was affectionately referred to by some as the “poorman’s Avante.” These are good things, right? Let’s not forget this was the 80s, a time when excess and indulgence were commonplace and sometimes even expected. The basic architecture of the off road racer still carried Avante’s distinctive DNA, but it was now made more reliable and as a bonus, carried a lower overall price. ![]() Instead, the Vanquish went back to basics and replaced many components with robust ABS plastic parts instead. The Vanquish was also a shaft driven four-wheel drive buggy, but it shed many of the Avante’s trademark cutting-edge parts and materials such as super adjustable aluminum and steel suspension linkages and a double decker FRP chassis. Later in 1988, Tamiya came back with a new take on the Avante platform. As fantastic as the kit was, it did suffer from being overly engineered with its major Achilles heels being fragility and cost. ![]() Perhaps it pushed it a tad passed the limit. The Avante pushed 80s RC technology to its leading edge and then some. When I first saw it back in 1988 I knew that I had to have it and when it was rereleased in 2011, I had to have it again. Sometimes they bring it back decades later to hook new fans and reignite the passions of older ones.įor this writer it was the Tamiya Avante off road buggy that got me hooked. The company continually innovates and creates new products that consumers never knew that they needed until they see it. Tamiya doesn’t sit on its laurels, pat itself on the back, and tell itself just how awesome it is. For those who grew up on Tamiya products, seeing the red, blue and white Star Mark logo emblazoned on a box means that there’s something very special inside. For most of the brand’s fans, it’s all about the company’s uncompromising quality, intuitive build-ability, and deeply engrained nostalgia designed and built right into its kits. Tamiya’s incredibly loyal following doesn’t owe itself to an unbroken string of RC racing world championships or claims of having record-breaking accomplishments. |
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