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  • I never gave I thought! How appalling to use someone so young, and spraying that releasing agent without a mask, I bet that has some nasties attached to it.

    I have never bought a 'Foamy' and never will after looking at this.

    I use Plans and balsa its the safest way to protect children from being abused...Hopefully..

  • I hope that kid got some free planes from working there.

  • he looks 15 to 16 to me. same age i was when i got a job.. Whats the big deal, he probably likes working.

  • @MegaAussieFTW Same here. Only his job is cool, my first job was cleaning shit out of trash cans....

  • He's just a child! 8th grade? what the heck? I want to see how you make battery's next and i'll take a wild guess and say 12 years old.......

  • was that a kid! really!!

  • Oh shut up people. Enjoy !!!

  • Love it!!! Keep my planes cheap baby!

  • Just a reminder of what drives products at the cheap prices we pay.

    Child Labor, lack of emission requirements, burning wood and coal to fuel a boiler,etc.

    We save, but their communities pay a bigger price in the long run.

  • Friends don't let friends fly plastic planes :) Long live Balsa

  • For the far east those conditions are actually not too bad. They should have respiratory protection though. INVEST IN YOUR WORKERS HOBBYKING!

  • isn't foam vapour bad for your well being?

  • wow sweat shop child labor poor working conditions no safety gear not even a mask  not to mention that the process looks very inefficient one at a time come on now i will think twice about buying from HK

  • HHHmmmm child labor you say? He just looks small, he's probably 18 and right for the job because he has to fit into tight spaces, westerners just look more mature than Asians at that age.

  • Hey consumer whores....make your own foamies! It is way more satisfying!

  • Please give these kid more money and take care of them since you make such high profit.

    So they can find happiness.

  • I will make my own park foamies and not send my money to a Chinese sweat shop. Thanks Hobby King, bad video.

  • @unclesara

    Righhhhhht,,,, If you can mass produce foamies then I would love to know how you do it.I really doubt thats done here in America,, inexpensively anyway. I wish it was.

  • @Doamino41 I don't need nor want to mass produce McFoamies. As a consumer, I only want one airplane. One can design build and fly a custom depron foamie in a matter of hours, just like thousands of other happy RC flyers and gain knowledge and satisfaction along the way vs. being an instant gratification consumer whore and swiping a debit card to send money overseas to a pollution slut of a factory. Make it yourself! It is way more satisfying!

  • @unclesara

    I would loooove to design and build my own scale rc foamy.Unfortunately I have yet to see a practical way to cut foam.Some guys use heated wire,,others use a sharp blade to build stick planes or "flat outs" but that's not what I want.I want a good looking scale RC airplane at a reasonable price.That cant be done at home.

    Now if you like flat outs and stick planes then great! But for me,,looks and performance is what counts so for now I'll stick with kits.

  • @Doamino41 You can sand and shape polystyrene foam. Mold-less composite construction. Rutan style.

  • Chinese, smart people!

  • That's an accident waiting to happen, we might open the P-51 BOX one day and find this kid press to death

  • wow thank u HK for showing us how basic ur factory is.

    by basic i mean... well ... u know.

  • Doesnt help you delivery times though :D

  • Wow!

    You really put up a video of a place that uses child labor to make your products?

  • @notxess66 you know what dude, at least these kids have some money, it was this or absolutely NOTHING.

    Do you even think before you speak? Go there and take away this kid from his "job", then what? Let him rot on the streets with zero cash?

  • Anyone know the recipe for the foam?

    I was thinking of laser scanning my new Bixler Kit and making a mould with a MakerBot. That way if I break bits I can inject mould from scratch. The trick is knowing how to make the foam. Or making that Space Invader stuff?

  • @steveski74 I dunno, maybe cookie cutting like this video would work.

    

  • @steveski74 ...yea i would like to know how to make epp foam stuff bcoz say my foamie gets a big gash taken out of her, then if i fill with glue yes it will b strong but glue is making the plane heavier all the time. wat do u know of that is lightweight? i heard gorilla glue is good but its expensive kind of.

  • it costs them like 1 dollar for the material .. RC companies should stop being so greedy and charge their consumers cheaper. Then again that's how it is in this world greedy bastards

  • @zero00tolerance Are you for real??? Did you see the effort and cost involved to make the MOULD!?!?!? Yes, the individual planes cost naff-all to make, but the mould costs a heap! They try to recoup the costs of the mould. Do us all a favour and show us what you can do. Are you able to make a similar mould and then sell planes for next to no cost? Show us how!

  • @Lozzie74 LOLOL you just need to relax get laid or go outside man, no need to be all hysteria u crazy dude. So maybe im wrong ...u want to see what i can do ill posted on youtube and you can shut the hell up ok ? Perhaps I would like to see what you can make

  • @zero00tolerance The person who needs to shut the hell up is you. You type utter cr@p on here and then take offense when someone puts you rightly in your place. I am very grateful that this hobby is so much cheaper due to the efforts of people like Hobby King. As for douche-bag "Gen Why Should I?" types like you who spruke off all day and complain when their food isn't chewed right, do us all a favour and stay in school where you might learn something if you shut up for long enough.

  • @Lozzie74 hahaha loser go outside and do something productive u retard who the fuck getting mad for someone being wrong? oh wow so i was wrong and then u get all tantrum you fucking hopeless fuck off u dumbass HAHAHA oh wow so now u going to make fun of my writing because you are superior .. thats fucking low go find something else to argue u homo fuck offffffff

  • @Lozzie74 let see what you can build you 37 year old hopeless fuck that find someone on the internet to released his anger HAHAHAHAHAHA i bet i can sure build a better model airplane than you any day 

  • o thats why i pay 150

  • The sad reality is that 90% of the goods that you buy come from places just like this.. and we let it happen in the name of profit. I build model ships and I can guess that most of the kits I used to get came from places like this.

    I scratch build now days and get most of the super detail extras from BKM and White Ensign if I cant make them myself.

  • the kid at 0:14 is max. 16 years old

  • LOL it is a sweat shop! That plane costs .50 cents to make and our U.S. bortheren charge us $100 bucks for it.

  • @usarmyfl1 yea injection molding is one of the cheapest manufacturing processes after the initial equipment investment.

  • I wonder if the kid would mold into a P-51 when someone closes the press on him. No wonder they can do it cheap, we would have to put 15 lockout locks and tags in place before stepping inside. Then a respirator would be needed to spray the release agent. Then 20 permits would be needed and that is only if the EPA would let us run the furnace, probably would for a price im sure. USA made plane $500 China plane 14.99.

  • @bdarnell1966 I agree that makes a lot of sense.. Regulation wise.

  • Effort??????????????? where in the video is that??? I've watched the video 20 times and i can´t find none, maybe i need to watch it 21 times.

  • Keep up the good work kid. And save me some money

  • oh my....Sweatshop...none for me

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  • Kidding aside...I see another reason - besides shipping - why HobbyKing AirPlanes are so small. The wing and fuse must fit inside the injection molding machine.

  • At least burning wood is better than burning coal. Anyway plus paper is old anyway it just gets thrown away most of the time. Especially since its china. Any way THATS HOW WE DO IT IN MEXICO.

  • Comming from a mexican I am 19 but look like 14 when i have no facial hair I could see why they have the same problem. ahah asians an mexicans

  • go under age work force no wounder why hobby king is so cheap the only have to pay the kids half

  • Nice to see this as a safe job site. No long protection from spray and getting up inside the press.

  • Not sure where the kid comments are coming from, because he looks like a teenager or older to me. I started working at 15 here in the US, and this person looks older than that

  • Not sure where the kid comments are coming from, because he looks like a teenager or older to me. I started working at 15 here in the US, and this person looks older than that

  • Not sure this vid does much to support the hobby king brand.

    1. Children stepping into a hydraulic press

    2. Burning wood in an open air, low efficiency burner

    3. Low tech flue, belching brown wood smoke/waste products

    4. Moulds prepared with aerosol, handsprayed

    But on the plus side, now we understand why they are so cheap...

  • airplanes made by children for children

  • Those kids should be playing with these not makeing them... oh well atleast they get a job. i hope HK pays them decently

  • LOL ... Chinese child labor. But you can't bitch about it, because you would bitch about paying 500.00 USD for a plastic american made R/C plane, but the quality would be a whole lot better.

  • At least hobbyking is man enough to show us actual unhampered video of their work environment, i just think that that takes serious suck on these occupational health and safety balls.

  • that person in the begging looked like he was 12.

    WTF hobby king.

  • @jgarity2 and they have that 12 year old kid working inside the crush area of the press...

    no safety gear at all

    but at least they make some really nice foamy aircraft, we cant deny

  • @PlebScrubber I think theyre not sooo stupid. They doesn't press the "crush" button. they have 16:9 View. You know? :D

  • hobbyking is getto, i normaly don't make negative comments but i've always had issues with them; ordering stuff, getting defective parts etc., hell even this video took too long to load.

  • Poderia ser melhor, se nao houvesse mao de obra infantil....!!

    Alias, melhor nao... Seria o certo...!!

  • Child labour

  • Would be nice to see a plane made from start to finish, including paint & decal application... I have the FMS P-51 and that thing is AWESOME!!!

  • child labour ha ha

  • how many carbon credits are used in the process of stoking up that wood/coal furnace?

  • It seems like an amateur video. Will be great when HobbyKing put here a decent and complete "making of" documentary video showing the whole proccess. Moulding, assembly etc. until to final packing to store.

  • Cool vid, would be neat to see other building and fabricating. I dont think anyone has ever done an inside look at the process, props for going outside the box.

  • geeze the credits sounded like we should be thankful you guys are saving the world hahaha :)

    (no offense)

  • Can I ask why EPO foam and other foams have that tiny circle look on it? Like, why aren't they a smooth finish? Please reply :)

  • Show more vids... I would love to see the process from development to distribution. Interesting stuff!

  • I don't get why there is so much mocking and hate??

    Thanks Anthony for showing us around...

  • The EPA and OSHA would have a field day if a plant like that was run in the US and that is exactly why our economy is in shambles.

  • да, братцы.... если и будет третья мировая, то в ней выживет только эта нация :)))

    молодцы! на таком станке - такие темы делают :)

  • Consider these as machine mass produced. If these are handcrafted using knives and power tools, I bet it would be more tedious job and end products will be more expensive. But of course, man-made errors will be lesser than machine errors.

  • great vid is interesting to see would love to see a vid showing processes from concept through to completion so that we can all understand just how much work goes into producing a model well done keep it up

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  • @PlancksTime at $20,000 per mould, they're not cheap to make.

  • Child labor!

  • WOW! Imagine how those cheap LiPos are made!

    Wonder what's that guy spraying on the molds? I bet some innocent @#$!!

    But again, would you buy that 12$ fuselage had that been made by a German kid under strict regulations and costed 120$? Me neither...

  • Yeah I know how Chinese labor works. You want to eat then you work for 15 hours burning wood and polluting the earth so rich Americans can save 50 bucks on a RC plane.

  • Very cool.

  • @hookitbigger "slave laborer"; not at all, workers can pick and choose from hundreds of job's available to them in in their area within China now. Many positions offering health benefits and other perks. Gone are the days of 'slave labour'.

  • @HobbykingLive there are prolly more jobs there than the uk or us

  • Thanks Hobby King great to see how things are made in your factory would love to see more these videos will also get rid of the sweatshop/production line myths cant wait to see some more.

  • @fisherboom Sweatshop myth? Are you for real? Ive seen many documentaries of how underpaïd(food and shelter in a crowded room was their payment) workers lived and work in the factories 24 hours a day and maybe things are better now but that doesnt make it a myth.. 

  • @MIRCWOOD I am talking about HobbyKing sweat shop myths not the rest of the world get your facts straight first before you star bashing.

  • please, more videos of this kind!

  • Great job on our RC planes and it looks like more of us would like to see more of this sort of thing,and i'd have to agree that 21 year old does look a bit young for his age lol but i guess we all grow at different speeds just like our planes fly at different speeds LOL keep them coming = thumbs up.

  • VERY COOL!!!! keep up the great work

  • Good vid. More please. :)

  • Yes, very interesting! Please make more of these kinds of videos. I spend much time working with these models, and I do wonder exactly how they are made and even who's making them! Thank you.

  • This was very interesting. I really like seeing how the r/c products are manufactured. Please do more of these as time allows. Sort of like the R/C version of  "How's It Made" :)

  • Nice. Quality control is great. Safety program looks good to. The kids do a great job after elementary school.

  • @jauchiu, mould wont close unless gate is shut. 'kid' is a fresh faced 21yr old

  • @HobbykingLive

    Just if as often the door security is dismantled to be faster. ! I'm sad to see this young guy use a silicone spry without mask..

    Just to make more money .... please do ti in USA and follow the USA safety procedures

  • @jauchiu What safety??

  • @HelmerRamone That's my point. They have no rule whatsoever. I still order stuff from them. No getting away from it. 99% of RC hobby stuff is made in China.

  • I like to see How Its Made. Good video

  • Thank you. We would not have ever imagined this.

  • great video hope to see more

  • I demand More of these amazing videos! Keep em' coming.

  • cool to see how those planes are made, keep those vids comming!

    and amazed to see how a kid makes e'm, regulations for these things are "different" there!

  • @tante0leen haha, he's not a kid.

  • @HobbykingLive well then that person should eat more so he grows :)

  • @HobbykingLive You aint fooling nobody, that was a little boy.

  • @tante0leen, no, he is not a kid, he is probably even older than you. Caucasians gets old fast than asian.

  • @tante0leen oh my sweat shop....none for me!!!!!!

  • lol was that a kid? 

  • I Need one of those machines ;)

  • @RCFlyingBoy2009 sure, plus the boiler and furnace and a years supply of coal.

  • @RCFlyingBoy2009 which one the kid or the press/mold

  • wonderfull!, see how things are made is really interesting, good point HK, keep up that kind of videos

  • nice

  • Aw thats cool :D

  • So much effort for one plane...... I feel all guilty guilty for smashing them up now! Although you could be more of a help, it took me quite a few spills to figure out where the CG of my Mini P-51D should be; instructions or at least a diagram would be nice! 

  • I suspected it was done like that. Glad to see there is some real science and hard work behind the products. Great Video!

  • great vid, Love to see more steps in creating the a plane.

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