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This is one bit of philosophy for the Competition Pot Hunters reading this. Remember that no matter how judged your model will be no better or worse at the end of the day than when you first placed it on the table. All you are doing is putting up your model for someone else's opinion on it whether it be disappointing or not,

Learning the times tables when I was at school at least gave me a 'feel' for numbers. When I use a calculator and get something wrong, I sort of instinctively know that what I am looking at does not look right. I have seen so many kids using calculators, screwing up, and just taking for granted what they are looking at is correct.

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Absolutely lovely model with the wear, tear and road dust/dirt very subtly done. The after market 3D printed panel wire fasteners look very realistic on this model. I have one of these to build, so looking at this model will be give me some inspiration.

I met a guy once who's IQ was so low that he threw himself to the ground and missed !

Minicraft, Entex and Revell have been mentioned as more readily available sources for this kit. I seem to remember that they are all reissues of a very crude old Hubley kit. Interesting to see what will be made of this kit during this extensive conversion.

Thanks for taking the time to reply with further information Michael. Fully understand that there is some way to go yet and the rationale behind the proposed changes.

How would that work Les ? Commission on individual sales or blanket annual fee whether a user might only sell just one kit ? So what will happen to what is now essentially a free kit swap feature by another name on this forum? Will it be retsined, or will users have to migrate into the proposed new sales area and pay a fee? Another UK forum I use allows buying and selling with the appropriate disclaimers in place as part of their T&Cs provided that the advertiser has made 100 posts or more. There was also mention of a 'members only' area. What will be the purpose of it ?

I make models from scratch as well as build and convert kits. So I could be categorised as a maker or builder. Personally I am happy with the proposed new title Model Car Makers. Others would prefer builder claiming it reflects the majority who build from kits. Really though, to me it doesn't bother me one way or the other as long as we have a viable forum that is free to use. That brings me on to my next point. It the advertising albeit irritating at times pays for the forum I am happy with that. What I would be unhappy about is paid for tiers and members only sections as there has been no explanation so far about what they would consist of and what actual benefits would they have ?

More 'Wingy Thingy' guys in IPMS. Failing Peteski and Stavanser' s good suggestions those guys in IPMS might be a further fallback.

It was suggested in an earlier post that Model Car Builders might be more reflective of how most of us do our modelling. There was a competitor magazine to MCM named Model Car Builder that stopped production when the owner editor simply decided he had enough and called it a day a short while ago. Best to run with Model Car Makers as proposed. The reason being that are all 'makers' regardless of whether we scratch build or make models from kits. Looking at the number of models shown with major or minor surgery to either convert or improve them suggests that most of us who frequent this forum hardly ever just do straight 'out of the box' builds anyway.

Thanks Dave. Had a quick look. Appears that the emodelcars.com domain is up for sale for 395 dollars.

I knew that Kris was an accomplished country artist but unaware that his band acted as the Friends of Jesus in the bus.