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I just found out that legendary short track racer Dick Trickle was found dead of a self-inflicted gun shot wound. A very sad day for short track racers and fans everywhere.

RIP Dick.

Seems to be mostly 1/25 scale drag cars on here so I thought I'd shake things up a little.

I recently dug out all my old Aurora A/FX stuff from 25 - 30 years ago and I have been amazed what's out on the market these days.

Most of the cars I did back then were hand painted because that's all we had. I have now found a lot of decals available on eBay have begun repainting some.

Buddy Baker Charger:

Petty Roadrunner:

Cale Yarborough Chevelle:

The rest of these were all done 25 years or more ago. And these are all hand painted.

Benny Parsons Chevelle.

Bobby Allison Matador:

I made this modified from something else.    (Been so long I can't remember what it started out as!)

This Camaro has obviously seen some hard racing! 

I do remember that the fender flares and nose are made from card stock.

All told I have about 30 cars and, amazingly, with a little clean up they all still run and run fast!

So, how about it? Can we get a little love for HO slot cars?

Got any? Post 'em up!

This is a pretty cool time lapse video that shows how race cars are wrapped, not painted.

My first paint job of 2013 is currently covered in Easy Off! 

I'm going to watch TV the rest of the day.

Well, since it's highly unlikely I'll finish anything else in the next two days, it's time to look back over the models I completed this year.

2012 was actually a pretty productive year for me. In spite of a full slate of traveling around the East coast photographing races and working on our 1:1 scale cars and a model railroad, I managed to turn out quite a few model cars (and one airplane).

So, without further ado, (whatever "ado" is?) here, in no particular order, is the Class of 2012.

More in a minute. . . .