Harry Joy

The spray can laws started, I'm pretty sure, in Chicago in the 90s. They were enacted as an anti-graffiti/gang measure.

Honoring the price listed is the law in a lot of northern states, and the store policy in a lot of other nationwide chains. But as a retailer, I sympathize. It's also the Boy Scout in me. One place I shop, a specialty place, consistently tries to undercharge me for something I buy pretty often. The clerks keep trying to charge me for one of something I buy in a sealed pack of six (no, not beer). Each time, I politely correct them. It's the right thing - and I want them to know what they are actually selling, so it's there the next time I come. But sometimes I chide them.

If you can find them, Pollyscale reefer colors. Testor's yanked Pollyscale from the marketplace recently, and everyone around here sold out, but you could get lucky.

Bought my first Johan kit today. 76 Eldorado. Sure do wish I could buy more, but the collector's prices can be nuts.

Good deal. Did you tell them they made a mistake? That would be the right thing to do. I found something similar at Michael's once, where someone made a coding error at the main office. The store still sold me the product I'd picked up, and at the incorrect price, but I had the satisfaction of knowing I had done the right thing. I'm in retail, and I can promise you, the margins are thin. One sale at the wrong retail won't put a store out of business, but it can hurt.

Nice. It took me about thirteen years give or take to build my 1953 Bel Air.

That's not new at all. I spent almost 20 years in records from the early 80s to 2000, and I heard that one all the time, from kids to clerks to major labels and magazines.

I like the colors - in fact, I am doing something very similar on my Ranger.

I like looking at models that have been fully detailed, be they cars, airplanes, tanks, figures, whatever. As long as they are done well and accurately. It bugs me to see a model where someone has pulled out all the stops, only to make an inaccurate or poorly done model. Do I do any of this? Nope. Not what I'm in the hobby for. When I was starting out, I amassed a lot of aftermarket PE, resin, all sorts of doo-dads. And every time I used them I was one of those poor guys who did not use them well. When I finally started getting better, I made one "everything and the kitchen sink" P-40, with all the interior details, hollowed out guns and exhausts, dropped flaps, everything. Then sold all the aftermarket, except for basic stuff. I still like resin seats in my airplanes and aftermarket decals. In my cars, I've become fond of AMTs pad-printed tires, and flocking. That's all I use nowadays.

I listen to a lot of news radio. The word that is driving bonkers is "So.....". On the scene reporters, every time the anchor asks a question, their first paragraph spoken starts "So.....".

I would like the Bonneville or the Grand Prix. My stash is small, and I only recently started adding cars to it, so there is quite a bit out there I don't have.

I use Adblock, in Firefox. When I have the Adblocker on, the silly mouse-overs don't work. I hate to sound like an old coot, but I was an early adopter of PB, and back in the day it was so simple to use, simple to organize, simple to share. Now it's just a pain. Maybe someday I'll start my owned danged photo site to share from.

I have a decently fast PC and connection, but Photobucket is always slow for me now. I blame the pop-ups (which I have to allow, or PB won't work now), and all the videos and dazzlies they load the free pages with.

I put BBs in all of my Model Master jars several years ago. Thought I was quite brilliant. Then because of life and stuff I was unable to model for about two years. When I picked it up again, all the paint was grayish and ruined. That's how I found out you are only supposed to use certain BBs. Expensive mistake.

Thanks guys!

Pretty was the only word that came to mind for me too. Mighty pretty.

Gas around here has been mighty low since late summer. I filled up in Southaven. MS tonight, and regular was $1.449. If I can make that far, I pay less in Batesville or Oxford. However, I had a $1.00 a gallon discount on my grocery store loyalty card, so yeah - I paid about 6 bucks for a full tank of gas. (I drive for work, from West Memphis, AR to south Memphis, and as far south as Starkville.)

Interesting. My wife decided she wanted to see my 1971 Moebius Ranger done next. I tried to talk her into a station wagon, or a Ranchero, but no, only the Ranger would do.

Thanks guys. It was not an easy kit to find. A friend online gave this kit to me many years ago, and I've wanted to build it for ages. I used the wrong tail lights. I did not realize they were keyed top to bottom, and painted them is reverse. I may strip them and correct them someday. This is a pic of my dad (waving), and his brother in his Bel Air:

My wife just informed me that I am building a truck next.

Since I got back into modeling in 2000, I've been wanting to build this. It is Dad's favorite car, and his brother owned one back then. The color was hard to pin down, especially 16 years ago, when Chevy paint chips were not everywhere online. I eventually figured out the color and mixed it up for the build with Tamiya acrylics.

Now THIS is a Mini Cooper. (The big ones on the road today bug me to no end.)

I lived in Alton, right across from St. Louis, when the Rams moved there. All I can say is.... to my former in-laws - pbthhhh, I told you this was going to happen.

To add to what I already wrote - even if you look plenty old enough to buy alcohol, a register requires that the cashier type in a birthday anyway. At the company I work for, if a cashier keeps typing in the same date over and over, the cashier is flagged by software at headquarters. Our local laws only require that a customer look 27 to buy cigarettes, and IDs are not required for anyone who looks older than that, so cashiers often type in something like "1/1/1991" over and over. Which inevitably triggers a loss prevention investigation. So maybe this cashier in Chicago only wanted to see a real date to type in.

In some municipalities, it is the law that an ID must be shown to buy beer, liquor or wine, no matter if you look 21 or 210. It's that way in Memphis. The division of the company I work for has over 100 stores regionally, of which about 25 or so are in Memphis. However, our policy bows to the strictest law, and we teach all our cashiers to card all people, whether they are in Memphis or not. It is just prudent to stay on the safe side of the law when you are a retailer. In addition to that, in many places a cashier who sells to minors gets carted off in cuffs, jailed, fined, and on top of that, fired. When the law passed around here saying that even seniors needed to show ID, the cops did stings sending in grannies. And the cashiers get cuffed, jailed, fined and fired. So sure, insult that cashier's intelligence.