Jim N

Great job Michelle.

Very nice! Dodge had some great looking paint schemes.

The artistic side to this fascinates me to no end. How people can take those rectangular blocks and turn them into the 1:1 items takes an imagination and skill set I don't have. The one thing I have always wondered is what happens to these pieces when they outlive their use. The blocks are glued together in the bulk of these projects so they don't fall apart. That makes them one big chunk of plastic.

Great work. Really cool looking model.

I built the Bosch version of this car a number of years ago and recall it being a witch as far a fit with the body panels. You did a great job!

Great work! I like it a lot.

Great job! Love the back story of the build.

Turning a bank into a model car is a novel approach. Great work!

Very nice. Not one we see very often.

Great work! I can see why you won numerous awards.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Great job giving it a race worn look! Very convincing.

Another great looking build!

Great job Jonathan!

It was mentioned above, but bears repeating. Goodyear has become very sticky to deal with regarding licensing fees for more than a decade. I build a lot of NASCAR kits and Revell has not had Goodyear markings in their kits since about 2006. The only way to do these kits properly is through the aftermarket, and I am sure these are unlicensed decal sheets.

Great job! I followed this one in the work in progress thread and your work is outstanding.

The rainbow warrior cars were metallic blue and neon red. Model Car World paints have the colors to match. I built a 94 Dupont car using their colors and it looked spot on.

Great job! I like it a lot.

Great looking model!

Another nice save Michelle.

I am not sure that words can fully describe this gentleman's work. It's museum quality building that's for certain.

Both of our kids are now in their 20's but they had some incredible melt downs growing up. A teacher of one of our kid's told us that when kids turn 12 - 13 a switch turns in their brains and they are able to start to think more like an adult. When they have emotional difficulties, they also start to deal with them differently. Typically the crying fits start coming to an end. 11 is a little old to met down over not being with his mom. I could see it to some degree if both parents left him with you, but you said the dad was with you. Kids melt down over some unusual things, and it may not have had anything to do with being with you or missing his mom. Mom being away could have merely been the trigger. As frustrating as it may be, the only thing you can really do in this type of instance is let the kid get over it himself. If you get angry or lose your temper with them in the middle of the melt down, it will make things worse. What we usually did was put the kid in a room by himself or herself and let them know that they could come out when they were ready to behave as we expect. After a while, they got over it. Hopefully you will not have to witness something like this again.

Thanks for the kind words everybody. I appreciate it.

Looks great. I really like the design of the cars from this era.

Looks great!