Jim N

You did a great job!

Great job. The color pops really well.

Thanks for the info Michael. I will do this next time I order a gift or something rather expensive.

Great work! Nice looking color.

My suggestion is to check with your daughter and perhaps your son in law to see how to handle this. Even liars and cheats don't like to be called out as such, and the potential collateral damage from this may affect your daughter. Her relationship with him may suffer as a result of this.

I had my first really poor experience with Amazon. My wife has been looking at photo scanners for a few years now and I found one on Amazon I thought she would like. I ordered it for her birthday and it would be delivered in a few days. No big deal as I ordered it a month early. Well at Amazon, some nit wit puts a shipping label on the Epson box and they ship it. I happened to be at home when it was delivered and could not believe it. I had no place to hide something that large, so she received her gift one month early. The only bright side to this was that we had a relative pass away last week and my wife was able to scan a number of pictures for the family so they could have an electronic pictorial display for the reception after the funeral.

This is excellent advice. One thing I would add is watch the stress. I am 57 now, but at 45 my job just about did me in. They moved me to a new role, but after a while I started to feel the same way as I did before the heart attack. Then in a rather peculiar twist of fate, four years ago, new management came into the organization, and I was informed my services were no longer required. I took a new job. I make a bit less money, but I come into the office at 8 and leave at 5. Very little stress and I feel a lot better.

Great job on the conversion! Looks very nice.

Outstanding work Mark. Really stellar!

Looks very nice. You did a great job!

Looks very nice!

Looks very nice. The paint and decal work are excellent.

Great job! The weathering looks great.

Looks great. Very nice work.

Did I write that the sheet metal was fabricated by the teams? No, I did not. At this point in time, there were few if any body on frame production cars. They were uni-body construction. NASCAR was and remains body on frame construction. The only way these cars are built is by the teams hanging the sheet metal on the cars. I couldn't care less who makes the sheet metal. My post above clearly stated that these cars are not purchased off of a dealer's lot. The frames are largely hand built whether it is done by a team or is outsourced. The sheet metal is hung on the cars by hand. The race cars are hand built.

I really suggest that you read or re-read RandyC's post on the previous page. These race cars are hand built. They are not bought off of a dealer's lot. I am a member on another racing site and they were posting photos of race cars from the 1980's and the 1990's. One of the pictures of a race car had Buick and Pontiac sheet metal. It was a Buick from the front bumper through the doors. It was a Pontiac from the B pillars on back. This car ran in at least one NASCAR event. Another person mentioned that in the Jack Roush museum there is supposed to be a race car from one of Mark Martin's memorable wins. EXCEPT IT'S THE WRONG CAR. If my memory serves me correctly it was another car that was put together with whatever parts they had lying around in the race shop. In the 1970's, Chrysler took a picture of one of Richard Petty's Chargers and put it nose to nose with a production Charger. Petty Enterprises messaged the front end of the race car. Starting from the middle of the wheel wells going forward, the sheet metal has a downward slope to it. The front end of the race car is noticeably lower than the production car. If a model company used any of these cars as the basis for a kit, none of them would meet any of your expectations for what the car should look like. But all of them would be representations of cars that actually raced.

Amazing work!

Looks great! As others have noted, the weathering is top drawer work.

Nice job Brian. Lot's of detail - looks great!

In a perfect world, they would delay production and get the problems corrected. But this is a small company and they must have cash flow. They cannot bleed cash indefinitely. Also for every argument that there is a problem with the kit there has been a counter argument that the kit is correct.

Great job! The car looks really nice.

Very nicely done. The color combination looks great.

Looks very nice! Great color combination.

Very cool! You did a great job.

Looks great! Super work all the way around.