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And here's an ad for original kit.

Another fun figure kit. Part of Lindberg's Jolly Roger Series. Hex Marks the Spot. Which as you all know is really a repop of MPC's old Pirates of the Caribbean kit, Dead Man's Raft. I'm pleased with how it turned out. Other than the skeleton that pops out of the box does not seen to like to throw his right arm, hand, and knife out to mark the map like he is supposed to do. I've operated it maybe a half dozen times now. And only once did the arm fly out like it should. Beyond that I'm pleased.

All the cars your showing are too new for me. So I have little to no interest in them. I mainly want models of 1960's through early 70's Japanese cars and trucks. Hasegawa has made some very nice kits from that era. But only in RHD, Japanese market version of those vehicles. I'd just like to see some U.S. market version of those same cars. They've got the kits. How tooling some extra parts to a U.S. version of those cars? Their Toyota 2000GT and 1st generation Toyota Celicas I believe would be good sellers in this country, with the parts to convert them into U.S. spec versions.

Another scale building kit I just finished. It Model Motoring's HO Judges Stand. A repop of the old Aurora kit. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. I'm so pleased I also ordered they're reissue of the Curved Bleachers. And wish they would reissue, or I could find, the Dual Pit Stop and Grand Stand.

Not sure what to make of this news. I love Moebuis Models. And I've been happy with the few Pegasus kits I've gotten over the years. So I'm hoping this really changes things very little. Their sci-fi and figure models complement each other quite well.

I requested a LHD Toyota 2000GT. And a version of the '71 - '72 Toyota Celica as it appeared on the U.S. market at the time. It would be easy for Hasagawa to do both kits, since they have RHD Japanese versions of the kits in their inventory. I do think the Japanese manufacturers are missing the boat on not offering U.S. spec versions of Japanese vehicles. I'd like to build cars of stuff that was actually seen in the dealerships, and on the roads here.

Any photos of the promo, and it rear suspension?

And here is an original ad for the kit.

One of my favorite Daniel's kits. I love the way mine turn out. I built this one about two or three years ago.

In general, I like Chad's videos. But, I had two problems with this one. 1. There was nothing I'm interested in picking up. 2. Chad's microphone technique was off. When talking, he needs to continue talking into the mic. So nothing excites me from Round 2 for this month of March. That's okay. I need to slow down on buying models. And build what I've got.

I don't know how I feel about this one. The rotating stand interests me, more than the kit itself.

Okay. I get it now. The string tie version, looks like a stick figure. A little funny. A little lame too. But, now I understand.

in another dimension

I went to a local Popeyes for chicken one Saturday night a while back, and they were out of chicken. I question how this happens? Bad management on the store level, not preparing for a busy Saturday night? When chicken is your main thing, you should keep enough chicken around. Or have a way to get more if your starting to run out of chicken. The local Popeyes is the only time I've seen this happen. And I've seen and experienced other problems with that store. I've never had problems with other Popeyes. Talking about a shortage of chicken. One of my favorite places for chicken use to Culver's restaurants. A little over a year ago, they discontinued they're fried chicken dinners. At least locally. Despite how good their other food is, I'm still missing their chicken. They had the best fried chicken.

I don't understand? What's wrong with his head versus body ratio in the above logo? It looks fine to me.

And let's not forget, it's "A Fine Car." Fine for what? We don't know?

I'm sure I've mentioned this before. But here is a little Crosley club humor. Looking at Crosley's emblem, you'll notice four birds. Do you know what those birds represent? The pigeons who were suckered in to buying Crosleys when they were brand new.

Dave's hit it. They've been busy with sci-fi, figure kits, etc. And pretty high priced sci-fi kits. Moebuis, Round 2, Atlantis, and others keep coming up with these new, beautiful, and expensive sci-fi kits. What does that tell those of us in model car hobby? Obviously the sci-fi builders are willing to spend the money, making developing new kits for them worthwhile. Instead we complain that we can't anything new for some ridiculously low price like we paid for models 25 years ago. So why we wait for their new Ford pickup trucks and Chevy IIs, the sci-fi guys get a new 2001 Space Odyssey Discovery and Fantastic Voyage Proteus. And both are not cheap kit!

How! What a concept. Building model cars for the fun of it! I hate bare metal foil. And I don't mind that a lot of my models look a lot like promos in the end. It's what makes me happy. And I'm having fun. Do I like the models the way the author of article is building his models? No. But, I like what he's doing in concept. He's having fun. And having fun is a big reason I got into this hobby too. A lot of times I will not showing my models here. Because I know they do not measure up others standards. I get tired of being asked, "Why don't you use some bare metal foil or paint on your windows and other moldings?" Because for the most part, I hate doing it. And I've ruined good paint jobs and consequence some good models in the process. Plus I like the look of most of my models in the end. I enjoyed the article. It was refreshing. Our local model car club, the Model Car Club of Minnesota (the MCCM), has a saying. A mission statement you might say. That is, "Build It, Bring It, Have Fun Doing Both!" And I'm pleased to say we do a pretty good of following that. They may give me a little flack about my un-chrome foiled models. And encourage me to expand my horizons. (Some times getting me to use some foil.) But, they don't disparage what I'm doing, and compliment on what they do like about my models and me. So much so, I've been with the club for at least 25 years now. And my modeling has gotten better in that time. Partly through they're encouragement and help. Below is an example of my work.

Beautiful ☝️

I love Crosleys, and have been a member of the Crosley club for many years. As much as I would to see especially a Hot Shot in styrene plastic, I too don't think there is enough market for a major model manufacturer to tool up one. But, if they do, I'll be adding at least one to my collection.

There all ready a thread going on this. Why start another?

I'm not 100% sure if this the right place to post this one, or not? In today's mail, I got Model Motoring's repop of Aurora Model Motoring HO Judges Stand. It looks like an exact replica made from the old Aurora molds.

Today I got Micro-Trains Weyerhaeuser Logging Train. My father worked for Weyerhaeuser when I was growing up, so I had to buy it.

Didn't only one of Kanangas' henchman drive a "Superfly" style Cadillac? And the rest plain Chevys?