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Still very cool! Scott

A nice looking Grand Prix. Great job. Scott Aho

Good looking Blazer. Very nice job. Scott Aho

Yes. Show us more. Scott Aho

Opened mine up today, and started doing subassemblies in preparation for painting. Wow! Am I impressed. This is a very nice kit. I only have one complaint. And it's a very minor one at that. I wish they would have offered this kit where one could have had the optional third seat in it. Making it a nine passenger, rather than a six. But, that's it. Everything else looks great. Good detail. Without going overboard, making the kit complicated to build. What I've glued together so far, fits prefect. I'm loving it. I've always been a big fan of the Suburbans. I've been waiting for years for somebody to do one. And Revell has done this one right. I do hope they eventually follow this kit up with a panel truck version. But, I'm glad to see a Suburban first. R. Scott Aho

I've been building models of the Titanic lately. 3 of them! I doubt one can consider the Titanic a "Pleasure Craft" after what happen to the real one. I had been eyeing Academy's 1/700th Scale Multi Colored Parts (MCP) Titanic kit at Hobby Lobby for quite sometime now. A few weeks back I was looking at them on eBay, and they have a version of the exact same kit, but with LED lights. So I took the plunge and bought one. With no painting, it took me only two days to build. I had a lot of fun and it looked great when it was done. So next I decided I needed their 1/1000th scale MCP Titanic. Since I've have Round 2's predecorated Star Ship Enterprise and Kingon Battle Cruisers in that same scale. Again, another fun and nice model to build. That one took less than one day to build. So..... I decided to buy Academy's 1:400th scale MCP Titanic. This one is going to take a while to build. A lot of little parts. Things like the ship's railings. And all sorts of pipes, vents, winches, and things like that. Then there is the rigging. Even though the Titanic was not a sailing ship, there is still a lot of rigging need to be added. And I've never rigged anything before this. So far, the 1/400th scale Titanic is coming together beautifully. Again, because of the Multi Colored Parts feature, it really need no paint. Other than the cargo covers. They are molded in clear plastic. Why they did that, I don't know? So I had to paint those flat white. The rest of the parts are looking great just as they are. And I love the way the parts fit and go together so nicely. I'm very impressed with this kit. In fact I'm impressed with all three Academy MCP Titanics I purchased so far. They are great kits. Scott

Another great review! I still love Chris' reviews. They are the best. And I'm looking forward to adding this Suburban to my collection. Scott

Very nice job. Looks just the tractors I remember as a kid. Like I said, very nice. Scott

Your your sister found some interesting stuff above ☝️Mark. I'm sure you'll have few problems getting rid of them if you want to. Even here. If fact... I see two Lockheed Constellations in their. If complete, what would you like for one of them? Scott

Interesting. Scott

More nice stuff. I'm glad your here posting your models Mr. Yost. Cars and others like the above. Again, your interests are very similar to mine. It's fun looking at what your showing us. At least I'm having a good time. Scott

I can't disagree with anything you've said Mark. You've basically hit the nail on the head. The Olds 350 fiasco was probably a bigger mistake than the development and execution of the Chevy Vega. Eventually trying to save money by taking away each of General Motors divisions autonomy is in my opinion what killed General Motors. Back before the mid-70's, when you bought a V8 Oldsmobile, you got a V8 built and designed by Oldsmobile. An Oldsmobile 350 V8 was not the same engine as the Buick, Chevrolet, or Pontiac 350. They were all different engines. Just having the same displacement. An Oldsmobile was not a Buick or Chevrolet. It was an Oldsmobile. GM's 1980 X-body, '81 J-body, and new '82 front-wheel drive A-body, what is the difference between those cars? Not much. Why buy one over the other? Only old brand loyalty at best. And that brand loyalty will only last so long selling the same vehicles. I believe this is part of the reason we don't have Mercury or Plymouth anymore too. Why pay more for a Mercury over the same basic Ford? Plymouths's case is a little different than Mercury's. In that case you could get a slightly better version of the same car, for not that much more money in a Chrysler on the same showfloor. The Chrysler name had more clout than Plymouth. Mercury did not have the same over Ford. Anyhow, I guess this all has little to nothing to do with the main theme of this thread. Other than, setting things up in a way that I doubt we'll see another Firebird Trans Am or Plymouth Barracuda, which I'd both like to see, in my life time. I hope I'm wrong. But, I'm not going to be holding my breath wait for them. Scott

??? Where did you get the above story come from? It makes no sense. Contractors not willing to Chevrolet trucks? Why did Chevrolet offer a special Work Truck edition of their pickup for several years? And GMC did not? I worked for a couple of GM dealers for many, many years over that time period. There was never any talk about closing down GMC that we ever heard of. Just before the bail out and recession of '07-'08, trucks, including GMC's were selling very well. Pontiacs were not. I still think killing off Pontiac was a big mistake in the long run. And I still question of killing off Oldsmobile too. I think with the right vehicles both brands could have been saved. GM has been very badly run for about thirty years now. My favorite brand, Buick, doesn't even hold much interest for me now. The only thing I still like from GM are some of the Chevrolet cars, and the trucks, from both Chevrolet and GMC. It is interesting how GM destroyed Oldsmobile. In the early 1980's Oldsmobile was one hottest brands going. Cutlass was one of the best selling cars there was at the time. Less than 25 years later you could barely give Oldsmobiles away. How do you destroy a respected brand like Oldsmobile that quickly? Or Pontiac for that matter? And if it wasn't for the Chinese market we would not have Buick. This company has been F***ed up for a long time now. The bean counters started taking over sometime in the 1970's. And it's been down hill ever since. Scott

Nothing new I can add. The advice above is the way to go. Scott

I hate to be naive. But what is this "list" being referred to here? I've never done any real big trading with anybody on the web. So, I really don't understand what went wrong here. Scott

Mike Conners earlier this year. Now Adam West. How sad. To me West will always represent the true Batman. He was the Batman I was reading about in comic books back then. First Mannix, now Batman. Plus, let's not forget Mr Spock/Nimoy last year. I guess I'm getting old. It's hard hearing about these loved icons passing away. Adam you did a great job. I will always have great memories of the work you did. Thank you. Scott

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. Atheism is a non-prophet organization... And can an atheist get insurance against acts of God? If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. What if there were no hypothetical questions? If a deaf child signs swear words, does his mother wash his hands with soap? Where do forest rangers go to get away from it all? What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages? Would a fly without wings be called a walk? Can vegetarians eat animal crackers? If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent? Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? What was the best thing before sliced bread? One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk about other people. Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra? Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? How is it possible to have a civil war? If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too? If you ate both pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry? Why are hemorrhoids called "hemmorrhoids" instead of "asteroids"? Why is there an expiration date on sour cream? If you try to fail, and you succeed, which have you done?

1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, "I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger." 2. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says "Dam!" 3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too. 4. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says "I've lost my electron." The other says "Are you sure?" The first replies "Yes, I'm positive." 5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication. 6. A group of chess enthusiasts check into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?", they asked, as they moved off. "Because, " he said, "I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer." 7. A women has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named "Ahmal." The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him "Juan." Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal." 8. A group of friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everybody liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that only Hugh can prevent florist friars. 9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail, and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him (Oh, man, this is so bad, it's good) a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. 10. And finally, there was the person who sent ten different puns to his friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

Any pictures pictures or film clips out there of Larry Hagman (Major Nelson) with the plane? I'm not finding anything on the web verifying this. I'm not doubting whether this info is true or not. In fact, I find it very cool. I've just never seen it, and would like to. Scott

More cool stuff. Nice work. Scott

Another favorite of mine. Another nice model. Scott

Spent sometime this afternoon searching YouTube and the web. I could not find anything showing Major Nelson with any airplane. Much less this one. Any links showing him and the plane would be greatly appreciated. Scott

Thank you. Within minutes of my posting about not knowing about the plane, I did a Google search, and immediately hit the Wikipedia page you have a link to. An interesting little bugger. Scott

All the more cool. Scott

Really? It's been a long time since I've seen that show. I have no memory of that. Scott