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Super Chicken drives a Super Coop.

Other than paint and glue, I'll be building mine straight out of the box.

Okay I did a web search on the Panzernest. An interesting idea. But, I still question its overall usefulness. Really only mobile the one time. Kind of like trench warfare on a new level.

What exactly is it? My impression from the box art is that it is some kind one man armored box? If it is, I'm seeing more disadvantages than advantages to this. It maybe mobile. But how mobile in heavy fighting? And how does one get in and out of it quickly? Plus, I bet it gets hot in there when sealed up. The Germans are great engineers. But this one doesn't look to be one of their better ideas.

Okay, I got my Honda 750 in the mail yesterday. Man, priority mail can be fast. Opening the box, but still leaving everything in bags. Some question come up as I look at the instructions. The first thing I'm confused about. How does the tachometer and speedometer attach to the bike? The instructions are not clear on this at all. It's all so a little fuzzy on attaching what I assume are the ignition coils. Using the vinyl tubing looks a little confusing, and could be a bit of a rat's nest. But, I have feeling this will be okay if I take my time. I also have a question about painting. The black plastic parts are molded in a very nice black plastic. So nice, I debating on painting them. Leaving them as is instead. The red plastic parts will be primed, and then painted blue. Any thoughts on leaving the black plastic alone? Or will it be obvious it's black plastic when the bike is done. This will be my first true motorcycle model, other than the chopper that came with Tom Daniel's Cherry Bomb. And that turned very nice, but it had a lot less detail than this. Building this should be fun, interesting, and maybe a little bit challenging.

It turns out that my bike arrived in the mail yesterday. Just in time for my birthday. Priority mail can be fast! A question comes up as I look at the instructions. What and how does the tach and speedometer attach to on the bike itself? Is this obvious as you build the model? For it sure is not obvious in the instructions. Other wise, everything else looks pretty straight forward. The vinyl tubing looks like it could be a little bit of a rats nest. In fact, I'm also a little unclear about mounting what I assume are the ignition coils. Beyond that, construction looks pretty straight forward. One last thing. Painting the black plastic parts. They are molded in what looks to be a pretty nice black plastic. I'm tempted to leave them as is and just assemble the kit. The red plastic pieces I will be painting. Anybody have any thoughts on this.

1908??? ?

Looking good. I've been waiting for someone to get around to building this. I just ordered one the other day off of eBay as a birthday gift for myself. It has not arrived as of yet. But, it's only been two days. Anything in particular one need to watch out for in build this kit? Or are things pretty straight forward?

Neither of the above dashboards were in my last JoHan '62 Dart.

Is your dash from a '63 Polara? Or a '62 Plymouth? I remember buying that kit about the last time it was readily available. And I too noticed it had the wrong dash. A few years before, they had the correct '62 Dart dash in it. I thought my last JoHan '62 Dart had the dash from the '62 Plymouth? It's been a long time. So I maybe wrong on that.

I thought the USA-1 version had the Corvette aluminum wheels? Only the AMT Prestige roadster and the Revell 63's had the stock wheel covers?

Other than the color, as already noted.

Very cool! But, it forces me to tell my all time favorite joke. Do you know why a chick coop has two doors? If it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.

Turned out very nice Ray. Curious, does this model include any of the interior of the craft? I can not remember if the original Aurora one had an interior or not? It seems like I remember one?

The last one I built, in the last year, from the most recent reissue, I did to mimic Jay Leno's '63 color wise. Silver with a black interior. It turned out very nice. You won't hear me complaining about this kit. It's still one of my favorites.

Loony Tunes and Jonny Quest for me.

One needs an excuse to watch cartoons?

Interesting, and thank you.

If it's missing taillights, I'd check with Modelhaus. They may have them.

I think it used rubber bands. It was offered in other MPC kits at the time. It would be kind of fun to have one today.

Just went through a 24 hour snowstorm. We got about 8 to 10 inches of snow. But, it was a fairly light snow. The snowblower had no trouble going through it at all. The weather forecasters warned that the winds would be bad today. They thankfully were wrong. The sun came out just before noon. You could see light areas of the snow start melting right away. For a so called "blizzard," it was a very easy one. Yesterday's afternoon/evening commute was tough. And it did not sound too good this morning. I took the day off from work, figuring on a big clean up today. But, in about a half an hour I was done. I went out for lunch a little after 1 pm, and the roads were pretty good. Tonight's rush hour should have few problems. This has been a very nice winter by Minnesota standards. And for that I am greatfull. Thanks go to the "old man upstairs."

Just got in the mail AMT's 1/48 scale Beechcraft G17S Staggerwing model kit. A model of my all time favorite airplane. I remember building one of these back in the 1980's. It's still a very nice kit. But, like the original they molded it in yellow plastic. I'm going to have to shot it with primer, before painting it the color I want. They've improved the decal sheet to include white stripes, besides the original blue/red ones. The pilot included still has that funky 70's, disco era look to him. Giving the kit part of its charm.

Still wish Round 2 would reissue the go kart by itself. I'd love to have one.

How about some photos to clue the rest of us in?