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Harold

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  1. Nice start you got going, although if you could get the trailing edge of the hood to mimic the base of the windshield, it would really be interesting. Great stuff.
  2. Well, since rebuilding my '66 Wildcat at the beginning of the year, things have been going slow for me in terms of finishing anything. However, I have not been idle. Here's a Trumpeter Monte that I've been working on. The suspension for the front was heavily modified. Apparently, TRumpeter plastic doesn't like being drilled, glued and shot with accelerant. That being said, I made new idler arms out of .040 Evergreen stock. The drag link started as part of a '32 Ford radius rod. I cut it to the length I needed and flattened the ends with a pair of pliers, then driled the ends with a #63 bit chucked into my pin vise. I then determined where the tie rods would line up and filed two .020 reliefs into it and added gussets from .020 Evergreen and drilled laterally through the link, again with a #63. The tie rod ends were originally notched, so these were filled in and drilled out with the #63 bit. The spindle arms were reinforced with .040 and .020 plastic and these were drilled out with the same bit. Everything was then put together with peices of straight pins and epoxy. The kit engine is the weak point of this otherwise great kit, so I pirated the V-6/automatic combo from Monogram's '78 El Camino. The wheels and tires are from Pegasus, and the body is geting a few more massages to get ready for paint.
  3. I have nothing against robotic surgery, as long as said robot is a licensed physician. BTW, instead of spamming us, why doesn't he pizza us? I sure like pizza a whole lot better than spam.
  4. Well, between my Secret Project, a Trumpeter Monte Carlo and yet another '97 F-150, I really want to A. Start on my '66 442 convertible and B. my George Follmer Javelin.
  5. I built the Olds last year, and while it was a fun build, there are a few caveats. I swapped in the rear axle from the Revell '66 GTO as I didn't care for the rear axle in the Olds (something about that molded- in sway bar). Also, the body surface development seems a bit wonky on my example, so in certain light it looks misproportioned ( or rebuilt from a bad wreck). As for the Lindberg Continental and Challenger, well, those kits were bought up from other companies- Pyro (which is a good idea for the Lincoln, Auburn and Cord kits) for the Lincoln and Palmer (no relation) for the Challenger. Here's a few pics of the Olds.
  6. Sweet job on the Bug. I dabble in HO stuff (not that kind of HO- I mean 1/87 scale) occasionally myself.
  7. Yeah, well she was replaced by an octogenarian who goes by the name 'Old Spice'.
  8. This has been my gripe for a while, now. A flood of deuces and tri- five Chevys, and yet I have to scrounge and scratchbuild stuff because it isn't available in kit form. Would it be to hard to tool up an '85- '86 T- Bird body for a variant on the '87? Maybe a mid- '80's Grand Prix. As for the Olds....
  9. Well, thanks for the tip. We'll have to see what happens, eh?
  10. Nice work on your Nismo (now I gotta finish the decals on mine...). This was my primary car in GT2, and it's one of my regulars in GT4.
  11. Beautiful job on the Merc. That interior is first rate. Now I gotta finish mine....
  12. "Kirk to Spock." "I'm sorry, but the Federation Wireless customer you're trying to contact has traveled outside the service area. Please try again later."
  13. My God- as if the Chevy truck wearing '61 Chrysler sheetmetal (or would that be sheetmental?) wasn't enough to make you lose every meal you've eaten in the last week, along comes a 'Vette with the most horribly Baroque (going for Baroque?) styling cues, and a Cadillac for the the man who has everything. Everything, that is, except for taste and common sense. Some people should not only be banned from customizing cars, they should also be banned from reproducing.
  14. What about all the stupid triangular tail lights framing the deckilid. Case in point- the new Impala. They had a nice, distinctive 'poor man's Skyline' look about it (especially with the body colored panel). Now, it's another 'me too' design with the same, stupid triangular tail lights. And what's with these horrid head and tail light assemblies that encroach halfway up the fender line. And for really great braille- inspired design, how about those stupid backwards wheel openings on the Colorado pickup? As I've said before, postmodernism and automobiles don't mix.
  15. How the heck did you do the bug on your sig. That is hysterical (how many guys have batted at their monitors already trying to shoo the thing away?).
  16. How does Bill do it? Like Robert Johnson, did he sell his soul at the crossroads to become a master modeler? Beautiful stuff, Bill. However, now I'm a bit intimidated to drag the one out of my stash and start on it (like I don't already have enough projects cluttering up my workspace.).
  17. Sweet build. You've really nailed the look of these cars. Back when the earth was still cooling, I had a '64 F-85 post sedan with the 330 and a four- barrel. What a sleeper.
  18. Yeah, well every generation thinks they're witnessing the end of the world. As for this little fantasy, this was cooked up by a culture that A; Sacrificed virgins to ensure a good growing season and B: Never figured out what the wheel was. I still laugh when I think back to '99 and all the moronic Y2K hysteria that was fomented by a media having a slow news year (which is why I become skeptical about any 'crisis' like the sine flu). Guess what? The world will still be here in 2012 and beyond (so you guys don't have to feel any pressure to finish that killer model before it's lights out), and we'll still be disfiguring plastic into shapes it was never intended to have.
  19. Yeah- how is all the garbage they hang on one of these relics going to increase the vehicle's performance? A Nissan Pulsar is slow enough without adding another #500 of stuff to make it even slower...
  20. Yet another example of why blind idiots shouldn't be allowed to design vehicles. As Mencken said, 'Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public'.
  21. With all that rust, she'd probably twist like a pretzel the minute the clutch was dumped at 7,000 RPM's . Great rust work.
  22. My guess is that it would work under the older 'Birds. I do know that it works with the '66 T-Bird, as that is one of my stalled projects. And Ron, that is one killer Thunderbird.
  23. Great piece, especially with the race car strapped down.
  24. Nice job on a grocery getter. Is that a conversion of the Lindberg kit?
  25. I never learned proper cursive writing by the teacher telling me my chicken scratching was good. I never learned to drive without the instructor screaming at me to quit dropping the right wheels onto the the shoulder (hey, it was a big Plymouth wagon on two- lane country roads). I never learne to draw without lots and lots of practice and a lot of input from my teachers. Same here. You won't become better at anything unless you accept critical analysis from those who view your work.
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