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Oh man, that's a good looking wheel & just perfect for the vibe I want for this project. The spokes, as in this one, need to be metal for the best look

Thanks, Curt. I had missed a couple of threads on the subject, when I searched previously.

Flathead eye candy.

This represents what I want on this build for wheels/tires. Want to build them out of metal to follow through with the materials used on the rest of the project. I've searched every modeling forum I can find & google for info on scale wires in metal with not much success. If anyone has a link to info/vids on this I would be most appreciative. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=64878&hl=%2Bwire+%2Bwheels

Thanks, Mike. You may be right about the mad part. My wife seems to think so as well. Bill Davis turned me on to this page. Videos of seminars at GSL from several different years. http://www.gslchampionship.org/Library/library.html Since I'm scratch building in a large scale, this one is of particular interest to me. He deals with conceptualizing, planning, initating & following through on a scratch built project. It was encouraging to me to realize that my thought process has been similar to the way he approaches things. http://archive.org/details/scratchbuildingInLargeScaleByDaveCummins

...annd, the fisherman who is a master baiter...

Last night at the club meeting, the same guy who sold me my kit I"m using for reference, brought this & told me to take it for taking templates. Sooo, I may be back to building a coupe...very nice detail around the windows, etc. Thanks, Eric, very cool of you!

Perhaps a little premature, but I'm thinking about the flathead engine for this. With the pains I'm taking to make the frame & body "spot on", I know myself well enough to admit to myself that I'm going to have to go max effort on it. After viewing the engines of a couple of builders on this site & elsewhere, I have no choice but to begin to plan for a lathe & mill for my shop & an education so that I can effectively & intellegently use them. ...stuff like how to produce a perfect 1:8 scale stromberg 97 or rather 3 of them, etc.

Thanks, Ira, I appreciate that. Tonights the monthly kc slammers meeting, so think I'll cruise on up & hang with them for a couple of hours. Taking a couple of things for the show & tell portion of the evening. Should be a good time.

Fitting cross templates.

Some blues for a rainy morning, where I'm at.

You've got the vox pickups also, sweet.

That's a good looking guitar, Anne. In a similar vein, here's a knockoff of the vox teardrop that Brian Jones played in the early stones, that is currently in the works.

Indeed!

Nice. I built a willys gasser when I was 12 or 13...back in late 50's early 60's. Up until a couple of years ago, my mom still had it in her memory chest. A popular car to build, it would seem, to have stayed in production for so long.

A few more. Most impressive work. Very inspiring for me!

Met a guy recently who shared some pics of a 1:8 34 buck he did. I asked him & he said it would be ok if I shared them here. Very cool!

Thanks, Bill. Just moving slow in the beginning...make sure I think it all through so I can realize a viable result at the end of it.

The top of the fender is in such constant change of shape as it moves, I added a few more lines to my grid to more closely monitor the shape as it's transferred to the bucks. Laid out a center line, making sure the fender will fit in the area of the buck & marked the references for the grid lines. All of my cross templates are drawn but not cut & fitted yet. Anticipating beginning to shape the buck, because I'm really wanting to start bending some metal & getting a feel for how this is all going to come around.

Page, Rogers, Slade, Franklin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDjRFTIhxnA

Very innovative work, John! It's been a delight watching it come together to this point.

If you like classic rock, here's Joe B. doing "just got paid", from his 09 Royal Albert Hall show. He ends this song with a huge, over the top, rock and roll ending. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SiVgNcYwZc

There is a lot of good new music being done currently. Just seems one has to look a little deeper to find it, than in the old days.

The jazzy aspect of the arrangement is what I like about the music. As a player, I'm very in to chord voicings & what Randy has done in this song really suits my ear. Not to mention his very articulate lead lines. Plus, I identify with several things he says in the lyrics... "don't you know I need the quiet hours to create this world of mine....at 4 in the morning...the air is fresh under diamond skies, makes me glad to be alive".