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Thank you very much for the kind words!

Thank you very much for the kind words!

Thank you very much for the kind words!

Thank you very much for the kind words!

Sound the alarm...here comes the Fire Iron! Tom Daniel's version of an old time fire engine is hot enough to smoke up the quarter-mile, cool enough to turn-on any mod smoke eater. Molded in fire engine red, this rig has brass-plated trim, black rubber super-wide low profile slicks and a Ford Cobra 289 mill with "hose coupling" headers. High pressure pump is under the seat, fire axe mounts on the side and extinguisher rides on the running board. This was the second version of the Firecracker... The only things changed, were the replacement of the far-out tires and wheels to what can be described as more "realistic" looking, in that the overall look was that of a "Vintage Tin" model... Almost stock looking except for the "Fire Hose" exhaust headers. Even the name: Fire Iron was more sedate. Boxstock, with the exception of the rear wheels, original rims, embedded in turned and polished aluminum tubes with Formula 1 slicks, scale 1:20. The color is a mica red, with clear coats. Only with the Decals is nothing more, i have it misused for another project. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=78874 I then removed them again, because they do not want to stick, too old glue. Maybe someday I get the opportunity again, to decorate it with better decals... Here are the pictures, hope you enjoy:

The correct term for a camper... One of my favorites...

Chitty chitty bang bang...

This is a Snap together all plastic assembly model kit and was made by Polar Lights, dated 2003. It comes with over 50 Pieces and a pre-painted Homer Figure. The parts are molded in the proper colors, or in clear plastic, there's the predominate green, brown and this cool chrome, but also some black. This is a skill level 1 model, but I wouldn't hand it over to an eight year old kid unsupervised unless he or she is very patient... It's too easy to break some of the smaller pieces trying to snap them together, and if you hurry you're bound to regret it. The instructions are very clear however, and make it fairly simple to get it all together in 30 - 45 minutes tops.( but then it is not yet nice...) Make sure you pay attention, as there are parts that should go on before others to make the build much smoother. I'd say you can go about 80% or so without glue on this one, there are some smaller pieces that do snap on alright, but I glued everything, like the rear view mirror, or the hood ornament. I also did a little gluing on the main body pieces just to ensure overall structural strength. And yes, after I glued the fins on the Body, there was a huge gap in between, so I had to putty and sanding... Sure, most snap together kits claim you don't have to paint anything, but that's pretty much a lie... It's the car that really shines here, as the little Homer is less than stupendous, he's not terrible, but he's a rather average version of the lovable oaf, so I let him off...

Thank you very much for the kind words! 1. Tamiya White Fine Surface Primer TA-87044 2. Tamiya Spray TS-28 Olive Drab Lacquer TA-85028 3. Tamiya Spray TS-65 Pearl Clear TA-85065 4. Tamiya Spray TS-13 Clear TA-85013 No idea about the layers, I do it by feel anyway...

PS: Surely, the people that should really be designing cars, are those, who use them; a car for the people, by the people...

"Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons' second season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 21, 1991. After watching the latest McBain movie, Grampa Simpson suffers a heart attack. This prompts him to confess a long-hidden secret: Homer has a half-brother. As Grampa explains, he had met a carnival floozy and prostitute before marrying Homer's mother. They had a son, and left him at the Shelbyville Orphanage. Determined to find his brother, Homer and his family go to the orphanage and find out that Abe's son was adopted by a Mr. and Mrs. Powell and named Herbert. Herb Powell (who looks just like Homer, except with more hair and a little less gut) is the head of Powell Motors car company (in danger of being taken over by the Japanese because of otherwise poor management). He is very rich, but is quite unhappy not knowing who he is and where he comes from. He is overjoyed upon hearing of his half-brother and invites the entire Simpson family to stay at his mansion in Detroit. Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are enthralled by Herb's wealthy lifestyle (though Marge constantly worries about spoiling her kids), and Herb decides that Homer, being an "average" American, is the perfect person to design a new car for his company, which has been losing business due to foreign car manufacturers. Herb introduces Homer to his company's design team, who soon use his lack of vehicle knowledge to try and design 'their' perfect vehicle. When Herb asks Homer how the car design is coming along Homer can't give him a straight answer. Herb feels that Homer is not being forceful enough with his ideas, and gives Homer a pep talk. Pretty soon, Herb has invigorated Homer, who begins rejecting the designer's ideas for weird items-like bubble domes, fins and several horns that play "La Cucaracha". At the unveiling of "The Homer", Herb is horrified to discover that the car is a monstrosity that costs $82,000 (significantly more when inflation adjusted for today). Herb's company folds, his mansion is sold off and he leaves regretting that he ever met his brother. As he departs on the bus he angrily remarks to Homer that he "has no brother". Lisa laments, "His life was an unbridled success... until he found out he was a Simpson." In the end of this episode, while Homer drives the family home, Bart tells him that the car he built was great. Homer became relieved that only one person seems to like it... The storyline of a controversially styled car causing the company to fail both echoes that of the Edsel and the Tucker Torpedo. The Edsel was a controversially styled car that bore the name of Henry Ford's son, Edsel Ford, and is now considered one of the biggest car flops in history. Production of the Tucker Torpedo, which introduced many new features, was shut down amidst scandal and accusations of stock fraud in 1949. Homer wants the horns of the car he is designing to play the traditional Spanish folk corrido "La Cucaracha". The Pope shows up for the unveiling of Homer's new car. Herb berates his staff for suggesting that the company name a new car "Persephone" after the Greek goddess of fertility in Greek mythology. Herb tells the staff, "People don't want cars named after hungry old Greek broads! They want names like 'Mustang' and 'Cheetah'—vicious animal names," referencing the Ford Mustang and Lamborghini Cheetah cars... Well, I can not even profess to like this model and its appearance, but these kits are good for exercise... Initially, the color should be a very bright green. But I decided for a darker, an olive green, to get a better scope for the chrome parts. Nevertheless, it was a fun build, hope you like it...

Nice build, Carl, i like it!

Endsville Eddie The "Weird-Oh's" kits were designed by Bill Campbell, and were originally released by Hawk in the sixties. These comical kits featured bug eyed, big toothed monsters, crazed race car drivers, wacky beach bums, and far out rock and rollers. This one is made by LINDBERG from the original HAWK vintage molds. The main body of the car was sprayed with Tamya Spray cans, Mica Red, over a silver base, the rest of the car and Eddie himself were hand painted in enamels and acrylics, and I dry brushed a lot... This was a fun little kit, mostly boxstock, although the nice thing about these kits is the creative freedom, the things that are changed is the shifter, i added a couple of small refinements, the chain for the anchor comes from a necklace, and some scratchbuilt foot brake parts, and of course the base, an old picture frame, filled with plaster, plus a new wall, handmade from a piece of PVC and a bit of kolor, finally finished, hope, you like it.

A wonderful dio, Sam, and wow, very large, and when we are at it, you've got a bunch of great cars on it!

Hey, Carl, I mentioned, that these black holes are the front lights, no idea what you could back then install, but today it would be very easy to made...

The Taco Trike was originally released in 1972 as the "Wedge Chopper" in MPC's 1/25 Scale Cycle Series. Retro Hobby's Johnny "Von Xeno" Greczula has gone loco! The decal sheet is so big, it barely fits in the box! There's eight different colorful themes that can be used to create some very wild and unique versions of the model, including the "California Chilli Chopper", "Luna Cycle", "Wild Wild Wedge" (with or without woodie panels) and many more. Ay carumba! Nevertheless, I had at the beginning, a very different plan, with this thing. For me, it somehow looked like a fire helmet... Perhaps far-fetched, but somehow ... The idea was a fire trike, a fire engine trike, with all equipment, ladders, fire extinguishers, hoses, ax and a big bell, which the driver rings with the hand, through the side window... I had some old decals from the Fire Iron. http://www.showrods.com/showrod_pages/fire_iron.html With these would be the perfect result. I thought ... Unfortunately, with the emphasis on old decals. I took the decals on. When the whole was dry, it looked a little "milky". This old glue! I painted it anyway with a varnish layer. I thought, that it will be better and so it looked then: Disastrous... They were shriveled and still "milky" and the whole was no longer to save... So there was nothing else left for me, as starting to grind the clearcoat and Decals. Under this act, this thing was a long time unfinished. Until now. I decided to use the Taco Trike variants. Here it is, I hope you like it.

Thank you very much for the kind words! You're right, it has something, David Lee Roth drove this 1932 Ford Phaeton in Van Halen's classic "Hot for Teacher" video in 1984...

It is not the Pontiac Banshee, it is the Corvette Indy, the same one Ira used here in the Transporter...

That would, in my opinion, be a `33 Ford, it`s from Revell, dated 1982. I have this from a real version, seen in a magazine, then, twenty years ago, all in White and I found this very kool... The front black holes should be lamps, now I've seen that the cooling hose is missing...