Richard Bartrop

Lindberg's 1/32 1930 Packard would make a great starting point if you ever wanted to build that.

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I keep being reminded of a recent ad, where the narrator ponders which will achieve self awareness first, AI, or us?

Milliput is good, especially if you're trying to sculpt some custom body work. It models like clay, doesn't shrink, binds tight to a surface, so blending it with the surrounding plastic isn't a problem, and it's strong enough that you can make something with a fine edge without worrying about it crumbling.

THey worked so well that they ended up using them in WW2 as well.

Outstanding work!

Airfix had a very nice 280SL kit in 1/32, but those are hard to find now, and a 1/24 version would be nice. Growing up in British Columbia in the '60s and early '70s, regular British cars were actually a pretty common sight on the roads. Lots of good suggestions so far, and if I gave you my wish list, we'd be here all day, but here's my top three: Lamborghini Espada: Lancia Stratos Zero. Citroen SM

This was the excuse the owner of Model Land gave me for not stocking any more Humbrol.

I have an airbrush, so this is not a big deal from the most part, but some of their gloss paints are only available as a spray. time to check out the other manufacturers, I guess. We used to be able to get Humbrol paint, but after Brexit, they decide that they didn't need to put French on their tins. Unfortunately, you still need that in Canada, so, no more Humbrol paint.

The cold is good. It keeps out the riff-raff.

Oh, don't let me interrupt your mass hysteria.

Checking that now, because the internet is a festering pit of lies and misinformation, and It wouldn't be the first time we flew into a panic over nothing. This video seems to be the only reference to the ban, and this link says that, if anything, Canada has lifted a ban on certain paint chemicals. https://canpaint.com/canada-reverses-ban-on-octhilinone-in-paints-and-coatings/ At the very least check with your local hobby store before you engage in mass hysteria.

Yes, all this sucks power, but not at the rate of an idling IC engine, and you still have the option of doing the smart thing and shutting all that off when the battery is low. In any case, you're in the same boat as an IC car stuck in traffic when it's low on gas, only it will take longer.

One of the nice things about electric motors is that you don't have to keep them running when you aren't moving like you do with an IC engine.

There's a reason it got put in nearly everything.

I did a quick Google check of Airflow diecasts, and there are several available in a variety of scales, including a Franklin Mint one at 1/24

This is the month 1955 Chevrolet hit the showrooms, and with it, the iconic small block V-8.

MPC did a '32 Chrysler Imperial that was recently rereleased by Round2, and Italeri did a '33 Imperial. It might be stretching the timeframe a bit, but there's also AMT's '41 Plymouth. If you're willing to go 1/32, Pyro made a 1932, and a 1934 Plymouth, both is sedan and convertible versions. They also did a '32 Chrysler. These kits were also released under the Life-Like label, as well as Lindberg

I think it's safe to say that those are the best 1955 Chrysler New Yorker and 1955 Buick kits you can get.

Basically two doors are cooler than four. If you're talking about AACA approved "Classic" classics, the kit situation it different, and four door model kits are about as common as the two door versions.

These arrived in the mail today from 3D Scale Parts. The look really nice, with only some tiny bits of flash. The whitewalls will finally let me go ahead with the John Athan roadster project. The blackwalls, I'm still undecided, though I am thinkjing they'd look awfully good on a Deuce or Model A roadster.

A stock '36 would be nice, but I see the Revell '37 ford truck has wheels that look a lot like the stock wheels for the stock '36 and '37 Ford cars. Has anyone ever checked to see if they'd be compatible?

My opinion as well. Even if they stretched out the nose for a front engine version, it would have looked real sweet.

Personally, I think people worry way too much about "tradition" The C2 Stingray didn't look at all like the C1 Corvette, and everyone was fine with that. If it is a Corvette, then it automatically looks like one. All the same, if they wee going to make the C8 look like anything, they should have gone with this:

I know we love to trot out or favourite narratives at times like this, but there is a difference between not being risk averse, and just being careless. Boeing has had a recent history of costly errors where in come cases, people have paid with their lives. In some cases, it because of dumb things like not installing bolts that should be there. There's been a lot of talk about whether the corporate culture is to blame, but basically, they've gotten sloppy. I'm going to venture that whatever is wrong with Starliner can be traced to some stupid, simple thing like a nut that didn't get tightened, and something that that got signed off on, but shouldn't have. They took their chances launching the thing, and this is the one time, and this is the one time it bit them in the behind. They're already looking pretty bad, and if they're being cautious now, it's because they're looking at how another set of high profile casualties will make them look even worse. As to the narrative that they didn't worry as much about human life back in the good old days, after the Apollo ! fire, it was over a year and a half before they risked another manned mission, so they were cautious about these things back then too.