Richard Bartrop

Cut out short lengths of aluminum or plastic tube, and then just rub them on a pieces of sandpaper until you get your desired thickness. It you want to get fancy, you can put a bevel in one end with a knife before cutting off the length of tubing..

I'm looking at the 6 Micheals in Calgary, plus 3 real general hobby shops (PM Hobbycraft, Model Land, Action Hobbies), 2 more that specialize in model trains, and one devoted just to Gundam kits, and some more gaming and card collector shops, and I'm thinking you may be on to something there.

The energy density argument is why the people pushing for electric aircraft are delusional.

Last I heard, US companies were still allowed to sell to the rest of the world too.

The folks at ICM seem to think there's a market, so maybe things have changed? That would be nice to see back, though from what I understand, the original moulds were made from aluminum, and were destroyed after the inital run, so you'd have to make a new set of moulds. I suppose you'd have to show that the numbers would work.

Put my vote in for a Flyer as well. MPC did release some Airfix kits, and that included some 1/32 vintage subjects. That's too bad about the sales on the Flyer sale sales, because it and the Stutz were some of the nicest kits ever made of pre WWI cars. Granted, most of them were originally made back in the '50s, so it wasn't a particularly high bar.

For all those people who have been wishing for a more traditional rear end for Revel's Deuce and Model A kits, it looks like you have almost a complete conversion kit right there, with both regular and quick change options. It looks like you'll still need a rear crossmember, but most of what you want is there.

And there are some very nice car kits available in 1/35, so you could build up a decent collection in the scale, even if olive drab isn't your thing.

I'd buy one.

An ink and acrylic wash piece of a Mercedes-Benz 300SL I did ages ago.

In another forum, I've been following a gentleman who is building a large scale Bugatti from scratch. Not just modeling, but attempting to duplicate all the processes that went into the original. Occaisionally, he opines about what "real modeling" is, and just so you know, it's not what we're doing either. I'm going to suggest, there's room for all sorts of modeling, and we should be careful when we start talking about who is and isn't a "real" modeler.

Sounds lit it's worth buying even if you couldn't care less about vintage dragsters.

While we're on this dream cruise, how about reissuing Monogram's '31 Packard in plastic? The kit as already mostly plastic except for the body, it would be a brand new vintage kit with minimal investment, and it's the right scale for the European market.

I wouldn't mind seeing the stock Model A come back myself, and it seems there's a little more interest in Europe than in the US for pre WW2 subjects, so maybe the numbers would work this time? While we're dreaming here, it would be nice to see the return of stock building options on the Monogram '34 and '36 Fords. In a perfect world, I'd love to see the same upgrade that they did on the '40 Ford, but this will do.

You aren't wrong. Here's Joseph Cotten as Marilyn Monroe's psycho husband in the 1953 movie Niagara. Though I suppose you could argue that if he's choosing model cars over Marilyn Monroe, he can't be right in the head.

That is one I would be very interested in.

I remember that one all too well. Basically, whatever the kids are into, it's wrong.

Now I'm thinking a 1/25 kit of the Allard dragster would make a great companion piece.

I keep hearing and seeing good things about them, so I'm really looking forward to building it. It'll be my first attempt at a resin car kit, though I have done resin figure kits in the past.

Nice haul!

BTW, to whoever posted the sad face icon. Don't worry, I'm not going to turn it into a rat rod or anything like that.

I buy everything with the intention of building it. At least, that's what I keep telling myself. As for what I'm proud of getting, two stand out. One is getting one of the earlier issues of the Jo-han Cadillac Sport Phaeton. It still had the gold cup that the Gold Cup series was named for. The Jo-han classics may not command the big bucks of other kits, but they're still some of the nicest kits ever made. The other was snagging this Bluebird kit for 16 Canadian bucks at an estate sale. It wasn't on my want list when I went in, but I've always been a fan of the Bluebird cars, and FPP kits are usually priced like they're made of gold, if you can get them at all.

That Isuzu is pretty stylish.

I'm still amused by that complaint about how "modern" i. e. 1963 cars all look the same. I have the Stutz, and while I've heard so many times that the tooling is gone, I won't be unhappy should I get proven wrong. The Bugatti was eventually built on a shortened Type 101 chassis, which was largely identical to the Type 57. The engine actually looks fairly close to a Type 57, and I'm wondering how much of the hardware from Heller's Type 50 you could use to improve it.

That would be a neat kit. Probably the closest we'll get to having Jo-han's USA Oldies back. Now if they could somehow resurrect the Valiant kit, that would really have my attention.