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Do you have some separate photos of the Side and rear thrusters before they were installed and painted so I can see how they were constructed? Any help appreciated.

Please be sure to post your progress so we can all soak in the inspiration.

Several months ago a resin caster from Australia(?) was showing some really nicely done Ford Model AA and BB series truck resin masters he was going to produce. Does anyone know if he ever actually finished them or made them available? If someone does and could post a link to find and purchase them I would certainly appreciate it.

I saw my first C8 yesterday. It was a white one headed south on I75 here in west central Ohio at about mile post 110. It's a real eye grabber at speed!

I love the "speed lines".They add a lot of aerodynamic styling to your design. This will be fun to watch develop.

I am watching that new Airstream factory/office/museum building being built while sitting on my deck. I look forward to attending their open house when it happens and seeing your model on display there.

Saw my first Corvette C8 today. It was white headed south on I75 about mile post 110. Very cool looking at speed.

I just watched one of the linked videos posted above and for you big guys the maker of the video is 6'5" and 300 lbs and fit very easily into the cockpit with extra headroom available.

My intention was to suggest that those who Can Afford the resin but hesitate then find out later that what they wanted is either NLA or the vendor has closed up shop have no one to blame but themselves. "He who snoozes looses". I understand the hesitation to spend a wad on resin stuff. I have a nice group of original release kits and most need something to make them complete. Holthaus had everything I needed but the total came to over $ 400 .00 so I didn't pull the trigger and do it knowing full well that I will probably never find everything I need.

The rule of resin is simple.."see it,like it,buy it"

I have been friends with the Holthaus' for years and Don told me there were a few people interested in buying them out until they would need to willing to work 10 to 12 hours a day to produce everything needed to fill their orders. Don often worked 16 to 18 hours a day. That type of dedication to anything is unheard of these days. That's what happened to their business.

I watched the Leno' s garage video with great interest. My jaw literally dropped when they related that the car was dropped from a height of seven feet when being unloaded with some idiot driving a lift truck!

This is a great thread. Overdue and straight to the point. I have always built what I liked the way way I liked it. 100% accuracy has never been a factor for what ever I am working on. A couple of my favorite terms are"inspired by" and "my version of". I don't think there is any model I built that wasn't inspired by either by a real vehicle I saw in a magazine or in real life. I started building in the '50's and my only inspiration was what ever I saw in those "small pages" car magazines. My dad never did anything mechanical and neither did I. Just ask my wife...I have no mechanical ability..if it can't be fixed with a hammer I can't fix it. As a direct result I became a model builder that developed a set of skills that has allowed me to replicate what I see.I learned what car parts were called by what my model kit plans called them out to be. As for accuracy, if SMP or AMT told me that what was in their box was a '58 Chevy convertible then it was exactly that no doubt,no questions is was gospel according to the box art. I grew up in a small rural farming community on a gravel road three miles from town. To see a real '58 Chevy when they were new in our local dealer's garage I had to ride my bike to town. Forget ever seeing an Impala of any body style there! The dealer in our one traffic light village(we have 2 now) only ordered what the local farmers were likely to buy, pale green four doors with pale green interiors and six cyl engines. Not much inspiration for yours truly. As to body correctness...again when I bought and built the first release AMT '32 Ford kits I had never seen a real one so if the box said this was a deuce coupe than it was a deuce coupe...no questions asked..no internet to google a hundred images to compare it to so why obsess over a possibly incorrect detail. So I didn't. Don't get me wrong I lover my internet and web access for project research on what I am building. Great tools for sure. I rely on "proportional accuracy" a lot for what I do.Keep in mind that just as I have always done I am more likely to build a model of something that no kit exists for. During the old MPC contest days I built a hot rodded '29 Ford model A dump truck with working dump mechanism.a blown SBC and slicks because I had seen a stock one at a a local car show the year before. Now I build a lot of models of vintage travel trailers. A couple of them are so rare in the real world that maybe only one or two still exist. Thank you google and Pintrest for the inspiration and reference material for those projects. No Kits available.All are 100% scratch built. That are "proportionally" accurate to my eye and that's what counts. That will never change for me,I build what I like as I want to see it. If someone else appreciates it that;s all well and good. If not I will not lose any sleep over it.

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One of the.members of a.model club I belong to damaged his while being a weight lifter. Another friend owned our local hardware store an ruined his repairing recoil start gas engines. Nothing works as well as original equipment.

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That's some funny blah-blah-blah-blah right there. Ain't this fun !

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Simply astounding work on this model. Having a first hand knowledge of how things need to be in the real world has proven to be a real asset here. Of course having the slice and dice skills of a surgeon along with a "take no prisoners" attitude about absolute perfection in all details is obvious in these photos. Thanks for sharing your skills with us. I'm in awe and will certainly continue to follow your progress.

maybe new pinstripes

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