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I put some on Facebook from my phone on my personal page and the show page.

Here are a few pictures from the show on Saturday. I've seen a few photos on Facebook from folks that waited until about 6pm when the awards were finally given out. ?

I've got a few diecast in 1/64 in various brands. Last count was over 2,000 and 95% of them are Mustangs, GT40, Panteras and Cobra. The rest are various Fords, some tv & movie cars and 66-70 T/A race cars. Pretty much impossible to post pictures of them all. Here are about 1/2 of the GT40s.

Nothing but a top secret Air Force and CIA R&D facility to keep nosey people away. While the whole Roswell story is interesting, so was the War of the Worlds radio broadcast. As for ancient civilizations, thee's no reason why they could not have figured out how to fly something for a short duration like a hang glider. If for no other reason all those things on the ground that you can see from the sky were meant for the gods.

Based upon the screenings Ford v. Ferrari should be good and is getting a lot of press and promotion on social media. Of course Hollywood will embellish here and there but real cars (Superformance replicas) were used in the filming - no CGI.

He does sell decals for a lot of muscle cars. I'm stil trying to get someone to get the side stripes for a 71-72 Mach1 or Boss 351 to look more like the real thing. Not sure how long an order takes from the Netherlands to the USA.

Those are some awesome pictures on the proboards. You rarely get to see that much detail (the body off) and in perfect focus. Thanks JC. My 30 year old build does not look that bad given the lack of reference photos back then.

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I beginning to think I've got some catching up to do with a few of you. ?. My built to unbuilt ratio is maybe 1 to 5 but it depends on the scale. I've built most of my 1/43 kits but are much further behind in other scales except for 1/16 and larger of which I have about less than ten total. I have not counted lately but I am pretty sure I have less than 300 unbuilt kits. As for diecast, that's a whole other issue where it's over 2,000. Here's a sample.

We could easily go back to the moon. I'm sure all the astronauts that went would disagree about them not going. China seems interested in a manned mission but the reasons for going in the 70's and now are very different. I hope I'm still alive when they are people crazy enough to sign up for a manned trip to Mars. That seems crazy and there's not many logical reasons why anyone would risk a year long mission but I bet there would lots of people willing and able to go through the training just to be the first and perhaps only ones. As for the Alien thing - they are just way too far away to realistically travel about space like in Star Trek.

Resin from what I recall. Gary's main interest is sports and racing cars.

I've seen this with my own eyes and let's just say it is very impressive.

I was wondering about the coupe also. I know there are many obscure Japanese kits of GT40's etc. so I'm guessing it's a motorized kit without an engine. If I'm wrong and it's a full detail kit then I want one. ?

Dang JC - you are putting me to shame. I have to see this in person sometime. I am out of town but will post pics when I get back.

Darn. Keep the builds coming though. I saw a J-Car on the top right. I actually built one and recently got another one. I have no idea why other than it was a good price and it's the only 1/2 clear body model I own.

Air cleaner decal. The hipo would have chrome valve covers and Shelbys had the cast ones.

To the surprise of many the block and everything but the valve covers and air cleaner are black. The rest is gold. Only the hipo engines had the chrome air cleaner and valve covers. So even 65 Shelby engine should be black. Ford blue was not used until 1966. Needless to say there are many restored cars out there that are incorrect as people assume the corporate blue was used from day one.

Just picked this built up on Sunday. It's missing some parts but nothing that I cannot get from the 69 MPC Mustang or elsewhere. The prices on the unbuilt ones are insane so this seemed like a good way to pick something up I didn't have I rescued an MPC Mach1 many years ago and made a Twister so this one will probably a 351 with the shaker hood scoop.

7:30 this morning. Unfortunately a lot of only one party running unapposed.

Light green metallic (Toyota) might be a close match and you can probably find it in a Duplicolor spray can. I will not tell anyone it's a minivan color.

Well said Gramps. I've have not bought any 1/18 in a few years. They just take up too much space and either inexpensive and low quality or expensive with less detial than ones in 1/24. Sadly with the demise of FM and DM models the market is being flooded with a lot of lower quality and price models. Not necessarily;y a bad thing as they are more affordable and you do not feel like you;re ruining a museum model if you decide to add detailing or even do a body color change. As others have said, the few kit manufacturers have ignored making some cars and the diecast fills the void for some. 1!/43 scale has a lot of variety but does not cut it with most US collectors. I've got a hundred or so kits and diecast in 1/43 and the companies making that scale make some really models price them accordingly. I've never seen kits or diecast as one being better than the other, if the subject matter interests me and the quality and price are reasonable I'm likely to buy either.

I've has my eye on this kit from time to time but never bought one (yet). It is certainly one of the more unusual versions of the Coupe inspired by Mr. Brock. I guess you will have to paint it this shade of green if you're going to do a period correct version.

JADA. It's about 1/32 scale.

$7 at Walmart. Nice paint scheme.