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Any one have any ideas for a 1/43 shifter?

Body in the "paint shop" so I'm working on the interior.

Was basically a glue bomb with various pieces from the 66 Mustang and 68 Shelby I intend to build it as close to "stock" as I can.

I think it's National Nameless Luminary whatever that is.

Super nice job the Mustang. I noticed the running horse emblems instead of the Snake on the fenders - nice touch.

Here are the The Last Detail Inc. decals (partially shown) They are on EBAY for under $7 and include two sets of stripes.

Keith Marks is mofobow. Some of the old Fred Cady sheets had air cleaner engine decals (302, 251 etc.). The last detail had a decal sheet for the 69 Mach1 that you might find on Ebay.

Made use of some Ebay decals I had for this scale. It came out pretty decent.

Working on the ARII GT40 next. Basically a slot car but I'll use some IMC or Fujumi parts to jazz it up.

Thanks Everyone. Did anyone notice all the GT40's in the background?

I added the tail lights from the 69 Shelby Mustang but otherwise the build it stock. The 1/43 JCar is a resin kit by Saphirre. The other one is the IMC kit.

It was clear but I painter the inside and outside flat while and then slog white and there the blue parts. I also buil the IMC J car which is much smaller and represents another variation of this test mule for what becam the Mark IV.

I will post more pics of the engine. Not much to see in the front compartment.

When is the last time you saw one built. I finally finished this one. I added black paint around the windshield after I took the photo.

Can't ever count out the Pats and they proved it. Overtime rule is kinds dumb though.

There was a metal body version of this kit that build up into a nice Bullitt replica. Welcome back to modeling.

Looks great so far. What still annoys me is the model companies back in the day put engines in kits that never came in the real car I guess to save some money on a new mold. You can't argue it would be cool if there really were some Big Fords with factory Boss 429 engines besides in NASCAR but it never happened.

It would great if folks at NNL east could refrain from smoking in the long line outside before the show opens. Always have and always will HATE the smell of second hand smoke.

Thanks for posting. Body color it is for the inside area except for the black grille and chrome trim As we know the kit part includes all these areas so paint accordingly.

Motor city only does 71-73 coupes, not convertibles.

Refs are nor perfect but that is the scorers responsibility or whoever is doing the book. You can not take away points due to a rule be not enforced timely. You play and move on.

An FYI - the insides of the chrome grille/bumper area are body color on the real car. It looks great so far and curious what it will look like when it is finished.

Very true. Not sure how many hundreds of parts he sells but all least the top 50 or 100 would be worth the time.

I've mentioned this in other posts. The only way Norm will get a website iis if he pays someone to develop and maintain it. Seeing how he has done the old school mail order thing for the last thirty years I would not hold your breath. In their age of instant ordering on-line it is frustrating to those under age 60 guys like Norm are from the golden years of model building, not the internet age. One thing that would be helpful if someone scanned his catalog and posted it online.

My guess is he figured out by now the regular contributors here are much older and many have known each other for years. Many have pointed out the newcomer should take his market research somewhere else. I have no problem with giving people some free advice and if they can figure out a way to profit from it so be it - they still have to do a lot of work to get to that point. He probably did not expect they backlash and will have to decide do a few people represent the majority of the hobby or are they outliers. Personally I think his efforts should focus on things like assisting vendors that do not use a website to market and sell their products. How about a live broadcast from a NNL show for those unable to attend and interviews with some of the attendees. If this hobby if going to outlive the current participants, the interest level has to be expanded some how. I've suggested some very simple changes to how some events are managed and know what it's like to get mostly negative feedback because people take recommendations as just being criticism.