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thats certainly a big one for revell in my book!

i like it!

yeah that is really cool and nice idea with the business card holder! its great to get away from super detail builds to do a fun thing like this too.

some kool stuff here; my dad had a 62 belair wagon ive always wanted to build but soup up the 283 that was in it with some period corvette FI. heres a couple ive built, not strictly station wagons but panels: ps: graphics and lettering by jarius

well call me third on WOW! those are great pictures too! I am amazed you got that done so quick!

>Maybe I shoulda left the trunk lid closed nope that R-to-R is the hot stuff. very sweet build too.

wow thanks for the info, and yeah what you say about the alps and the expense associated with it, i have heard elsewhere too. thats probably why i never pursued getting one! i do want to try out some using adobe illustrator and printing them on a laserjet. sounds like the advice to sneak up on it with clear coat is a good one too.

>Yes, I said it.. the humble 8-track tape has the same 1/4 inch tape as was found in the home reel to reel deck and the quality >was the same and could be had in your CAR!!! This is the reason that 8-track became so popular - for a time. yeah it had the same tape but only one reel. that meant the feed came off the center of the reel and it was then played and wrapped around the outside of the reel while more was being pulled from the inside to continue playing. worked pretty good for about fifty plays. but each play the tape got tighter and tighter until it either stopped or broke. crappiest design ever. good riddance to it. lear auto stereo actually invented, originally as a 4 track. another problem with the 8 track was that since there were four sets of stereo tracks on the same space of tape, that meant the record companies would split an LP into four parts. problem there was it was the era of the long song. so in many many many tapes, way too many, songs would be split by a silence while the tape head changed positions and then the song started again. really poor. inna gadda da vida was unlistenable! (well it was anyhow but there you have it...ok lets say creams spoonful was unlistenable, that was something worth listening to!).

those are killer. nice take off on the so-cal paint scheme. you did those with one hand???

so are Alps printers out of production? and why is it you need one to print decals, is it because you want to print on clear paper? or doesnt laser print stick well enough to use? always wondered about that because it really would be great to be able to make or copy your own decals.

thanks gregg! any chance you want to let us sneak a peek at Jairus' design?

if you put Future over the fogging, the fogging goes away. then you got a glossy surface if thats what you wanted, or dullcoat it which would have taken away the fogging too.

ive wanted to build that box art hot rod too and yours is very inspiring. i really like how your carb intakes came out. i notice though the ride height, actually looks like the body height on the frame, is a lot higher than the box art indicates. how easy do you think it would be to channel the body over the frame pretty radically? looks killer; i would hope mine came out half as nice. that little t is sweet too, do you have a big t to display it next to?

too cool! love that color and the overall look! and that reel to reel is sweet, nice detailing job! btw while 8 tracks came and went, the r-to-r remained the standard in studios and audiophile living rooms. maybe not in the trunk though!

too much!

ok... wheres da link brah?

i like it too. as those things go. id rather this than another shoebox cheby

i always thought the surfite was a super cool little car, with that little austin engine or whatever it is, and the asymetrical styling. back when it was new i thought it cool and i still do today! your build is excellent and makes me want to start one myself! and it also makes me want to pull out that austin motor and use it somewhere like making a bantam roadster back into fairly stock configuration! heres a funny story: back the year before he passed, ed roth was at this car show in oakland california that our club was hosting the model show for. well the real surfite had just been restored and was over in a display on the other side of the hall from big daddys space there. so i asked him about the surfite and he didnt even know it was there and really wanted to go over and see it. he said after he built it, he kept it around for a year or two and then sold it to a guy in LA, an acquaintance of his, who then used it as a everyday vehicle to go to the beach and surf! as i recall he said he did that for a few years and eventually the thing got lost and he didnt even know it had been found. anyway killer build there and like i say, i think i will be rummaging in the closet tonite.

hey thanks for all the kind words and for bringing this back up! i think i posted final photos in the under glass section, with the decals i finally chose. its difficult for me to pick out decals somehow so its usually a stress inducing moment. yep the body lifts off. that was part of the real problem with this car: getting the body to clear the various components and not get too chopped up in the process, so it could come on and off relatively easy. as it is i still have rear axle radius rods to put on but it would mean cutting more notches in the body and at this point it looks good on the shelf! but i am hoping to do a couple improvements before nnl west this year like making an aluminum tonneau cover for one side, and mounting a drag chute and linkage. and maybe a roll bar too but lets not get too extravagant there! might also hinge the body to swing up too but now i am really asking to mess it up! rear axle is the halibrand out of the revell orange crate. now that there is a 1/8 scale offy motor available i want to do a similar car in big scale. thanks again for noticing this post and reviving it!

ddms just said what i was going to say: tamiya has great nozzles. testors (enamel, Ive not yet used the laquers) model master nozzles seem to clog up quick even with the "invert and spray" clearing method. but even more, they really seem to dispurse the paint well, smoothly and evenly. now if they would just put more in those cans!

hold on a second! you say 1/8th scale? any more info on that motor especially a link to buy one? ooh thats just what i need!

sharp! r&d unique metal dropped front axle: http://shop.psfhobbies.com/product.sc;jses...p;categoryId=22 gotta replace those radius arms with trimmed paper clips or straight pins though, but the axle might be perfect for what youre doing.

wow that is sweet. great looking body with the top gone and that engine is super. i esp dig the belt arrangement and pulleys!

i am not too interested in either of these but those skeletons do look pretty cool. i cant believe they created new molds to redo these. i cant imagine them selling enough to make back their costs. but what do i know? i dont have millions for market research. but somehow i am having a hard time visualizing a landslide of sales. are they planning on selling them to kids? i thought kids had forsaken model building? adults then? do they think these designs just have some sort of appeal that will make them fly off the shelves of hobby shops and walmarts? seems puzzling to me. skeletons are cool though.

thats a very convincing early hot rod. very sweet hot wheels with skulls for shift knobs (or for antennae balls on 1/8 scale for that matter): heres two variants with the skulls. the rigor motor: and an unnamed variant evidently with a halloween theme and black skulls: when these came out i bought up a few of them. the skulls are far superior to those ones in resin and white metal, i forget who makes them but these hotwheels have cooler ones, more anatomically correct for one thing. and a hot wheels costs a buck...and you get two skulls. again really cool rod there, i especially dig the realistic wear you simulated.