jbwelda

some people can just suck the joy out of any and everything. personally its threads like this and the ones preceding it that cause me to question whether I want to continue to build model cars or just go with old man stamp collecting. naw, better to just ignore, or better yet, poke at the haters. they got nothing better going on and are very sad people. sad clown town. jb

those gearboxes are available like dirt. thanks for chiming in. jb

"too many" being some arbitrary number or size that doesn't seem to be consistent unless you cannot have over x amount of photos or space used in any particular thread. its not like someone in the know is likely to chime in here with real answers; that just does not seem to be the MCM way. get a photo host and then play games getting them to show up, that's the secret. slow mo train wreck continues jb

can't be all that rare, heres four of them, just reissued with prepainted figure for less than the price of that parts pack: jb

it was the ME163 Komet ("...basically a high speed glider fitted with a rocket motor...") kit in that hobby shop only series from Testors, do not really know who originally did this kit. actually as I look at it now, it does in fact have very fine engraved panel lines and rivets? oh man we got rivets. my problem as I now recall was more the fitting of the two fuselage halves and dealing with the panel lines over that seam. now that I look at it, I might just put this thing back out to consider again in the future. its a totally kool plane, "...perhaps the most unusual and dangerous warplane to ever see series production." here are the fuselage halves and the rivet detail, not the best photos in the world and sorry for that: sorry for no relation to Lindberg, nor the Auburn Speedster... jb

I would assume its much easier in the tool making process too, to have raised panel lines. after all, all it takes is a trench in the tool to make a raised line, while a sunken panel lines requires a raised surface. much more difficult to make, I would guess. but raised panel lines were and I think to some extent still are the norm with aircraft for example. I know I have a plane kit in my closet, that little messerschmidt jet aircraft, that I was considering building the other day. then I took it out and saw the raised panel lines, the two piece chassis split right down the middle with all those raised panel lines and thought, not in this lifetime its not happening. and those Lindy kits held all kind of little surprises like that as I recall...though even as a kid I learned to avoid the Lindberg stuff pretty fast. jb

since my last report: rat bug: fifties chevy truck: Maserati kinda looks like your fathers buick: way rad buru: next time someone tells you how tires should fit on wheels, show them this pic: I might have shown this one before, I like it, sweet old IH farm truck, its got a sbc under the hood: always did want to check this place out, looks like total tweeker-ville but there is some interesting stuff around: yep some kinda red satellite or something, sorry for the bad pic: more tweeker trash: really clean chevy panel truck, its got a sbc too: and best for last, this beautiful Jaguar XK120: we will see what Labor Day and the return of the burners will bring in the days to come jb

Unattributed quotations require a 10$ surcharge, Junkman. But seriously what Alexis of Bakersfield is saying is pretty much my opinion of most of this era junk, there isn't a whole lot there that is worth reissuing, certainly not these Pyro kits, at least not without unretouched box art models in plain site and maybe a parental warning! I have some later Lindberg kits that seem pretty nicely done, the Plymouths and Chevys and little red wagon, but man most of their earlier stuff promised so much on the box top only to deliver so little inside. I wouldn't say the same about the rest of R2's catalogue, they have been bringing out some solid, if somewhat unremarkable, kits lately, I wish though they would add more usable stuff inside instead of the novelties...or maybe along with the novelties jb

>How did you build the Rover V8? southeastern finecast white metal kit, earlier thread will give details: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/78922-southeastern-finecast-rovermorganmg-v8-engine-kit/ jb

Tim, to call it a nailhead is probably really stretching it; it was the aluminum Buick V8 GM licensed to BMC or whatever it might have been to put in limited MGBs, Rovers and Morgans. those are the Morgan (stock) headers on there, pretty wild. so while it has the dominant characteristic I associate with a "nailhead", namely the vertical oriented valve covers, it probably doesn't share much else. there was a very educational thread here some years back about the lineage of the motor, and possibly you and Bill both contributed to it. I obviously need to go back and reread it. one thing I wish someone would reproduce are those spark plug wire covers that compliment so many 1:1 NHs. I have some on the old AMT 32 Ford/43(?) Willys kit that I built up years ago but of course that has never been reissued to my knowledge, and I have never seen that setup anywhere else on the available NHs. I like what Bill is talking about too, the interchangibility of parts between different issues of similar cars. I would look at those rat rod pickups in detail too...for some reason I am thinking of an abbreviated truck channeled over the 32 frame jb

yeah Tim I was referring to ground clearance not overall height of the body on chassis. by the way my "frame of reference" is how my friends built their cars 30 - 35 years ago, they did not have them sitting up high. "rat rod" sensibilities came from somewhere and to me that was the backyard hot rod scene in Cali back in the early mid eighties and of course harkening all the way back to "original" cars you are referring more to, but more the low riding cars than the high riders. of course way back in the day you had to do extreme things to the car and frame to get it to ride low on those big bias ply tires they had back then heres probably the only nailhead you would be interested in, you have probably built the rest a million times jb

just like I said: the highboy sits a tad bit lower than the channeled version. and now it is easy to see why the rear wheel wells "fit" both versions: they were made to fit the highboy and the channeled version doesn't lower the body at all, just channels it slightly, very slightly, over what appears to be a higher riding "z-ed" frame. that leaves the top of the rear wheel arch at the same place or even higher than the "highboy". I like the patina decals and have from the start. if they don't "look right" then its because they were not used "right" (no judgement, just stating a fact). and I like those seat decals even more, will probably use them elsewhere as for right now I am using my initial buy of this kit for parts on a current build and probably build the nailhead for an engine stand to display it with the other nailheads I have built up for display. jb

I think the channeled version needs a major altitude change. the funny thing is, it looks to me like the high boy version is actually lower looking than the channeled version. the channeled version is channeled, but its like the frame was brought up instead of the body being brought down. its also a factor of those large tires front and rear but I knew from the first I saw that frame that the Z was not going to be adequate to do much for the frame height. its more of a step than a Z. but probably with a more radical drop front axle, putting some more Z into that Z, and smaller diameter tires, that is going to be looking very nice. I also see potential for those patina decals but maybe over some dremeling or crusty build up. jb

wow now THATS funny: someone had the nerve to stand up in front of you at a Counting Crows concert! and someone had the nerve to be DANCING of all things. that's what people DO at concerts, old dude, enjoy themselves. maybe you should have tried it instead of being an uptight old codger. when in rome...and all that. what would you have done if those people had lit up a big fat spliff and offered it to your wife (aka "womenfolk" in your neck of the woods)? come all unglued and called for the police? and believe me, that internet tough guy stuff don't work so well out here in real life. writing it is one thing, but I wouldn't advise trying it for real. you never know who you are messing with, and that's the truth. jb

Dennis I think with that much damage I would be contacting Testors about the problem. hopefully they will replace all those that spoiled. sounds like a major investment there. jb

so basically they are selling you a ticking time bomb that may spew paint all over the place at some point. there has got to be something wrong with that. I have cans of paint 30 years old and if you put a decent nozzle in them they still spray like the day they were bought. automotive paint as well as old model master cans, though I remember having a can leak like this, I think it was MM gloss clear so I couldn't tell if it was paint leaking or not, and that was many years ago. maybe its not a new problem. on the other hand I have never had one explode or anything like that on its own. I do know that the few MM colors I have wanted to keep using, like their Chrome silver and various blacks and clears, have seemed to become more problematic in the past 5 years or so. a lot more nozzles that just spattered from the word "go" and a lot of them that send paint out around the part going into the can, and all over yourself and the walls. the last can of chrome I bought it seemed like it was supercharged as mentioned above, it really had a lot of pressure in it and while that's often a good thing, in this case it just comes spewing out of the nozzle in way too heavy amounts, never used to be like that. now if this can is any indication, I can cross that off my buy list. jb

that sounds like much the same problem as software projects: the documentation and manuals are left for the last (and for those who failed to dodge the bullet to develop them) and are often incomplete and/or incorrect because no one ever actually tried to follow and verify them against the actual reality. way too much trouble. be interesting to see how quickly any corrections make it out. they might print up a little "tip in" insert to the directions like I have seen before from someone, possibly Revell jb

> the new guy said "no we still don't have anything but the model T's", dollars to donuts he meant the model A. Model A or Model T, no difference and no relevance to those under 30 pretty much. and yeah if I had asked them to put one aside for me weeks ago, and now they claim they never arrived despite testimony to the contrary, and one is not waiting for you, that would be my last trip to that shop for quite a while. jb

>Otherwise you likely will wait about a month for the general release. tower hobbies has them in stock for just under 22$ with free shipping, just fyi. no need to wait a month, you will probably have it in your hands by friday jb

seems amazing to me that test builds supposedly were done (not to mention box art car) and no one noticed or called out this major error in the instructions. did no one look at the instructions, or more a matter of "aw no one will notice"? when instrux lead one so far off base as this my feeling is that it should have been caught in the pre-release phase and not made it to the finished kit. jb

boy with their paint being so carpy and their nozzles being pure junk, it just doesn't pay to buy this testors model master junk anymore. I am NOT a supporter of Testors, seems everything they put out is pretty much junk, compared to Tamiya and other high line paint suppliers (from the orient). and to hear some rep say its well past the time they would "guarantee" their paints (while they are still on the shelf being sold) is a joke. why not put expiration dates on them and pay the retailers to send them back after they have "expired"? I will tell you why: they would rather stick the consumer for them than deal with the problem. as it is there is no way to tell how long the paint you are buying has sat on the shelf, and therefore how good it is even when first purchased. there is NO REASON a can should leak no matter how long it has been around. I had high hopes for their lacquer (its much better than their enamel) but with this happening consistently I don't think I will ever buy any more of their paint, not if its going to go bad on my shelf after an unreasonable time (I think paint should last at least 10 years in a sealed can...don't you?) jb

kool little import kustom truck: kinda hit with an ugly stick in the front though: nice Raunchero: latest in the never ending series of disco Vettes: jb

I made my first, and probably last, trip to Hobby Lobby yesterday. monumental waste of time that was. I hate those huge sterile stores especially when there is not much to recommend them inside. do they always have one quarter of the store filled with "holiday" (since the Christ in Christmas seems to be irrelevant to the great unwashed buying public these days) carp...is it always like that or have they started "the season" already...in August? and kits...just the normal AMT/Revell stuff and not much of that either, maybe 50 kits total if even that. no Tamiya, no fujimi, didn't even see any "foreign" manufacturers represented. absolutely nothing there you cannot buy elsewhere cheaper. actually went there for some Tamiya primer...no luck, only Testors in stock. people working there seemed pleasant enough (as opposed to Michaels) but cannot see any reason to ever step foot in there again. oh for the true LHS of which there are none around here anymore (just like true independent hardware stores) so its the net for me looks like. and money is not even my prime motivator as it is for some. I know this thread was about wallys world but seems to me two peas in a pod. the big boxing of amerika, taking your money elsewhere one five percent discount at a time. jb

this whole story as related by AA reminds me of the railroading of Honorable Marcus Garvey, one of Jamaicas national heroes, at the hands of the American political establishment. Typical smearing of perfectly great ideas by great men, by those small minded people with small ideas who manage to get themselves either elected or appointed to power and then look around for people to crucify to further their own ambitions. jb

then I believe you probably got one Chuck; I have not been billed or anything. if it is in your PW then you got it, if not then its probably on its way to your PW. it probably went out of stock again just from pre-orders (I neglected to submit a preorder, I thought the price was too high. I have since rethought that) jb