jbwelda

well with the weather heading south, had some time to devote to furthering this along the road. heres some current pics of fitting the chassis to the fender unit. note that under (over actually) the diff there is wood paneling...and i dont like it so instead i cut a mirror to fit in that panel. thats more the way i remember the car though the photos i took of it a couple years ago are indistinct up in that area. but for a show car a mirror works much better i think. the wood paneling may have come from some other iteration of this kit? i say that because the top surface of the fender unit has wood paneling as well but all that is covered by the body and turtledeck. strange it would be engraved if you couldnt see it. anyway, photos: interior with wood grain wheel and dashboard enclosure. remember i am just building the model, not designing it! T bucket with interior placed inside: a look at the undercarriage on fender unit from the front: you can see the mirror, nice effect if you ask me: kinda the whole mess all in one place: next challenge is to narrow the track of the front end at least 1/8" and hopefully more like 1/4"...this is gonna be interesting and i hate to think i am going to have to ham-fist all this delicate work but what can ya do? dremel time!

thanks for the comments folks; one thing is plain: i gotta make that engine cover fit better! i think it does fit better but maybe i didnt have it in place 100% for the pics but i will find out for sure!

under glass: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=66751

build thread: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=49155&st=0

thank you harry for refusing to address the point i made but instead again going off on some convenient tangent. let me restate the obvious for those of us who appear to be reading comprehension challenged: "other" is no place to put motorcycles on this forum. i dont care that the category contains bozo costumes, star wars clutter, or piles of stinking dog waste, MOTORCYCLES need their own forum or let them be in the usual workbench and/or under glass category. thanks again...for nothing. ps: if you cant tell anyhow, i am about done here. this "moderation" here has become a joke what with little hitlers moving stuff here and there with little regard to any actual organization scheme. its just hilarious and i will be the first to laugh and poke at you with sticks.

boy, if as you say these parts pack harleys go for 150 - 250 on ebay, i need a buyer!

yep i have been fairly to very active on ebay for over 10 years and i have yet to be totally ripped off in a purchase. i have had people refuse to pay for something they have "won", but never been stiffed for something i paid for. sometimes it takes well meaning people a while to get stuff packed up and to the post office, and badgering them only works to a degree. i would be sure you are giving adequate time and then file a claim against them. it well may end up you wont have to pay for the item especially if you paid through paypal. best of luck and sorry to hear your misfortune, my personal anecdote doesnt help in your position, i understand, just saying its a pretty rare thing to get ripped off and there is recourse for you.

yeah that looks worthwhile just for the photo etch. nice score.

note it said the zoomies and blower were cosmetic, i guess that means there is a carb inside the blower body ala ed big daddy roth. and of course the zoomies are cosmetic or there would be flames coming out of those puppies in the nighttime photography.

this is a phantom car right, there never was a cougar station wagon?

may i just say, WOW!

though looking at it, that BRE color scheme on the first set of box art does look pretty kool.

thats pretty interesting you made your brake lines from tiny plastruct rod. i will try that one of these days instead of the aluminum rod i typically use. as for decals i am partial to less is more...i would think some japanese safety stickers and maybe some small graphics or something...

> it was as they say, not a blimp on my radar not to be pendantic, and perhaps to mirror the site we may be speaking of in this thread, but i believe it should be "it was as they say, not a blip on my radar". though that blip may well turn out to be a blimp indeed.

excellent and isnt it funny how looking at a photo can reveal something you just dont even see sitting there staring at it in real life!

yeah kool details!

its amazing how much lowering and those wheels improved the overall appearance of that car. excellent choice.

thats way kool. a very similar car was parked on the street in los angeles near a friend of mines house. i often looked at it and wondered how it would look all lowered down and widened out a little. i didnt even know what it was, really, and still not positive, but that sure looks very similar at least.

to tell the truth, i am pretty impressed that the guy even answered you back with that semi belligerent tone in your very poorly written communication. i also dont see where you are quoting "good enough" from...generally when something is in quote marks, it is directly quoted from an attributed source. in this case i dont see the source, presumably Mr Greczula. Note that I have to agree with you on principle about the suitability of that piece and the addition to the latest re-issue. I just think maybe it could have been approached differently. just sayin.

i just barfed a little bit in my mouth

if you add stuff, add two hood lockdowns visible in that front end pic above. those are ultra kool...they kinda look like they are somehow part of the chrome valance thing. thats a super build, pair of em actually! neat to see what this new kit will build into!

i am with kool kat here in the case of being given too much change back or being overtly undercharged for something, i always return it or at least point it out, but when something is "mismarked" in a store i think that is fair game. for one thing, as a retail store, they should know what they are doing in their pricing and inventory control and for another there are often reasons behind "mismarking"...like they got a real special price on one crate of something and those items are legitimately priced less than the rest of the same inventory, maybe a bit of a scratch or dent in the packaging, and a myriad of other reasons. the introduction of scanning equipment doesnt really change the equation too much, there are probably as many errors in scanning equipment price lists as there ever were with clerks accidently mismarking something.

Chuck, thanks so much for that writeup/summary. this is exactly the sort of thing that is very useful to other modelers. i am not going to build this kit anytime soon (but the race car remains a possibility) but i am going to print out your writeup and put it in the box with the kit for when the time comes to build it. its great to know beforehand the pitfalls and problems (even better with proven solutions!) and your writeup is perfect for that. thanks again for taking the time to write it up like that.

what a crack up...jeez guys how about thinking for a second before responding.

so is it the standard in the world now that one doesnt whine about shortcomings in products but instead accepts it as part of how the world operates under the guise of "oh well we can fix it" as if "fixing" something is just normal? i am not talking just about models here because it seems to be the prevalent thought elsewhere too, that shoddy engineering or manufacturing is just to be overlooked and of course with models one might be more expected than not to "fix" it the way they want it. to me its all part of the globalization of industry and the separation of those making an item from those actually *using* the item. here especially this is troubling and not because we cant "fix" it...but because if we dont point these things out, a) we wont have anything to talk about (except the Rah Rah section) and manufacturers will think they can dish out any old thing and people will fall all over themselves to buy it...and not only that, praise it. its 1984 in so many ways these days.