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Hi Lee, I'll bet looking at what Ron does will get you along further. This is good stuff. Ron, you scratch built a metal motor a while back. Will it have a home here?

Yep, that's exactly the video I found. Couple things I still don't understand though, I'll go back to Peerless and have another peek. What's a "walking beam". Does this mean varying the length of the trailer to better fit the load carried? Like the beam slides in and out further to adapt?

Dennis, I don't see a link, but I went there and found the video. Now I get it! If you feel up to it, then my call would be #1. I'd like to see a tractor with 3 axles built, plus the idea of having a stack of logs on top of the axles, then a cool trailer in back....pretty tough one to beat, my opinion. I really like this.

Dennis will you be building these scratch? Do I see the 1st one right, it has 4 axles, with a step in the frame up front?

I agree. I live in an old suburb (founded 1280) of a small city in Germany. It's a rural area, generally speaking. Lots of local farmers will, if your a regular customer at their farm shops, also drive to your home during the week to offer their freshest products, along with other specialties from other farmers who agree to offer their goods as well. What excellent products. Some produce have small blemishes, unlike super market stuff. Not perfect looking, but well grown without pesticides. There is a definite difference in taste. A good thing.

Ron this is really cooking. The tubs look great, everything is killing me. Locking doors, on a 1:25 car. Gotta love it. Michael

Hi Bill, personally I think you're fine with the Holleys. I believe too that early on, the 2% cars were still S/S, as it was still kind of a secret. You may get other opinions though. Michael

Hi Brent, my opinion on the puke tank in front of the motor is that it might get really crowded up front. Most puke tanks from the 70's and later had them around the area of the rear axle. I like the way you had the lines going right into the frame, maybe even move them back towards the motor plate. Things will get tight up front, you'll be happy about the added space. I really like the looks of this car and your detailing is spot on. Michael

Bill I'm with you on the BMF, but it sure turned out nice. You're doing a really fine job on this car. I've never seen the stripes on the headers before, great attention to details.

Hi Brent, man this thing is looking right. Good work, I'm a fan of Comp Resins too. I'll be with you on this nasty Altered Project. Michael

Hi Ron, It's great to see your metal skills again. This is already a real nice and clean looking mean machine. I love it! I'll be with you on this one. Michael

Very innovative Brad, I learned a lot from this project and I'm happy to see it sitting so well now that it's finished. Great detailing and you followed through after a couple of quirks, and it came out looking fine. Front end construction, choice of nuts and bolts, which wire to use as electrical wiring....all of us can learn from your efforts. The tip about Zap-A-Gap was a good one, and many more. It's great to see another Altered done in style and I'm happy for you. This is such a cool genre, and so much can be done through kit bashing and especially scratch building. The Altered cars have my attention, and I'm working away on another one, they're just too good to just build out of a box.

Hi Dennis, I can understand why you need to build this one. Looking real good what you're doing there.

Jon, sorry. I'm not sure about this rig. It looks kind of sick. I mean real sick. I love it! Dude, go for it! It looks like some real wood planks on the bed. Do you build ships? Guys, why try to paint wood when you can get real wood? I like this.

Geez, that rig could be seen from space! Great pic.

Good looking truck Clayton. Plus, it's new! How cool is that. I like the color, and the look of the metal out back, a nice combo in my opinion. I'm even thinking down the road of modelling something along these lines. Man, don't worry about not having to shift gears like on the other trucks. You have more time to play with a smartphone, like other folks on the road!

I'm pleased to read about a stock build. What plans do you have for the paint finish and/or color?

Jason, I like the look your going for. Man I took a deep breath about the brake fluid bath. I did some experimenting a while back and a Lindberg 64 Dodge started to melt away in a brake fluid bath. The edges were warped and rough, the front windshield post had collapsed. Lots of surface areas were ruined. Good your model came out OK. Michael

@blunc, "they might not grok what in Tokio either" ?....if you can't speak a language properly, it's possible you won't be understood anywhere other than your local 7-11. I've never had a problem in Japan with proper English. But it might help to write so that folks understand what you mean too. Hugh , Tokio was just an example. Europe too. English is still the language of understanding throughout the whole earth's population. Speaking here of a majority of folks. If Russian and German immigrants still have an accent, that's wonderful. Can these folks be understood outside of your community? Probably. I've been living in Europe for more than 40 years. I speak several languages fluently. None of these can hide my origin. Still, I'm able to communicate in most regions of our world. But if I'm in Italy, and the market woman understands German, and I talk to her in a German obscure dialect, she won't get it. If I talk to her in a neutral German, she will. That's my point. Being able to speak, or write, in clear English when you're not filling gas at Red's Gas Station up yonder on the hill, but choose to ask how you can discretely take a dump in the ladies room because the men's room is overflowing and you already have a problem with wet feet. Wet feet....

Bill, is this the Lindberg kit? Looking very good, I always liked their cars. Michael

My feeling is that we will never see him again.

I read you loud and clear. The problem is though, this language elsewhere may be out of place. In this case, making yourself understandable is important. Our language is a great one, but no one would understand this in Tokio. Speak a clear English and you can get anything you want. Same goes in Europe as well.

I think accents are important, it's part of your life. Be proud of it. I like New Yorkers way of talking, all the you-ses in PA. too. What I can't stand is the way more and more American women speak. The squeaky high pitched shrill voices make me cringe. I like European women. My father spoke well, no one could ever figure where he came from, must be similar to Tom Geiger in a couple of posts back. He was born and raised in Florida and spent lots of time in Ohio. I do think though, if your speech is strongly influenced from the area you live, lets say the deep south, that you should be at least able to make yourself clear so that others can understand what you say.

@Gary, Mr Stock a few lines above. I can really imagine in the UK the differences in dialect. Some of you guys I can understand fully, others though, I don't understand a word! Those that I don't understand are not even speaking their full local dialect, but are trying to speak so that I can understand them! But it's all English, just spoken quite differently. By the way guys, as a teenager I had a summer job working on a tug boat in the harbor. A fellow deckhand was from the back woods of Tenn., and I didn't understand him either. I asked to change boats and luckily I was able to get another boat. I've never heard American English spoken that way, and I'm from the south.

Looking good Micha. Hey, those Japanese beads, I was expecting something strange. Something weird.... I'm happy to see what you did.