Pete J.

Interesting how many of the choices are pickups. I would definitely do this one. My winning entry from Tamiya/con many years ago.

Yup, love the staggerwing. Walter Beech had it just right! Best looking aircraft of the era. When I was just learning to fly, the FBO I took instruction at, had one he was trying to sell. Sale price plus restoration would have cost $30,000 in 1968. Tried like hell to talk my dad into going in on it with me. No deal. Just another old airplane. Worst mistake of my life, unless you count the 289 cobra I passed up on in California in 1973 for $4,000. Not a practical car. Bought a 911 instead. Oh the mistakes we make when we have 20/20 hindsight!

Yes, you are right, but flatening it will not be part of the process. I intend to collapse the suspension enough so that the car is not resting on the tire. Perhaps I will even have the car on a jack or the tire off and repairs underway. As with any tire, if there is no weight on it, it will hold it's shape, but you are right about the cord and I will have to either include it or disguise it with mud. Since the car will have been towed out and not turning, it will be fairly caked with mud. Still playing with a lot of ideas and this is a long way from done, but thanks for you observation. It will be included in the process.

Thanks for the tip and yup, world rally has some incredible disasters. Been following it for better than 20 years back when it was a regular on the cable sports network. You Tube is full of help. Also been prowling the archives of Peking to Paris to come up with an appropriate weathering scheme. I think the challenge that keeps going on in my head is going to be the mix of driving across a dry and dusty roads, hitting a stream crossing(so some the the dust will get washed of) then the mud flinging that is going to happen from being towed out of the stream bed by another car. Kind of a mix of clean,dusty and then muddy. I'm going to have to play that over in my head for a bit.

They called it cut and paste which is were the term came from in Photoshop. In graphic arts departments they would take multiple large format photos and cut them up and glue them back together. I suspect that at the time the war was not that far behind and jets were pretty new so the guy pasting it together did the best he could. Also without the gear down there was less intricate cutting involved. He just got the angle wrong.

...and here is the front left tire damage! Rock tore up the tire and damaged the rim! Of course there is a lot of mud and other weathering that has to go on. I made a turned aluminum front part of the rim to get the damage look I wanted. I am debating making them for the other three tires just to be consistent. The aluminum is much brighter than the plastic part. The scratches were cut with a file.

This the what the damage looks like mounte on the car. It still needs a little refinement in this photo.

Ok I decided to start my own thread on this one. The story line needs some continuity to make any sense so here is it. For those who saw the first post on the P to P group build already, sorry for the repeat. Post #1 Ok, I'm way behind most of you guys, but my Porsche hit a rock!! Here is the storyline so far. I was crossing a stream in western Mongolia and went into a water crossing a little to fast and hit a partially submerged rock. It collapsed the left front suspension and bent up the lower valence pretty bad. I will be getting a tow out of the stream by my other car the Alfa. Ok, I have a long way to go, but at least I am started now.

Ok, I'm way behind most of you guys, but my Porsche hit a rock!! Here is the story line so far. I was crossing a stream in western Mongolia and went into a water cross a little to fast and hit a partially submerged rock. It collapsed the left front suspension and bent up the lower valence pretty bad. I will be getting a tow out of the stream by my other car the Alfa. Ok, I have a long way to go, but at least I am started now.

Perhaps the Tamiya Porsche 935 1:24 scale? I don't have one to check but a brief check of the internet seemed to indicate that it it not a curbside kit. Others may know.

Wow, that is some solid work. Looking good. Only issue I can see is when you put it on a contest table and people don't know what they are looking at. Great documentation so far. Make sure you keep it!

Ok Pete, were in the heck did you get such huge money!

I don't think there is a difference in the head band. I have owned one for close to 20 years and it doesn't appear that they have changed that part. The difference is in the lenses. They are quite easy to swap out as they just have two little plastic clips. When I bought mine I decided I needed a range of lenses. I bought the 3, 5, 7 and 10 diopter lenses and am very glad I did. When I started I used the 3 and 5 most because I had no issues with vision. I didn't need glasses. As I have gotten older that has changed dramatically. I now use the 5 and 7 most often(I bought a second head band and have them both mounted) but I also use the 10 for the really fine work. By the way, these can also be used over regular glasses. Depending on your eye sight I would recommend the 3 and 5 to start. That gives you a good range. If your eyes aren't so good then go with a 5 and 7. You can always buy extra lenses later. To my eyes, the 10 focuses at about 3 to 5 inches. Very close work.

I did this to a 69 GTO several years ago and decided I had to take a pie shaped section out of the rear quarter panel to get it right. I then scratch build the dog legs and narrowed the rear seat. A real pain in the patootie! I did a seminar on how I did it and this was a photo I took to illustrate the difference.

Didn't notice the plates, but wouldn't have recognized them anyway. I don't live around there any more, but if they are, they have a long way to go. The photo was taken in western Montana!

Have family in Missoula and I use to live over the border in Spokane. When you retire there, be sure you have a good stock of models. Winters get very long and boring. Worst part is the very short daylight hours. Good luck with cabin fever. It is very real!

High over the last two day was 62. Sun is shining and cloudless skies. Great weather to work in the garage and get some modeling done!

Thank you!

Boy this is a toughy! In this era there were hundreds of similar designs that all followed this pattern. I've exhausted all of my best guesses! I know what it isn't. Just don't know what it is!

Ok, this is me trying to be helpful and a little annoyed. Can we possibly get a new topic that is dedicated to compressors and airbrushes. I would guess that a several times a month if not per week, we get someone who has basic questions about buying an airbrush or a compressor or using one. Now I try an be a helpful person, but I am really no longer inclined to engage on the subject any more. Frankly i'm tired of repeating myself and perhaps others are tire of reading my same posts over and over. I guess I am assuming that there are others who share this feeling. If we had a topic dedicated to the subject, members could reference the prior posts and save a lot of time not having to wait for responses. I think it is a frequent enough topic and basic enough to our hobby to warrant it's own topic. Thanks

My cousin in Montana posted this the other day! First off, How the heck did that get it up there. Second, the snowmobile is worth far more than the car. Last - Get a trailer man!

Yup, like occasionally poking yourself to make sure your blood has not completely coagulated!

Bending and clipping is only part of the equation. You should also spend the time and money to get a really good set of tweezers to handle the small part with. Cheap tweezers will cost you more in lost parts that you will ever spend on the best tweezers out there. Jewelry supply houses such as Otto Frei carry a wide variety, but spend the money. Good tweezers are carefully ground to parallel and with near perfect alignment. These are "Diamond" tweezers, designed for jewelers to handle precious stones. They don't want them going "twing" and see a diamond disappear before your eyes. I have a couple of sets. One in brass for handling parts that have been magnetized. Go cheap and spend your time on the floor looking for impossibly small parts.

Oh, s***! D***! Whoa! Yahoo! Oh, s***, you had to start over again! D***, that takes a lot of courage! Whoa, this is better than the first time around. Yahoo, your back at work and I am so happy to see this! Stunning work Randy. Keep it up!

Good Question- In the "Modern era" probably 50+ By the modern era I mean Since I got back into building the second time which happened after my son was about 5, so the modern era is the last 25 years. I built many, though I have no idea how many, from when I was a child until after my first year in the Air Force. In pilot training we had a contest for the students who built them as decorations for the Squadron ready room ceiling. Stopped then until my son came along, so there was a gap of 15 year. It is kind of interesting. In my modern building I can remember details of each build, but it doesn't seem like I built over 50. It seems like far less. Many of them I gave away.