Pete J.

I wish I was a Kellogg's cornflake floating in my bowl taking movies

aerosmith big brown eyes

Ok, I'll play, this looks like fun-- My Mother was a tailor, She sewed my new blue jeans.

Newspapers?? Someone still gets a hard copy of the newspaper?

My children wish I would stop acting like a kid. Personally, I have gotten to a place in my life that people who think I am childish aren't important to me. When I run into them I drop to the floor and have a fit!

Wow, that reminds me of the old days. As I recall in the mid to late 70's someone was doing a dually conversion on Toyotas. They looked a little weird but that sold well!

Oh, yea, what the heck was that all about??? You got to know that that is going to hurt!

Some of these clips come from a show called Outrageous acts of science. I think one of the worst one of these was a woman who tried to swallow a serving spoon full of cinnamon. After she was done, she said her lungs burned for a week. Well no kidding!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyk7utV_D2I

Yea, I know what you mean! Old people, they........ Whoa, wait a minute, Medicare sent me a card for my birthday this year! I guess I are one!

So Why has no one mentioned the smell of a new car with a leather interior! Leather has scent all of it's own.

Toss up with the smell just after a passing of a thundershower after a day of making that freshly plowed ground!

Oh, I know where it is from, just didn't know if you had experienced the smell first hand.

Interesting topic! I am currently taking a course called Fundamentals of Instruction from the FAA and they say that we get the vast majority of our sensory input from sight and hearing with smell and taste coming in last. Having said that, nothing takes you back to a place in your past quicker that a unique smell. Harry, you mentioned napalm perhaps jokingly perhaps not, but if I smell burnt jet fuel, I am instantly transported back to the flight line. Interestingly, I was at an airshow not long ago and had the chance to do a walk through of my old aircraft and is smells the same. A mix of plastic, JP-4, hydraulic fluid and other smells, but I felt instantly at home. Smell is a very strong stimulus to the memory.

No, they don't come with a power cord, because in some areas the electrical codes won't allow a plug in and require them to be hard wired. In SoCal I had to know what cities did and what cities didn't. It was a pain but it was the job. You found the power cord on the Bosch website. Now see if you can go to a major appliance dealer on line and find that it is a mandatory part for installation anywhere. What is going to happen is if you order the dishwasher with installation, as most people will, the installer is going to show up with the dishwasher and then sell you a power cord off of his truck for twice what you would have paid for it in the store. It also may be an off the shelf cord and not the one that Bosch requires to honor their warrantee. The Bosch cord is a much heavier gauge cord. Again something I as a salesman knew was needed according to the factory.

Harry, I can agree to some extent with doing the on line research for a person who is skilled at it and understands the difference between a real review and a BS one placed by a shill and there are a lot of those out there now. Professionals posing as customers. When I was in appliances, I don't know how many times I had customers come into the store wanting a refund on a large appliance they bought on line, complaining that it had an issue that they would have clearly seen, if they had taken the time to come into the store and look at the darned thing. How can you gauge the interior of a refrigerator from a 3" high picture. How can you tell how strong or flimsy a shelf is on line. On top of that there are a lot of things that needed to install some appliances that a salesperson can help you with. Online sites are horrible at that. Example: Did you know that Bosch dishwashers need a special heavier duty cord? None of the web sites that I have seen spell that out, but it is in the owners manual. I haven 't looked lately, but the appliances on the Sears web site use to offer delivery and installation as separate items. I have had many customers come into the store with a receipt that shows they selected both. Installation from Sears includes the installer picking the item up and delivering it. You don't need both! Now that has changed because delivery is now included in the price(no it isn't free, I don't give @@@@ what they say on the sign). It is little things like that that a good sales person can help with.

I worked at Sears for 15 years and watched the decline. It started when Eddy Lampert bought the majority of the stock. His changes made it very apparent that he bought the real estate and could care less about the company. The only thing that has kept the stores alive is the crash in commercial real estate. For those that don't know Sears actually owns the property that most of their stores sit on. In the last seven or eight years he has made is abundantly clear to the employees that the sale of product is being directed to the internet store and the stores are just pickup points for those orders. When I started working in appliances seven years ago you could make a good living at it with commission rates being in the 5% to 8% range. Those have dropped and are now as low a 1%. Years ago most appliance sale people were making at least $25 and hour. That has dropped to the point that most are at or near minimum wage. Any surprise that there aren't any people around to help? I retired because I got tired of taking the stuff from management for the meager money I was earning. It just wasn't worth it. Now in all fairness I don't think Home Depot or Lowes is much better. I needed a mobile base for my drill press(yes, it is a Craftsman) as I am reorganizing my shop. I went to all three and the only store that had one was Sears but it wasn't what I was looking for. I shopped all the stores in person and Home Depot and Lowes didn't have any in the store. I went on line and was surprised to find all three had multiple choices but they were listed as "Online Only". It is clear that these stores see the profit in doing away with sales people. Really disappointing! When I was in the tool department at Sears, I took pride in being able to help customers because of my broad base of knowledge of tools of all kinds. Now you are lucky if the sales person has a clue about what you are asking for. These companies just don't see the value of long term employees to the customer. Advise at the tool department is dying with the internet. Good luck getting help of any kind!

Just be glad that you are building cars! New kits of other genera's: Ships- Tamiya Yamato- $453 retail - on sale at $280 Aircraft - Tamiya Corsair - $199 retail - on sale at $123 Armor - Tamiya Sherman - $75 retail - On sale at $51 The fact that you can still walk out of a store with a model car in you had for a $20 bill is really not bad! Now you can spend more, but then you get what you pay for. You can easily drop a couple of C notes and a top end kit with extra parts.

Welcome! Your on the right track. You are building and already thinking about what you can do to make the next model better. There are a lot of posts on painting and decaling in the tips section of this forum and that is a great place to start. Did you camber the rear to emulate the lowriders? I don't know about the east coast but a lot of the lowrider builders here on the left coast do their decorations with paint. Very few do decals. There are a couple of revell Lowrider kits that have decals like you are looking for. You might go to a contest and look among the venders. I would bet there are a couple there that have that sort of stuff. Just for the record, personally, the lowrider stuff is not anything that interests me, but I really appreciate their art. A lot of work and creativity.

They use to have a club out in Victorville. I know that I have been to a couple of shows out there. I will ask around tomorrow and see if it is still there. If not then Orange county might be your closest model club. I know they have some really good modelers in that club. There is also a model show/car show in September at the Orange county fair grounds. Here is the flyer for it. http://www.cruisinforacure.com/model_cars.htm It is a really big car show but the model show coordinated by Mark Jones who is an outstanding builder in his own right(See the thread http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=68368&hl=) We have a car only club in San Diego, but that is a long drive for a club meeting.

There are two IPMS Chapters that have a good list of activities in SoCal in their news letters. Contact IPMS San Diego and IPMS Orange and get on their lists. That is how I do it. Paul, I will see you there!

As those of you who know me know, I think rather highly of Tamiya kits but there is one kit really stands out in my mind as a watershed kit. It is the Ferrari Enzo. When it came out it was the Gonzo, full Monty, holy grail kit we had all been waiting for from them, we just didn't know it. It was the first time they used their sliding mold technology to the fullest extent. The single piece chassis was just nuts to look at. For once you didn't have to glue together multiple pieces to get the three dimension framework of the car. It was designed just like the real deal with all the body, suspension, and power plant parts mounted to that one piece of delicately molded plastic. All the other high end model cars like the Carrera GT and LFA were follow ons to that one kit. It was really a step forward in the art.

Anybody else going to the NNL in Oceanside Saturday? http://www.lowerleftcoastnnl.org/

On the other side of this is panel lines that are overdone. Hard black lines look every bit as bad as no shading. We could all learn from the aircraft guys about preshading and rescribing. They seem to spend a lot more time on this than most car guys, myself included.

That is were I was going with my earlier post about "scale is a funny thing". It is a great place to start, but it is only a starting point. I have always contended that what we do is as much art as science. In every way we are trying to deceive the eye into believing it is seeing the real thing when it is not. Little things make a huge difference. Shading, texturing, size, colors all play into this hobby. The person who does it best is the one with an eye for these and a talent for coming up with solutions that please the eye not necessarily the ruler.

I agree 100%. Of all the photos of my models that I have taken, this is probably my favorite. It was actually shot from about three feet away with a telephoto lens. I like bringing the perspective down to a "human level".