StevenGuthmiller

Well, there were stock Pintos produced, so everybody happy! Except anybody who ever owned a real one! Steve

Saw a lot of nice stuff over the past 2 days. No photos, but I saw a nice red '69 442 pull up out in front of my work place. a few minutes later, a beautiful light green '53 Studebaker. Today, an extremely nice pink & black '56 Ford. Steve

Coke went down that road as well, but they disguised the idiotic decision by marketing it under the "Tab" name. But it can always be worse! Steve

I did. Tasted just like Pepsi. I'm a Pepsi guy anyway, so I really didn't care what Coke did. Steve

Yup, you're correct. There is nothing wrong with doing a one off kit. The hobby is full of them and I have no problem with it. But if the manufacturers feel comfortable producing one off kits, then there would be very little risk in "one off" stock kits either. Especially since any stock kit is never really "one off". They can always be massaged into something else. Steve

I don't think that I agree at all with that statement. Does anybody remember the Monogram 1959 Cadillac Eldorado kit? I'm pretty confident that it's been a very successful kit. As were the Monogram '59 Impala, '65 Impala, and a whole slew of other "stock" kits from that series. Does anybody think that the AMT '58 Edsel, '60 Ford Starliner or '57 Chrysler 300 were failures? I don't think so. All unusual "stock" subjects. Steve

No need to get the panties in a wad. My only point is that you're limiting your audience by producing a "custom only" kit. A stock kit can be customized. A custom kit like this cannot be made stock. There goes half of your sales potential. Kit manufacturers today are always trying to maximize their tooling and trying to make room for future versions from the same molds. well, there's no where to go from here with this kit. Not only that, but what customizer would not rather start with a clean slate rather than being spoon fed a body that's been so radically customized already. Only makes sense to me. Steve

Something makes me think that Revell would have been better off giving us a stock Eldorado from this era. I believe that it would have appealed to a much larger audience. Most customizers that I know would rather do their own work anyway, & you would have had all of us who would like to see a stock kit. Seems like a wasted effort to me. I won't waste my money on one. Steve

I wholeheartedly agree! I have been using some of "Speedway Decals" "Mini Sheet" stuff for my builds. They come in very handy, especially when you're building old kits with no decals. Steve

I agree. I am not a fan of decals in place of scripts. On occasion, they can be useful, but I would much rather have the option of using the decals & not be forced to. As far as PE scripts go, it's not likely you will see a lot of them in car kits given the sobbing about kit prices that we see on a regular basis. Steve

It depends on what I'm gluing & where, and what type of bond is necessary. I get by with CA glue, clear parts cement & 2 part epoxy. Occasionally I use a little UV light setting glue for mockup, tacking & glass installation. I never scrape any parts in preparation for gluing. I will also pin parts when necessary. Especially parts fastened directly to the body such as mirrors or antennas. Steve

It might be more of an issue with old kits. It seems to happen to me quite often. Steve

Tight hoods are pretty common and an easy fix. A little sanding on the edges is all that's needed. I do this on most builds anyway to accommodate for the thickness of the paint. There's nothing worse than having a nice fitting hood before painting only to find that it won't close afterwards. Steve

Hmmm, a '68 Chevelle? Steve

I have no idea how rare these kits are, but there are a couple of them for sale on ebay right now. Steve

And then you get the people who will say that they are afraid of all of that sugar in regular soda. But they are somehow entirely confident that the "chemical" sweeteners in diet pop will not have them waking up some morning with six toes on one foot & a craving for earth worms! Steve

Doesn't take long to make strudla & ham! Steve

Yeah, that always confused me as well. I had a half of a chocolate cake with Haagen Dazs ice cream, hot fudge & wait for it...........a glass of skim milk! Steve

Nah, the ash tray hat is "more stupider"! Steve

I don't worry so much about PE or transkits as I rarely use them, but they are all part of the big picture. I'm worried more about paint suppliers like MCW & platers like Kustom Krome or Chrome Tec. I can get by without most of the detail & resin parts that a lot of guys use, but I would be absolutely lost without products like Bare Metal Foil! Steve

I agree to some extent. It's always exciting when something new comes out, but in the current climate, we'll be very lucky just to see current issues start flowing again. In the mean time, I will just sit patiently & wait for the other shoe to drop. There is not a single thing that we can do about it, and like you, I have enough projects to last me until the second coming. I have brand new kits in my stash that I know I will not get to for many years to come. My only fear is that if manufacturers such as Revell never manage to surface again, what will happen to the after market? I'm always going to need paint & re-plating services in particular. Steve

Not only did we eat them with ketchup, but we would throw the leftovers in the fridge & eat them cold. I believe that I like them cold better! Kind of like the German sausage! Another thing that my mother used to do with everything from leftover knoephla to strudla & even egg noodles was cut them up & scramble them together with eggs! She would use it as either a side dish, or a complete meal The kids used to put ketchup on that too! Steve

Sounds pretty close except for the fact that it wasn't done in a skillet & she didn't break the cooking up into 2 parts. It was kind of a one pot affair where you just threw all of the ingredients into a pot & let it go. I'm sure that all of these recipes were modified over the years & most likely simplified to coincide with a busy household. I had read a recipe for these strudla from an old German cook book some time ago where the ham & potatoes were diced and rolled up in the strudla much like a cinnamon roll or a sweet strudel. My guess was that this was probably a more traditional way of doing it & over the years people simplified it. throwing sliced ham & cubed potatoes in a pot was easier than dicing everything & rolling it into the strudla. I will try some of the aspects of the recipe you posted the next time I try them. I haven't discussed any recipes with my mother lately, so there's a possibility I might have missed something. They were tasty though! Steve

It's nice to have this discussion with someone so knowledgeable about the subject Joe. Hell, they're my ancestors & you know more about them than I do! The word "bierocks" does sound familiar. I seem to recall my parents & grand parents discussing where the term came from & I believe that was one of the words they came up with. Of course, my grand parents didn't know any of this "history" stuff, they only knew what their parents and grand parents taught them, and at the time that my parents were young, an eighth grade education was fully educated. It was all about survival on the farm. The "krautbiroch" that my mother & both sets of my grandparents made were filled with ground beef, onions & cabbage. The filling was mixed in a dutch oven and browned very well until the cabbage and onions were very caramelized. Then folded in the dough, baked & then brushed with melted butter when they came out. My mother later resorted to using frozen bread dough because it was very similar & much easier to deal with. That's how I make them today. As a kid, we were blasphemous and used to dip them in ketchup! My grand parents were appalled! Steve

I don't normally cut body panels off of a body, but if I were going to, I would use the same procedure that I use for scribing panel lines. I start with the sharp side of a #11 blade with a few passes to get the line that I want and then a few passes with a sharp dental tool to give it enough depth to use a scribing tool. Then I would use the scriber to get at least half way through the thickness of the plastic. From there, once the panel line is well defined & deep enough to guard against the blade wandering, I would use a sharp #11 blade again to complete the cut. Steve