Snake45

Your Pop reminds me of me. I'm the only "car guy" in this whole family, but for the last 25 years I've been driving whatever everyone else in the family is completely done with.

I get two or three calls a week from people wanting to know if I want to sell my house. I've been telling them something rude and unrepeatable here. I've decided the next one, I'm gonna say, "Sure! Seven million dollars." I'm sure they'll say "Your house isn't worth a tenth that," and I'll say, "Hey, who called who here? Let me know when you want to meet my price." If one of them DOES, I'll take the money and move to Texas.

"Like" dates back at least to the beatnik era. I remember hearing Maynard G. Krebbs say it a lot on Dobie Gillis before he got shipwrecked. "Y'know" has been around since I was a kid. It's more annoying with some people than others for some reason. Fox example, there is a prominent public figure who likes to run her mouth and who doesn't seem to be able to get through a whole sentence without it. About a decade ago she was a guest on Letterman and I counted her saying "y'know" 74 times--literally 74, I counted--during her interview.

When I was 6 or 7, my mother had to go to an all-day meeting in the "big city." She had to take me. On our way into the office building, we stopped at a drugstore on the block and she let me pick out a model kit and a tube of glue. I picked the Hawk "Flying Leathernecks" double 1/72 kit of F4U Corsair and Douglas F4D Skyray. When we got in the office building, she found me an empty office (it was a Saturday), put some newspaper down on a desk and let me go to work. By the time her meeting was over, I had them both finished. And no tools! To this day I have a soft spot in my heart for both those kits.

"So" doesn't bother me nearly as much as either "like" or "y'know."

I believe the root problem is that these tires were designed and tooled up for the '57 Bel Air, the first kit in this series, and while they're appropriate for a stock '57 Chevy, they look completely out of place on a '67 Vette or a '69 Camaro. I have all three of these kits, but the lack of suitable tires has kept me from building them for, what, 30 or so years now. I applaud your efforts to remedy this problem. Drive on!

I'd be willing to bet you're right in that 5% range.

I've discovered through long observation that here, in the completed models section, the number of replies in a thread will be about 5% of the number of views. (I haven't checked this in other sections.) Some modelers are obviously more popular than others and can score a higher percentage, but for most of us, if you get one reply in 20 views, you're doing about average, and if you get significantly more than that in a particular thread, you've got something that is really pleasing (or maybe annoying) people.

The roof trim was molded in the kit IIRC. Most of the standard trim on that model was my usual beloved Silver Sharpie but the big chrome side trim I did in Deco Color Premium Silver Leaf (very much like Molotow) I got from Walmart.

I'll call it, It Ain't Rocket Surgery. One of my standard lines in job interviews is, "If there's an easier, faster, cheaper, quicker, more efficient, better way of doing anything, I will find it." I appreciate your kind words. I consider them high praise coming from a modeler of your talents and accomplishments.

Beautiful work! Well done and model on!

Easy fix! I had to do it on a glue bomb I rescued last year. Had a bad glue booger on the roof that I sanded out, but couldn't match the paint for. BVT to the rescue! 1. Mask off everything else (duh!) 2. Lay down one coat rattlecan flat black primer (I used cheap Touch N Tone, same as Walmart). 3. Lay down one coat of rattlecan satin or semigloss black, holding the can about a foot out so the paint lands "pebbly." If you don't have a rattlecan of satin or semigloss black, do the same thing with the flat black. A second coat might or might not be needed. DO NOT let the paint land wet or flow out, or you'll have to start over. 4. Finish with a coat or two of rattlecan clear satin, matte, or semigloss, whatever you can get. Again, hold the can about a foot out and don't apply it wet. If you used a good satin or semigloss black in step 3, you might have an acceptable finish already and not need to clearcoat it.

I guess my first "ride" was a Wheel Horse lawn tractor/mower. Could actually get the front end off the ground with it. No, my folks didn't know that. My first car was a '61 or '62 VW Beetle sunroof, pee-green. Liked it, didn't love it. My first "real car" about a year later was a '65 Buick Special 2DS, V6. Like that one a lot, and in fact wish I could find one like it today--would make a VERY cool street cruiser. Drove that my senior year of HS and the first couple years at university.

It was Sand T, their usual '25 T-bucket roadster with everything not necessary stripped out of it, and a couple new parts such as the dual rear tires and a chrome "flatbed" with a keg tank and roll bar on it. I restored/rescued my old one a few years ago.

Really! Far and away the best looking of the modern Chargers and not so much as a diecast.

This pleased me and made me laugh. You think animals don't have a sense of humor? The comments underneath are pretty funny, too.

I know exactly what you mean. On three recent occasions, when I submitted my order, the site defaulted to just one of several items I'd ordered multiples of. Had to then send an email telling them what I wanted. In two cases they managed to fix it before sending. Other sites, you go to check your cart, your only next possible step is checkout, you can't add more items. Have had to back clear out and start over. That's why I was shocked, stunned, amazed, and awestruck with how easy and troublefree TurboTax was to use today. No problems at all (so far, anyway, knock wood), everything worked exactly as advertised and was VERY user-friendly. I'll use them again.

Also, the door lines are now so washed out/shallow they're almost invisible. They'll have to be rescribed.

Good for you. I've experienced this a couple times, but not in the last few years for some reason. And now, what pleased me today: I just filed my federal and state taxes electronically for the first time. I used TurboTax, the free program, and it all went very smoothly. Took about 90 minutes, prolly about what it would have taken me to do on paper. If I use TurboTax again next year, that time should be cut in half or more (as I now have an account with them).

You win Score of the Day! Yeah, it's early, but I doubt we'll hear of better. Congrats!

If there are (and I don't recall them), they would be the least of that kit's problems. But we're talking about coupes here, and the Revell '67 Vette coupe is fine.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Maybe the only funny Henny Youngman joke: Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." Doctor: "Don't DO that."

DO IT! As soon as you get it finished--or maybe even just in final primer--Revell will announce a new-tool, SOTA '57 Nomad! Look what I accomplished by buying up and working on several expensive 1G Novas!

Very, VERY cool! Excellent work and model on!

Several times I've gotten all excited about a car on eBay, only to take a breath and take a GOOD look at the pictures and find some fatal deal-killer flaw--a missing unobtainable piece, unfixable damage, something in that league. OTOH, last year I got a VERY good deal on a very rare kit--AMT '71 Chevelle almost new and complete in the box (started but never completed). There were 8 or 10 or 12 pictures of the kit and its parts, box, etc., but there were no chrome parts or the chrome sprue showing except at the very edge of the very last pic, almost as an afterthought. I think many/most potential buyers took a quick look at the pics, didn't see the chrome parts, and moved on. If the chrome parts had been in the early pics, I'm sure the kit would have sold for at least 50% more than I paid for it, maybe up to 100% more.