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Here's all I can find. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/tamiya-mt106-m48a-2-patton--1112234 It's worth whatever someone would pay for it. Tamiya has some of its older kits still available at very reasonable prices--I picked one up recently at HL for what I consider a CHEAP price for a Tamiya kit. Might have been the M41 Walker Bulldog. Also see below. I think it's the same kit, still available. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2060353.m570.l1313&_nkw=Tamiya+M48&_sacat=0

Different and kinda cool! Model on!

Call me an old softie, but I just love a Happy Ending!

AND a million dollars worth of gold, at @ $35 an ounce! (Do the math!) I hadn't noticed the whitewalls before. Good catch! I seem to recall reading somewhere that they pretty much destroyed a Ranchero the first time they filmed that scene, and had to do it over with another one and a fake "load."

Nice! I've been stockpiling that stuff while we can still get it. I think I've got three cans now. Don't even know what I'll use 'em on, but I'll use 'em on something.

In the last year I've seen at least two newbies show up and make their first (and I believe only) post in the Wanted section, in one case looking for a rare kit and in the other looking for parts for a rare kit. In another case, a newbie showed up in the General discussion asking about the rarity and value of a number of old kits/builtups (with some nice pictures of them, too). Turns out he was just fishing and/or publicizing his eBay auctions for these items. Then he came back and bragged about how much he got for some of them, and asked if he did well (which he knew full well he did). He had no further interest in us. Then again, I just re-watched Gran Torino the other day, so maybe I was just channeling my Inner Kowalski.

Built the Maisto diecast kit of the Ferrari F12 I bought at Hobby lobby maybe a year ago. Absolutely zero problems, I can't remember the last thing of any kind I had to assemble that went together so smoothly. Only took me a little over an hour, nowhere near two hours. Only thing I could find to Snake-Fu was to sand the tire treads. I think The Universe owed me an easy one, just for a change.

It was honestly kind of honest. I said nothing rude.

Huh. You weren't interested when I suggested J-B Weld. Maybe everything sounds better with an Australian accent.

That would be an improvement.

That's pretty cool!

I thought exactly the same thing, and would have been glad to try to explain a fix if possible. But that's not what he asked so I didn't waste time answering that question; he asked where to buy a new body and I told him--same place he got the first one.

He asked where he could buy a new body, and I told him. Is there some problem with that?

I dunno, it usually works pretty well for me. For instance, It just found F.U.B.A.R. for me just fine: Who Has all the molds ? SfanGoch replied to Greg Myers's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars) The search engine isF.U.B.A.R.and beyond hope of repair. 2 hours ago 61 replies

Well, whatever it is you have, you got it at Hobby Lobby, so they probably have another one for you to buy. That's what you'd have to do if you'd bought some other product somewhere and brought it home and broke, ruined, or destroyed it. This is not a Revell (?) problem or a Hobby Lobby problem, this is your problem.

Where did you get a Revell '67 Impala?

Thanks for the explanation and tips!

To me, Lil Coffin is like the frozen tundra or the US State Department: Almost anything you could do to it would be an improvement! Drive on!

Finished up the Snake-Fu on a diecast 2020 Corvette, which is now fit to sit proudly on my shelves.

Very, VERY nice! I like that a lot! I have a near-mint '69 or '70 promo in Anti-Establish Mint that my grandfather gave to when they were brand new. Only thing that's not "mint" about it is I painted it AMT Burnt Orange flake back in the day. I could strip it and restore it to factory pure, but I've decided I kinda like the way it is now. Maybe whoever owns it after I croak will want to strip it. I'm currently restoring a '69 or '70 promo molded in Original Cinnamon. It was apparently used as a slot car body and has a scratched up roof and four pinholes drilled in the body for mounts. I'm gonna polish the body out and leave it alone. Well done and model on!

Yeah, I've read most of those too, some as part of Jr. High or High School English/literature classes.

"Shockingly"? Someone must be buying them, or they wouldn't still be carrying them. Same thing's true at my local supermarket. I used to see Hemmings and Old School Rodz and Hot Rod there; now only maybe Motor Trend and Car & Driver if you're lucky. But they have several gun mags. (They used to stock FineScaleModeler too, but no more.) Walmart still carries about 8 or 10 car magazines. I buy my Old School Rodz there now. I subscribe to Hot Rod and Hemmings Muscle Machines.

Very clean build, nice work! Model on!

When I was a kid, my dad owned a gas station and would deal the occasional used car on the side. Sometimes mom would drive one of the used cars for a while as a second family car before sending it down the road. Somewhere around 1964 or '65, before I really got into cars (which was the summer of '66), our "second car" was a green '56 Chevy convertible. Mom only put the top down once, which is when I learned I don't like riding in convertibles (still don't to this day). When Dad started thinking about moving the '56 on, he asked me if I'd like him to save it for me, because "I know all the kids like the old Chevies." No, I told him, I really don't like convertibles, let it go. He sold it to the hot-rodding family down the street. Of course a few years later, when I got my license and was thoroughly into cars, I regretted passing it up.

I HOPE MCM can get going again. If it does, I'll enthusiastically subscribe, and probably order a bunch of back issues too. But I've seen too many complaints here about late/missing/nonexistent issues. I've currently got a fair chunk of change tied up in two magazines (from the same publisher) that haven't put out anything since April. Latest word is that they'd have something out in October. We'll see. As to FSM, just WAY too much sci-fi/fantasy garbage in there for me. Also too much emphasis on "weathering" for my taste. I did buy the last issue because two friends of mine built model F8F Bearcats for it, and I wanted to see that. Those articles were good and I'm glad I bought that issue. I used to buy FSM off the rack when I'd see it, just for "something to read," but the only place in town that carried it (one grocery store) hasn't had for a year or two now. (I had to special order the recent issue I wanted.) Frankly, I get more model airplane info from Hyperscale than I ever did from FSM, and I get at least as much model car info right here as I ever got from SA, with the exception of a very few particular issues.