Snake45

It's New York. No Fun Allowed.

It will be hard to beat the Welly '70 Challenger, which is one of my alltime favorite diecasts.

Thanks old friend. Much appreciated! Only when I realized the date, I thought it would be a good date to quit. It's also the birthday of the US Air Force (1947), which is of great meaning to me, too.

I think every little bottle of Pactra I ever saw was "faceted," never smooth. They were glass for years, then plastic in the '70s. They also had larger glass bottles--these were a little bigger than the Model Master 1/2 oz bottles. The paint was good stuff. One of my very first model cars was an AMT '66 Mustang fastback brush-painted with Pactra Leaf Green. This isn't it, but looks almost exactly like it. I found it on eBay and HAD to own it.

Got an announcement from diecastmodelswholsale this morning with new 1/25 diecasts from First Gear (which has a good reputation): '56 Ford F-100, '40 Ford truck, 427 Cobra, '63 Vette coupe, '70 Challenger R/T. Price isn't bad at $27.95. Some of these might be worth checking out.

Very nice, VERY clean build! Well done and model on!

Gotta finish up my '66 Mustang BOYD entry, and then I'm on it hard. Have actually gotten some work done on it already.

Sounds like your Mustang qualifies. Just since I'm updating the list, I'll go ahead and put you on it, so you're all set up for next round. Update time: ROUND 8 : FINISH DATE SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 Tom Geiger: Jeepster Disconovaman: '65 Mustang convertible NINTH COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Spottedlaurel: '65 Corvette THIRD COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Straightliner59: Midget/Indy car MAKING TREMENDOUS PROGRESS! Misha: Tall T coupe TimJ: '99 Mustang Cobra EIGHTH COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Moving on to '37 Ford Oldscool: '66 Impala FIRST COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Moving on to '69 GTX SECOND COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! vamach1: Mystic Chrome Cobra MAKING TREMENDOUS PROGRESS! SuperbirdMcMonte: '70 Superbird Snake45: '66 Mustang Eric Macleod: Packard Speedster Victoria Dave Branson: 2008 Challenger FIFTH COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Moving on to 2007 Camaro TENTH COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Deuces II: '68 Dodge Dart Cheyenne93: Chevy Suburban and trailer FOURTH COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Moving on to '69 Chevelle SEVENTH COMPLETION GOTTER DONE! Moving on to Monte Carlo Dragcarz: Mustang Funny Car SIXTH COMPLETION! GOTTER DONE! Tim Boyd: '32 Ford Roadster Nzanglia: '65 Mustang modified

Congrats, Dave! That makes the 10th completion this round which I think is a BOYD record! BOO-YA!

Tom's right. The Revell '56 is nice and the AMT is passable. Both available '57s have problems. The '55 and '56 will both eventually be reissued (probably right after you pay a big price for one).

They'll be announced shortly after I finish the '62 Nova glue bomb rebuild I'm working on now. If not then, then as I'm nearing completion of a '65 AWB funny I'm planning to convert to a stock-wheelbase pro street.

I never saw that one, but AMT sold JoHan AMXs and Olds 4-4-2s in AMT boxes, among others. I have an AMT '70 4-4-2.

...died 50 years ago today. And I quit drinking 36 years ago today.

That's about as well as that kit can be built without major corrective work. VERY well done and model on!

I must not have seen those posts.

That's because the thread is about books, not magazines. How could I have forgotten the C. B. Colby books? There were dozens of these in the school and public libraries and I think I read them all, mainly the ones about military vehicles, equipment, and history. Every now and then I run across one of these at a flea market or something and I buy it. I probably have a half-dozen or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._B._Colby

To me, it's more like going to the trouble of getting the phone numbers of all the hottest women in town, and then never calling any of them.

I've been trying to encourage you, but I'll back off. If you want to die with dozens of boxes of half-built projects for your estate executors to send to the dump, that's your bidness, and I'll respect it. Snake out.

Model airplanes figured prominently in the second season of the hilarious Vice Principals on HBO. Models (airplanes, spacecraft and ships) showed up a few times on Modern Family.

I once had occasion to speak to Testor about their official, "legal" name. I was told that it was Testor, and was only "TesTors" on the packaging and logo so the logo could be symmetrical.

Okay, I'll play. Invite some friends for a dinner party. Go shopping and assemble all your select ingredients. When your friends show up at 7, show them all your goodies and invite them to watch you prepare your fine meal. Won't they be thrilled? Been a long time since we enjoyed Phil Hartman as The Anal Retentive Chef: Around 10:00, with not one bite of edible food on your table yet, your guests start talking about having to get home to their babysitters, and looking for an open Burger King (or even Waffle House) on the way home. Look, I get ADD. I used to be the National Poster Child. I also get Anal Retentive Modeling (also known in Model Airplane World as AMS, or Advanced Modeler Syndrome). I'll bet I have at least as many started/half finished model cars as you do, and at least that many airplanes also in the same condition. They bring me no pleasure or pride. That's why I started the Bring Out Your Dead Completion Builds, because I know this is a common condition here in Model World. Last time I counted, the participants of the BOYD builds have completed over 50 once-dead models, and every one of them has been a source of pride. Are any of them "perfect"? Well, I can think of a couple (none of them mine), but most of them aren't. And they're still a source of a great deal of satisfaction to the builders. We GOTTER DONE! C'mon. Commit to something. Anything. Simple, complicated, doesn't matter. Just finish something. You will be AMAZED at how good it feels!

I didn't think a '66 Mustang looked like something from your wheelhouse.

Haven't disassembled or started the strip yet. I don't think there's any balsa in it. Not worried about undoing putty; I can redo anything here that I undo. I'm thinking of maybe trying to tuck the front fenders in behind the wheels a little, the way the rear are. Looks like the OB might have tried this too to some extent. We'll see. On that red 1:1, I'm now thinking you might be right about it being Dave Puhl. Kinda looks more like him than Starbird.

Reminds me of those $5 tanks and submarines advertised in comic books back in the '60s.

Well now you're just giving me ideas.