Snake45

There's actually a good bit of history on Pawn Stars and American Pickers if you're paying attention. I'd ask why is the Travel Channel now all about haunted houses and Bigfoot? Animal Planet seems to have an awful lot of non-animal content, too.

On one of the Japanese gold shows, the theory was floated that MacArthur/Truman/Eisenhower actually got most if not all of that back in the '40s-'50s and used it to fund "black" CIA operations. Could be.

I'm getting tired of my scanner/printer only working on even-number days in months with R when the moon is in a full phase. Looking for a new one, and maybe one that can do decals if I can afford it. Tired of buying ink. Do I want a laser printer? What's good and affordable? Thanks for any advice.

Even lowly quantity-over-quality builders have SOME standards, however low. And, we are still builders. By the way--Well played!

I'd think the biggest problem would be finding wheels/tires big enough for it to look "in proportion" as a rod. If you can cover that, go for it! (Maybe something from a 1/20 kit?)

Just discovered the New Zealand band Devilskin, thanks to the the John B. Wells Ark Midnight radio program. They remind me a lot of somebody, but I can't put my finger on who. Help me out here..... Dat girl can SANG!

Thanks! One mystery solved. I can't find an instruction sheet to confirm it, but I suspect you're right. They could have altered it from the nice big block hood in the '66. I THOUGHT it looked familiar! Thanks ! It's possible that's under all the putty and paint. Won't know until I disassemble and strip it. Now, where did the windshield and "roll bar" come from?

I agree, these would be VERY annoying and irksome points to someone who actually builds models.

Bought this cool custom Vette roadster as part of an incredibly cheap “two-fer” deal on eBay, but I can't figger out what it is. Chassis is a typical AMT one-piece. The fender vents are puttlied up and all emblems and gas cap are gone, so no hint as to what year it might be. It does carry a chrome “1967” rear license plate frame, but I've never seen any of the custom parts in an AMT '67 Vette kit, or any other year Vette kit. Most interesting/unusual/noteworthy is the cut-back rear fenders. The shape is vaguely familiar but I can't nail it down. Then there's the winshield, which I first thought was something else laid down but fits so well I now think it might have been made for this kit. Haven't seen that “roll bar” before, either—very different from the one in the '66. And then there's the extra instrument panel on the passenger side of the dashboard. The final mystery is the hood. It's sorta like a '65-'66 big block hood, with some cut-down '67 Camaro vents on top (they seem to be molded in, not added on). Engine has an odd blower (?) on it, too, and the headers don't seem to be for a SBC. Maybe some questions will be answered after I strip the paint. Meanwhile, anyone have any idea where any of the odd stuff came from? Mark? Tim? Buehler? Anyone? The other half of the two-fer deal is this built survivor Car Craft Dream Rod, which seems to be missing only its bizzare double headlight pod (not a great loss IMHO). If I were a huge fan of the original, I'd strip it down to parts and rebuild it as the original, but the truth is I'm not. I can see some custom potential in the shape but to build it “my way” I'd be better off starting with a new, common reissue Tiger Shark kit. I guess I'll clean up what's here, see if I can get the wheels back on straight, maybe try to polish the paint (although there's a nasty tire mark on the hood), and display it as the proud old survivor that it is. Any other ideas?

That is exactly why I posted my email. As I said, glass is AMT and I don't have the side (you could easily make that from any clear plastic) but it's yours if you want it. If I get a chance, I'll see if the glass fits into the Revell body.

I just ordered mine. Had trouble with the MR website, I was on there over half an hour to order two of those and a new '70 Camaro.

Not bad at all, especially for your first try. Well done and model on!

It looks like the headlights on the MPC Charger 500 might be a little closer together than the Coronet grille's, but then again it says Charger on it.

Local toy show day, the first in months and months. Got three NICE builtups: AMT '70 B/M Camaro, and two AMT '71 Dusters. They're not perfect but they're not your typical glue bombs I buy either. All three have some minor parts (mirrors, spoilers, etc) broken off but it all seems to be here; each might need some minor Snake-Fu detailing, about as much as a fairly good diecast. Good way to get three nice cars on my shelf for maybe a couple hours of work each. I paid $40 for all three, not bad at all IMHO.

Just looking at these pictures, I can see that the headlight pairs are too far apart on the model. The headlight rims are nearly touching on the real one. This might be troublesome to some; I think I'll just live with it.

What, in my dreams?

I just realized that I have been having a dream for some time about buying magazines. I realize it's Tuesday (which used to be New Magazine Day around here) and I'm at the shopping center where there's a newsstand and a drugstore and maybe a couple other places that have magazines. I go in and hit the jackpot--there are new issues of eight or ten of my favorites, and I buy them all! My town hasn't hasn't had a newsstand (or even a Border's) in over a decade, the best magazine vendor in town is Walmart. And many of my favorite magazines haven't even been published in years. I think I've had this dream at least a half dozen times in the last few months.

IIRC we even cut you a little extra slack because you had an injury that precluded modeling for a few weeks. But as a general rule, if you can't get a model finished in 6 months, get it out of here; we're here to encourage you to GITTER DONE, not drag on forever. You can FAIL to ever get it finished all on your own without our help at all!

Yup. There was a time when she and Barbara Eden were the hottest things on TV. Thanks for all the good times, Mrs. Peel.

Murdered! Shawn would be proud of you! Is that a Revell or AMT? I've got spare AMT front and back glass but I've been using the side glass for other curved-glass projects. Email me your address if you think they'll work for you: SnakeACP45 at AOL dot com

Tim, great to have you aboard! Where you been for (nearly) two years? You do realize that this round ends at the end of this month, right--a little over two weeks? If you want in, I'd be happy and proud to add you to the next update. In fact, we allow one extension, so you can join now and carry on into the next round if need be. Now GITTER DONE!

Exactly. I can't think of any of them I'd be interested in--at least not until I build all the '55-'57 Chevies I want, which will be awhile.

I can't see any advantage in it. The Q-tip and finger methods are both fast, easy, don't waste any product, and produce perfect results. And you'd need to thin it to airbrush it, and I'm not sure how well that would work out, having never tried it.

I was trying to build that car with my original kit back in 1968. Unfortunately it was lost in our basement fire that year.

Yes. Done it many times.