Snake45

Ain't it truth! There's only about half as much spooge in the Twinkies as there used to me. And don't even waste your time/money with the "low fat" Twinkies. I tried them when I found you couldn't get Banana Flips anymore. A very pale, weak substitute, not satisfactory at all. It is so very sad.

I only recognize 5 on the post picture. Guess I'll have to watch the video and find out who the rest are. (Imus, Rhoda, Ric Ocasek, Rutger Hauer, Rip Taylor.)

At my old girlfriend's house, the seat could have fallen on his head!

Very cool! I had a ROCO Minitanks HO version of that thing. Had another one that was a shorter missile and a shorter truck, I forget what that one was called. ETA: The other missile was LaCrosse.

I did that with the blue to get some clear blue to airbrush the "blue back room" glass on A-1E Skyraiders.

It works. I've also painted rims with water-based acrylics and they seem to be unaffected, unlike either bare styrene or enamel.

91% will do that--at least the hobby lacquers of AMT and Testors. Also the Walmart and Krylon "quick dry enamels."

https://www.testors.com/~/media/DigitalEncyclopedia/Documents/Testors/ColorCharts/RM280035_0914_TestorsPremiumPaints.ashx

I think at least two different resincasters offer '68 grilles. They probably have hoods, too. Definitely worth trying to save.

If you have the hood and grille, you could restore this '68 using a commonly available '69 reissue as a parts donor. Even if you couldn't get it all the way back to factory stock, you could build it as one of the many colorful SS/B Hemi Cuda drag cars. It's a nice piece!

Hostess, definitely. But I'll eat Little Debbie too. Tastycake's okay but I can't recall ever buying one if a Hostess product was available. But the best ever was the old Banana Flips, sadly, no longer made. I forget who made them. I miss them terribly. They were like a Twinkie cake taco overfilled with banana-flavored Twinkie spooge. YUM!

I have a Bonneville like that.

Your body on top is a '69. You can tell from the shape of the grille openings, and also the bump on the nose center. It's probably from the Killer Cuda kit ('80s reissue). Your '69 body has incorrect '68 type side marker lights. (They corrected them later to the right '69 type.) I know this for a fact because just yesterday I finished up the resto/rescue of a "survivor" one that's been in my possession since the early '90s. Your mystery body is a '68.

It's definitely not a '69. I have a distressed '68 promo molded in red. I hadn't noticed it before but the taillights seem to be molded as part of the body, and there are small clear backup lights just like the holes in your mystery body. Somewhere I have an original AMT '67 and I'm pretty sure that one has separate taillights. Lack of side marker lights means nothing. They're apparently been sanded off like your door handles. (In fact, I think I can see the "ghost" of one on your left quarter.) I vote your mystery body is an MPC '68.

Maybe we're evolved from dogs.

...and, of course, the zombies pay no taxes. My take is a bit different. The zombies produce nothing, they contribute nothing, they do absolutely nothing but take from and get in the way of and destroy those who DO produce and contribute and are just trying to get on with their lives. They are the ultimate illustration of the saying "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers." Draw your own analogies....

The Darwin Award committee has just announced, "No more calls, please, we have the March winner."

The thing I'm having the most trouble with is the "Don't touch your face" warning. Do you have any idea how hard it is to pick your nose without touching your face?

Curiously, I saw a zombie in bright yellow in the latest episode. Sorry to see Michonne leave. Couple times over the years on the aftershow, the point was made that if we'd started the journey with Negan, then we'd have seen Rick & company as the "bad guys." It was interesting to see a little of this twist played out on the latest episode.

Just thought I'd throw out a big Thanks to everyone here for being my "friends & family" during this time of trouble. The world's not so lonely knowing y'all are here. Stay strong. Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay free. We'll all laugh about this someday!

Those are hilarious! Thanks!

Very clean build, nicely done! Model on!

Not recurring, no, but I did have a very vivid model-related one about 4 years ago. I go on eBay binges. I won't go on eBay at all for months or years at a time, and then for some reason I'll go looking for something and soon I'm on there all the time, watching and buying for a few weeks or a few months, spending hundreds of dollars until I've gotten just about everything I can think of I want, and then I stop. When I'm on one of these binges I just open the boxes and check them as they come in, and sometimes I don't get around to opening them for a couple weeks or even a month or more. And when buying, especially when buying lots or "junkyards," I'll be concentrating on one particular thing I need and not paying that much attention to the rest of the stuff. I've gotten some nice surprises that way. So anyway, about 4 years ago, I dreamed (apparently--more on that latter) that I was standing in front of my "Double Special Old Kits" shelf, going through some of the many AMT '63-'67 original Corvettes I've bought, either looking for something or just taking inventory. And I come across an original built AMT '66 Mustang Fastback in a box with something else. "Huh," I think, "I'd almost forgotten buying that." I look closer and it's been cleanly but not perfectly brush-painted with Pactra Leaf Green, exactly like the one I built in 1966. I'd originally planned to strip and rebuild it, but in looking at it, I thought, "I should just clean this one up and 'rescue' it as a tribute to my old one." BTW, there is NO chance this model is my old one, suddenly found--I repainted that one 50 years ago, still have it, know exactly where it is, and plan to restore/rescue it sometime soon. I put the Mustang back in the box and went on with whatever it was I was doing at my Double Special shelf. I did NOT wake up thinking about this dream, or even remembering it. But sometime later, a few days or a week or two later, I got to thinking about "finding" that old built Mustang, and thought it was a good time to rescue/restore it. I went down to the Double Special Old Kits shelf and started looking for it. I opened EVERY SINGLE BOX on that shelf--two or three dozen of them--and didn't find it! I then went looking through several large boxes where I have a bunch of restorable glue bombs bought from eBay and the local toy show. It wasn't in any of those, either. Only then did I began to realize that the whole thing had been a dream (MUST have been!). But it was so REAL! Also funny: at that time I hadn't bought or even looked for any AMT '66 Mustang Fastbacks, although I DID score a nice minty original unbuilt hardtop/convertible. This dream/false memory haunted me so much that last year, when I got a great-paying job and went on another eBay bender, I started looking for AMT '66 Mustang Fastbacks. I ended up buying two '65s and two '66s--three nice builtups (which I have already restored and shown here) and one slightly distressed but very restorable promo, which I still have to get to. So that's my weird model car dream.

And you're a MODERATOR! Shame on you! If you troll this thread into getting locked, I'm starting another one--and I don't expect to be sanctioned for it.

Very cool! I don't think I've ever SEEN one of those, much less one nicely built.