Snake45

How about an injected Buick from Revell's Tommy Ivo Showboat? I have no interest in this car, but bought the kit a couple years back just to use the engines in projects of this very kind.

Many, many times here I've posted something like, "Not my cup of tea at all, but there's no denying your superb craftsmanship and skill."

I'm gonna get the F-89 only because I built one as a kid. Not a great kit but should be a nostalgic, fun build.

That was exactly my first thought, too!

I tried to watch it but I don't have a spare hour to kill. Can someone give me a summation, or at least point me to the time hacks where he actually says something of substance?

Very clean build, very sharp. Well done and model on!

No joy on this Mustang at my Walmart. It is so very sad.

Johnson Rod flanges.

And a great source for PE razor saws. Thanks, Joe!

Sport Suburban, where ya been? Haven't seen your name in a long time. I miss your work--always enjoy looking at it.

Very sharp, very clean, killer stance! Don't think I've ever seen a green Nova before--looks great! Well done and model on!

I remember this one very well. Thanks for the cool new pics. Glad I got to see it before it gets moved to the Truck section, which I never look at.

Clean build, well done! Model on!

Two new airguns, CO2/BB replicas of the Walther P.38 and PPK/S. Looking forward to shooting them. The P.38 came in a nice box, but the PPK/s came in THE WORST blister-pack plastic I've ever seen on ANY product of any kind. It was thick plastic, heavily "welded," and with an irregular border. I was--no kidding--20 minutes freeing the gun from its plastic tomb, using a serrated steak knife and a pair of heavy-duty scissors. A "hot knife" would have been the perfect tool, or maybe a cutoff wheel in a Dremel. This package was SO miserable to work with that had I known about it, I might not have bought the gun at all. I have products that I've paid good money for that aren't nearly as tough and durable as that stupid package was.

Clean build, pretty cool! Nice stance. Well done and model on!

Gonna be interesting. Some observations: 1. Chief not participating, even as racemaster? Hmmmm. I wonder what Murder Nova meant when he said "He's not gonna be doing this anymore." Did he just mean AL racemaster, or has Chief quit racing altogether? 2. Sorry to see Jeff James in Heifer not make the cut. Looks like only one new MSO'er will be on the list, and I'd be willing to bet it's Lee Roberts. Chelsea's car just isn't up to racing with the rest of these guys anyway. 3. There are four or five people I was glad to see were NOT invited to this shindig. But I've already developed a dislike for Eric Bain. 4. What's up with Brandon James? He totaled his Mustang on America's Fastest, so I guess he'll have his NPK Nova? 5. Will be interesting to see how Jeff Lutz and Monza do here. 6. I SEVERELY hope they come up with some rule so that the same guys aren't racing each other again and again week after week. I wanna see movement up and down the list!

Good for you. That's the spirit! Drive on!

There was a guy exactly like that in the IPMS club I attended, too. He had at least one thing on the contest table every month. Although he wasn't that good a modeler, I learned to have a lot of respect for his "heart" in the hobby. The airplane kit I bought is the Hobby Boss Lavochkin La-11. I decided that the only "major flaw" that really caught my eye was the juncture of the vertical fin and the fuselage, and I can fix that. No telling when I'll actually build the thing, though. If you're interested, here's the thread with the rivet-counting. I'm the star of Page 2. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/hyperscale/hobby-boss-1-48th-scale-lavochkin-la-11-fang-box-i-t527054.html

I recently bought a new 1/48 kit of an airplane that had never been done in that scale before, and that I wanted. The internet rivet counters found at least six or seven "major" errors with the kit. I looked carefully at their complaints and found that only one of them really bothered me, and that one will be easy to fix (and at no cost). I'm driving on with it. A couple of decades ago, when I was regularly attending !PMS meetings, my stuff would often be critiqued by the club's "sexual intellectuals." ("Sexual Intellectual": A guy who knows 93 exotic lovemaking techniques, but doesn't know any actual women.) I learned to listen quietly to what they were saying, and then respond, "I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Show me on your model." The SIs never had a model. Never.

Hmmmmmm...L89 is actually a 375-hp 396 with aluminum heads.....

And there it is, right there. For some time now, I've said that when I come across a noticeable shape flaw in any model (not just this one, and not saying this one IS flawed), I have three choices: 1. Live with it. 2. Fix it, either myself or with an aftermarket correction (if available). 3. Put the model back in the box (or leave it on the hobby shop shelf) and build something else. As far as this one goes, I don't care for the '65 2DS body (in general, not just the kit). I'm gonna try to turn it into a '64 2DS and if that doesn't work to my satisfaction, I'll bash the body with a Rat Packer/Twister and do it as a '65 HT. I'll do SOMETHING with it, at any rate. Model on!

Beautiful color and finish! I think you're the first person I've seen working on the '64 HT rather than the '65 gasser. Drive on!

Thanks! I want to go there the next time I hear that JJ Da Boss's traveling circus comes to town. They were there a few years ago but I didn't know anything about it till I saw it on TV.

Rob has it right. That B&W car sure doesn't look like a '64 2DS body, but it doesn't quite look like a '65 either. I wonder if it's something of a "custom"?