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Very interesting, thanks Pete!

I had a phone call today "from Amazon" about my new IPad and $1500 worth of other stuff was on the way. I didn't order any such thing from them, so hung up immediately without even waiting to hear what kind of scam they were trying to run.

I'm not even that techno. I just have a list in a Word document.

I don't have a phone (except for the one on the wall). Don't have one, don't need one, don't want one, can't use one. I'm one of the happiest people I know. Coincidence? I think not.

I have an updated list, but it's on the computer, not a hard copy.

This Sunday night, 9PM Eastern, looks like History Channel will have a show about Matchbox and Hot Wheels. Could be decent.

Thanks Spencer! Means a lot coming from a first-rate modeler such as yourself! Model on!

Absolutely fabulous! I just KNEW you were the right guy to send those custom parts to, that you'd use 'em and do 'em justice and you DID! VERY well done mah brothah and model on!

Local toy show day. Absolutely nothing I needed at the show, so made the short run to Rite Aid, the last one in my area that hasn't gone Walgreens. The familiar Welly/Beanies display wasn't near the front as usual, so I asked. They still have the cars back on the shelves in the toy section. Price is now $12.99 (30% increase! ) but were running Buy One Get One 50% Off deal so I looked. Had a silver '67-'68 Firebird, but I already have a blue one I liked better. Ended up with an Aston-Martin Vanquish* and a Mercedes SLS AMG. I might already have one of the latter, but this one isn't missing the left side mirror, so if it turns out to be a duplicate, I'll put the other one in the grandkids' toy box for them to play with when they come. Two new diecasts for just under $21, that's not horrible. *Almost didn't buy it because I thought I might already have one, but checking the list when I got home, the one I have is a DB9, so glad I got it.

I've read two Reacher books and enjoyed them. Saw the second movie and thought it was awful--basically a stupid Bourne clone. I hear the first movie wasn't bad. I won't be subscribing to Amazon just to see these. Would watch if it were on Netflix, though.

Me neither, but I've been thinking of chopping one into a roadster pickup-type body with a scratchbuilt mini-bed, like a fad T. I snagged several of these things cheap a few years ago and am gonna find something to do with them sooner or later.

I tried rubbing both sides of my lint screen with a fresh dryer sheet before drying today's load. It actually seemed to make removing the lint easier later!

Yawn....

I use Elmer's glue or, even better, Tacky Glue, available at Walmart.

I decided to see how long it would take before someone mentioned it. As it turns out, over a month!

Very sharp build, Nigel! Contrats on gittin' 'er done!

I didn't have to "retrieve" them, I had all but about five or six still on my hard drive.

I was hoping someone would ask! The white was painted first, out of the cheap Touch N Tone rattlecan. When I first decided on the paint scheme, I spent several weeks trying to noodle out how to mask off the "ragged edge" border that I wanted. What kind of paper or cardboard could I tear and get the desired effect? It finally dawned on me that the simplest (and should have been most obvious) method would be best: I simply tore a strip of masking tape down the center taking care to get it "kinda" even but nowhere near TOO even. I expected to have to do it several times to get what I wanted but the first attempt was almost perfect. I used one half of the strip on one side, and the other half on the other side, so the right side border is actually a "mirror image" of the left. Cool, huh? The gray is airbrushed Model Master FS36118 Gunship Gray from my model airplane camo stocks. Couldn't find a rattlecan gray primer that was dark enough for what I had in mind. Glad you like it!

Here's Stupidbird, also known as the Great Wide Shock. It started life in an eBay JoHan Superbird junkyard, which turned out to contain enough reasonably good parts to rebuild one fairly nice factory stock model, and just enough leftovers to get another model of some kind together. Stupidbird was built out of the leftovers, which included the NASCAR dashboard and roll cage. The junkyard was missing one engine, and one set of taillights, and the second Superbird wing. As it turned out, the second chassis was from some other JoHan Mopar kit, and the wheelbase was too long. I had to shorten the chassis about 1/8 inch. The glass was a bit of a mess. I was able to sand and polish it out except for one booger spot in the backlight. The body required a certain amount of repair work just to get it back to out-of-the-box usability. Gary (Gramps 46) generously donated a set of wide open wheels. The front tires are common AMT L60s, and the rears are the large tires from the reissued MPC '75 Corvette. I ended up having to make taillights with sheet styrene and a red Sharpie. (Improvise! Adapt! Overcome!) The NASCAR roll cage, instrument panel, and everything else came out of the eBay junkyard box. I started the project with much enthusiasm as soon as the “race” began, but, as so often happens, my workbench soon became infested with shinier squirrels and it got set aside until almost the literal last minute. Along the way I got semi-inspired by Scott8950's post “Worlds most affordable superbird” up in the General section. I decided the story of Stupidbird would be that a crew of hot rod trash discovered the barn-find remains of a 1970 Road Runner that had been bracket raced, and decided to rebuild it as a restomod Superbird. About the time they got it safely (more or less) running and the body together (more or less), they thought it would be a hoot to run it in the Cannonball before finishing it out. An offbeat paint job was suggested, and then the Great Wide Shock name was of course a natural. Paint is airbrushed Model Master FS36118 Gunship Gray, and Touch N Tone flat white primer. Both were vigorously rubbed with a paper napkin to give them a pleasing sheen which will hopefully preclude hard-surface scratches to which pure flat finishes are vulnerable. So I give you Stupidbird. I know it's not a winner or even a contender, but it is what it uniquely is—The Great Wide Shock.

Stupidbird is finished! And it has a new name: The Great Wide Shock. Pics in the completion thread as soon as I can get them up.

Still the wrong thread, Mike. This is the one right for what you're posting:

Very cool old survivor, thanks for sharing it!

Mike, those aren't glue bombs. They just need to be finished. Looks like they'd finish up nicely, too. Maybe "Let's See Your Abandoned Projects" would make a good thread. Oh wait, it's been done--it was called "Bring Out Your Dead."

Hmmmm, I wonder if the Revell "Miss Deal" 2DS Stude body could be kitbashed with AMT body parts? That would at least be something a little different....

Oh, it's not that 1954 options/possibilities aren't available, it's just that I have zero interest in building a model of any of them, with the possible exception of the Studebaker.