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SfanGoch

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  1. Yup, can't have Junior exhibiting antisocial behavior by assaulting a punching bag. Every kid I knew had Bozo. There is something very satisfying in beating the cr ap out of a clown. I've got the Rock'em-Sock'em robots myself. They are fun.
  2. Was he a "friend of a friend"? You're neck o' the woods is a popular destination for WITSEC alumni.
  3. Bill, I think more than half of the teachers in my high school had those flasks. That would explain my machine shop teacher's nickname, "Three Finger Louie" Russo.
  4. Thanks, Mike. 500.......wow! There aren't 500 kids in his school. There were about 45 students in my freshman English class in high school (almost 6,000 students in total). Overcrowding was the norm in the 1970's It was sort of like "Blackboard Jungle" meets "Welcome Back, Kotter". Nike Zeus Zacharias, a combination of Dr. Smith and John Barrymore, was our teacher. He maintained his sanity with one of these
  5. There are eight boys and seventeen girls in my son's graduating class. Not a bad ratio.
  6. Yep, biological. He's a rough-and-tumble-stand-up-to-be-knocked-down-kicking-in-the-head-knife-in-a-dark-room chip off the ol' blockhead like Dad; but, he has better manners and is extremely polite. Mom is Spanish on her father's side, Irish and West Indian on her mother's. That makes him 111% Polish. We're the only ones in the house who eat pierogi, kielbasa and other Polish health foods. Used her Nikon to get prom pics since I can't d/l from my Canon. She won't let me use hers to photograph my modeling. She says she doesn't want that "junk" cluttering up her camera. She doesn't get it. No appreciation for the finer things in life except for shoes, bags and this "clothes" stuff. Mom sucks, man.
  7. Yeah; but, he's got Dad's discerning taste in the opposite sex. She's a real sweetheart.
  8. My son and his prom date, Taylor The prettiest girl in his class.
  9. The IRS never initiates calls and it never discusses sensitive financial business over the phone. The scammers use bulk dialers which make calls out to a large set of numbers; and, any, that are successful are forwarded to whatever destination they choose. That means, if you answer one of these calls, it could be rerouted to someplace like Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria or any other distant, high cost international location. Then, you'll be charged some absurd amount of money against your telephone bill.
  10. Rossville, Georgia.
  11. I blame it on substandard internet connection speeds from local providers.
  12. He's agreeing with you, Skip.
  13. You're fortunate that it didn't happen while you were driving. A friend at work had a brand new 1989 Mercury Sable. One morning, he showed up late at the job fuming. Before asking him why he was steamed, I asked him if he heard the recall report about Sables on the news that morning. Seems that there was a problem with the power seat wiring harness getting abraded and causing the wiring harness to catch fire. He said that he didn't see it but found out the hard way. He was sitting at a light on the way to work when the seat cushion started getting really hot. He pulled over, turned off the ignition and got out. The seat started smoking and burst into flames. By the time FDNY arrived, the car was a total loss
  14. Looking real good. Mike. You performed some nifty surgery in grafting the body sections.
  15. That's why Revell is the best at what it does.
  16. This baby's looking good so far, Steve. I could tell you where all the '65-'71 Fury I-III 4 Doors were in NYC when I was a kid. The majority of Furys that were around were mostly owned by the NYPD and taxi fleets.The NYPD had a huge fleet of them. The NYPD loved Mopars. It didn't hurt that Chrysler's corporate HQ was in the city at the time. The NYPD used them for precinct patrol (RMPs), highway pursuit and as the ubiquitous undercover "narc" car. The last one was not such a great idea. The narcmobiles were easy to spot because they obviously weren't yellow (for some reason, they were painted a light gray or avocado green), didn't have a taxi roof light and there were always two guys with bad haircuts wearing sunglasses (even at night ) sitting in the front seat.
  17. Nice work, Steve. This is one of my all time favorites. I scarfed up a bunch of these kits a while back. The Friedman book is a great book; but, it falls short in one very important (to us modelers, at least) area: no detailed photos of the car's components. Racing Icons has a great article on their restoration of Grand sport #004.
  18. "PSPRIMCH"......I like that. it's got a catchy title. It rolls off the tongue as easily as teeth after you get smacked with a softball bat.
  19. The Trumpeter chassis' wheelbase is accurately scaled at 125.98 mm. At least they didn't mess that up like they did with the roof..
  20. I know what you mean. I felt gypped when i opened the box and there were 10-15 parts.
  21. Because, maybe, we're running out of things to talk about? Hey, my dad never built a model in his life. He was a coin and stamp collector. I got interested watching my older sister's ex-husband, Dave, building cool stuff like Aurora's Frankenstein's Flivver when I was five. He let me help him and I was hooked. It was a mess; but, I had fun. That doesn't mean that doing the same with your kids will yield identical results. When will it be out on the newsstands?
  22. The Revell '59-'60 Impala chassis won't work if you want to build a 1959-60 Pontiac Bonneville, Buick or Olds using the available resin bodies and you wished to have a better detailed chassis. The '59-60 Impala had a 119 in. (120.9 mm in 1/25) wheelbase. The Bonneville's was 124 in. (125.98, round it off to 126 mm), the Buick Electra's was 126.3 in. (128.3 mm) and the Olds Series 88's was 123 in.(124.96 mm). That's a 5-8 mm difference, depending on the model. Too much cipherin' to figure out where to slice and dice to make the Revell chassis fit. It makes my head hurt. If you could custom print one to suit, it would make things much more simple.
  23. Here you go, Tom. Those are 1/24 scale civilian figures. Not cheap; but, you get what you pay for. As with everything, once the technology is more available, prices will drop. Edit: OOPS! You beat me to it, Bill.
  24. I know. It's not like you can scan the innards a la Star Trek; at least, not yet, CAT scans notwithstanding. Getting accurate bodies to match up with donor kits and the products available from quality resin casters can mitigate that in the short term. We could have new stuff and the aftermarket and resin guys are still able to turn out good things. That's a win-win-win all around. Accurate chassis/frames are another story. Finding those to scan would be difficult. Designing a CAD model and using that to print a 3D version is an option. A good looking chassis would do wonders for all those promos and older AMT kits with molded-in details. One could source the ancillary components (drivetrain, suspension, etc.) from one's spare box, in most circumstances. Norbert does custom printing. I need to ask him how much printing a chassis would cost.
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