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It finally arrived this morning. It's a copy of the Johan 1967 Fury. The casting quality is excellent; smooth, thin styrene-like with no casting blemishes. The front grille is especially well done. Everything looks exactly like injection molded parts. It beats paying megabucks for an original.

Think so? In order to be pedantic, one must exhibit a tendency to show off book learning or trivia, especially in a tiresome way, which neither my question or comment do. I wanted to know what qualifies the ad as "epic". Pretty straightforward question, I'd say.

What qualifies this as "epic"? That catchphrase has been overused and its meaningful definition and correct application are now obscured.

Pyro Plastic Corporation acquired Palmer in 1970. Pyro was sold to Life-Like in 1972 and, in 2005, the parent company Lifoam Industries, LLC, chose to concentrate on its core manufacturing business and sold the model railroad division to Walthers. Palmer, incidentally, also reboxed Pyro kits.

Maronna mia! Really.......it's only one of the greatest mob movies and has been available on every type of media since 1990 and you've never seen it. Devi uscire di più.

They are totally different. No relation to each other. Incidentally, both kits are closer to 1/38 scale.

Cliff Robertson looked nothing like JFK, either. I don't recall the studio replacing his head with a resin JFK version for PT-109.

Excellent, Alan! Crack that wallet open and get some of each at the Atlantis website. They'll grow on you once they arrive.

Aurora made the Maserati 3500GT and Aston Martin DB4, both of which are very nice and detailed kits. More than likely, those molds were acquired by Atlantis. There is the other side of that coin; that being, looking back with a jaundiced eye because you're using the standards of today to make unfair comparisons with the past.

Expand your modeling horizons. Being a one-trick pony can get boring.

Who could pass up listening to Bert Kaempfert's "That Happy Feeling" in its entirety? Bill, remember when Sandy Becker used it as the theme song for his show on WNEW Channel 5?

So, until we reopen...........

Thin coats, man. Don't get heavy handed with it. Better yet, Krylon clear gloss works great. You can use Microscale Micro-Sol and Micro-Set after the decals are cut and separated from each other.

It's your model and you can do as you wish. It really will be an exercise in futility. There isn't anything which can be done to restore it.

Dipropylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether isn't sold in retail sized amounts. It's sold in large containers for commercial/industrial use as an additive to cosmetics. soaps, etc. Get Testors ELO from Active Powersports. Great price. Forget Wally World. It's priced over 100% more there. It really works better stripping paint than any of that cheenchy-meenchy purple pond/ultra awesome/oven cleaner BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH. No need to soak for days or weeks. Brush it on, wait twenty minutes and start scrubbing the lifted paint off.

Like the others said, chalk it up as a loss. It's not that the urethane used was bad. There is no need to ever submerge resin parts in order to clean them, especially in solvents. IPA, and other solvents, is absorbed and breaks down the resin when a resin object is submerged for a prolonged period of time. Brushing on alcohol on the surface, then scrubbing the parts with a nylon bristle brush followed by washing and rinsing in warm water is sufficient. I keep recommending Testors Easy Lift Off to strip paint from styrene and resin parts; but, it seems like I'm talking to myself. Just brush a coat (NEVER EVER submerge any plastic or resin in it. It isn't necessary.) of ELO on the parts and, in about 20 minutes, the paint will start to wrinkle. The paint can be removed by scrubbing it off, followed by washing the parts in warm water and dishwashing detergent. If there is any remaining paint, repeat the procedure.

That leaves only Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow from the cast of "Leave It To Beaver". Ken Osmond, ‘Leave It to Beaver’ Star Who Played Eddie Haskell, Dies at 76

Scale Finishes doesn't sell canned paint.

Why don't you just get Butternut Yellow from Scale Finishes? It's available for 1967 and 1968 (Code Y) and 1969 (Code 40). Unless you're using a can of touch up paint specifically in that color, attempting to match it with standard rattle can products or generic hobby paints can be an exercise in futility, not to mention a PITA process of trial and error.

I remember him when he portrayed Jerry Hubbard, Barth Gimble's (Martin Mull) sidekick on Fernwood Tonight.

Airfix 1/48 B-57B It was mailed on April 30 and has been sitting in the Jersey City Network distribution Center since May 6. I'm going to get Airfix A10101 English Electric Canberra B.2/B.20/B.62/B(1)6 in order to model one of the eight B-57As accepted by the USAF in 1951. I'm having a PITA time trying to find both of the DMold Modelworks B-57B and B-57G Forward Fuselage resin sets I sent the owner, Dmitri Malkov, an email a while back; but, he hasn't replied as of yet. These are fantastic looking sets.

Darin Bastedo had a thread about kitbashing '55-'57 Bel Airs using the roof from the Revellogram '56 Nomad. Unfortunately, all of the photos are gone.

Good ole New York City-style pepper and egg hero.

Big deal, a discussion goes off topic. The end of order and Western civilization as we know it. As pointed out, that's the natural state of affairs in real life. Besides, temporarily drifting off topic about, oh, let's say for argument's sake , a fifty year old kit that's been that's been discussed ad nauseam, breaks the monotony, just like talking with friends.

The story about when Rock 'N Roll was "banned in Boston" in 1958 The Nobles, a group from New Haven, even recorded a song about the incident.