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I prefer buy it now for most purchases. That way I don't have any concerns over getting sniped at the last minute.

This was man cave #1 in my old house. I'll be doing something similar here this year.

Me too. I could use an 8' x 16' space, and my clear working area would be about 6" square, if that.

Now that is one cool old photo.

Yet another painting experiment, this time Tamiya clear blue over Testors icy blue. There was rather surprisingly almost no shift at all, but I still think it looks nice, though I also think it’s a bit too flaky for 1:24/1:25 scale, but will probably work out great on a big ol’ 1:16 scale kit, and I’ll be snatching the big Bel Air kit very soon, so may well go this route with that.

I submitted a brochure (1960 Thunderbird), to a brochure site, The Old Car Manual Project, but haven't yet checked to see if he's uploaded it to the site or not.

I'd assume it wouldn't be any real problem.

I really don't know for sure, but assuming they have the original formulas, I don't see why they'd have need to change them. The green looks the same to me, but we're talking 50 year old memories here, so who knows?

I agree. Much like my Monogram '71, with the chrome bumper parts, it's preferable to have this choice, as stripping them is a whole easier than re-chroming them.

OK, thanks.

Well I eventually got over my aversion to the vanilla wafers, and still enjoy them to this day. Now jelly beans, that's a whole other story. Now when I even look at jelly beans, I get sick to my stomach. Back to Hostess, I always did, and still do love their cupcakes.

I agree. The Testors Mystic Emerald is a pretty decent stand-in for the green metalflake I used an an AWB Mustang many, many years ago, though I don't recall if that was AMT or Pactra paint back then. I intend to paint my replacement kit the same, using the Mystic Emerald. Actually I already did paint it, but messed it up pretty bad, so bought yet another kit. But if I can save the first body, I'll probably just trade off the second kit, or at least that's the current plan.

It's been so long since I built a car model engine, that I completely forgot certain basics, one of which is to make sure that things are square. Given the sometimes extreme draft angles of the injection parts provided in a lot of car models, certain items frequently need to be squared off before assembly. In this case, I did remember to square up the tunnel ram, but not the top of the block itself. As a consequence, the tunnel ram perches on a pitched block top that will now require some filler to make look right, or at least OK, and could have been easily resolved beforehand, but was not. Live and learn, I guess.

I couldn't agree more. I don't think I've ever liked any of his goofy designs.

I still can't make up my mind if I prefer the body color or chrome on the nose and rear of the GTX, as I do like them both.

Full fendered?

Pretty good idea. I may give that a try. Now if the AMT and Pactra spray lacquers would just come back, I'd be in hog heaven.

Off and on I played the drums for most of my life. Here's the last set that I had, sold off about five years ago.

Years and years ago, I worked for a while at Mrs Alison's, and ate so many fresh from the oven vanilla wafers, I eventually got sick of them. The jelly tops and oatmeal cookies were pretty awesome too.

I had no idea. I do recall that it had a rubber band, ball bearings and grease, but it never really did work right.

I had something like that too. I believe came with the Dream Rod kit.

Really looking forward to that SS 396.

I'll certainly look into it. For me, cheaper is always better.

That's true enough. I used to just love the apple pies, but the amount of guts in them has been reduced, and they taste different too. I do agree that Banana Flips were awesome, but I haven't seen one of those in years now. As to coconut, I also loves me some Almond Joy candy bars.

Then I must be a Banana Twinkie.