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I can't post links right know but if you go on you-tube and check out The Hillbilly Moon Explosion you won't be disappointed. They are a Swiss rockabilly band with Italian singer Emanuela Hutter. Check out a song called My love for evermore featuring Sparky from Demented are Go (Welsh Psychobilly band). I would love to see these guys have some success here in the states but if I transfer to England next year one of the things I'm going to do is catch them in concert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rlYPb2plaY Ha! I just beat the system and figured out how to post a link. The network police are probably circling me right now.

I use the testers canopy glue, its essentially white glue just like I believe the Krystal Klear, and other similar products but I recently started using a couple drops of Loctite 5 minute clear epoxy applied with a toothpick after the glue sets up. Its especially effective on windows that don't fit tight enough to hold themselves in place. With either one I usually put the window in and then use the glue or epoxy more as a caulk just around the edge rather than in the channel or between the tabs and the body.

I forgot about these, I had the Evel Knievel lunch box, the one with him jumping a row of cars, not the skycycle one.

Having spent most of my adult life in the military I have a bunch of words and phrases I'm tired of hearing but I will mostly stick with the ones that have made the jump to the mainstream. "Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions." It sounds like you are empowering your people but what your really doing is shirking your responsibility to teach somebody how to solve a problem. If the guy had a solution he wouldn't be telling you about the problem in the first place, he'd be telling you that he fixed it. This is a good way to get the people that work for you to stop telling you about problems. "It is what it is." Yeah, only if you are to lazy to do everything you can to make it what it's supposed to be. "Living the Dream". The guys that live in one of the berthing areas on my current ship say this so often we started calling that berthing "Inception". And one that you may have never heard unless you've spent time in the military. When doing a comms check in the old days the response would be 5x5, these days everybody says "Lima Charlie". If you ask why they will tell you its short for Loud and Clear (phonetic alphabet L = Lima, C = Charlie) and then they look at you like your stupid when you point out it actually takes longer to say 4 syllables then to say 3.

I was always fascinated by Dads tow truck so Mom said she went to a half a dozen stores looking for a Tonka tow truck for me one year for Christmas. It was the twin boom wrecker in blue and white with the single cab from the dump truck. Wish I still had this, some day I will get around to finding another one. (I'm on the ship and can't post pictures but here's a link to one). Apparently I can't post links from my work computer either, sorry.

I watched the new episode of the American Top Gear last night, they each chose one car for life, from the year each one was born, and then did meaningless tests to see which one was the best. Regardless of your feelings toward the show the question is a fun little thought exercise. So if you could only have one car to see you through life, from teenager and school, through early adulthood whether collage, the military, or whatever you do, to starting and raising a family, buying a home, vacations, into retirement, this is the only car you will ever own, made the year you were born, what car would you have? Personally, I think I would go for a 1972 Plymouth Satellite wagon. I would prefer a Cuda but the wagon would be more practical and as my needs change I could just swap engines as needed. When I want to have fun throw a big block in it, when gas gets expensive swap in a slant six. I could haul the family around or pick up full sheets of drywall, its a good looking car, and unless you loosened up the torsion bars and shackled up the rear to fit those N50's under the back it rode nice. I would want that lime green poly so I don't look too much like Mrs. Brady. Maybe some Torq-Thrusts. So that's my pick, what would you choose?

Very nice, the wheels work great on this.

Really cool, I like it.

Beautiful as always!

Harry, the drip rails aren't well defined and there are no molded in lines around the windows. I was out of masking tape but I picked some up and taped around the drip rails and windows to give myself a line to trim the foil to and added that today. Also, I reduced the size of the photos in MS paint to 25% before uploading them to PB, let me know if that works better. It did make uploading them much, much faster than before. And here is one of the engine. I wired it but just didn't see the point in doing much with it considering how inaccurate the rest of the engine compartment is. I do have one of these I'm kitbashing with a 68 dart but that won't be done for awhile as I only work on it a little bit in between other stuff. That one is going to be done like my first one if I ever get around to converting it to a 67. Thanks for all the comments and kind words.

Amazing! This is one of the coolest models I've seen in a long time!

Nice, I like them.

Harry, I believe it was you that mentioned in a recent post about how to reduce the size of the photos when you upload to PhotoBucket but I couldn't find it. Could you explain it again? And you are correct about the decals but sometimes you just have to slap a model together because it makes you feel like a 12 year old and not get hung up on the details.

Wow, really nice!

Very nice, makes me want to try a box art build.

How did I miss this the first time? This thing is amazing and humbling.

Crazy! I like it.

This is the 69 Barracuda I just finished. I started it on Thursday and was kind of surprised when it was all done but a couple of details on Sunday evening. The kit isn't the greatest, everything including the tailshaft of the trans is molded into the chassis plate, the engine is almost unpleasant to look at, the engine compartment isn't even close, the interior would only look good to somebody that has never seen one of these and I don't know if its in scale or not but the headlights surely can't be. But if you want to build a second generation Barracuda this is just about the only game in town and despite all it's shortcomings I love this kit. I owned 2 67's when I was younger and even though this is a 69 my wife can't tell the difference. The second one was red with a 318 ( painted Chrysler blue) with a bit of a cam in it (I think Direct Connection "Purple Shaft", does that sound right?) and 3.91 gears (or thereabouts). One time the brake light switch failed and I couldn't find a replacement and my ship was getting ready to sail so I wired a toggle switch to the brake lights and stuck it on the dash. While we were underway the Cordoba (alas, no rich Corinthian Leather for us, just the fabric, but it was Florida and no A/C so it was OK.) alternator went out and she didn't want to pay anybody to fix it so she ended up driving the Barracuda for 6 months having to flip a switch every time she hit the brakes. That, along with the stall converter in the 727 with a reverse manual valve body, the ratchet shifter that wasn't adjusted right so you had to hit it twice to go from one to two, and the standard Mopar starter screech annoyed the BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH out her. She hated driving that car but loved being seen driving it. Anyways, here's the model, I didn't bother taking any pictures of the engine or chassis as they look awful but I did wire the engine and paint it Chrysler blue. 383 indeed. If you put a 383 in that car you would have to change the plugs from underneath, you could have a picnic under the hood of this thing. I added that flat area just in front of the panel that blocks off the trunk along with the chrome trim. Other than the steering wheel resting on the seat most of the interior (forward of the backseat at least) is pretty good considering the simplistic nature of this kit. If you have an airbrush and are handy with the Alclad the bumpers aren't too hateful but they do have a mold seem running right across the face of them from one side to the other. The recall wheels are top notch, I added the parts pak redlines. Just like every Mopar I ever owned I took a few turns out of the torsion bars for a more appropriate stance. The kit mirrors look more appropriate for an E body Cuda so I used some from my parts box. And here's a shot of the 1/1. I wish this kit had the same hood but at least they are available from some resin casters. Don't ask me what those hubcaps were from, they did impart a false since of security to many an unsuspecting 5.0 mustang driver 20 something years ago. Thanks for looking and I hope I didn't annoy you too much with my rambling.

I finally got around to making some license plates and adding the battery and windshield washer bottle. In this picture you can kind of see the foil on the Chrysler script, I wonder if I'm carful with some rubbing compound if I can get through the clear enough to bring it out some more? Thanks for all the kind words and thank you Moebius for continuing to bring us great models to build.

Looks great!

That is a crazy looking model! From the picture it looks about right, I think I'm going to go ahead and order a couple of rolls and see. I have also found 32 gauge artistic wire so maybe I will order a roll of that also.

I've been wiring my own distributors but at between 3 and six dollars for 2 to 4 feet of the detail master or other brands of ignition wire it still adds up over time. according to my math 30 gauge wire should come out to between 7 and 8 mm, suitable for most of the stuff I build. so I went looking online and this is what I found, http://www.amazon.com/B-30-1000-30AWG-Plated-Copper-Wrepping/dp/B008AGUDEY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1461650071&sr=8-2&keywords=wrapping+wire Has anybody got any experience with this? Mainly, does it hold its shape and does it look correct? At 6 bucks for a 1000 feet I would almost be tempted to buy one of every color and never have to buy wire again.

I agree with you on it being too shiny for a 49, I usually don't polish them out like this as I tend to lean towards factory looking paint but with the narrow white walls and slight rake I was going for a more modern retro look rather than an actual retro look. I debated between polished or dull coat for a matte finish but shiny usually wins out for me.

I kept passing this up and I'm sorry I did, this is really neat, great concept.

That Holmes wrecker bed looks really good, but I'm not in love with the hubcaps. I don't think they would work with the heavy duty wheel on these trucks. Either way, nice progress and I'm looking forward to seeing more.