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Wow! What a great save of a sadly overlooked kit. I too, wish Round2 would dig this kit back up.

Great Build. Like the colours.

Just Awesome!

That SR-75 is a Rare, Rare kit. Not surprised you did so well on it.

Carl, Re Goodwill. Go to "shopgoodwill.com" and use Advanced Search to open the Crafts & Hobbies tab. Then select the Model Kits sub-Tab. That will show you how many kits make it to Goodwill. At ant given time there are between 150-300 listings. About 25% IMHO, are for decent kits. So GW is getting 35-70 kits a day that are donated. Some times really rare stuff shows up. It will bid very high. Most is recent stuff (last 20 years) so goes for mostly reasonable prices. Watch out for shipping costs as some GW's are really bad about shipping. (Over Size Boxes, Expensive Shipping) I've had auction wins where the shipping was twice what I paid for the kits. Pro Tip. The 1/72 Scale Revell/Monogram SR-71 is the most Unbuilt kit in the USA. In a year of browsing GW Auction Listings, I've NEVER seen the kits section with fewer than 2 SR-71's listed for sale. I've seen as many as six at one time. They are everywhere. R/M NASCAR kits are next most popular. They usually sell for just about what you'd expect.

Amen, Patrick!

In the mid 2000's I was laid off. I went to vend at several SoCal model shows. Here are my thoughts. Alan's Ten Rules. 1. Take a comfortable folding chair.! You do NOT want to be at the mercy of the chairs the show, may (or may not) provide. Also, take a small Cash box. Have some change with you. Having to break a Hundred on the first deal of the day is hard. 2. Take a Cooler/Ice Chest with at least a 12 pack of what ever you chose to drink. The stuff there (if you can get it, will be overpriced or hard to get when you are thirsty) 3. Likewise, Take snacks. I prefer Jerky, Chips,Granola Bars, (and Twinkies...) 4. Consider how much you want to drag home with you, and price accordingly. Prices are higher in the morning and will taper off in the afternoon. 5. People LOVE Junk Boxes! I had a huge box of old parts and a stack of little brown paper lunch bags. $1.00 a bag, for all you can fit. I made $40.00 or $50.00 doing this. Just let'em dig around. Lots of stuff I would have thrown away found homes, and I made money. 6 Don't be afraid to make deals. Many people will just pay the prices on the box. Others do not consider a day complete unless the have haggled for everything they buy at a swap-meet.Work with them. 7. Ripoffs! It will happen. Some guy haggles you out of a kit, and 30 minutes later, you see it for sale at his booth for twice what he paid for it. Nothing to be done, except live and learn. Don't let it stop you from dealing, but know it will happen. 8 Rare Kits. (or at least rare to you) Look on eBay or online for any kits you even suspect might be worth more than a run-of-the-mill kit.See what they are priced at and what they sold for. Forewarned is forearmed. This helps to prevent #7. 9. Lookout/Companion. Take somebody with you. This is not optional. As others have said you need time to Shop yourself, Take Restroom Breaks, and Step away for a few minutes. The day will be much longer than you thought, and paradoxically, over before you know it. 10. Last, Have Fun! This is not a chore! Plan to have a good time. Roll with the punches. You are guaranteed to forget something you wanted or needed. Be cheerful anyways. Afterall, you are a Modeler and this is what we do together. You are almost guaranteed to go home with something you did not expect, and something thay you have wanted for a long time. It happened to me at every show I went to.

I have three of the Basic Scout Kits. I'm really waiting to see what Grille, Wheels&Tires and Decals Round2 Graced us with. I'll be having several of these.

So open it already! LOL. WE Wanna see what's in it!

Neat. It reminds me of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespa_150_TAP Recoilless Rifle on a Vespa Scooter

Jim, to answer your question, it compared Badly, Very Badly. There was never a flight test done on the Float Release mechanism. So the first time it was tried (in combat) it was found that the Release Pin could not be pulled, and the float was stuck. It was a major error, and it doomed the plane. (in both ways)

Man, What a great Mad Max looking rig. We'll never see it in 1/24 so I guess I'll have to get the Takom one.

I've got to get some of his decals now.

Nice Ol Skool Rod. You can almost never go wrong with Flat Black and Red Steelies.

Thanks, Casey.

Man, That is a SWEET build! Makes me want to build one.

Here are the decals for the latest issue of the sedan, Mark. https://www.ebay.com/itm/AMT-1-25-1940-FORD-SEDAN-GASSER-DECAL-SHEET/263860981539?hash=item3d6f570f23:g:mfAAAOSwpJFbZfuK Maybe somebody can grab the pic from this listing.

Thanks, Daddyfink! That photo is great. Gonna save that one.

Pics or it didn't happen, LOL

Well, it's older MPC tooling. Fit is not precise and there is some flash in the kit.

I buy that Dodge Moncao kit JUST for the Wheels and Tires! I love'em! The Cop Gear is very nice too.

The Lindberg '40 Ford was a Palmer Copy of the AMT '40 Ford. The tooling was never issued by Palmer, and Lindberg wound up with it. They did some work on it and have been releasing now for some time. I really like the CHP version, it has nice decals and police parts.

Well, I'll have a resin Joker for sale or trade right after I get that Goon Car kit. Can never have enough Dodge Cop Cars, and that Figure is just so much trash to me.

I'll be at the Bakersfield HL tomorrow. I hope they have some new stuff. Nice to hear about the Airfix planes. I cam always use more Airfix kits.

Kit is the MPC '73-76 Camaro. Look at that chrome tree. Dean Milano showed this kit in S.A.E. many, many years ago. It was a full page article. Be great if somebody could find it and scan it here.