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Saw this last night on the news. What's weird is that we had literally just finished watching an episode of Disaster Deconstructed on National Geographic, and it feature the 1982 crash of an Air Florida jet into the Potomac, right near Reagan Intl Airport.

Sounds to me like a US rep issue, not a Ray issue. I've only ever dealt direct.

The Mercedes 500 is coming back? Excellent.

Just once, could someone please discuss the DeLorean without mentioning the movie? Seriously.

Well, these are over 30 years old now, so I'd say they can qualify as classics! The GM "OBS" body trucks have been my fav body style truck since I first saw them, and still are to this day. Now, if you going to nitpick and say a classic has to be older than me, then it would have to be the 5th gen Ford F-Series.

I'm a big fan of the Elegoo water washable. Seems to work just fine for printing parts and bodies. And there's less cleanup, because there's no messing around with IPA.

Body is about half done it's 19 hour print. And I have chosen the engine for this one. Will be period correct, and a little different. Need to find appropriate wheels now.

Except that Motortrend TV no longer exists. It was shut down and absorbed into Discovery TV, which doesn't carry all of the racing that MT used to carry. And even MT stopped carrying race series for the ones I wanted to watch. DTM and BTCC. Hence why I cancelled my sub.

I'm the same way with the old ESCI Ford Transit kit. And I can't even explain why. I mean, it's a crappy kit of a mid-80s Ford van. But I love them. I have a pile of them now, and am always looking for more. And the nice thing, now that Italeri has reissued it, the pricing on the originals doesn't get as ridiculous. Can find them for pretty reasonable prices now.

I'm not sure I'd even paint that. Prep it, clearcoat it, done. Looks awesome as it is.

I love these big old boats. I learned to drive in a 1978 Plymouth Fury Sport Suburban. I would do many illegal or immoral things to get that car back. At the same time, we also had a 1977 Plymouth Fury sedan. And for some reason, a third Fury. A 1968 Fury III convertible. It was like Christine. Slow restoration. New grille here, new fender there, rear rust repair. All done over time. This was supposed to be my first car, but then I turned 16 and my dad decided that a convertible in Alberta would be a poor choice for a year-round driver. I haven't scanned in any pics, but my first car was a 1978 Thunderbird with the 400 V8. My wife disagrees, but I think an old 70s land yacht would look great in the driveway.

Aww, my name isn't there. 🫤

Will look into this for you. Nothing I can see in the Admin site looks amiss. You are definitely not banned!

That's what they've been doing though. Repopping kits from the 70s and 80s, ignoring anything even remotely modern. Although the old truck kits sell, the manufacturers are alienating a large part of the market. I know I haven't bought a new truck kit in literally years. And the most recent kit I bought was an Italeri issue of a new truck. I know Moebius released a couple of newer kits...about 10 years ago. So those aren't even new anymore. And honestly, I can't see myself buying yet another reissue of an old Kenworth or Peterbilt. Oh look, same old kit from the 70s, new decals. Yawn. Even when a newly tooled kit comes out, it's just a re-tool of a very old kit. Admitted, that International cabover was an excellent kit, but I'd be more excited if it was a subject matter that wasn't already on the road when I was born.

It's an ARII kit.

That's excellent news! Hoping the 48 Sedan Delivery comes back. I traded on of those away a few years ago, and I still kick myself. Still have a couple of the trailers in the stash though.

I love this! Excellent concept, and excellent work.

It's still there! But was closed all weekend.

His work is amazing. At this point, seeing how much extra work he puts in, I'm actually surprised the windows don't work and that the engine doesn't run.

Hmmm.... So around here, every now and then Google ads get confused with what we do. All this talk of models, and a whole section about drag racing. I think I'll go sign up for OnlyFans, see how many I can confuse and get money from before they realize what kind of modelling I do. Big money, here I come!

For literally months now, Ray's website has had a message regarding print times and when orders were going to the printers. It's right there on the decal home page, the first thing you see. I ordered some decals back in November, knowing full well that they wouldn't go to print until January. And in my confirmation email: There's no excuse for not knowing about a wait.

If you have a look at The Scale Modelling Channel, Thomas did a video all about how he gets paid, and how much he gets paid. It's quite interesting.

I actually had zero time to get to anything fun! Was in our shop during business hours. And now I've been stuck in Sidney, MT since Wednesday, awaiting a border issue to get resolved. End of October, some new regs came into effect, and now I need to set my company up on this new site. So I've been waiting since Thursday AM. ANd the CBSA office isn;t open over the weekend. Let me tell you, Sidney in January is not the greatest place to be stranded.

Really? Really?! You think us mods have the time to go and edit individual posts? And then you go off on us about "butchering" your threads? Nice attitude. 👎

Excellent work!