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The old Tahoe has been parked for about a year now. After doing some body repairs last summer, the "new" fender and hood turned out to be more flawed than originally thought. Plus it needed a lot of work; sudden and mysterious electrical gremlin that started sucking the juice, tie rod ends, ball joints, complete brake job front & rear, plus some rust starting to bubble up. Because I don't have a heated garage to fix things over the winter months, we just parked it. Sat all winter...and spring...and most of the summer. Last week I decided to get back on it. So bought a new battery, chased down the electrical issue, which turned out to be a frayed ground cable. Cleaned it up, and ordered a bunch of parts. So I guess the project is back on. I still see all the flaws, but looks pretty good when cleaned up.

Especially when aliens are involved. 👽

Honestly, like Bill said above, I'd go outside and find some sand. Check out this YT channel. Some amazing diorama work here. Including how to make sand, gravel, and dirt roads. https://www.youtube.com/@lasercreation-world1981/videos

Will do! It has the turbo inline 6. Super smooth and quiet drive, even with the Duratrac tires. Fast too, and it's not even the high output version. Two days in, so not much to report yet.

Saw this while eating lunch yesterday. Sounded evil.

So...I did a thing.

What did I accomplish recently? Well, I have a project I'm working on. Initial plan was just to change the factory wheels. So I 3d printed a set of wheels and tires. But... Then I decided it needed a new engine, so I 3d printed a new Hellcat V8 in what I thought was properly scaled to 1/25. Then I decided the new engine looked too small, so I found dimensions for the real thing, calculated it out to 1/24 scale and reprinted it. Then I decided THAT looked too small. It's the same size as the stock 360ci V8. Plus I got the placement of some of the pulleys wrong. So now I'm re-sizing it up to almost 1/20 scale and 3d printing and building a third engine. Plus, the 2nd engine didn't fit too well, so I bought the files for a full tube frame front end to swap into the kit. Which means all new suspension and brakes. But it will have functioning steering, something old AMT kits just don't have. Which means cutting apart the frame and reconfiguring the radiator and body mounts and all of that fun stuff. This thing is snowballing from a simple quick build to something far more complicated. 🤪

Excellent paint work! Just needs some "tooned" 454SS graphics!

🚗 Chevy 454 SS OBS T3DM・ 3D File for 3D printing・Cults

I wrote it because the idea is amusing, but if the opportunity came up I would 100% like to interview someone!

I want to get a hold of an executive or designer from Palmer Models (if any are still around) and interview them for the magazine. Would love to get to the bottom of their whole philosophy and business model. And why they did the things they did. And how many drugs were involved. And if any of their design team had ever actually seen a real car before kitting it.

Not really a "pleased me" sort of thing, but i listen to a lot of podcasts when driving, and I like learning about movies and music and pop culture. Anyway, here's a fun fact I learned on a podcast this morning. If someone were to release Back To The Future today, set in modern times with the same basic premise and plot, Marty would have travelled back to 1995. Great Scott!!

We have a definite vision in mind, but we want to hear what's important to everyone. There's a good chance someone has an idea that is awesome, that we had never considered. There's also a good chance that some ideas will never happen. As we've said, we won't be implementing every idea, but some of them will be for sure. I can already think of a couple of suggestions made by forum members that will happen.

Excellent work!

I'm putting on my Fox Mulder hat here The Great Lakes region, especially around Lake Superior, has a long history of UFO sightings. In fact, in November 1975 (the same month the Fitzgerald sank), there was a wave of UFO reports along the U.S.–Canada border, including near the Soo Locks and northern Michigan. Also, some UFO researchers suggest that the ship’s radios were knocked out—not by water, but by a sudden electromagnetic pulse, the kind often reported in UFO encounters. Electromagnetic interference could also cripple the ship's engines and controls, not just the radio. The ballast control was also electronically controlled. Leaving the EF vulnerable to a massive and unprecedented storm. Electromagnetic interference can also mess with radar. Other ships in the area reported their radar going blank, around the same time the EF vanished. The broken hatch theory was a coverup. I'm not saying it was aliens, but... This story is so much more fun than the broken hatch and hull fatigue theory/reality. I should flesh this out into a screenplay. Could be a fun movie. Or X-Files episode in the upcoming reboot.

Looks really good! I wonder though...has anyone built Hopper's Blazer to actually look like Hopper's Blazer?

If you have a printer, there are a ton of free figures on cults3d.com that you can download and scale to size. Lots of auto diorama figures too. Photographers, mechanics, dudes standing around, girls sitting on hoods, kids being kids, etc.

That turned out really nice! Excellent work on the lights. Very realistic.

Don't see these very often.

Someone had previously asked about bringing back the "post preview" feature. Well good news. It never went away. Here's where you find it.

Hmm...that's really strange. There's defintiely nothing wrong with your thread that I can see. It's not locked, it's never been moved or anything. Will tag Dave in on these, he's our computer guru.

For us Canadians, there's only one country that we have issues with shipping to.

This is similar to what's happening in Canada now. We have to complete customs clearance on a third party app prior to hitting the post office to drop of a parcel. They need to know what the parcel contains, the value, and where the product was manufactured. Then they charge the appropriate tariff/duty/whatever and collect it. Then you get a QR that you present to the post office. Then you pay the post office. Ugh.

It's a simple change, but a change none-the-less.