Dave

The LHS I go to has layaway..length of time depends on $$$$ They sell alot of high end RC items..I think you can go 120 days on them. It's nice option and something I think will be used alot for the near future.

I too drifed away after college and my first several years out in the real world. I actually built right through college, having set up a small work area in my dorm room. Yeah I was called a huge geek, but while most were out getting drunk on weekends I was in tinkering and building small simple kits/projects, but what the "popular guys" never figured out was there were quite a few very attractive co eds who stayed in too, knitting, making jewelry etc that would often come over and hangout with me. I'm pretty sure I got more dates because I had hemastats and knew where the hobby craft stores were than alot of the frat boys! Any way I got back into pretty good around '96-97. I was working near a pretty good LHS and went there one day and saw a NASCAR Craftsman truck kit on sale....bought that one and a Dale Earnhardt kit (I had started to get into NASCAR) and started the bench up again. Dave

Here is one of mine, Bucky Kat after the siamese in the Get Fuzzy Comic strip.My first cat, always around, under foot,on models etc.etc.

I grabbed the Revell '69 Nova and a little paint. There were three Novas in the shop when I got there, I grabbed one, decided a bit later to get a second and the other were gone! It was only ten mniutes while I hemmed and hawed over paint... oh well, gives me a reason to go back ina couple weeks.

More to practice picture posting than anything else.Paint is Testors one coat blazing black

I've got to join the masses in saying how much I also enjoy you photos, kits, etc. And to add a personal note, you've been a big influence on my model building as I have a few "Vintage" stock cars on my bench right now, as opposed to the uual batch of todays NASCAR/ SPRINT /NEXTEL /WHOMEVER cars.

I like this kit, heres one I did on a recent afternoon to help snap a bad mood. Paint is Testors new one coat. No primer or clear and to me it looks ok on the shelf. As far as the kit goes, I did just a little detail painting on the interior, should have done more on the brakes, and I probably will. Not a big fan of the peel and stick stripes, but to me the car cries out for for some stripes. Anyway hers how it turned out.

Model wise I received Polar Lights Ghost Charger, Yarborough Mercury Cyclone and Revell Audi R 8. '30 Woody and some carbon fiver decals. Also "Get Fuzzy" book and calander, an iPod docking station (No, I don't have an iPod, but I do have a confused sister....) and oh yeah........tickets to Bruce Springsteen!!!!!!!!!!!!

I usually have something on the tube, various CSI episodes or comedies. Right now A lot of Estreet radio pn Sirius.com and slowly but surely more Christmas tunes. Sometimes I get a phone call and put it on speakerphone.....hey whats that noise? Im spray painting, your what? spraying a car model...are you sure? sounds like you're using the bathroom..................sigh....................

I wouldn't mind a '75 Plymouth Gran Fury, a 93 Cadillac Alante..with a decent Northstar engine represented. Of the more recent vintage a really like the looks of the current Honda Civic..but thats just me.

Well the show has inched a litle closer to where my brother and sisters live. I already called and told them to get the guest room ready. Love bringing my sisters! They make shopping easier...."Would you like this kit? do you need stuff to go with it?" Later date is great for me, missed the last two because march is a tough time to get off work. And next year it's the same week as my brothers birthday. Now as long as the tax refund is back by then...........

I guess I was kind of lucky in the fact my dad and my brother both were building models all the time, dad loved sailing ships and my brother it was WWI biplanes. I jumped in when they bought a new 1967 Ambassador...it was yellow witha black roof....but it came with a couple model cars!!. I also loved kits with working features...opening doors, trunks etc. An Early favorite was Monogram P-51 that could drop its bombs! I still remember jockying for position at the table after dinner so we all could build stuff at the same time! I bet the glue fume volume was at a peak then!. You know even with little league and having a pool in our yard there was time for models. I can still hear my mom asking eveyone what they were build after dinner....... We had a model club at school one year, lots of fun, a place to spray paint that was safe, a few others to talk to and a teacher who was suddenly cool. I wish I had an answer to get kids interested like we were, but I imagine in thirty years or so our kids will be wondering how to get young people interested into thier hobbies as something else will come along to take up our free time. I myself hope to be building still in 30 years, and hopefully will have finished a kit by then! Thanks for getting my blood going on a cilly Saturday...I think a trip to the LHS is in order today.

Happened on the new Lindberg Dodge Raminator today. I'm not a monster truck guy but I had to have this kit. It's pretty impressive tome so I will try to tell as much as I can wih my limited review skills! Big impressive box with great art. Tires, clear parts and body are all bagged individually, the bulk of the parts are in a single bag. Molded in white. The tires are black vinyle with what seems to me just enough give to them. The clear tree is in it's own little section off to the side for protection from scratches (I guess). Decals are also bagged and are pretty sharp looking. The instructions manual is 14 pages of look to be pretty clear and straight forward assembling. There are also several in progress photos shpwing you how things should look. I've taken the body out of it's bag to examine it. Molding looks good with only a couple light mold lines . I am hardly an expert on reviewing kits and you may get one of these and say hey..that guys was nuts....but I hope not!

I noticed they don't offer a primer....do you guys think they are meant to be sprayed straight on plastic? Just wondering. Dave

Yeah Im just off 268, I'm just outside Elkin City limits in Wilkes county.

Does anyone happen to have a flyer for this years Foothills plastic pros show? TIA! Dave

I'va also seen A slight increase in the shelf space at our local Wally and Super Wally's. I was worried when I saw a bunch AMT/RC2 in the clearance aisle, although only a dollar or two discounted, but like what I see on the shelf tags with spots waiting for Mercs and Lindbergs . I saw a bunch of Lindberg display cases put out the other day. Dave