Joe Handley

My boss' daughter had a few calls today where she was rather rudely asked to be connected to a male employee, one of which didn't even know the right name for the vehicle he had questions on..........

I was screwing around on the computer at work and it looks like ZVEZDA also has Mack (#2202), Red (#2025), Sarge (#2024), and the Japanese Prototype racer Shu Yodoroki (#2026) listed in the HTU point of sale system with the above numbers and are listed as "To Be Announced" on Stevens International's sales site. Hopefully they don't go the way of the AMT '50 Olds and '51 Stude kits that had been listed for years in the computer.

They seem parts intensive, but might be of more interest to pre-school and early grade school aged kids who want to build with Dad, Grampa, or their Uncle than Revell's 1/32 snappers would.

I just checked Great Planes' retailer site and it looks like they have all of these kits on order too. ZVEZDA is also going to be producing snap kits from the movie "Planes" as well.

From what I can tell of the price tag, Glen got them from Stevens International, so if your LHS has an account with them, they should be able to order them for you. I'm going to mention them to my boss, see if she might order some too.

I just so happened to find this kit at the Schaumburg HobbyTown when I stopped there on my way home from the I-Hobby show to say Hi and they happened to have the whole series in stock. After reading about this series in the Cars from Cars thread, I figured what the heck and picked up one of the Doc Hudson kits, so here it is! The Box Art Here's the whole kit The Decals Chassis, Floor, and Tires The "Body" and "Chrome" And one interesting little detail, there are in fact eyes upon you! It's interesting, Not the greatest, but looks like it should build a decent model once done and might be a good excuse to try ALCLAD's chrome paint on the "chrome" pieces and then BMF chrome trim.

LOL! Um, they don't make them like they used to Ramfins

I picked one up at the Schaumburg HTU today when I stopped in to say Hi. Looks decent detail for what it is........but the body is multi piece, literally 5 pieces, not including bumpers, grill, and the headlight/rearview mirror pieces. Edit, here's a link to my pics and thoughts on this kit http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=80135

I was just there, Great Planes as a whole wasn't there, so no RMX stuff, Round 2 had some interesting things, and Mobius didn't have much. I did think I was going to watch a Battle Bot Nerd lop off a limb from another though!

I must be tired..........thought this was called The Pendulum Painting Booth Thread..................... That said, I like those ideas!

A 383 and the 440 look similar, but aren't quite the same. The 440 is a taller engine than the 383 as well as larger dislacement. You could fool most people in 1:1 by "mis labeling" the engine, get somebody like my Dad, he could not only tell with a quick look at the engine, but then play 20 questions with the owner to see if they know what they got

Not surprised, there was something I saw few years back that they were talking about doing that as the tech improved tothe point it could be used to make things like wrenches.

DANGIT!!!!!!!!!!!! Where's the freaking like button!

Wouldn't 3D printing allow for hollow exhaust pipes without having to fabricate them from styrene or aluminum?

That is pretty good, at least it was an easily sourced part too. When that happened to my '88 Shadow ES Turbo back in 2000, it broke the grill and bent the hood.........both of which were only on the '87 & '88 model year cars. I ended up giving the car away as it was '03 when I bought my Jeep after killing the motor a couple in '02 and never geting around to swapping in a JY motor.....then having my Lebaron finally die of old age.

Does the coupe have the Vette IRS and both dropped axle ane Mustang II front ends? I can't remember.

Not sure in that instance, but there have been a number of automotive engines that were converted to power things like water pumps, generators, and emergency sirens. That one happens to have a flat head in it, there have been a number of sirens powered by early Chrysler Hemi's, and friends of my folks who are now retired from farming had an irrigation pump that was powered by a Ford 460 that was opened up to 464ci.

Seeing is this was a 4 year old threadI found, is he even still on here?

I keep forgetting to bring it up, but I was at the Microsoft Store in theWoodfield Mall in Schaumburg last friday and they were selling a 3D printer for $2199.99.

I'm not only in full agreement, I'm astounded the school and parents backed him in this! It's actually surprising that there aren't calls for this coach's head on a pike!

I kinda like the Panamera, but the Cayenne doesn't look all that good stock, and modded usually just adds the worst modern "custom" touches too the thing.

Looks great, what did you do to get it to sit so low?

What ever came of this build? I'm working on one as a mild Kustom right now and would to see how your's turned out.

I'd probably go for the current Grand if I could afford one to replace my XJ.......not that Cherokee.................

Haven't seen those issues with our Jeeps