Danno

Beautiful model!

Glad to hear that, Art! Looking forward to seeing you . . . and all your outstanding models!!

Yes, indeed that would be embarrassing!! Fender skirts on a Falcon! OMG, what Son-of-a-Buck would do THAT!?!?!!!

Guys, guys, guys. It's a test shot. It's not the finished model. Let them work it out and fix what they're going to fix. They do test shots to check the parts fit, ease of assembly, and to assure the product looks right. If it doesn't pass those 'tests' they send it back and work it over. At least give them a chance to fix it before the bonfires begin. If they don't, then crank up the vitriol while Mike Schnur and Greg Wann whip up another accurate resin body to fix it for them again.

Wow! I love it. My first clue that it was a model was the absence of humans in the pix, but I still had to check to make sure it wasn't posted in '1:1 Reference.' Great job, Alain!

Go, Tom, go! Very impressive kit and a very impressive build going on. Now that DSC and NNLE are on different weekends, you'll have to bring that one out to AZ next April for our special Trabant class!

Very nice model, Hugh. Not much you could do about the taillights without major surgery.

Nice.

Very sharp.

Sharp.

Stunningly gorgeous!!

Good job.

They both look great. But, I agree the tops of the doors seem to rise toward the rear quarter windows, which seem too highly placed. But, hey. It's a test shot. I'll wait until I see the actual kit. This is gonna be a good one!! And the '14 Stingray . . . can't wait!

Exceptional.

That's sweet!

A lot of little things, Gabe, but nothing major. Life's been in the way a lot.

Very nice!!

Robert, I love the work you're doing, and I'm eager to see your 30-31 AA product. However, I'm not sure about your representation of the rear wheels. All the AA wheels were identical and not position-specific. A front wheel/tire could be bolted up on the rear and vice-versa. Thus, the wheels should all be identical. The way your mock-up's rear wheels look, it appears you have the dual-wheel spacer on the exterior of the outside rear wheel. That extra disc (metal colored on your mock-up) would be positioned between the inner wheel and the outer wheel. The outer wheel would have a smooth concave dish appearance. Here's my 1:1 configured as a 1.5 ton (single rear wheels/tires). Yours is mocked up as a 2.5 ton (dual rear wheels/tires). Everything was identical between the 1.5t and 2.5t rated trucks, the extra rear wheels made the difference. In 1.5 ton configuration, the rear wheels present identical appearance as the front wheels, when viewed from the side of the truck. Notice the rear lugs are longer than necessary. To add two additional rear wheels/tires, the spacer was placed over the lugs and another pair of wheels/tires was slipped over the exposed lugs in reverse - and the lug nuts were then tightened to clamp the wheels, tires, and spacers together. By the way, in 1.5 ton configuration, all four wheels could be mounted either way, 'dish in' or 'dish out,' and you often saw the front wheels 'dish in' with the rear wheels 'dish out' on the same vehicle. In the view above, mine has all four installed 'dish in' and ready to accept another pair of wheels/tires 'dish out' to upgrade its rating to 2.5 ton. Carry on. I'm looking forward to seeing your products.

Just guessing, but it may have been an officer-safety issue. All our HT remote-mics were specified to clip to epaulets only because they were less strongly stitched to shirts than pockets or the button closure seam of the shirt. Earlier, as incidents of attacks against officers increased, we did away with whistle lanyards and all ties had to be the break-away design so perps didn't have an effective 'grab handle.'

G~ Remember those early HT200 beasts!?! They had to spend almost as much time in the charger as they did in the field. We initially had five of them - 2 in the chargers all the time, 2 per shift on the street, and the fifth was reserved for the patrol lieutenants (kept in a charger in their office unless they went out for whatever they went out for). The patrol sergeant for each shift would assign the two HTs to whatever deputy he figured would be in the 'hottest' district that shift. Midnight, day, and night (4-12) shifts, we had 4 deputies and a supervisor plus a desk sergeant on the job. We had a swing shift that worked 6pm to 2am, adding another 4 deputies, another supervisor, and another sergeant. Then our 'Special Enforcement Unit' aka SWAT (2 deputies and a Sgt.) patrolled our version of the Strip from 7pm to 3am. So, we had 2 HTs for 10 deputies, 2 supervisors and 3 sergeants to share. Fortunately, that only lasted a year before the administrator (budget boss) realized those new-fangled HTs were valuable for life-safety and improved response times, so we got an influx of HT220s (like the one in the middle of the pic); enough for all the SEU, sergeants, supervisors, and the 'hot' districts to carry them each shift. And, I thought I was in tall cotton when I was promoted from patrol supervisor to the Detective Bureau. My assigned full-use take-home car was a stealth car with a Porta-Com Unit and multichannel HT250!

OK, guys, I'll post it in a day or two. But I won't highjack Byron's thread, so I'll post it in "Under Glass." PS: Just don't tell Lee (Midnight Prowler). I'm not sure his heart can take it!

Nice.

Very nice!

Actually, HL provides healthcare benefits for their employees that included 16 varieties of contraception. However, they refuse to provide 4 types of "birth control" that were 'morning after' types. HL's owners objected to those 4 on the basis of their religious beliefs, because those 4 were in essence chemical abortions. The issue decided by the Supreme Court was that they were not denying all contraceptives, but that they were denying payments for chemical abortions. The Supreme Court decided they had that right and it was not unreasonable since employees have 16 options for preventing pregnancy without killing fetuses.