Danno

True dat!

A lot of territory has been covered in this thread and all the observations are on-target (except those rationalizations for not detailing ~ that was not the topic. No one has suggested anyone MUST detail a model.) A couple of the most frequent but most glaring flaws have already been mentioned ~ [1] visible injector pin marks (especially on interior floors and chassis), [2] decals spanning door and panel breaks, [3] visible mold parting lines on oil pans, transmissions, radiators, small parts, [4] wildly mismatched panels, doors, hoods {see Tom's '57 Ford in the post above - sorry, Tom}, [5] grotesquely oversized spark plug wiring {especially when it looks like garden hose connecting distributors to spark plugs}, [6] absence of chrome on wipers, door handles, lock cylinders, emblems, and window trim, and [7] absence of blackwash on grilles and cowl vents, etc. Add: [8] visible, unpainted areas (such as undersides of hoods or interior buckets that show in transmission tunnels, [9] unfilled or untreated gaps in seats, and [10] sloppy gluing, smudging, fingerprinting. From my experience, those are probably the Top Ten factors (along with careful preparation, clean building, nice paint, and pre-build research) that make and demonstrate the difference between mediocre builds and good, very good, and great builds.

Nice looking . . . issues and all. It's tough, Jim, building factory stock. So many little details glare big if done wrong. Google Images is our friend!

Said the thoroughly modern man wearing his baseball cap backwards while driving the pretentious BMW with fartcan exhaust tip.

No, Bill. They're usually Facebooking or Twit-Tweeting (that's tweeting by twits).

It is just totally amazing; absolutely incredibly, impossibly, even implausibly unbelievable that the human species has survived more than six decades . . . more than 2.4 generations . . . of 'fast food' ... 'TV dinners' ... 'junk food' ... 'snack food' ... whatever derisive moniker anyone imperiously assigns to the evil-du jour commodity offered by purveyors whose industries drive our economy and employ vast hordes of humans as well as feeding - on a voluntary basis - vaster hordes of humans. However could it have happened? Just food for thought.

Nice model. You'd think BMW could have put a little more styling effort into the body cladding around the wheel wells. Looks pretty amateurish.

Very nice.

Nice.

Good slump-buster.

Incredible! pumps!

Very nice.

Good job of overcoming a bunch of daunting challenges! It looks gooooooood.

Nice.

The very definition of small town policing.

Brad entered this diomodel in our club's monthly contest (this month's theme was "Builder's Choice," where anything goes). There were 17 entries, but Brad's trailer and campsite won handily. It's a masterpiece!

Elegant!

Nice.

Gorgeous!

What's a 'Bettle?'

Nice. But what's a 'bettle?'

Beautiful

Nice!

Boy Howdy! If someone needs that service bulletin, they should never be left alone with an Xacto knife.

Stunning! Probably the only '62 Buick I've ever seen done absolutely right! Great job!