Danno

Tom Daniels did not design the Lil' Coffin. Darryl Starbird and his shop foreman Dave Stuckey did. ?

Vacuums really suck

That's spectacular, Bill! It'll look really good with a cactus license plate on it! ?

The town I grew up in had a Buick dealer but they did not distribute promos. Would have been gold! Thanks for updating my data bank; I didn't know. Unfortunately, they were probably all acetate and any survivors probably look like pretzels now. ?

dogs take offense

Back to Elvira?

That wouldn't be bad, but AMT didn't do any '57 Buicks, so that would be a totally new tool. The original AMT 3n1 annual kits began in '58 and the Buick Roadmaster hardtop was one of the first releases, and one of the very first model cars I ever built! They were beautiful! They took the lion's share of a bottle of Testors chrome silver paint to do all the "chrome" on those beasts. I'd love the challenge of Bare Metal Foiling one now!! Alas, wishful dreaming. I'm sure the molds were long, long ago destroyed. ?

Oh, be still my heart! Can a '58 Buick Roadmaster be far behind?!!? ?

Yes, nice conversion, Tom. But, that's one angry looking dog! Are you sure them good old boys in Branch County are feeding him enough? ?

“Weather” or not!

Me, too, Charlie. But, I’m not so elegant as you. I bring them home and wash out the residual and the pocket lint. Never thought of buying them! ☺️

That’s funny, Tom! When I first started in law enforcement, I was in the vice-narcotics unit. I was young, long-haired, and wore “hippy” style clothing. Think Serpico. I got a kick out of cranky, tightly wound old geezers who would scowl at me in public places and mutter angry epithets at me. Occasionally someone would say something like ‘never a cop around when you need one.’ I was always tempted to say, ‘here I am, what do you need?’ But, of course I couldn’t break cover just to educate someone about judging books by their covers. Every once in a while, though, some yahoo would commit a felony in front of me and it was necessary to intervene. It was always amusing to see the reactions of both victims and criminals when they realized the “Mod Squad” was on the scene! ?

There's a person I know very, very well.* He was a fire investigator who traveled all over the Rocky Mountains region. That person once traveled into the remote mountains of Wyoming to investigate a suspected arson (house) in the middle of the winter, a few feet of snow on the ground and the only access was by 10 miles of snowmobile ride. The "suspect" provided snowmobiles to travel to the scene from the road closure blockade. Needless to say, the fire investigator and his partner traveled "heavy." After the day's work at the scene, the "suspect" and the investigators snowmobiled back to their 4x4 SUVs and went their separate ways. (Yes, it was an arson.) While returning to civilization, the investigator was dispatched to immediately go to the Denver airport to catch a commercial flight to South Dakota. Time was tight but the investigator managed to race to and through the airport, board the plane and arrive in Rapid City. At his hotel that night, the investigator unpacked his camera bag to charge up batteries. That's when he discovered his "heavy" backup was in the bottom of the bag beneath his camera, where it had been during the snowmobile excursion. Having somehow passed through TSA security without detection, the investigator was faced with a dilemma: To return to Colorado, did he declare the 9mm fire investigation equipment and explain how it accompanied him to South Dakota, and risk federal charges, or, did he replace it in the camera bag and hope for the same fluke to repeat itself and pray for the best, or what? The next day presented a unique solution: the South Dakota fire was also an arson and required collection of debris samples for lab testing. The investigator went to a paint store, bought a carton of clean new paint cans in a fresh carton; placed evidence samples in five of the cans and his fire investigation protective equipment (and ammo) in the sixth can. All the cans were marked as evidence and sealed with evidence tape. At the Rapid City airport, a TSA officer challenged the carton even though they cleared the XRay, but investigator explained that the cans could not be opened for inspection because that would destroy the evidence seals and then the officer would have to go to court to explain to the judge why he insisted on contaminating the evidence. He decided to let investigator pass. After uneventfully completing the rest of that trip, the investigator breathed a sigh of relief at home, but was much more - extremely - careful about inventorying his camera bag before flying after that! * Even though the statutes of limitation expired decades ago, I decline to identify myself as the fire investigator. Live with it! ? ?

Probably whirled peas.

Peace on it.

Bastards shot Kenny!

Excellent. Good plan; I may have to borrow that for my next Trumpeter build. May. I mean, will. ?

Who shot JR? ?

True, but I think you can use other material besides their own brand. ?

Great story. Great dad. ?

Thanks, Joe. Looks like it might have value on a modeler's bench. I'm thinking windshields, windows, scoops, fender skirts, bumpers, hoods, bubble tops!, . . . ?

Shazzam. Shazzam! Ka-Bam!

New at Michaels. It's called a We R Memory Keepers® Mold Press™ Vacuform Machine, Item # 10648512. In store or online, $79.99 with free shipping. They also have a good-sized line of plastic sheets, etc. for it. ?

Has anyone tried one of these vacuum-forming machines yet? If so, how is it? New at Michaels. ?

Yeah, buddy! That's really something to look forward to! ? I'm Danno and I approved this message by writing it! Personally, I think it's a quality post.