Danno

Nice job.

Nice.

What they all said!! SPECTACULAR work!

"Locks?" Was that Freudian?

No. Our senses have been dulled.

Well, I was probably there a lot earlier ... my air name was Danny Merit and at the time we were located at 3357 W. Central in a converted two story house on the south side of the street; we had several acres of land with four radio towers in the back yard. At that time, we simulcast on 900 am and 103.7 fm ("The Big 10-4") and KEYN's logo tag was PACESETTER RADIO. Those were the days we did remote broadcasts from a small travel trailer that was converted to a mobile studio, and we had a newish Dodge Charger "mobile unit" that we'd run around in ... park somewhere and call in to the on-air show ... and give away a six-pack of Walter's Beer to the first couple of people who drove up after hearing the call-in. Yep, those were the days! One thing that was 'cute' about the Charger: We had it lettered "Mobile Unit #2" on one side and "Mobile Unit #3" on the other side. You'd be suprised how many people thought we had a whole fleet of Chargers!! :lol: I was proud of my ratings! I came in number 1 in my time slot ... kicked KLEO's patooty. 'Course I have to admit I didn't talk much about the fact that I was overnight and KLEO was off the air once a week while I was on-air! I really pulled in the numbers when they were silent!!! :lol: Don't know why I still remember the address; I have a hard enough time remembering to do my chores! PS: "BB Hills?" 29th Street? Weren't KWBB's studios on 29th Street 'way back? Did KEYN buy KWBB? Make any sense to you?

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Kewl.

I am ...

Building a metal model of a plastic car is just plain wrong! No matter what magazine covers it.

Not 'unless.' If renting to own, still not a homeowner yet. Still a renter. May be or will be a homeowner some day, but the place still belongs to someone else in the meantime. But his analogy would have been better if stated, "Because I own a house does not make me a homebuilder."

Precisely! Total agreement. We're really very much in agreement here. But, I'll interject my own, final, extra two-cents: I don't mind an occasional MCM article about an exceptional die cast, either, but I don't want to see coverage of run-of-the-mill WalTarMart stuff ... and I don't want to see the frequency of 'exceptional die cast' articles get out of proportion, either. There are other mags that cater to that genre. Buy it and shelve it, you might as well be buying hummel figurines or tourist bells, you're not a modeler. Build it or rebuild it and it really doesn't matter what media you started with, you're a modeler (as long as it looks like what it's supposed to represent). 'Nuff said.

Yeah. And here's something for the hoity-toity model building snobs to think about: Those highly detailed, finely crafted outstandingly constructed exquisite-looking diecast mint models were assembled/detailed/built by young, 3rd-world slave laborers behind the erstwhile iron curtain! Consider that next time you're sweating some BMF.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't rest on your laurels. Where the heck is Issue #159? It hasn't arrived yet and I'm done reading #158. What's the delay? Making me wait - No way to run a magazine!

Rusty and dusty. Nice!

Phoenix. It's a little dryer and warmer here, but at least I don't have to shovel snow or chip ice. Still haven't found a burger as good as Jack's North Hi Carryout, though.

The first clue is the title ... it is not called "Plastic Model Cars Magazine" . Just sayin' ...

Terry, as brothers of the badge, I've always loved and respected you. And I will still. I just have a little disagreement with you here. I got a lot out of the tractor article. Yes, it was die cast. But so are all of my Crown Vic police car models of the past decade & a half. The last plastic CV was a 1996. I'm not gonna deprive myself of 15 years of cop cars because they're pot metal instead of styrene or resin. Secondly, while the tractor model was a prefinished, preassembled factory model, the author tore it down and made it a kit. Then he stripped off the prefinish and refinished it. That's a model. Period. Once it's broken down to parts, it's a kit! I've done the same with die casts ~ Crown Vics (late model), Impalas (late model & before the plastic came out), and ambulances and fire engines galore. They just don't make enough plastic to satisfy my Cop-Fire-Jones! So, I guess I'm a little more prone to go for the die cast canvas than you. But, I'll take whatever media I gotta take in order to make me coppers and firedawgs. So, yeah. I got a lot out of that article, because I can apply his techniques to plastic as well as to any other media. And, I still love ya, brother!!

Oft I miss the simpler times of life in Hoisington and the exciting times of life in Wichita ... but alas, everything changes. Had life not taken me away, I probably would know all you guys today! My adult Wichita days were spent as a DJ at KEYN and hanging at the Library and the Office. I went to WSU but always dreamed of being an alumni of Friends University of Central Kansas. Well, at least the Tshirts and sweatshirts were cooooool beyond belief!

Great job!! Looks very good.

Gotta love those old Chrsylers!!

Nicely done!

Thank you, Mike! Kit = unassembled parts. Once assembled = model, no longer kit.

Continues to be amazing! Great work!!

Looking great, Lyle!