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John, Great build ~ as always! ~ and terrific save. That paint is awesome. But, how where did you get that miniature replica of yourself?

Looking really good, Wayne!

What makes you think Barney Fife was so great? And what gives you the authority to pass judgement on his greatness? And since when did he have anything to do with a Hudson or need any budnipping?

Another nice one, Dave! Love the business name.

Nice job, Dave. Haven't seen a Little Deuce in a long time.

BEYOND amazing.

"buzied" "habbit" "kabash" "differeing" I guess, then, Bart, little errors render the entirety of your messages unviable and unuseable?

Nice!

Nice, Dave!

Terrrrrrrific!

Really nice build, Dave!

I've already reserved 25% of my personal plastic pusher's preliminary pre-order. The rest of his customers are just gonna have to duke it out for the other kits. If it looks as good as I think, I can always bump it up to a case. CANNOT WAIT! (This is worse than being a little kid waiting for Santa Claus!)

Very nice Nova! Thanks for sharing it.

Wow! That's an ubermotor if I've ever seen one, Turbo590. Excellent job of making a plastic motor look like the real thing! Great job!

Hard to tell which agency it belongs to; there are 22 different law enforcement agencies within the DHS umbrella. Cadillac with observable emergency lights and radios, etc., could be secret service but they would ordinarily have no need for a cage. However, being near the DC area, they might. ICE, Customs and Border Patrol generally operate marked vehicles for transportation of prisoners. It sounds most like a US Marshall, but they are under the Justice Department, not DHS. Hard to say. Nightowl7710 has it right; a fugitive task force, however, would likely run unmarked vehicles and have cages; a Caddy would have been a seizure/forfeiture vehicle, or a leased vehicle for special purposes.

Nice stuff, all. Question: Does anybody offer a good resin cab body of the International/Navistar 4900 like this: Thanks!

Amen! The test shot looks a helluva lot more like an accurate miniature Hudson than ALL THE OTHER '53 Hudson kits that have been issued!! (Yes, I know there has never been another '53 Hudson kit issued before. That's exactly my point.) Kudos to you, Dave, and your team for putting together this monumental effort and executing it as well as it has been executed. I don't see any major issues with it. I've seen much, much worse. I've bought much worse. I've made changes to much worse in order to make them better than they were. That's what I call modeling. I'll buy a couple more Hudson kits now. Just to do my part to make sure it's a success whether there's a minor error or not; even regardless of whether there's a major error (but I'm not convinced of that). I just want to see the serious attempts keep coming! Market on.

Thanks, Terry, for posting that. What occurred in your community is an extraordinary demonstration of people at their best ... the firefighters, their families and friends, and the generous contributors! I retired from the fire service after 21-1/2 years as a volunteer firefighter, officer, and investigator. Later, I was fortunate to be a volunteer at the National Hall of Flame, helping care for the world's largest collection of firefighting apparatus and memorabilia, and memorials to fallen firefighters from around the world. I am proud to say that trait of unselfish contribution to community (time, money, effort, care, and sometimes life) runs deep throughout the volunteer fire service, no matter where or who their constituents are. I've seen it time and again. Many people think of the fire service as being well paid civil servants on a public payroll supported by a public funds budget. Many people don't realize that approx. 85% of the population of the USA is served and protected by volunteer fire departments such as yours, Terry. And many people also do not realize that many of those volunteer departments aren't as well funded and supported as the TV shows portray; that many of those volunteers who lay their personal lives and all-too-often their physical lives on the line for their communities do so at much their own personal expense ~~~ paying their own way through training, equipment purchases, etc. And yet they never fail to be there when it really counts. Thanks for your observations and comments, Terry. Your local volunteer fire department consists of heros, no question. But I'll bet they don't hear it often enough, but they need to hear it. Your messages about this community tragedy and their performance in all aspects of it, have been well earned and well deserved. Thank you for speaking about it. Usually, that sort of tribute is all the dedicated emergency service volunteers need. (Putting soapbox back in the rear corner of the room now. You all may stand down and resume normal activities.)

DOH = D'oh!

Good decision on the spear.

Dagnabbit! March 13. Dang! I was going to come to this one, but then you go and set it for the same weekend I'll be busy running the 2nd Spring Nationals Model Car and Pedal Car Show at Scottsdale. Sheeeesh! Oh, well. There's next year's next year.

Dittos!

Oh, boy! This is gonna be fun!

Cool! Watching ...

Nice!