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That's clever, Adam!

Erik, Rumor has it there's another board, operated by another model car magazine (as if), and they limit posts to 3 images each post. They (rumor has it) delete any additional images. So, hats off to Gregg and the real Model Cars Magazine Forum! Ten images per post and counting! Truly modeler-friendly here at Numero Uno forum!

It's just superlative! Glad it's getting close but happier still that it is not here yet; I've got to cash in my 401-K so I can buy a bunch! Did I mention, thank you Moebius, Dave, Frank, Art and everyone involved in this project? Thank you!

Send the kit to me, Art! ASAP! I have batteries.

That looks great, bigern26! Good job. But I think there's a penalty for getting done so soon!! LOL.

Correct; can also be caused by traumatic injury to shoulder. I had one 18 years ago while fighting a housefire; two+ story chimney collapsed on me ... direct hit to left shoulder. Following the surgery, I did everything the doc and physical therapists asked. No major problem since, so pay attention, Walt! Glad it went well.

OMG! What a beauty! In a world of base-hits, this is a Grand Slam Home Run!! I just can't wait. I just can't wait. Holy mackerel, I just can't wait! Thank you Dave Metzner and Moebius! Thank you!

Expressing oneself intelligently and appropriately always matters; it engenders efficacy and shows respect for self and others. That's the biggest difference in your generation and all those before yours: the lowest common denominator/facebooking/video gaming/texting/blogging era has bred people either too lazy or otherwise to act and communicate intelligibly. Food for thought. But, it's obviously lost on you, so go forth as you choose. BTW - it takes me no longer to communicate appropriately than it takes you to type in your generational ebonics-text style. However, it takes most readers a heck of a lot longer to interpret your "typing" than mine. More food for thought. No further discussion, spirited or otherwise. We agree to disagree.

Amen! At least "the old farts" are intelligent, articulate, and literate (including but not limited to proper use of capital letters, punctuation, syntax, etc.).

(Too funny!)

Patience, Grasshopper. They shall come to those of us who wait. I pity the LHS when these guys arrive ... let's see, more demand than inventory; how to apportion the stock out to whom ... Will their be lines of modelers camping out on the sidewalk overnight before the doors are thrown open? Hmmmmm ...

Wow! Dave, thanks again SO MUCH for the Lonestar, the Hudson, and the Chrysler. Awesome projects! Can't wait to spend some serious cash on them when they arrive; can't wait to get started on them when they're mine! I hope these turn out to be HUGE for you guys!

But that's precisely what you did. Note to self: Apparently they've been teaching wikipedia and myspace and wikileaks and stuff like that instead of spelling, grammar, and syntax since those born in the 80's reached schoolage. Need to buy personal copy of "Newage to English Translation Dictionary for Old Farts."

Hear, hear! Well put ~~~ and factually put, I might add ~~~ Ken. Good job.

Alright! I win, too! My tank really is a custom! Johnny said so! Bad0210 agreed! I win! I feel so much better now that we all agree there are no standards or definitions, just personal opinions.

Hokay. The children have convinced this old fart that conventional, traditional, accepted, definitions no longer have any place in our 'do whatever you wanna do, call it whatever you wanna call it' society. I'm converted. "Custom" means whatever. Any other term means whatever you want it to mean and the rest of the world will just have to figure out how it fits into their existences; if they can't, it's their problem not yours. One and one is two, unless you want it to be something else. So, in the spirit of embracing my new-found counter-culture wisdom, I present for your enjoyment one of my customized custom models. Hey! Who are YOU to say it's not a Kustom or a custom or customized? I say. I mean, it is not the way it came; it has wheelybars and custom graphics. Custom. PS: Explanation/primer for the young and inexperienced ~ the above post is purely tongue-in-cheek and not intended to rile you up any further. Take it as humor, parody, good-natured sarcasm and move on. We needs to get back to havin' fun ... or phun, whatever!

... a bloated Dauphine with a goofy little drug-induced smirk. Strawberry fields, forever! Panhard indeed! I didn't even see its bar.

I really haven't wanted to buy one of these or build one, but the way you guys keep raving about the quality of the kit, I'm beginning to feel compelled to get one ... just so I don't miss out on one of the best building experiences in years!! Beautiful build-up, by the way.

Amen! Generally speaking, actual body modifications are required to constitute a custom. While you might change a vehicle by adding or subtracting components, permanent modifications of a non-bolt-on nature are required; wheels and tires or exhaust tips or pinstripes or stick-on portholes, etc., don't qualify. Performance modifications ~~~ real or imagined ~~~ also do not qualify. It may be unique in appearance, but it's not a custom. I'm with Mark and Mike; it takes significant modifications to be a custom. Bolting-on or gluing-on J.C. Whitney-ish or other aftermarket parts is merely "accessorizing" ... not customizing. To say that any change of a factory stock vehicle qualifies it to be considered a "custom" or "customized vehicle" would also require that any wrecked vehicle be considered "customized" because the driver changed it (while parking it against another vehicle, a bridge abutment, or some other object, inanimate or not). Also, while one certainly has the right to create any personal definition one desires and to operate under that definition, it is not incumbent upon everyone else to agree and/or embrace one's personal definition. So, if you want to call it customizing to fill the fuel tank with gas the car did not come with, so be it. Your tomahtoe is not everyone else's tomato! Interestingly, this is not at all unlike the infamous "I scratchbuilt it because I changed it ut off the roof and I glued a piece of flat plastic to it" myth.

I think Scary Jerry is married to Goosey Lucy.

Nice.

Exceptional! Purely exceptional.

Awwwww, Jeeez, John! There you go again. Another killer build! WoW! Beautiful! I'm struggling along with my first TF build ... but I keep your pix nearby for reference. Your dragsters are better looking than the real ones! Keep 'em coming!

I have not experienced that issue (knock on wood), but I use Tamiya sprays extensively ... my preferred rattle can, although I am finding that the new Testors One Coat Lacquers are nearly identical in performance. The biggest PROBLEM that I've experienced with Tamiya sprays is ... the price. Dang, that stuff is getting pricey!!

Looosely based on the '38 Ford Coupe. Loooooooosely.