Brian Austin

Oddly enough I got this one years ago to replace a plastic dial caliper that came apart. 😞

I just noticed my caliper won't slide properly.

Do 3D printed kits warp waiting to be built like old resin kits do?

I wouldn't wear flannel in 90-100 degree temperatures. 😄

People have been complaining about the weather in my area, but we've only just broken a drought. My town lifted its water restrictions only a week or so ago. We didn't get much snow last season.

It's been raining every Saturday here in MA for the past 12 or 13 weeks. We broke a record. Yay.

Oddly enough Google wasn't helping me come up with specific examples.

IIRC there was a fad of painting one's car in corporate logos, such as McDonald's. Big ugly wheels complete the look.

One other issue is they often supplied wrong-year chassis in their kits. The '60s Olds kits carried over their '59-'60 chassis for example. Oddly enough some Olds promos had a more accurate chassis, though simplified.

As good as thier bodies can be, they left out an important detail from their '61 Olds. The fender-top crease should continue through the doors creating a neat trough effect that JoHan seems to have missed. Easily enough fixed by the modeler.

I always heard it in the context of recording a folk music album. Along with, "It'll be a million seller. There will be a million units in your cellar you will be stuck with."

Okey isn't keeping the JoHan name alive?

Example of the background vehicles used: https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/442/lot/160103/31-Four-Cars-and-One-Truck-THOMAS-FRIENDS-TV-SERIES-1984-2008?url=%2Fauctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F442%3Fpage%3D2

https://propstoreauction.com/auctions/catalog/id/442 Several pages of listings. Most auctions are over at this point. From what I could see, the prices were going sky high. Several familiar train models, along with a bunch of vehicles among other things. The vehicles seem to be around 1:32-1:24, and some were larger, depending on the episode series.

I've seen plaster styling mdels in museums such as the Henry Ford with the 2-door/4-door arrangement. Since you can't see both sides at once it .makes sense.

Well, I wasn't even aware there was progress on the Powell kit. Interesting to note. And, yes, we have a few unrelated entities bearing the JoHan name, leading to confusion. Someone should revive the Palmer trademark. 😄

Technically that's a truck camper. 🙂

There are AA diecast trucks with those wheels. Also, I recently got a bunch of old O Scale train parts that happened to randomly include a pair of black plastic truck wheels of that type that are awfully close to 1:25 or 1:24. I have no idea where they may have come from. They look and feel old.

Are these still in production? Is a four-door available?

I started this a few years ago, and I just got back to it. Recent reissue of the Edsel, with the canopy, surround and the interior from Revell's Lincoln Futura. This was initially supposed to be an alternative Batmobile, but I found the canopy from the Futura kit fit the Edsel body better than the one from the excellent Polar Lights '66 Batmobile. The balance of the body and chassis will be stock

I've known the term to be beavertail.

Watermark your pictures. FB is like any public space. Most of my Groups are drama free. On the other hand my former model club meetings were a lot like the negative aspects of FB at times. I'm not a sure FB is any worse than dealing with people in real life.

I thought being unique and not following the herd were good things.

Bring it up and restore it to running condition. 😄