Brian Austin

Is Jonn Allen's sense of humorous approach still valid today? Numerous discussions elsewhere complain about the name of his railroad for starters.

I've wondered about a reference section for dioramas. There are dimensional drawings for all sorts of random buildings, furniture and details. I've posted such things in the past, but they seem impossible to find now.

There have been original movie ideas. Sometimes they're brilliant, sometimes they flop.

I think I saw the same notice on their website. Apparently I had forgotten they owned several other product lines as well as LaBelle.

Have you read that the folks that make LaBelle wood rolling stock kits are looking to retire in the relatively near future?

This builder's videos have been passing through my FB feed for some time. The work is phenomenal. I just found his YouTube profile so I could share them here. Be sure to check out the other videos. https://youtube.com/shorts/Ym87nbxdbDo?si=BWVdgojhYGqH3JwC

Stalled project crossing a Revell Impala with a Monogran Tom Daniel '60 sedan delivery customer

This is what I did for my 1959 sedan delivery. I'll need to add stamping detail on the tire well.

Lousy picture of one of the prettier colors o see regularly. It's a sort of coppery shade.

IIRC it seems to me the 1959 El Camino chassis is closer to that of a 1958 Chevy in terms of floorpan detail. A stalled project of mine combines a Revell '59 Impala with a Monogram '60 Chevy sedan-delivery custom. I replaced the Revell gas tank with a spare tire well from an AMT '55 '56 Chevy truck and fit a gas tank cut from the '59 El Camino against it.

There's the whole Maker Moverment that encompasses many disciplines.

It seems to me people have been complaining about reissues since the formation of Round2, or even earlier, so it's not just you Do Round2's newly cloned kits count as reissues? I'm eagerly awaiting the '60 Chevy wagon. I'd been looking for an old builtup for years without success, so I'm happy for this opportunity.

I watch the Disastrous History channel, and he spoke about the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, which sank decades earlier, and was named after a relative of Edmund. Until I find the YouTube posting this FB link will have to do. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17VykWf5Ks/

I'd try the Revell '64 or '65 Chevy truck for the front suspension.

Here's an musical analysis for the musically inclined.

What do you guys think of pink Cadillacs?

Its funny how people get hung up on what a particular marque should be, when their impressions are based on decades-old marketing campaigns. Ford worked on one or two four door Mustang proposals in the 1960s, along with a Kammback wagon. IIRC GM toyed with a wagon concept for the 1970s or '80s Firebird as well. The manufacturers are free to take their nameplate in whatever direction they wish.

Just about every say I see a variety of colors, along with the white and grey.

It seems minitrucks have been popular. How much can you haul with those?

I've been seeing orangy, coppery and bronzy colors for years. Also browns are back in fashion along with earth tones.

In that case in the 1970s there were ugly cars painted in ugly colors. 😄 Honestly I'm not into muscle cars and their high impact colors either.

Wrong. 😛

In the early 1990s I was a member of the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, ME. At Halloween we ran the Terror Trolley. I posted pics of one I partially decorated in 1990. I did the eyes and mouth. (The eye cutouts are affixed over marker lights that had red lenses). One year I helped with a vignette along the right of way. I wore a hooded coat and splashed a little lighter fluid on a fire as the trolley went past.

FWIW there was a petroleum pomo with Mack B and tanker trailer in 1:32 scale produced several years ago.