Lyle Willits

Reps & Mins catalog is right here, thanks to Bob Black: http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc...casminiatureof/

Video works for me.

Pictures and video. http://www.moyermade.com/chevyV8.html

I'm well aware that Harley did not call it a cowglide. It was knick-named a cowglide throughout the country and among Harley riders. My brother in law had one.

Imai and Imex are the same kits. I forget now which name changed into which name. They seem to be hard to find now, but then, I don't get involved with Ebay. They are excellently detailed, accurate kits. This is an Imex Heritage Softail converted to a '93 "Cowglide". I added a few details,,,,,,,,yeah, I added some details to her too.

Very cool. The woodgraining turned out great. I saw this truck at the meeting and din't know who built it.

Just start with a '66 wagon and rescribe the door lines and move the post. I converted this one to a '67, but it's the Revell '66 kit.

The "G" rated poster.

Absolutely amazing work ! He is in a class of his own.

The National (Toledo) NNL is early October. I don't have any idea how that may effect your show in the PNW. It may not be a problem at all if you draw an entirely different croud. I am wondering how successful our Mid-Atlantic NNL will be this year due to the fact that NNL EAST has moved it's date to only 3 weeks before our show. With the economy, will people and VENDORS turn around 3 weeks later and go to another show? I guess we'll find out. Fletch,,,good luck on your show.

Hope to see you at a meeting,,,,like, this coming Saturday, in fact. (Feb 21.) We have modellers of all experience levels, from brand new beginners to old, decrepit national award winners. No egos rise to the surface. We just all hang out and look at each other's models and buy stuff from the vendors who are always there. We have a SHORT business portion of the meeting, which is usually me, trying to remember what I was supposed to talk about. You become a member by walking through the door of the meeting room!

You ARE kidding, right? M.A.M.A. is the largest model car club in the world (as far as we know). We generally have 65-75 members show up each month at our meetings. Meetings are always the third Saturday of each month. No dues, no in-club contests, no politics. Just bring your models and have a great time. All the info is on the web site. Look forward to meeting you. http://www.mamasboyz.org/

I told the guy my name was Marcos Cruz but he started asking me all these "lawn care" questions, so I was busted.

It's scheduled for later in the year. It's the reissued 24th scale '36 Ford that Monogram has had since 1962 (give or take a year) with some new parts, such as the LaSalle grille. I'll be really surprised if they do new fender units with the sunken headlights like in the photo, but anything is possible.

Hundreds,,,,,maybe thousands ,,,,,of MAMASboyz will be there. (As president, I am not bound by the truth.)

You're going to be waiting a long time. Apparently there is NO host hotel. Just book a room somewhere nearby. Click the link - it's a list of local hotels: http://www.nnleast.com/hotels.html

Let me throw in another 2 cents. The definition of a roadster that I have heard all of my life is a two-seater car with a separate and/or detachable windshield. Notice the Thom Taylor car fits that description. Although it has a '40 Ford grille, it certainly doesn't look like very much else of a '40 went into that car. It's a modern, one-off, high tech car but it IS a roadster. Most auto manufacturers ended roadster production by 1937 and , I'm just guessing, that's where the cut-off date comes from. Note that a cabriolet, such as the Revell '37 Ford, is NOT a roadster due to the integral cowl and windshield and back seat. Various cars, both foreign and domestic, since the 1940's have been called "roadsters" by their manufacturers, but in fact, they were not roadsters at all,,,,they simply had a soft or removable top. Anyway,,,,,,,for any kind of contest, some rules and boundaries have to be set, so I'll go along with whatever the rules are.

lots more pics: http://public.fotki.com/mamaprez/car-shows...tlantic-motorc/

A bunch more pics here: http://public.fotki.com/mamaprez/model-clu...meeting-272009/

You guys look like you have your meeting in an executive board room! Neat photos. Thanks.

Beautiful! You could accidently leave this one at the Mid-Atlantic NNL and I'll carefully take it home and put it in my showcase.

Wow. Irv is building a really cool model and it doesn't have an electric motor and those wheelie bars out the back! Looks like the old IRV is back!

Congrats on getting a cover car on the magazine. Beautiful build and nice article. (Sorry if this is a little late,,,,I just got the magazine today.)

What's an air compressor?

I'll let others argue over scales that are or are not allowed, but I want to point out what I believe was a very major flaw in last year's contest. The contest seemed like a wonderful idea. I believed it was going to be world-wide (at least to some reasonable degree) via the internet. I took the idea seriously and started to build a very detailed roadster model which I continued to work on for 11 months. I didn't expect to win a contest such as this, but hoped I could build something good enough to make the top 10, as discribed in the rules. Here's the flaw - the contest was announced on several forums in January of 2008 and, to my knowledge, NEVER BROUGHT UP AGAIN. No one remembered or knew of the contest by the time the November 2008 deadline arrived. It simply was not promoted for the rest of the year - not even on Automodelling.com, the HOST FORUM. A total of 8 models were entered in the "contest" and that was only because I posted a reminder ON THIS BOARD one week before the deadline. Please understand this is not "sour grapes" from me. Peter Lombardo won the 2008 award with an outstanding model and the win was well deserved. But I think even Peter would admit that it would have been more satisfying if there had been a very good turnout which would then have been narrowed down to the top 10. I applaud Jim (The flame) for the outstanding idea and for providing the trophy. I really enjoy visiting his forum, posting some of my stuff there and seeing many of the models that are not seen on other forums. My point is, this can be a super internet contest BUT IT MUST BE PROMOTED ALL YEAR. Most of us are well into adulthood (that's P.C. for "damned old) and can't remember what we read on a message board a week ago.