bobss396

Look at some of the Impala sets offered by Model Car Garage. The 1965 set might have what you want. Bob

You should go down to the Post Office with the tracking number and have them look it up, maybe your seller gave you the wrong one? Like I posted above, I've sent model cars many times, heavy machine shop items across the country without a single mishap using the US postal system. Bob

I have had about 550 eBay deals back and forth as well as many private deals in the mail over the past 10 years and the US post office has never lost anything on me. I've used delivery confirmation on almost all of them and do offer insurance to all of my buyers. If it gets lost, its on them. Bigger deals that are of a considerable value, I build that into the price and let the buyer know up front. I hope you come up with the package, looks like awesome kits. Bob

1. What is considered to be Contest Build? Anything I build I strive for it to be contest quality. 2. How does one Achieve a Contest Build? I started by looking at other cars at contests and got a sense of what it takes. I joined a club in 1999 and got to see how the masters put theirs together, what they added, how they painted, etc. 3. How are Builds Judged? Every sponsoring club has their own method of judging. The car with the most detail doesn't always win either. As a judge, I look for nice paint and a squeaky clean build first off. From there cars are judged against other cars in that particular class. Complexity of build and the effort that went into the build are important. It comes down to the best of the best and at times the best of the worst! I've had to judge some novice classes over the years where ALL the cars in the class had glue on the windows, teetered on 3 wheels and were missing driveshafts and other parts. 4. Is there a Professional Standard That is needed for Contests? Some clubs use a point system and IPMS clubs have a set system that they use. I doubt there would ever be a standard that all would agree with. 5. How much does one usually spend in order to build a model up to Contest Specifications? Again, there really are no contest specifications. I've won at shows where I've had $30 into a build, others I've had over $100 into a car and it didn't even place. My usual range is around $50-60 for anything I build. Bob

Andy was on a mission, think he got them all? Note that they are in category order, lol. Great job Andy! Bob

Thanks Charlie, I appreciate it. I had wanted to get up to that show for a long time and finally made it. Bob

Thanks for taking some pictures, I didn't bring a camera! A few of us Long Island LIARS made it and did pretty well. It was a nice relaxed show that ran very smoothly. Looking forward to going back in 2011. Bob

I'm holding out for a $120K a year no-show position with my own parking space.

They built a new Advance store by me, had a sign up outside, a grand opening date, the works. This was about 4 months ago, today the store is vacant, no signs of any kind. Wonder what happened. Bob

I like it, came out great. I still build an AMT Merc once in a while, like a blank canvas for whatever you want to do. Bob

I agree, too time consuming and expensive to do any production work, but agree it would be good for master creation. We got a bigger commercial one at work last week, just about any 3D cad model can be saved in a format to make a part. I had heard of a smaller one for like $5k that was as big as a old fashioned toaster, obviously not out on the market as of yet. Bob

I thought the NNL East had a '32 Ford class a few years back. I'm still not sure what an "internet theme" is. But they're still popular to build, I have a Revell 5-window kit in the works myself. It's actually a pretty good kit with the Hemi engine, '40 Ford wheels, dash, steering wheel, etc. Norm has a bunch of resin goodies for it as well and more to come. If I finish mine in time for the show, I'll bring it. Bob

I have a JPEG format car picture that I'd like to turn into a line drawing. Is there a way to do it by a program? Or am I out of luck? Thanks, Bob

Almost anything will fit with some modification. The last 2 I did, I used the Y-Block Ford from the AMT '60 Ford and another using a NASCAR 351 from a donor stock car kit. I have one on the bench now, it has a Dodge 383 in it. The one in the attached pictures is the 351 in an AMT kit. Bob

The final tally here was 26.3" of snow. A single storm record, so the papers say. I still had some clean up to do on Monday when I got home from work, but it was close to 39 degrees. I celebrated by cooking chicken on the gas grill last night. Someone clocked a car on my block that was parked on the street, glass and plastic all over the road. Be nice to wake up to that this morning. There's still a few cars in the ditch off the main roads, be a pretty penny to winch one of them out, it's down there. Bob

We just got done digging out of 24" on Long Island. It can snow here anywhere from mid November to April. Snowfall can be anywhere from 2" to 200" per season. Some years we get lucky, some years, not so lucky. 2009 is going out with a bang. The drifts were as high as 5' tall. I had lots of things planned for yeaterday, but snow removal prevailed. Bob

I use the metric conversion as well. For 1/25th scale, 1 inch = 1mm which is close enough to .040". So if 1" = .040, 2" = .080 and so on. I find this to be the easiest way to go and use it all the time. Bob

Pretty aggressive section and chop, looks great though. Lots of sanding and tweaking to do, but it'll be worth it in the end. Bob

Thanks. The scoop has chrome insert for it to. Ihave a couple of Black Gold greens (one is a pearl) in mind or possibly something from Duplicolor. Bob

I finished 1, started about 6 others to add to the semi-done pile. I only bought about 8, so far. If I can get going on a roll, I could finish about 5 with little a effort. Bob

Quite possible that its a play on words? Maybe Joe Riga owns the car. Bob

It will be back more in the grille shell once it gets installed. It was a nicely cast piece that needed almost no clean up. Bob

No skirts on this one, figured I'd try something different. Bob

Thanks. The chassis was shortened a scale 8" between the engine and firewall. The oil cooler was cut off sn old NASCAR kit radiator. To those less "enlightened", it is in fact a NASCAR modified. Bob

This is from the previous clean up. Basic set up is the same, the stove is gone and has a refrigerator in its place. Bob