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Better is all relative to model kits. Tamiya kits are generally engineered much better, but there isn't a Tamiya kit that exists in the same scale with anywhere close to the part counts of some of the EMS kits. The Johan kits has nowhere near the fit and finish or the fine detail as the EMS kits. As much as I love the Johan MB 500s, I got a whole stack of the Special Roadster and a hand full of Limos, there is a lot to be desired. There are many fall downs, inaccuracies, and pit falls with those kits. I still like trying to build them though.

Porsche passion, 911 Owner and one of the best ad campain ever. There was a TV spot too.

I got all kinds of half started abortions laying around. I am afraid to even count them up but I am sure it's double what's been finished. I actually haven't worked on anything in a year. I have gone months without even opening the door to the hobby room. I have been busy with 1:1 cars, my Porsche, RC helicopters, building a resin casting station, just got a new Photo Etching set up, giving that a try again, was building stick & tissue planes for a while. Plus a jillion other things going on. I always say I am not going to start something new until I finish at least on started kit up and well that hasn't gone well... at all. I either don't get anything done or end up starting something new anyway.

I think its going to be 10 11 maybe 12 laps for audi +2 for Toyota. Of course that's what the manufactures are hoping for with a Hybrid on top when it's all said and done. Audi also admitedly has pit box space issues with four cars. They all don't fit and are a little cramped up Rain could change that. They say the E-tron is not as good in the rain as the Ultra, and from Q3 it looked like the Audis struggled a little in cooler damper conditions (while it was not raining it was cool with high humidity with a high due point so the track surface was cool and damp). In other news. Audi is loosing some of it's drivers to the Porsche LMP1 program and there is a new mid engine 911 GT car in the works which is going to be Porsche's new top of the line super car above the 911. Honda also expressed serious interest in coming to Le Mans with an LMP1 car. 2014 is shaping up to be a banger year with maybe as many as 5 manufacturers in LMP1.

+1 maybe for you. There is a good chance of rain which tosses everything out the window. The Toyos have a 2+ lap fuel advantage. Peugeot only had 1 lap and they didn't always take it.... it was a 13 second margine at the end of 24. And the other classes are very competitive. The Toyotas have had historically bad reliablity, but Audi also expressed concerns about their own reliablity. These are basically new cars for this year, not last years cars at all. And it's the first time since the TDI have shown up that a Gasoline powered car has even come close to Audis pace. It could be an Audi blowout but I wouldn't bet money on that.

1 1 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 e-tron quattro LMP1 3:25.453 28 3:24.997 4 3:23.787 3 3:23.787 2 3 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 Ultra LMP1 3:26.694 23 3:24.078 23 3:27.578 29 3:24.078 +0.291 3 8 Toyota Racing Toyota TS 030 - Hybrid LMP1 3:28.295 21 3:26.151 19 3:24.842 28 3:24.842 +1.055 4 2 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 e-tron quattro LMP1 3:26.536 3 3:26.038 11 3:25.433 6 3:25.433 +1.646 5 7 Toyota Racing Toyota TS 030 - Hybrid LMP1 3:27.191 8 3:26.502 17 3:25.488 25 3:25.488 +1.701 6 4 Audi Sport North America Audi R18 Ultra LMP1 3:27.554 28 3:26.420 17 3:26.600 2 3:26.420 +2.633 7 21 Strakka Racing HPD ARX 03a - Honda LMP1 3:32.750 4 3:29.622 23 3:37.253 15 3:29.622 +5.835 8 12 Rebellion Racing Lola B12/60 Coupe - Toyota LMP1 3:33.211 9 3:29.837 28 3:34.476 6 3:29.837 +6.050 9 13 Rebellion Racing Lola B12/60 Coupe - Toyota LMP1 3:33.140 3 3:31.866 21 3:41.533 23 3:31.866 +8.079 10 17 Pescarolo Team Dome - Judd LMP1 3:34.716 9 3:34.925 12 3:33.066 3 3:33.066 +9.279 11 22 JRM HPD ARX 03a - Honda LMP1 3:37.088 5 3:35.421 13 3:35.421 +11.634 12 15 Oak Racing Oak Pescarolo - Judd LMP1 3:38.414 25 3:37.367 7 3:35.584 16 3:35.584 +11.797 13 16 Pescarolo Team Pescarolo 03 - Judd LMP1 3:37.485 17 3:48.716 16 3:37.485 +13.698 14 25 ADR-Delta Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:41.791 4 3:40.174 11 3:38.181 4 3:38.181 +14.394 15 24 Oak Racing Morgan - Judd LMP2 3:40.902 17 3:38.598 22 3:40.310 15 3:38.598 +14.811 16 26 Signatech Nissan Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:42.157 10 3:39.152 22 3:44.622 9 3:39.152 +15.365 17 46 Thiriet By TDS Racing Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:39.252 9 3:41.975 6 3:41.990 8 3:39.252 +15.465 18 49 Pecom Racing Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:41.916 12 3:39.711 16 3:40.292 5 3:39.711 +15.924 19 48 Murphy Prototypes Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:39.877 5 3:40.652 24 3:42.057 4 3:39.877 +16.090 20 35 Oak Racing Morgan - Nissan LMP2 3:41.721 18 3:39.899 20 3:41.707 11 3:39.899 +16.112 21 30 Status Grand Prix Lola - Judd LMP2 3:41.451 6 3:42.518 8 3:40.280 6 3:40.280 +16.493 22 44 Starworks Motorsport HPD ARX 03b - Honda LMP2 3:40.639 3 3:41.863 21 3:40.471 3 3:40.471 +16.684 23 45 Boutsen Ginion Racing Oreca 03 - Nissan LMP2 3:40.727 5 3:43.763 8 3:42.949 12 3:40.727

Right on!

Provisional Front 3 rows Audi Hybrid Audi Ultra Toyota Hybrid Audi Hybrid Toyota Hybrid Audi Ultra

Missed it ... its still going on. Audi Toy Audi Audi Toy Audi possible rain tomorrow night Q3. So this could be relevent.

Oh yeah. I like the Fujimi Enthusist kits. I think the Dino GT is something like 287 parts. I have quite a few of these in my stash.

Q1 is on the way

Yeah, kind of sucks no Peugeot Audi mega battle, but Toyota has been running respectable times. #8 Toyota however caught fire in Free Practice. Q1 is tonight in France, later this afternoon today. Now, Audi has expressed some concerns about reliablity of there R18s and are running new technology on 2 of their 4 cars so there is a bit of a unknown in the Audi camp. Also there is a chance of rain both Sat and Sun, which may change everything. In dry running the E-Quattro is very strong but they say it may have trouble in the rain vs. the Ultras and Toyotas. Hard to say what is going to happen. If we knew we wouldn't have to run the race at all. LMP2 and the GT classes are very very close and might prove to have the closest racing.

My dad had a brand new in X/19 off the showroom with FACTORY RUST!

x3, she has threatened but hasn't even actually gone through with it. If she ever did, I'd be all done. Otherwise, no bench rage here. I just walk away and do something else.

Revell Jaguar E type

That is always the risk sending the tools over seas. AM had some of there tooling held hostage for some time, turns out they just leased the tool and never really owned any of it.

That is the entire film. On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a a professional Formula 1 racer drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris, France. The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets. Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested.

Yeah, but that was about 500 years ago.... Had a 65 LP Sunburst mostly all jacked up, had the wrong nut... made the action too high and ###### buzzing humbukers - they were good, just not installed correctly. Never really liked the muddiness of a LP, but there was never anything else I got along with either. I broke a finger in 1988 and that was pretty much the end of that.

yeah, they are kind of morons over at HL. When you are in Denver, Colpar Hobbies, is one of the best hobby stores in the country.

I don't think open wheel has anything to do with it. There has not been a death in Formula 1 since Ratzenberger and Aryton Senna during the 1994 San Marino GP weekend, and before that you'd have go all the way back to 1986 when Elio de Angelis was killed during a test session. Indy car, you only have to go back to 2006. It is still sad to hear when ever a driver loses his life.

Yeah, they said that they didn't prove anything only suggested that it's possible and that it would take years to prove one way or another. IIRC there is an annotation on E=MC2 that could potentially make it invalid, but that would require some special set of circumstances not yet known to us.

I am sure his wife wasn't happy that he used a large amount of the house's HAVAC and plumbing to build it. LOL I like all the people standing around looking at it... clearly they don't know just what to make of it.

Kind of hard to beat this, tunable upto 1650 HP in an 1800lb car 0-60 1.9 0-100 3.7 0-200 10.9 top speed 250 + mph, closed circut world record holder for more than a decade at 227 mph ave, 917K still holds fastest lap at Le Mans 137 mph ave.