Big John

Together we are one.

"Disintegrate Them" cried the Major Domo of the Alien fleet as we made our desperate escape from planet Ziotcvh!

Thanks for the photo of the 1:1 wood body frame Francois. Being a woodworking guy at heart I can really appreciate the craftsmanship that went into the hidden coachwork that lay beneath the skins of the the early vintage cars.

Anything by Fisher Model & Pattern! Unfortunately Paul lost everything in the devastating fires that raged through California a couple of years ago. I never got around to buying one of his kits and and greatly regret my inaction. I would suggest that if anyone has an unbuilt kit that they contact Paul at Fisher website and offer the loan their kit as tooling to replace his lost molds.

Will it squirt oil out the back?

Frequently I will opt for an old Noir movie rather than one of the new Wam Bam Pow CGI epics.

Headline(s) under the Toupee.

I get the one off custom hand built, even from a rare kit. No these are the same models that I can get near mint in the box with papers for under $100. or less. I do buy some discontinued diecast and kits for high but reasonable prices (to my mind) partly as an investment and partly because I appreciate the cars design and history.

Know your limitations Harry Callahan said, as he sighted down the barrel of his 44 Magnum, the most powerful hand gun in the world!

I see this all the time on certain buy/auction sites where people take high quality photos of models like Franklin Mint and Carousel One and ask $1,000+ prices for them. I don't know who they think they are fooling or maybe they fool enough buyers to make it worth their time. ?

In the 50's Summer Fall Winter Spring was a character on the Howdy Doody show!

Mosquitos were Awesome twin engine fighter plains from Briton and made of plywood!

Old School, cool I am an eyeball engineering man myself even with my CAD work for the most part. Great job so far, I'm looking forward to the rest of your build. Model On!

Hello François, Mostly just kidding about the CAd part. It looks like you are using both the kit and printed parts so I didn't realize that the frame was printed also, I may have missed that along the way. Do you use a 3D scanner or reference probe to copy the kit parts? Not being familiar with the kit I was going to ask if the Airfix kit included a molded version of the wood structure, not something usually found in box kits. I gather that you have good reference material for the internal wood frame construction. Yes It is pretty surprising that there wasn't some warping or misalignment of the original kit parts, especially in this scale. Thanks again for sharing!

The CAD layouts shouldn't have changed that much over 9 months. Beautiful Work! Serious dedication to detail especially the inner workings like the super steering layout. Thanks for the great WIP.

Differently is how I think about the modeling philosophies of Revell vs. AMT offerings.

"Them" cried the little girl as the Giant Ants over ram the tiny town of Ludlow!

Hive never seen such a thing!

Texas, Taxis, or Taxes, I'd prefer taxis!

Correctly aligning your universal bearings is vital to a long lasting and smooth running driveline.

This is my type 55 by Vroom in 1/43 scale. Sweet little gar, I love the lines of this classic design.

Nonsensical is the very nature of many politicians today!

Elite comes just before Flite and right after Dlite.

Hobby shops are getting harder and harder to find these days, at least the good ones!

Listening to a KKUP psychedelic marathon wile I write.. Besides the "Ultimate Spinach" "Dinosaur Swamp" by The Flock were great but my favorite 1968 album was "The Wozard of IZ" an early Moog synthesizer exploration.