Jon Cole

Well, yeah. You can fit a hibachi and all kind of eats on those rear wings.

What else should we expect from an industry so "lawyered up" that they have the time to go after model car makers? They have even go after aftermarket vendors. As a result, countless kits now have generic, no-name tires. Idle lawyers "protecting" corporate brands? They couldn't recognize free advertizing if it was gift wrapped for them.

Works great! I used a CoffeeMate bottle... Cut out the shape of the window... Some polishing compound really helps.

How can that be topped? Not sure it can!

My favorite Muscle Car; the one that drilled its way into my memory bank way back then... has to be my bro-in-law's '70 Challenger T/A. He was dating my sister, and they took me, and his little bro (who was my age) in his T/A to the drive-in to see "Vanishing Point". What a kool movie! What a kool ride home after the movie! I did up this Revell metal body kit of the VP car, using the mill from the '71 Charger. Probably not exact, but nice enough for my shelf. Of course, finding some bumper guards and a rear-view would help.

Lots of neat stuff there, Skip. Thanks.

Wow! That is so cool! Very clean, very smooth. Well worth the fight.

REAL NICE!

Absolutely. The builder is trying to have it both ways... beautiful woodwork, lousy metalwork. It makes no sense. What is their point? Rat, for the sake of crude? Oh, I say "rat" only because I cannot think of a better term... but that is no "rat", even if I ignore the woodwork.

I knew this guy who brought the same model ‘Country Time’ Pontiac Nascar to the same contest for five years in a row. He built it as a wreck; body damage, etc. It was OK, but it was never going to be magazine feature material. Year after year, he never placed in the top 3 in category. After about the fifth year, he finally won! We joked that they just wanted him to be done with it already. So, he got his trophy, and in spite of us notifying him of future contest schedules, he never went back. We think he just gave up building.

What a winter! Like all the other neighbors, we cleaned the snow off the roof yesterday. We have only had to do that once before. I snowblowed a path through 2 feet of snow in the back yard to do the roof. Roofs are caving in all over the place here in NH, even more so in Mass.

Since Chris Moore doesn't post here (afaik), I got to show this Jeep gasser "Goin' Postal" that he built from a resin body: Sorry about the poor Q pics.

Long ago, I used Krylon without problems; as far as volume of paint out of the can is concerned. Reaction to plastic is a whole different story, however. A few years ago, something changed afaik. I think they started using a different spray nozzle. Thus the “fire hose†reference. I have tried to use their Hunter Green, I cannot even get the first coat to cover without runs. The volume of paint out of the can is too great. Maybe it’s just me? If I ever use Krylon again, it will need to be decanted into an airbrush.

Donald, maybe it's not you. This is what spraying Krylon looks like:

Nice! That color is stunning... what is it?

And then there are the people who don't bother with adding metal over the wood...

Was the Meteor marketed as a Ford, or a Mercury?

Absolutely correct, IMHO.

Mads, awesome looking Porsche prototype!

No school means no work for us bus drivers. But... my wife turned back; couldn't make her 20 mile commute. NOW it's a snow crisis!

PROGRESS! Courtesy Mother Nature. I finally made progress on my 37/57… first real mockup here with Modelhaus skins (#186 out back; #120 up front) on wheels from the Bantam Blast. Still not sure about a mill… the Bantam’s looks good, but no tranny means I would need to scrounge one up. Any source ideas out there for the tranny, or even an entire different powerplant? I really dig FAT TIRES! Nothing else will do for this! Also thinking of gloss black paint; possibly a two tone. I would like to show ’57 Ford influence.

And the Ferrari was brand new.

Always love laughing at the rednecks that drive their big 4x4's too fast in snow... and end up stuck in the median. Just because they have 4WD won't help them one bit when they hit ice.

I want to use these wide tires from the Modelhaus (#186) Any idea what kits I can search for wheels that fit?

Lol! No, I am 100% legit! I was Google Image searching "Rolex 24"; several pages in, and "ZAP". Next time, I'm buying a Mac.