Mike C.

Jeff Beck and friends - Superstition. Stevie Wonder cover.

Back to the shaping bay. Halfway through the heavy lifting. I think I'm finished with the power tools. Now downto emory boards and sand paper. I just put some filler on. I'll let that dry a while. The bottoms are a little chard because i had to heat them up with a flame to get the right rocker for both boards. Here is the thinner styrene I plan to use for the fins. It's that weird piece from the back of the Deserter pickup.

This one is with several kits that are now in the stratosphere. This would be welcome in resin.

Thats looking real good so far. I had a 1:1 '69 442 like 15 years ago so I am familiar with how good looking this year is. Mine was not a W-30 and was Saffron and black. I do like your blue though. I also have that same kit in the trade section.

Thanks Stef. I have decided to gh with the ones from my 1/16 '55 Nomad kit as they are free, and I don't plan on using them for the Nomad.

Martin Potter. One of the years he was world champ. I think it was 3 times. He came paddling out with us at our home break. It had to be like 1989. He was visiting the local surf shops on a promotional tour. He came out with us and preceded to blow everyone's mind. He was doing moves like this in 1-foot waves. We were asking each other "where's he getting the speed? "The only reason we were even out was because it was unbearably hot that day. Needless to say, the whole town was abuzz.

Here's my good friends Mick (lon gboard) and Hogan (thruster).

I gotta get a couple of shots of myself from back in my heyday.

One of my all-time hero's Tom Carroll. One of the guys who put the thruster on the map.

I started by gluing together 3 pieces of sheet styrene and letting it set up overnight. Their I used my mitre box to cut that fir the 2 halfs. I took a cutting disk on the Dremel to cut out the rough shapes. Then the fun part began. Sanding and sanding and more Dremel this time with the cylindrical bit. I finally got the rough shape. A need a bit of a brake. Now I think I'll start with the plain sand paper. Not looking forward to the fins.

I got tired of waiting for somebody to come out with some more modern, shorter, "thruster" type surfboards like the one my friends and I used to use back in the 80s and 90s, so I took it upon myself to try and build a couple of them. I have a couple of surfing type vans in the works, and these would be perfect for these. Now the thruster was a shorter, sort of higher performance type of board unlike the laid-back "cruiser" kind of longer boards of yesteryear. The thruster always had 3 fins. Was fairly thin, with a lot of "rocker"(the arch of the board) especially towards the nose. It's still fun to take out the long boards. They are especially good in smaller surf, but the thruster works better when you have a little more "juice". I would compare it to Driving a Porsche vs. a dump truck around a slalom course. Hers a picture of what I'm going for.

I got pretty far. I'll start a new post with pictures of my progress over in the everything else WIP section. Here's a link:

I don't think you can get it this far North anymore. Like 8 years back or so, my sister and my niece went down to southern Maryland to visit my younger sister. We went to a rib chain that we don't have up here and while you could order a fountain drink. they had this iced down tub of bottled sodas. One of them was RC. I grabbed one or 2 and slugged them down. They were delicious! I also seem to remember an extremely long burp after we were finished which of course, made the kids laugh hysterically. To me, RC has always been the best cola of the cola wars.

Agreed. How about the fact that she served in WWII as a truck driver and mechanic. Crazy stats. She did a lot of things as Queen that were unpopular with a lot of people in G.B. but she was a pretty amazing person.

Oh. I got tons of those too. ?

I'm speechless. A true masterpiece! I want this kit.

Got my 2 ebay kits. Both are complete and the Bee is jam packed with extra parts for the bin or trading. The bug has those nice looking Fuchs weels that i love so much and i alreadyhave some cooler tires lined up for this build. Still waiting on more!

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Some Velvet Sidewalk.

Lullabies to Paralyze - Queens of the Stone Age.

I Got You Babe - Chrissie Hynde and Shane MacGowan. Sonny and Cher cover.

Thanks Steve. That looks like a good link.

Ha! I thought I was the only one who did that too. It all started in the 70s with a Peterbuilt kit. I can't remember the manufacturer. One of the chrome trees looked as though someone had splashed some kind of solvent all over it. It was legitimately ruined. I wrote a letter (remember those?) to the company, and they sent me a perfect replacement chrome tree. After that I began to think, I could do this again and again and fill my parts bin to the rafters. And that's just what I did. I did it with a decal sheet or two also. Now these days there are sellers on eBay that sell parted out kits, wheels, tires and decal sheets. Don't feel so bad. I probably cost them next to nothing to send you all that stuff. Today, you can pay for it if it makes you lose sleep.

I saw a report yesterday on CNN. R.I.P.

Thank you, Greg, it's kind of a twenty-footer now. I'm hoping I can touch up the flaws before I clearcoat the whole thing.