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LUKE'57

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  1. You're welcome Ricky, hope you enjoy using it this month.
  2. Thanks guys. And Nick, I missed that connection completely, Good eye and a good laugh on top of it.
  3. Almost let this one slip by, thanks for the reminder Tony T. In honor of my friend's first ballot induction to the new Hall of Fame, here's here's one of the most successful, revered, feared and respected mountain men to ever don a helmet or field an entry in the premier stock car sanctioning body of our time, Mr. Robert Glen Johnson, Jr. Better know around here as "ol' June-yer". Hey, how'd you like the way I got around that pesky ol' Copyright Infringement thingy? LOL Here's the link to the large printable file for your calendar page. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/mitchum/JUNE/JUNE.jpg
  4. Thanks for being so good natured and I really do like your build. But please don't take my picture as "real" reference because it's a pic of me and my model on one of my photoshopped covers. I'm just SO sneaky like that.
  5. Really good lookin' old Merc. I like it a lot. But, instead of using the factory Wimbledon White, which is kind of a "dirty" white, like you would expect, the Woods always used a bright white. Please don't take offense, it is still a beautful build.
  6. Or some itty bitty brushes like me and Gator.
  7. If you've got white lettering then you still have a problem, unless you're really good with an Xacto knive and can cut all those letters out seperately. Some of those letters are really small, like addresses and phone numbers for the sponsors.
  8. So, you've got an Alps printer? No? Then if the decals have any white then you've got a problem.
  9. That is really shaping up well. You know that ol' Dan's ride is one of my favorite color scemes. A tip on the roll bar padding. Take off the tape and make friends with an electrician or home remodeler and get some scrap 12-2 wire from him. You can cut the black (sometimes dark grey) insulation longways and peel it off the wire. Then open up the cut and slide it over your roll bars and you've got prototypical thickness roll bar padding. Here's a shot of a Petty car I did for an on-line construction article using that method,
  10. A couple of coats or so of MicroScale Liquid Decal Film or a similar product would probably be a good idea and should take care of the crumbling.
  11. He doesn't have to find it, we'll lead him to it. It's the perfect way to get rid of the mash when the run is over. It is corn, that is if you don't mind your bacon on the hoof staggering a little.
  12. Well, you know what they say, "Even a blind hog can find an acorn if he roots long enough". I guess with all the stuff I've written I was bound to get it right at some point.
  13. To be honest, that was three wives (one only borrowed), at least twice that many girlfriends, many hard miles and 36 very long years ago and I can't say for sure. I remember it being a lot darker story than the Duke Boys on TV and can't remember if it had that voice over narration or not.
  14. But it was a documentary, it was, it really was..........well, it sorta was...kinda. Except that the real Duke "boys" weren't Dukes but Rushings....and the General Lee wasn't a Dodge Charger but a hemi powered Chrysler 300 named Traveler after General Lee's horse......and there was only one of them. He ran an archery business and a few other interprises including something along the lines of a not quite legal liquid refreshment business just up the road from where I live. I was too young to know him but later became friends with his sister. He was something of a local hero who became very well known after the movie "Moonrunners", starring Robert Mitchum's son, came out.
  15. And here lies your whole problem, in all that I said, the still comment was the only thing that registered. You may be a one demensional superficial know it all after all. I give up, have a nice life, you're on your own.
  16. Hey, those aren't old Nascars. But now this, THIS, is an old Nascar.
  17. Thanks ya'll. It seems to me that a post should have at least two of these attributes- 1-Contain a model pic 2-Contain a helpful tip 3-Be encouraging 4-Have useful info 5-Compliment my building skills.....err...ahh... ....whoops. How how did that one get in there? Seriously though, it is a hobby and it should be fun even if we strive for accuracy sometimes to the point of distraction. Now build something so I can see it.
  18. Hope this gets to stay on long enough for you and everyone else to read, I'd hate to waste the time it took to write and load the pics the first time, not counting how long it took to find them again (on dial up). It addresses the generation gap, the skill gap. the experience gap, the ..........well, almost everything but the Cumberland Gap. Sorry, but as an old Blue Grass picker I couldn't resist the reference. Here's what I'd like to say to everyone and hope to offend no one. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think that all you need to do to get along with Nick is to just let him be Nick, if you can handle that. The first time we had any dealings on here, I had to listen to a 15 year old kid from Canada tell me,a 60 year old guy from the Carolinas who knows Junior Johnson (yep, THAT Junior Johnson) and has roots and friends in "the business" that he (Nick) knew more about stills and such than I did. Well, after I let the dust settle from that encounter, I decided to try to find some common, or at least neutral, ground that we could connnect on. I tried complimenting some of his work that I liked instead of picking apart the things that just weren't "correct" and we went from a shakey truce to even cooperating on his Rockford project and I did a backdrop for him that he complimented me on. The main difference between Nick and a lot of the rest of us is that we didn't have to make all our learning mistakes in front of thousands of people on the internet. But just to put it in perspective, here's a little chronicling of my long strange trip to becoming a "real modeler"............... Here's my very first dirt car, complete with painted on numbers that included the extra "detail" of paint creep under the masking tape on the spray painted numbers built when I was around 15................ to be compared to this "many hundereds of builds later" dirt car with numbers painted on with a brush just like the big boys do it..... Here's one of my first attempts at a realistic racing "scene", shot in my son's sand box, complete with masking tape guard rails on magic marker colored drinking straws for the posts........... compared with a current one on a little better setting.............. I think you get the idea. As I said at the start of this ramble, I am sixty with over fifty years of model building, racing and playing music, but I can still remember what it was like to be a teen and just starting out and having to listen to all those old fogeys that thought they knew more than me, a lot of times they did. The most important lesson is NOT learning that they sometimes do and they sometimes don't, but learning to tell the difference. Nick, that will only come with time, experience and honesty on your part, admitting when they really do know what they're talking about.
  19. Seeing so many great looking Oldsmobile models makes me hungry. Anybody up for burgers?
  20. Those are a couple of really nice Pontiacs. But a couple of OLD Ponchos? Now this is a couple of old Ponchos.LOL
  21. Here's a link to an article I wrote about the Darlington convertible races that you might enjoy. Lady in Black Goes Topless.......Film at 11
  22. That pic of Banjo's #94 has a tonneau(sp) cover over the interior area. Some used canvas and some used sheet metal to cover the interior. A lot used angle iron as brackets to bolt the roofs on. Most of the zippertops didn't run a rear window because it was too hard to retain when you made the roof removable. You could run in the GN division like that but wouldn't receive GN points towards the title. Holman Moody built Curtis Turner a '58 Ford with the rear window as part of the removable portion so that got points in both divisions with only one car. Here's my build of Cotton Owens' '59 season T-bird using the Monogram '58. and here's the bits and pieces I got from my brother to build the Banjo car that I need to get started on. I love those old ragtop racers and have built a few, mostly Fords, like these. But I will do a Chevy or two sometimes, just to have something for the Fords to outrun. LOL The Convertibles ran from '56 through '59 as a division and the Rebel 300 continued as a convertible race through '62 with the racers cutting off the roofs of their hardtops for that one race.
  23. Finally got around to working up some of the pics I shot last Tuesday of the newest addition to the "family". Here's the two "sisters" ready to cut the grills and "go for pinks" or maybe just join the "family business". LOL
  24. Here's a link to an article I wrote about building a street '67 Plymouth into a Petty stock car that has some pretty good ideas on building cages. Hope it helps. http://www.internetmodeler.com/2002/september/automotive/nascar_gtx.htm ]
  25. Thanks ya'll, as I've said before, I really enjoy sharing my stuff with ya'll. This is a cool place to hang out and I appreciate being able to.
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