Junkman

All the way from Portland: Thank you so much, Rodney, I'm well chuffed with the kit! And all the way from Jacksonville (that's in Arkansas, if you didn't know):

Citroen 2CV

Not much to tell. The car has been offered to John Haenle (of Jo-Han fame) when it was measured to make the kit. Mr. Haenle, first and foremost famous for not easily parting with money, declined. This happened in the heydays of model kits, he certainly wasn't strapped for cash (in fact he drove new Cadillacs at the time), neither was the asking price anywhere near the mad prices paid for classic cars since the late Eighties explosion. Mr. Haenle later often said that he regrets not having bought the car at the time, since it would have provided him with a nice retirement fund.

Entirely btw, the car was offered for sale to Mr. Haenle when it was measured and photographed to make the kit. Needless to say that he passed on it.

Here is Rudi Carracciola with the Mercedes in 1937: The car might be in better condition than the mainstream media wants us believe. The restored cars of the Klein collection always have been stored inside. This is a photo of the storage conditions when Mr Klein was still alive (that's the man himself to the far right):

It kinda crossed my mind when I received the resin Bedford CA van from The Parts Box to make that one into an ice cream van.

Why? It still looks being road legal.

This is kinda funny, since I do collect all catering and ice cream van models I can get my hands on in diecast and in all scales. But it has never even occurred to me to build a model of one.

Most definitely yes! And the '42 as well. I find it hard to believe that those weren't released as a surfing-related issue yet.

You got one year to learn to spell the name of the town correctly.

IMO a week is plenty of time for anyone to make a decision.

There will always be notable exceptions. But the majority of those juveniles listens to an atrocious progression of thunks not dissimilar to the sound of furniture being pushed around. They don't listen to real music, like AC/DC, or Mötörhead, or George Thorogood, or Hounddog Taylor, or...

It's about life. Not profit.

Because he can?

Make that George Thorogood and we are in business. But would those ankle biters listen?

Yeah, but sometimes I LIKE to pay taxes for something. I see it as an investment into educating my children to acquire a good taste. Also, the owners of the buses must have paid VAT on all the accessories and the work done. It keeps companies who make and fit the stuff in business, hence creates jobs. Who knows how many children get a better education because papa, who works in a bus pimping company, can afford it.

Those protruding lug nuts would be sooooo illegal here in England. Safety, you know. Children could get hurt. See? No protruding lug nuts on our school buses!

Work. Can spoil the best of days.

The easiest way to get paint off diecast parts is simply boiling it off. Stick the parts in a pot, fill with water until covered and boil them for half an hour. Goes very well with BBQ steak, but then again, what doesn't?

Snow continues to be the same 06-02-12 THIS year's snow is the same as last year's, it has been confirmed. But scientists say they do not know if the latest snow is the same as the snow from 2010 because no-one can remember. Professor Henry Brubaker, from the Institute for Studies, said: "This is what makes it so difficult to cope and plan ahead. Because the records only go back 12 months we can never be entirely sure what properties snow will have. "Like last time, this snow is very, very cold - almost as if it's frozen - and incredibly white. "We also know from last year that snow is difficult to drive on. We think this is because of its whiteness. We did some tests and driving on talcum powder is also quite tricky, especially if you mix it with olive oil." He added: "But to really understand it, we need to know more about historic snow, so we're desperately trying to find someone who can remember what snow was like in 2010. One man from Derbyshire phoned-in to say that he thinks it was blue and tasted like meat." The department of transport has already given up on this year's snow but is hoping that, like last year's, it will eventually disappear. A spokesman said: "If only we knew why it disappeared then we might be able to work out why it arrives in the first place." The department will begin planning for next year's snow as soon as it has decided what properties it is likely to have. The spokesman added: "We've been bombarded with ideas so we're just going to pick one out of a tombola. I've suggested it will be invisible but will smell like a freshly waxed saddle."

Here is a 1/24 slot car a friend of mine in Germany built: But since Germans don't have any sense of humour, he quickly reverted to 1/32 scale and built this: Entirely btw. what you see in the vids is his own private Carrera track, not a club track.

It would be safe to say that.

Hey, thanks a lot! There is a story behind this though. When I started collecting kits in the early Eighties, a few friends and I did 'shopping trips', which meant we would literally drive across Europe and raid model shops all over. I never had much money, so I had to take, what the others left over, and that was usually the oddballs. I simply couldn't afford the mainstream stuff. I don't know what came first, my lack of funds triggering my love for obsure stuff, or my love for obscure stuff triggering me chosing a non-greedy lifestyle resulting in relative poverty. But one of the two is the reason why my collection comprises of such a relative high proportion of whacky stuff, and so few of the 'common' collectibles (please, take this at face value, I'm not trying to derogate the collecting of highly prized (and priced) collectible kits). As for these kits here, three things just fell into place - my love for the surfing sub-culture, which I always had, despite I have never been near a real surfboard (I said I'm a self-confessed hodad - and ###### proud of it!), that the kits were dirt cheap when I bought them, and none of the others wanted them. I do have all the old Hawk/Testors Silly Surfers, too. Again, nobody wanted them when I bought them. I'll see whether I can dig them up this weekend and make some photos. Entirely btw., this is what's inside the Pyro kits: I have no idea what those guys were on back then, but I sure want it too!

I would make my decision dependent on whether photo etch GMC scripts are available (any truck guys in the know?). Wasn't there someone who makes alphabets in PE in various fonts? If the GMC scripts are available, there is nothing to keep you away from building a Sierra. The rest looks repairable to me. Apparently, something like beams were glued to the sides of the cab, maybe beams for a snow plow of some sort? Oh, and I love tube glue - where you can't see it.