Junkman

Academy does a 1/25th scale Panther. But tanks wouldn't be a good starting point, because the chassis and tracks are fundamentally different from snow vehicles. The latter have pneumatic tyres and the tracks are essentially a number of rubber bands joined by extruded aluminium profiles. Except the Tucker Sno-Cats of course, which marched completely to their own drummer.

My favourite engine isn't a car engine at all. It's not even automotive. It is the Napier Deltic. A Napier Deltic is an opposed piston valveless two stroke Diesel used in marine and locomotive applications. It is based on a German WWII Junkers JUMO design for an aircraft Diesel, which got paperclipped to England after the war and ended with Napier & Son, who developed and produced the engine. It has 18 cylinders and three crankshafts forming a triangle, which gives the engine its name. This is an animation how the engine works in principle: This is a diagram of the crankshaft arrangement: A cutaway: To give you an idea of the size of the engines: And this is the prototype of the class 55 'Deltic' locomotives: 22 of these locos were built by English Electric in 1961 and 1962. Each of them had two Napier Deltic engines with 1650hp each.

I like most anything from the fist 100 years of the automobile. Why nothing post-mid-eighties? Because I dislike the direction automotive styling took since.

I think the Thiokol chassis from the LIS Chariot would be a good starting point.

Believe it or not, they recovered it: It still exists and is currently in a museum storage hold in Wiltshire, hidden from public view. Here is a Flextrack-Nodwell for Dr. Cranky:

I always wanted to make a model of a Tucker Sno-Cat, and a Ratrac or Kässbohrer snow groomer, but the problem I have not mastered is how to make the tracks. Oh, almost forgot. Tucker Sno-Cat: Ratrac: Kässbohrer Pistenbully:

I don't do dolls houses.

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!