Junkman

Of course, the sensible thing in real life would be a turbodiesel. Back in the Eighties, we had a C30 3+3 Camper Special Dually with a 350 sbc to haul around our three axle tag-along trailer with the fuel funnycar inside. The entire rig tipped the scales at a cool eight long tons, genuine heavy metal. When we passed the Alps to go to a race at Zeltweg in Austria, this sucked no small time, lemme tellya. But this is a model and it hence needs a monster 454 rat, complete with two four-throat kraftwerks. Sod the ozone hole in 1:25.

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What's a bloody small block doing in this thing anyway?

Don't be afraid, it's easier than it looks from the pictures. Start with a really good one, like a Modelhaus, to get a 'feel' for it. The rest will just fall into place. In fact, Resin has quite a few advantages over styrene.

Yes, you can do that, but if the file is not in any .bmp compatible format, like .jpg, .jpeg, .gif etc. you cannot just change the file extension. You will need a conversion program. Most of the imaging softwares like Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop, etc. do contain that functionality and allow you to save them in a 'common' format. As for linking image files from the internet, if they don't have a proper file format, like .jpg, .gif, etc. this forum will not allow to link them and throw that error. You can see this in the URL of the picture you want to link to (right click on the picture, select 'view image' and the picture will be shown in a new tab and you can see the URL in your browser address bar). If this URL does not end with a proper dot something file extension, you will get the error when you try to link to it.

That is exactly my impression, too. The modern reincarnations of old annuals are often oddly soulless and fail to capture the 'mood'(?) of the real cars in the same way those old models did. I have several projects lined up, where I will use the body from an annual and the underpinnings and interior of the modern kit. This is a real credit to the old generation master modellers, who where true artists in my opinion.

I'm not into the dolls house thing, but all my models MUST have freely rotating wheels, so I can play with them. I go to great lengths to achieve this if the model is not properly engineered for that out of the box. And yes, I do push them around on a table top and imitate the engine sound doing this

Tell us, please!

Too much blood...

No matter where you go, there will always be a few normal people:

One of the Air-Trax guys is Tapani Rauramo. They also make an Amazon:

Probably worth more than the buildings in the background: The site is wicked!

Gosh, that's quite stiff. How many issues per year?

Yeah, and you can leave off your glasses when you build it.

I haff vays to make meiself undershdoot...

I remember that back in the Seventies, there were winter tyres with a blue coloured tread. My father had those on his Renault 16. I think they were Vredesteins. As for being bored with blackwalls - I am in the total opposite phase. After painting whitewalls on my model tyres for the past 35 years, I'm so sick and tired (tyred?) of them, that I do mostly blackwalls nowadays. Looking at old pictures and postcards and watching old movies proves me right. Contrary to what the restorers want us to believe, before the Sixties, hardly any cars had whitewall tyres. If you look at a postcard from the Fifties or earlier, maybe one out of ten cars has whitewalls.

- Collectible Automobile. And I have each and every issue of it, plus all the specials. - Auto Mobilia. A French magazine, pretty much along the lines of Collectible Automobile, but with an emphasis on classic French cars. - Charge Utile. Made by the same editors as Auto Mobilia, but with an emphasis on classic French lorries. American cars and French cars are my main field of interest, automotive-wise. Reading those magazines for almost 30 years certainly did help to hone my language skills in English and French. I would say, this is living proof that your hobbies can pay off in your professional life, I held numerous positions merely because of my language skills. Unfortunately reading doesn't do anything for the pronounciation, hence I still speak both languages with a very heavy German accent, for which I apologize.

Oh those LED lamps are just the ticket. I'm usually not into any newfangled stuff, because most of it is total rubbish, but with these LED lamps, they came up with something really brilliant (pun intended). There is zero heat emission and they help to cut the electricity bill, too! Too bad they all are made in China.

Revell London Bus. But, alas...

I hope you chewed it thoroughly before you spit it over board. Otherwise the poor eels choke on it.

What has the world come to...

We all are only temporary curators of whatever we call our possessions. All of them. We can't take them with us. What happens to them once we are gone has absolutely no relevance for our lives.

The kits were there FIRST. Then I got married. She either accepts the whole package, or walks.

And the units sold in England run on 240V and don't explode when you spray with Halfords paints?

You guys make it sound as if it was a bad thing. It is called 'collecting'. The majority of the 2000+ kits I have are part of my model kit collection. Comparatively few of them are intended to be built. I also collect diecasts, real cars, and bicycles. This is not a disorder or anything. This is a collection, which is motivated by the same appreciation for form and function, as is collecting art or artefacts.