Junkman

It's a Triumph Dolomite 1500 HL.

That Lark is just uber-kewl. My next favourite is that orange coupe. What is it with me and 'bakers lately?

I have collected car chases and crashes from movies and TV shows on video for 30+ years. As a result, I have ca. 70 hours of solid crashing without any boring stuff spoling them. Makes superb entertainment.

They just don't make car chase movies like H. B. Halicki did anymore.

I can't remember. It was either this: or this: But I well remember my third one, which was this:

I'll never eat again. Ever.

Unfortunately 'Junkman' is very often taken already, so I have to come up with a different one. I then usually use my 'real' name, which I don't use in 'normal' life - Baron von Zach. Yes, I am the 17th Baron von Zach.

Hey thanks! Yes, those blackout panels are the European version of the muscle car craze.

The only kit I ever bought a casepack of is the Model King 59 Imperial. I have to give away at least ten buildups of that one.

How? How?? How????

I'd say Spain only. Yes, the 1430 acquired some sort of cult status there.

:o

It never happened to me. You take the parts out after the paint is stripped and the metal is still completely unharmed. We are talking minutes here. It would take much, much longer for the caustic to do harm to the metal.

Am I supposed to build them?

What is the real advantage of a double action? Mind you, this question comes from somebody who is incapable of operating a single action.

64 bucks is dumping price. Congrats!

Yeah, wheras 91 proof white lightning is a delicatessen! On a more serious note: Have you guys ever tried thick bleach? I use it for decades and it works so well for me. It's the easiest thing to obtain and costs pennies. The looks one gets at the supermarket checkout when putting four bottles of that stuff onto the conveyor belt is priceless!

Notoriously tough to strip diecast: After the boiling water + caustic soda therapy: The paint comes off within seconds. The repainted model: Another example: Stripped in boiling water with caustic soda, again within seconds (sorry, no photo of the stripped model). Here is the repainted model: Oops, they aren't models. They are toys.

To get the paint off diecast parts: - Put them all in a plastic container. - Fill with boiling water. - Add two tablespoons of caustic soda. After to minutes there should be no paint left on the parts. Should there still be some, repeat the process. Make sure you wear rubber gloves though and do it outside.

Actually, the past few years I bought mainly abandoned projects, since the prices for minters went way beyond my income group. In addition to these, I may have in the neighborhood of 100 kits I started myself, and about 600 unstarted ones. Looking through this thread is like a revellation. The imagination those people have is unbelievable! A lot of the stuff is so cool the way it is, it would be a shame to finish it. Once a model is finished, it is just that. Finished. I often find myself thinking that when the last finishing touch has been added, the excitement is gone. Hence I often gave/give my finished models away. Actually most of them. I hardly have any. If I want to display a finished model, I buy a diecast.

Here is a sculpture of noted artist Richard Pietruska: IMO he closed the gap between modelling and art. If you would like to read more about Richard and his work: http://www.rpmart.com/art.shtml

Was it not expensive enough?

The time it took to surf through this thread I could have used to progress some of my stalled builds, but man, what would I have missed! This is better than any art gallery. Entirely btw, I beat you all: In addition to my stalled builds, over the past 30 years I have acquired at least 500 stalled builds from other modellers, just to stall them further!

The nicest thing is most of that stuff is free. As in rubbish.