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Junkman

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  1. On the real car the letters are recessed, on the model raised. What is the correct spelling of the Present Participle of 'to rally'?
  2. What scale is it?
  3. These aren't started with shotgun shells.
  4. A friend and I went skiing in one (no, really). While the two front wheels were happily travelling in the grooves formed by other cars in the snowy road surface, the almost twinned rear ones lolloped on top of the snow accumulation between the grooves. The inevitable happened. The car did a sudden right and went head on into a snow mound. Neither could we reverse out of it, nor open the door, nor escape via the sunroof, courtesy of the skis mounted up there. A few pedestrians finally had the heart to give us a push.
  5. I don't own a GT40, of course, but I sure own the mirror.
  6. I don't own a GT40, of course, but I sure own the mirror.
  7. Oh, I'm not offended or anything. We are in this together.
  8. I'd like to do that with a 1/18 scale one and make it into a 4 door hardtop at the same time.
  9. Well, they did with the Camaros, so fair play to them. What I mean, though, is that a few other kits than the ones that were reissued for umpteen times during the past 40 years would deserve a second chance as well.
  10. What made me chuckle a bit is when I learned that in real life David Soul is actually a bit of a car guy, wheras Paul Glaser isn't.
  11. I was secretly looking forward to people posting pictures of the '78 calendars they still have kicking about.
  12. S&H expressions frequently used in Germany: This is Disco Vietnam Bacardi, Cola, do it! In Bay City? is often the back answer to "where can I get me a..." "Starsky style" is an expression for clipping the curb by mistake As long as my feet carry me, nobody else is driving my car Here is Sierra 10, we are on our way I know a few guys who know a few guys who robbed someone
  13. Were they ever! Probably the most popular American duo in Germany after Laurel and Hardy. At least for my generation, they are a staple of popular culture.They were dubbed of course, but quite a few of their (German) expressions made it into common lingo. Especially their "Tomate mit Hosenträgern" (tomato with suspenders) is popular enough for thepaint scheme having found its way onto many cars that aren't Torinos.
  14. Isn't it just amazing? I can BREATHE again down in the dungeon!
  15. Oh, and honestly, I have no idea what that van is. Couldn't care less about it either. My guess is Mercfordeotwagenault Mastersprintranscraft or some such. Don't they all come from the same factory in Bangladesh, or sum such?
  16. Some 700 odd kits went into that van, hopefully to never be seen by me again. The goal is indeed to get the collection down to one room, too, but I haven't quite achieved that yet. Still, it's a surprisingly liberating feeling and I sure will continue. I guess it's age related. The more I know, the less I need. I'm currently down to only four real cars as well and two of them are for sale. Next I will sell some of my 15 bicycles.
  17. Today, a man with a big van arrived at my house. When he left, the van was still big, but no longer empty.
  18. The MPC folks apparently did not include all the JB007 gear in the 2000 GT kit. However, they threw in a clear bubble top the English original didn't have: However, it looks like you are partially right and I am partially wrong. The JB007 DB5 and the 2000 GT coupe seem to not have been part of the MPC lineup, which makes the whereabouts of the tooling even more foggy. However, neither of these kits had an LHD option.
  19. All those 1978 calendars you've been saving up in case they might come in handy are finally useful again. And to think people dared to suggest they be thrown away. The very thought!
  20. I could quit smoking. But I'm not a quitter.
  21. Aurora definitely made a separate tool for the DB5 "Spy Car" body and 'special equipment'. Note that there were never any official JB007 connotations, so it wasn't licenced. This might be the very reason it never was reissued. However, if Revell issues a newly tooled one, which we all hope, it's no big loss after all. The DB4 tool obviously survived unscathed and has been seen last at Revellogram USA for the ca. Millennium edition with original Aurora box art. Roughly ten years before that, it was reissued by Revell/Monogram in a black box with a photo of a model painted dark green. Before that, it was released by Monogram in the Seventies in a blue/red border box with a silver painted model photo. So the track record for the DB4 is: Aurora -> Monogram -> Revellogram So by all means, Revell should still have that tool. Let's talk about Airfix for a moment. They made a JB007 DB5, a DB6, a JB007 Toyota 2000 GT roadster and a Toyota 2000 GT coupe, all in 1/24. To my knowledge, all of these were released by MPC in the USA and haven't been seen since. The suspicion that Round2 might have those tools is ripe in me.
  22. POLA is owned by Faller now.
  23. No, they put them on wrongly. Germans aren't that different from all other peoples after all, who would have thought? 1/22.5 is just to please those railwayers. I measured the kit and it scales to 1/24. Note that on this issue it doesn't really state a scale.
  24. Who do we think owns the tooling to the Ertl JD, MF and IH? Reissuing those would be mucho appreciato. Heller also made an MF that hasn't been reissued. Despite it was in the Bobcat series, it was reasonably well detailed:
  25. Seeing that the German IPMS is pretty much the beta platform for Revell, we could finally actually have something to look forward to. Was about time.
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