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As I recall the resolution maxed at 300dpi and the cut width is like a hair. That's why print mode is relatively slow, tiny print head. I could cover my maximum area, 24 x 36, in about 45 minutes at 100% speed.

75 watts isn't enough to do anything to metal and I'm not sure how high you have to go, at least double. Mine wouldn't even mark the surface of a "chrome" plated tape measure. You can burn burn funny pix onto a co-workers cookie when he's not looking, that's worth the price of admission right there. Not to give the impression that these are hand held. They are more like a big print head inside a sandblasting cabinet. Interface-wise, of all the machines I've run in 20+ years doing this, this is the easiest, most bang for the buck piece of stuff. It's dead simple mechanically and the input could be just hand-drawn and scan-to-print for the output, if need be. No black art cad-cam stuff involved. The only hard part is ponying up for the initial.

This is for a Lindberg 1/8 scale T. I did this while I was working at a sign shop that had a 75 watt Epilog laser. The art was generated in Corel x3. I used 1/16 in black plexiglass. The face was done in print mode and was then through cut at the outside shape. The yellow was infilled and removed from the high spots. The serial number in the reg sticker is fully legible. It's all one piece, the frame is BMF You can do three dimensional stuff in print mode, it's just a little slow and requires multiple sends. A clean-up pass at 10% power smooths things out. A great machine, the more I worked with it, the more ideas struck. Just stay away from anything PVC based. It will screw with the optics. Also, never leave the machine running, it will set itself on fire! The unit was demo model from a trade show, picked up for the bargain basement price of $40,000 + a PC and an exhaust system. I had the art nearly finished for a '40 dash for the Big Deuce, but switched shops before i could do it.

mmmmmmm, trout bellies

I am upright, vertical and clapping. Awesome box with equally awesome insides.

And among the many changes we have seen in the mag, the last two issues even smelled better!

Vintage? I would have to say the original Lil' Coffin. Modern? I think the Revell Merc is a great looking box, although I'm not crazy about the flat style

Oh, wouldn't it be just crazy if we followed standard protocol for this type of thread? That would be where the people who answer correctly are charged with giving us their best attempt at finding something that would stump us. I don't know, maybe it sounds whacky, but it might clear up some of the confusion that the shotgun approach causes here in Nick's thread.

It's all relative. I'm sure that an economist could show that the relative prices are pretty much the same, with inflation figured in. When models were $2, Corvettes were $6,000. The sixties were a great time for the model industry and the builder. I have car mags from then that have model ads inside the front cover, the inside back cover and the back cover. Often there would be model articles splashed on the cover as well. Modeling influence was everywhere, seemingly. I guess it could have just been me, but it really seemed that way. Greenville, Ohio had the classic hobby shop, complete with a huge slot car track. This place was right in the main business district, down town. I consider twenty years ago the dark ages of styrene. (the kids say 20 years ago like it was the stone age). Mostly AMT, I think, started to take the model buyer for granted. Man, they turned out some ######. I've been pretty stoked by what is available right now. There are some whack things that happen now and then (Trumpeter cars) but the stuff being tooled now is a lot better than what we accepted back then

Yeah, I want one. It looks like a Bel Air with braces

Delage, Delehaye?

I just picked up a can of Testors Vinyl Top paint from the same line as the Fabric Black. Initial test shows that the grain is a little large. Jairus' method looks like it may be a better way to go.

There weren't that many French car companies in the thirties. Citroen?

hows about a Cutlass S or a Brougham?

They did nail the guy responsible. It took years but they did. I just saw an older CSI that mirrored the case. Two guys on bicycles doing a professional hit for a former partner.

There is also the Desoto Firedome. I don't think the Desoto Fireflyte was ever modeled

I thought that was where you got your cutlass detailed or permed or trimmed or whatever

A day at the horse track? Did they park them by brand or did Packards just travel in herds? I got it, but what are you going to do, it makes him so happy.

palm trees . . . silly Wisconsinionites

If that was a staging yard for Packard, it probably would have been in their home city of Detroit. GreggK, you must have a filter set for "tropical". Those palm trees are telephone poles.

you're right, I missed that one

You forgot the '73 Volvo Sportwagon and the '54 Ford concept rendering by Spencer and those aren't Fords, I think they are Packards

Yes, except mine are more like fridge art. Gerald Wingrove's, absolutely

and do something about those dishes!

I'm pretty sure I've seen one somewhere that was based on a '59 El Camino. Possibly a factory effort for a race team support vehicle, but I could be nutz. It was also a snub nose design, proportioned more like the Merc transport. I always thought the Mercedes truck was cool. I like the Thunderball too. If it was an actual factory concept I think we would be more accepting of its quirky styling. It does need some redirection, though. I'm adding something like it to my list of "somedays". It's Futurelinerish