Brett Barrow

I agree 100%, Block is a mediocre rally driver at best. Pastrana is worse. But they are rich and have plenty of time/money on their hands to promote the sport(or something like it) over here(no one else is) so I say great and keep it up!!!

I said what I said totally tongue in cheek, with the half-hearted hope she would read it over my shoulder and I could pick on her. She's really not that bad! When I lived by myself, I had total run of the apartment, I could (and did) paint in the kitchen, leave parts to dry in the bathroom, etc... I had a workbench in the living room and another in the bedroom. Then she moved in and she's made me get all my stuff together in one little corner of the bedroom, it's a perfectly adequate space, but I'm so used to being spread out so I'm still a little unorganized. Plus, working in the business, I've acquired all kinds of junk over the years, I'm the guy who literally has 3 of everything, but I really don't have the great magnum opus of finished models to justify having all the tools and stuff I do, like I gathered up all the sanding sticks I had the other day, I must have had 30-40 of them, a bunch are samples from when our company started selling sticks with our name printed on them, I have a bunch that are different color/grit combinations than the traditional black/orange/gray/red flexigrit system. The thing about it is, I hardly ever use sanding sticks! I'm more likely to tear off a piece of wetordry and wrap it around a stick of balsa than I am to use a sanding stick and she knows that. But I just keep bringing home junk from work that she knows I'll never use or build, like kits with torn boxes or missing instructions that I get for cheap. She's totally right, I need to get rid of some stuff I have. I've been saying for a couple years now I'm going to get some stuff together and donate it to a local club or the Veteran's Hospital or something. She totally supports my hobby, she's never bought me any kits, cause I can get those at work but I'm a modeling tool junkie, she bought me a nice little punch and die set for my birthday, and now the Micro-Mark catalog comes in her name!

When they look like that they sure are!!!

That's really cool what you've got going on there!

I was born and raised in Martinsville, VA. I must have spent 1000 hours at Martinsville Speedway watching teams practicing and going to qualifying back when it was free. My dad worked in the industrial park right up the highway from the track and would come get me anytime there was action going on we could get into for free. I even paid to get into a couple races in my time. Richard Petty was my childhood hero. Having said all that... I DON'T GET OVAL TRACK RACING!!!!! I don't get it, I just don't get it! I would sit still and watch exactly 4 NASCAR races start-to-finish a year - the 2 Martinsville races, mainly just in the hope I'd see our house from the blimp, and Riverside/Sonoma and Watkins Glen! Sorry for the threadjack - Gymkhana is awesome!

I'll be so glad when NASCAR finally dies its slow death and we get some WRC back on the Speed Channel!!!!

Looks great! Quick build, these haven't been out that long! I would have knocked the shine on the wheels down a couple of notches, but that's just me!

Great looking model of a great looking car! IIRC, Tamiya makes a much simpler and easier to build kit of the same car. Those Enthusiast Series kits can be real boogers!

I did, in fact I had a couple of girlfriends who were quite supportive. The current one... not so much.

I knew I was close!!!! It's low temp...

Nothing quite like the sound of a pegged rev-limiter!!!! The scary part is that Rob Dyrdek now has to do all that on a shifter kart, a la

The model companies have all missed a golden opportunity to tie into Gran Turismo's popularity. I've talked to many guys and girls my age or younger who are in the shop buying car models of something they play in Gran Turismo (or motorcycles from Tourist Trophy). Who says kids can't play video games and build models? One thing the younger generation is good at is multitasking!!! I also honestly think that a lot of it has to do with the decline of the "Typical American Dad". By that I mean that there are so many single-parent families where the mother and father have to play both roles, or even in two-parent families the parents work a lot and you just don't have as many dads showing their kids how to change the oil, you know, like spending the weekends working on the family car and stuff like that. It's hard to put into words what I mean exactly, but I think it's a major reason we're not as much of a car crazy culture we were even in the dark days of the 70's and 80's when I was a kid. My dad was supportive of my model building, but he never taught me anything hands-on - I don't think he ever built models as a kid, he was more the star quarterback type - but he did have a bad-___ '69 El Camino SS396 that we would wrench on every now and then, and it was through him (and both my grandfathers) that I really learned to love cars, and I don't think today's kids are getting that, maybe it IS because today's cars are hard to work on, or because they're just soulless people-movers.

The future of model building is fine. Car model building? Not so sure about that one. I see kids (and just as many adults) plunking down $1,000's of dollars in fantasy wargaming all the time, and there's even quite a few young folks that are into historical wargaming as well. It's not the price of kits keeping kids out of the hobby, kids are far more likely to spend $70 on a Tamiya kit than $20 on a Revell muscle car, which leads me to believe that it's a lack of interest in the 1:1 subject matter that Revell and AMT choose to make models of.

Great model! I really dig the lower model '57's! I'm currently working on converting the Revell 2-door post Bel Air kit into a 210, and I have plans on doing a 150 with the dual carb and "batwing" aircleaner set-up, which is the next step down from the fuelie, power-wise. The 210 may get the fuel injection, or I might turn it into a gasser or a jr. stock. I should have a workbench post up in the next few days on the 210.

Yep, it's a 962. It's a Hasegawa re-box as well. The real Jagermeister 962C is much different than standard 962's, which are only subtly different than 956's. I guess Revell patterned it after the Jagermeister 956 and called it such to cash in on the German sponsor in the home market. Anyway you slice it, it's a nice looking model, right or wrong

Revell stated in their press release announcing their withdrawal from NASCAR kits that they would be focusing on vintage NHRA subjects, so I think we'll see a lot more reissues and new-tool kits of similar subjects. I would straight-up freak out if they did a new-tool Greer-Black-Prudhomme rail! And think about it, that thing had like zero sponsor decals on it, so no licensing worries!

At least one test shot in plastic exists of this kit. It was at iHobby Expo a couple years ago and was in blue plastic. It was only displayed during the Trade-only days, it was gone by the time the show was open to the public.

I forgot about that one, and it's one of the few cars mentioned in this thread we can build a plastic model of.

[tongue-in-cheek] Y'all do realize that this car - The Facel Vega HK500 was the fastest production car in the world in it's time. I'd say the French can do style and performance!!! The secret??? It had a HEMI And we thought good ol' Carroll Shelby®©™℗ was the first guy to stick American Power in a European chassis! [/tongue-in-cheek]

I think what the TS is going for are 90's-early 2000's kits that were much anticipated and very well received when new, and contest tables were full of them, but now after a few years, you don't see them built nearly as often. I'll second the kits on the list I have: Revell 67 Vettes Revell 66 GTO and nominate a couple: AMT 57 Chrysler 300C Revell 64 Ford Thunderbolt

I might be wrong, but I think the 62 Impala, 72 Hurst/Olds, and 09 Challenger are all-new tooling that have come out since the Nova, I don't know if they're all done post-Hobbico, though. And, on the other hand, I've heard these Midget kits are an on-again-off-again pet project that dates back almost 20 years!!! And it appears that the upcoming new-tool Charger Funny Cars are going to set the new standard for vintage Funny Car kits.

Isn't the type of thinner part of it too, medium temp reducer for full-size car paint, IIRC?

Not only the best 32 Ford, but quite possibly the BEST KIT EVER!!!!

Anybody notice what the tow vehicle is? Hosted on Fotki How convenient that they just reissued that kit, and the midget will have specific trailer hitch parts to fit it?

Schiffer Publishing has put out a couple kit histories/collector's guides. Revell, Monogram, and Aurora are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Mat Irvine's Automotive Modelling Masterclass book has a chapter on model car kit history. I think it was put out by Woodrow and Greene before the Masterclass series went to Osprey. Tim Boyd has written several kit history articles in the other magazine, I think they offer a digital download package for a few of them.