Brett Barrow

No, they weld just like liquid cements. Citrus based, I believe, since they smell like a orange grove. Some might find it pleasant, but I don't - reminds me too much of when I was in marching band in high school and we'd get our shipment of citrus fruit in for our annual fundraising sale. The bandroom stunk for weeks and my parents always helped store some of the excess stock in our basement... I did an experiment years ago where I built a model using nothing but water-based or non-toxic products and used these cements for that. The seam line can stay soft for a while with these glues, but you get really good "ooze-out" of molten plastic. I still use them occasionally for smoothing out file marks and mold lines in hard to reach areas, they work really good for that because they're not as aggressive to the plastic.

A lot have cars have been using active noise cancelling where the sound wave is manipulated to be 180 degrees out of phase, then the two sounds effectively cancel each other out. If you change that so the sound wave is in phase it will amplify the sound. That's likely what a lot of these engine sound enhancements do. But pre-recorded sounds, or even sounds from a different engine? That is a bit ridiculous... I will say it would be nice if all those Fast and Furious-style ricers with fart-can mufflers that tool around my neighborhood at all hours of the night had something like this where the sound was just confined to the cabin so only the driver could hear it. Man, I feel so old for saying that. You &@%$ kids get off my lawn!

"Mustard gas" isn't made from actual mustard, it was just named that because the odor resembled that of mustard plants. The mustard oil in Testors tube glue is an additive that causes watering in the mucous membranes, the idea is to discourage glue sniffers by making it so uncomfortable you can't do it long enough to get a high. I've tried Microscale's Micro-Weld Non-Toxic glue and Plastruct's Weldene, both work, but dry more slowly than other liquid cements.

The Littlefield Collection! Auctions America put together a really nice downloadable catalog, available here: http://auctionsamerica.com/catalog/2014/LC14/

Yeah, you're right. The worst part is I have both of those versions! I was thinking the Dyno Don was the first Super Stock kit and the others came after.

Ambroid hasn't been in distribution for a while. Flex-I-file makes an alternative that's supposed to be the same stuff.

Yep - driving the winding backroads in rural Virgina where I grew up = fun. I would not give that up. Driving to work where I live now, a straight, flat road with tons of traffic and stop lights = not fun. I would give that up in a heartbeat.

Foil's nothing to be scared of. Just follow BMF's instructions and keep plenty of fresh X-Acto blades at hand. You'll ruin a bunch at first, but that's just the way it goes for everybody. Peel it off and try again, you'll be a foil pro in no time!

Nope, just the regular unplated steel wheels. Content-wise it's the same as the Super Stock kits but with the small sprue with the Torq-Thrusts and Offenhauser finned valve covers and cross-ram intake added from the showroom stock version (seen here in gray plastic, new kit is off-white).

I love it! Only thing that would make it better is a roof swap from the '60, Revell botched it on the '59. But you did a great job on it OOtB. Timely, too, the hardtop was just reissued.

To be fair, the car is currently UGLY... This is what it would look like restored.

This car was driven by Dr. Dick Thompson and Paul Goldsmith and wrenched on by Smokey Yunick. It came out of the same factory racing program that also created the Black Widow stock cars (in fact it's from the same work order as the first Black Widows). It is a significant race car, just not a $6.5 mil car. 1 mil, maybe, if restored by a world class restoration shop like Corvette Repair. http://www.superchevy.com/features/corp-0610-chevy-corvette-racing-history/

This is a well-known car, the owner's name is Joe Trybulec of Bentonville, Ark. If someone was making a fake listing, current pics are easy to find, the car has gone to several Corvette shows. Probably listed it to drum up awareness and gauge interest before it winds up at one of the big auction companies. It won't bring 6.5 mil, no way.

Jack Clifford was a Hudson racing legend, I believe he was based in CA. The caption is meant to read Jack Clifford and (a speed shop called) Motorsports... Clifford's company was known as Hudson Powered Products, then later Clifford Research and Clifford Performance. They specialize in straight-6 speed products. Maybe the folks at the Dover Dragstrip site might know the correct name and location of the speed shop - http://www.doverdragstrip.com/phpBB3/

Too fine in 25th, but might work for 32nd.

Some Japanese companies sell parts for Gundams, but there are also a few in the US - http://www.gundamstoreandmore.com/parts-store.html http://gginfinite.com/Replacement_Parts_Service.html

Link just takes you to a search page, but I think this might be the link you're trying to post: http://www.woodworkingtalk.com/f13/2-3-scale-cars-motorcycles-55257/

In that scale, I'd smooth the seats out by sanding or filling with putty, then embossing powder to get the texture. Paint off-white with a brown wash.

i found a perfect set for the car I'm going to replicate in Fujimi's GT40, I tried the Sports Car Specials, but they looked a little small, especially on the front.

I sent Frank an email telling him how cool I thought it was to be able to do a model of his dad's car, this was his response: Here's the 2 pics from Doug Boyce's book, they don't really add much we can't see from the other pics. Posted for discussion only, taken from Junior Stock: Drag Racing the Family Sedan - a really cool book, I highly recommend it, as well as Mr. Boyce's book Grumpy's Toys on the cars of Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins.

These are hitting distributors now, so keep an eye out for them to hit the shops this week.

We don't pay anything. Models sold for a consumer's personal use are exempt. Only if they are sold business-to-business with the intention to re-sale would there be customs duties.

This particular kit was tooled in South Korea in the 1990's. I think Jairus' comment was meant more like "the Koreans (who tooled this kit) didn't possess..." I didn't read as all Koreans.

They've been brought up in other Moebius threads, but I figure these deserve their own thread. There will be a Hornet Club Coupe and a Special Club Sedan (lower trim level) I'm reading my copy of Doug Boyce's Junior Stock, Drag Racing the Family Sedan over the weekend and notice a 54 Hudson raced by one "Matty Winspur" and the light bulb goes off with the connection to Moebius' Frank Winspur - turns out that's his dad's car! No wonder Moebius chose to do Hudsons! You can see the car on the board behind the test shot in this pic from NNL East. I really hope this kit will have decals and Cragars to do the Junior Stock.

Revell is changing their Skill Levels to a new system and I'm sure will launch a marketing campaign to educate the consumer about these as they get closer to release. There will be 5 levels (I think - maybe more?). The new super-easy Snap kits like the 2015 Mustang will be the new Skill 1. The new glue kits with prepainted bodies (2013 ZL-1 Camaro and SRT8 Challenger) will be the new Skill 3. The existing Snap-Tites will become Skill 2 and the existing glue kits will become Skills 4 and 5. It'll take a while to fully transition. I find the new prepaints really interesting. Simplified, promo-like construction but with engine. Only the bodies will be fully pre-painted. Price point ($19.99 MSRP) is under regular glue kits, and way under the AMT Showroom Replicas line these will directly compete with. Each will be initially available in 2 colors, with molded-in-white versions a possibility down the road. Pre-paints have been tried several times, but I don't remember them ever coming in at a lower price than regular kits.