Dr. Cranky

Keep an eye on that mail box!

Keep it going, keep the eye candy coming.

AH, DOCTOR CRANKY HAS HIS WAYS . . . . Nah, they had them in a poster at the post office and I saw it today when I was mailing you your brand new Lab-RAT-ory Mug and "Idea Juice" Paint Mixing Shot Glass!

Don't know if you have seen them, but there are five American Muscle Cars in the series, and they are BEAUTIFUL. Of course, they are releasing them after the FOREVER stamps go up in price in February. Just thought I'd alert all the stamp collectors who are also model builders. What are the chances of that combination? Cheers, DC

Derick, I love using magnets. They work really well.

Yeah, that's what I thought you were doing. If you don't glue down everything, you will be able to use it over and over again and always end up with different possibilities, that's what I did with the CRANKY INDUSTRIAL PHOTO-OP BASE.

Geez, Jim, this is PURE EYECANDY. Loving it. I think this is going to come together beautiful and with the right lighting you'll be able to create lots of interesting pictures with the background. Great way to show off new builds.

I find that I love seeing archival pictures (50s and 60s) a lot more than most of the new stuff folks are putting out.

Rumor has it #173 is an EXPOSÉ on Donn Yost's downward spiral into RUST! Jim S is NOT going to be happy!

I think that's the one I have.

So far so good. Very cool, Mr. Hollywood.

That looks like a great fun track. Enjoy.

All I know, regardless of the medium, is that no content creation is FREE.

Just put on The Stones "It's Only Styrene But I like It!" and it will see you through.

The ideal is two fold: 1) build a model that you haven't see before (exercise your imagination!) 2) and improve your skills while doing so When you attend a bit show like the NNL EAST you will see many examples of the above.

Bring it on, you've started the year with lots of great eye candy.

Check out the roster over at SCALEDREAMS.

Wow, that is wild, but also very cool.

Beautiful work, and the weathering is excellent. Wonderful model.

Super cool scratch-building. Nice detail to add to the dio. Cheers and happy 2013.

LOL, well, let's just say that I always start out box stock! Then I get possessed by the Styrene Chuckies!

Here's my rusty 2 cents: The older I get and the more I build, the more I return to building simple box stock models. For some reason I always feel rather youthful when doing so. What comes in the kit should be plenty to work with time and again.

Waiting for more, more, more . . . Happy 2013

Love the way you incorporated those decals. Wonderful model.