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Nice builds! Chitty, Horned Toad also big faves. Built Undertaker too. Those awful showrods, pure trash (NOT). Awesome to see built. Fast food nostalgia of modeling. A series of kits that got built, stayed built, and look great unpainted on shelf. Gee, I wonder if it brought kids into the hobby?

Art, not a single person that I've seen has asked for a perfect kit. Most go out of their way to say exactly "there is no perfect kit". Measurements are exactly that. How can one "interpret" a Del Rio bumper guard? You did the 57 Courier for PL IIRC, and the bumper was right. What about a doorsill drop on a BelAir convertible? I don't see "interpretation". It's a yes or no. I also differ on your comment to use the skills you claim to fix it. It's not my job to fix a bumper guard, a door sill, whatever. When Lee Baker RIP mastered things you cast, he did it right. New kits that needed things fixed got bought, opened, and shoved into project pile. Likely never bought another, and probably sold on. Now, with internet, you can see issues, decide if you want car enough to fix, or pass. I bought resin from you automatically, new kits as well. I no longer do so. I bought a 57 BA convert, opened it, looked at what I needed to fix, tossed it in the box, and filed it in the pile. Same with the Del Rio, added supercharger instructions and a PL Courier rear bumper, then in the vault. It gets very old hearing the "kit assembler/rivet counter/real modeler can fix it/mean men drove manufacturers away" nonsense. That is what drags the threads out. Everyone that points out a problem is a target. Doesn't understand the "business". BS. We've known each other for decades, and I don't drive what I drive and do what I do without understanding business. I've used the hamburger analogy before. I may love the hamburger at a restaurant. I don't love the hair, roach, rat turd in it. If I made it at home? Shame on me. If someone sells it to me, shame on them. If a customer doesn't see the problem, that doesn't mean it's not there. It also isn't an accident if multiple people with eyes, willing experts on 1:1's available, and it makes it to production anyway. Cars I like don't use rivets anymore. Just bonding and composites. Does that make me a thread and bead counter?

Greg, $190 ish. Ordered already. You mentioned in Daytona thread the other day, but I'd forgot I had ordered it.

Not a Plymouth. Not a Cuda. BTW, texting allows you to respond when time, or far faster than a phone call/hold/fetch person/pleasantries/back to what you were doing. People in business use it vastly differently than average people. I don't need my computer, or much of a network. I can look at Xrays, send orders, discuss case with another doc, and send a file of labs at the same time. Just like we all have friends here we've never met, I've got friends/business associates, etc. I've never met, nor emailed. A rare phone call usually when one of us is heading home from office. So just because you don't choose to use it, or need to use it, doesn't mean it's useless. Actually holds true for a lot of things in life. I love Lewis Black. My daily fix, thanks Scott.

Cool, the Toonderbirds! Nice builds. F16 still wicked even as eggplane.

Modelhaus does a 4-door 67, which would require little to change to a 68. Dump the one year only signals below the front bumper, couple other fiddles, and you're there. Not cheap, but worth every nickel, and won't be available a whole lot longer. Ron and Dennis, those are great builds. The Landau has been a wish for a long time, and I have donor parts from a 67-69 for an attempt. The restomod is evil, my plan was along the line of a restomod Landau. Sweet.

Skip, I do think the SL was OK, and was only option for a long time. Not trying to start the usual drama by thinking the windshield is tall and narrow, and the car is a bit rotund. Not much, and it pulls it off OK, but the windshield hurts. Not too hard to drop posts, but harder to reposition uprights and make new glass. The Rolls can be built into a nice 7410 Mulliner Park Ward drophead. Or at least be a 80% completed project. Sides are a bit deep and lots of tweaking needed, but nice. http://www.vantagemotorworks.com/pre-owned/1964-rolls-royce-silver-cloud-iii-h-j-mulliner-convertible-lscx283-67484-miles/# This is Cloud III with quad lights, but same body. Same site has nice 300SL roadster that may (or, around here, may not) show my issue. Dealer has great references for building the Cloud standard sedan too. Wish someone did a BC47 Continental fastback.

We forgot about the Dauphine!! I found pics of an SL, kinda lumpy but that was it. Entex issued that iirc. I'm thinking the gassers may be familiar here

Here's box art from the auction. $282 sold. Forgot about Metros. They were really nice, a bit big but really well done.

They did 60,61 sedans, and 60,61,62 wagons. I've got all the wagons, 62 hardest IMO. They did the Rolls Cloud and TR3 in 1/23rd ish that still are floating around. I forget what else, but would pop all the wagons again for sure. All the promos of same warp badly, but they did nice job on the Ford kits. Cool box art too. MIB 62 wagon kit went for huge money on the bay awhile back. 300+ iirc.

I'm thinking hummer, and it ain't a truck. Geez what a salvation for this thread. Just. Dmn.

I always thought the Vega looked like an evil Opel Kadette panel. Ton of ideas, never a Vega or Pinto fan, but the Panel would be a great tow car for a DTM racer with Opel decals and a Bundespost horn decal. The Cal Street Vette was a real car, TD's daily driver. SS was just a re-use of the tool with changes for the worse. Cal needs to be restored to original status.

Never had them but I'd get the Vega. Would love Cal Street Vette again too.

Tend to agree. Can't see gurney bump on drivers door and nose not as long as the imc appears either. Decent job cutting door and not trashing greenhouse. Pretty flimsy on IMC Mk IIs

I thought the IMC MkIV had opening doors too like their others, mine's in storage so you're right, didn't remember that. MPC has weird hinge thingies that stick off engine cover into notches on cockpit/nose piece. Nose isn't separate on MPC. Replacement parts espcially for kit that's been cut up and this old won't happen. Keep looking for complete car I'd suggest. They pop up on EB often. Couple on their now for high prices. Good hunting

Aston T70 was fail, obviously Chevies rocked as below. The livery on the big scale Tamiya kit is that of one of the Aston powered cars. Sunoco coupe one of the nicest, Jim Glickenhaus has it and J6 Mk IV in the stable as well.

Nice Weber IDA's. Brad and Norm's Weber castings rock. Just need emulsion tubes and jets. 914/6 GT was great race car, fun street cars. Pretty funny, I was gone for awhile, and same 'ol nonsense. If a business can't take criticism of any kind, or improve "how the model looks", not the micron measurements, it's a failed business. Running away from a forum when FB, etc. are out there (the people that bring this up often don't usually have smart phones!!) is ludicrous I'm going back to work on my sweet white Mono 1/24 Camaro...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-24-HISTORIC-SPORTS-CARS-LOLA-T70-MKIII-DAYTONA-1969-8-AIR-TEAM-MULTIMEDIA-KIT-/311426259843?hash=item4882739b83 Looks nice, at $199 not cheap, but where else? Ed Cervo has them, he's a good vendor, bought stuff from him over years. Big kit is great, Aston power? I've looked at them but not closely, no room for big kits.

So right. Great craftsmanship. Just stunning. I've got a few of these primed and waiting for effort. Thanks for inspiration,

Looks great, some 458 Ferrari in the back. Dump the round tailpipes and try split or single trapezoidal tips?

Agree Chuck, IMC had opening doors and nose/roof/doors of MPC were all one piece. IMC fiddly to build, a bit small, but nice details. MPC looks better, nice build, a few things need mods for correctness, but I like it better. It's a Ford GT, can't go wrong either way. I don't see a tub/chassis in the pic, so check carefully. Parts not easy to come by.

LOL. Nobody sees anything face to face here. I had to point out JB hypocrisy since that subtlety lost on most. At least a couple people congratulated the OP on getting his master cast by someone. Doubt the "it's good enough" gang can say that.

"Sad sad clown"?

Tell you what jb. Save the showcar comments, and I won't comment on flimsy lump Loti, mmkay? Your tolerance of other types of kits is amazing but give it a rest. I also didn't see Airfix leap to doing any rally Escorts or 26R, etc so it isn't just the U.S. Esci was only company to do any reasonable Brit cars, there's irony. Daytona won't happen. GS is dead. The MFH 289 and the Supercoupe aren't really worth it over the HRM 289 and the ME Supercoupe. Theres a Lola GT70 coupe resin floating around on eBay that's not MFH. Looks ok but caveat emptor. Anyone seen one hands on?

Yes, just like your hateful multiple responses to showcar threads. Double standard much jb? Sad indeed. For that matter, your "they probably sell more kits than all the USA "manufacturers" (there are none, nothing is made in the USA except toothpicks and wood pellets evidently) put together. and to a much higher standard of detail for what is there" comment in a Cobra Daytona thread is pretty pathetic too.