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Bill, every time I look at your builds, I have to go in the corner and mumble to myself. I can't believe those working window regulators in the 64 Goat. Totally awesome. BigBlock, all I can say is just go for the clean build. You can practice the hinging of doors on scrap bodies. Find some cheapy glue bombs or snap kits and cut away. One method that works well is using thread to cut the doors. Pulling the thread back and forth like a saw creates heat with the friction and does a better job than the X-acto blade method. It's easier to control, too. Good luck out there. I won a contest way back in 92 with a 1/43rd scale AMT AMX kit. Just some nice detail with paint and added a shifter made from a straight pin because the little kit did not include one. It was my first BMF use as well.

Really awesome 4X4s, and I love the tractor. I used to drive one like that. Jairus, ya better watch out, this guy is good.

I sure think that truck shouldn't be too hard to come by on ebay or the other OOP sites. Lindberg also made that truck in 1/20th scale.

Didn't the Tiger come with Minilites, too?

Didn't finish anything this year, but I did acquire some of my "grails". A Renwal 66 Stuts and a Renwal 66 Packard. Also a Johan sealed 66 Marlin and a 62 Chrysler 300.

I really like the new Camaro, and when I get the kit , I want to do a "what if" Firebird

Atleast no one said Air Amerika :mrgreen:

Got a few under my hat, so to speak. Met Ronald Reagan and got to have lunch with him in Milwaukee on a campaign stop. Also met Alan Kulwicki and Dick Trickle (my mom knew him when young kids) When I lived in Santa Barbara I met John Travolta, Robert Mitchum (he would buy booze and drink with the winos on the beach) Met Joan Baez whilst delivering a couch to a DJ friend. Met Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark) Roger DeCoster, a motocross racer for the Suzuki team. Lynn Anderson, a jazz musician in rehab at the center I worked at. In the 70s, I smoked a substance with the guy who eventually became Mayor of the City of Madison; Paul Soglin. Also roadied for David LaFlamme (previously of It's A Beautiful Day)in northern California. Won a karaoke contest and got to cut a record with Fabrice Movan, 1/2 of Milli Vanilli...uh don't laugh, this guy can actually sing. We did a version of No Woman, No Cry by Bob Marley. There are more but age and "other Things from the seventies" causes me to forget from time to time...oh oh, and Brooks Stevens, a famous industrial designer and creator of the Excalibur cars + Alain Clenet, creator of the Clenet cars in santa Barbara. Oh yeah, met Julia Child buying fish from the fish monger on the pier in SB

Jeeez, did you work for the Rolling Stone magazine?

You know, diapers aren't that expensive. You don't have to use instruction sheets.

No, the salesman did not lie, he was just uninformed. Superclean was originally made by castrol, but it got sold to a different company and is now known only as "Superclean". I do not know what the new company is called but the formulation is the same and still works as well as it ever did.

When Ertl first brought out their truck kits, the front tie rod was made so you had to "weld" it to the steerable wheels. It was called a "swage"

EEEWWW, Roaches...YUCH!! Good thing we don't have those problems.

Welcome welcome welcome

Ya know, that guy is probably still building models because you took the time to talk about it. Most 15 year olds I knew didn't associate with the younger kids on the way to school. Glad you kept it up after your service (thanx for that, too). I wonder if we could get some of the model companies to get some movie producers to put kits in the background. Companies like Coke do it all the time. It's called placement.

Hi, I am a member of the Wisconsin Street Rod Association. During the last couple of years I have been in charge of the model contest that goes along with it. I am going to bring up at the next meeting that I intend to change it to a NNL type event with participant voting. The club is going to have me in a different building that gets more walk thrus during the day. If anyone would be interested in coming next year, its during the Labor Day Weekend in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. I will post again when I get more info from the club. We would like to see you there.

Holy Combat!!!! What is that thing? Never seen one. WOW

Oh yes, scrap cable is a great source for model wiring. I work for a company that makes those wire harnesses and I'm always digging in the scrap pile.

fantastic article, gonna build one for myself.

Zeb, I guess you could go to slotblogs.net. They got political stuff on there all the time.

Just remember, everything can be found in the last place you look, so to avoid all the wasted time, go there first

The last contest ish was cool, but please make the pics bigger, my 52 year old eyeballs can't see good and it's a drag to use a magnifying glass when reading.

Gregg could move to Wisconsin. We have a great model club (AMG), and the houses are cheap compared to Salem or Colorado. Plus it's been so humid here, that palm trees will prolly take root and survive. BTW, what is the furthest east and furthest north you would see palm trees.

GRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAN

i was eligible for my AARP card two years ago :twisted: