lordairgtar

My GF always seems to come home with a kit I don't have. I don't know how she does that. I mean, she does know what my interests are, but I think she's going into the garage and memorizing my stash.

I now some PD used some odd choices for patrol cars. Cotati, California used Mazdas in the early 70s. You can understand my surprise when one pulled up to me to ask questions of me. I was hitching through the town. Some California cities had late 70s, early 80s Novas as squads as well. One odd car was the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Corvette DARE program car. I saw it pull over a speeder once. Must have been on the way to a car show or school event.

Went to a rummage sale and got the 1/16th scale Lindberg Wells Fargo Stage Coach kit for $5. I see the Concord Version going at $80. Not sure what I'll do with it, but I couldn't pass it up at that price. It's tape sealed and I haven't opened it yet. At a car show yesterday, I picked up a Revell Porsche 911 Targa with extra detail parts included. I guess I have to cut open the trunk and engine cover it seems to build it. This was $5 as well.

At one time, I, and another person who sold T-shirts with car drawings on them, had a discussion with the possibility of doing cars without the names or model names on a given car. In other-words there would be no "BelAir" or "Chevrolet" call outs on the art. GM pretty much told us that even the shape of the car is their property and we would still have to pay a royalty or licensing fee. This would have been my own artwork of the car on the shirt. Similarly, my father's 1961 Chevy wagon had three original wheel covers and one that was just a tad different. Where the word Chevrolet would have been, it was a series of little dots or circles with the bow tie replaced with a rectangle surrounded top and bottom with a dash or line slightly shorter than the rectangle. It was a part from JC Whitney.

This tractor was made to be used as a car to go to town. Would this be a model car?

That happens in Wisconsin all the time.

I'm working on that same kit off and on. Also the Pyro Renault brass car. Some had actual plating that looked like brass and others had the gold colored plastic. LifeLike ones had grey plastic for the metal parts. My Renault has the brass plating. I have two Caddys, one with gold plastic trim and the other is grey trim.

I never thought anyone could rice up a Rolls, but I guess I was wrong.

I got 98% too, but my mistake was on the years of the Mercurys. I know the 51 and the 56. The other two are so much alike that I screwed that up.

Showing up in a Jag E type painted with the Union Jack would have been bad form.

Good deal for sure.

If you know the driver's name or the main sponsor, you might find better pics of the decals. Also contact the driver himself and ask.

It's a basic Poloroid digi-cam with no macro. Cell phones have better cam features than this piece of .........

Two awesome hobby shops in the Milwaukee area. Model Empire which discounts all the kits a couple bucks right off the bat, plus they have OOP stuff for sale as well. Then Greenfield News And Hobby. Huge store with all kinds of art supplies and crafts plus Model Railroading supplies, RC, Armor and Military models. They will order stuff for you if it's not in the store. They even search other stores in the midwest to find the kit you need. They accept my model club membership for a 10% discount. There are other places in the area, but these two are the best.

No, my cam is a piece of ..........

Now that IS an idea.

This is my favorite, one of them Roooskie cars from Soviet union. A GAZ Volga! I got it from a friend (Tor henning) in Norway.

Good job, Jim. The Harley and RC helped I see. I get the same grief with trying to make steering that works. I'm going to have poseable wheels under my Firebird wagon if it kills me. Got the steering assembly pined and functioning. Now to figure a way to attach the tie rod.

At the Milwaukee NNL I wound up winning a bunch of the raffle swag. AMT 57 Chrylser kit Monogram Long John Kit Testor's 928 Porsche Galaxie 21 ft. Trailer kit AMT Country time nascar Grand Prix Flintstone Resin 34 Ford phantom delivery body Flintstone Resin 28 Ford Fordor chopped sedan

The Chinese made a model of their old Hong Qi limo. Why can't Russia come up with a Chaika sedan or a ZIL or a GAZ?

Very clean build. I always manage to break something on motor cycle builds.

I would like to see Gregg come to the Milwaukee NNL. (cue Fist Full Of Dollars music) Seeing Gregg and Sherrif Haught in the same room. The mind boggles.

Great job Double D. When you gotta get that stiff to the morgue quickly.....

Nice work. Is the tag honoring vets of the Viet Nam war?

The 1/20th scale Ford Van, I believe by MPC had a crankshaft and a clear oil pan plus pistons. I remember trying to add oil into the pan. Not a good idea. I was 14 then.