Chuck Most

Seeing the engine seals the deal for me... I'll be getting a few just for that intake setup!

The Modelhaus wheels don't look quite like those, but they would be appropriate for such a vehicle.

Do want that Escort. And you just have to love the exclaimation points used after the molded color and tire material information.

What that means... not very rare. Guess I'll go ahead and build mine, one of these days. Anyone know of a good tutorial on how to get an accurate finish on a mule?

Nice! That kit's been on my wanted list for a while.

This thread made me dig out one of the oddballs in my stash... anybody else ever seen one?

Cool! I have that Minicraft Model A kit, but haven't done much to it other than glue the engine halves together. Like the way yours is shaping up. And as an IH truck fanatic, I like the idea of doing a big-scale KB5.

I was expecting to see a buildup of the Monogram midget... pleasant suprise! Fantastic job on that one.

The regular 300 kits are already out and about (my local shop will be getting them in in the next few weeks) but if the sales of the Flock Hornet were any indicator... get one of these Flock Chryslers, like, YESTERDAY!

Awesome! I'm not the only one who doesn't 'get' it regarding that car.

"Northern Michigan" is basically anything north of Harrison, until you hit the bridge... then you are in the UP. Which is the UP, not 'northern Michigan', as Tim pointed out.

Please tell me you replicated the damage caused by Hamster and Clarkson's sabotage of the AC system.

Almost there, gang...

As George Carlin once said- "There's a lot of things you never see. And you know you don't see them 'cause you don't see them. You've got to see something first to know you never saw it, then you see it and say "hey, I never saw that." Too late; you just saw it." I have the Arii '72 T-Bird... mine was not the American Violence version, and the box art was much less amusing... It's way bigger than the listed 1:24 scale- those AMT Rides Magazine wheels fill out the wheelwells quite nicely. I don't own any of the following, but they're ones I'd like to have. How about a Premiere Corvair Rampside? Or the SMP 1911 Chevrolet kit, offered only in 1961? Or, there's the Premiere Studebaker Champ pickup kit- I've never been able to dig up a photograph of one of those, though. Or the one I'd REALLY like to find, the Aurora '33 Ford street rod kit- this picture is from Ken Kitchen's Fotki, and Tim Boyd showed one off in his hot rod engines series in the other mag a few years back. This is the one Greg posted the box art image for earlier on.

One of the guys here, Ernie (oldman23) has made a few working crank mechanisms out of brass- they're near exact miniatures of the real mechanism in 1:25. That's one of the few things I've seen in the scale model world which has actually left quite an impression on me!

I had no interest whatsoever in a '73 GMC... until I saw that grille. Now I might be inclined to go ahead and build one.

There's the beauty of living in a state made up of not one, but two, penninsulas.

Guess I hadn't taken that consideration into account, even though I've seen it first hand. And it doesn't just apply to owner/operators, fleet drivers aren't immune to those kinds of feelings! I remember when Ford sold off its heavy truck line to Sterling. The Gratiot County road commission was using mostly Ford trucks in its fleet, and quite a few of the drivers were NOT thrilled when the Sterlings started being phased in... even though the Sterlings were the exact same trucks they'd been operating as Fords. And of course, now Sterling is history, and Gratiot is switching over to Freightliners now. I'm a little 'out of the loop' with the road commission nowadays, since I no longer know anyone who works there, but I'm pretty sure there are a few drivers who aren't happy about that switchover.

One of the best kits to come out of the Original AMT. Strangely, this and the '53 Starliner are normally slow sellers for AMT, but they keep on bringin' 'em back... and this guy has no problem with that at all. I'll be picking a few of these up, even though I already have a Prestige and Millennium issue. The only gripe I have about the kit is the front seats- they're tiny! They look closer to 1:32 scale. But all things considered, it's still a fantastic kit.

Funny you mention that... I saw an official-looking 'recall notice' from Ikea making the rounds yesterday, asking customers to return the left-handed units included in their kits in exchange for the proper right-handers. I'm wondering how many people fell for it.

Nice! Love those old Triumphs.

To be truthful,the best 'reference' pic I have seen of the heater hose assembly is in Bill and Len's article. It's difficult to get a nice, uncluttered look at it in most online photos I've dug up. Next time I'm in the vicinity of a 1:1 step-down Hudson, I'll be sure to snap a few photos.

Cool way to get around all the body inaccuracies in that kit.

Even though they're designed and built by the same people, and have been for quite some time...?