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Tremendous detail. Curious just the driver or a passenger?

What I did was to get a roll of metal flashing and created a circle that fit into the grove of the dehydrator. Mine is 8 or 10 inches wide. It is long enough I could make three or four more. This works well for me as I don't need to worry about it being effected by heat.

Good luck. There have been a few others but they're long obsolete. I'd love to find a Snake final strike but I put that in the not likely catagory.

Looking this over.....still amazed. I have similar equipment and wish I had similar skills. Where are you sourcing your plastic?

I keep hoping Round2 will release a couple of drag racers or other race cars each year. While I have a mint 1/20 STP Turbine and a built up to rebuild, it would be great to see it or the MPC McLarens reissued. The MPC Camaro and Dodge Dart funny cars haven't been available since the early 70's if not late 60's. In that same vein, I'd love to have some pro stocks to buy. The last one available was the Mustang II.

I've not built one but have a few. If the threads are machine threads, you might need to tap them. I've got some from the early years (Hubley's) and they're not cast that well. I think that's a part of the metal molding process.

Is that the old MPC mold? If so, I built that kit when it had the old Dyno Don Super Cat decals.

Great body. This is one I'll be watching.

Look for the Monogram Camaro. They make a late 70's early 80's kit that shouldn't be too hard to find.

Not model related but I went to a couple of Ollie's today and found a hardcover book, 75 Years of Hot Rod Magazine for $12.99. Put that together with my new copy of MCM, and I'm a happy camper.

THANK YOU!!!! I use Brave which is built off of the Chrome engine. For several months the site would not advance pages. It does now. THANKS!!!

Mine have been a bust. That looks like a haul I'd like. Heck I'd bought more than one of several of those.

Basics of trademark law, if its likely to cause confusion, its illegal. Period.

teresawulf is the Reliable Resin of decals. I ended up with a set of theirs in a purchase. BAD photocopy of a Slixx set. I have no idea how they're still around.

I want to watch this one.

Looks darn convincing to me.

For the most part I don't remember those in those be covered in MCM. You might be more successful in finding that info in SAE or if you can find it the old, old, Model Car Journal.

I agree that most likely MCM unlike its predecessor, Plastic Fanatic was created using desktop publishing. Depending on the software and storage used, converting the old files to a modern PDF file format may be fairly easy to quite challenging. Until PDF workflow became standard in the publishing industry, you needed several files for a publication. Not only did you need the layout, which was most likely created in Quark Xpress or possibly Pagemaker, as well as all the photo files as well as fonts if they are not standard system fonts. If any of those elements were absent, the file would not print. If all those files exist in an accessible format (got a Zip Drive handy?), the early issues could be reassembled if those layout files exist to create PDFs. If they're on one of a host of various odd ball removable storage devices, you need someway to open those obsolete devices. If the files were converted to PostScript, that can cause a new set of challenges. Finally, the magazine is over 25 years old. The odds of the original files for some of those early years still existing is slim. They were created in an era where storing 256 Gb was a challenge. Scanning the older magazines are a viable option if the original files aren't accessible or can't be easily converted.

I have a bit of expertise in this matter having completing digitizing a regional racing newspaper that was published before the transition to desktop publishing. The early issues os MCM were either created as paste-ups or Quark Express. If the complete Quark files were available, they may possibly be exported into a PDF. If the files are not complete or the magazine was created as a paste-up, the printed magazines could be scanned. Based upon the page count, each issue could be scanned in about two hours. More than likely, later issues were created in InDesign and exported to PDF to be sent to the printer. All the PDFs could be saved to a larger pdf file. My recent project went to about 5000 11 x 14 pages. Size is not an issue for this magazine. For 220 issues averaging 100 pages with some issues having more and some being down to about 64 pages, it's about 2200 pages. That's doable. The problem is how to prevent it from being freely distributed. The files must be large enough where people think about copying and giving to their friends or posting on-line. Anti-copy can be added to CDs, but most new computers don't have optical drives. Jump drives are fairly easy to copy but most people think about copying files onto a $10 drive versus a 50 cent CD.

There's so much that's so good. Until I saw the picture of the engine with the photoshopped fingers I thought it was the real thing. Your tires are proof of why so many military modelers don't like rubber tires. The spark plug boots and hood latch are killer. Too much to list. Just a great build.

What about merging this kit with the old Aurora/Monogram DB-4? It is 1/25 but you never know until you try.

Agreed....I'm currently working on the Bates Mansion.

I'd go for the Franklin Mint and update if desired.

I agree with the use of epoxy. CA doesn't seem to bond as well to metal. Bondo is designed for metal. I look forward to seeing this. I remember a late magazine had a great article by Mark G on customizing the retro T-Bird.

Looks nice but how does the power get to the rear wheels?