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I have an open spot on my display case for this......Absolutely tremendous work.

Great photos.....only question is where are all the spectators? That great exhibit deserves a good crowd. It's the type of museum my wife hates.....I could easily be there for hours and want to come back the next day.

Polished plastic? Wow that looks killer. Great job.

Folks if you're trying to get rid of model car related magazines post them up here please. While I'm not interested in most full scale car magazines (unless they're pre 1980), I'm trying to replace my model car magazines. I'm not sure why, but I'd like to have them.....maybe for inspiration?

I agree with the chassis swap. As for your repair......I really need a couple of those Multi Mavericks. That repair is perfect.

Seriously......that Crower looks like it would fire up. Tremendous work.

Wow.........words I can't say.....Wow. Absolutely amazing.

I know where I'm coming to visit. I'll bring my own boxes.

Maybe paint, clear, decal then clear to protect the decals.

What is interesting about this thread is when the stock kit was first released the other magazine named it one of the top kits of the year. Which indicates several possible things. Are we more picky? Did they try to make AMT happy? Or has the overall quality of kits improved?

What about the Camaro in the background?

Go to a well stocked hobby shop that deals with trains. Ask there. I believe they are made by Grandt Line. If you're foing to make them dirty and grungy, I'd go that route instead of the beautiful stuff from RB Motion, plus they'd be a lot cheaper.

These look much more like modern race cars than the last few attempts of snap cars. I do think there is a legitimate fear that they will overly saturate the market. While the temptation is to produce a different kit for every possible decal/race scheme, that leads to a lot of dead warehouse stock. Hopefully they'll do two Fords, two Chevys and one or two Toyotas and let the modelers who want different variants buy additional decals from decal vendors.

Try this link instead......http://www.speedcityresin.com/ModelGallery1.html Those are really sweet!

This is the new Camaro body vs. the old new Camaro body. I saw drawings of that car and thought, I like that. Then I saw the actual conversions and thought, close but not right. This one is right. I never liked the originals enough to want, but I'd really like to own this one.

Glad to have another Kanawha County modeler.

When I was younger I REALLY wanted one. From what I've since learned, not getting one may have been a very good thing.

What about modifying a disposable plastic spoon?

I disagree. This site ha had issues in the past, but, I feel overall it works pretty well for what it is. Even with the issues (a typical annoyance for a site that has become too big to be a one man operation but not profitable enough to have a support staff), the content is so far above what i available to most American modelers, I'm willing to support it to just remain as it is.

I buy the magazine every month issue. Common phone call, "Sherry (owner of shop), new copy of Model Cars in? Great. Hold me a copy." I support my LHS and the magazine. I know subscribers are more profitable (I teach magazine business models). With 700K views, you should be able to get some advertisers but most people don't like that. I do think a minimal subscription/donation for support makes sense. Maybe disable PMs and searches for non subscribers. Make it cheap. We're a cheap group. Make payment convenient.... We're also lazy. The challenge is finding the price point where people will buy into it without debating its value. I'd suggest $10 which is half of one kit or about a can of spray paint. 500 subscribers would be $5000 which would go a long way to make hosting this site break even.

Was this bought from Jimmy or another vendor? Can you PM me the auction link? I've bought JF stuff before and while its not Modelhaus, it is typically pretty good. This is well below the typical JF standards. I'd contact the seller and ask for a replacement or a refund.

Two questions.......would photo etch pieces work or are they too thin? Also, how did you cut the individual pieces out of what you made on your rotary table?

I remember traveling on the backroads of Illinois and saw a lot of sprint cars that looked a lot like this. I have to agree with Bob Frias, "In the right setting this would be epic. Great job."

If I ruin a glue bomb, I ruin a glue bomb. If I ruin a kit, I RUIN A KIT!

I keep bouncing between working in plastic or brass. Looking at your beautiful work on the tie rod bracket, I don't know why I'd have any question.