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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.

Actually I think you need to go back to the early 70's for good looking Indy cars.

Is it possible to change the name of a topic? I'd like to update a topic in the Trade section.

They're still around......they're recycled into Camaros.

It made a great funny car.

This is more of a textbook than a build. Thanks for sharing! I keep on looking and getting so many ideas how to improve my work.

Wait to their available at Harbor Freight.

Very nice!

I've always thought of this as a hard kit to build. You've done exceptional with it.

The price to ship to Canada has changed drastically over the past ten years as has US rates. At one time I could ship to Canada for a few bucks more than US. Then US Post went to regions. It then cost less to ship to Canada for me on the east coast than the west coast of the US. This is about the same time eBay started wanting you to list shipping prices. To decrease the fraud on shipping (I once saw a motorcycle with a $9.95 starting price and a $24,995 shipping price.....item MUST be shipped), they started taking a percentage of shipping. eBay has made it very hard on individuals to sell. They'd rather you be mass merchant.

I saw these at Ollies and passed over them. Even had it in my shopping cart. My mistake. This is going to gether very nicely.

I think the pics are good to show sinister but they take away from the quality of the build.

Just took a look at the pictures. The decal on the mag is great. Then I looked at the head gaskets. If I didn't know better I'd swear they were cork.