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You go ahead and dump toxic chemicals on the ground and drink the well water if you want to Andy ! This is America after all-people should be able to be as socially irresponsible as they want. (this is sarcastic humor BTW)

Does anybody remember "Love Canal"?

Nice looking build-Could we see a few shots of the other side of the car ?

From what I've heard ( ) some of those old MPC kits are pretty nice.

This is my buddys '40 Mercury 4dr. sedan-at first glance most people think it's a '40 Ford It might not be to hard to turn a Revell '40 Ford coupe into a Mercury-easier if it was a chopped custom.

It seems that Chuck Manson was into dune buggys, and even bought into a dune buggy shop in the late 60's

Maybe the Moderator should follow the same rules and post their real names too ? Speaking of senseless tripe....how about some Menudo ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4Dp3Gr-Gw&feature=related

Last year I asked the nice lady that owns the book store/news stand if she would get Model Car Magazine in stock-she said "No Way" ! since they carry Scale Auto, I asked her why not ? she replied "By the time MCM arrives at the store it is already expired." She went on to tell me that she sells about a dozen copies of Scale Auto every two months, and IF she ever has a copy or two left that didn't sell that she can return them to her supplier for a refund-but they will not take the MCM back because they were already expired when she ordered/received them. She went on to say-and I quote- "If I was running a grocery store, I would not exept an order of bread or meat that was expired before it got to my store either" She asked why I just didn't get a subscription and have it delivered to me? So last Sept. 26, 2011 I ordered and paid for a subscription......got it the first week of January 2012, I believe it was the Oct. issue....and the last two pages were un-readable. 3 months and two weeks to get a subscription is not exeptable !! I'm sorry to say that I asked for my money back, (and got it)

Just picked up this set last week, some times I put the part that needs to be drilled in the cordless drill chuck and hold the tiny drill bit in my fingers, making sure to pull the drill bit out to un-load the chips so it does'nt get packed up and break the bit.

I'm sorry for your loss, Darin

The first time I saw it was at the drive-in movies in the late '60s. It still pops up on TCM from time to time.

The Monogram Kurtis Kraft kit has a driver and a mechanic figure.

http://www.freep.com/article/20091109/BLOG36/91108033/Video-Truck-pushed-from-Packard-Plant-s-4th-floor That building looks spot on, Dr. Cranky !!! You could Google the old Packard Plant in Detroit, Google the Scranton Lace Company also.

1977 Mercury Cougar Villager

My friend "Dinky" influences alot of my model builds....some good and some bad. He steals parts from time to time and gets hair in a paint job. Another lesson I've learned from young Dinky-- Some times he wants to share his enthusiasm and make new friends only to get a face full of Porkie-Pine quills.

My family ordered me a subscription to Model Car Magazine for Christmas on Sept. 26, 2011- So I got a printed copy of the E-mail from when they ordered it because the magazine hasn't gotten here yet.........

You're right ! Thanks for pointing that out-I went back and corrected the math-Sorry about that !

I would like to help out with this, and hope I don't make it more difficult to understand. First we have to understand the difference between a fraction such as 1/4,1/2 or 3/4 as opposed to a scale value such as 1/24 or 1/32 ect. And then some thing different altogether-decimal value. A fraction is a different subject than scale value when we are going to reduce 1;1 subjects into scale sizes. The way I do it is in a decimal form. An inch will look like this 1.000 If you look at any thing in 1:1 and want to convert it into any scale for modeling we take the value of a foot is 12 inches in 1:1, divide 12 by what ever scale you would like to work in and it will give you the decimal value. A foot is 12 inches divided by 48 (1/48) will equal 0.250 12 inches divided by 24 (1/24) equals 0.500 12 divided by 25 (1/25) equals 0.480 12 divided by 32 (1/32) = 0.375 12 divided by 78 (1/78) = 0.153 If you were 5 ft. 8 in. tall and wanted to make a figure of your self in any scale, you could do it like this= 5ft.8in. would be 68 inches so we will use 68 as the first value divided by what ever scale we use. 68 divided by 48 (1/48)you would be 1.416 tall 68 divided by 25 (1/25) you would be 2.720 tall I bought this dial caliper at a pawn shop for $20.00 and use it all the time on my model bench. If any body would like to start a thread in the "How To" section, I'd be happy to help any one learn the basics of using dial calipers in our hobby.-Chris

In the 1953 movie "Niagara" starring Marilyn Monroe-her husband was building a few different brass radiator era modal cars.

James, you got me motivated to build a couple of these mini bikes,your's came out great !!! so I took the measurements from a 1;1 Honda CT70 and converted it to 1/25 scale. Then took the 1/24 scale Z50 from the Baja Beast to make this.......I guess it's a 1/24 and a half scale ?

Now that's some real eye candy right there !!!!!

After seeing how nice your mini 50 came out, I found two Baja Beast kits just for the mini bikes-I'm going to build one of the VWs and trade off the other.Keep up the good work, I'm looking forword to seeing what you do with the CT70.-Chris