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This subject has been raked over the coals for years. But I would like to make the following trite observation... One forum/magazine is warm and Greggarious. The other is cold and Haughty.

I think he meant the video teaser I posted. Anyway, the teaser looks great, and the documentary was produced by Warner Bros. and is airing on their CW network to promote the premiere of "The Dark Night Rises" (I'll be there with my daughter), so I expect it to be very cool. I also expect Batman to die at the end of Nolan's trilogy. No big deal, since in the comics world many heroes like Superman have died in "alternate universe" story arcs, and come back to fight another day.

This is the only one I didn't like (Batman Forever). I call it the Badmobile. Evidently, others agree. It sold at auction, for less than half the estimated price, at $297,000.

The neat thing is that MCM views SAM as complementary to the hobby and has no problem with reference to that magazine and site. It's not reciprocal.

When is it too late to take up something new? If you're in your 50s and want to be an Olympic competitor, or run a triathlon, maybe. But...come on. I think this question has an innate failure mode in the attitude. I'm having a hard time understanding why it was asked.

We have quite a few builders on this forum who seem to have a good perspective on this - if there's a subject that REALLY appeals to them, they'll go all-out on research and add as many bells and whistles as they can to make the finished model as realistic and as close to the 1:1 as possible. And sometimes, they'll go for something close, reach a point of satisfaction, and call it a day. And still end up with beautiful work, even if it's all box stock. I haven't seen anyone who is all perfectionist all the time.

Thanks for bringing this up. Definitely worth applause.

What's SAE? Is that the same as scaleautomag.com?

This Monday at 8 Eastern/7 Central, the CW network will have a couple of specials on the Batmobile (as they say, check your local listings). This is a lead-up to "The Dark Knight Rises." http://www.cwtv.com/...fc-ec7f01e1d2cb

"Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Rimbaud, Orson Welles and Bob Dylan all revolutionized their artistic disciplines before they turned 30. They were archetypal young geniuses. But Paul Cézanne, Mark Twain, William Butler Yeats, Alfred Hitchcock and Irving Berlin made equally important contributions to the same art forms, and they all produced their greatest work at 50 or older." And Alexander the Great conquered the known world at 25. But maybe you can build some good models for a while.

Evidently, the Valiant wagon was sold from 1960 to 1966. Here's kind of a clunky custom build from a car made by a company called Trax. I don't know if it's metal or what scale it is. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.allpar.com/images/models/Valiant-wagon-02.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.allpar.com/toys/valiant-estate.html&usg=__wdWV0Pvwn4pAzHdbtn2TEI0Jt3k=&h=240&w=648&sz=17&hl=en&start=3&zoom=1&tbnid=gDsQpCTPdk3DHM:&tbnh=51&tbnw=137&ei=xFsAUKbBNoeg8QSMofWoCA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dvaliant%2Bstation%2Bwagon%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1

I'm sure many (or maybe most) of you have seen Alex Kustov's website, but for those who haven't, it's a gold mine of information on his Ferrari builds, kit reviews and listings. http://www.italianhorses.net/

Not interested anymore. Look around the Diecast topic on this forum and you'll see plenty of excellent work that's just what you're doing, and somehow, lots of great builders seem to get it and post here.

But I bet you still suck dem crawfish heads. I do.

Okay, I've gotta say it, though some PC people may not get it. But I'm from the Gulf Coast in Texas, and there's an affectionate term for Cajuns reflected in the following statement: So, Glenn, sounds like you're a dyed-in-the-wool Louisiana coon-ass

I've had all of the above, except raccoon, rat and dog (though you can never be sure about some greasy spoons). And I've certainly had more than my share of Wild Turkey. (The liquid version)

Perfect. That's really outstanding.

Gator tail can be quite chewy, So... 1. Take the meat and pound the heck out of it with either a tenderizing mallet or a tenderizing spike tool. A fork can work. Take your chances with a more chunky cut of meat. 2. Coat it with a dry rub of salt, pepper and Old Bay, or a Cajun mixed spice (Tony Chachere's is good, and Zatarain's is okay). Rub in, let sit for a couple of hours or overnight. 3. When ready to cook, coat it with flour, then dip into beaten egg, then bread crumbs or Panko. (Classic deep fry recipe - coat with dry, then wet, then dry). 4. Sizzle in very hot peanut or vegetable oil until golden on both sides. Works with either tartar sauce, Louisiana red sauce or cook it like hot wings. In the end you won't know what Gator tail really tastes like unless you cut it into strips and simply use a calamari recipe. This recipe also works with pork chops and chicken breast.

Being from Knoxville, home of the Tennessee Vols, we know how to cook Gator tail right.

I wish I had the skills to do casting, and I think it all gets down to specific cases about the morality of it. What if you just need some minor, missing spare parts? Not easy if you have a rare kit. My example: 1. I have a 1/16 Rolls of a 1937 Phantom III. It comes with plastic wire wheels, which were seldom visible on the 1:1 car. Typically, it should have dish-style wheel covers over the wires. I need 6 sets (each wheel cover has 3 parts), for the running wheels and fender-mounted spares. 2. The 1/16 Rolls Phantom II Continental kit has exactly what I need, but only for 4 wheels. I can cover that with my parts car. But I need 2 more. Revell of Germany has recently reissued the Phantom II with the parts I need. I contacted them to see if I could get the 2 sprues I needed. They said no, I'd have to buy the whole kit. Well, I ain't going to spend $60 for two wheel covers, and I see nothing ethically wrong with copying the necessary parts (even though I don't know how to do it). After all, I bought their kit to begin with. Just like anything else, it's a question of context.

Not to draw too fine a point on this, but looking at the listing shows that the seller DID NOT SPECIFICALLY STATE NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING, just as Casey indicated by posting a link to the listing. He only offered US shipping rates, and the shipping inquiry button was set up to only allow US shipping and no other options (which doesn't necessarily mean no international shipping was available). This could have been cleared up ahead of time by sending a question to the seller. Many of my eBay purchases have been from other countries, and I have done this in the past. And I have seen time and time again on this forum that Canadian members are amazed at the costs of shipping to Canada from the US, just across the border. We have plenty of threads on that.

PS: It really doesn't matter if you're not selling anything for profit if it contains copyrighted material that you haven't cleared and licensed. Want to make and give away free Coca-Cola T-shirts? Get ready for the onslaught. It's unauthorized usage of intellectual property and will result in charges of copyright infringement, brand dilution, etc., etc. There are lots of examples like this and the for-profit VVMF shirts. After all, Coke makes money from licensing their trademark for usage by other companies, who pay them good money and hope to make a profit. If it's copied and given away free, it competes with those who have paid for the rights. Most companies will send you a cease-and-desist letter first. Ted's woes resulted from having said "No" to the VVMF's contact. (There ARE a limited number of tricky exemptions for certain uses; for example, Pepsi can do comparative advertising showing Coke products without their permission, BUT they have to give Coke's copyright and trademark notice just as Coke would print it.) Many fat books have been written about the subject. This is different from actually duplicating a company's product and comes under the weirder terms of trademark law. In the end, any unauthorized usage of protected intellectual property can get you, even for casting one engine for your own use (though that's very, very unlilkely).

Just because a kit is currently out of production, or the company is gone, that doesn't mean that it no longer has copyright protection. And whether the casting is produced in styrene, resin or cottage cheese, it doesn't make any difference. It's a copy and/or a counterfeit of someone else's property. As long as you're not selling multiple copies or advertising such, I can't see any problem. But for your information: In general, anything copyrighted before 1923 is in the public domain. Anything copyrighted since then until 1978 is eligible for renewal every 28 years. Under the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, (this is the most current law, applying to anything copyrighted since 1978): This is governed by statutory section 17 USC 302. According to this section, a work that is created (fixed in tangible form for the first time) on or after January 1, 1978 is ordinarily given a term enduring for the author's life, plus an additional 70 years after the author's death. In the case of "a joint work" prepared by two or more authors that was not a "work made for hire," the term lasts for 70 years after the last surviving author's death. For works made for hire, and for anonymous and pseudonymous works (unless the author's identity is revealed in Copyright Office records), the duration of copyright will be 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter. Most corporate products would probably be defined as works made for hire, and may have patent protection as well. There is another copyright law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, that deals with electronic and online material, but that has different considerations, as does Trademark Law.

Yeah, I'd like to know what this is about. Jim Crow laws = official oppression against African-Americans, and unless someone deleted a post we haven't seen, I don't get it.

Great work. Just right in so many ways. No one else will have anything like that on their shelf - which to me is the best joy in modeling.