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Just a note that I think many of you will understand and appreciate. Like other forums, we get a lot of new threads with titles that are really blind and you can't tell what they're about until you open them. I say this in particular based on a recent thread where I could help, called only "Instructions question." That's just a matter of short-term inexperience, no harm done, but it doesn't help the OP very much. In this case, he wanted to know about air cleaners on a Revell 1950 pickup. It would be much better, resulting in more qualified help, if the title had been "50 Ford pickup air cleaner help" or something specific like that where people who knew the kit could respond and perhaps offer advice. Just trying to encourage members, especially the newer ones, to make their topics as clear as possible.

PS: I might add that you could get more and better help if your thread title was more specific, such as "50 Ford pickup instruction help."

My Google search indicates that Odds n' Ends paint is made by Plasti-Kote. You may want to check that.

Well done, Doctor, thanks for posting this. One more destination for my bucket list.

Complete instructions here. It appears to have a custom engine without an air cleaner. http://public.fotki....l-50-ford-f-1-/

Somebody needs to build it this way.

It strikes me that Rapid Prototyping / 3D printing is still a long way off for the individual modeler, though it will come. In the interim, I would think the next step is for independent companies such as HobbyTown USA or somebody like Revell to offer the 3D printing process as a per-order customer service, in a far more widespread manner than we have now. A similar example would be that Amazon currently offers a number of videos duplicated on DVDs on a custom, per-order basis.

If you haven't seen this scratchbuilding/modification journal on the "Duel" Peterbilt, you might find it interesting.

Based on other reference, that air cleaner doesn't look stock.

Best I can tell it looks good, but but all that dust you mentioned really gets in the way of appreciating it. Can you clean it up and give us better pictures?

One thing I read a while back (though I know NOTHING about it) is that some aging porn stars thought that the sharpness of HDTV would spell the end of their careers.

Analog TV is depressing enough. I don't need to see mustache hair follicles.

It's the only quote on the subject I can pretend to halfway understand! (And I can't begin to understand Excel, since I've never had occasion to need it - I leave that up to the company's number crunchers.) But you Brits and Europeans have had over 30% more scan line resolution than the US for decades, with your PAL vs. our NTSC. I am very grateful for a Mac computer that can play all regions DVDs, while I would have to buy a special DVD player to view Region 2 and above videos.

No question my analog TV affects my picture, though I've been on a fiber-optic digital cable box for years. I understand nothing about why some cable channels can adapt their HD transmissions to letterbox to work with older TVs, and others, like my local PBS, have a cut-off image. You get some unintentionally funny images that way, like a tight shot of two people talking to each other and you only see two noses at each side of the screen. For those with the patience to "get the picture," here's the difference, and why our old-time TVs don't have the resolution of new HDTV sets and transmissions: "For old times' sake, let's start with NTSC analog TV, the kind we've all grown up with. Although NTSC has a total of 525 horizontal scan lines, it only uses about 480 of these for the actual image. There are 720 pixels in each interlaced scan line, so our NTSC pixel calculation looks like this: 480 scan lines x 720 pixels/line = 345,600 pixels Rounding up slightly, we get about 350,000 total pixels on an old-fashioned NTSC TV set. The main promise of joy with digital HDTV (High Definition Television) is its much greater resolution. HDTV pixels are smaller and squarer than NTSC pixels, so HDTV can resolve finer details and hold smoother curves. Plus, you get considerably more pixels to look at. HDTV has a total of 1,125 scan lines, but it only uses 1,080 of these for the actual image (hence the "1080i" HDTV specification). There are 1,920 pixels in each interlaced scan line, so our HDTV pixel calculation looks like this: 1,080 scan lines x 1,920 pixels/line = 2,073,600 pixels Rounded off, an HDTV set gives us about 2 million total pixels, about six times the number of NTSC pixels."

Sigh. I'm getting a little worn out saying how fabulous your 1/43 builds are, but I can't help myself. However, I wish you'd show more of your interiors before you mount the bodies.

I agree in general, and I think the weakest link (no pun intended) is that these two tutorials are needlessly complicated and perhaps dated. In posting images., just about everything can be accomplished through a process of copy/paste at every stage without manually typing in stuff like URLs. And the Photobucket tutorial completely overlooks the process of how to upload images to Photobucket, which is essential to first-time users.

Just terrific in every detail. Wonderful interior and even the roof reflectors/lights are perfect.

Stuff like this brochure is always helpful... http://www.fordinsid...-Edsel-brochure More and bigger images... http://www.oldcarbro...l/dirindex.html Accessories (click on next at the upper right of each image) http://www.oldcarbro...l%20Acc-00.html

One theme that seems to be repeated here is about manufacturers and service providers who are on a technological curve that's way ahead of their audience. One very simple thing that irritates me is the tiny size of the scoreboards in the corners of the pictures on TV sports events - in many cases, especially football, the score graphics are so tiny I can't tell which graphic stands for which team and what the numbers are. This may be because I'm not one of the 25% of viewers with a flat-screen TV that's 40" or larger. All I've got is an older 27" TV. And many networks bleed the widescreen HD image off both sides of my picture (losing about 25% of the transmitted image), unlike others who are smart enough to letterbox the image.

Just a word of warning about HP: They announced last summer that they're getting out of the PC business. They fired their CEO since then, so it might change.

Nice work, but... not quite sure why this thread has been revived after 6 years.

I would add that my next-door neighbors in my apartments just brought home yesterday a beautiful, sweet and playful black Lab mix, 6 months old, that was 24 hours away from euthanasia at a very high-quality shelter here. Something to think about.

As you can see, Tom, you have many friends who have experienced similar sorrow and I am among them. I think the gift of daily, unconditional love is one of the most special things in the world, which is so often provided by our pets. I once thought that I couldn't open my heart to another one after such a loss, but I found that adopting a dog without a very long wait was exactly what I needed. My avatar shows my current best friend, Greta the Miniature Schnauzer and Great White Hunter, who came within 4 months of the passing of my beloved Sydne the Dalmatian. This little girl, so different from Sydne, is dear to me in many of the same ways but also in different ways as big ol' Sydne.

Ditto. Unfortunately, you may have done a disservice to other modelers who didn't see your challenges with fixing this very flawed kit, and who may think it could be a good build. Just kidding (sort of) but this is a grand slam home run.

I am always amazed at your builds in any scale, but your 1/43 work blows me away.