Craig Irwin

The pluming is still froze, it's up to a blistering +5 degrees and my 9 year old grandson wants to build MY MODELS! Oh, and the weather channel says it's 19 degrees in Fairbanks Alaska.

Frozen pipes, no water, first time for this in over 20 years. I should be back at work.

The Police here are ticketing people for being out driving.

OK, got the call an the shop is closed tomorrow, that's the first time I know that to have happened. It'd be a good day to build except the grandkids are snowed in here and the schools are closed too.

I found some 1/25 diecast Harleys at Wal-Mart a few years back. They were stock, and there were Knuckle and Pan Heads so a chopper shouldn't be too hard to do. They were cheap too. Also someone is resin casting the old Ace / Indian 4 in resin. It's also stock but not cheap.

It's a Jeep thing, non Jeep owners will never understand. I miss my old CJ-7.

You have a Hyundai too?

Well, yesterday I got the new AMT Grumpy's Toy Nova. Today I got 6 inches of snow with that much more still coming.

Modelers A.D.D., you're building along and......SQUIRREL!!!!! Seeing the contest annual is a great way for me to find inspiration for a new project and forget what I'm already building.

Sounds like Southpark, BLAME CANADA !!!

Either one! I'll be watching!

Sometimes I think I'm the only guy who gave up playing with a ball when I turned 12.

I own a Hyundai Elantra, so I drive what I can borrow that runs.

Also there are un-built promo kits out there too.

Entertainment doesn't have to be deep to be fun. And as silly as it was it didn't have under car neon or exploding NOS (an oxidizer, not a fuel). I'm with you here.

Realistically, I doubt any of us bought or built ALL of the new kits, so it's just a popularity thing anyway. We all buy mostly on subject matter that interest us and the model companys usually do something to interest everybody. I'd say it was a good year no matter what you liked, but from what I've read about accuracy, fit, detail and quality, and appeal to a wide group of builders it would seem to me that the Revell 57 Ford hit the nail on the head, and that's a kit that I didn't buy. The 70 Cuda that I've been waiting for fell short on a few things but it's so much better then what we had I'm happy with it.

I will tell you that it's a lot of work to get rid of the Belair trim no matter which version you build! I know this movie had a lot of real cool cars, but has anyone else realized how silly the rest of the movie is?

Real trucks don't have ball joints.

I drove to Indy and back earlier today, and when I started the car my talk radio station was doing the pre game stuff for the football game. So I went to my AM talk station to find a basketball game on. Back to FM and the classic rock station. After a couple of songs they went to the football game. So to the oldies station where I found another basketball game on. I hit the seek button and on came rap. I turned the radio off. I guess it;s time to buy XM or something.

Lots of old Fox bodied Mustangs around here in better shape for lots less. Look around, you can do better.

I just bought a Grumpy's Toy Nova, an AMT kit from about 1988 or '89. I got new base trim bench seats, Grumpy's Toy decals, and stock steel wheels. I'm pleased with that.

Reminds me of the Monty Python skit, "You don't have mice, you've got sheep!".

Or shot down by some kid with a BB gun.

6 to 12 inches starting Saturday night, falling temps to -15, a high of -15 Tuesday, and 3 more months of winter to go!

I'm not against import cars, I've owned several, and own one now. I am saying this kit would have got more respect as a Toyota with TRA speed parts. (as it now has been explained) To me rocket bunny congers up images of a bad Robot Chicken skit.