High octane

After going to a "huge" gasser meet last Saturday, a "packed" cruise night last night, and another cruise night tonight with 500+ cars, I am really pleased.

While I haven't received my kit as yet, I do see a LOT of of subtle changes that can be made to this kit already.

Thanks for the photos, and I guess my LHS will be calling me real soon when they get their Foose Caddys in.

NO, I never recycle or rebuild any of my old builds. Once they're built, they go in the display cabinet and stay there, unless I take them out to display them at a club meeting or take them out to dust. I have plenty of model kits that I'd like to build, so I have no time to rework anything that I've done in the past.

Like anything else, this hobby has its ups and downs, and of course you can't please some of the people all of the time. How is it that guys have hundreds of model car kits to build and always want the companies to produce this kit or that kit? To be very honest about that, the companies would produce just about any kit a person would want as long as THEY come up with the ca$h. It seems like some people are never satisfied, no matter what is available in kit form.

I have had this kit for awhile and it is on my to "build someday" pile. Hopefully soon???

With belonging to two model car clubs, going to cruise nights and some car shows, attending the drag strip occasionally, building model cars, etc. I have my fill of cars and don't watch any car shows on TV. I tried a few of them and it seemed like it was 5 minutes of cars and 55 minutes of BS.

Ditto!

The Model Empire is a "car" hobby shop with LOTS of kits, old kits too, decals, photo etched parts, funny fur, wheels & tires, resin bodies, die cast cars, paints, magazines, slot cars and a slot car track, modeling tools & supplies, HO trains, some military kits, etc. It has been my fave hobby shop for a long time now.

I go to Ron's Mundelein Hobbies, and sometimes to the Model Empire in West Allis, Wi. and also America's Best Train,Toy, & Hobby Shop in Itasca,Il.

An "important" person? And here I had thought that everyone was important, yes? You should have taken the crew cab, as anything smaller than a Focus is "too small."

I'm sure that a lot of us miss Harry on this board, as it is different without him.

My local hobby shop is 10 miles away and is a "mom & pop" store, and I try to support them as much as I can even though I have a Hobby Lobby only 1/2 mile away. If the mom & pop store closes, the nearest hobby shops are 40 & 50 miles away. Of course the grandson works a lot in the shop, so if mom & pop decide to retire i feel that the grandson will keep it going. I can only hope.

As far as our younger generation goes, there are not a lot of cars on the road that would make good modeling subjects and make a profit for modeling companies to produce. And a large part of our younger generation is into video gaming and other electronic devices and have little or no interest in model building. Times have been changing for awhile now, not necessarily for the better, and certainly not for the model companies and of course hobby shops in this day and age. On a more personal note, I myself had started plastic model building back in the 50's and continued to do it off and on to this present day. I do it for my enjoyment and do not really care at all if the younger generation picks up on it. I will be testing the waters with my grandson in a couple of years, and maybe he'll like building model cars and maybe he won't. That would be strictly up to him.

No I'm not saying that the model companies should just stay status quo as they do need new tooling and new products. However today's market is not like it was 10 or 20 years ago, and I feel that in today's market it is a lot harder to sell 10 or 20,000 kits than it was back then. A new tooling has to pay for ALL the costs it involves to make a kit and sell it, AND make a profit. With older modelers aging and passing, and the younger modelers becoming less and less, due to other interest it is a very tough market out there. Back in the 40's when you had soldiers coming home from the war, they wanted to build plastic military model kits. And in the 50's and 60's when new cars were exciting, many young boys wanted those promos that their parents got from the dealers and also to build model car kits. Those times are LONG gone and will never return. Hobby shops are folding left and right and many people blame it on the online shopping we have today, but the interest in plastic modeling is just not there like it used to be.

While there IS a market demand for those kits that you've mentioned, it most likely won't bring in enough sales to justify making a new tooling, production, packaging, decals, instructions, marketing, shipping, etc.

What's with all the crying 'bout the '68 Coronet kit that was offered by Modelhaus and nobody wanted them??? As far as another model company offering them in the future, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for one.

I believe that the Alclad paints as well as the Spaz-Stix paints were meant to be used on the INSIDE of Lexan slot car and R/C bodies.

Hmmm, doesn't look like I'll be buying any Revell products in the 4th quarter as nothing seems to trip my trigger.

If I'm not mistaken, that "Batwing" air cleaner was also available from Modelhaus in the past.

Very nice build on that Charger, and I just love dem Mopars!

I was hiking through the woods one day with a friend, and he had asked me what I would do if we came across a bear. I said that I would run, and he answered that I couldn't outrun a bear. I replied that was true, however that I could outrun my friend.

AWESOME!

Your last paragraph hit the nail on the head, exactly.

Welcome to the forum Matt, as this is a great place to be. Your builds look really good.