LDO

No, it didn't, but nice way to work politics into this thread. Moron.

Is that a Curtis Mathes TV???

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I thought you were quitting as Moderator.

Why is this everybody's pet issue? You are not a moderator. Your stock doesn't decrease in value because of this. Don't worry about it. I hate non-descriptive thread titles...like this one. You don't see a weekly rant from me. Get over it!

Scheherazade

I've tried to quit being a jerk, really I have. I just don't know if I can change my basic nature.

Banned Camp. Yeah, I know, my name is not really Emil Schuffhausen, but I'll never get a Mail Fraud notice for using a screen name from a funny movie.

Possibly because you shut down threads and you seem to think he always deserves one more chance.

Maybe his dog ate it.

Just my opinion, but if you use more modern wheels & tires, you'll make it look like a model of a kit car, rather than a customized Auburn...and there's nothing wrong with adding a bit of personal flair to a coachbuilt car. If you're replacing them because the kit parts are poor-quality, I could send you a set of wheels and tires from any number of other pre-war classics. I have at least one of just about every pre-war classic model ever made, along with lots of spare parts.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. In a museum in Germany, I saw a pre-war Maybach that had the back of its body cut off and replaced with a cobbled-together circular saw. The owner's Reichmarks became worthless after the war but he still had his material possessions. He drove around cutting up firewood in order to feed his family.

He's had his day more than once. There's a moderator here who keeps closing threads about him.

What is the maximum effective range of an excuse? Zero meters

FYI- The main plate can be had as a "sub plate" that some machinists bolt on to a mill table for more options in work holding. I've seen a few on ebay, but they are not cheap. However, a used sub plate could very likely cost less than a made-to-order chassis jig plate. I even have a small one for my Sherline mill. I was thinking about making the L-brackets and trying your idea.

Buy the 1/8 chassis and the soon-to-be released 1971 Barracuda to go with it I was one of the initial 'cuda buyers. I need to get the chassis and a blown hemi now.

In my mind is an image of Molly Sims, but I don't think I could post that image here.

I don't think you'll really ruffle any feathers. They may wonder why a 5-year old wasted a kit, but that's about it.

Why do we never see posts that start with "In ModelMartin's defense...", or "In Don Holthaus's defense...", or "In Norman Veber's defense..."? Why is it always Reliable Resin?

Very nice work. The dragsters are beautiful with those wheels.

Man, that is neat. Your work is always interesting.

IMHO, the best looking BBC out there is in Monogram's Toni Foti LAPD Pro-Mod Camaro. It has the ultra-cool (and rare in the real world) Milodon cast aluminum valve covers. I bought several kits just for the engine. A really nice effect is to paint the depression around the letters in body color, then cover that with liquid mask and paint the valve covers with aluminum metalizer. Peel off the liquid mask for some really trick valve covers.

Wow. That thing's got a face only a mother could love.

Did you see the old Fine Scale article on turning that plane into "Roto-Finish"?

I don't believe the issue is people not caring. I believe it is, as one poster put it, you don't flare the fenders on a '57 Chevy. I opened this thread to say exactly that. It looks really unorthodox. But hey, if that's what floats your boat, more power to you. Having said all that, I was also going to tell you what I learned from Mark Gustavson's old "Custom Clinic" series; glue a thin strip of plastic to the wheel cutout and fair it in with putty, although this is really more for new fender lips rather than flares.