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Except that most of the Corvettes involved were on loan to the museum from private individuals, so they suffered losses, three of them total losses. Any loss of any type so long as it doesn't involve loss of life is just stuff that can be replaced. That's what we all have insurance for...sentimental value? Some people are probably more sentimental about their car than their house. The fortunate part of the entire event was that it happened in the wee hours of the morning when everyone was still in bed, and not during the day when there would have been a load of people touring the facility.

Something that caught my eye on eBay, and I guess since it was Palm Sunday, the first day of fishing season in many places, and the first genuinely nice day most of the East Coast has had in 6 months or so no one was around to bid on it...except me - stuck at work. So snagged for the opening bid...1986 issuing, everything sealed up inside. IMG_20140417_132507_857 by niteowl7710, on Flickr

More Lexota goodness from Hong Kong yesterday... IMG_20140415_131338_758 by niteowl7710, on Flickr Then went out tonight to a function at the wife's job, and since I'm Daddy Day Care Mon-Fri, and work myself on Sat & Sun, I took the opportunity out of the house and temporarily free of toddlers to swing through the LHS to replenish my Semi-Gloss Black, get some silver base for some Mica colors I have, and pick up the only thing Revell has done (or will do up through June) that I wanted to acquire. IMG_20140416_190608_392 by niteowl7710, on Flickr

Or a 1912 Model T would come out of the Ukraine (July Release on that one if anyone is interested - again presuming Ukraine isn't Putin'd by then), but both Meng and ICM are independents. Revell AG, especially now, is all part of the same company - and I'm sure someone can correct me on this - but I don't remember them every doing a single U.S. origin kit that wasn't a reboxed Revell U.S. kit. I voted on some American stuff too, in the hopes of the info getting passed back to the U.S., but I admit I spent more time going over the European stuff since IF this list is anything beyond a social media/marketing ploy I wanted to skew the balance to European things I wanted to build

Yeah Tim it was a March release so the Preferred Shops have had it for two weeks or so.

I think it's pretty fruitless to vote for anything American on that list being that it's a Revell of GERMANY poll. You could hope maybe that they'd forward the info over to Illinois since it's all one big happy family under Hobbico, but I doubt it.

Available for Pre-Order at your usual favorite Japanese online retailers for Late May delivery.

More Lexotas!! '03 CRS from eBay '08 CRS from HLJ

Ahh yes the "hip" name for the Triple T (Tap to Top) procedure. I can see the point of it on occasion to show your thread (particularly a want or trade thread) to a "fresh" set of eyes. This forum is so large it's impossible to really pay attention to EVERY new post, EVERY day, even when you just use the "View New Content" button. It gets annoying when the person does it several times over the course of a week, or as I've seem some extreme cases (not here) several times a day.

Technically it's a 250, not a 350, but since it's essentially the same thing...

eBay purchase...

Continental Contitracs were the OEM highway tires, as opposed to M&S "offroad" tires for 2008 & 2009 Ford F-350s. The were subsequently all recalled in 2011 because the belts were found to be separating.

Fresh off the plane from Hong Kong. Well not fresh, this kit is actually from last year, but its OOP now, requiring me to tap one of my favorite H.K. based eBay sellers.

Aside from resolution issues - eg being smooth enough to print a body - there is the issue of print area. That printer can only print as large and as tall as that little black box below it and the height of the print arm...in that case it's nowhere near big enough to print a body, unless you made a multi-piece Palmer-esque body. Wheels, tires, hoods, bumpers, dashboards, interior pieces, etc IF the resolution was good enough, but you need a machine with a 8" square of printing surface to make a body front to back.

I wouldn't be surprised if it all stems from the days of Promotional Models, and just being a standard "thing" that still carries over to the present. What didn't make sense was when Revell and Round 2 started "printing" the computerized information on the underside of the chassis or in the inside of the roof, and STILL engraved the stuff on the chassis.

It's not just Meng...Tamiya, Fujimi, Aoshima, Hasegawa - none of them mold engraved copyright stuff onto their chassis parts.

No Asian manufacturers stamp a bunch of writing and copyright notices on their chassis pans. This is nothing new for them. It also proves it's not an actual requirement for Revell either, but what fun is it if they don't stick a date and a GM trademark in a tiny nook that is impossible to remove without destroying all of the surrounding engraved texture.

Right now Aoshima is the one with the Liberty Walk licensing rights (other than 81's resin pieces), so it would have to come from them. That would require them to tool up a Ferrari 458, and that's not going to happen since Fujimi & Revell of Germany seem to hold all the licensing from Ferrari for the past decade, and Aoshima seems to be focused on getting the most out of their licensing agreements with Toyota, Nissan, Subaru, McLaren & Lamborghini right now. So you might see, say a Liberty Walk Aventador, or a Liberty Walk GT-R...

O.K. it's a pet peeve of mine and I "pre-apologize" if the correction offends anyone...BUT It's HobbyLink Japan -- with a K Hobbylinc - with a C is an online retailer based in Braselton, Georgia. In other news...

With what we do, I only hit a few selected truck stops for fuel on certain contracts, so I don't see the inside of as many as I did during my OTR days, but I can't remember ever seeing straight airlines being sold there "Over the Counter"...whereas you could buy "bagged" (they were sold in big plastic bags) coiled airlines of each color, and coiled electric line as well right there in the C-Store next to the other truck supplies. I believe it to be more of a "experienced driver" thing, as we have pretty stringent hiring standards, especially with the background check you undergo with with the Postal Service...and getting on at UPS depending on the terminal is a long process, involves one of the most detailed and in depth pre-trip, range and road testing regiments I've seen, and they REALLY aren't hiring anyone with less than 10-15 years of experience unless they've worked their way up from inside the organization. Our local UPS hires semi-regularly, but there was at one time a 3+ year wait list in Cleveland. When you have as many applicants as they get, they really can cherry pick the very best drivers to work there. They don't need their equipment color coated for Kindergarteners.

I can with a couple pushes of the button cycle through on-board sensors and get an "Oil Level" which is displayed as a dipstick graphic, and I'll be darned if it doesn't match the actual dipstick to a "T". I even dribbled in a quarter-gallon since it was a touch low, just for the giggles of it, and it showed the upward movement again matching the 1:1 metal dipstick. Now whether it actually has a dipstick "sensor" or one of the most precise engine oil level sensors I've come across I haven't researched.

Ahh attack of the Zombie Threads!

You can't leave negative feedback based on your lack of reading comprehension Roger. I don't believe you can claim it's misleading either since "PRE-SALE" is in the auction title. The estimated delivery time is set by eBay based on the idea that you actually bought it NOW, regardless of what the listing says. Plus the estimated delivery time is DIFFERENT for everyone based on where they live, and when they'd hit the "BiN" button. For me the listing's auto generated date says "April 7th - April 9th", tomorrow the dates will slide out another couple days. I bet Jonathan has another set if dates entirely living 2,000 miles further West.

But they don't have them, they're selling a pre-order slot for Late April/Early May delivery. It's also more expensive than going through HLJ or Hobby Search.

Isn't Dave doing a run of the Allison Powered T-Bird Dragster this fall? That's an AMT kit according to the box art posted over in the Car Kit Review section.