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    Alright so I will upfront admit I don't know enough about a '65 Mercury to know the answer to this...what's the deal with the hood? The Moebius marketing thing has a flat hood, and I can find several cars like that online. But I find several with the hood that the drag car is sporting. Seems a Convertible would be a "gimmie" modified reissue of this idea too...
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    Chop off all the aero scoops and flares and make street versions!
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    Or that could be an entirely different logo, unless you easily confuse a motorcycle tire with a passenger vehicle tire.
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    It's amazing, if you just drive according to the posted signs on the road, you don't get tickets. Magical even... As for the "licensing", it's not like a Police Department, or Ford, or Goodyear is making money from it. You're basically paying the salary of the legal department to research your project and make sure it's something they wished to be aligned with...Police Departments ESPECIALLY have a never-ending conveyor belt of nut jobs who hate "the Government" even if they never had a single negative interaction with the agency. So they have to protect their image, or anyone could make decals, badges, uniforms, et al. In the case of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, they are one of two places permitted to use the "Winged Wheel" logo, the other being a big oval in Speedway, Indiana.
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    After a few years of wandering around, kinda wondering what was going on, 3RAM made a nice come back this year. They actually ran out of room on the contest tables at one point, and it's been awhile since that happened. Might have something to do with the fact the Steelers are God awful this year, and were playing in London, but it was good to see the "old gal" was still alive and kicking in it's 37th year.
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    While I have no need for these kits (I still have an original issue Charger I haven't touched), it is good to see that Revell seems to be increasing their investment in the line and not turning out into another "Big Goofy Wheels" set of kits. While in my PERSONAL opinion I don't think the shaker hood looks good on this era Charger, at least they tooled it up. Kudos to Revell when they deserve it.
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    I'm pretty sure the Rampage actually made it into tooling of some sort, because it was a pending release long after the other kits were canceled. If the complete tooling exists Round 2 should pour some plastic into it and see what comes out. Being a Skill Level 3, it's a full detail kit that's probably on-par with their '06-'08 Charger.
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    I'd have to compare them myself. I have the Tamiya Honda NSX-R which is the JDM only factory "tuner" version of the regular Honda/Acura NSX kit. The Revell kit is one of the "high end" Snap-Tite kits they did in the 90's that were aimed at the dividing line between kids and adults that have full (albeit simplified) engines, and have since lost their Snap labels. The '92 Caprice Police (them Taxi/Fire), that eventually became the '94 Impala SS kit is another example of that "high end" Snap-Tite line. The NSX from Revell has 59 pieces, the Tamiya has 91. Incidentally to anyone who's interested Tamiya markets it as a Honda NSX, but the kit still includes all the LHD parts and decals to make an Acura. Meaning you can buy the current in-catalog kit for $25, rather than trying to track down the limited export Acura NSX kit for a ridiculous price on eBay, just be aware the Type R kit does NOT have any LHD/Acura parts as the 1:1 Type R was not exported out of Japan.
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    Haul from the Pittsburgh show... Things purchased at the show - Shady illegal deal in the parking lot -- Oh alright stuff I had bought from a friend's collection, and it was cheaper to pick them up at the show than try to ship all of this...
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    SOUTH HILLS MODELERS ASSOCIATION Pittsburgh's #1 Show of Automodelers of All Scales ! Sunday March 2nd, 2014 Castle Shannon Volunteer Fire Hall On Route 88, 3600 Library Road, Castle Shannon, PA 15234 (Pittsburgh) 3 Traffic Lights South of the Junction of PA 51 & 88 9:00AM till 3:00PM, Entry Fee $3.00, Under 12 Free with Adult Floor Rights: $10 at 8:00AM. Model Car Contest - NNL Style Judging - 14 Classes - People's Choice! If you have never attended one of our shows before , you do not know what your missing ! Pittsburgh's best vendors of plastic model kits. Tri-State Area's best builders compete for trophies judged by you and fellow show attendees. Make & Take for our younger builders (3 to 12). Best club display manned by club members all day who will help you with any questions you may have. Food is available at show. CHECK OUT OUR NEW WEBSITE - http://southhillsmodelersassociation.weebly.com
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    Three Rivers Automodelers Annual Model Show and Contest Sunday September, 28th, 2014 Castle Shannon Volunteer Fire Hall On Route 88, 3600 Library Road, Castle Shannon, PA 15234 (Pittsburgh) 3 Traffic Lights Soutgh of the Junction of PA 51 & 88 9:00AM till 3:00PM, Admission $5.00, Under 12 Free with Adult Floor Rights: $13 at 8:00AM. Contest Registration: $2 @ Model 18 Model Contest Classes including a Modified Die Cast Class 1. Replica Stock (1948 & Older) 2. Replica Stock (1949 - 1968) 3. Replica Stock (1969 - Present) 4. Street Rod (1948 & Older) 5. Street Machine (1949 - 1968) 6. Street Machine (1969 - Present) 7. Custom (All Years) 8. Curbside (All Years) 9. Light Commercial - 1 Ton and Smaller - Trucks, 4 Wheel Drive, Taxi, Police & Fire 10. Heavy Commercial - Larger than 1 Ton, 18 Wheeler, Etc 11. Circle Track - NASCAR, Short Track, IMSA, Etc 12. Drag Class - Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Etc 13. Diorama Class (Anything with a base larger than the model) 14. Junior - Beginner to 12 15. Junior - 13-16 16. Slammer 17. Miscellaneous (Anything that does not fit into above classes) 18. Die Cast Modified SPECIAL THEME FOR 2014 SHOW! "Please Pass the Salt" Salt Flat Cars
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    True but replaying the missions just creates a "restore point" and you go back to the mission. The thing is the assassinations have a direct result on the company of the person you kill, and their competition. Eg killing the 4 cigarette jurors makes the stock if the competing company rise 300%. But you have to make those stock plays prior (or immediately after) the hit. Once the mission replay is over, the game "respawns" to where ever you were and the stock market will be in current "real" time rather than directly post-killing. Anything involving Lester needs to be listened to for potential stock market investment strategy if you want to get onto that level of realism.
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    Funny I paid the money to get Franklin's Charger out of impound only to get home and find it already parked in the garage...
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    I finally got some time back in with the game, and got Trevor into Los Santos so that all three characters are playable again. I find they managed to work the characters with enough back story and "feel" that I want to play each of them differently. It's a lot easier to go all buck-wild killing spree with Trevor, than say Franklin who was never really a serious trouble maker. Gotta say I wish the Bounty Hunting missions you do with Trevor were a little more clear as to the location of the bail skipper. A sat photo doesn't do much when you're trying to compare it to the paper map that comes with the game.
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    No I'm pretty positive I didn't day anything about "the new guy with fast and loose morals" This seller and SAME FLIPPING argument come up every couple of weeks. I don't see why a dog pile of members needs to form to see who can yell the loudest who would not buy from this guy the most. "He'd never get a penny from me times INFINITY!!" Being new you didn't know the hand-wringing and high horse riding expo you'd start, do I don't fault you at all, although some of your comparisons to gasoline and pharmaceuticals are sketchy at best. But more broadly to everyone, criminitally if you don't like the guy, his "tactics", et all, block his ID so you don't see it. Poof problem solved! This is having a problem, or rather creating a problem just to have something to complain about...
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    Man did I miss the "Pin Harry to the Wall with Fake Outrage and Dubious Moral Superiority on 9/22!" Memo?
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    Gotta love the day shift vs. night shift wars. Night shift has to do EVERYBODY'S work and then gets jammed up when everything isn't perfect for day turn. Changing jobs isn't going to help unless it's to someplace that closes at 5pm. Because this battle royale is universal. The last place I worked that had a real split shift system, the day shift drivers felt they were special because they saw the sunlight. Forever late to jobs, late FROM jobs making night shift scramble for equipment, when they did show up trucks were out of fuel, low on fluids, had flats/mechanical issues, out of DEF, full of trash, etc. If we did shift change on site they'd howl like babies if night shift wasn't there precisely at 6pm, but they'd show up to relieve us at 8am-ish cause they'd stop and eat breakfast ON THE CLOCK. It led to the point of near fist fights before corporate fired the local management and pulled the day shift aside sand pointed out the reason they were on days wasn't because they were special, but because they were all newly minted CDL holders and they managed to run over/onto/into enough things when they could see where they were going...they were terrified to let them operate in the dark.
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    So far I've only wrecked a motorcycle a couple of times which weren't fatal. I did get crushed between a bad guy on a jetski and a seawall trying to turn around, that proved to be life ending.
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    Right now there's no separate listing for a P/E set from Tamiya. Most of the high-end "Black Box" releases have had some form of P/E in them recently, although the picture would seem to offer a release date and price for it that's not in the kit. Right now IF it's separate with the exchange rate and the price show in the pic the P/E would be about $11.00.
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    It was one of the most expensive video games ever developed at an estimated cost of $250 million dollars. But like I told my wife, they'll make that up in the pre-orders they fill at Midnight, everything after that is pure unadulterated profit. Got in a few hours of straight play before heading out to work for the week, and I have to say I appreciate several of the new features, namely the ability to save the game from your "phone" as well as being able to resume the failed mission from the action. I've only died twice (once with each character I've unlocked so far), but the ability to not respawn at the hospital, and have to hijack a car to do a different mission and/or the ability to restart the mission without having to view the cinematic and drive from Point A to Point B AGAIN is the best part of the game.
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    Last shipment from HLJ last week... Picked this one off eBay, factory sealed for about a third what they normally go for, and the seller even refunded an over-charge on shipping These two came this week from Hobby Search, both were recently spot-run in the past few months, but for one reason or another I missed them on HLJ. Despite being marked up for their JDM origins all of the Export LHD parts are included in both.
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    I just shot down two police choppers with an AK, I'm good on the not cheating yet
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    Takes forever to lose your wanted level in this game. Even if you pull into an alley or into a garage, out running the cops was in IV was easy, just drive beyond the radar marker and park, wait 10 seconds and off you go. Not a fan of the radio selector wheel, it bounces all over, and 95% of the time I just want the radio off anyway so I can hear the character dialogue. I was an old pro and slinging around the cars in IV, if you understood how to dirt-track race you were good as gold. This new driving interface is somewhere between Mario Cart and IV, sometimes the car is unshakable sometimes is sliding all over.
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    Kids went outside for awhile and I managed to find out my character has a new "Charger" (more or less...they still aren't using real cars) which I promptly t-boned a Range Rover with resulting in their being one less computer driver above ground. Then I promptly got killed in a fire-fight...then the kids came back in, forcing me to pause in the middle of the shoot-out. Can't wait till these little people go to sleep...they can't watch me play this the language would make the entirety of the U.S. Navy blush.
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    Waiting for this 8GB installation to finish...then maybe I'll have 2 minutes to play before all the kids wake up.
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