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I'd have more hope for that if they had brought more than the three well traveled (read falling apart) test shot boards for the '57 Ford, '50 Olds & '62 Vette and a legal pad for people to write in suggestions. Probably more of the same this year, except the test shot boards will be for the '90 Mustang, '70 Cuda & '49 Mercury Woody. Not knocking the test boards, nice to see that stuff up close if you can't make it to Toledo or another show they traveled to, but it's at least a month and half too soon for the Fall/Winter releases at NNL East.

Nothing to fear Matt, Petro soldiers on unchanged.

Jeez lighten up Francis! Why are you dragging disabled kids into your bomb of a "joke"? I dunno which side of the bed you crawled out of this morning, but you might try re-entering and coming out the other side and see if your disposition isn't more improved before lashing out at everyone because we weren't LOLing over that "gag" of yours...cause there's only one whiny person in this thread.

I just thought it could have been a better gag. Perhaps Round 2 finds a bunch of the missing molds, and purchases JoHan. Between the lack of updating their website and the mystery and intrigue of the JoHan saga (combined with the recent purchase of Lindberg) that could have went on for days.

Really? It's not even Monday on the East Coast yet...

Having moved from Ohio to PA about 7 years ago, I can't tell you what a useless hassle the entire concept of the Notary Public PennDOT Messenger Services are. In Ohio you go to the County Title Bureau to pay the taxes and transfer the title. Amazingly they don't have to drive to Columbus. You just get handed a new title. Then you walk next door the State BMV and either get a temp tag, or transfer your old plates.

Well like I mentioned to Tom not all of Pennsylvania requires emissions testing. I live in a county deemed as rural, but I live a whopping 28 miles south of Pittsburgh, and if you drive around the top end of the county is slowly sprawling into suburbs. Which makes for interesting interactions with people who want to flee Pittsburgh, put their kids in our schools, but get all bent out of shape that farm tractors drive down the road and people open burn their trash. But that fun urbanite yuppy vs. rural families that have been around since the township was founded is another topic...

Could be worse you could be stuck in the rudderless inflatable dinghy that is Fotki where we've been missing a random selection of photos (tends to be about 1/3rd of you're total images for everyone) since after Sandy hit. Last I heard they were building a server farm in Estonia if all places because they couldn't afford the post-Sandy rent in NYC. The opinions all seem to side with the idea that the photos are all gone, and they're just leading people on in hopes the re-up their accounts so they can offload their photos when they come back.

Ahh Tom you just need to ask around to see who your local "Lick 'n Stick" garage is located. The place that charges a flat $20 for the inspection sticker and never even looks at your vehicle. Sure it's illegal, but there's one in every community, because they know what a load of nonsense it is. If course there's the inverse opposite, garages that fail every vehicle for something. Had one tell me I needed new brakes and tires to pass, the only problem was that SAME shop just did my brakes and tires (at my request) 2 months earlier. After I suggested the State Police might want to investigate the place for fraud my brakes and tires were magically O.K. again. Also you moved to the wrong part if PA, the entire state doesn't require emissions testing, only the filthy dirty urban parts.

Ohio was famous for initiating that type of selective emissions testing. Only if you lived in Metro Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and a handful of other counties. It was then found that the guy who pushed the legislation through retired from his job as a politician and started one as the head of the company that was hired to build & conduct the Ohio E-Check. Millionare he became though his cushy salary. Turned out it was a giant scam since if you showed good faith that you tried to fix your vehicle (minimum of $250 worth of repairs) then you got passed whether or not your vehicle actually DID pass. They had a racket going with the gas cap people too, you'd be amazed how many people had to run to the closest auto parts to store for a new cap when theirs didn't pass the "vacuum test" to prove it will seal in all those evil gasoline vapors. The other "great" aspect of E-Check was that you had to have your car tested no matter the year if you bought it used. So if you went out and got the demo unit of a 2012 vehicle and the dealership sold it as a used vehicle (which they might depending on the miles) you had to the immediately take your BRAND NEW vehicle out and have it emission checked. It was supposed to be a mandatory every 2-year process (alternating odd/even manufacturing years), but there were many time when people would get a notice of E-Check for a car that they JUST ran through the system, even though it wasn't their turn that year. Personally I had cases where I wouldn't get the notice for 4-5 years at a time, completely missing a series of "mandatory" testing. E-Check was abolished in all but the 7 Counties that include/surround Cleveland, not sure how they got stuck with it considering Cleveland isn't even the largest city in the state.

The bumper may not be crooked, but the body isn't sitting "square", it's clearly lower on the passenger's side than it is on the driver's. Jiggle the handle so to speak and it'd lose that listing lazily to the right stance. I like the color, and nice job on the woody body!

You could always not enter and offer to do the judging yourself.

There's an interior in the diecast. It's a reasonably good facsimile of the real car with the exception that it has a floor shifter. Sand that puppy off there and mount the interior bits out of the Lindberg kit. I get the weight thing, but the diecast Charger is like $10, the plastic one is $20. I can't believe (but then again I haven't mailed anything over the Atlantic lately) it costs more than the $10 difference. The Lindberg Charger is like 258 parts, it's not exactly the lightest kit out there, it's also in an oddball sized box which doesn't fit easily into the pre-printed mailing boxes we have here in the States.

Bwahahahaha. No actually it's a mobile interrogation office. They can cuff you to the trunk, lock all your possessions into the little "safes" and then beat you senseless with rubber hoses and taser you into unconsciousness. O.K. so maybe that last part is just how the local ACLU office views being handcuffed to the trunk. Well if you want to add detail you take the thing apart! Most modern diecast (especially police cars which are designed for those who customize a lot of cars) are just held together with some screws. I'm not totally sure (as I haven't tried), but you might be able to replace the chassis and engine insert on the '12 Charger diecast with the parts out of the Lindberg kit if you HAD to have all of that detail. In the 1:1 the dirty bits would be nearly identical, but I don't know how close to 1:24 scale the diecast really is... I get that you want to be the most exact modeler, especially coming from the military side of things, but the diorama your building of the NYPD wreck is using a Lindberg kit that doesn't even replica the correct body style of the real wrecked car let alone the right year. I get the "inspired" by the wreck part, but if you were being IPMS accurate you would have to get one of the Testors Diecast '00 Crown Vics (which incidentally comes as an assembled kit that you have to build) and then go from there...

How do you feel scammed by the chassis? The entire parts content is laid out on the bottom of the box. There are clearly no engine or suspension parts included.

Policecarmodels.com still has them the cheapest I'm aware of - http://www.policecarmodels.com/li1dochpocar.html The Lindberg kit is a 2006, but will replicate up to a 2008 without any modifications. 2009 & 2010 have a slightly different taillight configuration. 2006 - 2008 2009 -2010 In 2011 (through 2013) the body and interior were changed entirely. There is a diecast version of the new Charger, but I've seen you mention somewhere else you refuse to deal with diecast - which I don't understand whatsoever - but it's your prerogative. Old body style vs. New

Is what your trying to get at - "Hey there are no 1/25 kits of snowmobiles or ATVs, so I want to buy plastic/diecast toys to go with my trailer"? Because the answer is unless the trailer is actually correct scale, and the snowmobile/ATV is an actual replica of a REAL item and you happen to have the 1:1 dimensions to do the math to see what it (and the trailer) actually scale out at, your probably going to spend a lot of time chasing your tail around in circles. As for the other question, there's no more reason to believe any tractor and trailer combination would be any more correct 1/25 scale than the cars you want to use for a load. Especially the older stuff is going to have a lot of "eyeballing it correct" scaling involved compared to say the Moebius LoneStar (and soon to be ProStar) that are actually scaled down from the International CAD files. That might give you two options for motivation, but unless you want to stick them inside a reefer trailer, there are no modern day flatbed trailers.

I believe the consensus estimate that gets floated around the most is $250,000 to get "in the door" as it were. I imagine you can apply the old "how fast you want to go depends on how much money you want to spend" from that first quarter mil when it comes to how complicated the molds are, number of parts, etc.

Ahh yeah, that one is a diecast car made out of plastic. I started my oldest daughter on Snap-Tites just to get the idea of reading instruction diagrams and the thought process of thinking how things needed to go together and in what order. I had her paint parts and spray bomb to chassis and body to introduce those concepts as well. It just seemed that adding glue into that mix from the start might be a bit too much. We've done a couple of Wheels of Fire kits, and her attention wavers back and forth as she debates how "cool" it is to build models with her dad, but I think we're to the point where we can begin the transition over into "regular" models. Another idea - depending on her taste in vehicles - are the new Challenger/Corvette/Camaro kits that Round 2 has been cranking out. They are curbside, basically un-assembled promos that are about 40-50 parts that do require glue, painting and water slide decals (as opposed to the stickers on Revell snappers), but it's not the least bit complicated or fiddly and look great completed.

Like the 2009 Challenger? That's a 109 part model kit, it's hardly a snap kit with an engine.

The real wrecked car is indeed a traffic unit (as Wayne correctly gathered from the uniform of the officer in the sidewalk). The wrecked vehicle itself is an '05 Vic, but the accident happened within the past few years as there's a slicktop Highway Patrol Charger in the background and those were 2010's.

It's rather common for Texas DPS and Dallas PD to work Joint-DUI Task Force, and other type of high intensity freeway patrol (speed enforcement) jobs together.

That got changed to "Climate Change" years ago that way no matter what the weather does it's somehow the fault of cows farting in Iowa, and if we just taxed everyone into oblivian and foisted the Middle Ages back into the world we could all hug a polar bear. It's not even about politics, it's about how crooked the schemes to "fix" things are...I'm all for the cleanest air, water, and food possible but in the end we all get taxed or cap and traded into poverty while the politicians (of ALL stripes) and their cronies get rich.

Well considering how dubiously out of date Round 2's website tends to be, they may have never updated it to reflect the ownership change after Lowe bought the companies from Tomy. Now I want to look at the bottom of a new reissue and see what the copyright information says, curse being at work....

Can I, on behalf of all modelers, who live North of I-40 and paint outside just say ENOUGH WITH THE FREAKIN' SNOW ALREADY?!?! We're apparently going to entirely skip Spring, and go straight into the equally useless humidity of summer.