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What do you need test shot pictures for...take a '57 BelAir or 150/Black Widow kit. Now imagine the top missing. Voila! It's not like it's some all new tooling, just a new body insert, convertible boot and soft top for their existing BelAir kit.

Did they even do away with the non-commissioned M.D.C. Rangers?

Hmm me think that wasn't cooled entirely prior to getting ejected out of the mold. The easiest thing (unless your LHS is over hill and dale) is take it back to your place of purchase and get a replacement. Any reputable shop will have a way to deal with Great Plains in regards to getting a refund (aka replacement kit) for their inventory and supply you with a kit with something less appearing to have been rear ended by a cement truck. You're looking at 2-4 weeks (my last replacement part was almost 2 weeks to the day I requested it) for them to get a new frame out to you, presuming they don't want you to crate that one up on your own dime and send it to them so they can examine it.

'13 BMW M5 '13 Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 '13 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 '13 Chrysler Town & Country Limited - Wife & Children Hauler '70 Chevelle 454SS Current - '11 Suzuki Grand Vitara

Some people save the box, or at least the cover box art of all if their built kits, and I have a couple of model kit boxes with every set of instructions of every kit I've built (excluding multiples of the same kit - eg NASCAR, multiple builds of various law enforcement vehicles, etc.)

Yes they are 1/24. They were available in their police form at Wal*Mart for like 10 minutes one Tuesday this Spring for $10. I bought the only two I ever saw. Motormax is supposed to be doing a new run for the police customizer market that will have the sunroof filled in (the first batch was just the civi version with a lightbar painted black & white with Dodge Fleet Decals).

There's a diecast from Motormax, that's the only game in town, and likely to stay that way.

First of all bidding 37 minutes before the auction ended is hardly what I call "last second" or "sniping" for that matter. The auctioned opened at .99 cents, and two people proxy bid the thing from the opening bid up to $17.75 & $20.99 respectively, and then the last max proxy bidder had the remaining 37 minutes to outbid Nick. But like Dave said some people rather bid that way than baby-sitting the auction in the last 5 minutes. Bid your max and let the chips falls as they may. Depends on the auction, if it something I want, and there doesn't seem to be a ton of interest in it (aka 0-2 bids during the run) I will wait until the last minute hoping that some people tossed a couple of cheap bids, and I can get it for the next bid increase (or opening price) which is the el cheapo method. If it's a kit with a bunch of bids where people are nickel and diming up the price the entire time I will wait until the last minute because erupting a high priced proxy bidding war just runs the price of the item up days before the auction ends which gives everyone time to consider whether or not they want to bid more. I will toss out my max bid with about 20 seconds left, cause yeah, I don't want the other people to have a chance to bid again. Besides if their proxy bid wasn't high enough to outbid me in the automated raise/call system on eBay they didn't want it as bad as I did anyway. The concept of bid snipping/auction stealing software is no different. Sure it bids at the absolute last possible second, but you still have to set a max bid for it to stop at, and it's not really any different than having the auction staff run your bids doing a phone bid in a live auction. If you get outbid on eBay it's nothing to be annoyed about. You either need to open your wallet further or accept the fact that people have bigger wallets than you do. With 75k model kits on eBay on any given day the vast majority don't even sell, and that's not taking into account the people who seem to think they're cast in platinum. It's sorta that gag-line the auctioneer on "Storage Wars" says before every auction "Whoever has the most cash in their pocket can win it today!" That's the truth with any auction

Funnier yet, how about all these crazy names that people give their kids anymore. They're all going to get old someday. You're going to have a Golden Agers trip to A.C. where Niveah and her "partner in crime" Destiny hit it big on the nickel slots...then 85 y/o McKenzie hit the jackpot!

That "vintage" of Metallica, STP, and Nirvana (to name a few) are all starting to get airplay on Classic Rock stations.

I don't even care what this thread us about anymore, it's the Ancient Aliens guy ^^^ I love that guy, it's worth watching just to see what level if dishevelment his hair will be in any given episode.

*whistles innocently*

Thanks for clearing that up Dave. Consider me thoroughly relieved and standing in line then.

My LHS is giving out free tubes of the red Testors glue with every kit purchase this fall which I have had to practically throw back at them to keep from winding up with a surplus of glue which I'd never use. Which got us (myself, the owner and the "model car guy" on staff) into the debate about the best glues, and the fact that once again the non-toxic stuff smells worse than the toxic glue with the bonus that it doesn't actually adhere the parts together.

Good show, but you better have something to enter or have friends to hang out with, because it's not the most automotive friendly show in respects to the tiny vendor area. I believe there were all of a dozen car kits available there last year out of the 12 or so tables of kits for sale. But piles of armo(u)r, aircraft and ships if that stuff floats your proverbial boat. Plenty of automotive entries in the contest itself, but there's nothing to buy in that genre.

If the plan is to make real police department decals with real period correct equipment (like the correct fender spotlights pictured above and not the J.C. Whitney tear drop non-functional parts pictured above) I'm very interested. If the plan is to make a kit of that whackerific Mayberry...thing...I'll pass.

It's great for your brain right up until you take in account inhaling all the toxic paint and glue fumes. Banging your head off your workbench at the glaring Revell errors is probably rough on the ole gray matter as well

Perhaps it's in an abbreviation of whatever Italian slang word means "You'd be mentally insane to drive this vehicle!"

I saw that, that's clearly a J, and I'm sorta "meh" on that, as while it's an interesting design study, it's just that, a one-off concept. I've much rather have the Roadster first, and have the J be another version down the road. I'm sure the Roadster WILL be forthcoming at some point, but the J isn't as high up my "gotta have that" ladder. P.S. It really is a Roadster, not a Spyder you guys are killin' me http://www.lamborghini.com/en/models/aventador/lp-700-4-roadster/overview/#!slide/808

Cincinnati Challenge #18 is Saturday April 13th http://cincinnatiautoreplicas.org/id25.html

South Hills Modelers Association Show is (SUN) March 3rd, 2013 at the Castle Shannon VFD Hall 9am-3pm Three Rivers Automodelers Show is (SUN) September 29th, 2013 at the Castle Shannon VFD Hall 9am-3pm Both have been added to the show calender here so they will pop up a week or so before the show to remind you.

Looking at it I guess there might be enough difference in the Aventador Roadster to justify a new tool for it ala the Audi R8 Spyder, but then again it might be able to be handled via a few tooling insert changes (body & wheels) and that opens up the possibility of the Aventador J. But if I'm promised new tooling, I'd rather it be NEW tooling. If it's going to be a Lambo how about a Sesto Elemento? I would guess any new Ferrari is out of the question since that licensing seems to be locked up by Revell Germany and Fujimi. How about that Veyron we've been waiting on, there are several tooling variations available there if you run through the car's history including coupe and convertible along with several increasingly expensive & powerful upgrades. Wouldn't mind the other one to be something from the Aston Martin family. I know when they teased it at the beginning of the month a lot of people on FB wanted one of them to be something like a Pagani, Panzoa, Spyker or Kroenigsegg, but as cool as some of those cars are I don't know that there's enough demand for one to justify an almost one off kit run, there's not a lot of room to reissue them in different variations.

The 2013 announcements from Revell AG are due soon, as are the 1Q (Jan-March) Japan manufacturers, which includes an all new Super Car tool from Aoshima they've been teasing.