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O.K. I think we all get that point for the 14th time, but that still doesn't explain the fact you still hate a car 23 years later for something that almost didn't happen. That's a mighty long time to hold a grudge against something that never occurred. "Enthusiast" or not...

Alright well this one is 1:24... http://www.hlj.com/product/AOS00072

Now that's a very realistic and highly probable "phantom" you have there Zoli. Excellent job!

Probably would be a decent seller, especially since the Roadster hasn't been out recently as Dave pointed out. Personally I have "-11" interest in this one.

Yeah what Mike posted, I also moved it back to the correct day on the calender. For some reason when the board software was upgraded it moved every calender item backwards one day. Only the original poster of the calender item (or perhaps a Mod *COUGH*) can move them back to the correct day.

If it's anything like that modern 1/25 bus they put out last year it'll run $85-100 over here since I doubt it will get a Revell USA re-box.

WAIT!! WHAT?!?! There are kids in the hobby? Well when did THIS start? We've been told regularly and "reliably" every time someone dares bring up the subject of kids in the hobby that there are no kids, they're all too busy with their xBox and have no patience for modeling. Those kids oughta be ashamed of themselves! (Insert Emoticon indicating thick sarcasm and smug satisfaction verifying that if people left their houses and went to contests they'd know kids are actively involved in this hobby)

I'm sure the 2012 Contest (presuming they follow through with it) will be a completely different automotive genre. Perhaps modern sports cars, perhaps Muscle Cars. Revell has a substantial portfolio of things to choose from to have several years worth of contests without worry of repeating the contest.

I'm sorry but I fail to see the inability to take pictures as making something "unfair". People here and elsewhere spend dozens, if not hundreds of hours per model, and have decades (for us Mid-30's and up members) of building time in, yet aren't willing to spend a few hours figuring out how to use a camera properly. Or for some reason believe their cell phone is a camera. This comes up here constantly and the excuses made are always the same. Frankly I'm sick and tired of people who can wire and plumb an engine, or scratch up major components of their build tell me they can't figure out the basic focus feature of a point and shoot digital camera.

Odd, I always referred to Pilot cars as those guys with amber blinkie lights that block the road when I'm trying to get someplace Well congrats on getting a job, now you have to finish a model for Pittsburgh!

After reading the various horror stories about LHS closings, or surly attitudes, I feel very lucky to have the shop that I have nearby. It's 11 miles (albeit it takes nearly 25 minutes to get there since SW PA is hilly and curvy when you're going cross-county. They only have 3 or 4 guys there, but the owner is really into trains, the 2nd shift guy is really into models, and they have a weekend guy and another who works off and on out of the back doing all the R/C repairs and sales. So the stock is always new in everything, the prices just a bit higher than I would pay from a show vendor, and way less than any of the "box" hobby stores (Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Hobby Town USA). But I do shop online for older kits as well as kits I want to import from Japan. My LHS seems to get everything RoG puts out, and has started carrying Trumpeter and some mainline Tamiya/Aoshima stuff, but it's not as in-depth as I'd like, so it's Hobby Link Japan or eBay to the rescue.

Yeah but if you're collecting for value, (not a builder who buys too much), then what value does your collection have if someone winds up liquidating it? I would presume most people obtain material possessions in hopes that they can pass on this "wealth" to their family. But unlike a house, rare car, or gold bullion, model kit collections seem to be several thousand small pieces only a few dozen of which are actually worth significant money in the end.

The problem with any private collection of anything is of course, you eventually take the big dirt nap and your spouse and/or kid(s) who have no interest whatsoever in whatever it is you were collecting, sell everything at auction or to a large buyer for less than it's "worth" anyway

I think based on that two week shipping window, we shouldn't expect to see the Hudson here till September by the time it takes the slow boat from China (pun intended)... If you want this kit, then it's a good August, otherwise for Revell it's a giant snooze festival. What are the other options, the re-pop of the '32 Ford and Snap-Tite Lamborghini Diablo Round 2 is supposed to kick out the glue kit of the Polar Lights Batmobile and the AMT Tall "T" this month...exciting for some, snoozing again over here for me. Be interesting to see if those LHS that carry RoG products if we can really find the Audi R8 Roadster...and for those of us who can, I'm taking even money bets that at iHobby it will be re-boxed for the U.S. for this winter. They really need to be clearer on what things will and won't get a U.S. box. I don't mind paying the $35 for the RoG box, unless I could have it for $18 in a U.S. box. I am listless this fall...several mainline releases still aren't out, or announced from Revell, bring on iHobby so I have something to look forward to in the Spring

You might want to re-price that internet service, doing a quick search I found Qwest offering it to the town in your profile for $25/mo. Being on the edge of THE major metro area, I doubt DSL is your only option either. However I believe Matt's point is that anytime anyone mentions money around here you seem to chime in with how broke you are. We get it. You can attempt to claim that you don't, but you're the only person here to ever scream at the entire forum that Revell needs to make new tooling, because you can't afford two model kits to combine together - Famously - "What part of that don't you understand?!?!?" Oh well if anyone needs me I'll be pawing through the big box of kits I just imported directly from Japan.

If there is I bet we find out about that in October at iHobby.

Realized I hadn't posted my goodie pictures forever. My wife likes to call these threads on the various boards I belong to the "Heeeeey, Look what IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII got!!" posts. So since the beginning of June I got... Ferrari & T-Bird from LHS, right column from eBay More eBay... Went into Ollie for lightbulbs, left with 26 quarter-cans of DupliColor (and yes the lightbulbs), the paint was 59 CENTS a can! (All of them unopened and unused, I checked...the floor and shelves in the paint section looked like several colorful bombs had gone off) Hobby Lobby Coupon & Everything 30% Off Deal I also have an order from HLJ (Hobby Link Japan) that is clearing customs in Alaska right now...pictures of that when I get home Monday to receive it. Lastly, on 7/11 I FINALLY finished this 9 month long project!

What exactly are happening to your models on display that you need to glue your wheels to the base? In the unlikely event that something knocks the case over all that's going to do is rip the suspension off the bottom of the model and/or spray glass all over the place. You can also kiss the ability to show the model at anything other than an NNL type of show goodbye.

This is especially true of metallic colors, if you have a solid color, and the paint was pretty smooth the begin with you can usually run through the last 2-3 pads and polishing compound without any issues. This is also dependent on your paint type as well. Real automotive paint is a bit more hardy than hobby paint (especially the never drying Testors enamels). But once you start sanding a metallic color it all goes to heck (ask me how I know). As several people have mentioned a real Micro-Mesh kit comes with a soft foam block in the kit, but the other suggestions here are equally good. If you have access to soft foam the block is about 3/4" thick and the size of your palm (about 3" long by 2" wide). I like it because it's borderline spongy in texture so it doesn't get all funky when it gets wet, then you can just squeeze it out when your done and let it air dry. Same thing with the pads, don't "wring" them out, just shake off the excess water and drape them over the edge of something (I actually have clothesline running through my basement, so I hang it over that). I've also had the same experiences with others as to length of "duty" you can get out of them. My 4800 sheet tends to go out first. Micro-Mark (the hobby tool store people) offer the individual sheets (and the whole kit come to think of it). I use "The Treatment" Model Wax. It used to come in a 1oz jar, but for some reason they stopped making it that way, and now only offer it in single use "ketchup" packs or 5oz tubs. I never managed to make a significant dent in the 1oz jar, I imagine the 5oz tub I have will literally go bad before I can do much with it. I realize I'm probably overpaying for what amounts to cheap car wax, but I like it, and I've gotten good results, so therefore I shall cling to it

Couple of other things...always make sure you alternate patterns between grits. Aka up and down, and then back and forth. If you sand it the same way the whole way through you'll just end up with a bunch of shiny scratches. The other being to always start at the highest # grit you can get away with, there's no real purpose in going through all of the sanding pads unless you have to, and at the point you might as well strip it and start over because you'll cut through the paint before it's all over with. I use the low grit (2400) to scuff primer before painting and that's about it. 4800 makes me nervous unless I'm going to be adding more paint. I try to start at 6000, and then do 8,000, 12,000 and then the compound. You really don't have to apply a lot of pressure, just let the pads do their thing, and the wet sanding can't be wet enough but make sure you dry the part off every so often and check it under a good light to check your progress as it's not easy to tell if you got that piece of fuzz or hair out, especially on a dark color when it's wet.

From talking to some other people it seems to depend on what series you got as well. Seems the older kits didn't have decals, but the newer ones have a sheet that Microscale made. Or perhaps someone is sitting around their house with a huge pile of decal sheets giggling like a ninny. It's a pretty nice sheet too, has several states worth of plates, a couple of company names, some "Private Not Fore Hire" things, "reflective DOT tape", etc.

I bought one of the 5th Wheel trailers this spring, and it had the decals. They are pretty spiffy decals, and I can see why they might "wander" away, especially since those kits aren't sealed in a traditional way.

When the Charger police packages first became available, the factory was so swamped with orders from the civilian market they simply couldn't offer custom two-tone painting on the line, so if you wanted one, it had to be in a solid color. So all GSP Chargers from '06 & '07 with the exception of one or two they used to test out what two-tone scheme they wanted are solid colors. From 2008 on when GSP decided to go with the pewter over gray for their custom two-tone the solid body color units have been assigned to specialty units. The solid gray one is a H.I.T.T. unit (High Intensity Traffic Team), and the black one is one of the "elite" Nighthawk DUI/H.E.A.T. (Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic), the Nighthawk team was created in Metro Atlanta Area of the 10 most highly trained DUI Troopers in the state. It has since expanded to the Savannah Metro region. They focus entirely on DUI Enforcement, and operate primarily during the overnight hours, their motto is "We Hunt at Night". The difference between H.I.T.T. and H.E.A.T.? H.E.A.T. is primarily in the Metro Areas (Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah, Macon, etc, especially along the I-75, I-85 & I-20 corridors and focuses most of it's efforts on Aggressive Driving. H.I.T.T. is the state-wide anti-DUI traffic task force. The two tone car has 21 lightning bolts on his door. Back in the day the A.C.E. (Aggressive Criminal Enforcement) guys got a license plate where each of those lightning bolts stood for 5 felony auto theft arrests, but those plates have since been phased out. I presume those bolts are now singular, because at 5 a piece that would indicate this trooper has made 105 auto-theft recoveries. That must make him the luckiest guy around, or he has the best stolen car radar in the world. Even with Lo-Jack and OnStar, 21 arrests is still quite the accomplishment. So in fact the answer is yes to both your questions

I think Saturday at 9:30pm Eastern works for me.

Zoli, Another excellent job! I think this one is definitely a "phantom" though, as GSP hasn't bought a new Ford since 2006. With the exception of a handful of Tahoes, they are all Charger all the time down there now.