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Slixx part #1226 http://www.slixx.com/d1226.htm It's hard to believe that just that long ago a small company like Bubble Up could sponsor a car. Nowadays a company like that couldn't sponsor a field filler.

Revell's parts program is really nice. Granted there online requesting needs a lot of help. I received a part that never said shipped and it didn't say shipped till two weeks later under a different tracking number than what I received. Oddly I never got the second package. --- Revell's people are really nice when I worked at a hobby shop in St. Louis. I called them for a slot car problem. On there Ferrari 250GTO kit the positive and negative wires were put in backwards and if you built it following the instructions it would go backwards. Which is funny but makes a pretty crappy racer. I called them about the problem and in less than a week they called back telling me how they corrected the issue. They put supplemental instruction sheets on how to flip the wires in the boxes. They even sent me a new car in the box with the new instruction sheet. The only thing that would have made it better was if they put "thanks to Robert" on the instruction sheet, lol.

It looks nice. I really like the engine.

I like it. The lighting looks good without being overpowering and the clear over the bay openings is a great idea especially if the diorama will be around kids or cats and it helps keep out some of the dust.

Really cool. I sent the pics to a rock climbing friend of mine and in his exact words "Wow I didn't know modelers liked off-roading only thing I see questionable is if the gates are that far apart he wouldn't be so close to the left gate he would have went further down in the ditch"

I hope he gets better soon. I know how much long hospital stays suck. I was in a hospital for 4 months after a racing accident and another time I was in for over a month. That Cobra looks really cool. Very detailed.

the owners of Nascar are just mad that viewership of the ALMS races is going by double digit percentages when Nascar is falling. The gave Speed more rights to more races if Speed dropped ALMS they didn't think that other outlets were so high on the bandwagon to cover the races.

I can't wait. Just wish they were showing the entire 24 hours. I don't understand how speed thinks reruns of Monster Jam, Pass Time, and wrecked get better viewership than the race would. I stay up the entire 24 hours to watch/listen to the 24 hours of LeMans. and I would for Daytona too. Has anyone heard if Speed is teaming up radio Le Mans again this year to show/air the entire 24 hours of Le Mans?

I was going to ask what it was too. This is such a cool photo. would be neat to see someone make a model of that.

Your channel is awesome.

I have wondered why they don't have people that do just what you are saying. Have people answer questions on forum sites is a very very common thing amongst hobby companies. I know just about every slot car company has a employee or representative on several boards same with model trains and RC. Seems like the Model companies try to stay out of the light. I think most companies are afraid to hear real feedback. I mean honestly we bash kits left and right and rarely offer praise for a kit. We question motives and releases but hardly ever say I have been waiting for that forever. The American (Revell and R2) model companies are stuck in a very bad situation with the aging model population their lack of forethought for new releases and their live or die by the muscle car attitude. Honestly I don't think they want to know what we really think. They can live in there muscle cars rule the world bubble but someday the muscle car generation isn't going to be building models anymore and the model industry will implode. Lets see some reissues of things from the 80's and 90s the obscure cars that haven't been release 10 times already. How about the Jag XJ220 or geez anything. To bad by the 90's companies were already in the lets only make a couple kits of the most popular things. So many cool cars got past up. They might have saved themselves in the short term but hurt themselves in the long term.

I enjoyed it. You have a very good writing style. Much better than what I use on my blog. BTW, I think the tubing on the Caddy is to small for any engine they could put in it.

The point is to just do something for fun. Kind of like spending a day at a car show or blowing an entire weekend watching football no real point to it but it's always fun.

It was interesting but not my thing. Neither was the first one though.

This sounds really cool. I am still a little bit green for joining this year but I definitely want to try next year.

Vacform machines are fun to make and really easy. We made little ones back in high school. I used to vacform hot wheels bodies and then sell them for a dollar to slot car friends I knew back then.

My first car was a 89 325IS BMW. All the cool perks of a M3 but with a few different bits on the body and some BMW enthusiasts even say a better suspension setup than the M3. I know you can get the M3 and the 325I car from Fujimi but not with a detailed engine. Once you buy the 50 dollar kit and then buy the resin engine from a guy in Italy and the Transkit for the different body parts and the photo etch for the correct emblems the car is tipping the $150 dollar point and just like Jim Gibbons said it's not in my budget.

I too have ADHD but that hardly helps me build much. For me the number of kits I get done depends on how much free time I have. Right now since I have been out of a job I build fairly quickly. At the same time though I know that when I get back to work my builds will slow way way down and probably get more detailed. A good vision of what I want helps but I rarely have a good vision for long and wind up building box stock.

I don't know the exact numbers MCM or GBP has but I doubt they have enough to qualify for either Borders or Barnes & Noble shelf space. I think Donnie has it right MCM does feel so much more like a modelers magazine that's why many of you think it feels fanziney.

It's a Mercedes Benz G4. One was made in the 70's by a company called tilt it was 1/35th scale. Squadron makes one in 1/72 scale but it too will be hard to find as is has been OOP for a while. You can find it in diecast fairly easily but it is still expensive. Hitler had a hard top G4 and there are some famous photos of him in a convertible G4 for you history buffs.

Anyone remember when speed was actually a cool channel to watch? 20 hours a day of swap buggy races, indy/cart, foreign races, ALMS, Demo derbys, and any other weird off the wall racing they could put some cameras at. The only show that comes close to what Speed used to be is "On the Edge" and is the only show I watch everyday anymore. Even "Windtunnel" has been censored more and more to be Nascar friendly.

Wow you must have been in my brain. I am doing exactly what you said with "converting" the hauler to be a race trailer. I am using it for a fantasy ARCA team though. So far I have the cars sitting on the deck of the trailer and I have "welded" the doors on one side of the trailer closed.

I don't think you can really compare SA to MCM they are two completely different beasts in terms of magazines. SA has more manpower and money in one issue than MCM probably does in an entire year. Would MCM be better off with larger issues and be bi-monthly to give them more time and bigger error margins probably but that's not the way they do it. I applaud what they are doing hundreds of magazines come and go in a year and many of them have more power and resources than MCM and MCM has stuck around for a while now. Instead of hammering MCM on what they are doing wrong why not offer suggestions to fix the issues. One of my biggest issues with with MCM is that in the scratch building section they seems to skip common steps that the builder expects the reader to know. It's annoying to try and build exactly what is in the article and come to a point where what you have doesn't match up because the articles writer expects you to know something you don't. Now granted SA is the exact opposite laying everything out in such baby steps as to make me feel like I am in first grade that is annoying too. I personally like the fanziney feel to MCM just like my favorite slot car mag (model car racing mag) it makes me feel like the writers actually care about the hobby and aren't just writing for a pay check. Could it be toned back a bit yeah and it would be nice but I would rather feel a connection with the magazine than feel nothing when I read it. Gregg - if you read this you might want to contact the Model Car Racing Magazine guys, if you don't know them already, they had many of the same issues people are talking about here and they have pulled trough and made a really nice niche magazine. You guys might be able to bounce ideas off each other. From the look and feel of your magazines though you might actually use the same printer, lol.

All magazines today are pretty much fanzines. they all are given free product they all write reviews based on said free product and advertisement. I read magazines for the ancillary articles how to this and how to that, Scratch building tips, and reader submissions. Rarely do I read kit reviews except to see the included parts.

Since it was mentioned already I will throw my two cents in the pot on the fake or not ambulance. Something fishy happened with that supposedly crushed JFK ambulance. Why would they crush it in the first place. Two why did the museum never put the car on display. Three The only people on the Witness statement were members of the JFK museum and none were from the junk yard that crushed it. four they took 24 photos of the car from every possible angle including inside the car but magically missed every single VIN number plate on the car. five Why was the Navy numbers spray painted over on both doors but not the back? six why did the JFK museum not come forward with the documentation about the car being crushed until they were contacted by a website and some amateur historians they had to know someone was claiming to own a JFK ambulance. Seven The museum keep documentation of crushing the car including photos of it being crushed but didn't keep any documentation of receiving the car. eight when does an assistant archivist have enough power to allow the destruction of government property and why was no government liaison present to witness the car being destroyed that is mandatory to make sure things are actually disposed off. nine Why would the museum not want to pass along the car to another museum when they didn't want it anymore which the must have never wanted in the first place since it was never put on display. Honestly to me it seems fishy all around. Odds are both are fake.