Lunajammer

Link to Wikipedia entry that describes what this means. Really bad news for Bianchi & his family.

This is easily my favorite. When I was kid I got chills listening to this awesome retro song and may have influenced my love of horn bands. They weren't a horn band, but this song was. REALLY dated. A time capsule.

Straight, no chaser.

Hey, I'm only a month late responding . All modeling has stopped for me for a while until I can free up some evening commitments, but it's not been put away yet. I sure miss it. Since this is a CBP, it's not just my project. I certainly welcome others to express their creativity and show us where your vision takes you. I'll continue to moderate this thread.

LOVE it!

Amazing that something as significant as that can be done with a simple vote. Historically aren't these things done with bloody revolutions?

My experience with painting white over dark or bright colored plastic is to prime it with grey first, it covers better, then hit it with white primer. If you try white primer from the start you will layer it up too thick before the plastic color goes away. Then paint your finish coat of white paint over the white primer. Plasti Dip spray would be like painting with spray tar.

Paul, that Vette is a honey. Lovely detail and that engine looks like it belongs there.

It's tedious to take and upload all those pics, but your efforts are appreciated. Thanks.

You may have outdone yourself Jim. Quite snazzy. Might be one of my favorites of yours.

Trip to Winnipeg to get away from it all and explore new places and restaurants with GF.

Hot Rod Lincoln comes to mind. Sorry, I don't have a photo credit for this nicely built Revell model.

I think retro is... well, maybe on the decline. But given the choice of which style is dead, embalmed, six feet under and memorialized, I'd say retro still has a pulse.

The rules only say the foundation subject must be 1979 or earlier, but it also welcomes modern upgrades so GPS is probably okay. I think only the drivers seat has to pass the freak chance there'd be a road inspection. It's understood it wouldn't be carrying passengers if there's no other seats.

I'm sorry, but you can't use the term nickel in print without express written consent. Pay up.

I can never understand how your textures, patinas and fittings can be so true to life that scale cannot be determined. A masterful piece of the highest caliber.

Well that's a consideration. I'm sure I didn't. This was built before the internet when I was less informed. When I pulled this out to photograph, I was surprised that there was no adhesive at all, not even gummy, like it was never there.

Sorry I mistakenly copied this to a wrong thread so this response may be doubled up to another thread but I think it's important to show my experience to vinyl stick ons. Lunajammer, on 05 Jan 2014 - 5:13 PM, said: It only took half a year to get photos of what I tried to describe above, but this is what I've found happens in the long term to vinyl stick on white walls. There seems to be a reaction to the vinyl tires. They started turning to bacon just two or three years later. They'd have fallen off completely if they weren't pinched between the wheel and tire. Quote MultiQuote Edit

It only took half a year to get photos of what I tried to describe above, but this is what I've found happens in the long term to vinyl stick on white walls. There seems to be a reaction to the vinyl tires. They started turning to bacon just two or three years later. They'd have fallen off completely if they weren't pinched between the wheel and tire.

Well done and very nostalgic. This is how they were for the first several years. I don't recall seeing them rodded out on the street until they became more affordable to the average driveway car guy a few years later. That six makes it ring true.

Wow. Really well thought out and carefully crafted. Love the nose treatment, all 40 Fords should've had that.

Celebs of one caliber or another die all the time. That's why they have such a long memorial on the Academy Awards show. How come everyone stops at three when maybe there's 4, or 24? If you hold your breath long enough at 2, you can be pretty sure #3 will eventually show up. I know the count is done with a wink of an eye, but here's an excellent NY Times article on the statistical reality of celeb death counts. Link. Sad about Don Pardo. Such a revered broadcasting career. He had kind of a cult following as an announcer for NBC among those of us in radio over the years.