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Looks to me like the hard part's done. Hope you change your mind and post often.

Oh Slusher, I figured it would just be a matter of time. Your contributions will be an asset here. Welcome, glad you've gone public.

Moving into the first part of paint now. All masked and ready for the first of the two-tone color. Voila'. Ivory. Yep, looks completely different now doesn't it? :lol:

Maybe not so much age, just evolving experience. For me that includes music, faith based subjects, even women. Along with age comes scope and we see beyond our market and fad fed tastes of our youth. Sometimes we've worn out our interests in things we followed for 20-years and start discovering the "new" things that have been been in front of our eyes for decades.

That's pretty good Chuck. I think you're on to something I can relate to.

I'm very much enjoying this discussion and learning. Thanks for everybody's input.

Since my mantra is "less is more" I would have to completely agree. I just wouldn't poo-poo a kit for it the way I occasionally see on some threads.

For years we read a line in almost every kit review that said, "...There was 'x amount' of flash." In some threads here, I see recurring references to how good or bad a kit is because of how much or little flash there is. Does flash really matter? Whether there is a micron of a seam that needs to be smoothed or a quarter inch of paper thin flash, either way there's going to be sanding and I don't see where it changes much when prepping a model. Only once have I found flash so thick it made a solid piece out of part of a sprue sheet and muddled the detail of smaller parts. Maybe it's my age, but I think removing a blade of flash is just part of building and I don't use it as a noteworthy measure of a kit's quality. Registration is something else though. Thoughts?

Hey, great piece there Jim. Even made me do a Google search to see more about these Stingers. Pretty interesting concept car.

Fabulous. Beautiful engine and fresh take on the Chevelle. Are those guitar/bass and/or piano wires?

Your attic sounds exactly like mine. I just never got up the courage to actually put my studio up there, though that was the plan upon purchase. Too bad, it's a nice retro room typical of those 40's post war cracker box houses. Zen, I'd love to set up a seasonal exchange program with ya.

I love this car because nothing is more emblematic of American excess. "Flaunt it" styling, longer than a full size Caprice wagon, 12mpg and still no back seat leg room.

I actually got the first two-tone color on the Cor-Vex a week or two ago but nothing to brag about until all the body color is on. Otherwise... hey, it's summer what can ya say? The air is sweet, BBQ's are sizzling and the motorcycle can smell the lakes. Summer doesn't last long in these parts.

With some members, people I know, and not just older ones, they just want to enjoy models and related discussions and their eyes glaze over at words like pixel count, import and photo manipulation. The finer points of computer fluency I think is still a troublesome hassle for those who have no curiosity for it and just want to use it as a tool rather than as a craft.

I think H.R. Geiger's work is so unique that it doesn't cross over as well into the conventional. Fascinating B-mobile though. As promised earlier, here's another car from the cereal set. All of them were long, disproportionate and borrowed from familiar automotive influences. While not disagreeing with any of the previous comments, for now I just think the blue car patterned after a Batmobile from decades earlier just doesn't make any marketing sense to me.

Interesting info about the Style Guides. But if I'm reading correctly, you're proposing the blue car is replicating a Batmobile. I think that would be an odd choice for 1970 since comic Batmobiles didn't look anything like that at the time and styles of the pre-60's were definitively UN-cool at the beginning of the 70's. Then to have them marketed as "racers" (which I forgot to mention earlier). They all had racing stickers. I'll post a photo of one other from the set later today.

Even if Geiger had seen the blue toy, I doubt he would have been caught dead (heh, heh) copying it.

I did do a Google search for the comic reference after Borg's response but I don't think I found what you guys are referring to. Anyone got the comic illustration to post? I'm not familiar with it. For what it's worth, the other toys in the set were all different kinds of cars.

The cereal box toy preceded the movie cars by almost 20-years, coincidence? I say too many to ignore. Anyone have any knowledge of a connection between the toy designers and Hollywood designers?

This toy was offered in Kelloggs or Post cereals in 1970. That’s where I got it. One or two of you might remember there was a set of four to collect right out of the box. I’m proposing for discussion that the movie batmobiles were inspired by, if not strongly influenced by this. The cockpit, though more classic of the 50's & 60's, is reinterpreted for 1989, and the fender vents are too hard to ignore. And if you think it’s a bit of a stretch to connect the Keaton batmobile to the cereal toy, consider the Clooney batmobile.

Yeah, TOMB stone judging by the looks of the guy waiting for the bathroom. He probably shouldda just knocked.

Fantastic! Inspiring.

Music and car fans unite! The guy said he worked at a music store for 15-years and just couldn't bear to let some damaged and unwanted instruments get trashed. (Of course, he also said the winters here are too long).

The three spoke may not look exactly like your drawings but it still looks cool. In chrome, nobody would know you intended otherwise, even if only the smallest star was chrome. Salvageable.

Messy, very. But I don't like filth, so I sand over a waste basket when I can and clean up debris and tailings every so often. However the clutter is at the verge of tolerability.