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I hate to rub salt in the wound there Curt, but it's a darn shame that was your solution because it looks like you'd been doing marvelous work on an interesting subject.

I'm with you Bat with Moody Blues and Parsons. They'll aways be on my A-list. The rest of your list is on my sentimental B-list. I've kind of moved on to selected and obscure new stuff. BTW, at the risk of nerding up this thread, if you haven't heard your local pops symphony play the theme to Star Trek TNG live then you don't know what you're missing.

That's one super-duper clean build with striking care. Thanks for posting.

Looks like you took your time and hit all the marks. Nice work.

Beautiful work. And I sure like your nod on the back plate. I always spot that.

I'm interested Ken, largely because I'd hoped to do this car from scratch anyway. I don't think I could join as a CBP, but I would follow along with interest and bookmark it for later when I'm ready to get into it. I'm not so ambitious to scratch build 100-percent of it, but I'd sure like to see your step-by-step for body and maybe interior. Others probably want your chassis too.

Your lines alone are worth careful study.

TEN instruction sheets still wouldn't be enough to help build me better models.

How didI miss this? Some beautiful work here. Fit and finish is tight as a drum. Nice work!

Different is good, for that reason I like it. But it belongs on Rodeo Drive, not Watkins Glen. Junkman, I don't know what "pikey" means, but it sounds perfect.

It looks like you may have already made your choice, but I always thought this one would be a fun concept scratch build and not too taxing. I know you'd have the skills to do it. But like your photo, I've only been able to find the one profile image.

I absolutely GROOVE on this thing. I loved your WIP too. I hope you win some cool stuff at the contests you will enter... right? Right?

Good advice John, I appreciate the info. I actually have a regulator from my ancient 1/8 hp compressor that died an honorable death, I just haven't installed it yet. Crank Senior's got it right. This is the first time I bought anything expensive and complex from them. Lesson learned. I still appreciate HF for the simple, low stress tools. I love their el-cheapo mini rotary tool which the mgr. tried to talk me out of, calling it a piece of junk. But for $7, even if it lasts for only ten builds, it's been worth it.

I guess I missed this thread when I posted on your other thread. Glad everything worked out for you. Me, not so much.

WARNING!!! DO NOT BUY REGULATOR FROM HARBOR FREIGHT! I'm sorry I didn't see this thread sooner. I bought a 3 gal. compressor there recently and the regulator didn't work at all. Would not stop or control air at any psi. I brought it back and the manager asked me to demonstrate on their display piece how it was SUPPOSED to work. That one also did not work, not even a little. As a compromise on the exchange, they gave me the small, tankless compressor but it uses the same regulator. That one does not work AT ALL. Not even a little. It's clear there has been a great shipment of faulty regulators to Harbor Freight Tools. No complaints about the compressors but buy a name brand regulator.

Works pretty good on flat surfaces but I don't like it or use it for compound curves, especially little ones.

I don't disagree with a lot of what you said DD, just your opinion of it I guess. I'm with you about the sounds, especially the tire squeals sound pretty cheesy. I considered the white lines too and it depends on which lines of course, some are painted short and numerous (fast) some long (slow). But when passing cars, look at the edge of the frame and count how long it takes for the back and the front of the passed car to go through the frame's edge and consider that's how fast the car is being overtaken. It's more than just a little faster. Too bad we don't get a side view for true comparison. About the legend of the film, when you've been educated about something from the hype, it never pans out to expectations, no matter what. Star Wars was sort of that way with me until later when I could appreciate it on its own merits.

WOW, I totally forgot about this movie. Back in the late 70's before videos, you could check out short 16mm films and a projector from the library. My brother and I did that occasionally and this was one of the films. DD, to the film maker's credit, watching it on a 3x5 window view doesn't do it justice. Also it's not just about the speed, but the brazenness, route, zero stops and the fact it's all one unedited shot. I think it still holds up. Can't compare it to what see these days, there no CG here buds.

Looks pretty good to me. I like that rear view photo too. Nice attention to detail.

As the art director of an outdoor advertising agency, I know it's a rare billboard that can be pure hook and nothing more, like these. 95-percent of all advertisers I deal with want too much garbage on there to tell the rest of the story. It would be a privilege to design for a product so well known that the design is pure branding; no directionals, no phone numbers, addresses, product lines, sub heads, hours, list of services, rep photo, specials and a hundred other things motorists couldn't give a rat's patootie about in a four second read.

George Lucas, in his fight to refuse opening credits at the beginning of Star Wars, said if you don't wow the audience with the first shot, it will take the next half hour to reel them in. Top Gun is right up there. This is my second, the opening to Spielberg's "Always."

Yeah, the '50 is completely dead on. Something about the stance separates it from all others I've seen, not just the cocked front wheels.

Excellent. Very nice looking model.

Dude, this is a eureka moment for me. I've been studying and collecting progressive concept car art for a year trying figure out how to translate them into something I can model. I was getting the hunch the answer laid in factoring in an open wheel racer, I just couldn't figure out how. I don't have all the answers yet but yours breaks a creative block.

It almost looks like the surface doesn't take and set the inks before the handling mechanisms spit it out. Are you sure you have a laser printer or is it an ink jet printer? I was once told by a printer that the paper is too thick. It's heavier than the most common card stocks they print. It gets squashed a little too hard by the handling mechanisms. However that was ten years ago and I would think that sort of thing would be less of an issue these days.