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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.

HELLO!

I really, really like that T, Aaron. That's the very sort of treatment I've been considering for a similar build when I get to it. In fact I might have to snatch that photo and keep it my reference folder.

Lovely builds of a lovely looking car. Your photography is rich too.

...And I bawl like a baby chopping a '34 Pickup top. This is so cool!

I have to think technology factors into it. I would think it's cheaper and more efficient now than ever to clean up derelict and damaged molds. Software programs can design new subjects and tools faster and with less labor. Dies being cut with speed and precision we didn't have five years ago. Who knows, there might be more start up companies watching the success level of Moebius with intense interest.

From one snail to another, welcome aboard.

I've always thought this is a particularly handsome custom. Forget comparing it to a Pinto. Kits like these look so little like the real thing I look at them as stand alone customs. The point was driven home more at the NNL North when someone on the primer table was converting a pathetic Palmer Corvette into a custom and it was brilliant. Rather than trying to salvage the Corvette look, he was discarding the recognizable accuracies and embracing the inaccuracies for a totally different looking custom with half the work already done. Toy or radical custom I guess depends on what you do with it.

I'm thinking hotter water. I've had acceptable results by heating the water to just under boiling, then dipping it momentarily, shaping and setting with cold water. Otherwise maybe just try and find a plastic AMT Bonneville hood.

Aren't you done yet?