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A lot of ill-will for these 54s but I love these car and I've got two I've been dabbling with (and a 1:1 '53 in the shed). The side trim is not strongly defined so grinding 'em off is no great loss. Looking forward to more.

The thing is though, it's already kind of a weathered color, as opposed to the bright green in the photo. I'm not sure weathering would stand out that well on those colors. It would be lots of brown.

I'm in. AMT 1990 Corvette ZR1. You might have heard Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson on CNN this morning discussing optimism for 2017, saying that striving for greater goals (like flying to Mars) is what fuels innovation that is applied to our every day lives. If you can believe, the ZR1 Corvette is the ideal test platform for new fuel expansion technology that's never been road tested, or for that matter, never been made mobile before. More on the science of that later.

At work I can see what day it is, how many more days to deadlines, be reminded of a dentist appointment, which holiday is coming up, the phase of the moon, see last months calendar with next months calendar and get a boffo cool photo, all with just a glance of the eye. Now THAT's technology. Lets see your phone do that.

If anyone is interested, excerpts of Brock Yates' book "Cannonball! Worlds Greatest Outlaw Road Race" is HERE. There are several short chapters of testimonials from people who participated in the races and they give interesting insights into what it was like driving, what they drove, how they set up their cars and the personalities of the merry band of scofflaws. Good storytelling.

I can make decals if anyone wants some. As a commercial artist I'm fluent in Photoshop and Illustrator and can easily set these up. Anybody who wants one, maybe give me an indication of the size you'll need (as accurately as possible) and I'll set up them up at varying sizes. They'll be printed at high resolution on an office Xerox laser printer on either Microscale or Bare Metal decal paper. If you guys want the "10" in the red field as originally mentioned by Jantrix I'll add that. PM me and when they're ready I'll send you my address. Send me a self addressed stamped envelope and I'll mail them out to you. I prefer to print these once so I'll take requests prior to printing. If one of our screen printing decal makers offers to do it, I'll defer to them for printing.

Wait, what? Very interesting. Nice clean build too.

Top shelf buddy. Such a handsome and detailed model.

I was surprised to discover Mini Driver's disc "Everything I've Got in My Pocket." It's very good. A disc to fill that female-easy-listening slot in your library.

Yep. Cool airplane but building the model is like building two models, takes twice the effort or more, than building a single fuselage aircraft. Part of their appeal is they're plentiful and affordable. I can hardly remember a time when they weren't on the hobby store shelves.

Bruce and Misha, big congratulations. Very difficult to choose a winner so I shouldn't be surprised that the win is shared. Jay, MLM and MeatMan, you have nothing to hang your head about. I really liked ALL the entries for their own merits. Fun race gentlemen, I salute you.

Love the car conversion. This is the treatment I intended to take for the Aussieball, but I didn't get any models built in 2016. Nice work.

Yeah, the incident on the plane didn't sound good. 15-minutes on CPR. Hard to be encouraged when she was only alive because of life-support. I kind of liked Postcards from the Edge. RIP.

How you keep all that perfectly symmetrical and perfectly straight is beyond me. It does look kind of fun though for someone who would have the patience, confidence and skill.

I used to believe that if it didn't roll it wasn't a completed car model, that glueing the wheels solid was an easy cop-out from having to finesse accurately turning wheels on stubborn models. I've since done a 180 and now believe non-turning wheels are more practical. Rolling wheels on models without metal axles means to be loose enough to turn, they are usually wobbly and wonky. Glue 'em.

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My gosh Paul, what a stellar year. Beautiful cars and a great range of subject matter.

Hard to believe it's been six years already, but there seemed to be some success with the CBP posted here. You could either resurrect that one or continue as you are with a new post and fresh builders. Just thought you might like the reference.

A little web surfing seems to confirm that. I'll have to check my old files to see if that had once been a Johan catalog. What's confusing me is I was pretty much out of modeling from the early-mid 70s when I was really into Johan products and about '89 when I was getting re-introduced to mainstream modeling and X-El was barely on my radar and I didn't really understand what the company was.

I know it says '89, but I got my catalog around '73, '74 and looked very much the same. Even at that time, half the listings were unavailable.

I bought two of them off the shelf back in the day and still have them. One is unbuilt because I want it to be perfect and I can't decide on what treatment. The other donated the running gear, engine and seats to a 70 Toronado restoration because the chassis were identical.

I give you creds for bangin' out the Super Bee Jonathan. I really didn't think you'd make it but you've got a pretty respectable starter and I like to see the converted cars. I don't see a slouch in the bunch so it's great to see the quality of builds and the modelers who persevered through the challenges. More later.

To you master visionaries, it sometimes breaks my heart to see brilliant and superbly executed startups get put out into the weeds. Makes me want to come over to your house with a box of trading stock, a bottle of vodka and pester you like a kid in a candy store for your cast-offs.