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And rightfully so. They called Ringo the glue of the group, but George Martin was the glue of their recordings, gelling their musical thoughts. RIP.

He's grabbing the one he hasn't started.

I think a lot of them are sort of passing through. I'm kind of the same way on a PT Cruiser forum. Was pretty stoked about participating when my Cruiser was new and I pop in from time to time still, but mostly I sort of moved on. I prefer to think that a bad experience is not why members here moved on.

A late thought to this topic. Though I'm pretty much okay with most of it, I finally found my photo that illustrates where I draw the line to the whole patina thing. This was a gorgeous 55 Buick wagon that sat at a classic car dealer for a few months. Someone finally bought it, sanded the gorgeous paint in a ridiculous random wear pattern, clearcoated it, added custom wheels and boasted about what trendy rod he had. .

Nice detailing and a fine looking finished product. This one's always been on my watch list, but I'm confident it'll be rereleased, so I'll wait.

This is so prevalent, that I think you should go to the Under Glass section and invite folks to post pics of theirs. I'd love to see how people have cobbled together their creations.

The joke is kangaroo poaching can be a problem in Australia. PM on Hells Kitchen.

Scott, there was a couple from Minneapolis who came up for it, so if you hear of anything like this down there, please post it here. My GF and I go there several times a year, I'd bring my cars. A few more pics... Classic from the late 60s ran good and a new police car with lit, flashing LED strobes. The crazy cut one was awarded most unique design.

That's about as good as it gets James. Bravo.

Blocks and a broom handle?

Saturday, my GF and I celebrated leap year with a dinner of kangaroo and frog legs at Hell's Kitchen in Minneapolis. As dark humor, I asked for mine poached (HA!). The waitress either didn't get it, or refused to acknowledge the political incorrectness, just said, "I don't think we serve it like that but I can ask the kitchen." I kill me.

Sam, these are easily my favorites for the reasons you mentioned. Some guys bring their vintage builds just to see them run again and surprisingly, they still keep up with the pack pretty well. Not winners but pretty respectable. No dremels back then so the craftsmanship was true hand work. My first derby car looks pretty similar to yours, just a lot uglier.

Well, it's a year later and the local VFW had another Pinewood Derby for grown-ups fundraiser which brought in $22,000 for the local VA hospital. There were 107 entries. I entered two, shown below. My copper car place 7th overall and the blue car 10th. The 1st and 3rd place cars were entered by a table of men and women who even wore some zany team t-shirts. The pinewood builds are so much like modeling with the added challenge of function. But it's very creative and the time commitment is only a few evenings. Plus, being an over-21 race, there are no impressionable young mind we need to protect from crackin' beers and talking smack. BTW, these two cars were cut from the same regulation block. The blue car is just the negative cut of the copper car, I just lowered the profile at the back.

Art, so the tool shop sounds like a car garage that is left with an abandoned car that nobody paid the repair bill for... making them the reluctant owners. Later when a buyer is interested in it, they have the right to sell it for what they have into it. Essentially, AMT forfeited the tool for lack of payment. Lindberg buys tool, AMT buys Lindberg.

All of it's first rate. Photos too. Nice choice of background. Wish I could dry brush with as much skill.

I've already learned something.

I went through a phase of trying to hit every nth degree of detail and found it laborious, tedious and not fulfilling (or convincing for that matter). There are those who excel at such things and I leave it to them to be rock stars. I'll just pay my admission to see them. I'm satisfied with wiring engines, building clean and wrapping them up in reasonable time.

I laughed and laughed and laughed at all those. Thanks.

I bought the rally SL maybe a year ago off ebay and I too paid very little for it (IIRC under $10). Not a high demand for them so if you want one, your best and most economical bet would be to watch the auctions.

That's a goll darn serious truck Bruce. Don't tell your people that there's no money prize.

This is my favorite. Worthless for heavy use, not a lot of torque, but I use it constantly for modeling. At $8.99 you get a lot, and when it craps out after a few years then replacing it is still cheaper than two cans of spray paint.

Furthermore, when gas prices rise again, they will raise their prices saying citing oil as the reason and will maintain their current windfall (cynically speaking, of course.)

Another sad marking of the passage of time. While I respected his music, I much more enjoyed his interviews. I loved his sense of irony and whip smart, understated humor.

Good lookin' ute.

As cool as it will look in your home, it's kind of a shame to let so much work just hang so all you see is grey and props. One of the reasons I drifted away from planes, too much goes unseen, yet I can't not detail them. But the B-17 is such a handsome plane and I'm sure a lot of us wish we had yours hanging in our homes. Nice work.