Modelmartin

Glad to see you building again, Marc! I might get to the Heartland this year. It would be great to see you if you are there. Fred is still selling decals. I don't know if he has that particular sheet in stock. He supplies several dealers (Model Empire is one) and does fill orders that find their way to his P.O. Box in his old adverts. He still has the same box.

Russell, If you built a normal model my jaw would bounce off the floor! Keep up the good work!

Silly but funny!

Digging the Salt Spreader!

The vintage bike world is funny. For road bikes it depends on its Italian-ness. If not Italian it has to have Italian components to have value. I imagine yours has Huret or Simplex components and Mafac brakes. It is considered a 70s bike-boom bike and is not valuable from a cash perspective. My advice is to get a gel road bike seat (not a comfort, cruiser style seat!) and some good riding clothes - shorts with padding and some padded palm cycling gloves and ride it. Just because a bike doesn't have a pedigree does not mean it isn't useful and fun. I ride a ton of miles and it makes me feel like a kid again and keeps me fit.

I am no Mustang expert but there were no 64 Mustangs nor even 64 1/2. I believe they were all 65s but were available for sale early in 64. I remember when my mom brought our 60 Ford Ranch wagon into the dealer for repairs and ogling the new fastback Mustang. I know that they are commonly called 64 1/2 but Ford never labeled them as such. 65 would be correct. "I would rather see a kit of the notchback. They were more common anyway, and harder to find in kit form." AMT never re-released the Fastback. They made it into an altered wheelbase A/FX. They re-released the notch many times. If you like boring cars ( as some people do) then go ahead and favor the notchback. I found Corvairs to be more interesting than Mustang notchbacks!!! When I was in High School in the 70s, Notchbacks were a dime a dozen especially all of the 6 cylinder 3-speed and auto trans cars. It usually only took $200- 500.00 to buy one. I had one high school buddy who had three of them laying around. Most were rusty as could be. Yawn.

I was going to say third world coachbuilt but someone beat me to it!

For the life of me I do not know how anyone could have tooled up for a notchback instead of the fastback. I was amazed when those kits came out originally and am still amazed! The T-birds and 50s Chevs were cool but a Notchback? Seriously?

My basement is so cold that I get more done down there in the summer despite all the yard/house work and cycling activities that happen at the same time. Hopefully my attempts at more insulation and heating vents down there will pay off next winter.

Cup holders?

Maybe it's rocket surgery!

I have used it. You only need to add a little bit - maybe a 1/4 teaspoon per bottle. I would thin it a little after mixing with some isopropyl alcohol. I have had great results with it. I also will mix it with Tamiya clear and then I can flatten anything that I spray it on including decals if needed.

That is one very clean and very cool ride!

One of the worst kits ever! There is a real Barris buggy on Ebay Motors right now. It looks better than the model. It does have a convertible top on it.

Nice save, Alan. I hope you can find the rest of them. They are out there! Those kits were very cool conceptually but suffered badly from poor kit engineering. I have one of the Bugattis built and the engine bay is silly. It is just an engine facsimile sitting on a flat bottom! By the way, the Bugatti and the Mercer were replicas of actual cars. The real Mercer revival car had a cobra chassis under it. The Bugatti was a T101 with a new body built for it. The Bugatti owner was one Virgil Exner. The models do look like the actual cars. I was always surprised that they did not do the Duesenberg to match the actual Duesenberg revival car which was built at the same time. The real one was based on a then current Imperial.

I don't know how I could pick one as my favorite. They are all really outstanding. Emotionally I would probably go with the AMT double. I had a molded in red issue when I was a kid.

Very tastefully done. I like it.

You must be mistaking me some other Andrew. I am a hacker.

You do look pretty tough!

If most people could think!

This is a whole different category. The Brits call it Scale Engineering. In Brit-speak engineering is machining.

I usually don't look at the Under Glass subjects but I am a Model T aficionado so I clicked on it. When I saw the first photo I started smiling. Very clever, very original and very well done!

I should think your Tamiya clear would be fine over the duplicolor especially if it is the acrylic in the jar. Their lacquer should be ok if you build up a few dust coats and then a final wet coat.

Jeez, Bob! You had to go and build a car and embarass all of us car builders! Thanks a bunch!

A slight counterpoint here in which I mean no disrespect for any veteran whatsoever. My family and I were anti-war. We protested. My parents caucused as anti-war. I had many friends who were anti-war. I was too young by a few years to get involved in the draft. I do not remember anyone speaking ill of drafted or even enlisted soldiers. We all thought they were as much victims of the politicians and military brass as the Vietnamese civilians and soldiers. The stories of returning soldiers being spit on and being called baby-killers were extremely rare and did not reflect the feelings of the vast majority of the anti-war crowd. You know how it goes - a few idiots in every group of humans. We had a few spitters - veterans had Lt. Calley. Even a cursory reading of the history of the conflict in Indochina reveals we should never have been there in the first place. All Americans were lied to and very, very sadly too many young American men paid with their lives. I have been to the Memorial and found it incredibly moving. A good read on the subject is Bob Green's 1989 book Homecoming. I wish all veterans peace.