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I agree with Bill Engwer. Overall I think JB Weld is best because it is strong, easy to get, and cheap. Sometimes I will drill holes into each piece being glued and pin them together before gluing. A little piece of piano wire is pretty strong! 5 minute epoxy is pretty useless.

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I have never seen any and I am a Porsche guy. The Revell 914 had five spoke Fuchs.

Very cool, Tom! Welcome to the forum. It looks like Steam Punk agrees with you!

Flathead Fords have the same setup. The V8 has 3 pipes and the V12 has 4 per side since the two pairs in the center share ports. Also years ago I had an old SAAB with the Ford V4 engine and that had one pipe per side!!!

The Revell Dodge Dart is a great fit under the MPC/AMT/ERTL 68-69 Baracuda. Ditto the AMT Road Runner/GTX undersides for just about any mid-size mopar. And now for something completely different! The Heller BMW Dixi slides under the old Revell parts pack Bantam roadster to make a stocker. The BMW Dixi is a license built Austin 7 which is what the American Austin and subsequent Bantam were. The Fujimi Porsche Enthusiast series unibodies fit very nicely under most 935 kits for full detail versions. The engine from a Tamiya 956 is the correct motor for the Tamiya 935/78 if you are ambitious!

Ah! Pop Culture - 100 miles wide and 1/8 inch deep.

Using brass is easier than styrene! It bends nicely and stays. Once the solder joint cools it is ready to go. No waiting for glue to dry. easy to rework - just melt the joint. It is stronger. I don't know why anyone uses styrene to scratchbuild structural stuff on a model. It is a new technique for many and that is what is scary. Once the short learning curve is climbed it is the best!

Odd old world we live in isn't it? Using an old English white guy of privilege to promote booze to the downtrodden. Okey-dokey!

As a long time Campbell fan I find it kind of strange and cheap. Who is this NAS character and why on earth is he in the trailer? He obviously doesn't not know jack about jack. Campbell was a rich sportsman and he loved racing. His dedication to the sport comes easier when you don't have to work and you have boatloads of money to spend. He also raced Bugattis and was a great customer of the British Bugatti dealer. The actor portraying him looks nothing like him! By the way, he died of natural causes at 63 unlike his son Donald who died when his water speed record boat broke up. His body was never found.

I don't know about BRG but Bugatti blue is the color of Gauloise cigarette packs. French blue is darker and can be anything. Bugatti blue is and should be pretty consistent.

\Aurora did one in 1/16 and Pyro did one in 1/32 as did Hudson's Old-Timers. Sadly, no 1/24-5 Mercers have been done!

In the movie Independence Day with Will Smith there is a scene where I think new York is being blown up. It is obvious they are blowing model cars down the street to simulate real cars being blown away by the alien blast. My Favorite is THX 1138 by George Lucas. The spaceship has a bomb that gets periodically lowered out of the bomb bay. It is an AMT Fruehauf Trailer with a bunch of strange parts attached to the bottom of it! This movie was done while he was in film school. He commemorated it by using the movie name for the license plate of Milner's coupe shortened by one digit to THX 138.

Digging the T models! I have a stack of them myself. I hear someone did some nifty Resin T bodies that fit on them. I might have to build one of them!

WIP means I will just take pictures of a body shell and tires taped to the workbench and call it a model!

Like many things in this world, one needs to know the whole story about something. As Tim Boyd stated- it is administered by Mark G. and his board. The inductees are people they know about. If someone is outside of their circle they may escape notice. It is more than just a list of good model builders. It is for people who contributed more to the hobby than just building great models. Like any list there will be oversights. I did not see Don Emmons name listed. That is a major oversight. To me the biggies were there - Gary Schmidt, Tim Boyd, Hank Borger, and a bunch of the industry people. Now someone suggested John Teresi. I know John and he is a great guy and a great builder but seriously? HOF? Why not me? Why isn't Randy Derr in it? This is for people who have really done more than just build models. You need to have really accomplished something FOR the hobby.

What an unusual building subject for you!!!

I love it! NASCAR kits as kindling for the hearth!

So what are the fees for selling at a swap meet? Gas, motel, food, table fee, etc, etc. All that for a few hundred people to walk past your table, sniff at whatever you have and then try to hammer you on the price even though it is reasonable to start with! Or E-bay where you can sell, buy in your pajamas anytime you want and can connect to anyone in the WORLD who is looking for that item. Ebay would still be a bargain if they doubled their fees tomorrow! Don't tell them that I said that though!

Several years ago our local TV station produced a segment asking simple geography questions to passersby in downtown Mpls. The question was really tough! Name one of the two countries that border the United States to the north and south. My favorite answer was "Europe".

My wife worked at a Deli for a little while and the mid 20-ish women who was the manager thought it was really strange that particular day (December 7) her mother was on a trip to Viet Nam. My wife asked why that would be strange.The manager replied , " Well, it's Pearl Harbor Day and the Vietnamese bombed Pearl Harbor!" Can you say - Box Of Rocks!

I avoid that issue by going with the Brits - water-slide transfers!

Many years ago after a model club meeting we retired to a local bar to define areas of common interest and consume beverages. One of our regular guys brought a relative of his wife who had just gotten out of the Navy. I ordered a Corona and he said, " You aren't going to drink that are you?". I replied that I certainly was. He claimed that Mexican beer was made of 30% urine. He was very specific about that 30%. I asked why he thought that was true and where on Earth they would gather that much urine. He said there was a newsletter passed around his ship that said that Mexican beer was 30% urine. He absolutely believed it and was unshakable. A few minutes later I told him about my model car business and how I was making a meager living at it. He thought I was lying. "There is no way you can make a living building models!" He absolutely, fervently believed something which was so obviously untrue and refused to believe something that was true and that 5 people at that table could vouch for! And he was defending our freedom and is allowed to vote and reproduce freely! We are doomed.

This is tangential but humorous. Several years ago I had a 1960 Austin Mini. I was driving it down one of our main drags on a Saturday night when the cruisers gathered at a local drive-in. I pulled up to the light and a guy in a 66-67 Charger was backing into a parking space and stopped even with me. He looked over at me and said, "You got a hemi in that?". I saw that his car had 383 emblems on it so I said, "No. It's JUST a 383".

I have wanted to build a replica of this for years! I do have two MPC Olsonite Eagles and one Tommy Ivo FED stacked up waiting for me to start it!