DaveM

How "Offroad" is the outback? This route goes North-South. I know they have a highway that runs East-West, but are we talking gravel roads torn up by semi trucks traffic, or total jeep trails? If we are talking mostly gravel roads and the like, any good street car with improved tires and an inch or two of extra clearance would be great, and a rally car would be awesome. Otherwise, we might be talking Jeeps, 4WD trucks and huge rocks and the like. Are the push bars for Kangaroo defense? From what I have heard, those things are like deer on pogo sticks, and about as hard to miss with a speeding vehicle. Interesting choice of themes. I'm not sure if I'm in or out with this one, yet, but I did just think of a possible theme for next year. Big Rigs. What better reason to get every law enforcement agent on an entire Continent after you than making a couple of extra bucks on your load? My first thought when I saw Australia in the theme was the outback highway and building a road train with a little extra gravy in the train. (so to speak) I know that's a roughly paved road, but with a few washouts, dust storms and other assorted hazards. Driving one of those road trains might not be too different in spirit than what moved the early cannonballers. I will be watching this build with interest. It looks like there are some great ideas already.

Tom, you bring up a lot of good points. I don't plan on using a "Priceless" kit for this build. I don't pre glue the 4 parts to the body like you are allowed, because our old club always started weekend builds by ripping the shrink wrap off of the kit at the starting time. I carry that tradition on. All of the kits I am considering are kits I either have extras of, or I have one opened and one sealed. This way, I can grab a part if I screw it up. Most of the kits are ones I have experience with. The '69 Camaro would be the smartest choice in that regard, as I have completed a few, and I have a few in the stash. I use a slightly different build order. My first action is to clean up and prime the body and any other parts that will be painted body color. (Inner fenders, metal parts in the interior, frame parts etc...) I then glue and putty the body colored parts. Then I go to the rest of the parts. The body is always a sticking point in a 24 hour build. You need to prep, prime, paint, clear coat, polish, foil and detail paint it, all in 24 hours. I try to get the primer on within two hours, paint at about five or six hours, clear coat sometime after the twelve hour mark, and polish, foil and detail for the last four hours of the build. I still feel like I am priming over wet putty and glue, painting over raw primer, clear coating over soft paint and polishing uncured clear coat. I use cotton gloves, and the lightest touch I can muster to handle it, but I always get a tiny flaw or two. (Or a huge flaw...) The final assembly always takes a few hours more than I anticipated. If I am still working on parts and paint at the twenty hour mark, I know I am in trouble. I am taking are of a family member 24/7, so I will have to be even more flexible than normal. I may have a chance to have somebody watching her the first three or four hours of the build, so I will plan to get a lot my airbrushing done then. Afterwards, I will have to make sure she is settled down and has been toileted recently before I run up to the spray room. All other parts of the build will have to be done in the main room on a coffee table I am setting up just for the build. I have to prep all of her meals, set up and administer all of her medications, eyedrops etc, along with moving her every two hours, so I will have a very busy 24 hour build. I will probably end up using Tamiya Lacquers for their fast drying qualities, along with some Wicked Colors acrylics for custom mixed colors. (I can dry these with hot air, and I can paint them over Tamiya for interior panels that need to be two toned) I have some ScaleFinishes paints too, but I am not sure if I want to do a lot of testing with them on a 24 hour build. If I get to give them a good test before the build, and I know I can dry them quickly enough, I might try one on the build. That would open up a couple of subjects for me. ('71 Charger in Butterscotch, '64 Impala in Bahama green, '64 T-Bolt in Vintage Burgundy or Guardsman Blue. Any Ford in Wimbledon White, '55 Chrysler in Tango Red and maybe even a '71 Ranger in Calypso Coral, or a two tone.) Anybody have experience rushing a build with Scalefinishes paints? How hard are they to force? DO they harden up with a few hours of heat, or are they still bad underneath when you cut the surface with an abrasive? Let's all have a ton of fun with this build!

I'm sure somebody else will come along and start an official thread on this, but I'll start for now. I had to miss this build last year, due to my Mother coming out of rehab from a stroke and getting home a couple of days before the build. This year, all seems well right now, and I am planning on giving this thing a shot. My wildcard will always be the weather. If it is super cold, (Like 2013 when it was almost -30F) I will have to shoot a lot of acrylics for the engine, chassis and interior and only use lacquer for the body. If I can leave the booth vented out of the upstairs window, without freezing the whole house out, I can empty out my whole Tamiya spray can collection! I haven't decided on a kit yet, but I have learned from a couple of failed builds. Old kits,while they can be simpler, can have fiddly fit and assembly problems. My 1951 Chevy Convertible fell victim to the combination of the platform interior and the separate inner fenderwells not all lining up perfectly. I wasn't able to get the body down over the dash and lined up with the frame. I also know that newer kits fit better, and have fewer sinkmarks in the body, but they can have a lot more parts, and that can just eat up the time really quickly. The perfect kit would be a newer tool with really good fit, clean body moldings, and slightly simpler construction. I have thought about a Revell 1969 Camaro, as it has a bucket interior with separate side panels, saving me from having to line up and assemble a platform. I have also built a couple, so I kind of know the kit's shortcomings. The other newer kit with a bucket is the '64 Thunderbolt. I have also had some experience with this kit, but I cringe at the thought of polishing the body with all of those sharp trim lines in a hurry! I am also thinking of some older kits that go together pretty well, like the '69 Cougar, or an older Monogram kit. I have no idea what the theme is this year, but I'm pretty sure you can still build any non prepaint. non snap kit with an engine. Right now, the short list includes a '57 Del Rio, '69 Camaro, Monogram '69 Superbee, or '70 Roadrunner, 1955-1957 Chevy Pickups, 1941 Chevy Pickup, 1950 Olds (Maybe even the custom version) and a few others. I am also considering a '62 Pontiac with Packer Pontiac decals, or a '72 olds. I will probably make anything I build a mild custom or street machine, just to avoid having to use factory matched paint. I think Tamiya Lacquer will give me almost as fast a finish as anything. I will probably decant a can or two ahead of time to use in the airbrush. I can also shoot straight from the can. The downstairs rooms are heated by a woodstove, so I can actually dry and harden paint pretty quickly. I just put the model a couple of feet out from one of the big fans and let it dry, as long as things don' t get too stinky! I know several people from this board will end up participating in this build. I would hope that some people reading this will decide to give it a try. It is a bit of a grind, but it is a lot of fun. It is the last Weekend of January, so you can watch the Rolex 24 while you are building, or you can jump onto MMTV on Livestream.com and watch the USSN drag race from Bradenton. (If going straight is your style) Let's get some representation from this board on the build, and let's all have some fun! See you all in the land of sleep deprivation!

Here's hoping everybody has a great New Year! Harry's right, too. We get a little frisky once in a while, but this is really a great group to hang out with.

I had to teach my girls English, math, science, history and the U.S. Constitution. The school taught them some version of P.C. history about how Icelandic transgender atheists made just as much of a contribution to society as our Founding Fathers. The school taught them anti bullying, accepting people even when they're dead wrong, everybody wins, everybody's okay, you don't have to do anything right to be special... The school was so busy teaching them about non subjects, telling them to turn their Parents in to Social Services if we weren't accepting enough of the P.C. agenda and throwing pity parties (including counseling) for any students that were actually disciplined, that they didn't have any time left to teach the "three R s". We were able to get them out of the public system in Middle School, and we never looked back. We found a good Christian School that had excellent math and science. I didn't require a specific Christian school, but I wanted a place that had the correct educational priorities. They didn't waste time on social bullslobber. They went straight to academics, and still had time for some artistic and creative pursuits as well. They didn't hold up the whole class and dumb them down to the level of the mainstreamed student. They pushed every student to the limits of their abilities, and did extra work with the ones that needed it to keep up. All of the students had to meet academic and behavior standards to be accepted, and they had to maintain those standards to remain in school. They didn't spend two whole class sessions discussing why it was okay for a student to act out. (Yes the Public School did that in a math class, with counseling available to students who were offended) The most important thing we did was to give a darn. We had expectations, and if they didn't meet them, we would correct the situation until they met them. If one of them got stumped, or confused, we tutored them. If one of them wanted to get lazy, we had ways to refocus them. (It's hard to be distracted from you schoolwork when you lose your TV, Stereo, telephone, computer, free time, transportation and art supplies) We supported them through Science Olympiads, Math Competitions, Award ceremonies, sports, musicals and concerts. We showed them how strongly math and music are related. We encouraged them to seek knowledge and we rewarded them when they did. They finally all came to the conclusion that knowledge was its own reward. We made education their number one priority. We made sure they were versed in current events (NOT the Kardashians!) and we challenged them to stand up for their beliefs. (Even when we didn't agree with them.) We made them support their opinions through logical arguments and we had them write on a daily basis. They didn't get to speak "Gangsta Slang" around us, and they had answer to us if they did something stupid. We weren't afraid to correct them in front of their friends if they spoke incorrectly, and we made them fully accountable for their behavior. We were told (Many times over) that our parenting methods were "Neanderthal", Backwards and just plain wrong, but we have four confident, competent and successful Daughters to prove us right. We didn't let them keep "Participation" awards, unless there was a special achievement attached. (Dawn still has her plaque for making the State's top ten finals in math.) We did support them for trying, and encouraged them to fail and get up again, because that's how you raise kids who aren't afraid to reach for the impossible. Failure is a part of the learning process and a part of life. If you never fail, you aren't attempting daring enough things. We never let any of them take the easy way out when it came to school. They never took a study hall, or a throwaway class. Things like musicals and crafts were savrd for afterschool activities. They took debate, public speaking and essay writing courses during the Summers. Most of all, we encouraged learning in the home as a way of life. It would have been a lot easier to sit in front of the TV at night and let the schools raise them, but neither of us were raised that way. The schools can't teach any kids without involved parents. Parents, today, are too involved in leisure activities, self indulgent pursuits and self promotion to take the time to really work hard with their kids. Then they wonder why their kids are dumb as rocks. Education and children are like everything else. You get out of it what you put into it. Our kids aren't successful because we were White and middle class. Our kids are successful because we both made ourselves successful, and put the same effort into our Daughters lives that we put into our own.

They are both ugly, but the Corvette Summer car has become kind of a icon over the decades. The Camaro is just ugly beyond all belief. Looking at the front end, I wonder if it would look better displayed upside down. (It couldn't hurt.)

I have mine ordered. I can't wait to get it! Should be at the LHS in a couple of weeks. I haven't picked a color yet, but I am going to go with something factory stock for this one. I was thinking of doing this one for the 24 hour build, but I want to spend more time with this kit. The kit looks great. Hopefully we will see a bunch on the workbench thread soon.

It's been strange here, too. Downstate, in Canton they had the first ever confirmed December tornado in Michigan, on Christmas Eve. We had thunderstorms and high winds, leaving us without power for three and a half days. I had to bail out and drive about 45 miles to a hotel for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. (Too much medical stuff to plug in, and she can't tolerate the cold at all) We had just gotten back into the house, with power restored when we had the big snow and ice storm. We thought we might lose power again. I had just thrown out the contents of the fridge and freezer, and I wasn't going to buy more perishables until the weather forcast settled down a bit! We lived on peanut butter and other hard foods for a couple of days. The wildest part of the week was two days after Christmas, while driving back to check out the house and move back in, I saw a sailboat darting around on Houghton Lake! Some guy was having a blast in a Snark. Now, I think Winter is finally arriving. I'm ready for Spring!

Most of mine have already been mentioned, but here goes. Duvall windshield Regular and dropped front axles, maybe with separate spindles that could be flipped, or come in a couple of heights. This would give some options ranging from "Gasser" to "Daisy Sniffer" It would also allow several different wheel and tire combinations to be used. A lot of motors would be cool. a nice upgrade of the flathead from the '32 Sedan with some more vintage speed parts would be really neat. If they insist on a SBC, at least make it an old one. Make it a '55-57 era with some old school parts and a couple of vintage choices for valve covers. There was a good reason all of the hot rods were upgraded to SBCs in the late '50s through the '60s. I would really like a souped up Olds, and they have the masters from the '50 Olds. It would be easier than doing a motor from scratch. Other cool motors would be a '50s Caddy (Lifted and modified from the '49 Merc Woody?) or a nice "W" motor. (Maybe a 409 with three deuces, or a vintage 348) A Cleveland would be the bee's knees, but I won't hold my breath for it. Vintage or traditional interior and dash options. Steel wheels with separate chrome spiders and some newly tooled tires (Any new tires that are different than the ones that are out there are appreciated. For kit bashers, the more choices, the better. Same with wheels. Any newly tooled, well done wheels will generate a sale or two.) A nicely done uptop for it. I am glad to hear that the roadster tooling was not trashed to make the Rat Roaster. I would settle for a straight reissue of this car, but a well done warm over with a few new parts would make my wallet jump out of my pocket before I could stop it. I would buy a couple to build, and a couple more for kitbashing just for starters. I think I had 6 of the roadsters so far and three Rat Roasters, I am planning to grab a couple more Rat Roasters for the wheels and tires, plus the motor has some nice parts. The Rat Roaster is not as generic as I would like, but it has made great kitbash material. If it had the right parts, and a few spare goodies, it might just sell me an extra copy or two of the '29 roadster too. Kitbashing goes both ways, after all.

I delivered pizza for a year or so in a 1969 Cougar that was in very nice shape, clean, quiet and the whole bit. The interior was clean and sharp, and the car was in excellent repair. It had one color of paint, no stickers, no primer, no dings. It was always washed and waxed, the wheels and tires were cleaned regularly... You all know how car buffs threat their "baby"! This was in the early Nineties. The gig was up when the local college's "Save the world" chicks started complaining in the student paper that a few of the delivery vehicles in town weren't "Earth friendly" and even went to complain to the city council that V-8s, rear wheel drivers and bigger cars should not be allowed to do deliveries. It didn't get passed as a city ordinance, but the pizza place went to house rules requiring Omnis, Sprints, Escorts, Cavaliers and the like or Japanese cars. (All 3 or 4 cyl. no turbos, no more than 7 years old...) A couple of locals who were retired from the auto industry would call in an order and say they wouldn't accept delivery from a Japanese car. (As did a few WWII veterans, and rightfully so) I ended up with a Plymouth Sundance that was close enough for them, and I used that until I got a better job. As everybody else ended up with Japanese cars, I got to deliver to all of the Veterans. Those were some interesting times! Love the model, and yes, my Cougar did make a few trips down the quarter mile when I had a day off!

I wonder if a little bit of tricky work with paint and decal paper could come pretty close to imitating the shallow lenses. If you could put a dot of paint on the right part of the "Ghost" image on the bumper, then put a rectangle of thin decal paper with a light mist coat and a couple of coats of clear to get a glassy look over it, followed by a touch of foil, could you fake a lens well enough to pass? It's a fairly small part, so as long as it was close, straight and clean, it should pass the naked eye test. It might not be perfect in a close up photo, or with a magnifying glass, but I've noticed that if a feature doesn't call attention to itself by being huge, sloppy or crooked, the eye will let it go. Just a thought, I'm still buying a few of these!

Is that darker blue Bristol Blue? It looks way too dark to be Richelieu Blue. I really like that car! I was thinking about Bamboo Cream with the gold tri color interior, but that blue one might change my mind! If it is Bristol blue, then it was also called Midnight Blue on 1961 Chevy Impalas, and I am starting a '61 for my "Shelf of Chevy" I might go with the Midnight Blue on the Chevy, and the Bamboo on the Ventura. But, that blue car in the pictures above is so sweet...

The only reason I am buying a couple of these is polystyrene doesn't rust. My investment is safe. I have said this before about malaise era cars. The cars may have stunk, but they were the cars we had at that time, and they were the cars we came of age in. I didn't buy my Pacer kit because the Pacer was such awesomely engineered car, I bought it because I have a lifelong memory of riding out to Higgins Lake State Park in a Pacer a couple of weeks after graduation with a bunch of good friends. I haven't seen most of them since that day, although I have reconnected with a couple on the 'net. We all kind of knew that we were going separate ways, so we got together one last time. I won't buy one of these Volare/ Roadrunners because the real cars were mechanical marvels. I will buy them because they bring back memories of trips to the dragstrip to watch jets and funnycars. I will build one as a friend's daily driver, and one as a bracket car from the era. I also have acquired kits of Dusters, Mustang IIs, 79 Trans Ams, Mavericks and Rabbits, as well as Gremlins and other assorted rolling wrecks. These kits are not my normal building fare, but they are fun reminders of times in my past. I would even buy a kit of a Plymouth Reliant 2 door (The dreaded K-car), if one was out there, as it was, regrettably, my first brand new car. The thing leaked, smoked, sparked, broke, spewed, rattled, wobbled and shimmied, but it was also the car I brought the kids home from the Hospital in, took on vacation, took to gigs, camped out in at lots of racing events and carried a lot of bikes, canoes and luges on. (Little known fact, the K-car could hold 240 bowling pins, a Sheepdog and a television set with plenty of room left over for a few tool boxes) Some cars I build for awesomeness, other car I build to go back to a simpler time.

"The car that killed Chrysler" We had a 1976 Volare station wagon with a 318. Less than a Year after we bought it, we were taking a family vacation in the U.P. We went to take the canoe off of the roof, and I bumped the antenna with the rope holding the front of the canoe. I looked up, and told my Father that I had just bent the antenna. He said he might be able to pull it straight, and he pulled it right off of the car. The bracket under the fender was gone, and within a couple more Months, the tops of the fenders were showing blisters. After a little more than a year or so, you could see holes right through the tops of the fenders. My Father was so mad when Reagan bailed out Chrysler Corp. He thought that money should go to the poor owners, who were still making payments on cars that were already heading to the scrap pile. Of course, he payed for his up front with cash, and ended up driving it into the Eighties, where I took over for it's last three or four years of life. The car ran pretty well, but it was a rust heap. I took it because I was painting tanks for a propane company during the Summers, so it was the perfect working car for that. I used my "Good" car to drive downstate to College in the Winter. The back was roomy enough for several paint trays, rollers, buckets, scrapers and my work partner and I took that thing all over Clare, Gladwin and Roscommon Counties for three Summers, not having to worry about spilling or smearing paint. By the time it totally gave up the ghost in 1985, I think the spilled paint and the wood grain vinyl were the only things holding the car together. My Father and I took a good look and decided safety needed to trump budget. The car got hauled off, and actually buckled when my buddy's wrecker lifted the front end off of the ground. The engine, which was the original with about 200k on it was still in a pickup, plowing snow five years later. The early Volares were probably the worst cars in an era full of very bad cars. Up here in Michigan, the '76s were already showing so much rot in the first year and a half that it hurt Chrysler's ability to sell any more of them. I think they sold (And lasted) much better in the South and West than they did up here. By 1978 or so, the gig was up for the Volare/Aspen platform and getting pretty grim for Chrysler. I remember looking through classifieds with people actually offering money to get rid of those cars and their payments! Our neighbor ended up giving his Aspen and $750 to our Pastor to get out from under the last year of payments and buy a Ford! The Pastor was too poor to say ,"no" to an almost free car, but his wife was mad! She didn't want to be seen in that heap, even though it was still mechanically sound. It was white, and they were the worst for showing the rust off. I still refer to those cars as, "The Yugos of the Seventies". That said, I will buy a couple of the kits. They did well in NHRA Stock, and they made some neat street machines for the guys that could find rust free Southern cars. There are still a couple of them doing damage in bracket and footbrake races up here.

I'll play, here's a blues rock lineup that could go a bit beyond the norm. The late Gary Thain (Keef Hartley, Uriah Heep) on bass. Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa) on drums. Leslie West (Mountain) and the late Lolly Vegas (Redbone) on guitar, Edgar Winter on keys. Special guest; Carolyn Wonderland on vocals. (And more guitar) This would be a pretty slick blues band. I might switch out to Pete DePoe, or Bill Ward on drums. Not sure how necessary keys would be in this band I could build another ten bands, and they would all different, but they would all be awesome!

THat is a clean build. I really like the wheel and tire combo, plus the color is sweet. Great build.

Great builds. I still like seeing that '61 Starliner again. I now have one from Modelhaus, but I'm going for a factory stock build in Monte Carlo Red. Fantastic job on yours, I will look up the build thread again before starting mine. Looks like you had a great year!

I have been flying model planes since 1975, when I was 10. This new law is really interesting. As far as we can tell, even the control line planes that fly circles around the pilot on 50 foot cables are required to be registered. It's not just the "Drones", but any model airplane over 8.8 oz. My little stick and tissue biplanes that I fly indoors will have to have registered if I take them outside. It also includes "Tethered drones" That means any kites over 250g. A credit card number is required to use the registration system. Registering by paper means paying for every plane. It was announced the 13th of December, and people who are buying planes for Christmas will have to have them registered on Dec. 21. That's eight days notice, which means this whole mess is pretty rushed. I'm also pretty sure that registration is only the beginning. I am guessing that the restrictions will become totally draconian in the very near future. A big part of this is the push to prepare to clear all of the model aircraft out of the skies so that companies like Amazon, Google and Walmart can start planning their autonomous drones for deliveries. They are also wanting to clear the way for more police and government drones. As long as citizens can fly model aircraft, the lower 400 feet of airspace won't be totally safe for the commercial and government drones. RC planes don't have collision avoidance features and human pilots can't react fast enough to get out of the way of a computerized flying robot doing 90mph at 25 feet off the ground. It turns out that the big companies have a lot more clout than "We the people" ever will. The funny thing is the orders failed to follow any legal procedure, dismissed public comment periods and broke the laws that congress passed and the president signed preventing the FAA from having authority over model aircraft. They used the D.O.T. for a really shaky legal end run. BTW, the penalty for flying that kite, or flying my old balsa control line plane are $250,000 and 3 years in jail. That's more than the jail time for child rape in some jurisdictions! Not a good future outlook for our hobby, and a lot of really angry people spouting off their opinions about the government on the RC boards. (I can't blame them. If plastic models were banned or strictly regulated next week, I imagine this board would look like a cross between the Branch Davidians and Anonymous too!) I have had a good forty year run flying model airplanes. It is probably why I ended up studying engineering, and it sure helped my kids go to the top of their classes in science and math. Whole generations of scientists, engineers and technologists have a model airplane in their background. I am really sad to see the hobby in the trouble it is in right now. I am pretty sure we won't be flying model airplanes as we know them by the time I retire.

Watch out! "Normal" is overrated... Seriously, I'm glad to hear that you are going forward with the business. I have done two orders, one through the outlet shop, and one through the regular site. I was very happy with both orders, although the second one did take a bit of time to ship. I will be ordering again, as soon as I get my hands on a couple of the new Moebius Pontiacs and can decide which colors I am going to paint them. Keep up the good work. BTW. When I am painting, I always have a bit leftover, but I never know how much I am going to have until I am done. I keep a few H.O. slot car bodies handy to use up the extra paint. It's always fun to show up on T'Jet night with correct factory colors on my cars!

I'm trying to thin the stash, but I'll buy three or four of these. They look great. I love the extra seats too.

I will get a few of them. I tend to like chrome and fins on my shelves.

Nice build, and really cool take on this kit. I like the fact that this kit can work for the '50s, '60s, and the modern crowd too. You got the rake and feel of the car perfect. I never would have chosen that color, but it really works on your version. This is the reason this kit had me so excited. Everybody is going to have their own take on the perfect hot rod. We get to see many variations. I just saw a project a guy is working on with a Ford modular motor and a set of narrowed wheels from the AMT 55 Chevy Stepside street machine. (The star centers) I have only seen it in primer, but he has smoothed it out a lot, and I'm afraid he is going to paint it monochromatic pink! (He is stuck in the late eighties, early nineties) If a kit can make him happy, and keep a traditionalist like Tim Boyd happy, it must be a pretty decent kit. I think this kit's flaws are becoming a boon for model builders. The kit is a bit of a compromise between two building versions that would not share as many parts in real life as the kits do. Channeled rods and highboys would have different suspensions, body parts, and even different sized wheels and tires. The kit makes some serious stance compromises, especially to the channeled version. That encourages us to kitbash, and do some serious parts swapping and plastic whacking to make everything fit together. In the end, this is making the builds far more interesting and personal than if everybody just built the kit OOB with different paint. I finally got to sit down at the bench for a few minutes last week, and work on mine again. I am fitting a flattie, and I still need to get the nose down a bit. (Not trying to build a "Daisy Sniffer", but more of a vintage rake). I am also eyeballing some changes to the interior and scratchbuilding an exhaust system for it. Hopefully, I will have some time after Christmas to get back to the bench. Again, incredible build and another cool take on the '29 Roadster.

WooHoo! I am ready, although I just used my Honduras Maroon on a Chevy, so I will look at different colors now. I am ready for these and then the Comets! I will probably do a stock one, and a drag version. Who's going to be the first person to do something like this?

I just got an order, and it took a bit longer than expected, but not too bad. I think he would probably be fine if he had a brief mention on his site that he was a one man band, and set a waiting time of 3-4 weeks or so. He has shipped everything I have ordered, and it has all been great stuff. I will order again.

Fantastic build, and great color combo! I was going to build one fo these, but I think I will just stare at the pictures of yours instead.