Harry P.

Try using "real car" paint! Go to any auto parts store and check out the Duplicolor display. Duplicolor paints work great on models, and they also make a clear topcoat. The cans have a nice smooth spray pattern. Try a can...you'll like it!

I do it all in Photoshop. It's just like airbrushing, only electronically...no more spilled paint or clogged airbrush tips!

How about a 300 "Heritage Edition"...

I can't help myself...gotta post a few more. How about a few good old bartender jokes? Horse walks into a bar. Says the bartender, "Hey buddy...why the long face?" A piece of rope walks into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve your kind here". The rope steps outside, ties himself into a knot and frays his ends so they're all messy looking, and walks back in. "Hey", the bartender says, "Aren't you the same rope that was just in here?" The rope replies, "No, I'm a frayed knot!" A sandwich walks into a bar. "Sorry", says the bartender. "We don't serve food here!" A set of jumper cables walks into a bar, and says loudly to the bartender, "Gimme a beer!" The bartender looks at him with squinty eyes. "Ok, I'll serve you...but don't you go and try to start something!" A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, "Hey, what is this...some kind of joke?" And finally...a guy sits down at the bar, orders a beer, and a few minutes later he hears a voice: "Hey buddy, nice tie". The guy looks around, sees he's sitting alone, and continues with his beer. "Hey, buddy, I like your haircut". Once again, the guy looks up, sees he's alone, and continues with his beer. "Hey buddy...that's a real nice watch". Now the guy is freaked out and calls the bartender over. "I'm all alone here, but I keep hearing a voice saying nice things about me", he says to the bartender. "Oh yeah", replies the bartender. "That's our peanuts...they're complimentary!"

Ok, last one, I promise... A blonde was taking helicopter flying lessons, and finally it was time for her first solo flight. She took off in the helicopter, while her instructor stayed on the ground watching. After several minutes the helicopter's rotor stopped spinning, and it fell to the ground. Horrified, the instructor jumped into his car and drove to the crash site. Miraculously, the blonde was unhurt. "What happened???!!!", cried the instructor. "Did you have engine problems?" "No", replied the blonde. "But I was getting chilly, so I turned the fan off"... :lol:

Ok, George, one more for your wife: A blond is driving down a country road when suddenly she sees another blonde sitting in a rowboat, pretending to be rowing, in the middle of a wheatfield off to the right. The blond in the car pulls over to the side of the road, gets out of her car and yells over to the blond in the field: "Hey! You know it's acting weird, like you're doing, that gives all of us blonds a bad name!" The blond sitting in the boat in the field looks over to the yelling blonde and gives her the finger. Now the blond at the side of the road is angry. "Oh yeah?", she screams to the blond in the boat. "Well, you're really lucky that I can't swim, 'cuz otherwise I'd come over there and kick your a**!!!"

Speaking of the desert... Three women friends were taking a desert survival course, a blond, a redhead and a brunette. The instructor asked the three women what one item they would take with them if they had to cross the desert. The brunette replied, "A white bedsheet, so I could hang it between two cactuses and have some shade if I needed to rest". "Good idea", said the instructor. The redhead replied, "A plastic tarp, so I could hang it between two cactuses, put a rock in the middle, and collect the condensation that would drip down, for water to drink" "Excellent! Good thinking", said the instructor. Finally the blond spoke up. "I'd bring along a car door". The instructor looked at the blond with a puzzled expression. "Why in the world would you carry a car door with you?", he asked. Replied the blond: "Silly! If it gets too hot I would have a window to open!"

Wagons are the hot up-and-coming collectible, now that all the muscle cars have been snapped up. If you can, check out the September 2008 issue of Hemming's Classic Car magazine. The monthly feature is wagons...lots of photos and good ideas for model subjects.

I see that one has the rare big block "MPC" option package...

Here are a couple of sources for lots of rat rod photos: http://www.streetrods-online.com/RAT%20RODS/rat_rods.htm http://public.fotki.com/wackydave/cars_-_v...l__primer_rods/

Amen and hallelujah! Acrylics or lacquers only...enamel is for teeth!

Ha ha!!! Yeah, he's just a reglur guy way deep down inside...

Hey Jerry...you must have the nicest collection of these little kits I've ever seen! Too cool! You really outdid yourself on them...I'll bet even the manufacturer never thought they could look so good...

Nah..you're not sleeping! I've had a new member playing ROMs that are already finished (48 and 49)...so I had to let him know that those two are OVAH! (that's why 48 and 49 were bumped up to the top)...

Once again, you're too late! If the title has the word "Finished", then that quiz is over and the answer has already been given. The only quiz that's currently "live" is #50. There's a new one every week, and only one at a time. I give the answer to the quiz on Friday and start the new one on the next Monday.

You're too late...this one's already over (the answer is given on Fridays, new quiz starts each Monday). And BTW...you're wrong...this one is REAL!

Remember though...nobody said it's necessarily 1/25! Hint: most of the time, if the photo is a model, it's a much bigger scale. I've used photos in the past of models as big as 1/4 scale!!! Don't assume that I'll only use 1/24-1/25 scale models!

I read somewhere where they can go in somehow and zap them to pieces with a laser. Don't remember the details, but that sounds like a better alternative than the "old fashioned" way!

Real or model? The answer: REAL!

Right you are! After I read your post I was curious. I had posted my Turbine car story based on my memory of what I had read in the past. Apparently my memory isn't very reliable...the fact is, as you say, ordinary people were chosen as Turbine car test drivers, not celebrities and insiders. I'll have to be more careful next time I post "facts"... However, the real reason that Chrysler destroyed all but a handful of the cars is still open to debate. It depends on who's story you're wiling to believe. The most common reason I've come across is the "avoiding the import duty on the bodies" story...but that seems a bit strange. Wouldn't the import duty have been due immediately upon Chrysler's receiving the bodies, and not after the fact? The real reason might never be known. I wonder how much one of those cars would be worth today?

For a guy who thinks this part of the site is the lamest part, you sure do come around here a lot...

Glad you like it! BTW...it's nice to hear from some of you guys who DON'T think that this is the lamest part of the site...

Popeye said it best: "I yam what I yam"...

I posted comments on this topic a while back and got quite a few "angry" responses. My view: any time that there are awards handed out for "best" or "favorite" or "People's Choice" or whatever, whether those awards were decided by judges or by the participants themselves (who of course are actually "judging" when they vote), then that event can't be an NNL-type event. If awards are handed out, it's a competition, whether that was the "intent" or not! A true NNL-type event would have no "Best of" or "Fan's Favorite" or anything like that. After all, wasn't the whole point of NNL events that there would be NO competing, and NO awards??? It's irrelevant HOW the awards are decided on, whether by judges or by popular vote. The fact that awards are given makes the event a contest. I don't mean to stir up a major debate here...we're not talking about nuclear war or world hunger, after all. It's just my opinion, but it seems pretty logical to me!