Harry P.

Beautiful! BTW... I love that Krylon "Short Cuts" paints myself. Use it all the time. Just one question... and I could be wrong... but wasn't the clear roof panel on those cars made of Plexiglass that was tinted a very obvious green?

Agree that the "all one piece" rear end seems like a step backward as far as model kit engineering goes. But regardless of why they did it that way (cost?)... look at the big picture: Brand spankin' new '65 Satellite! The one piece rear end is nothing a little paint detailing can't fix.

I like the mods you've made to the car overall. It looks sleeker, sexier, racier than stock. Nicely done. Looking forward to the day we see this one "Under Glass" for the first time.

Because they wouldn't have anything to gripe about otherwise? I guess... Instead of worrying about the hollow topside of the rear end, how about concentrating on the fact that a model manufacturer has come out with a brand new model of a '65 Satellite? How cool is that? Major props to Moebius for once again showing the others how it's done...

I know how you feel. I've been fighting my own medical battles for the last several months now. Nothing even close to what you're facing, but still, enough problems so that I know the frustration of being held back by medical issues. It feels like some outside force has taken over your body. The feeling of loss of control is the worst... knowing that the medical issues are now "in charge." It sucks. Good luck to you.

Why worry about fixing stuff that will never be seen on the finished model?

Those wheels are just crying out for a black wash...

"Tainted Love" is a song from the '60s? And I never knew that Blondie's "The Tide is High" was a cover! Wow, I had no idea. Pretty cool!

It's been tried with the "Pro Modeler" series. People weren't willing to pay a premium price for premium content. The "Pro Modeler" series is history. Model car builders are notoriously cheap. Most of them complain about the price of kits... they'd never pay even more for a "premium" kit.

Want to get really irked? Figure out the cost per quart or gallon. Better be sitting down. The cost of "model paints" is completely off the charts. That's why I use anything but "model paints" whenever possible. It's the same with Testors thinner/brush cleaner. Five bucks for a little glass bottle. I can get a quart of the stuff at the home center for less.

Like I said, even if man-caused global warming is 100% true and happening, the real problem isn't us... it's all the other countries that couldn't care less about it! Countries with far more people than we have, and spewing far more greenhouse gasses than we do. On a global scale, the share of the problem that we are causing is relatively small. What do we do about the rest of the world? It's a tough question with no easy answer. Maybe no answer, period.

jb, you might find this interesting (but probably not 'true" in your mind). Be sure to click on the "UPDATED NASA SATELLITE DATA" link in the story to see the graph. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/05/19/updated-nasa-data-polar-ice-not-receding-after-all/

jb... From the article you cited... Core samples, tide gauge readings, and, most recently, satellite measurements tell us that over the past century, the Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) has risen by 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters). However, the annual rate of rise over the past 20 years has been 0.13 inches (3.2 millimeters) a year, roughly twice the average speed of the preceding 80 years. Over the past century, the burning of fossil fuels and other human and natural activities has released enormous amounts of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous to the "past century" there was a lot more burning of fossil fuels going on than there is now. Coal powered every factory, the smoke was so thick in cities that you couldn't see across the street some times. Today the air in most places on Earth is way cleaner than it was 150-200 years ago. Cars put out way less pollution than they used to. Factories are way cleaner than they used to be. So why do the "experts" say that heat-trapping gasses are increasing faster than in the past? Wouldn't they be decreasing as more and more laws are passed to keep the air clean and more and more clean plants and and factories and cars replace the old polluters of the past? But for the sake of argument let's say that the warming happening now is due to man and burning of fossil fuels. Let's say you are 100% correct. Ok, so now what? The US has the most stringent laws on the planet regarding air pollution. We are doing our part. But what do you do about the biggest polluters on the planet... China and India, and the dozens of other countries that have very few or NO laws regarding emissions whatsoever. No matter how well we in the US "clean up our act," it has no effect on the emissions being spewed by the rest of the world. All the rules and regulations the EPA throws at us has zero effect on the rest of the world. How do you address that problem? International treaties? Ha! Good luck enforcing them. How do all the good intentions and well-meaning regulations our companies have to abide by make a bit of difference to China and India, who combined have almost ten times the population we have?

jb... i was referring to the testimony of several eyewitnesses as given at the grand jury hearing. They all testified that the guy's hands were never up, in fact he was charging at the officer with his head down... sort of like a charging bull. Forensics back up that description... bullet wound entrances, etc. The physical evidence and the eyewitness testimony given at the hearing support each other and contradict the "hands up, don't shoot" story that was initially claimed to have been the case by the guy's buddy, and subsequently picked up on and pushed by the media as "fact." As far as global warming... the earth's climate has been undergoing drastic change for millions of years... long before man ever came along. When the earth supported dinosaurs, the planet had a tropical climate. Then along came the Ice Age.. some pretty radical "climate change" that had absolutely nothing to do with man or his affect on the climate. There was a pretty major cooling during the early middle ages. The earth's climate is constantly changing. The whole "global warming" story is only a few decades old. In fact, in the '70s Newsweek had a cover story proclaiming the impending Ice Age! Guess they were a bit off in their prediction, huh? And we have only kept accurate, worldwide weather/climate data for a little more than 100 years... that's a nanosecond as far as the overall age of the Earth. Far too small a sample to take as "proof" of climate change, or "proof" that man is causing it. The idea that man's activity is causing the Earth to warm is at this point still a theory and a political position. Claiming that man is causing global climate change based on a tiny, tiny sample of data is simply not provable. Like I said, the Earth's climate has undergone dramatic, constant change for millions of years. Who is to say without any doubt that any current warming is definitely and specifically due to man... and not just another naturally occuring, ongoing cycle of climate change? I don't deny that the Earth's climate is warming lately. What I disagree with is that it has been "proven" and is a "fact" that man is causing it. The fact is, we just don't know that at this point, because our data doesn't cover a statistically significant span of time. And finally, as far as the media being biased... as long as media outlets are run by humans and humans decide what stories are to be reported, what stories are to be ignored, and what stories are to be "spun" to fit a particular political ideology, there will be bias. Everyone has a viewpoint, an opinion...a bias. Everyone. That includes news directors, newspaper editors, and bloggers. All media is biased to some extent... some more than others, some to the right, some to the left, some discreetly, some blatantly. To assume that the news we hear/see/read is 100% true and unbiased is completely naive.

Those are all really cool! Too bad some people don't consider diecasts to be "real" models. Their loss... they have no idea what a wide variety of cool subjects are available.

With those wraparound bumpers, what else could it possibly be?

The tollways here are also a huge scam. The concept of building the tollways was presented to residents this way: The new toll roads would be built, and drivers would be charged tolls to use them. Once enough tolls had been collected to pay the cost of their construction, they would revert to freeways. That was exactly how the politicians sold the tollways to Illinois voters. They lied. Do I really needy to add that the tollways were paid for decades ago, yet the toll booths are still going strong? Has there ever been a "temporary" toll/tax/surcharge/fee? Of course not.

Looks like it came right off a carnival bumper car ride!

I'm "on hold" with this project until my hinges and window channel arrive. I need the window channel (actually 1/16" Plastruct "C" channel) to continue building the doors. Then I have to figure out how to adapt the Pocher window winding mechanisms and door latches. Progress will be posted as soon as there is any... One thing I have noticed as I wait for my ebay stuff to arrive... the hood panels are all about 1/8 inch too long. Strange, because the radiator shell is mounted in the dead-stock kit position, as is the cowl (lowered, but "normal" position front to back)... Oh well... better the hood panels are too long than too short. Too long is an easy fix, too short a bit more labor-intensive.

That's impressive.

Sounds like yet another way the local politicians have figured out to separate you from your money. "I feel your pain." After all, I live in "Crook" County. The county president ran on a platform of eliminating the 1% county sales tax surcharge the previous county board president had rammed through. Add she did eliminate it. For a while. Guess who just voted to raise our county sales tax by 1%? We now have the highest local sales tax in the country. And for what? To build schools? Hospitals? Pave roads? Nope. To fund county workers pensions. Yep. The county workers voted to raise our sales tax to pay themselves their pensions.

Why not just leave the pile sit until they pick it up? It's not as if someone's going to steal it.

But that's exactly the point. How do you know what the media is saying is true? The media lies all the time. The media has a political agenda, and their reporting reflects that agenda. The stories they tell you, and more importantly the stories they don't tell you, depend on what they want you to know and what they want you to believe. Remember the whole "hands up, don't shoot" story? Well, it turned out that eyewitnesses to the incident testified to the grand jury that it never happened. The media made it up because the media wanted you to believe that's what happened. It was pure fabrication. Be very careful when assuming what the media reports is the gospel truth. Get your news from multiple sources, don't rely on only one source.

What's this nonsense about the younger generation passing you by? Keep building and keep posting.