Harry P.

Very nice work! And welcome!

No surgery involved...

Nice! I actually like that better then the original.

Kind of an obscure reference...

Is that a song lyric or your personal commentary?

ok, on this one I actually like Dylan's original better, but still a very cool cover. Definitely has the Concrete Blonde touch.

Off-Broadway?

Very nice work. The engine bay looks great. I see a washer fluid container under the hood... but where are the windshield wipers?

Me neither!

Wow! Promos ahve come a long way since the 60s, when everything was molded in the same color.

Very impressive work.

Holy krap! That is awesome! I'm a fan of Concrete Blonde, but I've never heard this. Tough to top the original, but this is one cool cover. Thanks for posting, Adam... and widening my musical world.

Agree that Janis' version isn't nearly as good as the original. I had no idea that she ever covered the Bee Gees! Learn sumthin new every day!

Yuri... tell us your painting process. I think a lot of members would like to know exactly how you get such a perfect finish.

As soon as he submits something.

I hereby proclaim you "King of the 1/12 Corvette."

Excellent work, Matt. The paint looks beautiful, as does the rest of the model. Outstanding. PS: Excellent photography too.

That is just freaking beautiful!

I see you put the Agent 47 mirrors on your 'stang...

Pretty sure someone will buy/take over the business.

I really should. I've been thinking about this one for literally years now. Time to actually get on with it...

I still stand by my "nothing looks more like real wood than real wood" comment... it holds true most of the time. But in this particular case–trying to replicate burled wood–using actual burled wood would probably: A. Looked out of scale, B. Been tough to work with (compared to clear basswood, for example), and C. Required a ton of sealing/lacquering/polishing, etc. until it was glass smooth and absolutely no grain shows. Sure you could have used real wood, but given the end result you were after in this case, "cutting corners" was definitely the way to go here. So in this particular application, your technique is the way to go. For the floorboards you did, real wood was the way to go, because basswood has almost no visible grain and can be stained and weathered to look like almost any other wood (except burled wood, obviously!). And I use real wood for the firewall/dash on my brass-era cars, again because the real wood (basswood that I stain and varnish) looks "right" to me at that scale (1/16). When I finally get around to doing my 1/8 Rolls woody, I'll be using real wood. Structural pieces for the framework, and sheet/veneer for the panels. All basswood, stained and varnished to look like maple and mahogany (both of which don't have a strong grain pattern in real life).