Harry P.

I haven't checked in here for a while... just seeing/reading the dash and seat comments/photos for the first time. I have to agree with Skip and others... real burled wood would not have been to scale. Plus, as Skip noted, the finish on these dashes was glass-smooth lacquer... there was absolutely no woodgrain visible, so using real wood in this case would actually not have worked as well (and been a lot more labor-intensive) than using your photographic technique. I really don't see any way to make your dash look any better... it's right up there as far as quality goes with the rest of the model (engine and chassis). Also the leather upholstered seat looks great! Again, hard to criticize anything I see here. I say take a deep breath and relax. You are doing spectacular work.

Jairus.

"I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered, but you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered"..

My personal Rule of Music #1: If there's a harmonica featured, it's a good song. My personal Rule of Music #2: If there's a mandolin featured, it's a good song. Hint: this one follows rule #2: "We're leaving it all behind while castles are falling down. We're going where no one can find us, and if there's a heaven we'll find it somehow"...

"She was a be-bop baby on a hard day's night. She was hangin' on Johnny, he was holdin' on tight"...

Joe Jackson, Is She Really Going Out With Him.

"Well she'd held a bass guitar and she was playing in a band... And she stood just like Bill Wyman. Now I am her biggest fan."

Old '55, Tom Waits or the Eagles.

"You told me baby you were gone for good, But here you are right back in the old neighborhood. You stood in a lobby with a ticket in hand For a one-way ride to the promised land..."

I guess it would make a cool display piece if you had a "man cave" big enough... but other than that, I don't see any point to it.

Thanks, guys. Yes, I'm ok. ROM/Auto ID will be back to its normal schedule next Monday.

To those of you who follow ROM and/or the Auto ID quiz and wondered why I didn't post Friday's answer on Friday... or why I didn't put up a new one this morning as usual... I had a medical "situation" that developed and put me in the hospital last Thursday. I'm back home now, I'm fine... but I didn't have the time to do a new Monday ROM or Auto ID today. So I'll skip this week and put up a new quiz next Monday morning,

Sorry for the delay, guys... I was in the hospital since last Thursday and just got home a while ago. BTW... it's a 1/8 scale MODEL!

Yes, Roundabout.

I decided to wait until spring,

You are one talented artist. I am very impressed. I love the street scene with the tram. Beautiful! Just spectacular work.

Have you heard about the insomniac agnostic with dyslexia? He stays up all night long wondering if there really is a dog...

"I'd like to know. Can you tell me? Please don't tell me, it really doesn't matter anyhow..."

"All of my life I've been a-waitin'... Tonight there'll be no hesitatin'..."

"I'm walkin' all around, lookin' up and down this railroad. I'm walkin' all around, lookin' up and down this town. I'll bid adeau to the precious few I knew here, and I'll be on my way and I won't be back around."

"Yeah, I'll know right away by the look in her eye she harbors no illusions and she's worldly-wise"...