Harry P.

I owe Skip Jordan one last photo before this one fades away... Thanks to him, I can now say this one is finished. He sent me the driver's side spotlight/rearview mirror (the chrome on my piece was messed up) so that I could finish this model.

Why drill part way through the nipples (and rim), then cut off the nipples and do cleanup, then drill the rest of the way? Why not just drill all the way through the rim in the first place, then cut off the nipples and sand smooth? I don't see any reason to drill part way, remove the nipples, then finish drilling. Seems like you're just doubling your work on each hole.

Sure. If you have the $$$....

Again going by reference photos, I made the wooden slats that the trunk will sit on. They are made of strips of basswood, stained and varnished, and the brass scuff plates are brass wire. You'll see where these pieces go in an upcoming post...

I painted the trunk to match the car's upholstery, and made the straps out of strips of paper painted the same color but with some Future added to give the straps a slight gloss and make them stand out from the trunk. The buckles are brass wire bent to shape, and the brass hardware is leftover PE pieces from a trunk kit I bought (I used that kit to build the trunk on my 1904 De Dion that I posted a few weeks ago). The trunk handles are heavy cotton thread, also painted to match the rest of the trunk. I altered the hardware that the handles attach to (it was originally flat and meant to be corner reinforcements on the trunk kit... I changed the shape to make it look more like hardware used to hold the handle straps)...

Next, I upholstered the trunk and top with a vinyl material that looks exactly like leather (found it in the sewing dept. at Hobby Lobby). I used contact cement on the back of the material and on the trunk surfaces, then applied the material to the trunk and lid...

I ordered the red pinstriping tape yesterday, it'll take a few days to get here. Because applying the pinstripes to the body sides before the sides are glued in place will be much easier, I have to wait until the tape arrives before I can assemble the body panels. In the meantime, I'm keeping busy with some other bits and pieces. The kit has a plastic trunk, but I don't like the looks of it, so I decided to scratchbuild my own. Trunks on cars of this era were manufactured by many companies, and there were a lot of different sizes and styles available. I built a generic looking trunk based on my reference photos. First step was to determine the size of the trunk (again, based on reference photos), and build the basic box and top out of scrap pieces of wood ("sprues" from previous laser-cut wooden kits I've built plus left-over wood from various ship kits). The curved top was framed in wood and then covered with card stock to give me a smooth curve:

Very cool!

Just one question. How do you get in?

Nice! I like the look, simple and clean.

That would be interesting to see here in scale.

Thanks. There will be red pinstripes between the light and dark blues.

Around here they plow and salt so much that you have to really go out of your way to drive on snow-covered streets. About the only time the streets are snow covered is during a snowstorm. If you wait until the snow stops, the streets will be plowed and salted almost immediately. I drive a RWD Mustang year round, and have never had a problem.

Why? That's not very accurate.

If a member sees value in this conversation and has something to add to the give and take, that's the point. If a member sees this topic as pointless, why would said member be reading the thread and posting on it? Seems kind of odd for someone to take the time to post a comment on a thread to tell us how he doesn't see the point of the thread. Seems to me that if a member stumbles across a topic that he finds to be worthless or uninteresting or pointless, said member would just move on to another topic that he does find to be worth his time.

Working on getting the various body subassemblies ready to go... The windshield and the "glass" panels in the secondary cowl unit have been replaced with Lexan. And unless that wiper works by magic, I'm going to have to scratchbuild some sort of wiper motor. Some of the more clever among you can probably figure out the car's color scheme by now...

You may think we make "poor" choices, but that's because it's us that are making the choices, not you. I'm sure if you were in charge of deciding which models to include, you would think that every choice was brilliant. We try to include models that cover a wide spectrum of genres, so that in any given issue there should be something to interest someone. We don't do only drag models or only muscle cars. And because we like to include the widest range of automotive models, sometimes the models we get submitted are not perfect... and we know that. But we include them because they are interesting models, not because they meet some sort of level of quality. We won't use obviously poorly built models, but the occasional flaw or mistake in a model isn't going to make us say "no."

Don't know how other mags do it, but we have a set "per page" payment for material that we specifically ask for (if we contact the person and ask them to contribute content). Any material that people send in on their own is assumed to be "contributed" to the magazine, and if used, no payment is made.

Same here.

I can see where a person who becomes one of the "stars" of the hobby, either by contest wins, or magazine appearances, or whatever, might feel pressure to never make a mistake, if only because they know that everyone else is watching what they do. But I don't think it's fair for the rest of us to expect that person to build to any standards that we may place on them. Most people who become role models didn't ask for the job.

I just read through all of this thread and my first impression is that a lot of you guys have an amazing talent for not understanding the original question and jumping all over the OP for completely invalid reasons. The question asked was is there a point at which a modeler becomes so "famous" in the hobby that he/she has an obligation to the rest of us to make sure they sweat the details and get things right because "the whole world is watching," so to speak. That is a perfectly valid question. Why did so many of you jump in with inane comments that have nothing to do with the question asked? Why are so many of you so eager to start flame throwing? Why do so many of you not understand the question asked and respond accordingly? Seriously... every time someone tries to have an adult conversation here, they immediately get shot down and drowned out by people who don't even understand the question being asked! To answer the question... in my opinion, no builder has any obligation to live up to anyone else's expectations or demands, no matter how well known they are in the hobby. That's my take on it.

This week's car is a 1939 Studebaker Commander. Who got it right: GeeBee sjordan2 blunc MikeMc 62rebel otherunicorn vettecote Foxer bbsbase carsntrucks4you Peter31a mr moto landman tooltas dimaxion Lunajammer matthijsgrit DynoMight customsrus

I don't want to keep adding more and more separate sections.

I know I'm guilty of posting my large scale stuff in "Under Glass" and not in the Big Boyz section. That's on me. What I told Casey is that all large scale stuff–WIP or finished–belongs in the Big Boyz section. So he moved stuff based on what I told him to do. He didn't move my stuff, probably because he figured I was the admin and he wasn't going to mess with my stuff. Can't blame him for that. It's not Casey that's to blame, it's me. I personally don't like a separate Big Boyz section. It was here before I came along, and I'm sure Gregg had his reasons for doing it that way, but I disagree. We're going to try and work out a resolution.