Harry P.

I'd rather use them to make soup...

Isn't that "Chimes of Freedom?" Actually the Byrds recorded that song long before Springsteen did.

I've heard of using lentils to simulate cobblestones. Makes sense to me, but talk about labor intensive... gluing hundreds of lentils in place!

Yes it would!

Millie Helper from the Dick Van Dyke show.

Already have. The closest I can find is 1" scale cobblestone sheet 7x10"... meaning I'd have to piece it together, which brings me right back where I started.

Looks like a 1/24 kit barely fits. It would be way too small for this.

Sorry to spoil your day, Don... maybe I listed Dave Grohl because he just totally gets into it when he's drumming. He seems to just become one with the drums. I guess I admire his enthusiasm...

Yuck.

I have a never-ending selection...

I can't explain the fenders, but I do know that Pocher usually picked one specific car and based their model on that car. So they very well may have chosen one particular Rolls that happened to be equipped as it was–as the owner wanted it equipped. With RRs being pretty much completely customizable by the buyer, it's impossible to say that any one particular car is "right" or "wrong."

BTW Cato... congratulations on your "starring role" on the modelmotorcars site. Very well deserved.

Here you can see the hood latches installed: The kit also had no hood hinge, but the hinge is very visible on the real car. I scratchbuilt it (it doesn't work, it's just for show... the hood is glued shut). The hinge barrel is a length of solder that I scribed the individual segments on by rolling the solder under my X-acto blade. The "leaf" of the hinge is made of cardstock, and the bolt heads are tiny blobs of 5-minute epoxy. The hinge was sprayed Rustoleum Metallic Brass when finished, then given a Future/acrylic black wash, and "glued" in place with Future:

Very sharp and clean. Beautiful work.

And we have a winnah!

Edd Byrnes from 77 Sunset Strip?

Another photo of her from the 1920s. And a shot of her even earlier, probably 1917-18? As you can see, she was very good looking when young, but by the time she starred in this TV show her looks had already, uh... "faded" a bit.

Not Carol Burnett. But remember... we're supposed to also guess the TV show. Last clue (and this is going to give it away, but I guess this one was too hard): On the show, she always mispronounced her TV son-in-law's name, just to tick him off.

That's weird... I see it on my computer.

Good guess, but no. Clue 2: She played a mother on the show, and her TV daughter was a hottie (IMO!)...

The kit's horn tube was too short... it would leave the horn bulb hanging in space. So I had to replace it with one I made by bending brass rod to shape. Bending a part like that is mostly trial and error... there's really no way to "lay it out" beforehand. You just have to eyeball it, bend it where you thing it should be bent, test fit it, rebend, test fit it, rebend... etc. I also had to scratchbuild the mounting bracket, using thin sheet aluminum, cut to size, drilled, and bent.

The hood latches are non-existent in the kit, so I scratchbuilt them of bits of styrene stock, using reference photos. The knobs on the handles were formed with a tiny blob of 5-minute epoxy.

It is a tough one. Clue 1: that photo was taken a long time before she appeared on the TV show doing the character that made her famous to a whole new generation who had probably never seen her before.