Harry P.

Looks great! Nice work on a classy-looking car.

This kit comes with a small rear seat, but I want to put a trunk there instead. I found this scale model trunk kit on ebay, it's supposed to be here Friday. The kit is laser-cut wood, paper (the pattern on the trunk walls), and PE brass hardware. It looks a lot like a vintage Louis Vuitton travel trunk and should look right at home on the back of this car. Here's a photo of the assembled kit (photo from ebay seller):

Everybody likes Ringo! He has to be one of the nicest people you could ever meet. He's a real sweetheart from everything I've ever seen and/or read. And he's a good drummer, no doubt. I just think that his reputation has been helped by the fact that he was the drummer of the Beatles. If he had been the drummer of the Hollies or the Dave Clark Five, nobody would rank him in the top 10 of greaterst rock drummers.

Come on, people. Someone rise up to the challenge! No, that's not Vicki Lawrence.

Different placement on LHD vs RHD models?

Didn't forget, just don't think he's all that special. If Ringo is under-rated, Moon is way over-rated, IMO. Edit: I also like Bill Berry of REM.

Gotta disagree. He is competent. He would have made a good session drummer. But there are so many better rock drummers. Where to even begin? John Bonham. Dave Grohl. Max Weinberg. Mick Fleetwood. Nick Mason. The list goes on...

Looking for a different show...

You watched it. Guaranteed.

Is that the mom from Father Knows Best?

None of the usual sources name the cause of death, and the family is playing "secret squirrel," only saying that she had been suffering from a "serious illness." Yeah, I guess an illness that'll kill you is pretty serious. But I wonder why all the secrecy?

"Julia" and "Revolution."

Right!

That's an idea. I'll have to look and see how the "stone" pattern is laid out.

My opinion (after reading several very comprehensive Beatles books)... in the beginning Brian Epstein was simply looking for another act that would be able to crank out "hits." Nothing wrong with that–it's a perfectly reasonable business model. And Brian was first and foremost a businessman, not a music guy. But the Beatles were just way too talented to be limited to being just a "hits" band. As cruel as this may sound, Brian Epstein's suicide may well have been the best thing to ever happen to the Beatles, because once they were out from under his control, they were free to do what they wanted to do, not what Brian wanted them to do. And George Martin was a big part of their post-Brian creativity... he really was the "fifth Beatle" in the recording studio. My opinion... the Beatles were freakin' musical geniuses. Ok, maybe not Ringo... . No offense to Ringo, but he was obviously not on the same level as John, Paul, and George. A perfectly competent and serviceable drummer and a genuine nice guy, for sure... but nowhere near the level of talent and creativity that the other three were. Compared to the "manufactured" pop stars with questionable talent (if any at all) that rule the charts these days, what the Beatles created is amazing. Like their music or not, but there's no denying they are head and shoulders above the typical rock and roll band. How many other bands could have created a song like "Blackbird" and one like "Helter Skelter?"

Yeah, I could scratchbuild a base. But the kit comes with a "cobblestone" base with the cobblestone texture molded in. But the base comes in two halves with a big old seam going right down the middle of it.