Harry P.

John, how did you make those spark plug boots? Very cool.

Not everyone uses that. Some don't even know it exists.

Same here, Rick. For the price of one Pocher you can get a boatload of 1/16 scale kits. I've bought about ten different 1/16 kits within the last month. I've made myself a real backlog! But my first love is still Pochers. I have built 6-7, and currently have two different Rolls kits under construction. I have a Sedanca with the chassis complete, seats built, needs the body. I have the "Star of India" that I will be converting into a RR woody... er, "shooting brake." I've built the Fiat, two Alfas, two Mercedes, the Porsche 911 (not a "real" Pocher IMO), and have two RRs under construction. The only one I've never built is a Bugatti. Still looking for one at a price I'm willing to pay. Not going to spend $2500 on one kit.

Beautiful. As always!

I can tell you his answer. He wants large scale models separated. Don't ask me to explain it, but that's what he wants. I'm sure he has his reasons.

Churning grinder of death. Exactly! Hilarious! You should be a writer, you really have a knack for it.

Believe it or not, there are people here who have never even scrolled all the way down the page! I've had people tell me they didn't even know anything "below the fold" existed here because they had literally never scrolled down. Unbelievable!

I just bought a bunch of 1/16 scale kits. I really am getting into these small kits. Like Chris Walken said on SNL... I got a fever! And the only cure is more cowbell! No, wait, more 1/16 kits!

What do you make of this?

I'm doing mine in maroon and gray. Not silver, but gray. Veddy British, you know...

Wait... let me wipe the dust off this thread...

Speaking of Barcalounger chairs... not to hijack my own thread, but here are my scratchbuilt seats for my Sedanca (assuming I ever get back to that kit... )... Seats use parts of the kit seat shells. All upholstery is scratchbuilt. Real foam padding, upholstered with a faux-leather that I found at Hobby Lobby and looks exactly like 1/8 scale leather. The piping is also something I found at HL in the jewelry making aisle... it's actually a very soft and flexible rubber "string" that's for stringing beads on. It makes perfect 1/8 scale seat upholstery piping. All wood trim is real wood (basswood stained and varnished), the "carpeting" trim on the backs of the front seat is yet another fabric I found at HL that looks exactly like 1/8 scale carpeting. I also used it to carpet the interior of the Rolls. Man, I really need to get back to work on this kit... I painted the seats a medium gray using acrylic craft paint. They have a soft semi-gloss that makes for a very convincing in-scale leather look. I still need to carve the wooden armrests for the rear seat.

Well, yeah, there's that, too... I cut corners wherever I can... But actually... there is stuffing in the seats! Well, foam padding. Yep, really!

Most RRs of the period I've seen had the chassis painted to match the body color (or one of the colors if a two-tone).

Not many RRs of the period had chromed wire wheels. Way too blingy for the typical stiff upper lip Rolls owner. Most RRs were painted in very conservative colors with wheels painted to match. Of course, that's not to say that you couldn't have been some sort of flamboyant 1930's-era extrovert who would have put chrome wire wheels on your car... but the vast majority of Rolls owners back then were a lot more conservative in their automotive tastes.

Ok... if you look at the previous photo and this one, you can figure out how the spare tire racks work. The outer arms (the ones away from the car) are hinged to open and accept the spare. Then those arms are swung closed, and the belts hold the brackets closed. Yes, the bracket arms are really hinged, and yes, the paper "belts" were actually threaded through the loops and buckles just like the real thing would be. But it wasn't easy... and once I got everything closed up without breaking any of those tiny, tiny parts, there's no way I'm ever opening up those brackets again! BTW... I pirated the spare from an Entex Model T delivery van. It carries two spares, both on the same side, so I figured it'll still look ok with just the one. The spare is molded smooth... it represents a tire with a cover on it, which works out perfectly. No need to worry about the spare matching the rest of the tires! Pretty much all that's left now are the running board step plates and painting the hood.

I have to get into the wayback machine to answer this one. I still remember to this day what happened. We lived a half block away from a city park. The park had several long, fairly steep sidewalks... like a long, steep driveway. For some reason I thought it would be fun to get to the top of one of those hills. turn my tricycle around, take my feet off the pedals, close my eyes, and roll down the hill. It didn't end well.

Wow. Very pricey for what it is. It will be interesting to see how many they sell at that price. I wonder how many they would have sold if an American manufacturer had come out with the same kit at that price? Going by a lot of comments I've seen about how $25 kits are too expensive, It'll be interesting to see how a kit that sells for three times that price will do.

Absolutely essential, IMO. Best use of $30 ever.

The belts are just plain old paper, painted black. The brass belt loops in the photo, which are attached to short lengths of "belt," are lengths of brass rod that I bent into a loop shape with needle nose pliers with a very small tip, which allows for very tight radiuses (pliers found in the jewelry making aisle at Hobby Lobby). The black loops on the outer arms of the brackets are each made of four little bits of styrene strip glued into a loop shape and painted gloss black. I used styrene for those so I could glue them to the curved arms of the brackets, which are also styrene. I wanted a strong bond, styrene to styrene (with liquid cement).

Here are the scratchbuilt spare tire brackets installed. All that's left is to make the buckles and then strap that baby down!

Those are them.

Remember... don't post any hints or answers here. PM me with year, make and model. The answer: 1989-91 BMW Z1

No trick. I myself don't get it. To the example of the runners on concentric tracks... for a given interval of time, in order to get back to the starting line at the same time as the inner runner, clearly the runner on the outer track has to be running faster to make a lap in the same interval of time (the "rotational speed" of once around the track) as the runner on the inner track. Both runners are running at the same rotational speed (one around the track in a given amount of time), yet the outer runner is running much faster. So the runners are running at the same rotational speed, but at different velocities? The time it takes to run one lap (the rotational speed) is different than the velocity required to attain that rotational speed? My head hurts...