Harry P.

It depends on how you did the weathering. Is it easy to remove? If so, remove it and weather the decals, then re-do the rest of the weathering. If removing the weathering is going to be hard, I say leave it. The decals don't look too bad.

Pretty sure your neighbors raising their yards to cause your yard to flood is some sort of violation. Check into it.

A better way to simulate the worn paint on the side step is to drybrush a bit of silver onto the painted part instead of first painting silver, then body color, then sanding off the body color to reveal the silver. Doing it that way, there's always the chance of sanding through the silver and exposing the white plastic. By drybrushing silver over the final paint in the "worn" areas there's no chance of that happening. Drybrushing the "wear" is exactly how I did this step plate on an Alfa Monza. The plate itself is sheet styrene painted black. Then I drybrushed the "wear" with silver paint to simulate the black paint having been worn off. If I had used the "paint silver first, then sand off the final color" method I'm pretty sure I would have wound up exposing the bare white plastic.

Seeing as how the whole point of 1/4 mile racing is seeing how fast you can get from point A to point B, I don't see how adding all the extra weight and complexity would help. But hey... it's just a model!

Right, he designed the dispenser, not the logo or the bottle shape. The logo was designed in the 1880s by the inventor's bookkeeper and the bottle shape was also designed and a well-known icon well before Raymond Loewy ever came along. He "tweaked" the bottle shape, but that's all.

Loewy didn't design the Coke logo nor the iconic bottle. He did alter the existing bottle design somewhat.

Welcome aboard!

Chris... thanks for the post. Very generous and thoughtful of you.

Gotta say that 'bird looks a whole lot better as a stocker than as a funny car! Nice work!

Well, at least you like the hot rod's steering wheel... right?

Wow! Impressive! Beautifully done. By the way... welcome to the forum, but your full name is the rule.

We all know what they look like, so I won't bother posting photos. But there are a handful of cars that to me are just about perfect. Not perfect... nothing is... but darn close (and I'm talking styling here, not necessarily mechanicals/performance). 1968-69 Dodge Charger. I can't decide which I like better–the 4 round taillights of the '68 or the wide horizontal ones on the '69. Let's call it a draw. (A close runner-up is the '66-'67 Charger). 1968 Corvette. Just about perfect from every angle. 1961 Jaguar E-Type. 'nuff said. 1930s Big Mercedes (various models, 1937 540K, for example). Some of the slickest, classiest cars ever. Überautos! 1963-64-65 Buick Riviera. 1965-66-67 Impala. Just to name a few...

Actually the Zephyr was close... but not quite. What it needed to look like is this...

Lincoln Zephyr.

It's going to go all over the place anyway. Just watch. People will get "offended," people will post rebuttals to the "offensive" posts, etc. We've seen this story before...

You need to read the question that the pollsters asked. They didn't ask people what their favorite brand is. They asked, have you heard anything about Brand X in the past two weeks, and if so, was what you heard positive or negative? They were not asking people their opinion of the brands, they were asking if the people had heard anything from another source, good or bad, about the brand. That is a very different question than asking a person what they themselves think of a particular brand. And that is why this is a very misleading poll.

No, this poll doesn't show that Ford is ranked number one by consumers. See, you were fooled by a very misleading poll.

I understand the poll completely. I guess you completely missed post #11. What I'm saying is the casual observer of this poll will probably think it's something it's not. Example: the O.P. Did you read the title of the thread? This poll does not show that Ford is the #1 brand among consumers... but the O.P. sure thought that's what the poll says.

You can manipulate a poll to give you the results you want. It all depends on exactly what the question is and how it's worded, and who you ask the question to (age, race, sex, political affiliation, blue collar vs. white collar, etc., etc.). This poll, for example, looks like a poll of what brands are American consumers' favorites. But you have to ask questions when brands like Coke or Apple don't make the list, while V8 and History Channel do? Not that there's anything wrong with V8 or the History Channel, but I doubt very much that American consumers would rank V8 and History Channel in the top ten of their favorite brands while Coke or Apple don't make the list. Like I said, this poll is completely misleading, and I wonder what the point was that the poll takers were trying to make? Seems like it would be more of a poll of which brands' advertising was doing well and reaching consumers, not which brands consumers like best.

You have to read what exactly they were asking. They asked people "have you heard anything about Brand X in the last two weeks? Was what you heard about Brand X positive or negative? So the outfit doing the polling supplied the brand names! They weren't asking people what their favorite brand was. They were asking what the person heard about Brand X in the past two weeks, and if what they heard was positive or negative. This is a very misleading poll.

I'd really like to see a few shots with the panels closed. That's the acid test...

Very nice. And great photos, too!

How did you do the stitching detail in the interior?

I like the engine detail... but you're gonna have to explain the "fit" of the hood...

I like it! Very classy and classic.