Harry P.

This guy has the right idea...

These are the ones. Sometimes, if one of us had one of those big softball bats (the big, slow pitch softball that was pretty much a "Chicago thing"), we would put all five rolls on the sidewalk and try to blow them off all at once. I don't remember what a box of them cost, but they were pretty cheap.

Seems to me, the whole point of entering a contest is to put your stuff up against all the others to be judged, and then find out who the "winners" are. I wonder, then, why there so many people who enter contests, yet claim they don't care if they win. If you don't care about winning... why do you enter contests? It's almost as if they are embarrassed by the fact that they like to compete against others.

I remember caps coming five rolls? to the box. The rolls were all connected; you broke off a roll as needed. I remember them being on red paper. We used them in our cowboy cap guns, but we also used to take a roll of them, put it on the sidewalk, and then take a baseball bat held vertically and smash the cap roll with the end of the bat. That way almost all the caps in the roll would go off at once... sort of like a mini-firecracker. Amazing how stupid stuff like that amused us when we were kids...

OP was asking specifically about New York. So that's what I answered with,

Saw a silver Cobra the other day. Not sure if it was real or a kit car, but it was cool in any case.

That is very cool. You are one heck of a talented guy. But one little bit of advice... pay more attention to your color separation lines, for instance, the rear bumper. Instead of freehanding, you should mask off and then paint. A small thing, but makes a big difference in the finished product.

We used to fire off M80s in garbage cans in the alley. In those days in Chicago the "standard" garbage can was a 55 gallon steel drum, not the plastic cans they use today. Made quite the racket!

Ditto to what Mike said. This site is not meant to be a photo hosting site, so you are very limited as far as posting photos directly from your computer. Can you imagine the amount of storage space we would need if this site hosted all of the photos we constantly post here? The right way to do it it to open a photo hosting account, like Photobucket. Photo hosting sites are designed to do just that... host (or store) your images on their servers. Load all your images into albums on your photo hosting site, then you post the link to your photos here in your posts, not the actual photo. The photo stays parked on your photo hosting site's server, taking up their space, yet we can still see the image here in your posts because you posted the link to the image here, not the image itself. That way you can post as many photos here as you like. BTW... beautiful model. Paint looks spectacular!

1931 Alfa Monza.

1/8.

Another way to get a vinyl top is to spray the top from a distance. In this case, you want to get that "orange peel" texture.

Thanks, guys. A few more... Brothers...

I see them. Fantastic model!

I don't build a lot of race cars, and the ones I do build are from way back in the day. Today this car wouldn't be considered fast, but back in the day it was no slouch...

Foiling is definitely something that takes practice. Your results look very good to me considering this is your first time! Everything is looking good.

That big tow truck was "Big Bruiser" by Marx. Pretty cool...

It was in the August/September 2014 issue.

I don't know how much of a stickler for detail you are, but you might want to rethink the ignition wiring. On the real car the wires ran through looms and only a short length was exposed, running from the loom to each plug.

I like that color!

"Hoods tooth?" I think you mean "Houndstooth."

I think I know who you are talking about, and in his defense the model he posts is a part of his signature. He's not trying to show up anyone... it's just in his signature line.

Heck, I post nothing but "oddball" stuff and I seem to get a pretty good response.

I assume you'll be drilling out the headers?