Harry P.

You guys are all doing some fantastic work here. It's so cool to see a new kit get such an enthusiastic customer response. If the guys at Moebius have seen this thread, they must be pretty psyched!

It is "feature-worthy"...

It even has PE wing bolts holding down the rocker covers!

Unless we have a psychic here, the answer to that is... we'll have to wait and see.

I also have quite a few styrene-framed 1/8 models. Working with styrene is a lot easier than trying to cut and solder brass. If you have the skill to work in brass, that's great, but there's no problem using styrene as your material. True, it doesn't have the strength that a soldered brass frame would have... but then again, we're talking about static models built for display, not RC cars or anything like that where frame strength would be an issue.

AMT, MPC, Polar Lights, RC2, Tomy, Round 2.... buyouts, mergers, takeovers... lions and tigers and bears... How in the world do you keep this all straight?

Wow! That is beautifully done. Superb craftsmanship. I'm impressed...

Didn't that happen a long time ago???

Looks fantastic! And I see you managed to attach the mylar "chrome" strips well. Some people have had problems with those things not sticking and tending to pop off over time.

I've never tried it, but I've heard many times that putting it in the freezer overnight makes the glue really brittle and makes the pieces easy to snap apart.

I posted the link where you can get it. See post #5.

That "Jimmy kid" wasn't banned for his bad spelling...

Suggestion number one: Put your full name in your signature. It's a forum rule. (You did read the rules before you joined... right???)

Yes, you have to click on it, and it will copy. You don't have to highlight the text and then do "Caommand, V"... just clicking on it will automatically copy it.

Nicely done on the hinges.

Get a Photobucket account. It's free. Load your photos into your Photobucket album. (It's incredibly easy... just follow the directions). Once you have your photos sitting in a Photobucket album, posting a photo here is easy. Open your Photobucket album, and copy the "IMG Code" info, then paste that info here into your post. You don't even have to copy the IMG code... all you have to do is hover your mouse over it and click, it will copy automatically. It doesn't get much easier than that! Once you paste the IMG code into your post here, the photo will show in your post:

How are Mick and Keith doing?

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A lot of you guys got this one right... but not on the first try! Only a handful of you guessed right the first time. Most of you guessed wrong, but got it right the second time. The car in the photo is not a Graham Hollywood, it's a 1940-1941 Hupmobile Model R Skylark (the '41s were identical to the '40s, so you got credit if you guessed either year). If the styling looks oddly familiar, read on… A short history of the Hupp Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan: Hupp began producing cars in 1909, but by the '30s, mainly due to the Depression, demand for their cars was down dramatically (like many other independent carmakers). Coupled with internal strife amongst the stockholders and an attempted hostile takeover, Hupp was on life support by 1936, when it was forced to sell off some of its plants just to stay afloat. In 1938 they did manage to offer a new line of cars, but by this time, due to previously poor sales, many Hupp dealers had either gone bust or bailed on the company, so sales were pretty low. Hupp was basically toast by this point, but they had one last trick up their sleeve. They managed to obtain the body stamping dies from recently-defunct Cord. Hupp figured that they could produce a "new" Hupmobile using 1937 Cord bodies (not FWD cars, however, as Cords had been, but conventional RWD). Since by this time Hupp lacked adequate manufacturing plants (remember, they sold off some assets a few years earlier in a desperate attempt to stay in the black), they struck up a deal with another failing car company, Graham-Paige, to share the Cord tooling. The new Hupp/Graham cars would be built by Graham. So two car companies, both basically with one foot in the grave, joined forces in a desperate attempt to stay afloat. The two "new" cars were the 1940 Skylark (Hupp) and Hollywood (Graham). They were basically identical except for minor trim variations (the Hupps had "Skylark" scripts above the three horizontal slots on the sides of the hood, like the car in the picture does). But sales never took off, and only a few hundred Hupmobile Skylarks were built before production ended just a few months after it began. The Graham Hollywood also ended production shortly after. The "1941" Skylarks were just leftover 1940s that hadn't sold. And so ended the story of the Hupp Motor Company… like so many other independent American auto makers, a victim of terrible economic times. Who got it right (eventually... ): MrObsessive MikeMc sjordan2 Junkman Ryan S mr moto carsntrucks4you my66s55 Johnny mr chips peter31a PatRedmod MaindrianPace BigDaddy ChrisR Badluck13 trogdor George Art Anderson Bart R. Orlans jaymcminn

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Chuck, that is one cool Bug!

As far as the lifeboat capacity, they actually did more than what the law required. I've also read that they used inferior steel for the hull-too many impurities and too brittle, too prone to cracking. But they've done chemical analysis of the hull and found that the steel was comparable to what was used by other shipbuilders of the day. But the "state of the art" in steelmaking back then was not as advanced as it is today. Steel from those days was more brittle than the stuff we have today. It wasn't until the '40s that "modern" steel was perfected. So with the brittle hull and the brittle rivets, Titanic didn't measure up very well to an iceberg.

From everything I've read about Titanic, they may have "pushed the envelope," but they stayed within the law. For example, I read somewhere that they used lower quality rivets for the hull instead of the best quality available. They used rivets made with #3 iron ("Best") instead of #4 ("Best Best"). It was apparently a cost-cutting move, but the grade of metal in the rivets was within the acceptable range. The problem was that the iron the rivets were made of had a lot of impurities in it, which made them very brittle, especially when cold (as in the nearly freezing temperature of the North Atlantic)... so when Titanic hit the iceberg, too many rivet heads snapped off and made a bad situation that much worse. Same with the lifeboats. According to the laws in force at the time, Titanic actually had more lifeboat capacity than the law required (even though the lifeboat capacity was nowhere near enough to accommodate every person on board, but the laws at the time didn't require that).

No selling allowed on the forum. He needs to keep it to PMs only.

Remember... don't post any hints or answers here. PM me with year, make and model. The answer: 1940-41 Hupmobile Model R "Skylark"