Harry P.

Like I posted earlier, on automobile-catalog.com, which lists all models produced including models for export listed by country, there is no 1991 T-Bird SC 5.0L listed... not as an American car or for export to other countries. http://www.automobile-catalog.com/

If you're talking about emblems, using superglue is pretty risky. You get one shot to position the thing, and it better be perfect. I'd use a dab of clear enamel as "glue." It'll give you time to position the emblem.

According to automobile catalog.com, there never was a 1991 T-Bird SC 5L. http://www.automobile-catalog.com/

Seems to me that talking trash here about, uh... "him" and his forum doesn't really accomplish anything positive. I mean, what's the point, really? Obviously the people who are active there must like it there... so let 'em have their fun. It doesn't really apply to what we are here or what we do here, does it? Talking trash here about another forum doesn't exactly elevate our forum. Just sayin'...

Like Ken said, there are plenty of new kits out there if you look for them. And as far as the same old kits being reissued over and over... reissues cost the model companies very little. The tooling has been paid for, so the only costs associated with re-issuing an old kit is limited to the actual production, packaging and shipping costs. It takes far fewer re-issued kits sold to make back the cost of re-issuing them than it takes sales of a newly-tooled kit to do the same... so re-issuing old kits, especially of perennially popular subjects, is a no-brainer for the manufacturers. And as long as people keep buying the old re-issues, the manufacturers will keep re-issuing them. It's just good, basic Business 101.

I'd like to see you build the model version of that!

Depends on which celebrities...

If I was King of the World I'd do the instructions without any words at all... just exploded views with the parts numbered in order of assembly. No need to accommodate the whole world with 25 different sets of instructions in different languages. Save a little in printing costs, too. That's how Pocher instruction booklets were done... exploded views and parts numbered in order of assembly. If it works for a kit with 2,500 parts it can work for a kit with a hundred parts.

Honest opinions are welcome here. Exchanging opinions and debating topics is the whole point of a forum. As long as people stick to the topic and stay away from attacking each other, then everything is fine. And if you're one of those people who are "offended" by open debate or exchanges of ideas or hearing opinions that don't exactly coincide with your own... maybe you should think about why that is... because I really can't see a reason to feel that way.

Oh, and for the record... I don't see why talking about the worst models we've ever built is necessarily "whining." Exchanging opinions is one of the things a forum is for. Or am I missing something?

Let's remember... if anyone feels that they have to take personal jabs, please keep it confined to PMs. If people want to act like 8 year olds, that's fine by me... as long as they do it in private and not here. Can we keep the comments here related to the topic and not get into personal opinions of each other? Pleeeeez??? I don't want to lock this, so let's not give me any reason to do so.

Real or model? The answer: MODEL!

Click on "Edit" at the bottom of your first topic post, then scroll to the bottom (below the editing window) and click "Use Full Editor" which gives you access to edit the topic title.

A small upgrade to the funnel idea... get a cork from a wine bottle (great excuse to buy a bottle of wine!), shave the cork down to fit the Tenax bottle, drill a hole through the cork and insert the brush handle. The cork should give a tighter seal than the funnel, but still be easy enough to pull out (as long as you don't jam the cork in too tightly!).

http://autocolorlibrary.com/ Possibly also the world's best paint reference site?

http://www.harley-davidson.com/en_US/Motorcycles/v-rod-10th-anniversary-edition.html

Hmmm.....apparently Cranky has forgotten the Photoshop tutorial I posted a long time ago in the Auto Art section???

ok, Cranky...

Oh well... you get what you pay for!

Looks like it could have made a cool Batmobile!

Why do you assume that? Why would you think that only AMT had the ability to produce a model kit with an opening hood and engine detail? I don't see any reason to think that the model car industry would somehow have been stuck in suspended animation with no improvement in kits had it not been for AMT. I mean, that's like saying that if the Model T never came along, no other car manufacturers could possibly have figured out how to build an affordable car, or if Ben and Jerry never existed, no other ice cream maker would have been able to figure out that there are more ice cream flavors than vanilla and chocolate.

Not at all. But how can I let a statement like that go by without a reply? I mean, come on! The hobby existed before any of those AMT series came along, and it would have continued to exist had they never come along. Are you telling me that you agree that without those particular AMT kit series, the hobby would not exist???!!! Seriously?

So I clicked on your profile. It really is you! Welcome back, man! I thought we had lost you forever!

It's a little presumptuous to make a statement like "without so and so's series of kits, the scale model car hobby would never have existed." (Yeah, I know it wasn't you that made the statement)...

Jeff... is that really you???