Harry P.

The way the kit is designed, the window frames and the side walls are laser cut so that the window frames are right inside the window openings... in other words, in the place they will be on the finished model. The problem with that is, once you cut the window frames away from the side walls and sand down all the connecting "nubs" on both the frames and their openings in the side walls, the frames are too small to be glued back into the openings! The laser cutting itself, of course, creates a gap between frame and opening, and sanding all the edges smooth makes the frames that much smaller and the openings that much bigger. We're talking maybe the thickness of a piece of cardstock, but still, the frames just float around in the openings. If you glue one side of the frame to the side wall, there will be a big gap on the other side. What I needed to do is to make the frames bigger somehow. So I came up with a pretty easy way to do it... I cut thin strips of masking tape and just "wrapped" the frames, going around them 2-3 times. That extra thickness of the tape let me place the frames in the openings with a nice friction fit. All I had to do then was flow CA into the joints and the frames were attached...

Ok, usually I "get you," but not this time.

John Lennon, George Harrison, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison...

Ditto. That's my kind of car.

Ok, the kitten in the shoe is way too cute!

Beautifully done, G. But of course, that's to be expected of your work.

I would love to build a model of that!

That's pretty cool.

Tim, yes, sometimes the "facts" are not quite factual, but as someone else posted, in the end things will shake out. My point was simply that people who complain about other people who participate in these discussions are off-base.

Nice model, nice diorama!

Very nice work!

Yes, but on the real thing that panel is sheetmetal... so I think I'll go with the cardstock.

The latest I heard is that his plane was forced to land in Moline, IL, because he OD'd on Percocet, which is a highly effective but also a highly addictive pain killer... and they gave him an antidote at the hospital to revive him. Apparently Prince has had severe pain in his hips for years and was probably on prescribed painkillers. But I can see if the guy was really hurting and just took too much painkiller. Apparently the story is that he's needed hip replacement surgery for years, but he kept putting it off because his religion (Jehovah's Witnesses) don't believe in blood transfusions, which would make hip surgery impossible... so he dealt with the pain with painkillers instead of surgery. We'll just have to wait for the autopsy results.

Skip... don't worry about it. Karma will take care of things.

Once I get a kit and open it up, I don't even look at the box art.

Another beauty from you, Bruce. Always love to see the classics get their due. A couple of suggestions, though... hit the top with some Dullcote. It's too shiny. Also I think the wheels would really benefit from a black wash.

Looks like all the Prince songs have been deleted from youtube, but my favorite songs of his are "Purple Rain" and "Raspberry Beret."

How many of you know that Prince wrote the Bangles' big hit "Manic Monday?" BTW. google is purple right now.

The explanation is obvious. When a well-known person dies, it hits a lot of people personally. A musician whose music you really liked, an actor whose movies you really loved, etc. When someone like that dies, it affects many thousands, if not millions, of people personally... so obviously there's going to be a big stir from the public. When a cop gets gunned down in the street, it doesn't affect the masses, because the masses have never heard of the cop and didn't know the cop. So no mass reaction to someone the masses didn't know. I'm not saying the cop's life was any less valuable than the "celebrity's" life... just explaining it from the human nature side of things.

Lane Technical HS, Chicago, IL.

How many times can we rehash the same thing? The whole point of having a place here called "Car Kit News & Reviews" is that we have a place to talk about new kits. Our opinions, our criticisms, our compliments, our observations. That's the whole point of this thing in the first place! So why do so many people keep on getting all bent out of shape if another person points out what they see as a flaw or mistake in a kit? If you don't want to take part in the conversation, that's fine! You are absolutely 100% free to not take part. But stop knocking those who do want to take part.

I wonder what happens now to his Paisley Park mansion/recording studio. Did he leave his assets to someone? Or will it become a museum like Graceland after Elvis died?

For the stain, I brush it on, let it sit a while, then use paper towels to wipe down the parts. Once dry I brush on several coats of Future. And since the graphics in this kit are not decals, but just printed on plain paper, I also use Future as the "glue" to attach them (like the signs on the interior end walls and those ventilation grates at the top).

And the interior end walls of the cabin have been stained and "varnished" with Future, as have the benches. This is the beginning of the passenger compartment...