Harry P.

He owned a psychedelic Rolls and a Bentley... http://www.bentleyspotting.com/2009/03/john-lennons-phantom-v.html

Mark, you've said it perfectly. To many of us here, models are not our only interest, and music is a large part of our lives. I would change some of the artists Mark listed, but otherwise I can say "ditto" to everything he said. We all have our personal favorites, but music on the whole is a huge part of many of our lives, including mine. And I am a huge Beatles fan, BTW, and have been since I was a little kid hearing those songs for the first time. If you are old enough to have lived through "Beatlemania" you know what I mean. Those were good times...

Well, now that I understand your point, I'd say I agree with it 100%. With all the whiz-bang technology we have available these days, seems to me that creating an accurate scale representation of a full-scale item should be entirely possible.

Mine too... What a tragic death his was. He died, like John, waaaay too early.

Huh??? Can you put that in plain English for us slower types? I read your post several times and still don't quite get what it is you're trying to say.

I'd have my lawyers going after the guys who poured that concrete floor!

Scrabble tiles as light fixtures! Only from the mind of Cranky... It's looking very good. Can't wait to see it weathered and worn.

I know when I'm beat. I give up. Cranky and Foxer win this one hands down! Go, Virgil, go! Pay no attention to me... I was suffering from temporary insanity! Must be working too hard on that dang book I'm putting together...

As some of you may know, I'm not shy at all when it comes to pointing out flaws or mistakes in kits... in fact when I commented on the fact that the roofline on the Moebius 300 was way off, I caught a lot of flak from some people who were absolutely outraged that I had the nerve to say anything negative (and I have the PMs to prove it! ) Turns out my comments were correct, Moebius agreed, and the roofline was fixed. Take that, outraged people!!! That being said... I do see some very minor inaccuracies on the Hornet body, but what I see is very minor. Overall, I think the body is quite well done and whatever "flaws" I see are so minor that they're not worth mentioning. There's nothing I can see that looks obviously wrong or out of whack. The only thing I would have preferred being done differently is that more of the chrome trim be separate plated pieces, but that's just personal preference.

ok, Virgil... time for some "comstructive criticism"... Your light fixtures are cool, but in reality a building like that would never have incandescent fixtures like the ones you made. They just wouldn't work as far as illuminating the area. 99.999% of all steel industrial/warehouses/garage buildings would have fluorescent lights hung from the ceiling... unless the building was built before fluorescent fixtures became available. And in that case the building would most likely have been either wood or brick, not galvanized corrugated steel. I know... nit picky.

Agree on the blue on blue theme; also consider a white interior if you want more contrast. A white interior might look very nice with a Marina Blue body and a white roof.

That's all you need to do. Copy the "Image Code" from Photobucket and paste it into your post here. Simple as that.

The obvious answer: Look at the real thing and try to dupicate it. That "dipped in clear" 35 mile-deep clearcoat look is very toylike, even the shiniest showcars don't look that way.

Virgil, where did you get the roof trusses from? Are they scratchbuilt?

Nice! I love WWI planes, they are too cool. Some of the color schemes are so over the top, but so creative.

This is the kit: http://www.occre.com/index.php?option=com_productos&task=showProduct&idproducto=113

Real or model? The answe: REAL!

What I'm working on right now: 1/16 Ford Model A Tugboat from 1915 A Civil-War era locomotive and a 1/24 scale San Francisco cable car. Yeah... I have "varied interests"...

You can just paint right over the green. If $$$ is an issue, Hobby Lobby carries acrylic craft paints. They come in literally hundreds of colors (HL devotes a whole 1/2 aisle to the display) and they come in 2 oz. bottles, eight times the amount of paint that's in the typical Testors small glass bottles. They carry 5-6 different brands, but they're all basically the same type of paint–acrylic. There also have clear gloss. Depending on the brand, they sell for as little as 67¢ a bottle!

Here's another one: I added the studs on the seat and saddle bags same as on the other two Harleys, added a mud flap and fringe on the seat (just a piece of paper with the fringes cut into it) and painted whitewalls. All the rest is OOB except for the usual paint and foil detailing.

Top photo: all I added was painted whitewalls and the studs on the seat (they are the heads of straight pins). Middle photo: OOB Bottom photo: Lengthened the fork with chrome plated brass tubing (from a telescopic antenna off an old broken TV set!), angled the fork for a slight "chopper" look, exhaust extensions with more tubing from the same antenna, studs on the seat same as in top photo. And of course all are paint-detailed too. (BTW... the springer fork on the Harley in the bottom photo really works, the kit is engineered that way.)

I know it's a financial impossibility. The price of the kit would have to be up there in Pocherland somewhere (or higher) to make it economically feasible to produce. But the question is... "what's your dream model"... (I was going to say Karolina Kurkova, but then I realized we were talking model cars here... )

you get an "A" for honesty...

I'd suggest a different color for the interior. Black, white, tan... but not green. A little color contrast would go a long way and give the model more visual interest.

Nick, the progress you've shown on your builds is amazing. It's like we all watched you "grow up" right here on the forum. You've come a long way, your skills have improved dramatically. Keep it up.