Harry P.

The master strikes again. Not much more to say...

I don't think there's any problem whatsoever with you posting any of your work regardless of where that parts may have come from. We're here to learn from each other... the origin of the parts doesn't matter, it's what you do with them that we're interested in.

That's a cool little FF!

It's always good to see a member back!

Just my opinion... but I think most people who hang out here consider 1/24 or 1/25 to be "normal" and do most, if not all, of their building in those scales... so anything bigger would go in the Big Boyz section. Again, just my opinion. There's no hard and fast rule.

I think it would be a lot simpler if you just mail me a check directly! Hey... if it's a big enough check I'll take you to a Sox game this spring!

Like everyone has already said... amazing work. Incredible, actually. Shouldn't your signature line say "Finnish-ed" models?

Yeah... ahem... my Mustang in snow? Uh, not so good...

Paging Al Gore... Global Warming Alert...

My guess would be that we're just a cool buncha guys!

Ha ha!!! You should see it right now. There's so much salt on it, it's white!!!

Nice ideas there, Mr. Stiglitz.

Mine says hello...

How about this one? Real or model? The answer: MODEL!

It's no diecast, it's a hand-made 1/8 model.

About 135 at around 5 AM on I55 heading to St. Louis in my Stealth RT. No traffic at all in either direction. But since I was on a road I never travel, I had no idea where the next pothole might be... or the next cop hiding behind a sign or right after an overpass, so I didn't keep it at that speed very long, just a minute or two. The last thing I wanted to do was have something break at that speed. Plus my son was in the car (asleep)... so I figured I better cool it. Strange feeling though, getting back to 65-70... it felt like I was barely moving. Haven't ever gone nearly that fast again.

I can't believe you painted that tiny Superbee logo!

Maybe not so much, huh?

Don't you love all this "global warming?"

I didn't want to tell you guys this and spare you the humiliation of a devastating loss... Final vote: 49 REAL, 19 MODEL. It's a MODEL! Better luck next time! Next ROM coming MONDAY!

The surface texture that's a result of the "printing" process looks like the surface of a metal casting when the parts are large scale (1/8)... but that same texture looks out of scale on smaller parts. So the problem isn't that you can't create smaller scale parts, you can... it's that the texture (which can't be changed) looks "too big" on smaller scale parts. The solution, of course, is to simply sand the parts smooth if you want to remove the surface texture altogether, like on bodies, no matter what the scale. As the technology develops, the texture created by the "printing" process will most likely be eliminated... but like Rick says, where things stand today with this technology and with the costs involved, that surface texture is part of the process and you have to live with it (or sand it off!)

Great story! I'm sure you'll remember this day for a long time. Thanks for posting it...

Hmmmmmm....... I wouldn't kick it out of my driveway!