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Never having sold anything on eBay, can someone please explain to me what the big deal is about potential negative feedback? Do you get shut down for six months if you get one negative remark or something?

I only ever barbecue with propane. Works fine for me... *shrug*

I'm just gonna leave these here....

I would most certainly buy a kit of every brand of pickup. Not fussy!

That one with the headlight covers looks to be a styling buck? Black windows and no turn signals...

Now I know how to properly build my 37 and 50 Ford pickup models!

I don't understand why ANY business is either closed on Sunday, or reduced hours (12-5). But that's another topic for another time...

The BOSS 429/4 speed car is up for sale....for $500 000! http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1970-FORD-KING-COBRA-PROTOTYPE-NASCAR-BOSS-9-4-SPEED-1OF-2-SOLD-TO-BUD-MOORE-/221223402935?ViewItem=&item=221223402935&forcev4exp=true#ht_500wt_1182

Um.....guess I forgot about this one. My club's annual show is coming up this month. One of the themes is 110 years of Ford and, seeing as I'm the Ford guy of the club, I figured I should probably have a Ford finished to enter. Pretty much have the paint finished on this one, now on to the details...

Hooray for more 6-bolt rims! They are seriously lacking in scale.

Here's the breakdown for me: I live in Canada. Due to this apparent crime twist of fate, shipping for items purchased online is, quite simply, absolutely ridiculous. This is not simply due to the price of shipping (excessive) but the long wait times as parcels languish in customs. To get something shipped to my door from the US I'm going to have a four week wait, minimum. Thankfully there is a huge cottage industry in US/Canada border towns that accept parcels for Canadians that live near the US border so they can save on shipping costs and wait times. I live 1.5 hours from one of these border towns (Calais, ME) and head down there frequently. Seeing as how I have to make a special trip to pick up my parcels, I usually wait until either a] I have a few parcels waiting or b] my wife has a craving for certain foods only sold in the US. My LHS also happens to be 1.5 hours away, but in a different direction than the US border. The guy that runs the LHS runs it out of his home, so he doesn't have to worry about the overhead usually associated with a usual store. He's a member of the local modeling club also, so he comes to the meetings and usually brings the latest releases with him so we can inspect the contents and decide to purchase. He builds automotive, some sci-fi, and armour so there's always something interesting to look at that either expands your horizons or reinforces your chosen subject material (Have you ever looked at an armour kit? So many little parts!). I also consider him a friend and we chat for hours about this, that, and the other thing whenever I stop in to his shop. I much prefer the experience of visiting his shop than shopping online for kits. I have pretty much limited myself to purchasing OOP kits online and new releases from my LHS. He is part of the Revell exclusive sellers group or whatever and gets their new releases a few weeks before anywhere else. His prices are usually the same as buying online + shipping, so there is rarely a better price online. I consider myself fortunate that my LHS happens to be in the same city (on the same road, even) as my employer's head office. Club meetings are also in the same city so I can work at the head office on meeting days, stop in the LHS, and attend meetings and be reimbursed for my driving expenses. Not everyone is so fortunately but I have never understood people that always try to negotiate on price based on what it cost for them to drive around. If you own a vehicle, paying for gas is something you can't avoid and you know you're going to have to fork over for it so stop using that as an excuse.

I wish! I found it on eBay. It's a pretty neat little kit, though.

The wheels I believe are from the MPC 1988 Silverado kit. James, what did you use for the rear window weatherstripping? I have a bunch of these trucks to build and I'd like to try that trick.

How about this funky thing? Rear-engined wheel-stander with optional service truck parts. Neat half-cab!

I think I found a Jeep kit you missed....

The only manufacturer produced dually bed for a 74-87 GM is the MPC Super Dually kit, which is actually a stepside with extra wide fenders. There are resin casters our there that make an 8' full-width dually bed but I don't see them too often.

I would say that he IS doing it alphabetically, when you consider that the majority of Jeep model kits are from the time when AMC owned the marque.

IMC Dodge Diesel LVT-1000

I don't think so...

I built a paint cabinet to fill a small space I had available in my hobby room. The top two drawers are for Testors and Vallejo bottle paints and are tall enough for the One Shot sized spray cans. The bottom two drawers are for regular size spray cans.

They've also started showing up on eBay. Not sure why the website says June release...?

I purchase all of my new release kits from my LHS. He's a one man show, runs the store out of his basement at home and has his entire inventory available to purchase from his website. Now, being that I live 1.5 hours away from his store, sometimes it might be cheaper to buy the kit online and ship it to me. But, my work's head office is in the same city and my modelling club is also in the same city so I head up twice a month to work out of the main office and go to the meeting. The LHS owner is a member of the club so he's there every meeting and brings orders from his shop! The worst meetings are the ones at his house/shop; usually always end up buying SOMEtime...

I've gotten started on this. The Sodbuster and Ground Shaker issues of the MPC Chevy pickup have Custom Deluxe 20 badging, making them 3/4 tons. I used the wheels from an MPC Dodge kit. Cobbled together a BBC and TH400 from the parts bin... Cut the deck out from the Revell boat trailer to make it a bit more feasible and found a set of trailer-looking rims from the parts bin... I have several boats kicking around so I combined the two different insert options to give the extra seat as well as the extra storage. No picture but the engine is a combination of the bass boat base and racing boat cover. Ensemble!

Perhaps a better translation: Good day sirs, this is my model. I built it with an enlarged VW body and mounted it on a Revell chassis. I've also mastered the VW/Tempo Matador utility truck. Here are some examples.

Sounds like it would be fun, however I think you'd run into an issue with painting. Unless, of course, there are paint booths set up or something. Maybe part of the weekend's events would be to build a kit start to finish over the 3 days? Sort of like an extended 24 Hours of LeMans build.