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If you have one of the options in each group of 5 as "none of the above" then voters can vote for the one car they chose to win and select none of the above in the other groups.

As a kid I loved the coloured plastic as if I could keep my gluey fingerprints off the body I could get away without painting them. AMT '57 chevy (old mould) should be brown. Tom Daniel's Vandal should be black. Monogram Turbo Cobra should be red. Monogram '53 Chevy should be light blue. Tom Daniels's Bad News should be orange and the last release was.

The AMT '69 with the 302 (Eliminator?) just has the bodyside stripes.

However, resin bodies tend to be thicker than styrene bodies so you may be able to simulate dents by grinding or caring away the resin.

What filler did you use on the first one? A two part filler or a one part filler? One part fillers harden by chemicals evaporating and so will continue to shrink over time. I was warned but thought I knew better. I found out I was wrong the hard way. Nice work though despite the ghosting.

Nice.

No. If it's chrome worn off by rubbing (rather than a scratch or gouge) then you might get away without stripping the chrome but you'd still need to put on a gloss black coat of paint and you'd lose a little more detail.

Probably. Keep an eye on the community part of the forum. I'm hoping for a theme again next year to help my kit choice.

Thanks Nick.

Looks kinda familiar. You got Eastwood & Barakat decals for the doors? Good job.

Is there a new Hemi 'cuda kit then? Change nothing. This forum is already too prescriptive as it is. Having posts moved around without notification is a PitA and is something that should happen less not more. What does it matter if there are 36 pages of discussion about a kit that only makes an appearance in the last few pages? It's not like you have to flick through them to get to the next thread is it? If you're worried because there are threads in the reviews section that are speculative then just change the title to Kit Reviews and Speculation.

Thanks folks.

Awesome. I think you'd have a headache from the noise of the pipes after 10 minutes and the fuel bill would cripple many a developing economy but it's still awesome. See you at the start line.

Stance looks good August. See you at the start line...

Nice one Roy. See you at the start line...

Tasmania?

Looks like this guy has been reading this thread... Perhaps if he'd come here and signed up before posting he could have asked for advice instead of having to pull his listing.

I see my under glass thread got moved into the Trucks section. Nice to see the rules being applied fairly and that the funny cars, dragsters and NASCARs being moved into other threads as well. Oh, wait they're not...

Thanks folks.

It's odd that no-one appears to have produced weighted tyres for car models and yet they are almost de-rigeur in the model aircraft world.

This is my entry for the 2013 Cannonball Run CBP. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=68187 That's an 80 series Landcruiser fitted with a 1UZ-FE engine (Toyota Celsior/Lexus LS400) bored out to 4.3 litres and boosted to 500hp with a Javelin Engineering Turbo & intercooler kit. Javelin Engineering competition shockers and progressive rate springs tame the ride. My thinking behind this year's build was speed, comfort, range, ability to take avoiding action and not getting stopped. Not getting stopped being the most important because once you're pulled over chances are you're out of the car and into the cuffs. Hence the paint job. When the cops work out what's going on and block the route and wave the rest of the runners down they'll take one look at the CDC signwork, the biohazard warning signs, the fridge and the occupants biological protection suits and just wave us through. Would you want to get too near this thing and risk contamination (not to mention blindness from the paint job)? The fridge is a standard mobile laboratory grade secure transport unit. If you were brave enough to open it you'd find the expected sample racking containing some fragile looking test tubes. But release the hidden catch, swing out the racks and you'll find chocolate, sandwiches and iced coffee sitting above the top of a 100 litre auxiliary fuel tank. It's a Tamiya Toyota Landcruiser 80 Series With Sport Option kit with the engine from a Tamiya Toyota Celsior mated ot the stock transmission. Because the "with sport option" kit comes with a lift and big tyres I dropped it back down to the stock ride height and used the wheels & tyres from an Aoshima Mitsubishi Delica. I'm pleased to say the steering still steers and the suspension still works like Tamiya meant it to. Turbo is from www.ThePartsBox.com. Intercooler is a radiator from my parts box. Fridge, both iPhones and the iPad are all scratchbuilt. Lightbar is from a Lindberg Dodge Charger Police Car and is rather lacking in detail. Paint is a champagne mixed from dregs of various rattle cans. Stripes are nail polish and Tamiya enamel. Clear is automotive acrylic. Decals are home made apart from the roof numbers which are from the afore mentioned Lindberg cop car.

Good work jon. See you at the start line...

Genius.

I'm ready to roll. That's an 80 series Landcruiser fitted with a 1UZ-FE engine (Toyota Celsior/Lexus LS400) bored out to 4.3 litres and boosted to 500hp with a Javelin Engineering Turbo & intercooler kit. My thinking behind this year's build was speed, comfort, range, ability to take avoiding action and not getting stopped. Not getting stopped being the most important because once you're pulled over chances are you're out of the car and into the cuffs. Hence the paint job. When the cops work out what's going on and block the route and wave the rest of you lot down they'll take one look at the CDC signwork, the biohazard warning signs, the fridge and the occupants biological protection suits and just wave us through. Would you want to get too near this thing and risk contamination (not to mention blindness from the paint job)? The fridge is a standard mobile laboratory grade secure transport unit. If you were brave enough to open it you'd find the expected sample racking containing some fragile looking test tubes. But release the hidden catch, swing out the racks and you'll find chocolate, sandwiches and iced coffee sitting above the top of a 100 litre auxiliary fuel tank. It's a Tamiya Toyota Landcruiser 80 Series with sport option kit with the engine from a Tamiya Toyota Celsior mated ot the stock transmission. Because the "with sport option" kit comes with a lift and big tyres I dropped it back down to the stock ride height and used the wheels & tyres from an Aoshima Mitsubishi Delica. I'm pleased to say the steering still steers and the suspension still works like Tamiya meant it to. Turbo is from www.ThePartsBox.com. Intercooler is a radiator from my parts box. Fridge, both iPhones and the iPad are all scratchbuilt. Lightbar is from a Lindberg Dodge Charger Police Car and is rather lacking in detail. Paint is a champagne mixed from dregs of various rattle cans. Stripes are nail polish and Tamiya enamel. Clear is automotive acrylic. Decals are home made apart from the roof numbers which are from the afore mentioned Lindberg cop car.

I like to think they dressed one set of dummies up in car club jackets, jeans, Ray Bans & Elvis wigs & the other in suit & tie. But I doubt it. When you attract attention by subverting the dominant paradigm said paradigm is modified by the subversion. The result is that for the next individual to attract an equivalent measure of attention they must push the boundaries a little further. And a little fiurther. And a little further. Eventually the new paradigm is so far removed from that which was originally dominant that reversion to the old will be as shocking as the first subversion.