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I think it's pretty cool looking (I didn't say it's pretty )...especially considering the source...and that's all I'll say I've even contemplated making a model of it

It's 35 mins. from my house on the NE side of Atlanta just outside the perimeter. It's at the Hwy. 53 Braselton exit, aka "Road Atlanta" exit. It's on the right as you exit, you can sort of see it through the trees. You might think about going up for their big show in Sept. when Foose is there. The Mustang and other cars will likely be there on display.

Looks great, the custom wheels look good too. Nice work for a Fujimi...after building both Fujimi and Revell 458's, there's no comparison (Revell trounces it), though I will use my set of Fujimi wheels on a future Revelll 458, but with better tires.

I'll be watching the race and building a Hasegawa Finish Line 767B in our annual LeMans palooza. I haven't been able to keep up w/the preliminaries this week. Radio LeMans was hacked earlier today. Cars going round in circles might as well be golf balls and fairways...aka "naptime"

I remember the day when the '84 Corvette hit the dealerships. I went by the hobby shop, and the Monogram snap kit '84 hit the shelves the very same day. I don't ever expect that to happen again

You want models of 2011 Dodges? Well...if recent history is anything to go by, the kit manufacturers who would be likely to do a new modern Dodge are apparently unable/unwilling to get a new plastic model car out until it's about 2-3 model years old . If you want anything newer/sooner, you're better off looking at diecast. Plenty of modern Dodges, but don't expect models of 2011 subjects until 2013...and that's if they decide to do them.

Not sure if it's the same, but the Polar Lights prepainted bodies stripped in minutes dunked in 91% rubbing alcohol (isopropyl). 99% works too. 70%...not likely. The stronger alcohol seems to work very well on those prepainted plastic bodies, and Tamiya spray lacquers.

Because it works on some paints and not others. It works especially well on enamels.

Nice. I was drooling over a real one this weekend.

I learned about using lacquer thinner w/Testors enamels shortly after the "Model Master" and car color lines of paint were introduced. At the time, I was generally using Floquil Barrier on my models, priming, and shooting automotive touchup paint, because I had learned the art of properly buffing out lacquer paints. The color range of hobby paints back then was pretty poor before Testors came out w/the new paints. I used to go to Valley Plaza Hobbies out in CA, and Henry Gonzales worked there. He's a well-known modeler who painted all the cars for the Testors packaging and flyers of those then-new lines of products; he's the one that turned me onto using plain old lacquer thinner. He used w/it when he was under a deadline to get all those models painted, and he was really happy w/the results (didn't hurt plastic, dried faster, much cheaper). As for the buffing out part, he used Bare Metal Foil polish, because automotive products were too strong for enamels. I then started using a lot of Testors paint, mixing my own colors from them, etc. Shortly thereafter, I found Novus #2 plastic polish at my local motorcycle shop, smelled it/looked at it and realized it was most likely the exact same stuff BMF was selling as their foil polish. A whole bottle of Novus wasn't that much more expensive than the tiny bottle sold by BMF.

LOL that's pretty wild, especially w/2 engines

Kleen Strip seems to be the most ubiquitous lacquer thinner you can find at Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, etc. It's cheapest by the gallon, but I buy quarts. And I also use their acetone as well, it mixes w/a lot of different paints and is also great for cleaning an airbrush. There's nothing inherently wrong with what you bought; you just paid a huge premium buying mineral spirits in a Testors bottle.

The proportions were locked in when they started making the 2nd gen Lincolns in 66. I always thought the way they did the '69 grille was odd...but seeing it on a built model, it really shows off how "off" it is. Imagine the outrage had the internet been around then

Testors enamel thinners/brush cleaners...all just overpriced products you can buy much cheaper at a hardware store. Like others have said, the pros tend to use common lacquer thinner to thin for airbrushing and to clean regular paintbrushes. This stuff would be what I might use to thin enamel paint for a wash or to make it brush a bit smoother...but then again, I find enamels far too slow to dry to ever deal with that. Most of the brush paint I use is acrylic and doesn't take weeks to dry.

That's pretty cool Love the old Lincolns. That said, in comparison to the '69 photo'd...sheesh, AMT seriously botched those outer headlight/grille inserts on the '69 kit. Caricature city!

Is it just me, or can one only see ridiculously oversized photos of the 2CV with no way to save the photo and view it at a normal screen size?

That's where I picked mine up. Walked in the store, found 'em, bought 'em.

Yeah, it's quite a bargain...even at the $14 price online. Thing is...at this point I could make/buy decals for it, but it's all conjecture...the real Interceptors are not yet available, as far as I know. We certainly will never see a plastic kit manufacturer that on-the-ball

BTW, the Wal Mart I got mine at had two more...it's the one on Riverstone Pkwy. as I had been at the Canton cruise night

They're now on policecarmodels.com and there are unmarked white and unmarked black and white in addition to the all black, the presentation black & white, and the generic white highway patrol unit.

The Taurus is 202.9" long vs. 200.1" for the Charger. The Taurus is 76.2" wide vs. 74.5" for the Charger. The Taurus wheelbase is 112.9" vs. 120" for the Charger. Comparing the two models, they look nearly identical in overall size and mass. The Interceptor is slightly longer, slightly wider, shorter wheelbase and longer overhangs. I'm glad the Lindberg Charger is 1/24 scale so they can be displayed together w/o a scale discrepancy. The Holden/Chevrolet Caprice has a 118.5" wheelbase.

The Marauder front bumper gives me hope that they might do a Marauder eventually. One of my friends has a real one and has modified the MM CV into a reasonable facsimile of his car. I see a few issues w/the Taurus; the rear door glass needs a vertical trim strip (though the clean look on the model w/o it is nice), the taillight mounting tab is humongous, wish the black glass surround was inside and not outside. What is immensely cool is this is something I don't think we've ever had...a brand-new police car model....not only is it of a brand-new car, not a used one, but I don't think they're even for sale yet as police cars. And Ford recently showed a restyled Taurus, including the Interceptor, w/a new grille and fascia. What is on this model may not actually be used on the real car when it comes out. Think of all the (plastic) police car models that have come out, since the Revell/Monogram '92 Caprice...none of them have been current cars. The Lindberg '97 came out right when Ford went w/the Grand Marquis-style roof in '98. Revell's FWD Impala kit came out after they had restyled the Impala. Lindberg's Charger comes out when the Charger got a whole new body. It would be cool if Motormax did an SHO off of this. The Greenlight model isn't worth bothering with, way too many fit and quality issues for a $30 model.

Take your camera and maybe you'll find some "People of Walmart" material that you can post on that website I don't suggest spending much time combing all the local stores for these models, I believe I got really lucky finding this at an old-school supercenter out in the country. They also had a ton of new Matchbox and Hotwheels...the Wally's closer to home never have anything new. I came home w/four new Matchbox cars; Fisker Karma, 68 Mustang California Special, Caddy CTS Coupe, and 70-ish Firebird Formula. The cashier asked if I was going to "play cars" when I got home I'm pretty sure websites will have these models soon. Motormax stuff isn't hard to find if you know where to look...I suspect these models have hit Walmart only this week.

We had some yahoo at one of our shows years ago who set up something like this in his model. He was just the kind of guy who looked like he would inadvertently set the table on fire, we made him turn it off

One of the models at the store was the graphic that Dave showed. Very cool! I decided to just get the completely unmarked version. Hoping to find one in white or another color as their production goes on, similar to what they've done w/their Crown Vic...Motormax new Crown Vic is the best of all by quite a margin vs. all the other diecast CV's done previously.