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Honestly I was bugged by that, but when I heard Ghettofinger describing why, I understood...the UAW employees would have been forced to match wages w/the Japanese (Ghettofinger said the Japanese actually make better wages/perks), and the UAW wanted to ensure that the pain was felt equally amongst all employees...that GM management should also agree to the same kinds of pay structure as Toyota management, and also to ensure equal/fair treatment and prices amongst suppliers. That could bite the US mfg's who are always beating up on suppliers, and those suppliers also may have UAW employees. I'm sure Toyota, Honda, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai, Nissan all have much better dealings with suppliers. It's amazingly complex...I don't think we should lose the car manufacturing from US companies, but those companies must restructure to an unheard of level. Think of it this way, they have to basically out-earn Toyota for quite awhile to get back on solid ground. There are generations of buyers not trusting of American car companies. It's a vicious cycle. I'm not sure GM or Chrysler can ever dig out of the massive hole they've dug. Ford has a good chance, and a great slate of new products in the pipeline that will help them be competitive. GM and Chrysler have cut way back on R&D...at the worst time.

Nothing past the mid-late 70's has ever interested me w/NASCAR; the more commercialized it got, the less I was interested. Too much commercialization generally corrupts anything in racing, especially when you get to the NASCAR and F1 levels. Fans at our level are about the last thing they care about.

Precisely. Let's not forget that Big Lots is blowing out Revell NASCAR kits for 5 bucks. That's all the sign anyone needs to know that sector of the market is essentially dead from a marketing perspective. I feel bad for those who will be hurt by the lack of new product, but they have to realize that the enemy is not us, it is NASCAR.

So true...so true. It's both funny and sad if you think about it. BTW, don't be surprised if Gregg deletes it. He doesn't tolerate the language w/in that ad.

Sorry, your photos and website are not working on this end. They weren't working last night, and when I do a check to see if that website works through another site that says if it works, it shows a 500 error. When I checked "isitup": HTTP status: 500 - Error Checking root domain... No luck. Server or web host is not up. Here's the site that I visit to see if a webpage is working or not: Is It Up?

I just love my "Ignore User" list so much!

Oh, really?

Okay...maybe I'll wipe off the IE cobwebs and give it a try My computer literally locked up after an agonizingly long loading of photos. I could scroll through them as they loaded, but at some point the process literally used up all the power my computer had and no matter what I could not get out of it. EDIT: Nope, IE didn't like it either. System locks up. Also, anyone claiming that there was not a GT40 Mk. I: Oh really?

Peter, who knows? There have been some people speculating that this kit is the GMP GT40 MKII converted to a plastic body and sold in kit form. I'd far prefer a MKI myself, but I'm not crazy about big scale. But...a couple of my friends who love building big scale sports cars are dying to get this kit, so let's hope they buy enough to make it a commercial success.

I think I heard of people putting a wet paper towel over the stuff to let sit for awhile, that helps the iron in the rust set really rust.

My Firefox crashed twice on that site. I'm not about to go back.

Your home page doesn't work either. I guess your host really is having problems today

Would love to see actual photos, nothing is showing up. I have the same resin. It's fairly incorrect in some details; whoever mastered it made it a "Park Lane" whereas that model never existed from Mercury. I also plan to make it into a (within reason) correct Colony Park. Looking forward to seeing your progress, and photos of your real car.

Don't worry, Testors and Tamiya lacquers are not hot lacquers, they're safe to put over styrene w/o any barrier. Unless the styrene has already had crazing/lacquer damage from previous coats. On fresh plastic it's fine.

If it's already tooled up that far they probably will release it eventually; perhaps they feel they need to do more parts trees to make parts more appropriate for what modelers desire today. It was tooled as a lowrider and slated for donk, so maybe they want to make some more stock parts. I'll bet if will happen. And if someone enterprising buys/owns that test shot, they could pop a few in resin for guys that can't wait for styrene. Don't forget Revell's marketing has a habit of canceling models without regard to other variants in the work, such as what happened this year with the Black Widow that got a lot of people up in arms...turns out they just shifted focus on the kit and killed an SKU and started another one. This will be a fairly popular model whenever it hits.

Shhhh, don't give those crooks any ideas

Well, I can continue in my anti-NASCAR support and continue to not watch nor build their models I heartily support Revell in their decision. Enough is enough, the backlash has to start somewhere. Hopefully their letter lands square in the laps of everyone on the greed train. With such a soft market and advertising dollars drying up everywhere, you'd think the brilliant minds behind the licensing gouge would take a small something rather than nothing. Nothing as in no free advertising, either.

I did too, but then inexplicably started watching again the next season. I should have learned my lesson then

I don't know why you even bother with a crook like that. He has no idea about "goodwill", except that he complains that you should buy something (overpriced) from him because nobody else that week agreed to be robbed. People like that give the whole industry a bad name. That's the kind of store I'd go into once, and never return.

He doesn't manipulate the subject, only the background...if there's any manipulation at all. I think he's most adept at manipulating the viewers to keep them guessing

Ain't no way this is a 1/18 scale model. Looks as real as real can get.

Relax Harry, I fully understand where you are coming from, I'm playing devil's advocate because I've been known to write things before that had unintended consequences when I was trying to make a point or discussion. It's a great topic for discussion or an article. I just know that a lot of modelers have much thinner skin than you or I and don't see critique/discussion in quite the same context.

Not in the least! I've noticed details on his models that don't quite match the 1:1 cars. Doesn't make them any less awesome to look at and admire, and most certainly I don't see that as poor work whatsoever; quite the contrary. But are you admitting that you think someone's work is poorly done because it's not to your standards, and that people who think the work looks great/accurate don't know what they're talking about? It could very easily be construed that way, even if completely unintentional. Ideally this subject (which is an excellent subject, BTW) could have/should have been discussed without veiled reference to a model currently being shown on this forum (and at this point is far from finished), and with some good backup in the form of photographs of how that detail can be done, and has been done, in scale.

Great start! Love the work so far.

Sharpies are definitely a staple in my toolbox. Black for lense edges, trim edges, window masking, minor touchup. Silver for some smaller detail painting and touchup. Red for clear taillight lenses (no need for paint anymore-seriously, the red Sharpie works so much better than any paint for the job), orange and yellow (and mixture of the two) for amber lenses.