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Great work on the lights. Does it use LEDs of different brightness, or resistors to get the different intensities?

What about the '36 disappointed you? For me, it was the not-too-good re-tool of the chopped top, but the nice new chrome steel wheels and tires kinda made up for it. The original tops were the devil to make fit well, but looked great if you put enough effort in them. I'm not wild about the slightly different proportions the new roof section though, and the fit is at least as bad as the originals.

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Lovely little Alfa, Christian. I worked on those for a couple of years. Remarkably nimble and willing cars. What scale, and who makes it?

Hmmm. I always thought BAE was this. Guess I don't know much. http://www.baesystems.com/en/home?r=US And incidentally, they're a company that overuses another one of my most-hated business-speak terms..."solutions". "Solutions" has been worked to death since, I guess, the mid '90s, for products and services ranging from septic-tank pumping to military vehicles. Please stop, and just call things what they are.

Looking forward to seeing this. It's the best proportioned of all the '34 Ford kits out there, and stock is so unusual, it should be a really striking model.

Love it. There's a dead 1:1 being used as a restaurant sign close to my house. Hate to see it rusting away, kinda wondering just what I could do with it if I rescue it. Great looking model.

Thanks to Art Laski for sending me down the internet rabbit-hole in search of more information on the 1934 Edsel Ford Special that Art's beginning a model of here... http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/111038-edsel-ford-model-40-speedster/ In the process of finding more about this very special car, I came across an article about Edsel Ford's first special-bodied V8 car...one I'd never even heard of before. It's a fascinating story of a piece of automotive history that just barely escaped the crusher. http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2016/01/25/edsel-fords-first-v-8-speedster-set-the-stage-for-fords-design-department/ Edsel Ford’s first V-8 speedster set the stage for Ford’s Design Department

And the winners are (drum-roll please)... dw1603 GTJUNIOR bobthehobbyguy 68shortfleet Badluck 13 sjordan2 GeeBee matthijsgrit Matt Bacon 1960 Porsche Abarth 356B Carrera GTL

Looking good. Seems like the press worked out well.

This should be fascinating. This is a car I've never seen done in 1/24-1/25 scale, and had seriously thought about scratching on a modified '34 chassis. The first version of the car had a different grille and headlight treatment, so I guess I'll have to try that one instead. I'll be following your progress.

Great looking model of a very special car. Lovin' that blown '57 GH too.

Though I have stuff I'll never get to if I live to build another 20 years, I'm still buying, but not at the rate I once was. A few recent acquisitions have replaced long-stalled projects in the "get back to it this year lineup", but juggling projects on the shelves has rekindled my interest in some of them, and solutions to problems have just seemed to materialize. My insistence that I see my oversize kit collection primarily as a resource for bits and pieces has been proven valid too. I just happened to have the really oddball-size racing tires needed for a resin Chevron B-16 project I just started, and enough 1/24 Chebby smallblock performance bits, like a Z-28-style cross-ram manifold and carbs (from a Monogram '57 I had little interest in...until now, envisioning a what-if road-racer carrying the guts from an Accurate Miniatures Corvette) to get going on the Gunze 250GTO hot-rod too. There are several kits on the shelf I wouldn't buy today, knowing now how bad they are...like the old Revell 356 Porsche Speedster...but I still think it might be fun to build some of them box-stock, just 'cause. I have friends who have an idea of the potential value of all the stuff, and who will make some kind of effort to see it goes to good homes if and when I shuffle off the mortal coil. At least that's good to know.

Hmmmmm...I didn't know that, just assumed all the tires included in the '32 kits had been shaved. I've got a couple unopened ones on the shelf. Time to have a peek. EDIT: Hot dog! Youse guys are great. Turns out one of my '32 3-windows was in fact the '96 release, and it had TWO sets of the Goodyear-lettered BlueStreaks in it. Man, I love this forum.

Stellar. Fantastic. Best weathering ever in the history of the universe...man, that's beautiful work, and you really have the eye of an artist. Your textures and colors are absolutely perfect. The mossy-green under the water-filled headlamp (and elsewhere on the model)...well, I've seen that more than a few times in reality. Even the texture of the plastic tarp over the window looks scale-perfect. And your heavy, perforated rust is coming from the BACK side, just exactly the way it happens. Seriously, I read your intro before I looked at any of the photos and didn't expect what I saw. Then I thought if they had been taken outside in natural light, the model would be indistinguishable from a real car. Scrolled down a little farther and there it was. Incredible. One of the very few models that deserves to be described with the "awe" word.

Great stuff. click here... http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/rooms.htm This 1/6 scale largely scratch-built model is just one example of the wonderful work showcased...

My comment is off-topic, but Fuller was an interesting fella. Had a particular type of carbon molecule named for him, too, C60, 'cause it looks like his geodesic dome design. Buckminsterfullerene

Hmmmmm...with the easing of travel restrictions to Cuba from the US, it might be time to start thinking of the island as a holiday destination again. I wonder how Cuban rum is these days. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/travel/frequently-asked-questions-how-to-travel-to-cuba.html?_r=0

Speaking of which...does the old Monogram GT350 have the tires in question, or only the GT350-R version? It appears the 350H version has Michelin-lettered sidewalls. And how are the proportions of the Mustang, anyway? I've kinda wanted to do a fastback, so I might be able to justify buying the whole kit if the body shapes look good.

And speaking of CYA, the whole blame-avoidance lexicon makes me cringe: officials scrambling to create "plausible deniability", or trying to "distance themselves" from a stink that would otherwise stick to their careers for life. Then there's "gifting". How, exactly, does "gifting" differ from giving? (This one ought to chap Harry's posterior too; "gift" is usually a noun, "give" is what one does with it...kinda reminiscent of the whole "build" controversy). And another trying-to-sound-smart noun-as-verb word..."tasked". Example: so-and-so was "tasked" with researching the effect on wool production of force-feeding BS to sheep. Nah, he was TOLD to do it, but it sounded so lame it had to be relabeled as "tasked". "Tasked", when used in a military or equally appropriate context doesn't bother me; it's a useful word. But when applied to the mundane or insignificant, I just think it sounds like trying too hard to sound important.

Once again, Google is your friend. For definitive answers, try searching "sprint car chassis kits". Several manufacturers supply chassis and body kits that meet the sanctioning body requirements, and there are specialized engine builders, component suppliers, etc. These are NOT junkyard cars...though there is nothing to stop a competent fabricator from building his own chassis, providing it meets the specific technical requirements of the relevant rulebook. Similarly, engines can still be based on junkyard-sourced major components. Some engine builders STILL prefer to start with "seasoned" blocks that have been run in extended passenger car service, citing post-machining dimensional stability.

Top left is from the Johan "Color Me Gone" kit. None of the ones you show come from the AMT '49 Merc. The manifold in the Merc kit has the carb bodies cast in.

Thanks espo, but I need the specific treaded tires, and the diameter stagger that's in the '32 Fords, which is apparently the same as in the earlier kits with the "Goodyear" marked sidewalls. They're going under a Gunze Ferrari 250 GTO with a smallblock Chebby, and the diameters of these tires are exactly right for the look I'm after. They also have a groove for the blue "streak", and that's part of the look I'm going for too.