Ace-Garageguy

Exactly.

My understanding is that the B1 can carry at least 30,000 pounds more bomb-load (perhaps as much as 65,000 pounds more), flies almost as fast with the wings swept back, and lands slower with the wings extended...making for an easier aircraft to operate, with much more destructive power (using conventional weapons, anyway). The B-58 was really intended to be a delivery system for a single nuclear weapon, and ICBMs took over the role there. The 58, though highly sophisticated technologically (for the time) and one of the most strikingly beautiful aircraft ever built, was also reputed to be kinda a PITA. To keep the aircraft trimmed required constant shifting of the fuel between tanks...which I seem to recall was done manually by the flight engineer. At mach+, she would be burning a lot of fuel, and trim was critical. I think politics came into the decision to retire the 58s as well, and I was personally very disappointed to see them go. The B1 is an impressive machine up close, but I don't think there will ever be an airplane that looks more the part of America's top-of-the-line bomber than the B-58.

X-actly. They filter better if you oil them too, but they also get a lot more restrictive. And they almost always leak at the lower perimeter of the foam, where it contacts the base-plate.

Man, you've got my record beat. Most I ever billed in one day in my old flat-rate days was 32 hours...and I thought I was hot stuff.

Most of you guys probably know the name Foose, but it's really something to watch him draw too. Another genius, for sure.

Nice work on the top mods. Getting the lines to flow with the '32 roadster body shell takes a good eye, and even a lot of "name" 1:1 builders miss it.

I'm not impressed by anything that weighs 2 tons that only really is comfortable for 2 people. There's something wrong here.

It looks good when built up, but some of the dimensions are a little under-scale...which you'll find out if you try to put correctly-scaled aftermarket finned heads on it.

Got the results of the biopsy on the cat's rapidly worsening ear ulceration...squamous cell carcinoma, which is a particularly aggressive form of cancer. Seems white cats get skin cancer on their ears from over-exposure to the sun...just like people. She's always been an indoor-outdoor cat, since she moved in from being a stray in the neighborhood 14 years ago. I had thought the problem was from fighting with other neighborhood cats, but for the past couple months, it's been getting much worse, rapidly. Antibiotics had no effect, and now the poor cat bleeds badly every time she scratches the scab off. A cone-collar isn't working any more...she's figured out how to get it loose and tears the scab off anyway... and she's in a lot of discomfort, probably pain. May be close to the end for ol' Spook. She's miserable, and there's not really much hope for a cure at this point.

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Another one from the design-by-committee "nothing goes with anything else, but hey, we're all too hip to notice or care" school of design.

I just hope the delay is because the powers that be realized that the better the major proportions and "look" of this kit are, the longer legs it's going to have, and the more repeat and multiple sales it will generate...for a long long time. If it LOOKS like a correct '28-'29 Ford, I really will buy multiples. I mean MANY....and I'll probably buy another one every time I pirate parts from one on the shelf too. But if it's instantly visually "off", well, you can keep it. I'll just keep on using the old (and VERY good) AMT bodies and donor bits from other kits. I've already got plenty of beautifully-done '60s Revell nailhead Buicks, finned brakes from the Revell Challenger, and juice-brake backing plates from the old Revell parts-packs...and many MANY '32 and A-bone frames from both Revell and AMT vintage issues. So...I REALLY hope there's a good reason to buy this newest kit from Revell...I hope it looks RIGHT.

'34 Ford pickup, Ferrari-512 BB powered...

First time I saw the movie, even though I knew the story and the eventual outcome, I got so caught up in the whole idea of the underdog battling the unfair-playing big guys, I found myself irrationally rooting for Bridges / Tucker, hoping somehow he'd win...even though, as I said, I already knew the ending. Pretty bizarre effect it had on me. You really have to wonder about the SOBs who killed it too. I mean, the "big 3" had such a lock on the US car industry, it's doubtful Tucker would ever have made a significant dent in their sales if they'd just left him alone to live his dream instead of crushing it. The guys responsible for shooting him down musta all been little nasty kids who got off pulling wings off of butterflies. Greedy corporate unethical a-holes. Can't even let a little guy do something that's no threat whatsoever.

Too easy. Kid I went to high school with had one.

I have to wonder if Moebius hadn't already made a success of the Hudson offerings, and if this thread was about a Hudson kit rather than a Tucker kit, how many insider expert naysayers would be preaching to us all that it would be a non-seller impossible-to-make-the-numbers failure. Just a thought. I mean, all the insider industry experts knew airplanes could never be a commercial success...much less even fly. Ummm...'til somebody made it happen.

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Geez...I'd love to have that in full-scale.

One of the best known, and my favorite, is Harry Bradley. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bentley_Bradley

Interesting, but not great from a camber-pattern standpoint. Kinda a high-tech development on the sliding-pillar design found in mid-'30s Lancias, Morgans, etc. You'll see as the car leans in a turn, the outer tire can not remain perpendicular to the pavement, which is normally a crucial part of suspension design goals. Still, it's an interesting look for a model, possibly. https://youtu.be/0w7_N9Aenn8

Fine looking piece. The removable Carson-style top flows well with the A-bone's lines.

Unfortunately, neither the front axle nor the wheels / tires are correct for a stock '32. '32 is an 18" rim. '33-34 is 17", with noticeably shorter spokes. There's also a similar '35 16-incher that's a bolt-on too. Again, how accurate are you shooting for?

I've had my local auto paint store eyeball-match some Pantone samples on occasion, and they were never able to hit it dead-on with the mixing bases they had. Just never as bright and clean. The one guy who does the matching is a real wizard, and has hit some pearls and oddball iridescent colors spot on.

Inkjet ink is usually water-soluble, so it takes a clear top-coat of something to allow the decals to be used in the traditional water-slide way. The laser printer ink is impervious to water, so the end result can be slightly thinner to follow curves better. Inkjet ink also tends to fade more in UV light over time. At least, that's my current understanding.