Ace-Garageguy

Upgraded my scanner inventory with a new Autel unit. The older cars I'm fond of are failing as their electronics age, and it's becoming increasingly necessary to be able to work deeper in the computers to correctly diagnose and repair systems. The newer Autel gives me expanded capability. Autel delivers incredible power for the money, but warranty claims require sending the unit to China. One would really think a cost-effective tool like this would be manufactured in the good ol' USA, but no dice.

Yup, thanks. Saved me a lotta digging.

We're gonna need more paint...

Interesting idea, and I'd certainly subscribe to help fund limited runs of all manner of subjects. NOTE: The "3% skim" that GoFundMe gets or Kickstarter's 5% off the up-front funding are FAR CHEAPER than conventional venture-capital sources that usually own a piece of your backside and bottom line forever. PS: When I got back into this hobby, I bought Revell chrome engine repops by the boatload when they were cheap (around $2-3 each) as well as any of the dragster and accessory kits that came up for anything like reasonable money. Even today, it's possible to get smoking deals on the drag chassis kits, the Fiat body kit, the Bantam, and others...but you have to put some effort into it. The last few I got for decent money (compared to the usually stupid asking prices on eBay) were test-shots that came from Ed Sexton himself.

It was their parent company Hobbico that went bankrupt. The Revell division was operating in the black.

I don't know exactly what you're asking. The twin-blower rig was built by Romeo Palamides who formed what would become American Racing Equipment. It was even seen on a couple of drag boats. Jack Chrisman drove the Joe Mailliard Automotive Engineering blown hemi sidewinder to a 9.05 / 151.51 on gas in 1958. The car went through a long series of rebuilds and development from '57 through 1960.

Wow. Extremely nice, everything about it.

Well sir, how many of that type of car do you see being built here on the forum? Vintage altereds or competition coupes or street-roadsters (the drag-racing class) or old front-engined, short-wheelbase rails, which is what these Revell kits are for. Here are two of mine. Like I said...there's plenty of stuff available CHEAP to build this type of car. How many do you see being built??

Exactly.

Try this...

Hmmmmm...the Green New Deal should get all the meat done away with...

Composite parts tend to shatter and crack. Freeze your model, then smack it. Ought to get pretty close to reality with a little practice.

Pre-painted... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Archaeopteryx-4-1-8in-Series-Dinosaurs-Safari-Ltd-302829-/381973367678?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c10#viTabs_0 https://bigamart.com/product/papo-55034-archaeopteryx-figure/?utm_source=Google Shopping&utm_campaign=Google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=571020&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjO76mJmS5QIVQpyzCh2H-AEwEAQYBCABEgIf3vD_BwE

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Starke conversion for the Boxster... and a widebody 550...

Look at how many passenger cars are built, even here on this little ol' site, as opposed to how many historic or vintage drag-cars are built. Gassers mostly, some SS and AFX cars, a few funnies, very few vintage altereds or competition coupes or street-roadsters (the drag-racing class) or old front-engined, short-wheelbase rails, which is what these Revell kits are for. That's all I'm saying. We old guys are constantly berated for living in the past, but lotsa stuff for building vintage drag cars (as above) is readily available pretty cheap on eBay, and we don't see many getting built.

Probably correct. Mostly only modelers who fall in the old-geezer mold, who have an interest in building historically and technically accurate models of rather obsolete subjects, and those who actually understand how a car works would be interested. Kinda limits the appeal. Me? I'd buy multiples if they were ever brought back, but as I already have enough to last the rest of my life anyway (and the ability to make resin repops if I live long enough to run out), I won't lose any sleep either way.

His resin listings change occasionally, apparently as he casts stuff to fill demand. I've been very happy overall with his parts and kits. His Corvair rampside pickup, for example, is about as good as resin gets when it's not a copy of vintage styrene parts. He does a split-window Bug too, by the way.

Hey...this is 2019. Whatever identifies as a gasser is a gasser.

A little 120-pound girl with toothpick arms can take out a 250-pound guy with a 20-pound hammer any day of the week.

Hit him with an atomic disruptor ray and there won't be anything left to regenerate...