Ace-Garageguy

and warm beer

If I ran Revell...or really wanted to get a bulletnose to production cheap, I'd probably get a VERY competent modeler to start with the Flintstone body (which is pretty bad) and see if it could be corrected and made symmetrical. Tough, but I'm certain not impossible. Get it dead-on. Then ship THAT to the tooling-designers and let them take every tiny little dimension directly from the thing. Better yet, just scan it. Industrial scanners exist with the requisite precision. Only scan one side, and flip it in the computer. Develop your CAD files directly from that data, and cut your body tooling. Ought to be a slam-dunk, right-the-first-time deal IF EVERYBODY DOES HIS JOB RIGHT. The chassis and guts can have the odd discrepancy and nobody will scream too loudly, but the body needs to be as close as humanly possible.

^^^ Man, once you're carrying one of those on your tail, it makes it kinda hard to sneak home in the middle of the night. 3AM, Mr. Policeman sees one, you're doomed if you're cooked.

Thanks. Sometimes it feels like the little car has a will of its own and knows what it wants to be...like I'm only facilitating what's already there. And sometimes, it seems to fight me every step of the way. Right now it's in time-out.

Thanks. I'm trying, a little every day or so. Me too. Closer and closer... Thanks for your interest and comments. The seat is from the old Monogram Kurtis Kraft Indy car, narrowed, with a few holes drilled to give it a surplus aircraft look. Trying. And thanks to you too for your interest and comment.

Thank you sir. Not yet. The water-based release agent I tried had an adverse reaction with the surface finish, and I didn't want to use a silicone-based product. There's another one I have used in the past that might work, it's a two-pert process, I've run out of the first part, and the new minimum quantity is a gallon...and it's not cheap. Still kinda studyin' on which way to jump.

Holy cow. I saw the first version of this in November at the Atlanta ACME meet, and it was pretty danged impressive. But the NEW version is completely over the top. Fine, fine, fine. It reminds me of something I read from a model railroad scratch-builder-extraordinaire eons ago...if you can hold it, you can make it. Holding some of those little parts to work on them is just short of magic.

or jockey shorts

Мені це подобається.

Agreed.

Just FYI, all the first-generation Olds OHV V8 engines built from 1949 through 1963/4 are pretty similar visually. 303, 324, 371 and 394 factory displacements, kit engines can easily be up- and back-dated to represent any of 'em.

Starlite coupe, business coupe, convertible, and one of the coupes in drag as a gasser. Yeah...that oughtta do it.

crustacean in your

Unless, of course, the machine in question is the original product of one's own mind and hands. In that case, it's a symbol of EVERYTHING that matters.

But you know man...time is like...so relative, man. Like when a dude says, like, everything old is new again...you know, man? I mean like, yesterday and tomorrow, like, all run together man. Like, you know what I mean man?

without detonating it

The main-stream media is suppressing it.

Agreed. My title was a little tongue-in-cheek in response to the somewhat overheated and breathless nature of the vid. Still, as you say, it's interesting to see lotsa whoopee-gee-whiz techy-doo "integrated into the design process". And as far as I'm aware, the tech doesn't yet exist to 3D fab a functional chassis using large-scale metal-deposition (sputtering). The vid looks as though the concept is essentially using a wire-feed welder, CAD/CNC/robotically controlled, to build up structure analogous to a tubular space frame. For now, I think I'll stick with plain old dinosaur-era seamless tubing.

knows how to

Not the class.

Head of tails.

on its head

through green Jello

to his ewe

And I still betcha a bullet-nose Stude would fly off the shelves. But best get on the stick while the geezers who know what it is (and have a few bucks to burn) are still alive enough to buy them. I'd also betcha that model company planners look at the cheap and plentiful '53 Stude and Avanti kits and figger the bullet-nose would be a dog. I betcha they be figgering wrong.