Looks like it might be time to finally hang it up.

[LUKE'57]

After having not built anything in a very long time and not lettering anything in over ten years, I decided to finish the Tiny Lund Chevelle I started about the time the new Revell kit was released. I was building it for my son for Christmas and decided that this would be the year.

While I was having problems with the paint and the brushes (may try to cut some new ones), it's a poor workman that blames his tools so I gotta admit that it just doesn't seem to be there anymore. I've got some more projects that I think I will try to do just to see if I'm just very rusty, and I hope that's what it is,so wish me luck. In the meantime, as you look at my latest build, please remember two very important things-one, I'm an old man and two= old men carry grudges and guns. LOL

[ricky12]

bettor than what i could do . looks good !!!

[GOTH KUSTOMS]

bettor than what i could do . looks good !!!

Heck like Ricky just said, and I can draw, but I sure cant paint as good as you did on this bad lil puppy...

[LUKE'57]

Thanks guys. Maybe I'll rethink it and cut some new brushes and give it another shot. I've got a Tiger Tom Pistone '64 Galaxie about ready to letter for me. Now where did I put that picture of the Shoney's Big Boy?

[MADmodelDOCTOR]

NEVER SAY DIE !

[James Flowers]

I have not finished one in a very long time myself. I still go and work on something every so often. I just don't have the drive for it anymore. I just can not let it go totally, so I plug along little by little. Good Luck

[Aaronw]

I do hope this post is made with the same respect to April 1st as your box art posts.

If your skills are slipping I can only hope mine will slip so far someday.

[scaleautobuilder]

Looks great to me.

Bruce

[LUKE'57]

Thanks everybody, but it was for real. You only saw what the final product looked like, but I saw what the journey to get there was.

I have, back in my "prime" built as many as 6 and hand lettered four of them from the time I got up on a Saturday until it was time to pack them to get to the track at six o'clock Saturday afternoon. And those were local late models that I had to shorten the chassis and narrow and rearrange the roll cage on the original MPC Nascar kits on. This one took a lot longer than that and some pretty fancy "clip on eyesight" to get it done.

As Darren McGavin, playing a post Daytona crash Lee Petty in "The Petty Story" said, "The sad truth is that none of us are what we once were. " I just hope to get a few more cranked out before I have to hang up the welder and goggles for good.

[The Modeling Hermit]

We're supposed to finish the models we start? What a novel idea. I may have to try that sometime. LOL

[Captain Obvious]

We're supposed to finish the models we start? What a novel idea. I may have to try that sometime. LOL

You and me both.

When I reach the point of modelers' burnout, I either just step away from it for a little while (but i always come back), or just pick a quick and easy, "no-brain-required" build to get back "in the mood".