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The S2000 is a great car, nice pickup BB. It looks like you're pretty local to me. If you need any performance work done I can hook you up with my buddy, who is a pretty well-known tuner for those cars.

A minor point, but Dean was killed in a 550 Carrera (with the 4-cam engine). Similar to the 356, but not a 356.

Your Luca looks great Honkhet, really clean build. Thanks also to all you other guys for posting your WIP pictures. There will be lots of things I do differently on my 25G and Luca (when they get here) thanks to you guys. Cheers!

Are you kidding me??!! Bzzzzzzt! This is what I have: http://www.hanaho.com/Products/HotRodJoystick.php It doesn't get much more "real arcade" than this, especially for fighting games. I got mine in '01, and it's still holding up strong. Then there is also the X-Arcade, here: http://www.xgaming.com/tankstick-arcade-game.shtml If you really wanna go nuts, you can go here: http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm

I can't speak for veffidas, but what you say definitely jives with the boks that I've owned. Thanks for the info.

I'll chip in to also say "Great Job" guys! They look beautiful. I've got my Alto pretty much finished, and just keep chipping away at small details as I get the time. These "models" really do look great, and are a godsend for the less talented modellers among us (ie; me). I have a Luca and a Michael on the way, along with some action bases for the lot of them. I don't know that I'll get the Ozma anytime soon, somehow the S model just doesn't grab me. At some point or another, I'll post up some pics. Party on.

Yep. I'm a wimp, alright It's not exactly from another toyline, but here's my attempt at a Beagle interaction, also previously posted in another thread:

Kind of. What happened to the bloke in the vid is that he abruptly lifted off the throttle to try to check his speed. The resulting weight transfer made the rear end "light" (especially as there appeared to be a little undulation right there on the track), and the car rotated in the direction of his steering input. With all of the runoff area he had available, the wiser action would have been to go straight off the track. This is the number one point that driving instructors try to get across to their students during high performance driving schools and track days - if you're going to go off the surface, go straight. I've been guilty of the exact same mistake myself in the past (turn 5 at Willow Springs)

Ernst mentions above that the models are for Flight Simulator 2002 (FS8). FS9 was the '04 version. Ernst's models look great! Thanks for posting them here!

N2O has been around in automotive circles for quite a lot longer than 11 years... And ANYTHING is better than the utter lameness that is Fast & Furious.

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Last time I took up your challenge on that one, I ended up with a broken toy Pass.

If I had my own country, I'd require a competition license to be held in order to use the two left lanes on my freeways. In addition to what David states above.

The situation here in the US is really not as dire as our media would have it seem. As Jenius mentioned many pages back, we are simply in a correctional phase after many years of unwise financial practice and billowing bubbles. Those businesses and people who have always worked and lived within their means are really not having widespread problems. This is not to diminish the issues of people who really are having problems. I believe that the chief factor at fault is the ridiculous notion of perpetual sustained "growth" as some sort of inalienable capatalistic right [read: unchecked greed], which has lead to some extremely predatory business practices becoming mainstream. What we are experiencing is simply economic Darwinism. The silver lining is that hopefully, the current economic situation will be a wake up call, and we will not gladly march down that path again. Just my opinion....

This is where I buy my acrylic... But I typically buy 4' x 8' sheets, and these guys are local to me: http://www.hillcorplastics.com/index.html I don't know if they will accomodate small orders, but it is probably worth asking them.

I think that that one is from the inside of Britai's Nuptiet Vergnitz during the Meltran infiltration in DYRL.... Or was it the klaxxon that sounded just before the SDF-1 was attacked while on station at the PC city?

The Bartley is very hard to reproduce. There's probably more anime magic gone into it than any other in the series.... The lack of shoulder armor is probably the biggest bugaboo. Beagle's rendition seems OK, but I would like to see what they come up with in terms of refinements.

Dude. I did not expect the very timely response. Whoaaa.

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I'd vote the latter. I would like to see a MH Houquet, or a Beagle, for that matter. The Beagle Blowsperior and Bartley's will be most welcome.

If you do multiple passes with the sharpie, letting the ink dry between passes, you'll get a pretty convincing black.

Too cool, hehe. I will seriously try to come up with some recommendations for sounds. I think that some of the more general Bridge Bunny announcements may work out well - lots of them are in wonderful engrish even in the original soundtrack.

Really nice work. I had been looking for a new wallpaper....

Sweet.

My main gig is manufacture and sale of specialty automotive equipment (ie; replacement, racing & performance parts), but I also do private-label development and mfg, and other non-automotive development and mfg. Oddly enough, my business is thriving. I chalk this up to a couple of factors: One the one hand, I'm extremely specialized in some areas - I've got a locked-in customer base, solid demand, a relatively low production and high-profit product line, and factually, you cannot get what I produce anywhere else. Yay for captive markets. On the other hand, I've got enough diversification in my business that should one area of the business suffer, other product areas and projects tend to make up for it. Resources + flexibility = open options. Even though the automotive market [in general] currently sucks, I think that in the short to mid-term, demand for my products will slightly increase. Rather than buy a new car, I think that many people will opt to keep and repair their current ones, which means money in my pocket... And despite what the newspapers and magazines say, grassroots-level motorsport is still going strong. In relation to my collection, the current economic situation really hasn't affected me. I have always tended to live within my means, and I do not spend money which I don't have. I reject consumerism for the sake of consumerism. I have zero credit debt. I have slowed down on my purchases a bit, but that is something that has gradually occured over the last couple of years. I still pop for the really cool stuff that I want.