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It's Like a Spaceship

Saturday, November 2. 2024
While still far from perfect, the Last of Us Chevy was a great exercise in seeing if I could really pull off a four-door conversion like I was hoping.

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That Was a Little Sloppy…but That Was a Kansei Drift

Saturday, October 19. 2024
So far I'm 0/2 with successfully painting eX-Driver cars on the first go, but in this case I also appreciated having a backup for the decals. hopefully the Caterham won't be as fussy!

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You Can (Not) Advance

Saturday, October 5. 2024
Back when I built Misato's Renault, I remarked on how much easier it was going to be to build the car from Rebuild. At the time I only meant that kits of the Mazda were available...little did I know Hasegawa was about to prove my words even more correct with a reissue their Cosmo Sport kit in NERV livery.

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The Past is the Greatest Teacher

Saturday, September 21. 2024
I missed much of the trauma that came with The Transformers: The Movie, having missed it until it was recut for TV. But as usual, the new toys were sufficient to keep me engaged with the series!

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A Scene from Entrapment

Wednesday, September 11. 2024

The World Trade Center as seen in the movie Entrapment

Unless you were there, it's hard to explain how weird the year 1999 was. In the decades leading up to the new millennium, we had been looking forward to it with pop culture entries ranging from Space: 1999 to Prince's song and album. There was anticipation, excitement, and even a little fear about things like the Y2K Bug as we approached the rollover.

Capitalizing on the high emotions of the time, a few movies were set in the immediate future to give us a glimpse of what might be coming. Among those was Entrapment, released in late April but set in the last couple of weeks of 1999.

The final act took place in the newly-completed Petronas Towers, which had just been crowned as the tallest building in the world, but the movie started with a glimpse of a previous record-holder. The opening zoom shot of New York City included the World Trade Center, which had been the tallest building in the world from 1970 to 1973 and the tallest twin buildings until 1998.
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You're Gonna Miss Your Flight...Vincent

Saturday, September 7. 2024
Andrew Niccol made a habit of placing vintage cars in futuristic settings and somehow making it work. His first foray - and the one that established this personal trope - was the effortlessly slick Gattaca and its cast members from Buick, Studebaker, and Citroen.

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It is the Year 2012...

Saturday, August 24. 2024
"...A terrible disease carried by killer bees from below the equator has decimated the population of the Earth. Only the strong have survived. The surface of the planet has become a very harsh place and in order to navigate it, the survivors must adapt their everyday vehicles. The vehicles and the fuel to power them have become precious commodities. As a result, cars and trucks have taken on a very different attitude. These are the Black Top Warriors.

What could be better than a dune buggy when it comes to dealing with desert terrain? A converted "bug" stripped down to its essence and painted like a killer bee is the perfect vehicle to quickly get in and out of any dangerous situation it might encounter.

"As slippery and quiet as an alley rat, this "customized" pickup wanders through the shadows of the ecaying city in search of food, fuel and whatever else is needed to survive. Ann all-black paint job and dull chrome elp keep it hidden from any undesirables."

This cherry pink and white gas station vehicle once called "The Ladies Aid" now serves a new purpose in the post-apocalypse world. It has been re-fitted as a survival machine in the constant quest for new fuel supplies and it's ready for trouble at every turn.


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If You're Gonna Build a Time Machine into a Car, Why not do it with Some Style?

Saturday, August 10. 2024
I mention in the writeup for the updated Back to the Future DeLorean that I had long wanted to make a first appearance version. I had even started on such a project back in 2010, getting as far as modifying a Polar Lights kit chassis to fit the Aoshima body. It still wasn't giving me quite what I wanted, so it got shelved. Procrastination for the win!

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It's My Lunch Hour. Besides, It's not My Department.

Saturday, July 27. 2024
For all the talk of modern politics resembling stories like 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, or Idiocracy, I feel we're closer to Brazil: a nearly impenetrable stack of bureaucracy layered with just enough foolishness to glue it all together.

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Three Cheers for WeGo!

Saturday, July 13. 2024
With several high-intensity projects going on right now, plus the general chaos of...well, everything...I wanted a silly and fun distraction. Usually that means breaking out a LEGO set, but this time it was revisiting Hasegawa's basic but beautifully crafted Mechatro WeGo Sports edition!

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Rule #32: Enjoy the Little Things

Saturday, June 29. 2024
Before 2009, I had been...lukewarm...on Woody Harrelson. He was fine in Cheers, I didn't like anything about Kingpin, and the rest of his roles fell somewhere between the two. It took the double tap of Zombieland and 2012 for me to fall into "fan" territory, and having enjoyed several of his movies since then I feel I need to go back and rewatch some of his movies again.

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Replicants are Like Any Other Machine...They're Either a Benefit or a Hazard

Saturday, June 15. 2024
When I decided that this year would be all about futuristic stories, the Spinner was very near the top of my projects list. I'd had the kit since it went up for preorder, but the number of aftermarket upgrades got a little overwhelming. Once I started in on it, though, it turned out to be not too bad...maybe I should leverage this momentum into getting the Sedan and Police Car done as well.

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So Who Actually did it...Blew Up my Old Viper?

Saturday, June 1. 2024
For the final season of Viper, the showrunners tried to address many of the on- and off-screen problems by returning to the formula and characters that worked for season 1. The one thing that didn't return was the RT/10 roadster, having been destroyed at the end of season 3. In its place was a blue GTS, and I figured since the base kit was readily available I might as well add it to the Viper garage.

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We're Being Tracked - Break Formation!

Saturday, May 18. 2024
Still thinking about AMT/Ertl's thing in the mid-1990s where they were licensing made-for-TV movies. They clearly had the toolings for the Dodge Stealth, I wonder why they never got in on the Brian Bloom Bandit series. Gonna have to see about doing one of those myself...

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Underlying Systems are Checked and Functioning...Start 'er Up

Saturday, May 4. 2024
Between KIFT from a few weeks ago and the kits from Viper, it feels like mid-1990s AMT/Ertl was placing a lot of bets on made-for-TV movies.

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