[Yale]

Seem to remember that some restaurant --perhaps Steak-N-Shake -- comissioned Corey Ertz to design several car models about a year ago. Whatever the details, it reminded me once again how many businesses are missing a great promotional opportunity by not commissioning their own models. There could be models of the kinds of merchandise a store sells, if not the store itself. Any company that has its own specialty vehicles or equipment could have corresponding models -- such as a semi truck with the grocery store's logo. Inexpensive, too, whether printed in quantity or made downloadable from the company website.

And just today the wife and I had lunch at Panda Express, which had many posters of a panda wearing a chef's jacket and hat. That would be ideal as a paper model.