Vintage Stock Cars

[Vermin_King]

The problem starts several months into the blog where there are a number of kits posted as opposed to links. It's a shame really. They have talent and I'm sure they are thinking they are just sharing something cool, but these things aren't theirs to share. Just my opinion.

[rickstef]

So i have noticed, if they just posted their own creations and not the copyrighted material, they would be golden.

[Vermin_King]

very golden. they obviously have talent.

[Hudsonduster]

Originally Posted by Darwin

I hope paper model industry takes a lesson from what happened to the slotcar industry. When winning slot cars were produced by the individual hobbiest...the hobby thrived. When the manufacturers [pushed expensive Hi-Tech]the hobby collapsed.

One other little thing happened: Tech started offering more and more passive entertainment, and less-crafty youngsters lapped it up instead of continuing to do so-so at what had been one of the few games in town, modeling. There're only so many real craftspeople per capita, and that number isn't enough to support a crafts industry.

There's a small but healthy slot racing hobby continuing today, and in the last five years a "Retro" movement has started up, recapturing the pre-1970 "Golden Age" for fossils like me. Have a look at www.slotblog.net if interested.

Hey, I've been meaning to ask: are there any publishers offering "Racetrack" scenery and buildings, for home tracks? Trackside stuff in 1/32 scale, architecture in smaller sizes for forced-perspective--preferably '50s-'60s international stuff. It's a chance to combine my interests a little...

'Duster

[Chats]

Geez, what a can of worms.
I'll keep what I find to myself
from now on.

[rickstef]

Chats,

you didn't do anything wrong, you posted a site with some models that we have not seen, but after some digging/surfing of their site, we have discovered that they are not quite honorable.

the vintage stockcars, the endurance models, and the race trucks(which I am interested in) are great models, and show enormous skill and talent.

I would support the site, once they remove the offending kits, but not right now.

Rick

[Chats]

I was hopeing someone would like
the cars, nothing more, nothing less.

[rickstef]

i said i liked them, a slot filler in the history of stock car racing

[Zathros]

The car with the Oval Radiator was so cool, I may make a model of something similar just to scratch that itch!

[Chats]

No problem