Re: model building

["amc74hornet" <amc74hornet@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi Doc, have you ever considering using your knowledge about building models
> in a article? You know Cheryl Samuel's boy is now a teenager, and is taking
> over the job of the 'AMC Models' column for AMO. Have watched this youngster
> grow up and everyone, myself included, who has read your little tidbits here
> and there and building and painting models has been facinated by your skill
> and knowledge on all things small.
> 
> How about sending in many of your comments, or writing a nice indepth
> article abot model building, like differences in paints, or sanding areas,
> or as you mentioned in a thread today, chroming for instance, simply send
> them to Cheryl. Maybe a photo of a finished product or paints you endorse
> perhaps for the magazine, I'm sure everyone who has ever wanted or tried to
> build a aMC model would like to read it! Jim Samuel is now the Manager for
> the AMO Model Car Contest, if you have ever been to a AMO National, you know
> the model car contest is JUST AS INTENSE as the regular car show!
> 
> 
> The classes are:
> Novice 12 years and under
> Modified
> Snap Together
> and
> Adult 13 years and older
> Stock
> Modified
> And there is a American Modeler Award
> for Adult Classes.
> See Page 13 of the Nov/Dec 2003 American Motoring magazine for photos and
> details!
> 
> Cheryl Samuel's who is one of the Editors of AMO can be reached at
> sambo@xxxx Just a thought! But it is people like yourselv who have
> knowledge to share that makes the hobby what it is today, from small
> interchanges to large undertakings.
> Eddie Stakes'
> Planet Houston aMX
> www.planethoustonamx.om

Thanks for the compliments Eddie. You mentioned the article thing to me a while back. While my models are real nice they are not show quality. I am just an averedge builder that has brought some skills from real cars to model building and model building skills to real car building. I know for a fact that all of my tricks are known as I belong to several model groups and have learned a lot from these people in the last 4 years. Maybe in late spring early summer I will think about an article. Right now I got a liveing room full of Hornet interior parts that have to be repaired and restored so the interior can be completed in the new Hornet by mid may for the Ardsley AMC show here. The new Hornet is going to be my daily driver and they have a class for that so I will enter it. Also I have to get all these parts out of the house so the wife dosen't have a fit. With my poor health I put 4-6 hours a day working on these parts and it wears me out. Since I got the new Hornet early last October I have hardly had time to touch a model. 
"Doc"