Dick Tracy Space Coupe Color Question

Funny you should mention the Coupe. It was my final effort for 2003, finished it on New Years Eve. I used Tamiya Chrome Yellow over Armory white primer and am quite happy with the results, although the yellow needed to be dusted on in several coats because it seemed to react slightly to the different brand of primer. Tamiya white would have been better. About the decals.....I had to bust out another kit to get the decals which had a WICKED tendency to bust apart during application. Be careful!

-John

Just buy the Sunday newspaper and check out Tracy's hat and trenchcoat. Then start mixing. Kim M

Assuming his local paper still carries the strip. We've been Tracy-less for years. It's getting so bad that I read half my favourites on the computer.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

I used an ivory color like the plastic in the kit. yellow seemed too bright Rob Gronovius Visit my motor pool in the

yep. have not seen Tracy in the papers in years (SF Bay Area) Chrome Yellow does sound good, though...

Craig

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norton chrome yellow would fit that car like a slinky blonde.

as long as dilbert's on line.

I've wanted a yellow spaceship ever since seeing one on "Robinson Crusoe on Mars". (one of the holy grails of film for me!)

-John

Right. And also, is "Beetle Bailey" still around? Our local paper "dishonorably discharged" the strip (15 years ago?) because it was deemed "Politically Incorrect"....(* sigh *)

And "the daily comics" REALLY ceased to be; when Gary "The Far Side" Larson retired....

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it isn't hard to find. scifi channel runs it often and i've seen it for sale. i did an on air copy. pre campy batman adam west. wave and die!

and was cremated by bill watterson's quitting.

In western New York, the Buffalo News dropped Prince Valiant to bring in Opus (Berk Breathed's piece about the penguin) I think that you could hear the howl in Chicago. A month later, the knights of the Round Table were back where they belonged!

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But did they keep Opus? I was very excited to see that Berke is back.

(insert genuine modeling content here)

rich

Beetle Bailey (and cartoonist Mort Walker) are very much alive. Carried by both South Florida papers. GPO

The Army Times has six daily strips on one page every week. Rob Gronovius Visit my motor pool in the

Congratulations! When the locals change anything they ignore the howling and tell us we'll learn to live with it. They just recently expanded the size of the TV listings. Commendable but, now it's the same size as the rest of the paper and I can't tell you the number of times it's disappeared into the recyclables, or worse, under the cat's bowls. Apparently they were shocked to get correspondence with nasty words in it, enough to write an editorial condemning that and reminding us we'll all adapt. :{

Bill Banaszak, MFE

It runs in the morning daily here and colour on Sundays. I'm impressed to see coloured dailies in the St Petersburg (Fla) Times.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Separate but equal? :+)) Kim M

and have not been the same since Bloom County went belly up.. I was never an "Outland, All Opus all the time" kind of guy.

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