SCALE MODELS AT NEBRASKA'S PIONEER VILLAGE

A WIDE RANGING MUSEUM OF AMERICANA in Nebraska has plenty of scale models on display.

VAN DAMME: ZERO GRAVITY SPLIT REVEALS LINK TO SCALE MODEL DIORAMAS

Aaah… the 'Little Belgian' aka 'The Muscles from Brussels' strikes the Internet again with this oh-so-fun CGI splits-in-space. Last time we looked, it was heading toward the million-hits mark, with no end in sight.

FREE CLASSIC E-TYPE JAGUAR FROM MODELZONE AND BBURAGO

SMN heads-up

Well, you can't complain about this neato offer from the UK chain ModelZone - just get on down to the website and get your name in for a chance to win this fine Bburago 1:18 scale Jaguar E-Type, in our opinion, definitely the most beautiful car ever built, with or without race numbers and stripes...

Visit ModelZone here.

JAGSTON-HEALEY ANYONE?

The Challarostang looks a goodie, but it occurred to us that model makers needn't stop with the US pony car inventory. So for 2010, what about making a tasty fusion of sports cars from Britain?

Maybe a mix of Jaguar, Aston-Martin and Austin-Healey for starters, but there's a galaxy of candidates from the hall of history - TVR, MG, Morgan and Sunbeam are just a few names to get started with.

Or there's a steampunk route for sci-fi car fans too - something like the Brumm 1:43 Morgan three-wheeler is just made for conversion into some sort of Victorian-era machine. Perhaps reborn as a 'Heroes of the Air' flying car, suspended under an airship gasbag. It really was an amazing little device, seen in the pic above in the All British Car Show at Yolo County Fairgrounds, Woodland, California, in May 2008.

See the Brumm Morgan here.

Thanks to 'The Brain Toad' for the Morgan pic. His Flikr stream is here.