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To have separate sections for car brands in addition to the vehicle type (cars, trucks, racers, etc.) would make the forum way too fragmented. But if members used tags for their threads (to identify the car maker for example) this is even currently possible. Problem is that most members do not want to be bothered with tags.

Back in the days that kit was made car manufacturers weren't contacted for permission or licensing to make a model. Some kit companies did engage car companies to assist with the model's development (and that is often mentioned in the kit's instructions to imply the model is accurate), but a kit could be made without any input or knowledge of the car's manufacturer. Things are quite different today.

That little ship came out really nice. Your modification made it so much better than the stock kit!

Unless the model is tied with a string to the base, it will not hover. It will fly away in some direction (if balanced perfectly) or just crash into the ground. Hovering requires complex stabilization mechanism.

I like the idea of using motorcycle license plate for the base. Looks good! The entire model is very monochromatic (silver) didn't the 1:1 engine have maybe touch of color in it, or it also looked this plain? Also how was the rear wheel mounted on the real bike? Seems that the exhaust pipes would not leave enough space to mount the wheel.

Perfect illustration showing the very apparent difference. While the brushed-on chrome finish looks decent, it is duller and less "chromey" than the typical kit's factory-applied "chrome" finish on the wheel cover. Some modelers actually prefer the duller look, saying that a scale model should not have a very bright and mirror-like chrome parts. I disgree. That is just my personal preference. Regardless of size or scale chrome should be chrome: Bright and reflective.

If you are talking about the photos in Olle F, which he posted 17 years ago (!) and KT EASTMAN (19 years ago), those images link to Imageshack addresses are likelys long gone. This shows the problem with older archived threads losing their usefulness when images were hosted externally. Of course back in 2006 and 2008 the forum did not allow for local image hosting, but I'm glad that they do now, and I would hope that every member uses that feature, if not for anything else, but for the info in the threads to remain useful for as long as the forum remains online.

I love it. On most kit tires where the sidewall detail is present, the lettering protrudes from the sidewall much more than it should. It is way out of scale. These laser-etched examples look perfect. Not overstated at all (since they are actually depressed into the sidewall). Actually I looked at the Continental tires on my car and the lettering is not raised but debossed, just like what is done with the laser etching, so for some brands or types of tire this would actually be accurate.

I'm still wondering what the black engine block and transmission in the bottom of the box are for.

Yes, that is the best and quickest way to catch the forbidden word. If the half you tried fails, divide that in half and try again. Keep dividing and trying until you are down to where you can pick out individual words. This is a bit of a pain to deal with, but I find this forum enjoyable end useful enough to put up with this "problem".

True, but try to find the very thin insulated wire (like 0.007" OD) Detail Master sells. Even if you locate an industrial source I bet they only sell it in large quantity (like a 1000 feet). Yeah I know, make a group-buy for others on the forum then divide it into smaller pieces, ask for payment, package and mail it to the individuals involved in the group purchase. That sounds like what Detail Master is doing.

You can be pretty sure that some word triggered the error. Actually I wish some forum administrator ( @Dave Ambrose ? ) would post a complete list of the forbidden words in some sticky thread, so we could deal with them. That would make composing our posts much less frustrating. Since the forum software is filtering them out, there has to be a list of them available somewhere. As we are now, we have to try guessing which is the "bad" word. Even better, instead of the generic "Page cannot be found" error, there should be a page stating that the post was rejected due to a restricted word, and also have the list of words below the error. That would make sense. Maybe this will be one of the new features which are being planned.

I don't really see any semblance to an air-cooled boxer 4-cyl engine. Could the engine parts be from another Palmer kit, and they just got mistakenly put into the Porsche 356 box? I also see more parts (black plastic) in the box which look like an engine block and transmission.

Bill, this is getting silly. Please reread my original post. Where exactly have I contradicted your statement, or called it wrong? I simply mentioned that all the pill bottles I have dealt with were #5 plastic. Why are you insisting I'm arguing with you? I'm done!

Looks like we were talking about apples and oranges. You mentioning Polystyrene bottles should not exclude me being able to mention Polypropylene bottles. My response did not dispute your pill bottle experience - just added my experience. But I apologize for adding my modeling experiences to this thread.

As Dave explained, if there is some text along with the photos, if some verbotten keyword are detected (like the word s e l e c t, or others) you will see that error. There is a post in this section of the forum where Dave mentioned some other words which will trigger the error.

Yes, and the reflectivity of a polished surface. Alclad II finishes have to be applied with an airbrush.

Why do you think I'm arguing? I wasn't even making a counter point. I simply conveyed my experience as we usually do in online forums. Isn't that what the forums are for? To share modeling experience. All the amber bottles I have in my possession, some still with the current medication in them, and ones I collected over the last 20 years are made from Polypropylene. I also know that (as you also mentioned) most glues used by average modelers do not bond Polypropylene or PETE well. Using those materials for tubs usually means that they will likely be exposed to a bit more structural stress than a windshield. That's all I did - no need to get your feathers ruffled.

The plastic can caps are made of doesn't take glue well, but in my experience neither do pill bottles, which are made from Polypropylene, not Polystyrene. At leas all the amber color pill bottles I deal with. Their recycling symbol is #5 PP.

Alclad II has Polished Brass available. I assume that, like their Chrome paint, it needs a gloss undercoat (black?) for the full effect. I have not tried it myself.

Of course if you want to use wire for things like heater or radiator hoses, you will need heaver gauge wires. Detail Master sells small quantities of repackaged wires for those applications.

Yes, I found member's location useful to the conversations (unless someone entered something like the Moon). That info is now hidden (for privacy reasons?), but if someone doesn't mind they can include their location as vague or as accurate as they want, in their signature. Like I did. It would be handy if others would follow.

Yeah, when I'm driving gingerly on a level road or down hill, my 6-speed Kia is already in 4th gear at around 25MPH!

Yeah, just like with other things in today's world, esoteric car manufacturers (and even large regular passenger car manufacturers) have jumped the shark. I see this kind of thing all around me. Do we really need 20 varieties of Oreo cookies, not even counting all the "Limited Editions". Or dozen flavors of Coke or Pepsi? seems that every time I go grocery store, there is a new variety of something available. This extends to other product ranges too. Sometimes too-much is too-much.

As I remember it explained elsewhere, it is in large part for fuel economic and efficiency. Having large number of gears is there to keep the engine's RPMs in the narrow and most efficient range at most operating speeds. My 2019 Kia Soul has a 6-speed computer controlled automatic transmission, but observing the tach. I see that there are also other things that happen (probably torque converted clutch and some other similar doo-dads) which affect on the engine's RPMs. I don't much care for it. I would much prefer a 4-speed auto transmission. Just like someone else mentioned, one of the annoying things is that it doesn't want to downshift even when I floor the gas pedal when trying to avoid a sticky situation. It is like "I don't think you need to accelerate this fast". These transmissions (well, the computer controlling them) supposedly learn your driving habits to adjust the shift points. And don't get me going abotu the ABS brakes, although my Kia is a bit better than was my 2006 Scion xB.