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Do alpha model have a website? I've been searching and all I'm getting in the results are places that stock them, a korean brass train manufacturer and a british modelling agency.

Humbrol do a couple of aluminum shades in their metalcote range, the matt finish is pretty close to what the pics shows

Very nice, I think i need to find a 57 now

Nice and slick

Very sorry for your loss Carl, I hope you and your brother can take some solace from the good memories

heres a better pic of the seats, i removed the rear and used the seats from a studebaker in mine. the fronts are smooth but the rears have a button in the centre of each side in a round depression (i highlighted the buttons with pencil)

Italeri do a curbside 1303 ragtop, its the same as the imai kit and the ragtop parts will fita tamiya body. Also bestmodelcarparts on ebay do a hebmuller ragtop which is very nice

Very subtle and cool

I can second the c1 powder, it gives a different finish depending on the base colour used so if you use it you may have to experiment to get the metal colour you want but its good stuff and not toxic like the other one (cant remember its name but i think it sounded japanese)

Nice work, unimogs are great fun off road

use the report post in the top right corner and the moderators will fix it mate

I'd have to go for the revell mk1 or 2 golfs. Wih some scratchbuilding I could build a few jettas or the south americans versions but after those were done it would be time for a new hobby

Theres a few of the parts your looking for available on ebay from a seller called 3dp_scalemodelshop and also have a look through the dolls house section, a lot of them are 1/24 parts and nicely detailed. Have a look in the toy section of your piund/dollar shops too as they often have toys that can be repurposed

Some engines from icemancollections on the auction site. 3 of his vw vr6 engines and a cummins 6bt. I also got a few sets of his mirrored turbos

try bmamodelworld.com Michelle, the shipping might not be as bad as you think as the australian dollar is pretty low value just now. I've had parts from them (and amodeller on ebay) and the shipping was less than parts from inside the uk

I build vehicles mainly, mostly customised in some way but I've got a 1/24 spitfire that will pronanly end up as the load on a truck. I would like to build one of the wooden viking ships at some point. I'd like to build more big rogs but space is a problem for me. Also I have a 1/24 dino skeleton to build at some point but it will probably be some sort of diorama that includes a vehicle or two

Kitchen table resin did a grille and hood conversion for the amt 36 kit but i believe they have stopped producing parts now

Looks pretty good mate. I find when masking for the black on glass, that doesn't have a window mask included, that masking the outline on the outside first with cheap tape then using good tape to do the inside helps. It makes it much easier to see where the tape needs to go

and you said rap was bad, lol. but then it influenced a lot of later styles and had a sorta revival fairly recently if shortlived,

run dmc and aerosmith walk this way worked pretty well too and opened up a new genre of crossovers

Glad to see the outkast aqumini album there, its rap but not the usual type and I'm sure some of you would actually enjoy their stuff. I tend to take these lists with a grain of salt, usually it turns out to be which companies paid the most advertising. I'm a rap fan and have been for 25 years since the run dmc aerosmith crossover track walk this way, then there was a movie soundtrack that was all crossovers that really opened me up to rap music (being on a small scottish island it was totally mind blowing to me that there was something more than just rock, folk and country (isn't all country just songs about beating your wife cos your dog shot your truck(joke)). I've only looked through the top 50 and I have 38 of them on original vinyl. I still listen to lots of other music styles too and recently bought willie nelsons new album but it not up to his older stuff imo. But then isn't music more about how it makes you feel rather than the content? it would be a pretty boring place is we were all stuck with one style of music. the more styles of music there are, the more they help each other. Just like building models really, wouldn't it suck if we only had one kit? dont we all take inspiration from other places? and read the producer credits on your rock albums, some of you might be surprised how many rock groups are produced by rap deejays

Glad to see you're staying with us Carl, even if you're just here for a distraction you have many friends here as you can see from the comments

you can still track it on the origin countries national postal carrier and most have an option to view in english

scamdoc.com rate the site at 1% trustworthy so save your money.

rolling some blue tack over the tape residue should remove it if its on gloss paint. I havent tried it on matt paints