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  1. I went back and reread your post. since you used the tamiya paint without primer why not use it as a base to start again. the tamiya paint lays down pretty thin so you would need 10 coats or more before you really need to strip it. obviously if you were using primer or auro paints it would be a lot less coats but the tamiya should be safe enough to try again over
  2. I've been having a little trouble with the glass on some 3d printed bodies so today I made a tool to make it easier. All you need is a length of firm metal and a couple of bolts. I used the corner from my printer packing (i knew i would find a use for it, lol). I drilled a couple of holes in the metal then cut another smaller piece and drilled it as well. I ovaled the holes afterwards to fit more sizes of blade but my initial holes were 7mm apart to suit the blade i have. I'll be using this to scrape away the inner edges on printed bodies so the glass will fit better. doing it this way means the inside edge for the glass will be deeper so the glass can be cut bigger and make gaps on the edge a thing of the past. Because i have a flat edge where the blade points out, i also have a surface to measure to it from. If i do the glass this way i can get that 1970s style rubber with chrome mounts. To get this my plan is to scribe the outside body chrome a little deeper then foil as normal. If i make sure the foil also does the inside of the trim, i can then paint the edge i scraped black to give me the right look, and to do the outside i will be able to use panel line accent. I think this will give me the correct look. here's the tool i made and while its not a neat and tidy job it will do everything i need it to do
  3. I wouldn't use brake fluid. i've had a revell t3 camper body turn to crumbs after 5 hours in it and a after using it on a aoshima lexus none of my paints would stick. i scrubbed and sanded that thing i dont know how many times but nothing would stick to it. it did take the paint off though
  4. I watch a lot of the aircrash investigation type shows and the thing that sticks out to me is its usually something insignificant that causes the crashes, from a badly installed screen to a loose nut. The nearest i've been to aircraft maintenance was cleaning the hanger for loganairs islanders. It wasn't that big a hanger (held 2 britten norman islanders of saab 340) but it was a twelve hour cleaning job twice a week. Its the only cleaning job i've had where i was told not to worry about the bogs or offices and just concentrate on the hanger. I was allowed to move things to clean under them, but only if the parts were clean, if they were dirty there was more chance that it was being worked with, but everything had to put back in the same place, no ifs, and or buts. But those guys had to be that way for their job, they are keeping 45 year old planes in daily use (also working with a welsh company to make them electric). I've cleaned in hospitals and the hanger was far more strict on standards. I had to sign my items down in a book when i took them into the hanger to be sure i took the same items out again. They also almost deafened me when they did a full run engine test and forgot i was in the hanger too but thats a whole other story, lol
  5. return of the mack was one of the most annoying songs of the 90s decade
  6. For those that dont know what bluebird is/was, it is the name Donald Campbell gave to all his speed record machines and this is the one he was killed attempting 300mph in 1967 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68489654
  7. further to my attempt using a dash can sd card in place of the memory sticks, it turns out the sd cards are the wrong format. my friend who knows more than m about this stuff has it reformatting in the correct format now. i'll update on how it goes once i have a print done.
  8. i got the interior parts painted over the last couple of days. I've gone for a stockish look but i haven't seen this in any opels but i did see it in humobile bomb so thats where its from. I've not added the chrome parts yet but the paint is done other than a couple small touch ups. I'll be foiling the top edge of the door panels, again for that lowrider style. I've got a visor from the amt chevy street machine 49 pick up that fots pretty well to go on this. I also got the chassis and engine parts primed and i removed the steering rod from the front axle to allow it to sit much much lower than stock. speaking of the lowering part of it will come from the smaller wheels and tyres as the stock wheels just wont lower it enough for me. I've also primed the roof of the main body to allow my filler to work better but i masked the area where the trim goes first to save work later. I have found there is some distortion somewhere on the body, chassis or floor parts as they dont quite line up. I'm hopeful it will be fixed once its all glued but it could be due to me assembling the body too soon, but how else couldi get the roof smooth?
  9. its not what it seems, https://www.magnetomagazine.com/proposed-eu-chrome-plating-ban-isnt-what-it-seems/
  10. is there a phone repair shop near you? ask them for their old screen packaging. its 0.5m thick and the android packaging is crystal clear, the apple stuff has a little distortion and is a little more flexible. chances are they'll just give you it. Its a little tougher to cut but works well. My friend works in a repair shop so i get as much as i need
  11. For the tyres tamiya rubber black is my go to. As for fitting those wheels it looks like you might be lucky enough that the axle ends fit into the holes on the back of the wheel, but if it doesn't you can enlarge the holes by drilling them out. If you do need to drill out the hole its best to step up the size of the drill bit slowly. I've had wheels break when i tried to use too large a bit too soon. Another option is to use plastic tubing inside the hole to reduce the size of the hole. When you get down to a fairly small size, you can then put a piece of rod in the centre to mount the wheel to the hole in the ends of the axle. On the front you might need to do the bits of tubing to make the hole smaller but you might also need to use the tubing to extend out from the wheel so it is spaced away from the front mount as it looks like the back of the wheel will not fit over the suspension without having it spaced out a little. but before you do any of this try putting the body on as there might not be enough space for those wheels at the rear without doing some mods to the rear suspension. you might need to move the spring in towards the centre a little to ge tthem under the arches
  12. thats been happening a lot in the uk but then we got bombed plenty. For over 50 years there was a live torpedo just sitting on the beach near my mums house. when we were little me and my riends used the torpedo as a firebreak for bonfires. My dod had us half convinced it was an old farm roller. when it got blown up by the army it left a crater 15ft deep in the rock. the bang was heard on the scottishmainland as well. But the beach is next to scapa flow which was the northern naval base in britian, and it was heavily bombed many times, and one of these raids led to first civilian death from an air raid. the ww1 german fleet was scuttled here too so it might surpsise you how much of it is still in use. The majority of the pre nuclear metals used in the early space program came from these ships as they were sunk before them so were uncontaminated and ideal for space stuff.
  13. if you think duplicolour primer is bad, then simoniz are saying hold my beer, but the beer would probably be a better primer.
  14. very cool, my dad used to have the vauxhall version in almost the colour you painted yours. He had a darker blue 4dr saloon version with a ford v6 too and a van for work in babypoo brown with white panels on the glass line.
  15. how thick can you paint? on the hinges and holes they go into only. it might hold for one show but would damage the paint when repositioned. maybe the hoods are off to let the judges get a closer look though as i dont think they would want to handle them too much
  16. its been cold since the start of november but i can still paint as i have my hobby room heated. Its the wind direction that stop me painting as most of the time its blows up the hose which kinda defeats the purpose of the booth, lol. Having said that we seem to have a lot less strong winds than we used to and its not for as long when we do get it. I remember week long storms and now they seem barely a day long.
  17. could be a fun custom, 49 chevy truck grille, shorten the rear fenders slam it and its done?
  18. I dont have experience with the printer but i have files from the designer. having looked at it on cults that one might be a solid model as its scaled from 1/87 and there are other versions available. You might be happier if you find someone to print one of these for you https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/lamborghini-lm002-pickup-1986-printable-car-in-separate-parts https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/lamborghini-lm002-pickup-1986-printable-car the printing hub one is 1/10 but they rescale most of their files if you ask. It might not scale down very well in the slicer and i've had them do it for their files for me which they didn't charge for. The hora80 files are a little toyish and usually need everything scribed and the usual cycles of primer and flatting but their not bad for the price and they have somethings nobody else has
  19. if you still have the paint try and test it some scrap sprue from another kit. it could be something between the primer and plastic and it would let you know if its a bad can. I've got a tin of their filler primer that sprays out fibres of primer instead of what i would call paint. its not even the same colour as filler primer usually is
  20. thinking about how i spent my childhood climbing tall cliffs without ropes its a wonder i survived
  21. The gold would be a more unusual colour scheme. The two tone on the fenders is something i might borrow for something else. I haven't seen it done that way before
  22. given how few cars were in my area at that time, any number over 1000 is a more recent plate. its also one of the last you can still get new andpreviously unused from the dvla. bs1 through 6 were all owned by billy smarts circus at one time. I did a bit of research on the bs numbers for the local vintage club when they did a display of original orkney cars.
  23. facts have seemingly joined the dodo bird in extinction
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