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English Jules

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  1. I like that, for the last week i have been scratcbuilding NY Traffic lights for a street corner diorama, i did them quick, from bits of plastic and piping and didnt go down the route using a ruler etc, i only wanted one, and to be quick. Im not making a walk/dont walk box for the metal pole, and it got me thinking, if i was to make some in 1/24th scale, correct dimensions etc, and be able to run some off. Trouble is, from what i looked at, the printers at say £2000/$2500?? pounds for the home user, cant do that type of qulaity i need. I sidewalk hydrants, metal round sheet covers, metal grates etc etc. never made anything in resin before, its all new to me. As others said, look how much computers were in the 80's, even the 90's and now so cheap and a 1000 times better. I think ink price is only expensive, as they all stick together and it could be done many times cheaper.
  2. I will post some images up of my work tomorrow, at the moment doing a diorama of a NY street with a couple of cars, based on a real foto of a Crown Vic hitting a bollard. i only work with plastic kits, i dont lke die-cast so having to use the older Lindberg kit I bought a lot of cop cars from US ebay etc years ago, always surface shipping, so have a large amount of decals, after market lightmars etc, i never built many as i didnt have a airbrush and compressor, but i do now, hence finally building them after about 8 years. Recently found out they stopped surface shipping, and now its pretty expensive getting a kit sent over. Im after some Lindberg Chargers soon (have a couple of Revell 2005 Impalas coming) and heard about the new AMT Camaro police car, i think out some time this year. Should make a nice change from my pile of Revell Caprice's (and Impala SS's) and Crown Vics Im mainly a military modeller, 42, i took up making kits after a accident when i broke my back in 96. Im a fan of CHiPs, moves Vanishing point and Gone in 60 seconds (the origonals, not the poor remakes). I have plenty of time to make models, as im a house husband due to my health while my wife i out at work (been married only 6 months, to a girl i hadnt seen for 22 years, my first love i met back in 88 who i dated for a couple of years before a bad split up, we were both first loves and after one night it all came flooding back) I do the odd muscle or MOPAR, often to have on a base with a cop car. Im always looking for info on resin parts, after market parts, how to make kits more real or acc. etc as you will when i put my fotos up. I have a pile of AMT (and Yodel) Monaco's, in varous box art, and hope to do a couple of those, with better whee/tyres etc. I have posted on the old HH forum, i still do but not many cop car fans, plus when i ask for help, its rare i get it, either with improving my work, tips etc or where i find some correct kit for a conversion etc. Anyway will pop some fotos tomorrow :-)
  3. super arbiet und eine schoen und sauber auto :-)
  4. I like it, i have this kit, been working on and off for a while, other projects took over. mine is to be a under cover car.
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