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yeah, to my truck. I really want to claim sand damage this year, but there is almost no point, it will happen again. the sound from inside your car when you get blasted makes you cringe. You can hear each sand particle slicing at your paint.

I have to drive directly into it to get home. My wife has our 3 month old and she has to drive into it also. with our doors closed there is an inch of sand everywhere inside. Next to our building is 1000's of acres of open desert. Not fun. Not to mention we own granite shop. We have a couple hundred slabs of granite taking the wind to the broad sides. They weigh 800+ lbs each and if the wind gets in between them they flap around like cardboard.

This is the visibility here, near Palm Springs. Sometimes the desert is beautiful....sometimes. Right behind those cars is a large bulding. The palm trees are wiggling back and forth and our showroom is covered in sand. I cancelled all my appointments and ordered pizza. I felt bad for the pizza guy. Wind expected to reach 75mph and we're pretty close right now. What's scary is the window in front of my face is the only one in the building that faces West, and the wind is blowing East. Hopefully I don't catch some glass to the face before I go home

Instead of being a grumpy old jerk, maybe give him the benefit of the doubt, and actually read the Haribo Gummy Bear reviews on Amazon, where you will be, using your gift card. It wasn't a wise guy comment, it was an actual suggestion, because they are actually funny.

I'd like to see tamiya take a crack at the c7

It's filthy, they didn't even bother to wash under the hood. And those wheels are disgusting. If I had $51k to spend on a car, I'd do it, but I'd want the BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH thing washed first.

Look at the trim line down the middle. Looks like they mated the top half of a van with the bottom half of a car. It's pretty rad looking.

What the heck is this thing?

I don't like this car at all, it doesn't appeal to me in any way. With that being said, I have tremendous respect for the talent and work that went into creating this. It is very well done.

It needs to misted on, very low psi, like 12 or so. Also, I watched a video on Youtube that said to mist on coats at an angle, about 45 degrees. This has helped me as well. when you are done, take an extremely soft or smooth cloth, like kleenex or a polishing cloth and give it a really light couple of buffing passes. This will get rid of the fine paint dust that dries on the surface and shine it up a bit.

I sand the back spine of exacto blades as well, with a course sanding stick. You can constantly resharpen this to make a nice scriber.

I use dental picks and a razor blade. A dental pick with get you the depth quickly, without the risk of running a razor blade up and over the panel The back of a razor blade can be used lightly after the pick to come through and clean up any plastic left behind. like mentioned before, they will push plastic out of the way, so the panel line has to be cleaned out.

In the future, you can use chrome wheel cleaner. The active ingredient is ammonium biflouride, which is also active ingredient in many rust removers. It etches and can damage the finish of the metal, but if you do it correctly, it will remove the rust and brighten the metal. I use a more concentrated version of ABF, but I work with it regularly, I wouldn't recommend it to just anyone. If you soak a towel and wipe it in a linear motion without stopping, then rinse, it shouldn't leave any marks.

I think I have a whole set of those I am not using. From the new tool 32 kit

I won a bid for Foti Camaro several years ago, then saw the guy ranting about it on BriansModelCars.com I stopped trying to bid on stuff, I just save up and buy what I want from the people I like to buy from. Unless it's impossible to find elsewhere.

Congratulations?

A lot of the sports car modelers use it to mask the half engines that come in the new kits. It's fine to use if you clean up properly. It just hasn't worked all that well for me

A lot of people don't consider any type of Mustang a muscle car, but the BOSS 429 was a beast. I would also consider non-muscle cars that have been modded with big motors and stuff to be a muscle car.

I have tried it but it just Falls off. It doesn't stick to anything

Ha! You mean my ADD

A lot of people will look down on this, but if you have never driven one of those electric performance go karts, you don't know what you are missing. New electric motors are nearly frictionless compared to what they used to be. Instant acceleration.

You're right, there are a lot. drag racing and classics. Some muscle cars, but they usually get turned into dragster, from what i see here anyway. I would be more attracted to that scale if the Tamiya style cars were done that way. in fact, if they focused the 1/24 subjects on 1/16 scale, I would abandon 1/24 all together.

That definitely did not make it more clear, but I think I get what you're saying. Large kits from Revell and other manufactures and targeted towards normal builders and younger crowds. You are lumping in aftermarket parts and kits with that same category and complaining that they are more expensive and do not offer the same quality. The mass produced kits are made in such a way that the prices can remain somewhat reasonable. $60 for the Revell 1/12 Shelby and $300 for the 1/12 Tamiya Enzo is a huge gap, but that gap in quality is there also. Aftermarket pieces are geared towards serious builders who value their time that they spend on these pieces and I doubt anyone's mom and dad are buying them serious detail parts. I don't know how many kids build like that. Even then, there are a lot of affordable detail parts out there. To me 1/16 is a unique category, mostly geared towards drag racing pieces. I would consider 1/12 & 1/8 large scale, 1/16 can be either or.

what I am actively building right now: 1. BOSS 429 Pro Stock 2. Lotus 79 with a ton of extra details parts 4. F-40 COmpetizione 5. Tony Foti Camaro 6. Nissan R390 GT1 super detail 7. 1/12 57 Chevy super detail 8. 32 Ford 9. Ferrari 312 T3 10. 911 GT2 what I will likely start within the next month: 1. 427 Cobra high detail 2. Corvette Grand Sport super detail 3. GT40 with HRM resin engine kit. 4. 64 Gto with PE set. What I have abandoned because I don't feel like it anymore: 1. 57 Ford 2. 66 Nova Pro Street 3. 64 GTO 4. 911 GT2 5. 360 Modena 6. 328 GTB I used to fight it. I would force myself on one project to make progress. No more. I do what I feel like. If I never complete another project again, I accept that. I like building, but I don't enjoy it unless I'm building what I feel like at the moment. I started buying plastic containers, like the little clear portable trays. They fit everything including the body for around $4. I pick what I want, open the container and get to work. I can have it all neatly organized and put away in 5 minutes. On the detailed builds, i will usually do what I can, then I stop and put it away when I need to research photos and stuff. Get what I need, then continue a week or two later.

I read that they shipped them vertically due to wheel bearing issues. The train would cross 10's of thousands of railroad track seams during the shipping and it would cause damage to the wheel bearings, as they were supposed to take stress under load while rotating. This eliminated that issue. Not sure if that's true or not.