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beautiful! i especially like that first one! im getting inspired i tell you!

send me a pm but i just noticed you are in canada and i cant pay for postage there. if you want to pay the postage or at least make a contribution toward it its yours... oops chris gotta wait till i figure i wont hear from craig. send the pm and i will get back to you if he dont want it

going once...

>I have to ask, how did you learn the taste trick? I never heard of that one. >But hey, if it works, well go for it then well i did that back when i was a kid and building models, early 60s, and i noticed that older different-formulation plastic tasted funny or something. probably from putting freshly painted pieces in my mouth while i juggled around the brush. (i shudder sometimes when i think of stuff i was exposed to, some of which i stuck in my mouth, and i lived on a SAC base for some time and rode my bike and played around the jet fuel ponds, airstrips with B52s taking to the air and all kinda stuff. thats not counting unexploded ordinance lying around in the jungles. anyway, i could always tell a difference in the taste and "sensation" of my tounge touching that plastic. its quite likely it wont actually tell anything... i think if its lasted this long without warping, its not gonna start now. btw i like the station wagon configuration too. or an el camino style pickup with american mags.

yeah craig that kit does appear to have a suitable part, thanks for the tip! now heres a kinda strange thing: i really have little use for the rest of this kit. you want it? i havent actually seen it yet but my LHS has one reserved for me. that means i might have to take a part or two out of it when i actually examine it, but essentially it will be near-complete but for the PA system horn. just drop me a pm if you want it. ill even pay to ship it to you. many thanks again star. ps: i really dont know if this kit is well done or just generic or what but i think it does say something like "basic build" or something, though its a level 2 kit (revell by the way but i assume it was originally monogram...)

looks like that funny warpy kinda plastic to me. this sounds strange but try this: put the tip of your tongue on a piece of the plastic, middle of the top should be fine. does it taste neutral or does it have a kind of funny feel/taste to it, kind of like "electric" (dont know how to explain it, leaves kind of a funny taste on your tongue for a minute, no harm done). if it tastes funny its the warpy kind of plastic...

ive found if i get too heavy handed with duplicolor or plasticote primer i end up crazing plastic. since i discovered the two flavors of tamiya primer ive used practically nothing else. doesnt fill as well but isnt as thick so its easier to not obscure detail with tamiya. however before i discovered the miracle from jahpon, i used duplicolor and plasticote as my default primers too.

thanks craig i will look into that.

agreed on that steve! wheres the "cheers" emoticon?

thanks for the tip steve, but i dont see anything like that there, under misc or diorama. unfortunately i dont see a search function. but now i know where to go next time i need a scale machete!!! any other ideas anyone?

i need a megaphone horn like is used on vehicle and otherwise public address systems. i know i could build one but im sure that there are more realistic ones than i could come up with by my own devices. anyone know a kit that has them (and is more or less currently available) or maybe you got one unused lying around for trade or something? im thinking they might be in some emergency vehicle kit or maybe as a (possibly unmentioned) extra part in a kit somewhere? something like this is what i have in mind: though more like what would be stationary mounted on a vehicle...i could just trim off the handle of this one shown and just use the megaphone part. many thanks in advance!

>BTW,, I did stand in line,, fill out 3 seprate forms and pay extra for 3 >seprate shippings to people on this board this week. It didn't kill me and >I'm not getting anything in return ,, except maybe a bit of good karma. i help run an international music festival http://www.snwmf.com consequently i have more than a little experience at the post office sending international packages so youre not really telling me anything i dont already know. read what i wrote carefully and you will see that nowhere did i say it would "kill you" , i was just stating that theres a bit more to it than just one form to fill out, which was your original contention. i too sell stuff to whoever wants to pay for it so we both are in line for the karma points i guess...but its definately more work to send to someone outside the usa. still i would like them to sell to me so its not something i complain about. a sale is a sale afterall. and ive spent a good amount of my life living outside the USA so i know how nice it is to get something that is otherwise unobtainable locally (this was before the proliferation of the internet though...these days it really is a "global village" and those who refuse to take part in that concept are the real losers, a bit more time at the PO or not, as im sure you realize).

>But I would go so far to not sell to anyone who wouldn't sell to me >simply because they don't want to fill out a simple form that takes less >time to fill out than actually addressing the package. theres actually a bit more to it than that: 1) you have to stand in line to mail a foreign package; domestic you can just drop in the corner mailbox (if its less than a pound i think it is) or drop in the box at the post office if youve figured the postage already 2) you cannot use the USPS free priority shipping packaging...i used to still use them but turn them inside out (a federal gulp offense by the way) but now they print "priority mail" or something on the inside too so that dont work...so now you have to scrounge for or go buy a shipping box 3) there are a lot of scammers in some other countries though you cant tell anything specific from that 4) you need to assemble your package with more care because you dont know what its going to be subjected to (but of course you dont really know that for US delivery either but one would assume...) 5) you really dont know whats going to happen to your package in customs. i know from sending items to jamaica they often get "rerouted" or in some cases they stick a big steel spike through the package to see if white powder comes out (im serious). thats kind of hard on model bodies not to mention records or cds. but if the buyer is willing to accept all risk and cost, including maybe for the time required above what it takes for domestic shipping, i guess it would be ok but if someone wants to exclude 3/4 of the world (by weight) from his potential market, i guess thats his choice.

yeah because if they arent on the track they *are* static models! :shock: nice though, quite nice.

very nice build up for a weeks work! it takes a bit longer to realistically lower it. here are a pair i did some years ago... http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forum/viewtopi...highlight=mgbgt

another thing ive tried with some luck is to mix food color with future floor wax and then paint it on the inside of the glass or just dip the glass in it and let the excess drain onto a paper towel. works good when you mix tamiya clears with future too, to thin the colored clear. and if it doesnt look good, straight ammonia will remove it without a trace.

cool idea! one question: where did that face plate on the flathead come from, which kit i mean? i used one of those on the lincoln v-12 i built that you may have seen but i just found it in my parts box. now im getting ready to build another, this one to keep, and i couldnt figure out what kit it was in! i think i also stole the trans and oilpan from the same motor so getting another example will kill three birds! (note to my liberal friends: no birds were harmed in that last remark, its purely for illustration only. note to british liberal friends: no girls harmed either!) any help appreciated!

art brings up a very good point about rollers: their fit and finish and the part about no exposed threads. they use acorn nuts as he says and everything under the hood is in a high state of finish. now if you think, aw so what, consider how much more demanding it is to build a motor with no showing threads. that means every thing has to be designed so that when the bolts are torqued down, they are the correct size so the exposed part fits under an acorn nut but still retains space to tighten correctly without fouling on the inside top of the nut. thats not an easy thing to do as you will realize if you think about it a little. and then figure they do that on ALL surfaces. thats just one reason why a roller costs what it does...even with lucas electrics. attention to detail and fit and finish turns out to be very expensive.

>maybe upgrade to a 4 speed or a hf55 (i think they are called)...the 5 speed toyota never brought into the usa. thats what i have behind my sbc in my fj60. speaking of ghost towns, some friends of mine here in sacramento "adopted" a ghost town off of hwy 50 in nevada. very cool spot; ive been to it a couple times with them. its about 50 miles off the highway in the great basin.

those headlights on the tiger shark crack me up, light up one side of the road, about 6 inches from the front of the car. lets see you get *that* licensed in cali!!!

didnt roth buy that built and just sparkle it up a bit? i talked to roth about the surfite at a car show close to his passing. it was being displayed at the same show. he said he hadnt seen it since he sold it to a guy 20 years or so earlier and he was surprised it was still together and there at the show. evidently the guy drove it to the beach every day and roth was proud to know someone actually used it for its intended purpose: hauling a surfboard to the beach.

get in the wabac machine and go take some location photos? or maybe if youre lucky someone did it back in the day and the photos are now posted on the internet...try google. other than that heres a secret: no one else will really know how it looked either.

yeah thanks i already considered scratchbuilding one, thats why i asked if one was available. i dont think im going to have much luck scratchbuilding a dropped axle with connections for brake backing plates, radius rods and stuff like that, at least not at the level i want to leave this at. ive got other projects to attend to. now scratchbuild radius rods and tie rod, those are done. thanks anyhow...

i have no real skills but i do have persistence and patience and i find those more important than anything. oh yeah money helps. wish i had some.

nice iron pig there aaron. i looked for one of those in nice condition for a couple years before i bought my fj60...i was inspired by a neighbor in montana who had a fj55 with a 327 in it but who wouldnt sell it even after cajolling him for a year about it. so i decided to build my own. where you at in cali anyway? maybe we could go explore nevada sometime.