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jbwelda

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  1. I am trying to recall Lindberg slot cars or bodies sold for slots, but cannot seem to. maybe its old age. got any examples to show? jb
  2. well its getting around time to button this one up, chassis is up on wheels and just awaiting the rear bumper being attached, and the body is painted polished and detailed and ready to mount the bubble top and rear deck lid. really a nice little kit, everything fits well aside from flash & the usual. really fun build. haven't had a chance to take a pic of the body lately but will probably do so later this week. thanks for looking and questions or comments cheerfully addressed and appreciated! jb
  3. man that chassis looks spectacular! great paint too! any more progress to report? jb
  4. my comment about lindberg above is probably a little over the top. they did put out some nice kits. its just those were so diluted with stuff like this current subject that it cast a pall on the entire enterprise to my mind anyhow. jb
  5. there are also, and preferred by me: microset: wetting agent to get decal down initially on surface. some amount of acetic acid so that smell to it. hardly ever necessary in my experience and microsol: (note the "sol" in name) this is a heavier duty brew that you apply once your decal is set down, and possibly not conforming well to the surface you are attempting to apply it to. it will literally melt many decals into the surface below them. but to let them do that you have to apply it and pretty much leave the room because that decal is gonna be going through some changes as they used to say. and if I stay in the room with it I will be sure to mess with it and end up destroying it. on the other hand if you leave the room for about an hour you will either have a crinkly mess or a nice smoothly blended into the surface decal, most often the latter case. I find myself using this stuff pretty much all the time though it works in varying degrees with different decals. that stuff you have (the gunze stuff) will be equivalent to the former like you said. what I think you need to do is get some Microsol and that will pretty much do whatever you want to do with decals jb
  6. its a prime example of why they should just fade away, in my most humble opinion jb
  7. US safety standards? same dumb regulations that made it illegal to have turning headlamps? no one wants to see around corners do they? jb
  8. fantastic look on that bug! really nice job of detailing too, is that wire coiled around the engines ventilation tubes to look like the real stuff? nice effect! jb
  9. yeah a little hop up kit of some various stuff including this head would be kool! jb
  10. oftentimes professional store gutters, for lack of a better word, come around as soon as it is known a business is closing, and make an offer on all the cabinets, display cases, shelves and whatever else might be there, and usually the offer is taken because it is a decent offer for someone to just make stuff disappear without further hassle (when the time comes to actually close the store). so a lot of times the display cases are bought up ahead of time. still worth asking about, a few years ago I got some absolutely killer commercial display cases for 100$ each. that was my lucky day and I sweated every day until the store actually closed that they would sell them to somebody else (they insisted I don't pay until they closed, and promised they wouldn't sell them to anyone else. they kept to their words!). but pretty much everywhere else I tried that over the past 20 years or so, they had already sold all the commercial fixtures ahead of the actual closing date. jb
  11. pm if you want one for approx. half that jb
  12. that spare looks like it has one big hole in the center, not five lug nuts. jb
  13. yes. those come from wherever it is I am thinking of. jb
  14. I wonder if the wheels come off with one bolt. jb
  15. what I love are seeing the same vendors over and over, with their kits priced about 4X what anyone in their right minds would pay, dragging the same stuff there for the past 10 years and probably wondering why no one is buying their "holy grail" kits. wake up to ebay you vendors! the other thing I like to do while standing in the middle of the aisle blocking traffic both to and fro, is to see how many passerbys have cannabis cologne on, smelling like they got a pocket full of skunks. its funny. jb
  16. great way to turn a classic MGB into a steaming pile of shat jb
  17. I lowered both of the examples shown above by quite a bit, but it was fairly easy to do. on the other hand I find almost all kits sit way too high out of the box and I plan on lowering them out of the box jb
  18. I was aware of and have myself some ardun heads for the flathead but I was thinking specifically of fire power Chrysler hemi heads and valve covers. jb
  19. yeah Casey, it might have been. but I think maybe Scale Dreams was who I was thinking of. thanks! jb
  20. it might, though, damage brush detailed areas if you rub too hard or too long. it is basically an abrasive in solution so it does remove paint. edit to add: but as far as I know it will only remove paint by abrasion, not by chemical reaction or anything like that. jb
  21. kool stand, Pat. jb
  22. nice. might want to put a raised edge on the outside, especially if you live in earthquake country. I constantly got stuff diving or wriggling off of shelves over here. jb
  23. I would almost have to bet its the same as the Aoshima street version. might lose that bet but kinda looks very similar jb
  24. AMT stands: Fujimi enthusiasts 356/VW engine stand: goofy stand from Attempt I, kool though: making stands is the most fun though. jb
  25. that's what that BGT I posted is, AAM resin conversion. required a lot of patience that one did. jb
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