youpey

i think its got to be an 80s car or maybe late 70s. the black bumper makes me think it.

its the n360, which i just realized is basically the same, just different motor (maybe). I will go with the guess is correct

i added a hint to mine. its one of my favorites, but i have odd taste.

The tires from the mpc 1980 bronco look off road to me. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/mpc-q1-0434-ford-bronco--268449

I am testing some colors out for my model. i am looking at tamiya light blue pearl. i had an idea that if i used a different color base coat under the light blue pearl, it might slightly alter the color. however, i tried 4 different colors, a silver, aqua blue, green/gray and white primer. the only difference i see between the colors, is the one with the white primer is just slightly lighter than the others. i would have thought changing the base coat color could have altered the color a bit. i was hoping a the aqua would have given it a slightly blueish tint, but it didnt happen. is it possible to do what i am doing with spray paints? or do i need to use my airbrush and alter the color before hand?

i am not sure how to ask this, but how much chalk/water do you use? is it a lot of chalk to a little water?

here is mine. its a japanese car, a very large and popular brand today

i think a 60s fiat, but maybe not

Unfortunately the paint i got is not the color i wanted. it is much too dark. I got the colormatch gm light blue metallic. i also dont like how it sprays on. I was able to run it without even going heavy on the spray. Thankfully my test was on a spoon. Im going to try the tamiya light blue pearl next with several different colors as a base coat to see what i can find I have automotive paint coming too with the exact color i want. The model itself is incredibly basic. No too much chassis details, but i think it can come out nice as a curbside. The plastic is quite firm and there isnt much work needed for clean up. I will post pics once i have something to look at. I basically prepped the body and cut the pieces off of the sprue for primer, but i didn't primer yet. I got distracted with the body color issues Because of the simplicity of the kit, i might not build the 2nd one as a matching junker. I might choose a different kit. I have the hasegawa n360 on order and i have built it once before and i like it. I might do that as the nice car/ junker car instead

i heard a news article one time about a package like this happened. the label was damaged and when they fixed it, they flipped 2 digits, and it ended up in guam. hopefully they get it squared away. my latest irk. my wife's sister volunteers for an animal rescue. she is going through the house seeing what we can donate for a yard sale. i dont mind donating stuff for the animals, but she tried to donate my old wii u games. i told them some of them are quite valuable. she told me i was being silly. it wasnt until i opened ebay and showed her the listings for what they sold for did she believe me. probably 400 to 500 dollars worth of games she wanted to sell for 1 dollar each. im sure someone would have snatched them all up and made 400% profit

I only recently learned of the A112 cars existance. When i first saw it, i immediately thought of the old Honda N360. Anyway, after much research on the car, i fell in love with it and was overjoyed to learn that it was made as a model kit. This kit has metal axels and a gear to motorize it (motor not included in my kit), however I will not be motorizing it anyway. The kit just arrived 5 minutes ago and loved even the details on the packaging. there is a little insert with color photo of the car and separate sections for the body and the sprues. I dont normally do a WIP on models, but this kit is too cool not to. I believe this is the same kit as the fujimi, which i have coming as well, but the fujimi is molded in red. I will start working on this and post progress as i go Since i have 2 of these kits coming, i might build one as showroom fresh and another as a rust bucket, with the same color, like before and after Ps, on the corner of the picture with the real car, my cat needs to investigate. i thought it was worth keeping in since he is my best friend

thank you. i think what i will do is paint a test model the same color and do one side before and one side after and see how it looks. i just found someone on youtube about panel lines with tamiya panel line paint and it looked pretty good on video. i just want to make sure it looks good with light paint. i suspect it will look silly and unrealistic with light paint

I have never painted the gaps in the doors/trunk area to show the tiny gaps. Do people typically paint it before or after the primer or even after the paint/clear? I am doing a car that is a very light blue and i dont want the gaps to look over done and fake. Any tips would be greatly appreciated

i remember watching the monkees tv show. it was terrible

I definitely agree with this. Even Amazon has gotten significantly worse. Previously we had same day delivery if we ordered in the morning on many things. Now, i would say 50% of my orders are longer than 2 days, although they have it displayed as such. Of all of my orders, i would say more than a handful are delayed past the promised delivery. Usually not more than a day late, but now that im vaccinated, im going to the stores again Patience is not my strong suit

I read online that usps is basically loading things into trucks and letting them sit until they have "enough" to go to that area. They mark them as on route to next facility, even though they are not moving at all. They are no longer driving trucks to a destination with a small load. I had a package sit for over 1 month in Boston. i got a refund and had to repay the vendor once it arrived. This is what i read online and may or may not be true. However my package being delayed one month, marked as on route, i would tend to believe it. I had put in a usps lost package claim after 20 days missing and they called me yesterday, weeks after it was delivered to investigate the claim, so basically 30 days or so after i started the claim At this point I have been paying extra for ups when available because they seem to be ok still. Fedex in my area is bad. They are constantly flagging stuff as "client requests to not deliver this day" so they can deliver late. Calling cust service doesn't help at all. It keeps happening. There was nothing like when I had a box spring and mattress being delivered fedex. Watching the driver pull up in front of my house, go to the back of the truck, tgen stand there a minutes, then drive away. only to then get a delivery update text moments later saying i requested it to not be delivered, customers requested pickup. calling customer service got me nowhere, and fedex "lost" the mattress for 2 days. I was really angry because this set cost me about 2000 dollars and i had been saving up for a really long time. It eventually arrived, about 4 days late, and they didn't even deliver it to my door, i had to drag it up myself. I called the mattress place during this mess and they were not at all surprised. they said it happens quite a bit

Unfortunately, its happened again to me. Its now past 5 days on an auction and it hasn't shipped yet. It was supposed to arrive today, but does not even have a tracking number or indication of shipment. This model was really expensive too. I was torn about buying it because it was so much. I guess if by 7 days it hasn't shipped, i will put it an email.

honestly, i appreciate them sending the pieces, but i dont know if i will buy a kit again from them. i understand things happen, but it happens too often with this brand. its a shame, because the kit looks like it would be top notch. unfortunately i get build concepts in my head and i run with it. when i got the kit, i really wanted a nice pickup. this one was going to get farm decals on it, or something like that, to be a work truck. once i got held up, i moved onto a new build and honestly dont have any interest in it anymore. anyway, im moving onto an 80's style hot hatch set. i have a tamiya morris mini cooper, and i have on order the old fujimi autobianchi a112 abarth kit. i started the mini already, but once a112 kit comes, i will work on that.

One piece has a slight warp to it tge other is ok. The slight warp should be fixable. I actually boxed up the kit because I was basically stuck and frustrated and I have moved onto a different build

in case anyone cares, i received a set of the warped parts. they emailed me a little over 2 weeks after i originally contacted them. they didnt charge for the replacement pieces

many, many years ago, i had shipped something overseas, and it was refused because of the fees. it took about 8 months to get back to me. it had stickers on it from countries i didnt even know existed. i had completely forgot about it because i assumed it was lost or destroyed, and i was so surprised when it showed up at my door

that happened to me too. the post office ran a gps trace and told me which street the mailman was parked at when it was delivered, which is not where i live. they told me to go door to door asking if anyone got it. i told them i wasnt doing that and they told me it wasnt insured, so there was nothing they would do. about 3 or 4 days later it was at my door. not sure if the person who got it brought it, or they gave it to the mailman and they re-delivered. usps is absolute trash anymore. 95% of my packages from usps are at least 3 to 4 days late, and this was before covid hit. they are just stupid late now

that is really nice. i will definitely pick this up

this is the extent of my building tools. Of course i have paint and primer as well. The cutters i got are very good, however, you can obviously get much cheaper ones. I had tried tamiya cutters and i liked these much better. they get a cleaner cut. i also use stuff to prep the body (compound and and abrasive pad, but that is really not required, just faster for me and i get better results) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08JYPFRQ8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/X-Acto-XZ3601-X-ACTO-Knife-Safety/dp/B005KRSWM6/ref=sr_1_14?dchild=1&keywords=%2311+razor+blade&qid=1618010028&sr=8-14 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004MEH78S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J4DC872/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/Tamiya-87038-Extra-Thin-Cement/dp/B000BMYWYC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=tamiya+glue&qid=1618010120&s=toys-and-games&sr=1-1 also i have an assortment of brushes and brush paints to go with my spray paints. as others have said, toothpicks are a great tool too