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Oh well - just trying to help out. I am a very sloppy eater (even though I really try not to be). Should get a T-shirt with an integrated bib! Yes, order goof-ups are very common in this day and age, but I do prefer salsa to the crappy sour cream and cheese. Asking "make it Fresco" seems to work most of the time for me. And as I mentioned, Taco Bell food is by design very prone to squirting stuff all over you. That is something I learned to live with. I'm glad you are feeling better after venting.

Some are. There is no denying. But not at the Augusta's Chicken Shack (my local favorite). They make them fresh using pieces of white meat chicken (not some ground up goop), hand bread them, and fry them to delicious brown color. Moist and tender!. They even smell really tasty. Just had soem yesterday. But they are getting very pricey!

My point was not to specifically (and only) blame RPM. They don't make all their paint making ingredients in-house - everybody down the chain of suppliers RPM utilizes has jacked up their prices. RPM just passes those increases to the consumer, while also making their own profits. Plus he seemed to imply that RPM bought Testors during the pandemic just to jack up the prices.

Polystyrene melting point is ~ 240 °C (464 °F). Not everythign we see on the Interwebs is true and accurate.

Are you implying that RPM bought out Testors within the last few (COVID) years?! That would be totally inaccurate. RPM owned Testors, Floquil and many other brands for many years before COVID. Your view is a huge and very inaccurate generalization of the current world situation, but getting deeper into this goes well beyond what we discuss on this forum,

About 25 years ago I had and built the other version of this kit: LP500S. The one which included wheel well flares, rear wing, front spoiler, and 5-hole gold plated wheels (which I painted silver). it is a very nice kit. Lots of details, and working suspension. I built it box-stock. Here is mine (photo taken right after I built it in the '90s). Brian, yours is coming along nicely. Dennis, I love the added-on details and decals, and I like the way you made those black wire looms.

Is that really necessary? You of all the people, you know first hand how sturdy resin 3D prints can be. Some 3D resins are similar to polystyrene, and there are thousands of injection molded styrene kits out there with thin A-pillars shipped problem free all over the world. To me that excessive thickness detracts from the fidelity of the model. It makes it clunky. If the entire body was printed thinner, it would have less mass. It could safely be wrapped in paper towels and placed in a sturdy cardboard box (just like most resin-cast kits are. Those survive shipping just fine, and many of them have bodies (and pillars) pretty thin. The MGB GT transkit I bought recently has resin cast parts, and the body is as thin as the original plastic MGB. That kit's master patterns were 3D printed, then cast using urethane resin. It survived shipping from UK to USA without any special packaging. The thickness of the bodies is a real put-off for me. Otherwise those look like very good renditions of the 1:1 vehicle bodies.

I agree that all those sauces kill the flavor of the food. Why use chicken nugget just as a vehicle for some sauce? Might as well dip a piece of cardboard in the sauce and eat that. You won't taste the cardboard. It also seems that Americans are obsessed with adding cheese to everything. I don't like cheese (except for mozarella on pizza, since that cheese has not real flavor). I'm they guy who orders hamburgers and ask to skip cheese on other types of burgers. As for Taco Bell, just ask "make it Fresco" for your items. That skips the sour cream and cheese, replacing them instead with delicious Fresco Salsa. Before they offered that option I used to always ask them to not add cheese and sour cream. https://tacobell.fandom.com/wiki/Fresco But most Taco Bell items are messy, so either be careful, or wear a bib.

Huh? What's that all about? That is a one unusual initial post (in a 3-year-old thread). Welcome to the forum Jamie.

Ok, fair enough. Still, I would be leery of using the brushed motors (which always generate sparks), in a exhaust system for flammable gasses, unless the motor was totally sealed off. Shaded pole AC induction motors are safer (and lower rpms much quieter than any shop vac).

LOL, of course you are. All our internet activity is being tracked by AI.

I have been watching these models in various threads here. They appear to be designed really well as far as body proportions go. One thing that really bugs me about them is how thick the bodies are. That is very apparent on the A-pillars. If the windshield installs from the inside, they will not look very realistic. If it goes in from the outside, it will be difficult to glue it in without the glue showing. I'm not sure why they are so thick. Even home 3D printing ls advanced enough (especially that brown resin) to make the bodies much thinner, and the resin should be robust enough for a sturdy body. As for the windows bucks, they should be usable for making vacu-formed (or smash-molded) windows from thin clear PET sheet.

I think the problem is not what type of paint is in the can, but how well the can is made (sealed) at the factory. Back in the day, quality control was likely tighter than it is now.

That is not true at all. Some of the air stream in vacuum cleaners is actually passed through the motor for cooling it. Plus, making it even more dangerous, vacuum cleaner motors are motors with brushes which spark while running. Never use any vacuum cleaner for extraction of flammable fumes!! BAD IDEA! The kitchen or bathroom exhaust fan, while not quite appropriate, would be safer than a vacuum cleaner motor because exhaust fans use shaded-pole AC induction motors which do not have sparking brushes.

He's right you know.

Another click-bait thread.

Yup, those are all covered in that handy thread I pointed to.

You are correct Craig - I had those two paint lines mixed up.

That seems to be unrelated to "tamiya paint".

The often used excuses are that airbrushes are too fussy and that the cleaning them is a real chore. But to get back on track, that Testors paint spray can line is long gone. There might be some leftover in modeler's workshops and some hobby shops. I also miss those paints, but OTOH, the metallic flakes in the metallic paints were way too coarse (out of scale). While when viewed in person, that was not very objectionable, close-up photos of the models showed the large flake size. Models looked like bass boats with their metallic glitter finish.

No airbrush, eh? That is one of those tools which really improves the quality of modeling. It is a one time expense which pays for itself many times over in the long run. Some of us actually buy spray cans and decant the paint to spray through the airbrush (because that gives you so much better control over the painting process). Plus it gives you access to a huge selection of paint brands and colors not available in spray cans.

LOL, I was thinking the same thing. I haven't priced Scale Finishes, Gravity, or Zero paints, but they probably have price comparable to Tamiya.

Of course not. It is always about maximizing profits.

Thank you Steve. I feel honored and proud that El (founder of BMF Co.) selected that photo to use on their product packaging. Those 1:32 Gunze Sangyo kits are basic, but also very nice.

Probably cheaper and more environmentally friendly than chrome plating.