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Because times they are changin'. Most hard type floors today (which in the past would need to be rejuvenated) are made from vinyl, and often have satin or flat finish to begin with. You don't want to put glossy clear over that - it would ruin the look. And the glossy vinyl floors have very durable finish which does not need to be clear coated.
So there isn't much market for floor coatings or waxes. If it doesn't sell, well, the stores don't carry it.
Some thing is happening with bars of soap - the younger generations are all into liquid body wash. Look at the variety of body washes vs. bar soap variety. And even nuttier is that now shampoos are being phased out by 2-in-one body-wash/shampoo. I like my bar soap and shampoo separate, thank you. And just plain shampoo. I don't want that stinking conditioner in it. Plain shampoo (not the shampoo/conditioner combo) variety is also shrinking.
We sure live in strange times. Rant over!
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What is my favorite adhesive? Well, whichever glue is the best suited for the joined material. I don't play favorites. I have about half a dozen of different adhesives. Epoxies, Cyanoacrylates, Contact Cement, Hypo-Cement (for watch crystals), and solvent-type glues (MEK, Methylene Chloride) for styrene, ABS, and acrylic. However I often favor the CA glue and accelerator. I however don't use the typical hobby tube-type cements (like Testors orange-tube). I have left those behind with my childhood.
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29 minutes ago, BDSchindler said:
I have a battery powered hand drill that I got from Micromark. It uses 2 AAA battery's and I outfitted it with twist type chuck that will allow for even the tiniest of drill bits.
Can you provide a link to it, or at least a Micro-Mark catalog number?
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1 hour ago, Can-Con said:
, and one asking a "BIN" of $185.00 ??
And worth every penny! Welcome to the crazy world of eBay!
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Use a hot knife or even a fine-tip soldering iron to melt the plastic mesh instead of cutting. That might actually be beneficial to stabilize the edges.
But I agree with others that seeing the actual shape might be helpful in providing ideas.
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Ron, how can a 3-jaw lathe chuck be a precision drilling tool (like a pin vise)? That was the original question here
The chuck itself is bulky and probably weights couple pounds. Even if the chuck could hold small drill bits (#60-80), I can't see having good control or gentle touch while drilling a #80 hole in a some part of a plastic model. The chuck also has individually adjusted jaws, which means for every size drill bit you would have to go through a centering routine, or the drill bit would wobble.
This chuck would probably be good to turn down model rims and such, but not for precision drilling! What will you use it for?
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You know, there is a sticky thread about this topic in the Tips and Tricks section of the forum. Hard to miss. If you look at few of the recent posts in there, you'll find some alternatives.
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I'm curious if the yellowing is also present on the clear plastic that connects the windshield with the rear window, or is it just in the exposed window areas?
Once you pry the "glass" out of the model, If the entire piece is yellowed, scrape some plastic from both surfaces of the connecting piece to see if the yellowing is just on the surface, or through the entire thickness of the plastic.
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If we are now playing "spot the difference", the license plate is missing and each taillight is different, or is mounted differenly.
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4 hours ago, Mike 1017 said:
I agree with the evolution of technology, but it takes the human brain to advance technology and inventions. My point is: Why the ancients could not develop modern technology. The Polio Vaccine was invented in 1952 what took so long?
Thank you for your comments.
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It is the same reason Les mentioned: lack of technology. Ancients did not know diseases were caused by bacteria or viruses (they have not yet invented microscopes), so they could not develop vaccines. Back in the day, people thought Earth was the center of the universe and was flat.
Human brain is just a biological organ. It has very little information when we are born, and it learns as we age. I'm pretty certain if we could somehow bring a baby from ancient times and have it grow up in today's world, it would function just like the rest of us. It might even invent something new. The learned knowledge makes the difference in shaping the human brain.
And don't forget that ancient Egyptians built all those pyramids, and we still haven't really figured out how they did it using their basic tools.
Leonardo Da Vinci had some interesting ideas for flying machines, but the technology hasn't yet evolved to allow him to actually build working examples.
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I spotted this one last week in the morning traffic. It's been years since last time I've seen one of them, and this one seemed to be in pristine condition. Not bad for 30+ year old vehicle. As a side note, it also had the older style license plate. Those are also rare nowadays. Current plates have red numbers on white background. Sorry for the spotted photo - my windshield was covered with sticky stuff coming off the trees this time of the year.
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3 minutes ago, Daddyfink said:
Huh, where does it say Pre Order?
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It is not about the amount of metallic flakes in the paint. Most Testors metallic spray paints from that time had what many modelers perceive as overly large metallic flakes. The paint would look fine on a 1:1 vehicle, but for small model it is basically out-of-scale. Flakes have size which could pass for the glitter-finish on a scale bass boat. It is not super noticeable viewed in-person, but taking photos of the model, the out-of-scale size of metallic flakes is readily apparent (to some of us).
Actually looking at the photo of your Charger, the metallic flakes which show up look too large to me. Again, it is all in the eye of the beholder. In 1:25 scale, metallic flakes should be barely perceivable. The paint should have more homogeneous metallic look.
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1 hour ago, Daddyfink said:
Tower Hobbies shows it available, yet everyone else says coming soon.
https://www.towerhobbies.com/product/124-nissan-fairlady-240z-street-custom/TAM24367.html
When I visit that link it shows it as"'Pre Order'. That's not the same as in stock. The price seems reasonable compared to Japanese online vendors considering the shipping cost from Japan.
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$645 shipping charges for a $107 worth of decals? That seems a bit excessive. I seem to recall someone here mention that he has someone in USA distributing his decals.
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On 6/10/2024 at 12:13 PM, Duddly01 said:
Sadly, I was at the point of painting the body silver, masked for the stripes and the blue reacted with the silver paint and bubbled like crazy. The body is now soaking and slowly stripping the paint. Lesson learned, don't spray splash paints lacquer over Duplicolor lacquer (decanted and airbrushed). They will react very poorly, even though they are both supposedly lacquer.
Yes, unfortunately paint compatibility from different manufactures is not guaranteed. Sorry to hear that you learned the hard way.
Even if both are lacquers, they likely use different binder (resin) and different mixture of chemicals in the solvent (thinner). If not using the same brand and type of paint for all the colors, it always makes sense to test the combination on some unimportant object (plastic spoon, soda bottle, or spare model body). None of this was a problem back when we all painted our models using hobby (enamel) paints from Testors or Pactra. But now modelers have dozens of different paints to experiment with.
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Not sure if it is available ready-made, but with most modelers owning a computer and a color printer, one could use even the most basic graphic program to draw a color grid to some specific dimensions, then print it out. Or find a photo of a real trunk liner, shrink it to desired size in that same program, and print it out.
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I thought the paints were made in gloss, semi-gloss, satin, and flat. I would think that semi-gloss would be more appropriate for a pedestrian vehicle than satin.
Semi-gloss is shiny, but not mirror-smooth like gloss.
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5 hours ago, Mike 1017 said:
Why can't we see a red Coke can, blue sky, green trees, in a black and white photos?
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That's deep Mike! Because those are black/white photos.
When I removed the only other color (blue) from that picture, the red also disappeared, as it became a black/white picture. Like I mentioned, I think the blue has something to do with us seeing red. Maybe the brain only fills the missing color when there is another color in the picture? I don't know.
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On 6/15/2024 at 5:06 PM, Daddyfink said:
Here I am comparing it to the last piece of good Bare Metal Foil in my possession, Ultra Bright Chrome.
I believe that it is the worst of BMF foils. They came up with it after Detail Master came up with their "chrome" foil as competition (touting that it is better than BMF chrome). That stuff actually *IS* aluminum foil, stiff and not the pliable foil that the original Chrome BMF is. But it is shiner than BMF original chrome. I tried the Detail Master and the BMF Ultra Chrome years ago and ditched them both. The original chrome BMF still rules my world.
If the Ultra Chrome is the only BMF product you used, then you don't know what you're missing.
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I wonder how color blind individuals see the original image. Most color blindness is not total (as in grayscale), but usually red/green blindness, so it would be curious how they see the original image (and how they see the color of a real can of Coke).
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12 hours ago, Mike 1017 said:
Why a Coke can? There are a lot of things that are red. I don't even drink Coke.
Mike
I suspect that like Bill mentioned, even if you don't drink or even like Coca Cola, your brain has seen enough images of Coke cans during your life, your brain knows it is supposed to be red. I also think the blue is there for a reason. I made the image grayscale (which converted blue to light gray) and the coke can does not look red. Brain is far from infallible and ripe for being fooled or . . . brainwashed.
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That's very creative Joe!
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LOL. Yes, I have heard that too and I believe it is true, but I still like my bar soap! We all have our idiosyncrasies.