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My emoji comment was not directed at you, or even about this thread. I just noticed that the latest forum update enabled lots of emojis. Since, as the moderator stated in his post here, this thread has been derailed, I figured that I would pile on some more OT stuff (emojis). ? As for the "Future", I have no problem using that well-established name for the floor finish product we use in our hobbies. What I had a problem with was calling it "furniture polish". It is not (nor it ever was) a furniture polish.

I wasn't talking about seeing the photos of his decals but about ordering them. Looking at his blog, he has shut down ordering for now.

Interesting. Still, the process is using photoresist-coated metal, and caustic liquid to remove the unwanted material? So colloquially modelers just lump all these processes under the PE name. I have a feeling that photostat cameras have not been used in this process for some time. Nowadays it is mostly done on computers. The resist is exposed by some computer-driven projector device.

Super cool!

Not complaining Bill - just asking a question, and stirring the pot a bit (I admit it). But I had no sinister motives. I very much value your knowledge, and info your post here.

Thanks for your support Dave! I see that we now have oodles of emojis, but still not a single face-palm one. ?

Looks like this thread has become perfect candidate for the Off Topic forum. ????️?? Hmm. look at all the emojis we now have (after the forum update). Do people really need all those to communicate? I basically use less than half a dozen. With all the ones available now, I'll be spending more time looking for the perfect emoji to use, than I am spending on typing a posts. And yet, with all those emojis, I don't see a simple face-palm one.

Looks like the business and even the "contact" link are shut down for now.

That sounds so much more fancy than "photo-etched". As usual, extremely impressive work.

True (assuming you mean the name and description of this liquid), but this clear acrylic floor finish is not a furniture polish. And like you, not to be flip, but I don't think I have used either Crescent wrench, Channel locks, or Duck tape on any or my plastic model kits (this is a forum for models).

@Ace-Garageguy Hey Bill, is that the politically-incorrect "flesh" crayon in the center of you avatar? Since you change your avatar's often, I preserved it to keep the thread relevant.

Sort of has a Chevy Corvair flavor.

If that is the Heller kit, I have it too, and I'm planning on making custom canework decals. But knowing me and how many projects I have in the "oven", it might take me 10 years to get to that one. So, don't count on me.

"Future furniture polish finish" Greg, I know that I'm being anal, but it is one of those things. This thing has not been called 'Future" for a very long time, but we ask know what it is, so that's cool. But it is not (or ever has been a furniture polish". Well, unless you want your hutch really glossy. It also isn't a floor polish. It is a floor finish (or shine, or whatever they call it now). "Polish" implies that the stuff does not add any thickness to the polished surface, where this stuff is actually an acrylic clear coat (like paint). Doesn't this forum have lengthy and sticky thread about this stuff already, with lots of hints there? And as usual, when someone mentions Future, I point then to the Swanny: http://www.swannysmodels.com/TheCompleteFuture.html

In my experience the problem can be cause by certain word or letter combinations. Try a simple test message and see if it goes through. Use word "test" for both the subject and for the messae and see if that works. If yes, then there is probably something in your failing message that causes the 404 error.

Only place I use Win 10 is at work (because IT department forced it on us). At home I use Win 7, Win XP and Win 98SE. No problems with either (althought I only let my Win 7 computer out on the Internet).

I'm surprised that microwaves would heat up polystyrene (or any kind of plastic for that matter).

I'm one of the modelers who is on the same page with Steve regarding the Testors paints metallic size particles being way out of scale. I take photos at my club's annual contest (to be published in Scale Auto Contest Annual) and the size of metal flakes shows up in those photos really well (and they look like bass-boats not model cars).

What made you bring back 11-year-old thread and make this cryptic post?

Maybe someone could whip those out on their 3D printer? Nowadays, sky's the limit.

Could you be more specific? Maybe in New Zealand most modelers know what E7 is, and where to get it, but in USA I never heard of E7. EDIT: Ah, this is the same line of (water-based?) paints you described in the Molotow Chrome sealant thread. Got it.

Thread?! You mean "heavy gauge wire", right? We haven't used thread as for wire for quite some time now. Actually, if those geniuses used thread instead of that "scale wire", it would actually be closer to scale.

I hope that it was not baking soda followed by CA glue. I would highly discourage that type of filler. I wonder if it was the acrylic powder and hardener liquid. Stuff you can get at beauty shops (for fingernail sculpting).

What you did sounds good to me. The CA should result in smooth fillets. You didn't specify what you used as "small wires". It could be soft copper wire, thin bras rod or steel music wire. The latter would be the strongest. If you really want strength you could build everything out of brass and silver solder parts together.

. . . still drooling over the closeups of the wire wheels! Wow!