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The thread subject line shows 1/6 (1:6) scale - this is the BIG one! Probably over a foot tall.

Remember those 2 keystrokes (I mentioned in my earlier post) that save your typed up text - I use them al the time: Control-A, Control-C, then Control-V to paste it somewhere save locally on your computer. It really is a life saver. Worth using.

Nice!

That is an awesome news, and a very wise decision made by the German owners of Revell. Sounds like they have their act together. Nice to see this in today's world of failed mergers and takeovers.

Brake Fluid (polyglycol-ether-based) can craze, or soften some polystyrene and urethane resins. Be careful! Oven cleaners which are lye-based (Sodium Hydroxide) are also good at stripping paint (and skin from your fingers). But again, careful when using on urethane resins. The Purple stuff also contains Lye (and that is likely the main ingredient in it which strips the model paint). Isopropyl (ISO) alcohol (the strongest solution you can find - preferably 91% or higher) can also strip paint and not affect polystyrene, but might require some elbow-grease (like scrubbing with a stiff brush, or rubbing the surface with a rag) to get the paint off. Again, be careful when using on urethane bodies.

Warning about 5-minute epoxy: in the last 40 years I used at least half a dozen brands, and they all start off nice ans clear (maybe with an extremely slight amber tint), but they all seem to yellow after few years.

No, totally different things. If you have old decals with cracked clear film, the need a fresh layer of clear film to hold all the cracked pieces together (while the decals are still on its dry backing paper). Superfilm (or Microscale Clear Decal Film - which is basically the same product) are alcohol-based clear films which when applied to the old sheet will create a new solid clear film over the cracked decal graphics, so it will not disintegrate when placed in water. Other clear lacquers (like Joe recommended) should also work, but Superfilm is made by a decal manufacturer, specifically for this task. The Micro Sol and Set are decal softening solution for making the decal film conform better to the model's surface, after being applied to the model.

Alps MicroDry printer is capable of printing both metallic inks (satin finish) and metallic Foils (high shine finish).

Yes, all those (although I use BSI brand CA and accelerator). I also use 3 different CA viscosities. And of course 5-minute epoxy is also another adhesive indispensable for my modeling tasks.

Using alcohol as thinner for some brands of water-based acrylic paints will curdle them. I don't remember which brands - I just remember reading about it.

Excellent! I'll be very curious about your findings (and of course happy if and when it gets fixed). Also, this might be a different problem than the 404 error (but it could be related). In my experience, most of today's software is written very sloppily. It is probably compiled from many modules written by different programmers who don't even talk to each other, and they probably use bunch of generic libraries or pre-canned code modules (written just as sloppily). I'm not a programmer, but I know enough to be dangerous.

I just tried again and I got the same error. Did you remember to change "f r o m" to "from"?

Good point. We need to see some actual examples of model size car parts to see how it works on smaller items with fine details.

Once you finished composing your message, still in the compose window, hit Control-a, then Control-c. The first one selects all the text in the compose window, the second copies it into computer's copy/paste buffer. If something goes wrong and your message is lost, you can just try to reply again and in the empty compose window hit Control- v. That pastes the text f r o m the buffer into the window. Keyboard shortcuts are wonderful! Of course the paste buffer does not persists through reboots and gets wiped out by anything else you "copy". Actually, the above text (in black) has some combination of words that makes the forum puke. If you notice that the word "f r o m" has spaces between letters. Because of that word is typed or copied/pasted without spaces between the letters, the forum will puke when you hit the "Save" button. But instead of 404 error, there is a dialog box stating "This comment can no longer be edited. It may have been moved or deleted, or too much time may have passed since it was posted for it to be edited." After you hit "OK" the page is hung - you have to reload it. I duplicated it few times (thus my test posts).

I have my doubts that any paint-type spray-on "chrome" finish will have the brilliance of vacuum-metalized parts, but I'll be watching for Steve's evaluation (because I think Steve is also after that super shiny brilliance I want). Yeah, I know "scale chrome should not be that shiny" but I like mine extra shiny.

Very nice, and congratulations about having your article published in a modeling magazine!

Ok, but the person running the quiz would have to know with certainty whether the photo was real of doctored.

That's what I was thinking too. Hey @Super28 , how did you dug up that thread?

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I got burned this way using so many computer programs and websites (lost text) that nowadays I use 2 extra key strokes not to ever lose the text I just typed in. Once you finished composing your message, still in the compose window, hit Control-a, then Control-c. The first one selects all the text in the compose window, the second copies it into computer's copy/paste buffer. If something goes wrong and your message is lost, you can just try to reply again and in the empty compose window hit Control- v. That pastes the text f r o m the buffer into the window. Keyboard shortcuts are wonderful! Of course the paste buffer does not persists through reboots and gets wiped out by anything else you "copy". Just for full disclosure, for you mouse clickers, Control-a is equivalent to right-click->select-all, Control-c is right-click->copy, Control-v is right-click->paste. But it is much easier to use the keyboard shortcuts when typing. I suspect that the problem here is not the length of post, but combinations of certain words.

For some reason Charlie I thought you used Corel Draw (and PhotoPaint for bitmap editing) for designing your decal artwork.

If you look through the fingernail polishes in the drug stores, or supermarkets (or even dollar stores), you can usually find some color shifting ones.

If you don't need them to be functional (springy), then you can make your own using solid copper electrical wire (with insulation stripped) wound around an end of an appropriately-sized drill bit (or similar metal rod). That way you can control the thickness of your spring, its diameter, and length. The wire is soft - you wind the coils tightly around the drill bit, then pull it off the drill bit and stretch it to look the way you need it to look.

This seems to be designed for those craft plotter/cutters. It is likely a metalized plastic film, probably at least 2mils thick - it wouldn't work as BMF substitute.

To me it looked similar to one of those American concept cars with Italian-designed bodies. I was wrong.