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As weird as it sounds, it might be combination of words or letters in the text of your post. At least that is what I found out when I had this problem.
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Man, that car looked like a long lost version of the Polish FSO Syrena. I wonder if the Polish designers "borrowed" some of that car's design. The body shape is very similar, and the door handles look almost identical.
And a photo of a later model showing the door handle.
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2 hours ago, Deuces said:
No manual transmission for this Vette....???
Well, it is manual - you just do all the shifting with paddles, and there is no clutch pedal.
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2 hours ago, Matt Bacon said:
Personally, I’d say Silver Leaf was too “bright” for Porsche or Mercedes racing Silver, but YMMV.
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You do have a point. It is a very bright silver.
How about using one of the many Alclad II's shades of aluminum. All those basically have no grain. Then just clear coat them for a nice glossy car finish.
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3 hours ago, djflyer said:
There was an article in the old Road & Track Exotic Cars Quarterly that if I recall said BMW decided not to develop the project further while ItalDesign was still considering producing the car, hence the BMW-style grille went away. Definitely too bad as that would still be one of the most gorgeous cars on the road.
But all the photos I find online *HAVE* the BMW-style grille. I was hoping to find photos showing the ItalDesign-style grille - zilch! The only ones I find are of the Revell model.
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20 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:
The Boeing 314 was most impressive at takeoff. Hauling that massive weight out of the water, with 4 huge radials bellowing...well...I've only seen films, as they were retired and scrapped around the time I got here, but it's one of the regrets I have of my particular timing that I never got to fly in one.
How about a Spruce Goose takeoff?
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1 hour ago, SfanGoch said:
You want ugly? The Zeppelin-Staaken R.XVI heavy bomber would ba near, or at the top, of that list.
Well, the original Wright Bros. aircraft was not all that attractive. Neither were many of the other early airplanes.
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5 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:
A few more of my personal favorites: Boeing 314
Looks pregnant.
Like I mentioned in my earlier post here, eventually every aircraft will be mentioned here. A list of ugly aircraft would be much shorter.
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5 hours ago, NYLIBUD said:
Hey hey, just more Long Island heat and humidity.The black top roads are melting in some areas.I’am absolutely ready for Fall.Please hurry, the summer sucks
. . . and just few months ago we were complaining about the cold and that nasty 4-letter word.
Yes, Spring and Fall (hopefully long) are my favorite seasons.
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Tamiya Silver Leaf (spray can TS-30) has no perceivable flake texture. Tru-Color paints like Aluminum TCP-013 and Dark Aluminum TCP-355 also have very little (if any) flake.
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I went to USPS website and selected small 1lb. package to UK. Lowest price is 1st Class International Package. $24.00US.
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I use this forum to host photos for my posts here. After the Photobucket fail the admins here made plenty of storage space available.
Still, I resize my photos to less than 1200 pixels across (often down to 800), because I don't think that a larger resolution photo is really needed for a forum post. That way I also feel that I am conserving some of that plentiful space for others and for future use.
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I was just joking, but thanks Joe!
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6 hours ago, SfanGoch said:
There's this from Hasegawa
No fuss, no muss, no mess.
But does it come in blue?
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Wow! That one looks familiar, yet different. Its body lines and door handles look like a popular car, but yet, it is not what I would expect.
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Great presentation Scott!
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On 7/12/2019 at 11:24 PM, Tom Geiger said:
I had a 1978 Mercury Monarch 4 door sedan. It was that awful silver that flaked off, with a blue interior. What was interesting about it back then was that it had bucket seats and the same console as my 1979 Fox Capri. It was a 302 automatic car.
Bucket seats in a sedan is common place today but was very exotic in 1978!
My mom had a '76 (IIRC) 4-door Monarch. She called a "small V8" (so, a 302). It was baby blue with dark blue vinyl roof and trim, and dark blue interior with a front bench seat. I was in my mid teens then and I lover the factory radio with 4 speakers. When it got totaled, she got a '77 T-bird.
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43 minutes ago, Rodent said:
I don't know Dale, but in one of those "Small World" situations, I work with one of his sons. He and Dale have discussed him taking over the chrome business, but there is the issue of logistics since we are on the opposite side of the country and the equipment isn't exactly small or light and would cost a fortune to ship to California from Pennsylvania.
If he is willing to take on Dale's business, be prompt and reliable (and do as good of a job as Dale did), we could start online campaign to fund the move. What do you guys say?
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Washer fluid contains diluted methyl alcohol (methanol) - that is likely the chemical which removes the Tampo printed ink.
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15 hours ago, aurfalien said:
Hi,
While not a service per se, if you have some photo etch or other metals that would benefit from chroming, this product from Micro-Mark looks cool;
https://www.micromark.com/Plug-N-Plate-Copy-Chrome-Plating-Kit
They also have a nickel plating solution as well.
Yes, this is good for plating metal parts (BTW, "copy chrome" is not as bright as the real chrome), but most modelers are looking for vacuum metalizing of polystyrene or urethane resin parts. For that the best process is aluminum vacuum metalizing. This process can give a chrome-like finish to plastic and metal parts.
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If the car overheats, always check for a broken buckle on the fan belt.
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On 5/31/2019 at 4:32 AM, DaveP said:
Can i make my photos smaller so they: a. aren't so big and b. don't take up much room.
While it is nice of you to do this, I don't see why anybody should be posting a 3 or 4MB photo files to the forum. A JPG file that is 3 or 4MB in size will likely be a 5 Megapixel or larger. That is larger than can be displayed on a monitor (and on smart phone screen). IMHO.
I post to another forum where the photo uploader automatically resizes larhe photos to 1280 pixels across. That saves lot of space (even if you have oodles available).
Removing Metal Pins From JoHan Promos?
in Model Building Questions and Answers
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Good tip.
BTW, is that a "front wheel drive" promo? I'm not very familiar with promos, but that just struck me as funny. The car it depicts is obviously RWD.