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On 1/4/2019 at 9:57 AM, iamsuperdan said:
One thing I've noticed in general, is that people will always complain about poor service, poor product quality, poor experiences; but rarely discuss positive experiences freely.
Go to a restaurant and have a bad server? Peopel are all over google reviews or Yelp or facebook complaining. Go to a restaurant and have excellent service? Crickets.
That is exactly it! Complaints are plentiful, but praises very rare. Same goes for the posts in the 2 threads being discussed here. I'm not an unhappy person in general, but I have never posted in what pleases me thread, while I have posted several times in the irk thread.
There really are very few things which would be pleasant enough to make me post in the pleased thread. I guess my threshold for telling the world how I feel is skewed towards the irk side. Other than being alive or having great sex, there is nothing pleasant enough in my day-to-day life to make me post in the pleased thread. And those 2 pleasant things I just mentioned aren't really good subject to post here.
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I guess by not even knowing who Chrissy Teigen is I'm ahead of the game here. No need to elaborate - I'm ok not knowing (I'm not stupid - I suspect she was a host of the program). But it's ok.
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8 minutes ago, Oldcarfan27 said:
I'm afraid I would have to respectfully disagree with you on this one Snake.
I have 2 projects packed away somewhere that never got farther than the primered and painted white stage because the both came out tinted "pink".
One of them was the Monogram 88 Mustang convertible, molded in red. I primered it in white and then painted it white - it dried with a slightly pink tint.
Another one was a 94 Mustang GT convertible conversion, that I made using a blue molded coupe and a red molded convertible windshield post and conv top well area. I primered the finished body in grey and ONLY the red plastic areas turned pink, so I know that red plastic does have an effect on the paint.
I have feeling that Snake's token reply will be that the primer you are using is not opaque enough to fully hide the color of the red plastic (but opaque enough to cover blue plastic).
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10 minutes ago, Joe Handley said:
I know I can't wait for self driving cars
Now before I have to dodge tomatos, hear me out! Reason I'm looking forward to them is that with the drivers I mentioned above and others who would generally prefer to be doing anything other than driving their car moving into those as they become available and more affordable, then you should have a car that will be more predictable in it's behavior and more likely to keep right while running on multilane roads and less likely to speed up if you want to pass them on a 2 lane road when it's safe to do so.
Fine, but like Bill said, it will all work semi-ok until some fun-loving hacker (or even some foreign government) hacks the self-driving car infrastructure and creates a pandemonium. If self-driving cars were self-sufficient and operating as single entities then this would not be a big problem. But in order to have everything work, all the cars will be dependent on an external wireless network. And we all what happens when there is an "impenetrable" network out there . . .
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3 minutes ago, Snake45 said:
Steamboat laid the blame in his first line.
What exactly do you mean? Mr. Surfacer is not opaque enough to cover the red plastic, or some solvent in Mr. Surfacer is causing the red dye to leach out?
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1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:
High center-of-gravity SUVs and crossovers, though perceived as "safer" than cars by many, sacrifice two of the primary accident avoidance capabilities a vehicle can have...namely the above-mentioned high lateral-acceleration numbers and crisp transient response.
Bill, you made me laugh. As things are today, having a great handling car will not help in avoiding accidents when the driver is not paying attention to the road anyway, because he/she is staring at the smart phone they are holding against their steering wheel. These are sad times we live in. Besides, with the automatic braking and line change avoidance, the car is super-safe anyway.
I also find it extremely amusing and silly (and sad) with all the Bluetooth-equipped cars people own (which is pretty much standard equipment in today's cars) I still see lots of drivers talking on their smart phone held to their ear. Use the hands-free capability dammit!
I think there is a large part of the driving population out there which just can't wait for self-driving cars.
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42 minutes ago, Snake45 said:
And why wouldn't it be? It's an absolute myth that red pigment somehow "leaches out" of the plastic and into/through paint.
Looking at the photo Steamboat posted I would have thought differently. Besides, you made a blanket statement while there are many different formulations of polystyrene and red dyes being used for model kits. Some might leach out, while others don't.
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For body color reference there is http://autocolorlibrary.com/
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In the area I live in (Northeast Mass.), most cop cars (local and state) are SUVs (crossovers maybe). In New Hampshire state police still uses sedans (Dodge or Chrysler). Some towns also have few sedans left.
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On 12/29/2018 at 5:27 AM, MrObsessive said:
That scene looks VERY familiar as I was in high school at the same time.
Hardly a foreign car in the bunch.........the exact opposite you would see now.
And look at all the various car colors. Nowadays it will be mostly black, white, and all sorts of grays (mostly metallic, and silver).
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Color guides? That sounds like you are coming from the military (armor or airplane) modeling world. In model car modeling world there aren't any painting guides. Well, some model instructions do offer some rudimentary color guidance, but those are often inaccurate. As others have said, the Internet is your color guide, and then you can still decide to chose your own colors (within reason).
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5 hours ago, Classicgas said:
IMO this kit is in Tamiya territory. My only beef is molded in wipers. Home run Revell!
I wouldn't go quite that far - there are no poly-caps to hold the wheels, or metal transfer emblems on the Revell model.
All kidding aside, it looks like a really well-done kit! Too bad that the car itself does nothing for me, but there will be lots of happy modelers out there, I'm sure.
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10 hours ago, BigTallDad said:
Krylon makes a product called "Crystal Clear Acrylic Coating 1303"
I use it to seal decals, so it should be fine for clear coating acrylic finishes.
I wouldn't be so quick with that recommendation. Some water-based acrylics are very sensitive to solvents (even if those solvents are safe for decals). Whenever a new paint technique, or paint combination I always recommend a spoon test. Seeing unexpected paint reaction on a car body I spent hours preparing is not something I want to experience. And plastic spoons are cheap.
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Excellent tip! Thanks.
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Thanks Rico. If you offer these for sale (especially with the "glass"), I'll be in for at least 1 body.
The wheel-well moldings still look too wide to me. Maybe @Paul Hettick could measure how wide they are and let you know. Yours still look about 1/3 too wide to me. They probably also do not stand off more than 0.25" from the surface of the body. That would be only around 0.010" or about 0.25mm! Again, I hope Paul can chime in here since he owns the real car.
Door handle looks nice, but it seems too rounded and a bit too thick. Again, knowing the dimensions of the 1:1 handle woudl be handy.
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Funny, the same model was being discussed here earlier, but the thread was moved to the Truck Stop section. That thing is incredible!
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On 12/23/2018 at 9:09 AM, MrObsessive said:
That's the BIG thing that jumped out at me besides the VERY accurate front end...........those tires! Yeah, it would be great if Revell jumped into that market of selling those tires (along with their tampo printed redlines) in parts packs.
I'm sure a number of these kits will sell big time alone because of FINALLY getting some decent tires and not the nameless, soulless blobs we were getting before.
I agree. It is so good to finally see kits released with branded tires. I'm so sick of all those plain blank sidewalls. Tire companies should be glad that they are getting free advertisement.
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7 hours ago, camaro69 said:
Thank you all for your encouragement.
@Peter: I noticed already that the moldings will be to thick. Will try to correct this the next days and show you the progress when done.
@Mike: Yes I planned to cast this when ready.
Excellent!
Will you be selling those bodies? Also, will you create a vacu-formed glass for it? I have couple resin kits, but I would love to get a more accurate model of this unique car.
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And here we have an example (on this forum) of a modeler designing and 3D printing his own model.
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The engine looks great! Very realistic. And knowing that you designed it yourself on a computer in a CAD program, then printed it on a 3D printed makes it that much more amazing. it is interesting to see our hobby evolving. If you can't find something you want to model, you just design and print it yourself!
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You are doing amazing job accurizing this body Rico, but the moldings you added to the wheel openings look too heavy (wide), and 1mm seems to thick too. At least to me. That will be especially visible after chrome foil is applied to them. They just don't look right to me. They should be narrower. I wonder if Paul could measure them on his car and give you those dimensions?
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On 12/21/2018 at 10:29 AM, aurfalien said:
Oddly enough the US Post Office.
I was doing a mail forward to a POBox as my business also burned down in the fires and this chuckle head asked if I was evading child support and that he'd have to tell the IRS where to find me should they come knocking.
That is so rude and totally uncalled for!
Is your phone tracking you ?
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There is another possibility: they just simply don't care or mind that they are tracked. Some people's reasoning is that "they are doing nothing wrong, so they don't mind being monitored". I know people like that.