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I actually like Pizza Hut deep dish pizza, and even their thin-crust pizza (yeah I know, that is not a real pizza but it has a pretty good flavor and texture). Make mine Super Supreme. For chain-type pizza my favorite is Papa Gino's (probably limited to Northeast US). I don't much care for Li'l Caesar's, Papa John's, or Dominos. Of course I also frequent small mom and pop pizza parlors. I love New York style pizza too. And a local Italian bakery makes sheet style pizza sold in rectangular slices. It has a nice sweet sauce. Pizza is like art - everyone's taste is different.

Bare 30 AWG wire is 0.010" diameter. A 30 AWG insulated wire wrapping wire has a total diameter (including insulation) of around 0.016". That is useful for 7/8mm spark plug wires in 1:24/25 scales. I have bunch of wire wrapping wire I bought from an electronic surplus vendor. It has Kynar insulation which can be glued with CA glue.

Not to continue this OT diversion, PM sent.

Bernard, you rock! One of the projects I have on a back burned is couple of ESCI Mercedes 500 SLC (the kit has undersized wheels/tires). I was going to try designing and 3-d printing the correct size wheels, but I first have to learn how to use CAD programs. I checked out Misha's eBay listings and he has those exact wheels and tires available. The price ($22 for 4 wheels and nice tires) is quite reasonable too! Now this build can progress. I'll also contact him to see if he would be willing to produce wheels for the ESCI Mercedes 190 (that kit's wheels are also undersized).

Sometimes there is a need to keep a quoted photo in a reply. In those cases I double click on it and resize it to a large thumbnail size. That way the quoted post has a more manageable size.

LOL, even dying he's still as gruff as ever. His last "gfy" as a response to the negative feedback says it all. Once an a-hole, always an a-hole. I have never bought anything from him, but I saw his very wordy tirades here several times. World would be nicer with fewer people like that bozo.

I like it (especially the ending)!

Made me smile. https://www.boredpanda.com/street-art-tom-bob-new-york-city/

Yeah, from what I see embossing powder works well for scale carpeting.

Those styrene shapes are a great idea, but unless you are going for the "hippopotamus skin" effect. that paint job is horrible! Good thing it is on a test piece.

Yeah, it is on late night on MeTV. I watch it sometimes. I agree, nicely done model.

I enjoy following your progress and I can fully relate to just how small these are. I like building small models too. Like these scratchbuilt (cast resin and photoetched) dodgem cars in N (1:160) scale. I hope you don't mind me posting a photo.

A bus? That could probably go in the trucks section?

Yeah, these look like ground-based companions to the Egg Plane kits.

Well executed - I like the color too.

Well done! Amazing how these crippled planes were still able to fly and land.

Plastic soda bottles are made from a different plastic than model kits and will not be a good indicator if the paint will attack polystyrene or ABS (from which most kits are made). Bot if the goal is to verify how the paint covers and its gloss level, a plastic bottle will work well.

I agree that silicone and modeling (especially the painting process) do not agree. While it does seem to be fixing the deformation now, I wonder if it will start leaching out of the tire after some time period.

Interesting. I pulled out couple of older Tamiya kits that were easily accessible to me. Ferrari Mythos from 1991 has the chrome pieces (wheels) molded in red (same color as the other parts of the kit). Mercedes Benz 500SL also from 1991 has its chrome pieces (wheels) molded in clear. Rest of the kit is silver plastic. I wonder if the clear is simply the same plastic they used on other parts without adding the metallic powder?

My Gunze Sangyo 1:32 '57 Chevy was a really fun build and it could be considered famous (the car on the BMF packaging). It is a great little kit and the proportions look "right" to me.

In my experience with chrome parts trees they are usually molded in one of the colors of the other (bare) part trees. Sometimes they are some oddball color, but I have rarely seen black plastic used for those (unless the other parts are molded in black). I build all sorts of kits (motorcycles, passenger cars. trucks, show-rods, etc.). Could you give some examples of which specific brands and models use black plastic for chrome trees? In what chat color are the other parts of the kit molded? If some company goes through the trouble of specifically using black plastic for chrome parts that might be for the same reason chrome paint manufacturers recommend glossy black undercoat: to maximize the reflectivity and depth of the metallic coating.

Sometime in the '70s model companies stopped using soft vinyl, and for few years used the nasty hard plastic which was difficult to glue as the tire material. The tires in my kit seem to be made from the same material as those nasty 2-piece hard plastic tires in other kits. If those tires were initially designed for the Billy Carter's pickup (and molded from the hard plastic) I would imagine that the kits produced later (after the vinyl scare passed) would have been molded using the standard soft vinyl. That's the reason I asked of any other kits (hopefully produced later) which used the same tires had them molded in hard or soft material.

I did look at them and as I said, they are made for larger wheels (and the tread pattern is off). If I could find a better version of the original Revell tires, I would be happy. I would like to know if any of the other kits I listed have them molded in vinyl or in that hard plastic. As for the lettering, I am making decals for that.

It does look a bit too large, but not terribly so. I don't really know what diameter would be used on a real bike. Maybe you can find smaller tube, or even solid rod. In that scale it probably won't matter that the exhaust pipe is not hollow. You can painted the end black, or even drill it out slightly.

I did - He has newer version of those tires (different tread pattern and for larger wheels). I wish he made the exact ones I need - I would buy them in an instant.