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Unfortunately the photos in the above link are gone (thanks Photobucket)!

Yup, that works and is a trick modelers of all sorts have been using for decades.

That will work on an insulated wire with some sort of plastic insulation on it. But if you did that to the enameled jewelry wire, that will likely remove the colored enamel, exposing the bare wire. I suppose that using DUllcote might work for that type of wire.

LOL! For those on-the-road lube jobs! I knew that some older cars (from the '20s and '30s) had manual oilers stored in the engine compartment, but I didn't realize that more modern car would carry a grease gun. I'm glad that I modeled it, even without knowing what it was.

If you are worried about pain adhesion, once the part is polished, wash it in a warm water and dish detergent. That should clean off any polishing compound residue. Or if you are really paranoid, rinse the part in 91% isopropyl alcohol. Or do both. In any case, paint adhesion is usually negatively affected by silicone-based waxes (not polishing compounds)

Best slammer class was at the MassCar contests years ago. You took your model out to the parking lot where there was a ladder and a sledge hammer. You placed the model by the ladder, took the hammer and climbed onot the ladder. They you would drop the sledgehammer trying to hit your model. Once the model was hit, they would measure the distance of the part which flew out the farthest away. The person whose kit's part flew out farthest won the slammer class. Honest!

I think more accurate statement (at least for my area) would be "Some still do." Spare Time Hobbies in Marlboro, MA is chock-full of kits like in that photo. Then there is Hobby Emporium in Tyngsboro, MA. That's about it for the old-fashioned hobby shops. Both within about 30 miles of where I live. I consider myself lucky.

Eh, it is all jut a bunch of numbers to me . . .

While not specifically directed at you, I absolutely hate car owners who install all those super bright headlights in their cars. They are blinding the oncoming drivers (and don't tell me that they are just misadjusted). No, they are just too BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH bright!! HID projector headlights are also pretty bad when it comes to blinding oncoming drivers (especially if the road is uneven and they shine right into my eyes while they go over a bump on the road). The worse are them new LED headlights. Even factory installed - they are no only extremely bright, the bluish tint makes it even worse. What happened to regulations which used to define the brightness and light pattern of a headlight? Those seem to have gone the way of a DoDo bird! Sure, you in you big SUV, you can see the road much better with those lights, but what about being considerate to the oncoming drivers?

Items like mesh don't really have a scale because the 1:1 mesh on a vehicles could have many different dimensions. To make it in-scale, you would have to know the 1:1 mesh dimensions, divide them by the scale of your model, then pick a mesh which has the dimensions close to what you need in scale. So that hex mesh 0.43 x 0.37mm (used in a 1:24 scale model) would represent a 10.32 x 8.88mm mesh on 1:1 vehicle.

You're kidding right? I have been on that list (and verified that I am still on it) since it was introduced. That does nothing - the unwanted calls still come through (sometimes 3 per day). I used to have my phone number unpublished and unlisted but I stopped paying for that few years back when I Googled my phone number and it showed all my personal info. Nothing is private anymore. The sales people (and I use that term loosely) that Spam us with calls don't worry about a do not call lists - they just call all the possible combinations of numbers and they also use spoofed caller ID, so even it you report that number, nobody is going to catch the real Spammer. Sometimes the Caller ID of a Spam call shows my own phone number - do I report myself? Plus, most of them are in India or another foreign country.

I had to scratchbuild the fluid reservoirs and master cylinders in the Monogram 1:43 289 Cobra. I used styrene rod. This view shows the reservoirs (I don't have any photos of the master cylinders). While unrelated, this brings another question for the Cobra experts: What is that cylinder mounted on top of the the right foot-well? On my model it is metallic blue. In Bill's photo (few posts earlier) it is black with a gray screw-on cap. Sort of looks like bicycle air pump.

If tape (Scotch, or even masking tape) doesn't work you can try softening them with 91% rubbing alcohol, or one of the decal setting solutions, then gently scrape them off. But be careful as those liquids might affect the paint.

I mentioned that on the 1st page of this thread. First of all, 30AWG wire is 30AWG wire (the actual wire) and is always 0.010" in diameter. The overall diameter (with insulation) depends on the type and thickness of the insulation. The Kynar-insulated 30AWG wire's overall diameter is about 0.016" which to me is too thick for representing a factory-stock ignition wires in 1:24-25 scale models. But others aren'tas picky as I am. it is your model - do whatever you want.

With all those wonderful Internet-connected IoT devices you will also have IoT hackers doing all sorts of things to your precious thermostats, refrigerators, washing machines and toilets. Like turning on the cold-water bidet function when you least expected. All I know is that with all all these gadgets around us, we are in for one fun ride in the near future. I also get a kick of that find-my-phone app. When you lose your schmart-device, where do you run your app? In your head? You need another computing device with the access to the app.

My first impression is that it looks like Ford Mustang's little brother.

EEEEEWWWWWW! What was seen cannot be unseen! Thanks a lot Ace!

That's what I thought too.

Or wipe clean the lid and the lip of a can before closing. Takes few seconds and works great. I never store paints upside down. No matter how hard you shake it, some of the pigment ends up stuck to the can/lid/bottle neck/cap. It is really messy and if you clean it, you are removing pigment every time you open the bottle.

Nice! If you have a blacklight handy, that should make those parts glow really well.

Thanks for the explanation Bill! Brilliant (you are very fastidious too)! So it seems that most of the parts (down to the license plate) are resin-cast. Wow!

Thee are several different 3D printing technologies and materials. If you are talking about the FUD or FXD parts printed by Shapeways, they have lots of wax leftover from the printing process. I good soaking in Hexane (Bestine, a rubber cement thinner) or Naphtha (Ronsonol Lighter Fluid or VM&P Naphtha from a hardware store) will rinse the wax away. Certain areas of the printed part will turn white - that is normal. These parts will usually need some sanding to get rid of the "fuzzies" and some of the printing artifacts.

On a semi-related note, there is also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sounds Some of those sounds are designed to imitate IC engines.

My car is a 2006 Scion xB with 130k miles on it, and I still actively use a Win98SE computer at home. I could even dig up my 486DX2-66 PC with DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 installed. It probably still works. Same goes for my Sinclair ZX81 computer. That xB is my first ever new car purchase, and to me the newer cars are much better made than any older cars. I drove my share of 70's Camaros, Dusters, Pintos, Thunderbirds, Cadillacs, etc., and they were all much less reliable than my xB. Granted, I bought them all used, but even if I bought them new, I am convinced that they would be nowhere as probable as my xB has been so far. Even if they would be ok mechanically, their bodies would be rusted after 10 years of Northeast winters.

They are coming out with what you want. Just do a Google search for "sound system for electric cars". Here is an example: