peteski

Funny how these things work...

Duh, brain fart! I selected my vote but forgot to hit Submit.

Real - the photo was taken from an interesting angle but every detail of the car says "real" to me. If it ends up being a model then it has to be much larger than 1/24 and whoever built is is an excellent modeler.

Well then, it must be supernatural dude!

Wow! That's f-up! Since the time I joined in 1999, eBay has basically obfuscated most of the personal information about the sellers and buyers. Supposedly for security and privacy reasons. I used to be able to scope out competing bidders by looking at they bidding habits, etc. but now you don't see any useful info about competing bidders (except number of feedbacks and other fairly useless info). Maybe eBay does care more about the sellers (since that is where the fees come from), but OTOH seller cannot leave a negative feedback for a buyer but buyer can leave a negative for a seller.

As you said, it is an addition addiciton. I seem to recall reading that a person produces a bit of dopamine whenever the phone notifies them (makes sound or vibrates) that there is new contents available to look at. They can't help but to look at it.

Seeing the cutaway view of a Tamiya spray can in another thread reminded me about this problem. So what is the verdict Brian? Were you able to ease-up in the shaking force and not damage the bottom of the can?

If the clear "insulation" diameter is close enough then I think this would result in a perfect representation of those clear steering wheels. The real ones also have a steel rod inside them. Those tie-downs can be straightened out and then bent to any diameter you need.

You should try doing it in 1:43 scale!

I have never been successful bonding Delrin to anything. I employ mechanical bonds (drilling and pinning) or heat-welding (melting) parts together.

A 2016 issue featuring the 2015 contests? For several years my club used to send photos to MCM with out contest photos but they were never published (while Scale Auto Contest Annual always features several pages of our photos), so we gave up on MCM.

Wasn't there an old SNL skit (in the '80s) featuring a Chia-car and Clay-car (body work on that one was a breeze)?

Ebay makes (and always did make) money in the end - I never questioned that. But the new fee structure enables BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH like what I described above to go on. Someone is able to re-list the same extremely overpriced item for years at a time without having to pay anything to eBay (until it sells). That's my beef with eBay.

Here is a good example of the craziness the current eBay fee structure creates (no listing or initial price fees whether the item sells or not). I've been watching this little gem on eBay for over 2 years now. Listed for $129 with no takers. They keep re-listing it continuously while in the meantime dozens of the same model are being sold in a range of $10- $40 dollars. Here is one currently available for $30 BYN. Why do I care? Couple of years ago I started looking for that model (I used to own a full-size '77 T-Bird). I found that $129 listing but I kept on looking for something more affordable and found one for $15. When I asked the $129 seller what makes their model worth $129, they (as expected) ignored my comment. So I decided to watch their listing and they are still looking for that sucker who doesn't know any better and will buy a $129 Matchbox-size diecast toy. If eBay had their old fee structure still in place, this type of activity would not be happening. It is as simple as that. And nobody can convince me that the $129 seller is not simply looking for a sucker who has more brains than money. I don't think that this is what "the American Way" to do business means.

Caswell Plating has a wide range of small electroplating kits for hobbyists (and lots of supplies for larger jobs too).

Maybe then like SfanGoch suspects, those could be cheap Chinese knockoffs (or a similar product line). (I added the "Chinese" part).

Thanks!

That smells kind of fishy if you ask me.

ABS is a type of styrene plastic. Organic solvent based paints stick to it very well with no scuffing (again as long as the surface is clean). Some automotive models are also molded in ABS, as are model trains (and I had no problem painting either).

That is why there is a "documented replica" class in the model contest my club puts on. You provide photographic documentation of the prototype car you modeled and it is judged (among other things) on how close to the prototype car your model is. The ill-fitting hood would actually earn you points!

Now this thread is getting really BLAHSKI_BLAHSKI_BLAHSKI silly! EDIT: and I've edited nuthin'

YUCK! I always wondered what were they thinking when they approved this vehicle for production. The more contemporary frog-eyed Nissan Juke seems to be in the same category as Aztek.

Yes, that kit has amazing amount of detail. I also have one of the large tour buses Revell made few years back. Again, lots of well-made parts. One of the reasons I haven't even started either one is that I have no place to display them.

Harry, the MRI machine is so loud because it is pounding you with a very strong magnetic field. You are basically sitting right in a center of a very powerful electromagnet. Probably much more powerful than the ones which pick up entire cars in junk yards. When they turn on the current, it the windings make that loud noise. They had you remove all metal objects before going into the tube, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_of_magnetic_resonance_imaging (very interesting read).

Don, this forum is family-friendly and it has an auto-censoring feature which changes any words in the post which are on its "naughty" words list into BLAH_BLAH. So, nobody edited your post except for the forum software itself.