peteski

There are couple of things against you here. 1. Search is only as good as the data it searches, and it seems that the sellers are often clueless as to what to put in the listing's title and description. 2. Even before eBay totally messed up the listing categories (which used to make sense), they started including not only exact search results, but also things that *THEY* think you might be interested in (even if they have nothing to do with what you are searching). They also include all sorts of "sponsored" results, where sellers likely pay extra to include their wares in the search results. Back in the day, eBay was actually very useful. Nowadays? Not so much.

Yes, it is really too bad that hobbyists started using this generic "acrylic" term as an indicator of a paint using mild (often water) solvent.

Very nicely done replica.

Not sure if I like it, or want to turn my head away, but I think it would make a great model. I'm pretty sure I know where it is not from.

Exactly. That was the point of my original post, replying to Bills post where he mentioned that all the power "things" on today's vehicles are not needed. We're all just having fun here.

Blast from the past. We also had Rusty Jones rustproofing system.

Good for her! But that was a passenger car. Try that in a large contemporary SUV like I mentioned. It would likely not be much fun for her.

While I know exactly what you mean, I still see petite women getting out of large pickups or SUVs.

Imagine a non-power-anything Chevy "subdivision" (any of those extra-lage SUVs) being driven by a 4"10' 90 lb. li'l women. LOL, that wouldn't fly today.

A month or two ago overstock.com had a similar deal on amazon for the new Revell VW Beetle. I found out about it here on this forum. I bought 4 of them, and they were shipped in a cardboard box. It was actually cut down box Revell ships these kits in, so 4 of the kits fit perfectly in the box's footprint. No shipping damage. Overstock Hobbies is a dealer outside of amazon, and the kits come directly from them (not from amazon's warehouse).

Very informative video, but you don't show how you "crimp" the "rivets" or "pins" on the hood hinges, so the hinge doesn't fall apart. That to me would be the most important part of the video. You clearly show that you solder one end of the rivets to one part of the hinge, but then the hinge is shown to work, while staying together. the video seems to show that also solder the other side of the hinge, but if you do use solder, how you prevent the other side of the soldered rivet joint from melting, or how you prevent the solder from sticking to the loose piece of the hinge (so it still pivots). Or if you use another method of fastening the rived, what is it?

I have to chuckle at the subject line. Instead, "Tamiya PE saw" would have taken all the mystery out of this click-bait thread. Yes, I I fell for it, but have no opinions since I don't own one. I guess mystery is what makes the world go 'round.

Not familiar with that model, but the spring wire is crimped to the body, so I suspect that when you reinstalled the doors, you didn't put everything the way it was originally. You don't remember how the spring wire and door hinges were original aligned? Maybe you have another similar Corgi model you can take apart and check on the proper door installation?

Hasegawa foil is actually very thin flexible plastic (vinyl?) film. It will stretch slightly when coaxed into depressions (like the ones in the grill we are talking about here), but after short period time, it will relax, and come back out of the depressions. It is best used for simple shapes (like smooth moldings). BMF on the other hand, once it is formed and pushed into the depressions, will stay in them.

Oy! Where is that face-palm emoji? As a non native-English speaker can tell you that puns are very difficult concept to grasp. But after being immersed in English for 40 years, I do get most of them.

I was wondering how soon those jokes will start. Didn't take long. I guess we are in 2023 - nothing should surprise me.

You took the words out of my mouth!

The problem is logistics. Shapeways makes things easy for the designer. All they have to do is to supply the 3D drawing. Shapeways does the rest. They take care of listing the part, selling and taking payment for it, then packaging and shipping. Most designers don't want to deal with all those hassles. They rather only deal with designing the parts, and collecting money. They don't want to run a complete retail business. it is a major paint in the behind.

Let us know the results. Spoon test is the safest. I hope that these paints have fairly small size metallic particles, not like some Testors paints which have large metallic particles. They don't look too bad when viewed in person, but looking at photos of the model show the glitter-size metallic particles int the paint.

Bill, when you look that statement, it means Paint in this bottle is "Ready to Spray, as it is already Reduced 2 : 1 with KR70" That seems pretty clear to me. It coudl have been made clearer (like I just did), but they were probably tryign to keep it short. Otherwise it would state "For spraying, the paint in this bottle needs to be Reduced 2 : 1 with KR70"

Yes, warnings and disclaimers are totally out of hand. Even on the news they warn viewers that some video segment might be disturbing to some. I'm offended by all those disclaimers! Really! I'm also watching those reruns on MeTV, but after watching couple of them I find myself a bit tired of the constant tensions and yelling on the show (maybe because they show 4 episodes back-to-back). Still a good show, and like many shows or movies made in the '70s (like Blazing Saddles) would never be made in today's world.

If there was even a chance this thing was reissued, the rare original collectibles would instantly lose value. This is silly. I understand that movie was crappy to begin with (I don't even remember it back in the '80s), and there really isn't a cult following for it like for other cult classics.

Not only that, but aluminum was a biodegradable/recyclable material, but the aluminum foil-lined plastic tube is not! It is not even recyclable.

Or over-torquing them (well they are likely over-torqued when there is visible damage. Nobody seems to use any sort of torque controlling devices anymore, and automotive fasteners (especially critical ones, like lug nuts) do have torque specs.

Looks like the large (hood?) decal got cut off on the edge of the sheet.