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Jeremy, How about considering changing your painting technique? When I airbrush my models, I lay the paint rather heavy (except for the initial coat). That results in nice, even, glossy coverage with no orange peel. I open the nozzle rather wide, and use fairly low air pressure (around 20-25 psi). This is my Monogram Ultimates 1:43 scale 289 Cobra. I used Tamiya Fine White Primer, nail polish for the body color, and Testors Wet Look Clear for clear coat. This model has not been touched by any polishing cloths, rubbing compounds or waxes. Just bare clear. This is Gunze Sangyo 1:32 scale '57 Caddy. No primer. The paint is Testors enamel (I built it around 30 years ago, so I don't remember the specific color name). No clear. Again, it is bare paint. I notice that most modelers are afraid to lay the paint on thick, so that creates sub-par finish. I just go nutz! Is my finish perfect? No! But it is quite good (and all those cars placed in model contests in the top 2).

Speaking of old kits, does anybody know what happened to the One-Arm-Bandit's molds? Any chance it will ever get reissued? The kits I scored years ago had bad decals, so I will make my own. While I was designing the artwork (based on the scan of my damaged sheet) I realized that the scroll-work does not match boxart. The decal's corner scrolls are larger than what the boxart shows. So I modified the artwork to make them more closely match the boxart. I have printed some test samples, but the final product is still ways off.

Unfortunately when a model is displayed on open air, dust will accumulate on it. Yes, you can brush it off using soft brush or compressed air, but after a while some of the dust will stick to the model's surface anyway. Brushing or blowing will not remove it. The only way to clean it off is wet cleaning (and that is not the best thing to do to a model). The only good option is to keep your models in some kind of sealed display case.

Sure, and instead of those old, crappy, dim incandescent, or even halogen lights, now you have super bright (and totally blinding oncoming drivers) LED headlights. I really don't like driving at night anymore. Those lights also have very sharp beam cutoff, so when cars travel uneven road, they look like they flashing their hi-beams at you (from blinding to super-blinding). Why don't they have better defined headlight standards in this country? Back in the day (of sealed beam headlights) we did, but that also went the way of those Dodo birds. it is a free-for-all.

Even those went the way of the Dodo bird. My last paper factory service manual was for me 2006 Scion xB. When wanted one for my 2019 Kia Soul, it only comes as a huge PDF computer file. No way I'm printing that monster on my home printer. Besides, while the manual shows everything, it does not show proper disassembly/assembly sequence (and we all know how tricky that can be). It's half useless.

Hey, that's like my '76 Camaro (well, it *IS* a Camaro). I had to use that feature few times. And yes, I know I'm old.

True, but a human nut will be replaced by a computer AI nut. It'll be interesting.

Things which have (not has) faded on modern cars: Hidden (recessed) windshield wipers (but they seem to be making a comeback on some higher end cars). Ability to drive (ore even ride as a passenger) without seat belts fastened, without constant and unbearably annoying warning sound. Thank you nanny car! Power steering so potent that you could spin the steering wheel with one finger. The biggest faded "thing" for me is the simplicity of operating the car. Now the driver is surrounded by so many distractions and "helpful" features. They do everything but wipe your butt. Way, way, way, too busy and complicated. You supposed to drive (while paying attention), not play video games!! No wonder the car demands fastening seat belts to save you from when all the distractions cause you to crash!

Nice clean build of a vintage car - I like it!

And is more sturdy than plastic rod (because workbench accidents can happen).

Wrong! I'm highly offended by blank memes!

Some political stuff does sneak into the forum. I imagine that some keywords in the following post could trigger some political ads. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/181960-yesanother-usps-rant-why/?do=findComment&comment=2738326

As I suspected . . . oh well. I thing that just showing the country would be vague enough not to cause any security problems. A nifty feature would be to have a flag of the member's country showing on their avatar instead of the meaningless rocketship "rank". Of course that feature likely doesn't exist in the forum software.

How about displaying ads for free members, and no ads for paid membership? That is a popular option for many online services.

Yeah, that stinks! it was interesting and often helpful to see where the member was from. I wonder if this is some privacy thing? It is not like it was someones actual address. I hope admins will bring this bit of information back. Just having a country would be enough.

Nothing new here - these types of scams or phishing have been around for years. As it has been constantly drilled into our heads for a long time: never click on any links in emails (especially ones which are "alerting" you to some serious immediate problem). If you are worried, go to the institution's website manually, then check the status (or call the institution using their phone number you already know). But some people never learn, and get scammed. In my browser, when I hover over what looks like legitimate email address in any email in my Inbox, it shows me the real address (which in phishing emails will be totally unrelated to what shows).

Yes the solvent in paints (what makes them liquid) is a mixture of several chemicals. The additional thinner you add will likely have slightly different composition than the solvent already in the paint. Like Lee stated, that will change the chemical balance of the liquid paint which can cause it to start hardening prematurely. It pretty much happens just to enamel paints (since those have more complex drying/hardening process than lacquers), and not all enamels will be affected. The rule is not to put thinned enamel paint back to the unthinned container. Well, lets include lacquers to be on the safe side.

Wow!

To me this Lark seems to have the same "features" St least to me, it looks a bit too stubby. Like it was compressed from front and back. But it sure is an interesting build to follow. Ken, as far as the back seat goes, couldn't you have made casting of the front seat? Then you could make narrower by slicing some of it off. The seat pattern would match.

Very good! Worth noting is that you are successfully using a very basic, external mix airbrush. No fancy airbrush required. I'm curious why you are using Royal Blue (which is an regular opaque color) rather than transparent blue?

Yo, Casey, this has*NOTHING* to do with socialism. Look up the definition. You are just using buzzwords which seem to be convenient for you at the moment. Even the entire U.S. government itself is nowhere close to being socialist. I could expand on who runs our government, but that would get me banned from the forum. Also, the USPS is not actually run by U.S. government. What you seeing here could be related to badly designed routing algorithms (since everything is done by computers), and of course by the incompetence of the employees (which is rampant in today's world, all around us, regardless of the political association, not just at the post office). Incompetent people are everywhere, all over the world, regardless of which country or political regime they reside in.

Exactly. You don't want to end up with a frosted windshield And, yes it makes sense to do the tinting on the inside surface.

Hmm, I believe that those "as seen on TV" UV-cured adhesives are related to Bondic resin (which stinks as a glue), and not a UV-cured CA glue. So yes, they would be vasts inferior to the J-B Weld or the "Krazy" glue mentioned here.

That's all folks . . .

Oh well, that's an interesting attitude. This is likely a 1-man operation. If he is unaware there is a problem on the website, how can he fix it? Is he supposed to go and browse his website ever day looking for problems? I guess this "not my problem" attitude is widespread nowadays.