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I know exactly what you mean, i was thinking i need the bathroom and a political ad came on

I thought the same. i've got the airfix kit so this was reference i was going to use on it. I figured the pics might help someone else too and it not often a vintage bentley owner lets you climb around his pride and joy. In my excitement i completely missed the interior though i was sat in it. I find the owners of this era cars are getting happier to let folk sit in them now the value is dropping. Its real enthusiasts that own them now which is good to see. it doesn't seem long ago these were kept in cotton wool whereas now they are being driven more. I'm sure goodwood and downtown has something to do with it

If you click the links in Tim's post they will take you to his fotki account. Theres lot to look at there and its well worth saving a few hours

Actually Ace brought up a much more realistic risk. our infrastructure is already threatened by sunbursts, while aurora borealis is beautiful to watch it also puts our power supplies at risk. one sunburst detonated all your sea mines at once during the vietnam war and it wasn't particularly strong. if our health knowledge becomes fully ai based it would just take one strong sunburst to render us helpless. to me thats a much more scientific theory than man vs machine wars. make it open source and maybe we can trust it better, at least that way they cant avoid ethics. when its closed control we cant and shouldn't trust it, as Ace has pointed out more than once, google's motto used to be "dont be evil".

can i just add i'd have real versions of my models. theres a reason i built them how i did. now on the very slim chance i win, where can i get a 12 story glass cabinet?

I got some paint on the vento this morning. i'll let this set up overnight then mask for the trim and rubber. I'm going for the early look on this one so it will be black trim to match the og gti rather than the later body colour trim. The interior will be black recaro seats with the jocky plaid from a mk5 gti and maybe vw lupo 3l or audi tt steering wheel. I'm not usually someone that fits bbs to a vw but i'll make an exception for this so it fits the theme i'm going for. I'm trying for a modern classic look which means sticking with oem style parts. The era of golf tuning i was into was all about stance and small changes the average person could easily miss rather than the bodykits and stereo thats more popular today. there are a couple of spots where i missed a little mold release but luckily they are on the black trim so i think i can fix it without fully repainting, so cross your fingers as the mars red is finished

One of the reasons spoken about for keeping wanted free was we know how much it helps those on limited incomes and generally its done by trading rather than cash and i dont think i've had any complaints about being ripped off (though there are still a few my friend has the part messages which i thank you for continuing to report). Its not really something we could make you pay for either, it would be like charging you to breathe fresh air. The reason for trading going into a paid tier is to prevent the inevitable trade cash for this kit posts trying to sell without proving they are genuine. We dont want to take anything away from you but for somethings to work it might have to happen in some limited areas. we know that without you folks we wouldn't have this resource and it really is a case of you are all as much a part of this as we are. We included you guys before any meetings because of your importance to the forum and all your input is greatly appreciated. If you have ideas or thought please continue to share them, it all helps with any decisions

the price just doubled! and if you do buy it, 2 more will pop up with a buy it now of less than the original sales price. thats how i ended up with a kit that cost more than many cars I've bought but how many 1/24 vw scirocco kits were made? I would be annoyed but it has my 1/24 vw kits almost complete, and at the time i was earning good money. I'm still kicking myself for not buying the cheap ones too

you need to swap the tyres if you want whitewalls painted on the tamiya bugs. the tryes continue to flex a little with the heat and crumbles away from the tyre eventually. the tyres from the polar lights snappers fir the tamiya tyres with a little inner edge trimming and the tamiya white primer will stick to them once you remove the shine. some of the revell kits whitewall decals might be a better route than paint on the tamiya tyres. if you have a revell 40 the tyres from it might fit the tamiya wheels too as the whole 1/24 and 1/25 size/scale difference could work in your favour

different company in a different country. edinburgh has green or burgandy buses to let you know if its city or country, aberdeen has beige and green2 tone, inverness used to be yellow and blue, dundee uses ox carts (joking) orkney used to be red and white before stagecoach took over and shetland was black and white. now almost all the between town buses are yellow stagecoach. the bus pictured is london colours

Apart from many things that would probably lower peoples opinion of me (hey, i'm going to celebrate, lol) i'd take cars you wouldn't expect to my fav designers, some you've all heard of and some from entirely different styles. Maybe take liberty walk a 33 coupe and challenge them, or take a golf to kindig, the oportunities are endless and i have lots of ideas. i'd be there to support my friends too because with that kind of money why not? one thing i'd do for my local area is open a shed for the kids that enjoy cars. theres nowhere for most of them to go to work on their cars like when i was young. i already managed to get them invited to show their cars at our vintage show and its gone down well and many want old cars. the issue isn't really money, its space to work on them

on some screens it barely shows up and if you add a little glare and reflections its basicly gone

i see what your saying but i also see whos paying for it and i'm just not hopeful about it given who they are. i'm not a conspiracy theorist but when the same people get richer when we lose our jobs it doesn't inspire confidence. look at human history

i dont want to see that world. everything will end up purely functional and the art will be gone. sure we'll have an easy life but wheres the joy in monotony. its flaws that give us what we have today as much as function and ai powered robots will never manage that. take a thatched roof for example, its the lack of repetition as much as the actual repetition that make them look nice. ai just cant understand the 2 can be combined for something better and still be functional

if you have a printer you can do your own. just find a plate sales site with a preview generator and save the image. any photo or image program can be used to scale it to suit, then print on photo paper and its job done. i recommend filling the sheet of paper though to save on the photo paper.

Don, for an early build it looks good. Paint is one of the harder parts of modelling and it takes practise. You might just need to clean paint from the joining surfaces to get a better fit. i've had parts look way off just from paint thickness but after a little cleaning they fitted great. And the kit you started with is a great kit, but like all kits they have finnicky bits. Honestly, you came to the right place for your questions and didn't just bulder through it. You did it right and now its practise. I think your being too hard on yourself

the hankerchiefs work great. if you soak them in pva and let it dry its much easier to work and will hold its shape on edges. it prevents the edges fraying too. this tarp is a hanky and pva

starbucks stirrers work great. it only takes a soggy teabag to stain them darker and a soak in white vinegar to age them. this is just duplicolour clear over mud stained stirrers

I think buying and selling needs to be premium to prevent scammers. they are less likelly to show up if it costs them money and their payments can be traced back to them. instead of thinking of it as pay to play, think of it as a virus blocker on your computer. For it to work for us honest folk we need them to go away. we dont want anyone being robbed and if a fee prevents that it might be the only option but nothings set in stone yet and its early days

At the moment the advertisers pay google, who then pay us something. I believe part of the aim with having a paid option on the forum is so we can sell our own ads which would be relevant to us. What i'd like to see is it being successful for the advertisers, our members and ourselves so that we could possibly have special deals for members in the future. I'd also like to see any advertisers have their own news section for new supplies or products so they can become part of our community too. it can only benefit us all if we get it right.

I've done that before but i used files and sandpaper. i find some resin prints can shatter if you use too much pressure on a motor tool.

Cool build, it reminds me off the unfinished trucks at lone star reunion i've seen online and could easily be a future trucking mag style feature. Any plans to do the finished version too?

do you guys have lidl? they often have good cabinets in the middle aisle.

Guys, please stop the tariff talk. Its kinda close to political and i dont want to see this thread locked, i just want to see what you got cos it gives me ideas