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stitchdup

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  1. did the sp2 ever happen?
  2. the bop v8 got sold to british leyland who used it in the rover sd1, p5, range and land rovers up until ford bought range rover. its was used in a lot of sports cars too, from the caterham 7 up to the lotus esprit. theres even a special drag arce class for them over here and some run in the 6s
  3. Very cool, the chevy cab looks custom without being obvious until you take a second look. I'm going to remember that trick to use myself sometime
  4. that just screams body cracks to me, black and white styrene just doesn't seem like a good combo as I've found the black monogram plastic to be some of the most brittle, while the white seems more forgiving
  5. Groovy man! The thing that jumps out at me is how aligned the van scene seemed to be in the us and uk. The styles are much closer than hot rods were at the time, even if the base vehicles are different. I'm sure I have some old articles and a book somewhere. I like that people are restoring these vans now, and its surprising how many seem to have survived nearly intact, if a little rusty
  6. I wonder if revell could be convinced to do their camper kit in marbelised plastic. Might be a fun special edition for the 75th anniversary thats coming up in 2024. Even just the body parts marbelised would suit me
  7. I love seeing vehicles like that, you can see they have a story behind them. It used to be like that here but someone decided they were an eyesore so most are long gone. Its like wiping away history
  8. manner and manners are comonly confused in the written form
  9. I've also tried my hand at making a surf board
  10. Nice work on the surf boards. I was a skateborder myself but a few of my friends surf. I was asked to show some surf guys around the islands a few years ago simply because both had board in the name, lol. fun guys to hang around with for a few days but since i cant swim its never appealed as something to try. I have enjoyed the grant mcnamara series about big wave riding at st nazairre though, those guys are insane
  11. the humbrol enamels are good, especially the old tins but they are getting harder to find. the acrylics seem to have sand added at some point during manyfacuring cos none of them are any good. i bought a joblot of 80 pots and none were any use except adding texture. strangely the acrylics they make for their warhammer stuff are really good paints
  12. control is more important than speed in drifting, but speed is always more entertaining
  13. That makes sense, I was kinda hopeful there would be a kit that was all marbelised, it would be something cool to have on the shelf
  14. I stripped some chrome from what i thought was one set of moon discs today. Instead i found one red/pink marbelised plastic and one lime green marbelised plastic under the chrome. I've nevr seen kits done with the plastic this way so am wondering what kits it could be. The moon discs are slightly larger diameter than the other I have so they may be from a 1/24 kit originally but i got them as lot of parts. Under the chrome was a layer of black primer then the plastic under that. I thought they were black plastic until i tried to glue them which is when i found the black base to the chrome, and it looked to be kit chrome rather than rechromed as it has some age to it
  15. I just got a 3d printed body that was described as resin. It seems much harder material than the majority of 3d resin prints i have. There was some sticky gunge coming out of the inside of the body that is a dark urine colour and a little of it behind the rear wheel arches. Is this normal or something the printer has got wrong? I haven't noticed it on any of my other prints. The resin is a lot darker than most too, being on the blacker scale of grey when my others are pretty light grey. It sure is tough to sharpen the body lines on this stuff
  16. to err is human is pretty common phrase and can be directly linked to rubbers on the end of a pencil
  17. food and fued getting mixed up could be a funny comedy skit but not so good if you are hungry
  18. Very cool, not the guy to park a shw car next though
  19. introduction to advanced algebra was pretty horrific but I'm guessing thats the wrong horror
  20. its just one of the quirks of royal protocol over here. our post is the royal mail so it, most government and a lot of other stuff shuts down pretty much for a mourning period.
  21. no point ordering from the uk for 2 weeks. everything will be shut for near 2 weeks because the queen died
  22. its on race tyres and suspension. otherwise still a standard tune though. they were second most popular car after porsche at one of the recent pikes peak events
  23. wait til they hear about the multiverse
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