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stitchdup

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  1. for me I'll be buying at least 5 of them. 1 for my vw group collection, one to correct the interior in my alpha audi rs4 (£160 quid and they didn't even get the interior right on it, they did a basic a6 interior and this has the right interior), one to slam and one to do a petrol audi a8 which should just mean knocking some of the edges back a bit.
  2. your best bet is to search aoshima on ebay, its probably your best bet to find a set as i couldn't find them on 1999.co.jp/eng . you could also try texas_3d_customs who is a member here and does 3d printing for people
  3. i think its the prettiest car ford europe ever made. i nearly bought one as a project 15 years ago but there really wasn't enough left for my skill level to fix it to a decent standard. the guy that bought it did a lovelly job, especially given how rotten it was
  4. The mercedes arrived yesterday, not really got a plan now as its not going to work for my hauler idea but its unusual enough that I'll do something with it. Maybe slammed on big white walls and lose some of the chrome. The 3d ford consul capri body just arrived. Its going to be a singer style build on an italeri escort chassis. Not sure if I'll open the hood or not yet. I'll be taking it to work tonight as my other builds aren't an a position to be carried around. Some of the body lines on the capri seem a little soft to me so the first job will be to do something with them and extend the chassis 5mm
  5. I'm now going to be spending much of my free time caring for a family friend who is crippled with dementia. Most of his own family are doing nothing so its been left to me, my mum, my sister and my aunt to spend 24hrs a day with him. Me and my sister have jobs that entail long hours yet we are expected to look after him while they sit on their fat you knpw whats waiting for an inheritance. I dont mind doing something to help but i want to have them do their share. I've already spent 2 years looking after my grand aunt and another 6 years caring for my gran who both had dementia also. I dont see why I am expected to give up my life again when they aren't. I sound like i dont care but i do, its just he's not family and i've done my share already and its someone elses turn now. when i was caring for my gran i was in and out of my bed multiple time through the night so didn't get a lot of sleep and i did that for 5 years. I've done a couple of nights looking after him already and its just the same and selfish as it sounds i just dont want to do it again. I think its harder this time as he is failing so quickly and its much more physical with him, his walking is nearly finished and he has no idea of where he is at any time. and being male going to the toilet is much more difficult as it is nearly impossible to get him to sit so I've had to do things I never thought I would do. this is the guy i learned to rebuild starters and alternators from so he's always been someone i have a lot of respect for and he's always been the first to help anyone with anything so it really hurts to see most of his family abandonning him when hes done so much for them.
  6. Look through some of the 3d printers. there are multiple body kits available from them. For the studebaker something like a porsche rwb, mx5 or rx7 might be a good starting point as they are pretty rounded shapes but they will need cutting apart to make fit. There are also the smaller wheel arch fenders available in many sizes. Aoshima also do a couple of over fender sets that each have 3 different sets of fenders in. They're more for the bozzuko style cars but they might be a good starting point if you prefer to work with plastic.
  7. Sweet
  8. Its interesting to me to see howsome of you guys views have altered (I was going to put change but i think altered is more accurate in this case) in the last couple of years since the other ev thread. a couple of years ago this thread would barely have lasted a day, lol
  9. Jack the ripper is runoured to have been several famous people from upper class british society
  10. Simca were a ford brand from france. incidentally, france was still producing flatheads until the early 80s for use in their military trucks, and brand new engines still pop up for sale occasonally
  11. woohoo. they got the seats right, I'm going to need a case of them for my vws
  12. Breaker breaker 10-4 for a copy bear in the air mile marker 40 on the good ol eye-5
  13. man you guys in the usa already eat loads of bugs, thats why a lot of your food produce isn't imported to europe because the bug count is too high. Your fda really need to update their food safety guidance from the 1920s to the 2020s. Some of your foods can be 2% bugs and be still be safe to sell
  14. my electricity had doubled in price once already this year, and its more than doubling in october. All my electricity is from renewables but i still have to pay the fossil fuel rates. I was paying more a week for electric in march than for rent so i dont know whats going to happen over winter when i put my heaating on again. but picking a new leader is seemingly more important than people freezing and startving if you see how our gov are acting. The one candidate actually boasted he took money from poor areas to give to the rich and thats who we have deciding who gets to survive winter. Doesn't matter what side they're on, all them are absolutely useless at fixing problems but plenty good at shouting look at me
  15. linguist (s) from the native american tribes were extremely useful for american ww2 communications as japan couldn't understand the language
  16. I was just guessing based on what i see on the roads locally
  17. The revell beretta drag chassis might be a good fit. Its already pretty narrow but you'd need to remake a couple of the roll cage bars around the screen.
  18. frequent head injuries can cause a severe state of something i cant remember right now
  19. the engine in those is two parts with a fairly thick chassis inbetween, its probably closer to 1/22 scale too and would be a struggle to fit the coyote or even a t2. hopefully it wont be too long before a 3d print becomes available as they're a popular drag engine. your suggestion of modding the beetle engine is robably the only one for now unless you wanted to do a custom version as theres an og style engine with the porsche fan housing available now. That is a cool diecast though, i have all the vws in the series
  20. only got one completed but its a turbo so you cant really see much of it. Its from the revell t3 un bus kit but you can find it in the camper and magnum bus too.
  21. you might be able to find out their personal facebook account through the olsen brothers facebook page. Usually you need a personal account to start a page but its a while since i've used facebook so that might have changed. it might be under details or something about the page, or if you can look through the page history it should say who set up the page somewhere.
  22. yes, that grey porsche is prob my fav from the first vid
  23. cool dubs, where did you get the bodies?
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