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finish him screams yoshimitsu in the tekken games at the end of a match
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Well it’s finally announced.?
stitchdup replied to NYLIBUD's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Also there been some very promising leaps forward in possibly even being able to suck some pretty big quantities of carbon out of the air by seeding certain types of plankton with iron oxide. I'm not sure the breed of plankton but they found one that turns out to filter the carbon out of sea water which then solidifies after the plankton is filter fed by corals. They think that if they can stimulate these plankton to grow more, it will allow the sea to absorb more carbon from the atmosphere. Already in certain conditions this plankton blooms can be seen from space but since its a recent discovery there more research to be done just in case there are any problems it may cause. The big hope is that since the iron oxide is naturaly occuring and the plankton that it could be done nearly everywhere. They've also found a plankton that eats oil that could be used for spills.there is hope, its not all bad news however change has to happen unfortunately but before we spend trillions somebody has to promote the alternatives that are available. and rural areas are always the last to get infrastructure upgrades, so what happens when you get sick but you live 350 miles from the hospital? your range wont be as high as someone that drives on pavement and i'm pretty sure the vehicles wont hold together nealry as long either. there more flaws than benefits in my opinion with evs if you live outside a decent size town -
Well it’s finally announced.?
stitchdup replied to NYLIBUD's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
There's an even bigger problem with the ev switchover that seems to have been forgotten. Farmers use their tractors every possible hour, and the same tractor powers the machines they are pulling around. At the moment a tractors can easily run for 12 hours or more on a tank of fuel. What happens when they go ev? its not like they can afford to buy all new independantly powered machines and multiple tractors to do the same jobs they do now. that cost will go into our food bills and it sure wont be the farmers pocketing the cash. and how much will it cost just to get the massive amount of new power cables into farming communities to charge them? The much better option is hydrogen fuel. Stick a few hundred thousnd windmills in the southern ocean, where there are very few shipping lanes, to power making the hydrogen from the constant predicable winds along with multiple wave generators in the bases and you have a pretty powerful power source thats not likelly to run out (there a good reason theres not many shipping lanes down there). And its where nobody goes. There your cleaner fuel for electricity generating and the infrastructure to transport it already exists for oil and can be modified for much less cost than new power lines everywhere. it can fuel cars trucks tractors and be made with the same electricity it generates in slack times. It a pity most people get scared of hydrogen because of the hindenberg but that was 80 years ago and technology is much improved since then. ev have their place but how many acres have to be strip mined for the battery meterials? it not being green if you cut down a rain forest to do it, and its not being green if you just create new problems when the batteries are done. how much toxic waste does manufacuring those batteries make? Dont get me wrong, I love internal combustion engines from the old put put single cylinders my grandparents powered their house with (lister) to the ridiculous v16 in the bugattis, but their time has really passed for new cars if we want to save the planet. but dont get rid of your big v8 classics, keep your flathead rods and your sky high trucks for special occasions but maybe have something a little kinder to the enviroment for daily driving. I dont want to lose the cars I love but at the same time I know something has to change. There was a forest fire in the artic circle last year, and thats something that should be impossible. it seems like most of the south of europe is in drought or on fire, and the same is happening right around the world. remember exxon has been lieing to us since 1979, and they knew then what was going to happen. did they warn us? did they nothing, they bought up so called independant experts to lie to us and spin the story for their profits. They spun the story to be people being crazy, paid off politicians and lied some more. when they got caight in their lies they lied some more and because they spent so many years paying people off, people believed them before the real scientists. sorry to rant, give the bbc series big oil vs the world a watch, its eye opening what exxon knew and when -
It looks like the paint may have still been soft. Did you use primer? and are they enamel paints? they sometimes take a while to fully cure so I use low tack tape for enamels if i'm using them. I've also had that happen when the thinners from the paint leaches into the tape so even with the low tack tape it has to come off as soon as the second colour has set enough, even before it is touch dry so its a careful job sometimes. I mostly use acrylics now for these reasons but some colours i can only get in enamels so i wont fully swap over
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Stew'art to give us better words upon which to institute
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later on I'll be going to work on hatston pier
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Wood beam advice for trailer?
stitchdup replied to Dpate's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
I use a place local to me that has dolls house stuff. This looks like it may be a similar store in the usa https://www.northeasternscalelumber.com/ -
Pre war centre hood hinges
stitchdup replied to stitchdup's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
That makes perfect sense, I think I have some tube that might work as the 36 has a decent size rib on the hood that i can trim away for the tube. and my sisters a paramedic so i might be able to get some canulas or needle tubes. thanks -
sentance is a dual meaning word
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Hi Guys, I've discovered I have an extra hood for the monogram 36 coupe I'm building and since i have a spare I'd like to try and hinge the centre. Any hints or suggestions of how to do this would be appreciated. If it goes well I intend to hinge the hood sides too but will make that decision after doing the top as I only have the 2 sides so as to reduce the risk of wrecing them
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Street Outlaws Endgame
stitchdup replied to Snake45's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Its just like other shows, the parts will be built up to check fit, then refitted for film when they know it works. Look at axmens car he built, its been lying at the end of the drive for years but the wheels are shiny and still roll. same with kye's car being conveniently forgotten til the end of the show. Personally the end game show could be cut down to an hour and be more entertaining. I actually stopped watching ryans build as it was almost as boring as watching paint dry. hopefully murder novas donk will be a fun watch. and why doesn't JJ have a chat or game show yet? he'd be a pretty good host imo -
unum is an insurance provider and also known as unum provident corporation
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Of course we have all heard the phrase dont take a knife to a gun fight, but in poland during the 16th centuary, 5000 swordsmen defeated a combined swedish and russian force of over 25000 guns with swords
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denier is not a river in egypt
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doubt is very important when it comes to peer reviewed sciences.
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its on air ride, when its pumped up the wheels sit a bit squarer in the arches. Some have custom suspensions built to allow them to run with all the camber on full drop but they are mostly built in japan where the roads are much better than ours.
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just doing the panels would work for me, and it might mean it will fit both the tamiya and revell kits
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I'd have one
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i was expecting glitter and scents, how disappointing, lol
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This one is available from numerous 3d print vendors. its for the tamiya bug but i'm sure a little trimming of the revell floor will get it fitting too
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Boring, a small town in the usa is twinned with dull, a small town in scotland
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I dont really mind any of the trends. I dont get why donks seem to have candy brand wraps but I enjoy seeing them race, butat the same time i wouldn't want to own one. Same goes with some of the ridiculously lifted trucks, but the engineering done to acheive the right look is nice to see on show. As long as folk are having fun with cars, it helps us all. Theres even classic tuners starting to appear at goodguys events and that can only be a good thing as it exposses other styles into the mix. It would be pretty boring if modified cars stopped at flathead 32s or pro street camaros, not that theres anything wrong with them. The cars myself and my peers could afford were cheap front wheel drive hatchbacks but it didn't stop us modifying them. Sure none of the "mods (lol)" I'd do now and I'd try to guide kids in a safer way (saving time cutting down the front springs by simply cutting one in half, first bump they fell out, lol) but thats half the fun of playing with cars, we all start somewhere and I'm sure dave kindig and chip foose have some embarassing mods in their history. We dont have to like everything people build but surely we can like that they like cars too?
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Instruction sheet BLOOPERS
stitchdup replied to Vintage AMT's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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196w2Dodge "Dragon" 413 roadster/racer (phantom)
stitchdup replied to W Humble's topic in Drag Racing
That pretty cool, to me it looks like a dodge someone has turned into a euro sports car. The proportions of your build work well together and have given me an idea for somethign similar, thankyou -
its probably the fine grain of the printing confusing our senses, its like we're feeling our finger prints due to the grain on the part being similar sized to our finger prints and our brains just dont know how to deal with it,