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  1. met is the most common name for the cops of scotland yard
  2. Thanks, they look like they might work for me
  3. I'm looking for some files with a more hooked end than the commonly available files. Ideally they need to be a fairly tight hooked end similst to fish hooks. I have some that are a loose s shape but i need tighter ends for some areas where i can only get to one side of the piece and have some curves to add. Mainly i need half round and round files in this shape but full sets are always usefull
  4. Bought a rebuilder from ebay but i like it too much as its built so i might just redo the foil and leave it. Monogram 55 chevy done as a mild custom. Stance is pretty good too
  5. Its almost as if electric cars were designed for leasing, not selling. How long until we have to pay a subscription to tesla or lucid just to be able to drive a car we will never own but still costs just as much as buying.
  6. me, myself and I are a terrible group to lose an argument with
  7. strike finishes today for almost a week or order direct from mr model in south america, i think its brazil their based in
  8. https://www.hiroboy.com/124_14_Firestone_Wide_Oval_Tyre_Paint_Template_5_MM90524--product--16448.html
  9. all the cars have FRESH paint, toyota made a model called the PRINCE and OF course its BEL AIR week in the shop,
  10. blur were a mainstay of the 90s brit pop movement in music and much cooler than oasis
  11. Got the roof line completed tonight. I'm using finger nail acrylic filler to reinforce the joins, and to add some thickness where I'm reshaping the body. The plastic on the kit is about half the thickness of a 1/25 kit so doing this allows me to file it down without worrying about going through the plastic. It sets as hard acrylic so its a little tougher to work with but it is very strong. You notice the body isn't all the way down on the fenders in the pics, this is because I haven't sorted the arches yet as I'll be doing them once the front of the body is connected. I would have it fitted tonight but i ran out of the nail filler and i have nothing to space the body apart with either. Well you'll have to wait for pics as my camera just went flat
  12. im the mid 80s it cost a lot of money to scrap cars on the islands. so we buried them along a bit of shore that was eroding. you wouldn't be allowed to do it now but theres 2 mk1 transits, multiple mk1 + 2 fiestas, a hillman avenger in blue with a fetching white vinyl roof, a destroyed chevette hs,a moggy minor van, 3 mini 900s, 2 landrovers and the herald. other people were doing the same but that was the contents of my garden growing up. flowers? pah!
  13. Ukraine are doing that now with wooden himars
  14. Some 3d printed parts arrived over last few days. Got a rover v8, allison gearbox and tremec 6 speed from iceman collections and a late vr6 engine and 4 door mk1 jetta from diolex production
  15. pillow of the travel variety are usually used wrong as the opening goes to the rear
  16. the audi is very nice, the headlights are a chore though with all the reflectors and its a lot of work if you plan to lower it
  17. Its really starting to take shape now. At first I wasn't sure how you were going to manage it but now I see it happening. nice work.
  18. I think I've goofed on my cut lines. The door edge should be much closer to the rear fender, and I think my rear windows are too long. You can see where its out in the pic of a stocker below. I could cut a thin strip out of the rear but that would take the front too far back. Since I have to add some plastic to the rear of the window to reshape it, I'll also add some to the front pillar to move it back. This will save me cutting the roof again and since i have to build front screen pillars I can make them a little thicker to move the door shuts back a little. I think I also have to chop it a little as it seems too tall but I think I'll see how it looks after the windows are shaped and open. This might end up as more of a project than originally planned as I have a nice jag irs and 3d printed rover v8 but they wont fit the fenders. I wont decide yet as the fenders are useful for holding the body in shape
  19. your correct, its got an a frame. If I can straighten it, its going under the roadster
  20. other than the obvious, i have found no sucessful ways to skin a cat
  21. Cool, love the herald, my dad had one in a metallic green with a ford v6 when i was a kid. I still know where its remains are buried
  22. Got the body to a very rough shape so far tonight. I think this is going to work. I might use a roof line inspired by the baby austins instead of the model y roofline. I glued the rear door onto the body before i cut and my first cuts were to move the side window area back on the delivery body. I then cur the top corner from the body and fitted it back at a different angle as the y has much softer curvers here than the a but i think i can leave the sides. I'm going to have to add plenty bracing to the inside of the body to get the side to line up but the plastic is thinso some strips inside should do it. I'll have to reshape the rear window and redo all the trim and i have to make some doortops for the windows. It looks a bit too long just now but I'm sure once the dorrtops are made and fitted it will look better. I also had a bit of a play with the other kits from the set and now have a club cab t pick up and t roadster on a fenders. the fenders are pretty warped on the roadster but i hope to make them work
  23. how do you make a witch scratch? take away the w
  24. my posts are also not clearing in the box after posting, or trying to post multiple times now. Very often it wont open pages at all or opens blank pages. and posts from other topics are appearing in the text box, not necessarily from my previous post but maybe 3 or 4 previous. error code ex1021 coming up when i enter my profile page now as well
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