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Well I thought the 356 ice racer was the wildest porsche but this popped up on my feed today http://www.speedhunters.com/2021/12/burn-your-rulebook-meet-the-half11/ Its even wilder....

Had a parcel returned by the customs service in the usa. Apparently model car parts wasnt specific enough so now I have to send it again. I always use the same terms so I'm stumped as to why it was refused.

I think you'd be just as good using a metal ruler and no11 blade. The cookie cutter just seems like overkill unless you bake too, and your limited to size and shape but if your doing multiple of the same build i guess it would be handy

The engine in the revell c7 vette looks undersized to my eye but I havent measured it. I'm purely going by comparing it to the amt zl1 engine which is very nice and looks about 10-20 per cent larger then the vette engine in every direction so could be used in a 1/24 build, while the revell vette engine cant due to the size diffence.

its available as a kit too, in the bond markings as little nellie. I want to say its an airfix kit but i'm really not sure. they pop up on ebay quite often

wow thats beautiful

Cool, the mr whippy vans in scotland were all bedford ca's, the commers rusted too fast here

baked into pie

Theres one of these currently parked/broke down next the boat I work on. The hood isn't shut right and theres hand prints from it being pushed on the trunk. Its an austin maxi and I think its in this colour but its hard to tell under the lights. The first car I crashed was one of these and its a kinda funny story. My grandparents lived on a small island where cars were held together with anything that worked. Its not unusual to see some strange fixes such as a 2 door volvo 240 with the drivers door from a 4 door with rope to keep it closed ish. Anyways I was maybe 6 or 7 and staying with my grandparents for the summer holidays. I would spend a lot of time pretending to drive the parts car (grandad had 3 maxis) when I decided the working car would be more fun cos the horn worked (i was a kid so this was important to me, lol) but this was another car basicly cobbled together and it had to be hotwired to start it. I'm sure you can guess whats coming, but I'd seen grandad do this everytime and being a kid I just copied what he did. So I'm sat in the car and I started it, and the car musta been in gear cos it took off and rocketed forwards straight into the middin (cow waste heap) Needless to say grandad got the ignition fixed after that cos granny blamed him for my being an idiot. This pic is from the net cos I dont have my camera with me but i think its the same colour

probably the most outlaw porsche 356 possible- https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2021/12/16/renee-brinkerhoff-and-valkyrie-racing-are-conquering-antarctica-in-a-porsche-356-for-a-cause

If you can find a motorsports place that does flocking you can buy it in different lengths up to 3mm and get a large kilo bag of it for the same price as 2 of kens small tubs

I think he might have had a feature on his models in the aussie street machine mag a couple of years ago too. Its available online but not an easy site to search https://www.whichcar.com.au/streetmachine/features

VW sp2 and a brazillian early bay bus (split window with a bay front) both with late model mexican gearboxes and suburu engines

Those fujimi seats fit the airfix 1/32 beetle kit pretty well so I would expect them to fit the 7

Gotta love a chopped 36. This article might be off interest to you http://fueltank.cc/blog/bryce-michelmore could that be your 36 in the first pic?

I like your street rod idea but how about taking it a step further and doing a kindig style build. Maybe a revell camaro zl1 donor for the engine wheels brakes and seats with some cleaning of the body, eg. one piece side glass, reshape the rear of the roof to lose the humpy look it has and maybe move the rear lights onto the fenders and you'd have a pretty clean stylish rod and it would even work in the brown the paint faded to for continuity

clearly scale do a conversion for the revell kit

arrived in scotland on nov 29th

The biggest change for me is I dont sit at the kitchen table to build, now i have a room just for building models. The kits are still generally the same but now theres a much bigger aftermarket so the build options are becomming greater with every passing week. With 3d printing added to the mix its almost harder not to find the part you need than to find it now. The biggest change for me though is I'm marginally more organised than I was before, even if my bench looks more like allepo after a russian airshow than a workbench

theres only a few small changes on the t1. Mainly its the front indicators, rear lights and bumpers. If you can find one of the recent revell t1 campers it has all the right bits in it. If you cant send me a pm and I can help you out

the glazers in welwyn garden city in england? cant you find it closer to home, lol

My nearest hobby shop is an overnight boat trip away. Theres a local record shop that has some airfix kits but its all military/planes and not really my interests. For paint i can get duplicolour and plasi-kote but everything else has to be posted. And since its paints and glues they charge a load more to ship to the islands, so i get it sent to one the crew that lives south so he brings it up for me. You guys with hobby shops nearby are lucky

The revell golf mk1 engine is pretty nice and well detailed but it might be a tight squeeze. Clearly scale do a few different vw engine options for the revell mk1 that are very nice and I believe there is a more modern engine coming soon but i'm not sure if its the 1.8 turbo or the fsi version from the mk4 and mk5 golfs. Mac modelismo do some vw engine too but they are the vr6 and r32 engines and are resin printed as one part. They are a little smaller than the ones from iceman collections and might fit the skyrocket. Imo though I'd just stick some twin carbs on the amt engine to save fit problems. Thats what I did on mine and i added driveshafts but the next will be vr6d. Also be sure to paint the front edge of the interior tub body colour, it can be seen when its assembled.

The t2 camper has now been released in europe. Its the recent van with some extra parts and is again a snap kit. I had to order mine from italy as they sold out fast in the uk. My biggest hope is that its not molded in orange this time. I'll post some content pics once they arrive

They keep better if you store them point up and at a consistent cool temp. Temp variations seem to affect them badly. You can also try taping the caps to keep the air out. I'm still using my first ones from years ago but I flip the tips after use as I reshaped the ends