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  1. stitchdup
    termites terminate terrible trees
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    I like it, the front reminds me of a nash with just a hint of mopar while the rear reminds me of some french 30s coachbuilts with hints of corvette along the sides. I think just a little clean up or lightening of the pillars around the back edge of the doors would improve the look a lot but altogether it has an almost finshed feel.
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    I would expect them to not work, the vinyl is fairly thick and the heat needed to make it conform would warp the styrene. Hair dryers are alot hotter than people think and cause a large number of serious burns each year. It would work for diecast metal parts though
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    my go to for rust is brown enamels dry brushed on in various shades, then it goes in a bag with powdered rust made from soaking wire wool in vinegar or brine until its dried off and leaves a nice lump of rust for the mortar and pestle. A gentle shake and it looks like its sat outside for years.
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    from making of jurassic park, sure looks like hand painting to me
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    Another year, another vintage rally. Since this year marks 75 years of the ferguson tractor there were over 170 of them on show today along with many other brands of tractor. We also had 3 steam engines and 2 steam lorries. I include a selection of todays vehicles and will be adding more tomorrow as its the busier day and better weather is expected too. If there are any vehicles you would like more pics of please list them in the thread and i will get as many as i can tomorrow. As usual there are another 350 pics on my flickr account so include those vehicles if you wish. link to my flickr- https://www.flickr.com/photos/111449995@N04/albums
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    Nice work man, would a second dash help with your fit problems? I have a spare if it will help you
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    bobbit is a scary surname for a girlfriend
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    I'd have a look at scenes unlimited or olsen brothers range. there might be some or something close to the lower rims
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    minis stopped being officially imported to the usa in 1968, the later ones are personal imports mostly from canada. Its easy to swap the wheel over anyway, the centre clocks are by far the most common so its just a side to side swap. The top dash shown is a japanese marker dash, all the uk ones i've seen have the centre clock. my sister and my aunt own 6 minis between them, one being the last mini sold in scotland, the first and last sold locally, a mini van, a mini pick up and my sister a 1989 mini mayfair thats been reshelled into a 96 shell https://mossmotoring.com/rise-fall-rise-mini-america/
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    the one hot rod mag built in the late 60s/early 70s is in the uk now and owned by one of the writers at volksworld mag
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    Cool finally one of the last minis instead of the common 60s versions or old fujimi 80. I can build my sisters car now
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    Id go for the italeri kit, simply because my experience with minicraft has been trash. At least with the italeri if there are missing parts someone is likelly to have them as they are mush more commonly found and a better price
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    I see your sports car and i raise you with a bugatti
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    My mate had a renault clio, he fixed it by rapidly parking it under a lorry and replacing it with a golf
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    Factor was the name given to rent collectors up until ww2 in the scottish isles. Most worked for one family by the name of Trail and lived in houses called holland
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    Engine and axle have arrived so I guess its back to work
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    era is a time period that is generaly undefined however an hour is not long enough to be considered while a millenium is too long
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    While the box art has nothing to do with which kits i want, if there are 2 of the same kit at the same price, and one is the retro box art I'm more likelly to pick it than the 90s kits simply due to it being more colourful and cooler to look at. Its not the retro factor making me choose it, just the brighter colours somehow make it seem like a more attractive option to build than the same thing in a 90s box. The 90s box that stands out most to me is the chevy 70 monte carlo, the kit i have is the green stock build on the box top. The pic is clear and the build looks good but as box art its dull and uninspiring compared to the older boxes. I'm sure it would have made people pass on the kit which is a shame cos theres a very nice kit in the box
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    vocation at disneyland her teacher said, there is no way to measure the dissapointment on my nieces face when she realised her error
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    the 2018 copywrite makes me think maybe one of the meobius kits
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    Mid to late 90s I was working at safeway after school. There was a very small local hobby shop sold tamiya for £30, italeri and heller were 15-25 but if i ordered from an advert in the back page of street machine or custom car mags I could get amt and monogram kits for a fiver, but I was impatient so I bought the expensive kits local and would do the odd day trip to aberdeen to a toy shop that sold the american kits. My only exposure to other people models then was the small talk pages in street machine and modellers corner in trucking international. I think the first kit I actually bought was with money I earned for being in a tv movie called venus peter, and the kit was an italeri peterbuilt wrecker that cost £32 from a newsagent that sold toys. I dont remember ever building that kit after buying it but it was shortly after seeing convoy on tv after being allowed up 5 hours after my bedtime on a school night because we didn't have a video recorder
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    boats can fly, but flies can't boat
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    snooze you lose used to be my friends favourite saying before he fell asleep ata party and lost half his hair and eye brows
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    for enamel you could just use oven cleaner. I use mr muscle for enamels but i think it has another brand name on your side of the pond
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