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  1. Could you take a pic of the vw set please. It sure looks lie it would be useful to me
  2. Since a splitter tends to be thin I'd try food containers. I'd make a template of where it will mount to the body then shape the rest of the spltter to suit your taste. If you want to add braces i would drill holes to fit pins in the splitter and body. For non flat splitters I would make the splitter in layers
  3. Its a spoiler under the front of a car to aid downforce in a race car, and fitted to a lot of pro touring type cars and tuners
  4. save it on your computer as a jpeg file (to be sure its a supported format) then just upload it the same way as a pic
  5. I'm pretty sure i have a set of them in my stash, no ides what kit they are from but the wheel fronts have a mount that goes through the wheel back for the wire axle to go into. I think they are late60s or early 70s wheels as all the others in the lot were that age
  6. If you have a fly fishing store close by, they might have some of the braided line for tying flies. It looks a lot like metal wire. You can also roll a file sideways on ordinary clear line and it then looks like wire if you press down hard enough
  7. I'd cut it roughly close to shape, then take a tube of the required diameter and cover it in p80-120 sandpaper and use that to get the final shape. Remember to mark out the final shape beforehand and it should go pretty quickly
  8. Very cool, I'd never thought to paint an nsx gold but it suits it really well
  9. I was meaning from the start of season 2 of americas list. Look at the front bumper of the car in the interview background again, ziptie has a cut out centre for the pro charger while the one in the background doesn't have the cut out. Could they have ziptie lookalike for doing car shows maybe so they can still race those days?
  10. The rear suspension from some of the tamiya gt race cars might be a decent starting point for the suspension arms, and some springs outta some biros would be about the right size, then a little scratching with tube to make the shocks and you'd be pretty well on the way. Here's some shocks i started a while back for an f350 but the idea would be similar
  11. its a 70s auto paint i think but im not sure on american terms. I only know cos i tried to use it over acrylic and didn't understand why it crazed all over. I wouldn't bother with their acrylics, most seem to be full of sand in my experience
  12. The humbrol clear red is a celulose paint, not an enamel like the other paints so I would say no. If you use a magnifier the tiny lines on the humbrol tin are actually the ingredients but why they wrote them in letter you cant see with just your eyes is beyond me.
  13. There are at least 3 issues, the xr3 twice and datapost race car and i think there is also a turbo version or rs1600i
  14. I got mine from a seller in france called arm2017 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274753466503
  15. There's a narrow light body available for the tamiya bug, it comes with wheels and tyres but everything else comes from the tamiya kit. Its a 3d print and available from a few printers on the auction site
  16. If you are not in a hurry, la's totally awesome cleaner will remove old paint and not damage the resin. Its takes a couple of months as its fairly mild compared to the others. I've had a resin body sitting in some for nearly a year now and theres no damage to it
  17. precious has been in the nova from the start mate, its been in the backgrounds of the jj interviews for a couple of seasons now.
  18. here's some opels https://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/cars/opel/page/3/
  19. Cool build, i wouldn't worry too much about the intake, in the 1/1 world they cut the tubes and reshape them to fit each application and it looks like a couple of pie cuts will soon get it in place
  20. I'd go for the 16" volk six spokes, the others will be far too big for the wheel arches
  21. Its the same where I live. We generate every bit of our power from renewables (180% of our local needs from wind,wave and solar) and my bills have doubled in the last year, and they're going up again in october.
  22. Funnily enough, they are testing retrofitted electric engines in old brittan norman islander planes here too. I'm not sure how far along they are but these planes are the backbone for inter island flights here, and are coming on 70 years old. If they succeed I'd love to put one of the aircooled v8s they currently run in an old vw bus. http://sustainableskies.org/loganair-pioneer-island-hopping-electric-flight/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Fresson (sorry for a wikipedia link, just use the quoted sources rather than the article, lol)
  23. Ace, here's some links about the local to me set ups, https://www.emec.org.uk/facilities/hydrogen/ https://www.emec.org.uk/projects/hydrogen-projects/ I get to see a lot of the marine energy devices and some of them are quite interesting, with a lot of unique ideas. At the moment theres a canadian device being tested that has the possibilities of being one of the most powerful yet created. There is some of it that confuses me though, their building some offshore windfarms but they dont seem to want to fit any of the marine energy devices to the bases. To me it seems like a no brainer, mount marine devices in the bases and then each location can provide more power while saving on space
  24. very similar except ours are made by EMEC (european marine energy something) who test a large variety of marine power generating stuff. If you have marine energy machines near where you live they were all tested in orkney
  25. I can easily get some, its a local group thats heavily involved with marine energy that distribute them.
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