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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

I've seen finned drums made using the kit backing plates and those round aircleaners I'm sure we all have loads off. From memory the person sanded off the top detail from the cleaner and glued just the finned parts to the backing plate. They looked decent to my eye

I can send you some redlines mate,

Nice work, it looks like it all came in the same kit. I'd love to see more pics of the heb in the the background of your first set of pics

I've been having a sort out of my model stuff recently and it turns out i have a lot more pe and decals than I thought. I need to come up with a way to store them and initially my thoughts were a photo album or something similar but i'm concerned that would damage the decals on the plastic film. How do you store yours?

I assumed hiroboy and zero are the same folks, the websites are identical

The engines i these are some of the smoothest running engines I've seen. Theres a guy local that has one and his party trick is to balance a pound coin on its side and start it. The coin barely rolls and stays standing every time

I'm gonna guess thats the g3 one, but this stuff i liked cos you can miss out the g5 and go straight to g7. I'm near certain the tamiya polishing compounds are the same stuff cos they smell very similar and the results are just as good. I've never thought to use it on my models though, it'll be much cheaper for me to get locally as I used to work in a body shop. We called the boss/painter running bare and he thought it was cos he liked cowboy and indians movies but really it was cos he always missed out doing the backs of panels and always managed to get runs on door edges. faraclear was the only reason his paint was passable but then it was mostly run of the mill work on econoboxes, someone else did the old stuff

if you have a freindly body shop nearby you can probably buy a small amount from them. its not really sold to anybody else unless their in the trade. its pretty good and comes in 3 different grades for use with machine polishers on fresh paint

I've always prefered talking to older folks than younger ones. Its led me to meet some some pretty interesting characters from the most decorated lifeboatman in the uk, a guy that worked on whaling shipd when that was still acceptable and of course when I was a kid I spent all my holidays with my grandparents so because of this I also spent a lot of time with my great grandfather and heard his tales of sea monsters and rescues. The one difference from the usa I notice from the above posts is the britsh guys just dont talk about the war unless they have dementia/alzheimers. My grandfather would only tell us he was there but he never once said where or when or what he did. There would be a look of real sadness if we asked him but he's one of the only people i never saw angry, his quote was anger is not something I want again so I suspect he may have seen a lot of action as my grandmother once said when he came home he destroyed everything to do with the war including some medals as there was nothing about it that he wanted to remember. I dont think the war broke him though, just changed him.

Its good to see Brandon from cali return. I think he's a pretty nice kid and his honesty is pretty awesome to see. Theres not many guys in the show that seem to keep their word so he's a breath of fresh air for the show. I think it helps that the other guys all seem to like him too, as he's probably the only racer that no-one puts down. As for the bird probe, in one episode jerry is heard saying it always pulls to the left when he puts the locker on so if he's using it in the right lane thats him knowing he's going to cross into the other lane which to me is just a nasty thing to do to the other racer. I feel like he's going to cause a big crash yet cos some have been close and if he takes out the other racer he should be disqualified.