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to be fair it was just one admin on a power trip,

I think I'm going to stop subscribing to mags, i took out a lowrider and street rodder sub late last year and recieved one of each before they stopped publishing, so i used my refund for a sub to the other mag and now they are gone too.

it got me banned from the other mags forum a few years ago, apparently i should use american spelling when i posted there, or so an admin kept repeating on everything i posted. This started to annoy me so on my next post I linked everyword to the oxford english dictionary just to annoy him, which got me banned, lol

from chinaabout.net The Red Flag Limousine In 1958, the China First Auto Works(FAW) borrowed a 1955 Chrysler limousine from the Jilin University of Technology as a reference based on which the FAW combined the characteristics of the nation and built out the first a “red flag” limousine within just a month’s time.Since the 1960s, the red flag car became the concierge car, known as China’s first car. In 1973, the U.S. President Richard Nixon led a delegation of 500 people visiting China, the request of the delegation to bring their own cars was rejected by Premier Zhou Enlai that: “We have the best car in the world, you can be rest assured.” When Nixon and his team walked out of the aircraft, they were all welcomed by the full stretch red flag cars. Also the President of the United States was thrilled when the Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai offerred the No. 6 Red Flag limousine which was for the Zhou’s exclusive use for his using during the whole visit. It was believed that during the 1960s and 1970s, the three highest diplomatic courtesy received by the foreign guests were: Seeing Chairman Mao Zedong, Staying in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, Sitting at the red flag car. If you put a 56 crown imperial bumpers on and swap the grille it looks closer. It may have been based on russian underpinnings but the design was chrysler, just a bit squared off. Even the door positions are the same but with much deeper sides to hide the raised floors to make the leaders appear taller and more glass area to be sure they could be seen by the public. Heres a 55 chrysler limo to compare and if you take the length and width dimensions they are the same. If you compare the chassis in your kit to a 50s chrysler you may get a surprise. Sure theres a lot less chrome but that was a capitalist thing remember and a communist couldn't be seen in something like that if he wanted to live a long life/survive the purges of intelectuals

Its true, chrysler sold the tooling to china, and china made it look more austere to suit them at the time. There was an article on the hemmings site a few years ago about it.

The original red flag limo was a 55ish chrysler 300 to begin with, but they had to do away with a lot of the chrome so it wasn't so capitalist looking.

Yeah, might be a scottish thing, or even an orkney islands thing cos we have some unusual terms. Some of them sound almost like rappers, eg - bigging up a dyke, means building a wall, either that or my granny had a secret music life, lol

revell and there a japanese kit in 1/24 too but i cant remember who, possibly fujimi

my spot putty has gone off and i cant get it locally.

very cool car, i believe they had an aircooled v8 in the back.

they wont, they'll get a slap on the wrist and maybe 200 hours community service so they can learn how to do it better next time. If they do get jail it will be suspended due to covid, and as long as they dont get CAUGHT breaking the law again they'll just keep doing it. Jail isn't going to stop her either way, its like college for crime so put her to work digging graves, cutting grass in parks, repainting kids play areas or cleaning hospitals so it really is community service. weeding outside the council offices is not community service, community service to my mind should be about improving areas the public use,

The only cutting was the strips, the rest is just files and sandpaper. just sand it close with some p80-100 then finish it off with finer stuff. Its almost as easy as filler to sand down

I would start with one of the kits you suggested, then cut the roof as far back as possible, saving the rear edge of the roof and pillars. Then I would use some plastic sheet or evergreen strips (I like the strips as they sand down easily and poly cement welds them together so its pretty strong) to extend the roof back before adding the saved rear edge and pillars so the window might still fit. For the pillars I would probably use some evergreen square strip and sand and file it to the shape of the pillars. I think I've seen flat hoods in resin for these era mopars somewhere. Heres a truck fender I've been reshaping using the evergreen strips and while it looks kinds rough it is actually smooth. Almost all the white bits started as square strip, including the cab extension and fenders. You can see the unshaped strip on the back edge of the bed too

that makes me laugh, nothing like a good education and thats definately nothing like one. I blame mobile phone texting for the lack of grammar now. The kids i know dont even laugh now, they just say lol

costed is the right word in some situations. for example, i costed up the project. and from the dictionary verb (used without object), cost·ed or cost; cost·ing. to estimate or determine costs, as of manufacturing something.

thanks for the heads up

I have one of them, the worst kit in my stash. both sides are different lengths, and the engine is a joke. the only parts in mine worth keeping are the roof and interior and possibly the chassis. The roof on the one pictured above actually looks worse than mine but at least the side on it look to bow out instead on in like mine

yeah, you really dont want to drink it. I know people that use it to unseize/clean engines. We use it at work to clean stainless

Well thats a pain, I used my street rodder and lowrider refunds to subscribe last month. Guess theres another refund on its way

Thats pretty cool, it looks very modern somehow but still classic cal look

thankyou sir, I've bookmarked it

Unfortunately I cant remember who it was, I've made a lot of purchases from ebay in the last six months and i would hate to name the wrong shop in error. All I know for sure is it was a shop in the uk and a euro/japanese style box. I will say the vast majority of sellers on ebay uk do pack pretty well

I keep mine in kitchen paper tubes stacked in one of the cubby holes in my workbench (old computer desk) I have a small section of the strips taped to the end so I dont have to hunt through them for the size i need. Depending on the size of the strips you can get ten packs of strip in each tube

thanks, I've been looking into methods to control them but they seem to have changed how they happen recently. Before I would get to the severe tremors and pass out for a while but now I'm just not passing out. I'm trying to avoid the news and only look at it once a day. My doc offered me valium but i know far too many people that they became a problem for so I just wont take them. Meditation sounds like it could be what I need instead. Thanks again sir

I've been having lots of panic attacks recently and I'm sick of them. I'm constantly feeling drained and lethergic after them. Last weekend I had pretty severe one each day and had to miss work because of them as i had no energy to walk across the room let alone the 3 miles to work. The only medication they offer to ease the attacks is one i cant take and I'm at a loss with how to cope with them. Half the time I'm not even thinking about any worries, and even eating dinner seems to set them off