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Hi folks, I am currently working on the above kit and there doesn't seem to be a colour call out for the interior floor. Can anyone help?

you can get rolls of bmf in the nail varnish section on amazon. they come in packs of 20 or more colours and some have a turned gold/silver leaf look to them and being designed for nail varnish they work great with auto acrylics. the last set i got was 30p (50 cents) with free shipping from china. Dont be tempted to get more than one at a time though, the shipping on 2 packs would have been £15!! so I did them all as seperate orders to get the free shipping

I would probably try some tape along the bottom edge of the crease, then block sand the crease in, moving the tape to the top edge and doing the same again (sand it away from the tape for a good edge). It wont take very much to make it show as a sharper edge but make sure there is enough thickness to the plastic first. The tamiya white stretch tape is good for this, or masking tape with the top covered in ordinary sticky tape

3 is a 40s ford (sometimes called a jailbar pick up) and I'm sure it is available in resin but not in plastic, 2 looks like it could be a british bedford from the 50s and I'm not sure if it is available in any form

Hows about 4891 tonnes? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sciencetech/video-1471485/Watch-record-breaking-mover-transport-4-891-tonne-evaporator.html the heaviest uk load is only 640 tonnes though https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2508878/Biggest-load-transported-Britains-roads-weighing-SPACE-SHUTTLE-crawls-destination-4mph.html I was always quite taken by the older vehicles they used in the uk, unfortunatetly I cant link the pic to the site direct so it has to be another web link https://www.flickr.com/photos/a-l-e-s/5257552686/in/pool-1221581@N22

Theres a couple of car shows that are all right. one is called car spotting and the other is rust valley restorers. I enjoyed their marvell series, punisher and luke cage were probably the best 2 imo but they might be gone now disney took over the franchise. Theres also a code in settings you can possibly change that opens up everything but its been a while since i've used a tv box so it might not be there now, but it was shown in a you tube video how to do it. They had some movies out in februry that were pretty good too, one with chris hemsworth i cant remember the proper name for but it had a number in the title (possibly 6 underground but i may be wrong) One thing i noticed when i was using a box was some of the descriptions were very poor and made the movies sound bad but they were actually pretty decent. Old guard is pretty recent if you want a sorta version of highlander. Rotten tomatoes is a good way to find netflix movies and get better descriptions

I'm very sorry you are having to go through this Carl. Its very hard to see someone you care deeply about in such a struggle. At the moment all you and your family can do is be there and support each other through this difficult time. My granny had the same thing happen to her so I sympathise dearly with you

Thats a cool piece of family history to have

Having gone there for college in the 90s, it put me off the place fast, (burgled twice in 3 weeks) and I transfered to aberdeen for my second year I'm sure its much nicer now though since its been redeveloped. When i lived there i spent most of my free time at a disused factory that had been converted into a skateboard park surreptiously but the council were kinda impressed how well run it was so turned a blind eye to it.

And in scotland two friends can sound like they are about to start fechting (fighting) because of the words used. A lot of the language in orkney where i live is still derived from danish and old norse. For example a hushy baba is a rabbit, a ferry louper (looper) is a tourist from the mainland, and the big hoose is jail. I could put some other terms we use for friends (tone of voice is VERY important for this one, it starts with c and has 4 letters) but they offend a lot of people. stoop in orkney means shut your mouth, as does hald yer wheesht. Away and boil your head in glasgow means your talking bs. heres a link to some more but some of you may find it NSFW so please dont get offended. Also Americans cant seem to pronounce edinburgh or glasgow properly, its ed in bura, and glas go and you will get much better service in scotland if you pronounce it right (except dundee, you can call it whatever you want, lol) https://scotlandwelcomesyou.com/scottish-sayings/#:~:text=Some Scottish words and slang…. Aboot – About,“have a blether” is to have a chat.

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.