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  1. Got the stance where I want it. I went for a more aircooled style with more camber at the rear and pretty upright at the front. Since its a curbside I cut out the topr of the arches as they'll never be seen once the bumpers and side skirts are fitted
  2. When the limestone faded it could very easily be confused for white. I live on the scottish island in a farming community so these were everywhere and all in faded green with a dull white appearing (faded limestone) top. Most of them were 88 and 90 wheelbases.
  3. Looks like decent 90s mini truck,
  4. I think for hobby design you'd need to use the dealer locator on the website. Pretty sure they stopped direct sales. Ialso forgot 18eightyone and theres a few resin guys in the usa too but i'm not faliliar with them. If you need sizes for the aoshima rims i have most sizes in the stash. since your looking for 1/25 that might be useful to you as the ones i listed are all 1/24.
  5. hobby design, scale production, ucsp, aoshima and fujimi wheels sets, streetblisters,
  6. Cool little bug
  7. Cool, going to enjoy this
  8. you might find something on a hot wheels that might do for taking a mold. Failing that some of the bits inside older type electronics might provide something, I'm thinking cassette or record players when they were still kinda chunky things and not 90s onwards. Would lego provide something also?
  9. I started on this last night. So far its a nice kit and I like how the suspension gets glued from the inside but I guess you can do that with a curbside. I'm using a set of aoshima wheels in the 19" flavour, and have done them inr clear red over the chrome. The suspension will be low and stanced so before doing anything else I filed down the inside of the arches to get a little more space for the tyres to sit right in the arch and possibly the arch on the rim. I did the interior in red and have done the dash with satin upper and matt black lower with just the larger knobs in silver. The paint is simoniz matt black with tamiya clear pearl though I think it may have turned out better over gloss.
  10. Ooh! that is slick. Very nicely done
  11. They look very similar to whats in 70s british cars. If your lucky one of them might provide you a template
  12. I've seen something very similar in resin. I think it was kitformservices and possibly an military ambulance version
  13. cool,I think this is the first of these I've seen. Did the seat decals come in the kit?
  14. Thats pretty cool, the grey paint was a good choice, it looks right on it
  15. Cool, I like the peak over the screen, not something I've seen on a chopped bug before and after seeing it I dont know why when it work so well
  16. How about paid advertisers (hobby stores, hobby related, resin casters and model companies only) to have a section to sell to us. Nothing not related to the hobby. There's always threads looking for specific parts from resin casters for example, so they could pay a monthly fee to sell in a section on the website. Because it can only be established businesses with a reputation to protect and experience in mail order, customers and all that stuff they are responsible for complaints and not greg. It also benefits us because someone can link you directly to the thread without leaving the site, benefits greg because he gets a revenue stream and benefits the companies because they have a captive market that are happy to recommend good service and quality products.
  17. This may sound daft but I find sometimes when I cant get to sleep having one foot out of the covers can help. A lot of the time its body temp that causes insomnia and for some reason I dont understand this works
  18. I didn't know there was one, I built it for my clubs monthly fun contest
  19. Sorry to hear of your health problems, but glad it isn't cancer. When you have that to think of , everything else can wait
  20. I thought I saw one of the new corvettes today, but when I got closer it was just a civic
  21. Nice looking bunny, your colour scheme looks like something toyota would use on a show car these days and is very on the current trends
  22. Is it a catchphrase from the 3 stooges?
  23. I added fuel injection to the engine using parts from the scrap box and some foam for a filter (thanks for the idea DeeCee). The suspension is lowered and I did away with the wire axle to fit driveshafts, which led to plenty problems with the front suspension. The wheels are from ucsp. I thinned down the grille to make it fit better but unfortunatelly if I thin it more it will fall apart. Still for all the pitfalls it was a fun build of a car I'd happily own and when i find another I know where the problems are, and what needs to be fixed such as the bare plastic showing around the engine bay
  24. Great selection of stuff there. It would make a cool dio
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