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That's beautiful work, it certainly lives up to the starler moniker

Cool build, I like your rim choice,

The fines for commercials volume are much less than they earn from showing an advertisement so they just ignore it as thats more profitable

Got the blue on this morning. Needs a couple of touch ups on the white stripe but 2 layers of finger nail striping tape will fix that, but it will have to wait until the enamel hardens a lot more Just the lower bumpers, mirror mounts and window trim to paint black now then I can finish off the engine

If you look in afew differnet dollar/pound shops you should be able to find a size to suit, (i bought all the sizes) and if your lucky wont need to split them. Be careful when buying them too as while most are styrene some are a different plastic. Also avoid the coloured ones, and those with glitter in, something in them reacts with the paint no matter how careful you are to put a barrier between the paint layers. Also some of the knife handles make great running boards for 30s customs

would it be used with some sort of air suspension on the tractor unit?

you dont want to see how bad the third version on the car blueprints site is, it could be anything with a similar shape

its a handy site but uses a little artistic licence on some of the images

this might help, http://carblueprints.info/eng/prints/de_tomaso/marcos

neat work. I like your cab modifications, they look like the ones that the farmers use for cattle floats around where i live

Got some paint on today and since pull over didn't really fit the build I went with give up backwards. I'll be putting blue lights in the grille in place of the spotlights to go with the very loose theme I mistakenly painted the rear bumper red but its an easy fix I'm going to have to take a chance on the blue paint as so far its all all duplicolour acrylics, but the only blue I have thats not metallic is an enamel. I have a little overspray and a small chip to repair before that though

I had to split the spoon to get the curvature for the arches. Originally I was going to use it as one piece but it just wasn't quite there

Been working on this for a few weeks. It started as a pro touring build but somewhere along the way it morphed into something else . It was always going to be stanced and widebody, just maybe not this extreme. The wide arches were made using plastic spoons and the original arch edges. The suspension is as low as it was possible to get it without cutting the front inner arches. I have fitted some hobby design front brakes but they are hardly visable in these pics. The engine still has to get a turbo fitted which I fully expect and sorta hope will hang over the radiator as it looks kinds tough. It was originally going to have a saleen style paint job but that has now changed to the yellow, red and blue cop car from mad max

except this thread which is kinda odd

I am unable to post or send pms today. Everything I do gives me a 404 error

It's only within the last year things have started to change here, but then it is an island so is sorta cut off in some ways. Heroin is starting to change things now and the level of violence that follows it is awful. Crime here used to be the odd falling out scuffles and a little weed but really nothing serious. The thing the junkies moving here dont seem to realise is its mostly a farming and fishing community and a lot of stuff gets sorted out without the cops. A shop out in the country get robbed a couple of years ago while a kid (17ish) was the only one there. They thought he would be a soft touch (first mistake was hes a farmer, second mistake was he plays rugby) but the kid beat him over the head with one of those old 50s metal tape dispensers. The kid got an award from the cops and the robber got jailed.

thanks snake

I would double box them, the innerbox packed with bubble wrap to prevent too much movement and then the outer box packed with scrunched up newspaper or something similar. The ziplock bag is a great idea too so I'd combine it with the method suggested. It will put the postage up but thats probably better than complaints from the buyers. If you sold them on the big auction sire do not use their packing and shipping service, they just throw it loose in a box and really dont care what happens to items. I've had packages they packed arrive with the contents destroyed and they made the seller refund my money when it wasn't the sellers fault

its a small community and stuff like this rarely happens, normally you can leave anything lieing about in safety. I rarely even lock my door and i'm away from home for a week or more each month. It'll be locked now though

Thats how I store it too, but I have a small tab of masking tape with a little bit of the size of evergreen inside taped on the outside edge of the tubes so I can find it at a glance rather than having to read the sizes, however thats partly due to the sizes being in inches as I'm not very good with turning them to mm

Did the 2 door wagons have quarter lights in the back windows? To me that suggests a 4 door but i know very little about US cars

I think I've built maybe 50 or 60, but some of those I've rebuilt into something else after i would have called them finished. I have some that I've redone more than once but I dont have much display space so some get put back in the stash depending on my mood at the time. For example i did one of the imex caddys with anice black and lace paintjob and withing a week i had had it stripped down as I coulen't bear to look at the massive gap between the roof and screen so its back in the box in bare plastic until I can fix that gap

Had a few items to post today. Since it was raining i took refuge in a bar on the way home. Had to pop to the bathroom and caught someone going through my wallet when I came out. I gave them the offer of calling the cops and admitting to them what they did, or i call an ambulance and teach them a lesson while they waited. Needless to say they can still use their hands and run faster than me

I dont know if it will help you, but when using tweezers try wrapping the end with double sided tape. My granny did this when she was sewing and it may help you too

Not sure if this is the right thread, but there's a revell 29 roadster kit on one of the large online stores for $423 just now. Made me smile since I just got one for less than 5% of that price since the bags were open and some parts removed from the sprues. Been through it and cant see any of it missing except 2 light lenses