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It could be mate, this is the only humbrol boxed bobcat kit i've seen, the others have all been heller. I have their 70s massey ferguson but i'd like to find the digger thing on the side of the box (if its 24 or 25 scale only)

Wow, the chassis looks awesome with the shocks on show

I blame the cat too, I dont actually have a cat and its definitely not my going bald, honest guys

Beautiful build of a nice looking racecar.

Cheers guys, for a paint test it turned out ok but I think i need to do more testing with the c1 powder. It really should have been light blue metallic under it. This is one of those occasions when the pics are better than seeing it for real. Since this actually looks ok i might strip it in the future and do it right with a 959 chassis under it (my tamiya nas a crushed top),

Thanks guys, your help has saved me cash cos I know nothing about 3d printing

Cheers mate, my dettol couldn't be any cheaper though, I get it from work free but i'll try a little dish soap in it too, it wont hurt

Sweet, I haven't seen one of these for years and yours is much nicer than the ones I saw

That sucks mate. Is there anyway to reinforce the body to stop it getting worse, its too nice to let it go floppy

I use nail art brushes and artist brushes mainly. Usually synthetic as I just dont get on with the horse hair ones. Most of my brush painting has been with humbrol enamels up until recently but I'm slowly turning to acrylics (tamiya, humbrol and whatever is free in the heller and revell kits) I usually give them a reasonable clean after each session at the bench but every 2 or 3 months I'll soak them overnight in dettol, then when I take them out I brush them with an old denture toothbrush, always from top of bristle to the bottom. On the nail art brushes it sometimes doesn't work but their dirt cheap (7 for a quid!) Maybe i should look for brush wash next time i'm in the art shop ordering styrene

Built a sorta bare ali porsche 906 in about 3 hours. Very simple kit though, maybe 30 parts and 8 were the tyres. Going to have to pick another simple kit for tomorrow now. Probably another porsche but this time maybe the tractor, of course if my new dust mask arrives I'll be painting a c1 old n new porsche in rothmans livery

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I have a set if you need measurements? measurements would be in mm though cos I aint very good at the old fashioned type

This is one of the heller/humbrol bobcat series of kits so only has less than 30 parts and 8 of them are the tyres. I built this in 3 hours during the afternoon. I really put very little effort into it as its aimed more at kids than adults. I decided on this because it is such a simple kit, but still ended up doing a little extra detail. The wheels are from the old revell porsche 356 speedster as the wheels in this looked like they were for a small bus or truck. I also used the hubs from the revell as I didn't think vw hubcaps would have worked too well, lol. The only other detail is i added metal trumpets in place of the ugle chrome part and angled them towards the centre. I also wanted to use my c1 metal powder so the paint is mint green under c1 metaliser powder

Give it to those westboro baptist nutters

Are these the right kind of files for getting something 3d printed? I found this site purely by accident and they seem to have stuff i'd like in scale this is a link

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Sweet, will be following

It depends what the price is, I dont really care if its rare and if I've not built it myself I wont think twice about taking it apart. I've been lucky with some of my kits though, my rancher caddy came with a set of rechromed bumpers and the originals so if anyone needs a set of bumpers in need of chrome I have spares

It seems odd to me that accadamy have done the hyundais they have, last year it was a small sedan and this year the 4x4, yet nobody has done the coupe. I can see why though, hyundai as a brand seem to be getting more popular with younger buyers now and they offer some of the best after sales support. Most of the people I know that have them would buy another and 2 of them used to run bmw 4x4s

You could try drilling the centre out of some bbs and setting a new centre in it

The teddys work on some cars but the ones on this golf are fully custom. I find these real daisy mags kinds ugly but i'm sure they'd be better in silver

I'm sure i read somewhere that there are only 4 or 5 sets of those michelin man wheels. They were a competition prize or something like that. Theres a vw golf show car in the uk that was running a set

Pretty cool bug, I'm sure loads of us had a similar one at some time

You get special cleaners for satin and flat finishes. I dont know how they would work on models but most detailing product manufacturers will probably have them. Maybe start on a bmw or hot rodclub site as they use more satin finish so their owners might be able to help