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stitchdup

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  1. It looks to have the rolls royce grille option. you could do chongs bug from up in smoke
  2. It wasn't ot mate, I had some debt from a period of unemployment, so I took on 2 full time jobs and 2 part time jobs and cleared it all in less than 2 months. Now I'm back to one job where i work 70 hours one week then have 3 weeks off. I thought I deserved to treat myself after all that, lol
  3. I've been treating myself recently as a reward to myself for working over 300 hours a month. Some were trades on other forums and others from various second hand stores and i got a lot of resin stuff too. I gave the above firebird to one of my friends. He has been asking a lot of questions about my models and eventually asked where to get them. I gave him this kit along with a basic set of files, an exacto and some glue. To help him along we are building alongside each other (I'm doing the foose kit). I think he will be a good builder as he used to be a jeweller so I'm sure he'll have some tricks that he'll find the above firebird has 2 full kits in the box, shame the chassis are so simple though No pics of the resin unfortunately, but Ed Fluck and clearly scales resin is beautiful stuff, better than some plastic kits I've had. I also got some 18eightyone wheels and am pretty dissapointed with the casting on them, seem to be a lot of voids in them
  4. A quicky build compared to what I usually build, kit arrived on saturday and is only needing me to make up the bed floor once i find some old looking wood or a method to age wood fast. I tried to give it the look of an on the road project with the underside all done up and the body left as it was. Apart from the firewall and chassis, all the paint is dry brushing with no primer, using humbrol enamels, and waxed with skotchbrite while still slightly tacky. I also used the same brush for all the painting without cleaning between colours.
  5. http://www.automobile-catalog.com/make/nissan/cedric_4gen_330/cedric_4gen_330_hardtop_coupe/1978.html
  6. the site has a button to put it into english, look at the top right of the page for it
  7. Yeah, it happened over this side of the pond. The funniest thing about it for me was a group on twitter that tried to organise a boycot until they got more chicken!
  8. I'd think the simple reason is this, I had to look up google to see what a crossley is, I'm only 41 and I hope this isn't taken the wrong way, but the folks that know or remember them are mostly 20-30 years older than me so a sadly shrinking market
  9. There's always dollhouse stuff too, some of it is really detailed (I've seen dressers that go for 1/1 money!)
  10. Try fairy power spray, it seems to remove all paints and doesn't stink up the place like spray cans of oven cleaner. I spray it on the parts then put them in a sealable tub to catch the run off as it can be reused again and again. The downside is the bottles are only half a litre so i buy them 6 ata time from amazon to get them cheap
  11. meng do a ford f350 crewcab, not built mine yet but it looks like a good kit but a little pricey. the revell 65 chevy truck is not too bad to extend with the body lines helping a great deal. I did one with a revell front and amt 60 rear to the cab but in hindsight using 2 revell kits would have made extending the chassis go better.
  12. I didn't expect to see an isuzu car, especially with the bonnet open
  13. I would expect italeri are releasing the old esci kits to capitalise on how much they have gone up in value in europe recently. The transit was selling for over £100 every time on ebay and even broken built ups were hitting £60. I cant remember the last time i saw the range rover or land rovers but the esci 70s rally cars they released are selling really well. I hope they are doing this to build funds for some new tooling. If I was in charge thats what I would do, but I'm not a business man
  14. make them use abacus instead of calculators in school. makes them think instead of using google/siri etc and they might become more useful members of society. I have a theory on the decline of education and compassion among the young. I blame music videos and mtv for the i want it now mentality of kids. before mtv we got protest songs and after we got look what i have songs.
  15. some smelly underwear
  16. I've seen your idea for clearing the primer done on a 1/1 vw. It looked pretty good and was reported as nardo grey in pvw mag
  17. 1950 ford circuit style 1960s chevy crew cab dually 1959 chevy el camino lowrider
  18. I got one yesterday, but it was when I logged onto facebook. The spam count is through the roof just now too on there. If it wasn't for some friends and family i have no other way of speaking to, i would leave
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