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I never thought i'd be buying a tapestry but here we are. this hung in either my great aunt or grannies house and when i found it in a junk shop i just had to buy it as they both had dementia so this is something of theirs that doesn't have sad memories assosiated with it. either way it was done by granny as she gave these as gifts. when i picked it up today my sisters words cant be posted but i'm sure you can guess them, lol.

Thats the good revell bug

dont use alcohol, it will mess up the paint

and Norn but everybody forgets about it. for example a fluffy baabaa isn't a sheep like you'd think but in fact a rabbit. a lot of its close to english but j and k are interchangable when its spoken. in a lot of ways its very close to jamaican but really its old norse mixed with norman english with a bit of irish gaelic. I can hold a conversation in norn but i can only understand about half of it. My grandparents era was when english got more widely spoken on the north isles and foula still speaks it first but its in the middle of nowhere off shetland

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The tamiya bug would be my first choice as its by far the best bug kit, i'd put the 1/24 revell kit next as i've seen some great builds out of it, third i would put the polar light snap kit in the harley quinn boxing as it builds up really well and has 3 sets of wheels but any of the polar lights build nice stock bugs. I would avoid the 1/25 revell bugs as they are old tools that need a lot of flash clean up before you can find the actual parts. The tamiya can be made to have working suspension too with a bit of drilling and its easy to use under something else. The revell kit has the rear inner arches molded to the floorpan which limits it being used under something else. While the polar lights bugs are snap kits they have an engine that can be datailed up and once its together nobodies gonna be able to tell

do you mean foil or bumpers etc? With foil you can do it before or after clear so its personal preference. i prefer to foil before clear myself but others like doing it after. I prefer doing it before clear as its easier to fix any knife slips. the bumpers are best added later as they dont need clear and if your polishing the clear they just get in the way.

just use a large pointed stick. jam it deep and give it a wiggle and you can just drop the bulb in

My mate printed up a jig for the aoshima trailer for me on his pla printer and its not that far from resin quality now. his machine was new this year and while there are still layer lines its nothing like his old machine. its not 0.03 resin smooth but it is about 0.05 quality. His machine seems mush less tempremental than the old one too

The methos Bainford desribes also works using enamel paints if they are gloss or satin. I find acrylic and matt enamels dont give any working time

the diesels have 2 batteries

its a 12 hour job to replace the bulbs in a renault laguna. the front bumper and a load of bottles, pipes and cables have to come off just to get to the headlight bolts and they put the computer behind the front offside bumper grille to be sure all the dirt hits it. just swapping one of the hard plastic air intake pipes for a removable hose would make it a 10 minute job

the mini might be too wide for the renault, i'd look for something with an inline engine just to make it easier on yourself. even just the mini engine is wider than the renault hood and thats without the gearbox, rad or suspension. you might find it better to just flip the renault pan front to back and adapt the front suspension to the engine end

feather boas are a safe snake for infants

i advise getting the biggest machine that you can. you'll eventually want to print your own bodies too

or theres always "honey i sold em and bought a hyabusa and helmet laws suck"

since its not an aircooled vw i dont care about whose engines in it (and even with the aircooled stuff i'm not really that bothered since theres a mazda rotary going in a bug at some point and 2 suburu ones in progress), lol

hoping to finish this over the next couple of days. everything is printed from files by nitrolab3d or the parts are available from blackbox to fit the revell kit. this is 1/24 scale

easy tuning mainly. use the honda engine and suspension and you get the whole japanese aftermarket doing parts whereas with the chevy you are limited as its just not that popular for tuning.

Cool, I've always prefered the evos to the scoobies. they just look tougher

all the stuff i've had from them was cast resin.

I like that more than i probably should. It could make for a fun ride with a japanese v6 of some sort. maybe toyota using one of the conversion kit for the mr2 so you can swap the whole suspension too and open up a world of aftermarket tuning parts but even the stock 280hp would be fun. It would live up to its french nickname then, lol

you need one of those garage door stickers

the rounded things on the bottom sprue are for spreading putty and getting it smoothed on concave curves like you see on older kustoms. if you are molding in fenders they work great

a tub big enough to put the kit inside (sometimes they get bashed in transit so why risk losing your work) and an organiser box for small parts and completed assemblies. a set of washable sanding sticks are handy too. I used to prime everything before taking to work and only did brush painted stuff there. i wouldn't take photo etch as its just too easy to lose. i'd just get cheap brushes for traveling with, theres no guarentee you'll get them cleaned and you can get packs of 50 small nail art brushes for ten bucks on amazon (look for white and purple handles). a second scriber is useful but depending on your knife you might get scriber and saw blades for it which saves carrying a tool. a photo film container is handy for blades too and masking tape. really the best way to decide what you need is to sit down with a kit and see what it needs. while we have lots of tools, i'd bet most of us use the same few most of the time and it might surprise you how few we actually lose. women have shoes, we have tools, lol