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take care on the rear pillars, both the ones i had, had a big ugly step in the middle of the emblems and bag the tyres if they aren't alrrady. again both mine had severe tyre melt

I just found out the engine i need for my escort is in the early 80s monogram imsa gtp mustang kit. would anybody happen to have a complete engine they dont need? or even the full kit as i'm sure i can use more of it in the escort. I've got lots of auto trade fodder in 1/24 and 1/25 or i'm happy to print stuff. i'm in scotland so finding older monogram kits isn't easy

I was lucky enough to find a place that had a load of johan kits for current kit prices. The johan kits weren't really my thing so i traded them with another member for mongram kits. if you search with spelling mistakes you can often find items missed by others on ebay. also often model cars will be in the 1/1 auto section of other websites. i find modle can bring up a lot of options

a clear frosty night is best to see them. i dont usually get pics but this one was brighter than i've seen for a lot of years. theres a good chance they'll be more visable over the next couple of years as the sun is going into some special cycle of its life so will be much more active. if you look at bbc weather it usually says if theres likely to be an aurora. I missed the one at the end of november due to cloud but it had a meteor shower passing through it and i really wanted to see that. sat up til 5am but the cloud just didn't clear

while it should work, you might need to prime a part and once its dry do a tape test first. if it doesn't stick you can try acrylic auto primers as i've used them with tamiya sprays. the auto primer would need a couple extra days to gas out or the paint might get a slightly wrinkled appearance

enthusiasm recedes faster than my hairline when a show gets to season 4

it means the file has been compressed. I think you should be able to set it to save as a jpeg when the save screen pops up. does it do the same if you open the pic on its own site instead of google images and then save the pic?

I'd go red black silver. the silvers usually need less paint to cover so would reduce your edges and the red and black have a decent edge to stop at so raised edges are less of an issue. I'd also try and have the silver cover the area the yellow decal goes on but thats more to be slightly safer if the decals are thin so its not trying to cover a dark colour

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does a dipstick on a modern bmw count?

I figured a pic of what i'm trying to build would help see what i'm aiming for. this style was between the arched and full wide body zakspeed cars. its biggest attraction for me is the 14x14 inch rear wheels. i've also kept the trunk lid from the resin just in case i decide to open it later but theres not much plastic between the lid and glass

yeah, even the scottish gov forget about doric, yet every roadsign is in english and gaelic whether its spoken locally or not. i think some cornish is also considered a language

theres actually 4 Noel, they speak doric in the north east of scotland, and foula in shetland has its own language related to old danish but its only got around 40 folk so not enough to count. and a couple of islands in orkney have accents strong enough to be considered a language. for example on the island i'm from originally a chetling is a kitten but a chet is a kettle. its almost like vowells are interchangable and ks and cs can be replaced by ch or j. when my mum and aunt are speaking they could be declaring war or have solved world hunger but nobody will ever know cos they cant be understood, and its worse if they have had a drink, lol

i have been thinking about printing out a zakspeed body for this but i found an old resin escort that is just awful. the roof is flat, the bonnet is flat and it has other issues too. so this afternoon i hacked it up and will try to build my own wide body first using the resin fenders. i mean just look how bad this is and believe it or not i have some much worse bodies from the same seller, lol. just look how off the top half of the resin is

either this one that was done live (i actually set a reminder for this one as being live meant it wasn't going to be shown again or another from honda

A lot of you should have been able to seethe aurora last night. it was one of the brightest i've seen for a long time. usually it just looks like flashes of white light to the naked eye and you have to be somewhere dark to see it but last night it could be seen in full colour over the street lights. i saw the entire sky blood red at one point then then it went full disco christmas lights. because of how bright it was you should have been able to see it from north of wyoming and possibly even further south. heres some pics my sister took. all were done with no filter unlike most pics you get to see which are heavily filtered and edited and these aren't, this is what i saw behind the street lighting

theres a few conversion parts for the 4 pot. i've got a cragar set up for the icm i'm building, and a few other parts

i kinda dig sarge's truck from agents of shield

the monogram coupe fenders fit the chassis but not the pick up fenders. i haven't got to trying them on the body yet

its ai, says so in the video description

At the moment i'm using the zakspeed engine but will be printing some parts or might even swap to a v6 or crossflow 4 pot as its very tunable and it'll be fun to wave at you in the gas stops as i fly on by with half a tank left. the first time i was building this i used a cossie turbo but i have something else for it so it wont be wasted. So today after laying out parts and looking at hundreds of pics of zakspeed fords i decided to use some influences from the later capris and set the engine back by 2 pots so 90% is now behind the axle and i now need to build a new engine bay which may or may not be a tube chassis. so far i cut away the firewall and upper rear of the engine bay then moved the entire part back. this brought the engine to the firewall but i might move it back a little more still so its not glued in place yet. i've included a pic with a stock chassis too. i started making a zakspeed cam cover too but might not use it as i cant get the lettering right

I'm going to be starting with some parts and the body from my previous escort entry. my previous entry was about halfway along but i'll be changing to a rally car chassis as the current one is set up for a cossie and i can use it under something else. some of the parts getting swapped over to the rally car.

theres a few options but most are aimed at pro touring and drag racing. i haven't seen any seperate conversion parts but you might find a printer that would do them seperate for you. have a look on cults3d and you'll find lots of options.