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stitchdup

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  1. i'd look for dirty or corroded contacts or even a loose wire. if it worked once its probably nothing too serious
  2. sausage is square in scotland
  3. the tractor clarkson should have bought
  4. I used to help my friend in his auto electric shop. he mainly rebuilt them as being an island means delivery takes a while. we had one guy that had a mildly tuned mk1 mr2. the alternator was tight up behind the drivers seat and bigger than anu of the gaps around it so swapping it meant dismantling the turbo technics kit and engine mounts to make space. we suggested relocating it somewhere with less heat soak but he was adamant that wouldn't work. we pointed out the only other option was to make an inspection panel behind the back seat as 95% of his bill was the dismantling and reassembly. the next time he turned up there was 2 very roughly cut holes behind the driver seat as he cut the first one near the floor when the alternator was by his shoulder, lol. I chucked his mess of a panel away and used one from a bus to neaten it up but it saved him 12 hours of wasted time. i still think moving the alternator to the other side would have been better but it is what it is
  5. 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.
  6. dont use alcohol, it will mess up the paint
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. just use a large pointed stick. jam it deep and give it a wiggle and you can just drop the bulb in
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. feather boas are a safe snake for infants
  16. i advise getting the biggest machine that you can. you'll eventually want to print your own bodies too
  17. or theres always "honey i sold em and bought a hyabusa and helmet laws suck"
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. Cool, I've always prefered the evos to the scoobies. they just look tougher
  22. all the stuff i've had from them was cast resin.
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