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Well this should start moving again soon thanks to these. my x2 readers just weren't up to the job

didn't a group of tourists that arrived on boats burn the place down? of course that was a few centuries ago, lol

very nice work, looking forward to more

glad this got brought back, missed it when first posted. Thats a neat dio. any chance of more pics?

just lots of bruising luckily, my right shoulder and hip got it worst so hopefully its a bit better for monday. its probably assault but the telling off she got from me would get me charged with breach of the peace so i'm happy to just forget it

not when they arrive on liners and there was 3 today. proper tourists are respectful, liner passengers are mostly parasites arriving for a day using up all the public services so the folk that pay for them cant. its been like ths for the last ten years and every promise the council makes about reducing the numbers next year is a lie. in fact its such a lie their planning to build a bigger pier just for them so we can have even more of them when we already cant cope with the numbers we get now. the only year we had peace was 2020.

my main irktoday is tourists. in particular one american animal that was either too dumb or too entitled to realise dollars are not accepted in our shops and when she eventually left and i was being served she returned, shoved me out of her way violently and started shouting at the kid behind the till again. I lost my temper so i started cussing her out and she didn't look happy about it but i'm sick of having to bend over backwards to make them feel welcome when we get nothing from it. tourists get new everything but our pensioners get stuck in old run down homes cos theres no money for them. i have health conditions so her pushing me to the ground actually did some damage and i'm supposed to be going on holiday next week which might not happen now so thats more money wasted.

when i set up my model room it already had a dark blue carpet. i was working on my rs6 and was about to fit the drivers nirror when it pinged away. since the room only had a bench in you'd think a fluorescant orange part would be easy to find in am empty room but it never showed up. and out of all the mirror files by denisovan the one i need isn't among them

More cars and stuff we saw

I'm at the stuck stage. I'm having difficulty deciding the best way to paint 2 sprues of mostly tiny parts. Anybody got any advice?

We had our local vintage car run today. We visited a surviving ww2 training base for coastal batteries then later we visitted a farm museum showing how farming was before mechanisation and ww1. The day started off with the simca deciding the 50 year old coil needed replaced but my uncle must have expected this as the new one was already cable tied in place then it didn't want to start after getting fuel. Once we turned off all the electrics we got it going but my sister needs lessons in bump starting old cars, my back would apprediate it, lol. Due to the weather there wasn't the usual numbers so i've included pics of the things we saw. my camera was playing up a bit so some pics are a little dark. The patina on the peanut looks to have been done with an angle grinder, but it could also be the beginnings of an otr resto. The cars

its got to be photoshop. the lower rear corners and beltline shape is vw camper and the corner glass is pretty much the giveaway. side glass is chevy wagon maybe to fit the front and the top from maybe those chevy boat for your roof that were sometimes advertised.

again i get the blame for eating mikes cookies

are the rear fenders from a later buick, they seem to look almost like they're from a boattail riviera

oh yeah, thats slick

And we're onto the engines. I'm finding some of the icm parts are needlessly complicated. For example the starter is 4 parts when it really could have been one or two parts. The icm also has individual spark plugs to be added which are barely noticable on the sprue attachment. But theres a lot of parts like this coming up in the next few steps on the icm kit so progress is going to slow down once the rest of the icm engine is done and I'll need to paint the chassis before moving ahead. Anyways, I've assembled both 4 pots to a roughly similar state but there are still 12 parts to go on the icm while the monogram only has 2 remaining. If i remember I'll get a pic of one of the upcoming sprues before I remove more parts. I should also point out every part of the icm so far had required mold lines fixed, and some of the attachment points are again in dumb places but theres not been any distorted parts yet. On the opel i've found many larger parts were slightly off and the chassis needed a lot of massaging to just sit level. The paint is a tamya army green with a couple drops of semi gloss black. Once it gets some satin clear it should hopefully approximate the ford engine colour. Both engines will fit both chassis

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First i forgot to include the icm decal sheet earlier so here it is. And on with the fun stuff. I've decided to build both in the icm kit order so first up is the chassis. Up to this point the chassis for the icm is 18 parts, but i've left off the bumper mounts and steering box. I will try the icm steering and axle under the monogram once I get to the interiors as some parts need the cowl to fit. To get the monogram to this point i opened the box. and yes the icm chassis fits the monogram 30 but it does not fit the 29 pick up fenders some trimming of the mongram fenders needed for the icm chassis to fit next up is the engines

So on opening the boxes both are pretty full but obviously the icm has more parts and being a modern kit is much neater laid out but we dont really care about that do we? lol. The icm sprues were bagged but i removed that when it arrived monogram icm Next up is the instructions. Its two differing styles but the icm wins for detail however for appearance and trivia I'm going to call it a tie monogram icm I see a decent improvement from icm's instructions since the opel was done. Much clearer where they needed to be

The best way in my mind to compare the icm kit with the monograms is to build them at the same time. The way I see it this will allow me to swap parts between them as I build so if theres any combinations you would like to see I'll add pics if it can be done without permanent gluing. The icm kit will be going fenderless with a printed dropped axle and cowl steering on steel rims using icm opel tyres on the rear and tamiya tyres from the old toyota on the front as they look like tractor tyres. The monogram coupe will be getting the chevy engine option and cabriolet top. With it I am going to try the icm fenders so I can lose the spare wheel wells from the fenders, but this may not work due to differences between the grilles. I liked the look of the model a they built on faster so will be going for a 70s resto rod look. The pick up is just to try icm parts on for fit and might only get sub assemblies built at this time but if the icm chassis works i might try that at another time.

the calibra chassis fits aoshima ken'n'mary skylines quite well

still nothing in scotland too

Thanks folks

It was nice weather today so i didn't get the chance to get more pics as mum wanted soe painting done in her garden. But during the day i couldn't get this kit out of my mind so its hitting the bench in the morning. Should make comparison pics easier too, lol

Are any tuning parts available for the model a 4 bangers? or am i better to use a flathead v8? I think the icm phaeton is next on the bench and I'd like to do a mild hotrod using as much of the kit as possible. I figure building it will give me better comparison pics too