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  1. a few recent arrivals. I had been thinking about getting the 39 delivery for a while but they just didn't seem to show up in the uk. But after looking on the auction site i found one in Austria (no L) that would ship to the uk. I was still undecided but i managed to stand on the glass for my coupe and i had noticed the coupe glass was in the delivery kit so the decision was made for me. The tractors i had already but only realised when i went to put them on the shelf, and the opel is because i'm doing the sedan version just now and I'd like to have another stab at it as i've made some errors along the way due to assembling the body first and something moved while it was setting so things just dont line up quite right. I'm going to take some of the blame but the instructions could be clearer for how the cowl area fits as it threw everything out.
  2. the closest i've seen in 3d files is this https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/full-kit-classic-transporter
  3. I would look at kits released in the 80 or 90s. If your searching for 3d files the style is called mesh usually but bbs or some japanese brands would bring up other options.
  4. I watched a movie called convenience last night. Its a british crime comedy and tells the tale of two guys trying to solve a russian gangster problem. I got a good few proper belly laughs out of it.
  5. I was in my local record shop yesterday and it just so happened they were doing the tamiya/nunu order. The lady behind the till asked me for some advice on what to get so instead of a more kits i suggested paints, primers and tools. She wasn't sure what to get so i ended up choosing the order for her and while i was adding things that i want, i was also telling her what each thing was for to maybe help her with future orders. I'm happy to help them out as they will be opening a new shop in the future and i want a job in it, but either way stuff i want will be coming into stock and hopefully my knowledge will help me get a job there. fingers crossed
  6. the old style rims are in the tamiya bugs and the spare has the open centre. if your not in a hurry i can esy send ya one
  7. wimpy used to be a burger chain in the uk until they were replaced by burger king
  8. do you have a welding mask?
  9. bought a couple of tractor kits off ebay. they arrived yesterday and when i went to put them away i found i already have both on the shelf. at least i got them cheap
  10. well its got my attention
  11. i think its just the reflection of the truck next it making the dash look wonky.
  12. why do you think they aren't car fans? there has to be at least one or else we would never have got 3 versions of the opel admiral and numerous versions of the t. none of the American model companies have done an accurate model t fire truck or speedster but icm have and revell liked those kits enough to rebox some of them. the reason they are still on the shelf is when an amt model t is $20 and the icm is $45 we know which will be chosen. and its not that they're difficult to build, you just have to follow the order of the instructions or else things go wrong. I'm working on the opel admiral just now and all the problems have been caused by my assembling the body too soon but they haven't put me off getting the convertible (which is in the post). sure some parts are done strange but no stranger than splitting and engine and gearbox down the centre. to me the biggest problem with the kits is the sprue tab locations, some thought put into them would be a bonus as every one of them is in a dumb place
  13. if you slightly shorten the two tabs on the body, that mounts the rumble seat, you can get the body to fit better at the rear. there will still be a small gap but the gap will at least be even. you can get the fit even tighter if your not worried about keeping the rumble seat operational
  14. words are hard why not try another kind of writting when you type
  15. dont forget the ice cream on the way home
  16. thats a cool find, i'm surprised none of the model companies made one. what was the sellers name?
  17. got cheaper postage on an item from Austria than the same item from the uk wanted. and the item was cheaper too
  18. Well I'm enjoying this and managed to get a few parts painted so will have some pics once i detail them a little. In the meantime i've ordered the lowered drop top version as I'd like to do one with wood panel sides. I dont believe it was even an option but since theres a lot of gm styling i think it should work, and besides that i have some more mowrider interior files i'd like to use and it seems kinda pointless to use them if they cant be seen. Which leads me to a question, were swamp coolers used on convertibles?
  19. cents wurdz r diffi hurd eye nut dry anuva kynd ov ritun wen yoo tipe
  20. just click to mark the email as spam and carry on with your life. you can find out if your email address was part of a hack by using https://haveibeenpwned.com/ you just put your email address into it and it will tell if it was part of a hack and what data they have on you. it even tells you if they got passwords. it wont stop you getting spam emails but it will tell you if passwords need changed
  21. I've had 2 cans do that recently. i think it might be unmixed pigments in the straw as both cans cleared up after a little spraying. mine looked even more fibrous than that, almost like carpet, lol. both tins i had the problem with were filler primer and both were well shaken beforehand. I've got a jar next my booth now to do the first wee squirt into to be sure it safe
  22. whatchamacallits are great because everybody has some but nobody actually knows what is
  23. if you have posted your pics on a public forum without using a third party host theres nothing you can do about breach of copywrite. the terms we agree to when we join the forums mostly say your pics can be used by them which you have agreed to by clicking accept terms. almost every site has this in their terms as otherwise they would be liable for any copywrite breaches. even if you have copywrite on a pic, but you then post it on facebook, it goes down in the copywrite rating to a creative commons licence which means anybody can use it as you posted it publicly. the only way to really protect your copywrite is to never post any pics anywhere online. do you think shutterstock and their like really own the right to all those pics they host?
  24. it remind me of the tempo matador in it engineering. the tempo had the aircooled engine under the seats too but it was almost 30 years earlier
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