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stitchdup

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  1. Digital surface has released a belly tank salt flats car. I've got a couple of their 32s and they are very nice kits. I expect this one will be just as nice as the others have been
  2. ipa alcohol or la's totaly awesome cleaner if you want to just sit it in stripper like we do with styrene bodies. The totaly awesome cleaner will even take off matt black but it can be pretty slow. I had a resin body sitting in it for over a year with no problems. DO NOT USE BRAKE FLUID, IT WILL DESTROY THE RESIN AND THERE IS NO FIXING IT and a quick tip if you use tamiya paints but dont want to use different strippers than usual on styrene is to use automotive primers under the tamiya paints. then you can still use your normal strippers if you sand a small area to be open to the primer. the stripper gets between the paint layers and will strip the primer from under the tamiya paints
  3. contexts important in written word but often missing with slang terms
  4. still waiting in scotland. its usually here by christmas week
  5. lost my fav scriber and even after pulling everything off the model room floor, and completely clearing the bench theres no sign of it. on the plus side my model room is much tidier than its been for a long time but i still aint found my scriber
  6. dont look for buick parts, look for rover parts. there are loads of tuning parts available for them and we even have a drag class just for rover v8s. some of them run high 7s in the 1/4. even the range rover is just a developed buick 215 but bored up. its the same engine but with lots more refinements made after gm gave up on it
  7. andrey berezovsky on cults does a few veriations on squarebodies
  8. Mike, dont be hard on yourself. Its just part and parcel of the job you're doing and no matter how many lists you have, it will probably happen again. There were times with my gran that i was just so exhausted i slept throught the alarms. luckily it was loud enough other folk heard but it happened more than once. If we weren't supposed to make mistakes they wouldn't put erasers on pencils
  9. may-may i have some more said olivers stuttering cousin
  10. Benatar job done around the corner but they still need to finish the lines
  11. you could try and find the decal sheets from the hasegawa beetle and buses. they did moon versions of both and you can buy them direct from moon themselves and hobby shops. 1999 or hlj are probably your best bet to find them. there are pics of the contents of both on 1999.com. They may have done moon versions of other cars too but i've only seen the vws
  12. save yourself a load of time and look for dremel tool #115, much faster than the sanding drum (its a router bit) and then use the drum sander toclean it up
  13. I like the revell acrylics enough that i'll buy the starter kit with the paints instead of the basic kit if theres a choice.
  14. This has a really cool look to it. I hope you put a v12 in it as the front end stretch would suit it. You've already got me looking through my stash to see what else this might work on, so far a 62 bel air seems to be winning but who knows
  15. look through big car auction sites like barret jackson and the ilk. usually loads of well shot pics from almost every angle you can thing off. specialist classic sales sites are a good source too.
  16. Satelite working seems like an awful long commute
  17. what could make your car safer than having god (new testament, not old) on your side? lol
  18. its like horsepower, too much is never enough
  19. I dont have the m5 but i have m3 and a mono 4. I never use the anycubic slicer, and instead i use the free version of lychee. Any problems I've had have been user error rather than a fault with the machines, apart from the aurofeeder on the m3. It stopped working but it was at the same time the bottles of resin changed slightly. I got replacement parts free under guarentee and they arrived in less than 2 weeks. The problem turned out to be the new bottles were a couple of mm shorter so the feed tube was getting blocked. 3mm off the bottom fixed it and its been fine since.
  20. It snowed here on sunday afternoon. by half past 3 there was no vegetables, milk, bread, meat or pasta left at any of the 3 supermarkets. Theres no need to fill your trolleys because of a some snow. just shop for a couple extra days, not an entire month so then everybody gets fed. it was the same the 2 weeks before christmas, less boats due to weather so everybody filled their freezers. ships used to plan ahead when there was a weather warning, now they just cross they fingers and hope
  21. its pretty good, some subtitles at the start but they soon fade away once the movie gets going and settles mostly into english. If you are interested in how we got to group B rally cars, this is set in the 2 years before and focuses on the battle between lancia and audi. as for le mans or dys of thunder, i'd say its really closer to the smokey yunnick stories than any other racing tales.
  22. Nicely done, not often you see them done with black paint and when it looks this good i dont know why?
  23. The aurora still exists. its was shared on an american magazine during the early 90s and while most people were still asking what is that? a british guy called andy saunders had bought it and rstored it. He also built his own dream car using an old galaxy
  24. The easiest way to tell when humbrol changed the formula is by 1/1 car colours. When yellow cars seemed to dissappear is when the lead was taken out as old yellow paints were all lead based. I dont think theres anything that harmful in it now. they sell it in fishing shops too as its great for flies. I think its most likelly in short supply because oil is expensive and humbrol always seemed to be the first to cheap out on ingredients. I think they had some sorta deal with revell at some point too as the revell and humbrol enamels had the same colour numbers for a while. The revell acrylics are much better than the humbrol ones too so if there was a deal I'd guess its gone. If anybody is needing humbrol enamels I am happy to get them for you, but not the metalisers as they are hard to get now
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