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  1. not really a surprise. people buying used cars didn't buy them because if they had the money to install the charging system at home they wouldn't be buying a used car. used car buyers aren't going to spend the same again to be able to use the car they just bought. and the green lobby completely missed this point when they handed subsidies to the people that could afford the evs already, instead of using it to push the second hand market because thats where most cars are sold each year and where the biggest green gains are to be made because those are where the poluting cars are. your new golf is always going be much cleaner running than your 75 year old beetle. if the original buyers cant sell their old car because its an ev, then they aren't going to buy one again. at the moment an ev is better as a lease car than a bought car and its going to be that way for a long time yet
  2. i found another reason to watch ev racing, if it rains hard enough they might burst into flames
  3. these are the bottles. the s-02 label goes around the side so i took a second pic
  4. I wonder if gauzy shine enhancer or s-02 clear might work. I used both over molotowe with decent results if the molotowe was over paint, but a high chance of failure when over just molotowe. The s-02 was the better of the two but the gauzy was easier to find. I had to order the s-02 from out east somewhere as nowhere in europe seemed to stock it
  5. maybe a sticking plaster/band aid cut into strips and stretched before applying could work. its might be too thick if you dont stretch it
  6. I got to see ferarri this evening and it left me a little non plussed about it. The style it was filmed in looked great and had a very operatic feel to it but the screenwritting felt like someone from hallmark wrote it on their day off and their theasaurus was nearby. The visuals were impressive and the definite highlight of the movie and not just for some shiny red paint jobs. Overall itsa movie i can say I've seen but not one i'd add to my collection, though if i were a ferarri fan my opinion might be different. this is reviewed just as a movie
  7. competitors with burning eyes cos the winner ate at taco bell
  8. it could be fun to watch tesla owners fight over who's ego is biggest cos it sure wouldn't be over driving talent
  9. second go at the paint. I wanted an old faded paint so after priming and painting as normal i scuffed it up with a 1500 sanding sponge and brush painted on vallejo's faded yellow with no effort at an even or smooth job. once this had dried enough i used a 600 sponge to flat it down then the 1500 again so some of the patchy red primer and deeper yellows were showing through the top paint. As it sits now the glass is in but not got pics yet as it needs a little clean up before i give it all another light coat of matt clear. I've got a little more weathering to do once its all together and a couple small bits of trim and then its just glue the body down and the wheels on. the interior isn't actually crooked either, just loosely together for the pic
  10. you could try dry brushing matt white and light matt blue/grey over the lense part, then trim some googly eyes down to fit the lense. it might give you slightly more realistic look or there are pe lenses available in sizes from 4 through 7mm. I got them from modellers resource in the uk but they closed at the end of last year but they might be available elsewhere too. you would still need to drill out the kit lenses but these lenses are worth it if you can find them. they have a resin over them thats quite effective at making them look realistic. I'll look them out and get some pics later
  11. i bet its the same folk that serve meals on shovels or also known as hipsters/trying too hard to be quirky. i know i'm not going to buy beer from a bucket (even if i eat like a horse)
  12. you might find the texture your looking for in food or toy packaging. not sure why the 1 appeared in front of my post but it wont delete
  13. fyi, when pail is spelled in this way it means a bucket
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. contexts important in written word but often missing with slang terms
  17. still waiting in scotland. its usually here by christmas week
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. andrey berezovsky on cults does a few veriations on squarebodies
  21. 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
  22. may-may i have some more said olivers stuttering cousin
  23. Benatar job done around the corner but they still need to finish the lines
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