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am i doing it right?

Another option for braided line can befound in fishing shops that carry kits to make your own flies. There are braided fishing lines that comes on 150ft reels. It is hollow, and if you need a larger diameter you can use wire inside to bulk it up, or to make it hold its shape. You will need very sharp cutter for it or it will fray at the ends but the cutters are available too for around 5 bucks. the fishing line is around 15-20 bucks. It can be painted with acrylics if you plastic prime first. the larger sizes can be thickened up to do radiator lines too. i'll get some pics when i get back home

I was meaning stockish appearing, the only ones i've seen have been customised (only see them on telly on this side of the pond)

nice project, i think your pics is the first stock version i've seen. i'll be watching

lightning mcqueen has really put the weight on since the acting jobs dried up

thats not a 1jz, the 1jz is a straight 6. the v8 is a 1uz

monogram have a 53 sedan and van available in 1/24.

got a pile of old santa cruz skateboard shirts and jumpers, some warm jumpers and a new warm wooly hat

digital surface - a range of full kits of 32 and 33/4 ford coupe, roadster and sedan. all with flatheads and are also available with louvred roofs and trunks. also does a bmw e21 in stance and stock kits. I've done the 32 roadster and coupe and they are very nice. I'll be getting the rest at some point

there is a volvo kit, its a 240 touring car from nunu or belkits and there are numerous aftermarket parts to change it into a wagon or road car. uscp-ua spring to mind first as they carry a pretty wide selection for it. i dont understand how you say only the beetle can be weathered when they have a decent range of other cars that can be aged.

if your wanting lexus instead of a toyota, there is amt rebox of it that comes with a small pe set. it seems to be an easier find

could it be laurel green? it a chevy colour from the 50s and i think a photo of it might fade to something like your pic. I searched for the truck colour rather than the car since they seem to be the same

Thats only in north america Claude, in europe they have laws about competition that they have to follow or they risk being blocked and fined by local and regional governments for breaking the rules. Its this reason that motortrend isn't offcially avaialable in europe without a work around or vpn.

Nicely done, the extra bits you did really add to the model

i've reported myself. i guess i got caught up in the irony more than anything else and didn't think. sorry folks

yeah that was me, but i grabbed the nose of the board cos i didn't know how to ollie. I guess people remember things differently after 30 years cos i'm still not a tourist either and was probably returning from a holiday as at that time stromness was the only harbour for passenger boats from the mainland. I still have my board nexr the door but i haven't been on it in years. the last time it moved was to move my freezer but i'll not get rid of it. Another of my friends from this time now plays bass for cradle of filth (dan firth), and yet another produces industrial music(eriktricity). Their famous in their own areas but i just see the guys i used to hide beer with when we were underage, as its not really a scene i know. if they were rappers it might be different cos i'd know the music

Somebody that I grew up with skateboarding and who is now photo editor (or at least was) at thrasher magazine has me mentioned as one of his influences. It doesn't mention me by name, but it mentions something i used to do that was pretty unique to me. I've not had any contact with him for more than 30 years but I'm seriously touched to be remembered for something 30 years ago. The fact that its one of the top positions in skateboarding he's in and he remembers me as an influence is really cool to me cos i was never that good, and people used to make fun of me for grabbing my board but now 30 years later I find out i've influenced somebody for something. I wasn't even searching for him when it popped up cos i gave up years ago after many near misses by days or even hours as he moved around the country https://blog.slamcity.com/auteurs-ewan-bowman/

only if they tag themselves, not very many do so its a case of remembering/book marking one of their parts and searching for it to get to the page

I might have convinced a group of anmal lovers that we put wooly jumpers on ponies for winter in the scottish islands. Now a group have started planning to visit shetland during the worst weather in hope of seeing 2 ponies wearing wooly jumpers from a ten year old tourist advert. I think they are going to be very disappointed. this is the pic i posted

with those rules i think it becomes a little too narrow a theme. I would say use them as a minimum level of mods to qualify as a restomod but open them up from there. In past cannonballs people have started with a wide variety of kits and ideas and some pretty wild builds have ensued. Ones that stick in my mind are the twini mini and last years integra with the nsx chassis. Its the cannonball where we get these types of builds because there are less rules and it encourages people to go wilder. Its part of the fun of watching it for the spectators seeing how the theme gets interpreted by entrants. If the rules are too tight we'll just be watching a load of the same car being built, maybe different kits and parts but really its just 10 people building the same thing. If the rules were more open to entrants interpretation we get to see the creativity and crazier (in a good way) ideas coming out and people pushing themselves to build something they wouldn't normally do. Maybe the rules should be has to appear to ba a restomod when parked. I'm not against the rules, I just think they need loosening up or we risk having ten builds that all have the same things done to them because thats all the rules allow and it just doesn't feel like the spirit of the cannonball.

Its looks to be good quality. the body is multi piece and goes together almost as indicidual panels. The rest seems similar to a heller 30s car kit. I haven't looked closely enough to see if it has an engine or not as there seems to be a lot of sprues but most of the eastern european kits seem to be like that. I'm sure it'll go together well and have good fit, the other kits from there i've built do and theres some unusual subjects. Revelll did a rebox of this as well recently

cheers guys, i forgot to say its the 1/24 kit

an italeri range rover. it was the only car kit in the shop i didn't already have. got a tin of tamiya primer to try out too

so its just the sleeperball again?

Could someone please post the instructions for the above kit. Mine doesn't have any in the box and i have ahankering to build it lowrider bomb style