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stitchdup

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  1. its interesting how you guys say gone away while on this side of the pond we say gone off. we would describe dairy as having gone away but not glues or paints
  2. use the pound/dollar/euro shop cheap stuff. it doesn't last any longer but you get 5 in a pack so it matters less if it goes bad cos you have another. if its gorilla brand its garbage before you even open it
  3. those wheels were in the tamiya race kit if i recall correctly
  4. the mica is just a much finer metallic
  5. i use a lot more supports than that. usually light or medium supports with it layed back more. the back surface i would have at least 4 rows of support and posssibly more. imagine its a piece of that paper with squares on it. i would have it at 7 or 8 mm and everywhere a line crosses would be a support
  6. just tell them its on an irs pan. they dont camber when slammed
  7. if you are getting paint mixed for you and need it more in scale ask them to leave out the metallic and to use half the amount of mica instead. It wont be perfect but it will be closed
  8. man you got a steal on that, they are usually around 75/80 quid
  9. i have them tilted back on th rear edge of the hood. I also add a couple milimetres to the back edge so if the edge doesn't turn out right i can file it back to where it need to be. I also leave it on the supports until after curing but i do this with most large thin items. a panel i would have supported upright. I tend to do my supports so they dont land on areas with trim or detail and with the front facing of the print items mostly clear of supports
  10. I dont know if its the same in america but in the uk we have whats called a poor mans patent. what this involves is getting all your info about your item gathered together and then you put it in a an envelope and post it to yourself in registered mail that must be signed for. You save this envelope and never open it until you need to prove something is your own designs. the reason for doing it this way is the post office then have a record of when you sent it to yourself, and the post office in most countries is owned by the government so it becomes an official government document of proof. obviously if you open the letter your proof fails unless it only opened in court. my mum did this when she made greetings cards and her designs got nicked
  11. photoshop but the why is because people want their boring sedans to look like touring cars because touring cars just look cool.
  12. unavoidable situation got usall to where we are today
  13. you can get holders that have a rotating base. or you can use rotating cake stands.old record turntable
  14. I've been using jayo standard grey resin recently. its half the price of anycubics resin and the results are much nicer. Its seems to clean better afterwards too. i was finding the anycubic would sorta clump on small parts. The bottles are awful though
  15. liver achie is not a flamboyant pianist but it is a terrible dinner
  16. I worked in a petrol station for a few months when i was younger. I've watched people fill up the oil right to the top then get confused why the dipstick doesn't work any more (clue, more than one dipstick in this story) I watched someone get irate that i kept stopping the fuel feed when they were flling up their transit pick up. The transit pick up had a cut down van front for the cab but it still had the fuel flap but only a hole ahint it cos its pretty obvious the large pipe with the yellow cap saying fuel on it coming out of the tank is the filler but no, this guy insisted he was right, poured loads of gas on his feet, paid and ran out of gas before making it to the road but somehow the pump was faulty. Or the college janitor that knew better than me, the lowly temp cleaner, and used boiling water and industrial bleach to unblock a toilet, and when that didn't work added industrial drain unblocker (used for fatbergs) that caused the toilet contents to fountian straight up in face followed by a cloud of pretty nasty chemical gas that caused the college to have to shut down for a week and get specialist cleaners called in at over a 150k. he's now the building manager?
  17. I would cut out the area of the panel, slightly smaller than the outside trim edge, then add the trim to the body with a small inner edge. I would cut a flat piece of sheet to fit the hole you cut and put any needed curvature in before gluing it to the inner edge of the trim you added. Next I would mark out the 3 trim pieces on the inside on the thinnest sheet i had, leaving connections between them at each end and glue only the parts you need down. Once the glue has dried you can carefully trim away the 4 connections and you will be left with 3 perfectly inline trim pieces on a finished panel ready for paint and foil. If you wanted to add the lights also, I would cut them out before paint and foil and add some small pite of sheet to the back. Then its just making some lenses after its foiled and painted.
  18. not quite, they were mazda 626 floorpans and running gear but the body was american. mazda didn't have a suitable sports car chassis apart from the rotary rx7 incidentaly the mk2 version was sold in europe too while the first only got sold in america, canada and germany. it was part of the world car program that included the contour/mondeo and fiesta. eventually it led to the second trully world car from ford (the t was first)
  19. I want to see a car show with these guys. I'm bored of the full custom everything so lets get the frank spencers of modified cars on tv
  20. I have the little printer rnning today and it has made some concerning noises. From reading i learned it is apparently caused by the print plate not being zeroed correctly but resetting it made no difference. Iturned out to be a minute piece of exposed resin on the edge of the print plate stopping it going fully down. I dont know how it got there as it was newly replaced fep on the tank bottom but i had missed out treating it with rain-x. a good clean and wipe down with rain x and its silent again.
  21. I got new neighbours last week. I hope they dont stay too long as they have been throwing their trash out the window instead of placing it in a bin like decent people. So due to human nature and the excitement a mystery parcel can generate, I have individually wrapped each peice of litter and posted back to them. But simple forgetful me forgot to add any postage on any of the 16 peices of mail they are about to recieve, so to find out whats inside they will have to pay the postage first which due to the ground being small rocks may be higher than it would have been. Hopefully paying out close to 100 quid to get their rubbish returned will make them think twice
  22. since i lost my fav scriber i treated myself to a nice shiny new tamiya version. and since i was in the shop anyway i also got a half dozen jar paints.
  23. sabre tooth tigers didn't really go extinct, they just evolved into karens and mothers in law
  24. you can set how far back it shows using the drop down menus at the top of the unread content page. it only doesn't show if you've read the threads previously or marked site as read. if you haven't looked at a thread since new content was added then it will still show up. on the other menu pages it still shows things in order of the most recent post to a thread.
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