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hotrod have all their old issues online now. a member here went through them all and did a sumary post of them. you might find it in that thread, though he mostly posted about the car features. it was a good thread if you dont want to go through all the issues of hotrod

theres a couple of documentaries on youtube about the making of the games. every real track had been scanned detailed enough that on the current game you can find the trees in the game on real photos. all the cars are scanned too including the interiors. some of the 3d files i've bought have been built up from the gran tourismo data but xbox games seem more popular for that. but then its supposed to be a simulator more than a game. i keep being told its even better with the steering wheel instead of the controller so i might have to try that. you should watch the movie too, its pretty good even if most of its not the real story, and more a combination of 3 different players to get the character for the movie. the race engineer for example is a totally ficticious person. its still a good movie

walked across town in heavy rain and wind to get to a hospital appointment. Its tomorrow, sigh

theres a 3d printed kit with the grille. i think its an andrei berezovski (probably spelled his name wrong) kit so should be decent quality. I dont know how accurate it is. i think i've seen a resin grille on ebay too

browsers will do that sometimes while they are updating, usually towards the end of the data stream while its getting ready to install. i think it might be down to the processor getting overworked by trying to load the pics on the forum at the same time and just giving up. background processes can do it too. I get it on my 2 gig processor (that i use for most stuff) laptop but never on the 8 gig processor (only ever used for printer/slicer and cults)

want to try chat gpt but dont want to pay for a subscription?

I was a ford guy before i got into vws, i had a 4 dr mk2 escort that probably spent more time going backwards into ditches than forwards but that was down to cheap tyres, poor driving and a poorly fitted 2l pinto from a mk4 granada that hit the floor on left turns if you went too fast, lol. no mods to the brakes or suspension and it handled terrible but its probably the most fun car i've owned. fast enough to get in trouble but not fast enough to kill myself in it. i swapped a vw camper for the escort and the camper is still in the shed it got put in and nearly forgotten. i dont think it would even be a parts car now as the rust was really bad when i got rid of it.

have you seen the new ev concept, it looks really good imo and didn't do too bad on the goodwood hillclimb

maybe we could get group builds moved to the in progress section, it seems a bit more suitable as the other categories are all more off topic type threads.

Very cool

that would make a pretty useable daily as a 1/1, at least on this side of the pond where fuel is pricey

ok I'm in with at least two euro fords. the first wil be the tamiya lotus seven (it uses a ford crossflow) but I want that engine for another mk2 escort so will be swapping it for a 3d printed ford focus zetec on throttle bodies. the second will be a ford sierra saphire cosworth road car with one of uscp's escort cosworth engine bays which i fully expect to fit as the escort cossie was built on the sierra floorpan. I'll print out a road car interior for it. i need to get another of these before they disappear I might pull my old unfinished mk2 from the cannonball back out too

I've seen some of the trailers on ebay but i cant recall if it was pre order or not. I think the van kits are out too. its the farm stuff I'm waiting for, especially the 135 because i've restored one of them. I cant honestly say i've been looking out for the other stuff but i expect any that are just different decals would be out sooner than new kits. they sometimes have them on the revell germany site for sale too so they might have them faster

When I found this I knewI had to get it for my sister. She'll probably never build it but i know she'll have it on display as these are important planes in our lives. every holidays we would fly on these to our grandparents. theres nothing like as soon as the tyres touch the ground, all exterior vision is lost until the pilot pours the bottle of water he carries on the front window. this is because we didn't land on a runway, but just a farmers field that doubled as a runway. when there were no planes it was used for beasts and shups (cattle and sheep) so when the tyres hit the cow pies.... well I'm sure you get the picture and if you think this isn't crazy enough, if it was wet and windy the plane would be landing more sideways than forward still with no outside vision unless it was really chucking it down. these are sure tough planes, i saw one go through the fence on landing yet nothing important got broken so it flew back for repairs. another time there was a tourist who had never flown before before sitting nervously behind th pilots seat (its not got a partition cos then a stretcher wouldn't fit as these were also our ambulances) and the guy next him started getting more and more impatient next him (yet sounded really familiar) and after the pilot was 5 mins late declared loudly "well this idiots obviously forgot about us, but I've sat ahint (behind) hem (him) fur (for) a giuey feuy (a great many) times and hid disna luk yin herd (it doesn't look that hard)" and proceeded to climb into the pilots seats and start the plane before eventually turning around and declaring he really was the pilot and asking the nervous bloke if he was calmed down yet, lol. the same pilot was alleged to have landed the plane on one of the churchill barriers another time, yet could navigate to the islands during fog by spotting the various lighthouses. he was a highly skilled pilot in these planes and responsible for saving many lives with his skills

i'm pretty sure someone got a darwin award for the same thing a few years ago, or at least an "honorable mention" in one of the books

It was relaunched about 5 or ten years ago. I think the jalopy journal or hotrod did a feature on it when its first returned

my uncles collection shows up on google earth, last count was over 500 vehicles that are in need of little work to be roadworthy or farm ready. some rare stuff among it including at least 2 xk120s and a short bodied e type. then theres the parts vehicles outside.....

i've seen a sedan rodded

https://www.conceptcarz.com/s11697/packard-model-1407-twelve.aspx

for interior pics look for high end auctions. they have great photos and most include lots of detail pics. any of the auctions around pebble beach are a good starting point and often wikipedia can lead to some good pics if you follow the links in articles

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/04/us/armadillo-bullet-story-twitter-trnd/index.html

I feel for you sir, but one thing i found that helped me was when i did have a break i went out somewhere away from it all, and my sense of humour got a lot sicker but its really a case of looking for the bright moments and cherishing those because unfortunately as carers we tend to forget the good times when they were themselves and only see the bad times. there are some things i laughed at that had people thinking i was insane but they just dont know what we have to do. I hate to admit it but i was slightly relieved when my gran passed but not because she passed, more because she wasn't struggling anymore. when they have a bad day sometimes going through old family photos and getting the names down on them can bring them a little out of it as its things that are fresh in their memories so much less confusing for them. I'm not qualified in any way related to any of this but you do what you have to do for family and friends. also if they wear glasses make sure they are clean, for some reason it seems to help too.

You can still get these type of kits new. I've mostly seen them in shops that sell knick knacks or tousit trap type shops or even the gadget shop. I've got one that builds into a vintage car but its a slot together one and i've seen a fair few older style trains built by other people. They seemed pretty popular during the first pandemic christmas on this side of the pond but seem to have faded away again now. The ones for boats still seem popular but those are much more advanced and detailed. I quite fancy getting the viking ship one cos it would make for a great "up helly aa" diorama. I can remember seeing the older wooden ones that werea block of wood, axles and wheels in shop when i was a kid too and I'm only in my 40s, but when i was kid the local shops didn't take unfashionable toys off the shelfs, they stayed until they sold so dinky cars from the 50s could still be bought new too. But the islands weren't as connected in them days so things came on a need before want basis

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I'm quite surprised to find out i have the same self defence mechanisms as a wild animal. unfortunatelly the animal is a pangolin so all i do is curl in a ball and fart