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contexts important in written word but often missing with slang terms
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still waiting in scotland. its usually here by christmas week
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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
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Do you also have 1:1 project cars?
stitchdup replied to ctruss53's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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 -
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
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may-may i have some more said olivers stuttering cousin
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Benatar job done around the corner but they still need to finish the lines
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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
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Pre-war heavy Chevy...
stitchdup replied to 64Comet404's topic in Truck Aftermarket / Resin / 3D Printed
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 -
Revell Acrylic paint
stitchdup replied to ModelcarJR's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
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. -
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
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Satelite working seems like an awful long commute
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Safety in the 50's
stitchdup replied to TarheelRick's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
what could make your car safer than having god (new testament, not old) on your side? lol -
its like horsepower, too much is never enough
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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.
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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
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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.
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Hasegawa 63 VW Samba Bus
stitchdup replied to catpack68's topic in Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
Nicely done, not often you see them done with black paint and when it looks this good i dont know why? -
Safety in the 50's
stitchdup replied to TarheelRick's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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 -
Reduced Stock in Model Stores ?
stitchdup replied to Anglia105E's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
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 -
VW Tire Fit—Rim Size and Scale
stitchdup replied to dusty_shelf's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
vw pro street cars usually run firestone wide ovals on dds rear rims with mercedes smart car front tyres. you can get the wide ovals in the recent american car rim sets from aoshima. For the front tyres I'd look at the polar lights herley quinn bug, it has a slightly smaller set of the bug tyres than tamiya or revells bugs and its got some optional rims too. Its a snap kit but well worth having in the stash, and if you wanted to convert the tamiya into a split window, the polar lights roof fitsit you only use the rear of the roof. I tend to cut it ten mm above the split rear glass then use that part as a template to cut the tamiya. -
Reduced Stock in Model Stores ?
stitchdup replied to Anglia105E's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
humbrol took the lead out in the early/mid eighties. it was around the same time as everybody got better fridges due to the ozone layer. it was before the lead was taken out of petrol. it could even have been the late 70s we took lead out of all paints. i dont remember accurate dates cos i was still pre school then but i remember a family friend having to dump a lot of paint from his shed (he was a decorator) at the time -
1969 chevy service truck
stitchdup replied to stitchdup's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
I completely overdid the weathering on the cab so its soaking in alcohol for an hour to strip it. It would have been just as easy to print another but this gives me the chance to scribe the doors and give the roof some shape. If the roof goes well i'll probably try and some shape to the hood too as its also flat. I'll have to start away from the back edge as reshaping it will lose the vent detail on the scuttle. Luckily i have plenty of alcohol on hand from cleaning prints.