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the fastest woman on earth is a good documentary about Jessie Combs and her record. Its well worth a watch if you are intersted in land speed racing and the many risks involved. Some of it is tough to listen to though as they include much of the crash audio from the crash that killed her

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some colour charts

Bit of fun trivia, 3d prints look like bombs when they go through airport security as my sister recently found out on her way back from her disabled flying lessons with the RAF. The ironic part is it was a print of sir douglas bader a ww2 pilot famous for having replacement lags airdropped to him while a prisoner in ww2 that caused her to be taken aside. Its down to the internal supports and materials in the print so maybe leave early if flying with prints cos your going to get searched at every gate

i can if you are in the uk and have the stl files you want printed. I can print up to 1/16 scale, possibly bigger depending on vehicle. the largest i can print is about the size of a couple stacked vans shoe boxes.

i wasn't trying to legitimize it, the post is for racing movies, not legal racing movies. and if 2 people are competing to be first to get somewhere that is still a race whether its legal or not. if we exclude illegal racing activities many of these movies wouldn't qualify, for example the hire car race in days of thunder or enzo and ferruchio street racing in the lamborghini movie. the simple fact is they are just movies made as entertainment and they do things many of us wouldn't do. i watched oceans eleven and i haven't robbed a casino

Cool, i used to go on holiday to one of those style as a kid

its kinda ironic that the people that complain the loudest about a lack of reading or educational comprehension in kids today are the ones that seem to be absent now for a lack of comprehending the rules so at least we still get a laugh

the cars movie is good too, its got enough detail to keep us car guys interested too

but you called it racing in your reply? lol

snake and mongoose is enjoyable, the worlds fastest indian is really good and features some historic land spped cars in the background,

revell 41 chevy pick up revell 911 in 356 fake tamiya calibra race engine with lots of turbos, a supercharger in there somewhere and loads of other scratched parts in a fujimi kenemary skyline DAF cattleman fujimi datsun parts pack engine in aoshima cedric fujimi 911 in new beetle pick up jaguar mk2

racing is racing

if you are just wanting to stick it to a wooden board i would use carpet tape rather than spray glue. much less mess and its not wet so little chance of wrinkling.

fast and furious 1 and 2, 2 lane blacktop, last american hero, those are the ones i remember of the top of my head but i have a load of them at home

The year was around 1988 or 89 and i was in the last year of primary school. There was a tv movie called venus peter being made locally and i was almost going to be the kid that had some lines in the movie because i had a close relationship with my grandfather and that was one of the themes of the film. I got to miss school for a month and got my first taste of chilli from the food van, but as my grandfather passed away shortly before filming started the role went to another kid and i was just one of the background folk. It was a fun experience all the same, i got to climb inside an anamatronic whale!! which was fascinating and i used almost all the money i earned to buy a peterbuilt 359? kit out of the local toy shop. It cost me about £30 i think and would have been italeri or revell kit. I still have some parts of it. I dont have any memory of building it myself so i might have got my dad to build it for me. It was brush painted matt black and i think i picked the truck as i had recently seen the convoy movie. I think the plastic on the truck chassis may have been brown or red. I've still only seen small parts of the movie and have never seen the whole thing and being nit was a tv movie its not available on dvd or to stream

you can find the tag heuer decals in a lot of euro race cars. they were the official timing equipment for a number of years and also sponsored a couple of race cars. maybe spot model would be a good place to look for aftermarket decals. I think there may also be decals in some porsche race kits

primer works best when it has something to bits into. i usually use some fine grey scotch pads then follow with cheap abrasive household cleaners and a toothbrush. I had a lot of problems doing foil before i started doing this as the paint was just laid over the plastic but had nothing to hold onto due to smoothness of the plastics. I use duplicolour acrylic primers. they will work with tamiya paints.

I would have written AA decals but thats a completely different thing in the usa, and really confused me when i was younger wondering why the aa seemed like a naughty thing in us tv shows, lol. What i am looking for is the uk automobile assosiation road service decals in the pre ww2 style when they looked more ornate. I need them in 1/24 size for a phantom model a. something like the rear van or even just the crest would be ideal if anybody knows a source

very cool, its nice to see different styles done on a japanese car

the site offers free posting for us since the photobucket mess a few years back. if you look in the box below as you are posting you will see a drag files or choose files option. I tend to use the drag and drop method before writing my post then add the pics in using the insert option below the pic (I've circled where it is in red as it disappeared when i tried screenshot it). use the other media option for video.

yes, but i used a set of aoshima tyres on the revell r8 rims but its the same process. I also had to trim the centre out of the wheel back as i wanted proper brakes behind the rim and not in between the faces. you can also get a friction fit if you carefully trim the centre ridge of the tyres to be evr so slighly smaller than the rim but doing this can be a pain to keep the tyre profile even as any discrepancy will make the tyre not round though gently warming the tyre can soften them to ease getting them on the rims. if your worried about the tyre coming loose you can alwats add a dab of glue to hold them

loop can mean jump in some dialects, for example local to me a ferry looper is someone that moved to the islands by boat and is not an insult even though they seem to think it is

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