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  1. snake and mongoose is enjoyable, the worlds fastest indian is really good and features some historic land spped cars in the background,
  2. 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
  3. racing is racing
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. very cool, its nice to see different styles done on a japanese car
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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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  15. sorry, had to delete, noticed cursing in the watermark and i dont want a ban
  16. duplicolour, they just call it matt black though
  17. cut or file the flange off. you can get most of it removed using your sprue cutter then its just filing and sanding to get a nice surface. a bit of tape on the edges should save the chrome if you want to save it, i use the thick paper parcel tape for this as its tougher than masking tape and if you dont rub it down too much its also easy to remove
  18. you might get a better result using double sided tape bacause the glue isn't wet. when you add the mica powders to the glues the reason they clump is due to the fine grains of the powder. its like adding baking soda (or any other powdered substance) to superglue to use as filler. also you wont be able to use some paints as some mica powders are made to melt into paints to make your own colours while others are more like adding flake to a 1/1 paintjob. you could also try those glue sticks we used in school, the brand on this side of the pond was called pritstik and again its a fairly dry glue but I've never tried it on plastic or painted surfaces and due to the nature of the gluestik it might not work for tight corners unless you reshape the end of the stick but they can be mashed back together after. they usually cost around 2.50 for 5 in the toy section or with the pens and paper. the tubes are a bit bigger than lip balm tubes
  19. you've got a dodgy app if its doing that. was it a free app on your phone? theres a load of free apps that only exist to do this. you're not the first either, someone else got caught out earlier in the year. it is not a problem with the qr code or the magazines end, but something in one of your apps you use to scan the qr code. you'll also need to change your passwords and pass codes after deleting the dodgy app cos they will have stolen them. you can search your email on haveibeenpwned.com to see how much info has been stolen and how often, fyi; i show up in 64 hacks and thats a low number really
  20. I dont disagree, but i'm from farming families. rabbits are a much bigger pest than rats and they love to eat wiring as much as rats and mice, especially on sheep farms
  21. i dont know why people go nuts when they see a rat and must kill it, yet rabbit are treated more like pets. they are vermin, filled with diseases and destroy crops yet people think they are cute and fluffy. and what does it matter if a couple of baby rabbits get rejected? they'll be replaced by another 6-12 in less than 2 months. theres a reason they say "at it like rabbits" also if handling young animals caused the parents to reject it, then we wouldn't have farming
  22. ongoing to my irk with communicating with the jobcentre. it seems english is too hard a language for them to communicate with so i've asked them to communicate with me in welsh. I dont speak or read welsh but i figure i have as much chance of understanding it as their attempts in english if i run it through 3 or 4 different languages on google translate before trying it in english. i did get them to finally admit i cant know about something if they dont tell me and since they didn't tell me i could not give them the date on a letter they didn't send. my second irk of the day is cruise liner passengers. because some bright spark decided adding 10,000 extra people to a small island wasa good idea i could not get on a bus to a job interview. the earliest bus i could actually get on was 2 hours later and the job was gone.
  23. if its bleach it should wash off with a water and bleach solution. once the bleach softens you can then wash it with clean water to remove the residue. an old toothbrush works great for the corners and grilles to get it all out of the cravases. when you use bleach to strip chrome its best to clean it while its still wet or you get it crystalising. if its on a larger flat area you can remove it with greaseproof cooking paper which also works great to remove limescale non porous metals
  24. how long were the parts in the bleach? bleach turns into what you desribed when it dries
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