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stitchdup

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  1. I've only worked on one of them, but i've restored 4 fergie 35s and 2 135s. I turned one of these heller kits into my grandads 35 or close to it apart from the engine being the wrong way around, lol
  2. heller kit built as a wreck to add to a diorama. real rust but i'll add some more when it goes in the dio as i have more effects to add.
  3. what good is a shed without shelves?
  4. if its not going to be handled too often montana gold spray cans. its is similar to molotowe in needing about a week to set hard and cannot be cleared but it gives a nice brassey finish. This is straight from the can, over a brush painted resin print
  5. de'finitions goin on ere grandad when he got home from work and saw his garden dug
  6. i've got loads of them too, and some decals for doing trim on seats but its another you need to buy 4 sets of to be sure to have enough
  7. Those kits mostly get sold in europe. the capri is massively popular on this side of the pond and these kits have kept their value bacause of that. I hope revell have kept hold of them, they would be a good seller for them if the second hand values are a guide and since ford europe did the engineering they are simple to build an engine bay for as it just a couple of right angle bends to make inner fenders
  8. they get cleaned before they get cured so you should be good. I use duplicolour primers with my prints
  9. While you said you would like to keep your current monitor, you may get some other options/discounts if you replace the the whole thing as one unit. I would expect a monitor to be part of any deal you get offered so its worth keeping the option open just in case.
  10. cool project TJ, the bug front end is really simple to narrow and to make working suspension from due to how tamiya put it together. I did a how to somewhere on here for the front and rear suspension
  11. I need at least 6gig processing speed to run the slicer. A gaming laptop might have the spec needed if its a recent one as the graphics card needs to be good too. I havent done any drawing on my computer but my friend has installed and used blender on it with no problems. His own laptop is much more powerful than mine but mine coped ok. It was a little slow but i probably wont be using it that often for drawing. If you are going to use it a lot then get the best spec you can to save having to keep upgrading parts/apps
  12. base level objectivity definers sounds like a technical term but i just made it up
  13. away from the manager a karen raised it head, screaming from her lungs that she WILL be heard
  14. some more done. Once this has dried I'll line the inside with wood as well. next up is figuring out the size of the lean to on the side. Once i have it worked out i can add some surface textures and plant life
  15. I've got a couple of glass curio display cases. They keep the worst of the dust out. I've also got an old hifi unit I've stripped the gubbins out of to leave a glass cased place to display a couple of dios.
  16. I can vouch for safety buying from ukraine. Apart from feb to august last year there has been little difference to delivery times before the war. It takes about 3 weeks from ukraine to the uk so maybe 4 for usa
  17. I've enjoyed working with the wood on this so I'm building a dio to go with it. Maybe its because its something new but that keeping my attention at the moment but i have been continuing to work on the fenders while i wait for glue to dry.
  18. they still exist but mostly as a t shirt company, or you get 120 pages that say see your dealer which i assume is who they saw before putting out such useless help books.
  19. Save yourself some trouble and use the same brands. Once you have built up a few cans with leftover paints you can start to experiment with them then. Personally I stopped using enamels, they just never seemed to fully harden for me and i dont have the patience to watch paint dry so i use mainly 1/1 auto paints
  20. good quality citroens, peugeots and renaults. Now they are poorly designed with critical components in the most exposed places, eg. most renaults have the computer positioned where any road grime or salt just rest on top of the connections or having to remove body panels just to swap a light bulb making what used to be a 5 minute job take over 6 hours. also, bright colours. grey, black, white and silver are dull depressing colours, especially when they are all you see day in and day out. Some days the only colourfulvehicles i see are the post mans vans. bring back colours!!
  21. a little progress
  22. using a hammer to get a starter to turn. now the casings just split but you used to be able to batter them if the solenoid stuck and could buy just the solenoid or cap for repairs instead of a £750 part
  23. we've got a neighbour that has no idea how to control her dog. 3 times this week she has stood doing goldfish impressions while her mutt attacks ours and the neighbours cats. She got annoyed with me cos i threw a bucket of water over the dog cos i wasn't reaching past an aggrasive pit to rescue tha cats as i like my hands being useful. all the idiot needs to do is keep it on the lead. I sorta hope the dog goes after the local farmers sheep because he wont hesitate to shoot it dead. I believe the dog was a rescue which may explain why its how it is as most pits i know are pretty docile animals but this one is just dangerous
  24. extinction level event was a lackluster movie
  25. I only have a half a dozen non volkswagens and they are all 1/24 maisto except for a 1/1? chevy 59 impala. all my other diecast are vw and i dont have any preference to quality or brand with those. as long as its something vw group I'll buy it. I've got vws in many scales and recently got a box of goodies from a member here containing a load of canadian vw toys. condition doesn't matter to me with the vw stuff either as its all about the subject matter and to me toys can have patina too. Its part of the toys history but I'm not against modding them. A future project will be a melding a diecast bentley convertible with a plastic toy of the hard top.
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