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Ok, I don't speak german but google translate is very good at making abolute nonsense of meaningfull text. So after a few times trough the translater I got this answer: Make sure the cement does not bring the cement to the windshield with your finger by connecting the inlet pipes to the cement inlet

That looks like the so-called "architect-drawn" housing that is built around here all of the time now. Each procjet usually has a goofy name that always ends with park. No park anywhere near them but they are supposed to be "green" (meaning that you spend less electricty by living there).

I mostly only read crime in books and I recently read some of Michael Connoly's books about Harry Bosch. Cool books and I can understand how someone that lives in and around LA can "see" the places in the books. You can also do the same if you live in the Stockholm area and read the books on Martin Beck. They book are all staged in the 60s-70s when they where written. As for TV-crime, I don't follow the moderns streaming strend much and don't really care that much about watching newer series. I like Columbo, recently bought the first seven seasons (the good ones) on DVD. I also have the complete Poirot with David Suchet playing the part of Poirot on DVD. My wife was a great fan of CSI and I watched quite a lot of that with here but I still think Quincy was better (even if I have not seen that in a long time). Maybe not the same type of crimedrama but a "modernday" series I like is the Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes series. A total of five seasons stretching from the 70s and in to the 80s.

What about this one? https://www.ebay.com/itm/DODGE-POWER-WAGON-SWB-SHORT-BED-4X4-ORIGINAL-PAINT/392033727710?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 Ok, it's not a long bed and it is not a W200 and it only has a 318 (that could easily be swapped) but I think this looks great.

The first car I fell in love with is still number one on the list, the 57 Chevy Nomad. I prefer stock, like this: But there is also many nice customs of them and in my eyes the best one is the Sam Hollingsworth car. And I think Revell captured it at its best on their boxart: I know that the boxart car features the wrong wheels because Revell did not have matching wirewheels an therefore altered the picture with the chromereverese wheels but in my eyes that is the best way for it. I do like the wirewheels on it aswell, just prefer the chromereverse:

Great wheatering job on this, great looking truck and your details make it stick out.

So, Christmas and Easter have both passed with a good margin and it is springtime here in little Norway. I'm doing some work now and then to this dead horse or as it is from now on going to be called "Flogging a dead horse" It is far from done but I added details to the interior and glued the body on top of it. I have played around with various powders from the Doc O'Briens kit and some MIG washes here and there. I made a base from a leftover shelf from some IKEA shelf that collapsed on us a few years ago and some plaster on top of that. Painted it flatblack and have added several styles of Woodland Scenics grass and turf flocking and some sand. Will be adding more updates in the future

Yeah, computers never do anything wrong, they always work perfectly I know that as a fact since I have worked in IT (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and we used Windows XP)

That looks very much the same as the ones we have here: This one is a 2017 Ranger Wildtrack with a 3,2 TDCi engine, for sale now at only 457 000 kroner (thats nearly 57 400$) registered as a van with only two seats: https://www.finn.no/car/used/ad.html?finnkode=115757250

Nope, it was one of the biggest things in the election last year. Almost all political parties are have decided that the only way to reduce deaths related to caraccidents is to ban driving and from 2025 all new cars will have to be electric and by 2030 all cars that are controlled by a human driver will only be allowed on closed tracks organised events. One party was playing big on making it illegal to even own a car in the future as they read an american study that said that by 2030 80% of americans would not own their own car and since the USA is big-bad-daddy over here we will make it a full 100%. Luckily for the rest of us that actually have a life in a normal world, the political system is far to slow to be able to implement such rules in 12 years. Just like the future year 2000 was portraid in the 1950s it is a question of technology that needs to be developed (by scientists that are always lacking funding) and that the future never really becomes what one thinks it should be. 12 years is not a long time. Oh, BTW and more on-topic. Why you guys are not getting the Ford Ranger must be a mistake. They sell loads of them over here.

Hey, cool. I did not know that

Wow, only a couple of years since the last time. To bad too see them go. I guess we will be buying Chineese knock-offs of old Heller kits pretty soon.

Despite Hasegawas lack of interior details at times, all the kits I have and have built from them are good. Often curbsides models with no full engine and often a little lacking in interior detail. Tamiya is usully full detail (but they also have some curbsides) and they are mostly good aswell. Who have the best Mitsubushi Evo? I have no idea, as I have never had any or built any of them.

Wow, then they will sell a lot (or atleast like 150 000 units a year) here in Norway where it is decided that from 2030 we will no longer be allowed to drive our self. There will be these driverless "transportation-on-demand" modules available 24-7 trough an app on a phone (will we have phones with apps in 12 years?) that will take anyone everywhere at speeds of a 100mph at all times all year round and it will never brake down because politicians have made it illigal for them to to so. And these are some examples of the roads we will be travelling on at a 100mph with no control on in 12 years time: But atleast you will be elsewhere

Yeah, I guess it depends on how one views things. I have often thought of the idea of making a full size model (not that I will but just toyed with the idea) and I like to think about hot-rodding and customising in the same way as modelbuilding. One has a vision, an idea that is hopefully translated in to something that one can touch and look at. It is all just a way of getting a release for a need to create something. A fake patina is a way of expressing something and building a rat rod is just the same as building a traditional hot rod or indeed a show rod. It will never be to everyones taste but is just the way the world works. We have a saying for that and translated it goes like this: The taste is like the butt, it's divided.

In my eyes, we (us modelbuilders) are often doing the same thing. We wheather our plastic models to look like rusted metal and try to age paint to look like its old even if the kit in question came fresh out of the molds only a few months ago. We are the lords of fauxtina in many ways.

The top one, a forklift hot rod with (is it) Kennedy on the wheel covers, was that made for a presidentail campaign or something? The bottom one must be the inspiration behind that Werid-ohs hot rod of an outhouse.

Today I spotted a 65 D100, just outside my house. Oh...Now I remember, it's mine Still strikes me as cool that it is finally mine. Not a lot of cool cars to see on the roads here sofar as the weather is really bad, it is this heavy form of drizzle that is so common here that makes everything soaking wet in no time and yet one has to use the slowest intervall on the wipers when driving. It is also quite cold, only a few degrees above freezing and the are forecasting night frost and maybe snow over the weekend. Yeah, it is really a lot of fun to live so close to the melting polar ice when one dislikes winter as much as me

This one looks really cool, I dig it

Yeah, I will post progress but don't hold your breath for it I could fix the fender that way but I do think I can fix it since I got another decalset in my stash now.

Since Photobucket has denied me access to my own albums I will post a link to my own build thread on the Monogram 87-91 Ford F350 with the AMT open roadcamper. A project that has been stalled for quite some time now. Lots of detailwork still to do on this. In the end it will be placed on a base and be a sort of small diorama.

Yeah, I really need to finish my model of that one. It is almost done. Just needs doorhandles, wipers and some details in the enginebay and I need to find a way to replicate the strange looking flamejob,

We live in a free world, we can all do what we want. This guy wanted to hack up is 57 Chevy, so all I can say to that is: Ok, not my car, not my problem.

I have read about Palmer before and I have seen pictures of them and have had no interest in having any of their kits myself and I was quite sure that I had none of them in my stash untill I found out that the Lindberg 1:32 49 Ford is actually a Palmer kit (that explains the strange proportions) and that the 1:25 boat kits released last year by Lindberg is also old Palmer kits become very apparent when one opens the box and look at its contents. Here is a 60s Corvette by Palmer on ebay right now: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1960s-Four-on-the-Floor-Corvette-Stingray-model-kit-Palmer-Plastics/263603740763?hash=item3d6001e05b:g:i70AAOSwux5YUEes Supercool boxart, you know you want that one. Or do you? maybe one could get that boxart enlarged and printed out as a poster, looks really great. The model....hmm....

Or maybe it is a Velox, read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Velox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Cresta