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    I'm Polish and my mother's parents were there during that war. Grandfather got conscripted into the Russian army while my Grandmother who was only 12 at the time hid in a closet while some of the Russian army broke into her house and raped and murdered her mother and two older sisters. I'm also an early Ford guy so your model is especially interesting to me. I like dioramas too. Very well done detail at 1:35.
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    Police Interceptor version should sell like hotcakes.
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    You need more magnification in your pics so the rest of us can see the warts you're talking about.
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    Technically there's a relationship between the diameter of the toothpick or whatever and the offsets. For the first row the horizontal offset is 1.16 times the radius of the toothpick. Vertical offset between the first row and the second and subsequent rows is radius of the toothpick. Each new row start point is offset horizontally by one half of the 1.16 times radius dimension. Then there's the choosing of right to left or left to right. They will look different. Then there's the easier to comprehend 45 degree pattern where row offsets are equal but rotated 45 degrees from the part horizontal. And you didn't even have to ask.
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    Daddy Mack suggesting silver has been very helpful, It led me to the Angel Gilding site from which I ordered some chemicals and kits. Took me a while to find this particular page that quite clearly explains what I need to do. https://angelgilding.com/electroplating-and-powder-coating/ Thank you Daddy Mack.
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    It's been 60 years since I took high school chemistry and even then summa dis and summa dat didn't fly and it certainly ain't gonna fly with this electroless stuff. I find it interesting that quite a number of research papers i scour looking for recipes are authored by Chinese scholars. A couple Pakistani and South Korean too. Finally found a couple recipes I can understand dealing with simple grams and milliliters instead of molar solutions. So now I can do X grams of dis and Y ml of dat mixed with Z ml of deionized water. Getting closer to needing plastic spoons which I don't have yet.
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    Generally yes, but those hanging types are usually found along a street. Your doorway doesn't face a street so a wall mounted plaque may be more appropriate and maybe not so elaborate. A club is more private than public.
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    Oak Barrel Whiskey Club sounds better IMHO. However, I'd like to suggest more of an English Pub type sign, a plaque shape of sorts, instead of a long sign board.
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    Photo is from this site. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/hyperscale/spitfire-engine-bay-colours-or-lack-of-t500713.html One thing seems sure is that the engines weren't painted a monolithic color after assembly like diesel truck engines generally seem to be. Seems like cast iron parts got painted black. Non-ferrous castings seem to have varied from unpainted to either a green or a blue. I am no expert. These are my observations from searches.
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    This project will take longer than I'd hoped. Got most of the chemicals, a bunch of lab equipment, a couple plating kits, one of two technical books I ordered and a fair amount of skepticism. So far cost is still under $1000. Got 5 grams of palladium chloride for only $285 including tax. Wife gets earrings or I'm toast I suspect the spoon video might be bogus..
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    Consider cotton batting wrap and slip each one into a mailing tube. A sheet of paper over the batting will make it easier to slip in the tube.
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    Google greenstuffworld and use the on site search for leaf punches. They have many and in different scales.
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    Early Ford style, not typical modern type. Plug in end of cylindrical housing traps ball. Heroic plan is to cast the housing part out of cerrobend in a 3D printed mold. Ball pic is 2X size.
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    If you ever want to try making some really small rivets I've contemplated using nylon, hypodermic tubing and a cauterizing pen. Been playing with nylon paint brush bristles making a ball on the end for functional ball joint tie rod ends. Head size (ball size in my case) is controlled by how far bristle sticks out of tubing. Cauterizing pen is controlled concentrated heat for head forming and peening..
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    Ordering quite a bit of stuff from Amazon and getting more deliveries next day. Got a couple well within 24 hours. Far cry from the olden days of mailing in an order and waiting 4 to 6 weeks with no tracking whatsoever. A voice command to Google, a click on an Amazon listing and one click ordering makes it possible to have my order placed and get an email confirmation within 60 seconds.
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    Any idea how he's managing to do his chrome plated resin parts???
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    He certainly has quite a collection of truck wheels.
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    Yeah Pete, I go there. It was one of your posts and that forum that led me to buy the Photon. Do you print???
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    First Photon print looks good, no problem at 50 microns. Printed a 1:8 scale Flathead stock head with water jackets. Next I will try 25 microns (0.001") layer height.
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    You have my attention.
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    Thank you. I have a Photon that I haven't tried yet. The Mars looks like a clone from what I see in ads for it. I'll be using ChiTuBox for slicing from the start, in a couple hours actually. I want to compare it to the Solus DLP.
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    My Pillow commercials 20 or more times a day were driving me crazy and still do, but I got relief with one of these.
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    Fascinating. This thread came up when I was searching for air eraser and besides the baking soda being used on 3D prints the subject trucks are a special interest of mine. The detailing of tiny parts is my current problem and seeing this done in N scale gives me hope. Most interesting is the CAD mastery and adjusting for print-ability at very small scale. Very good result that can be even better with 10 micron DLP printing. Mack and International were intertwined companies.
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