Junkman

Ah, motorcycle kits...

What a superb idea! They should make wonderful April fool stuff.

Fourgon Concussion, rather.

Actually you do have pattern control with rattle cans too, to an extend. You can buy all kinds of nozzles intended for graffiti artists at art supply shops.

You really had me LOL here.

Do it for fun. It really is fun. The exercise is just a pleasant by-product of having fun. Who knows, soon you may return from your LHS with one or two kits strapped to the luggage rack, like in those good old days.

Hmmm... I have seen a lot of Americans on bicycles when I was over there to visit. In fact, I've seen so many that I assumed it's kind of a fashion craze. Actually, it is addictive. I returned to cycling after a 20 year break. Now you can't keep me away from it any-more. Once you get back into it, the same will happen to you.

With better half:

For trips up to five miles, I usually use one of these: http://baronvonzach.blogspot.com/ Apart from needing no petrol at all, they also have the undeniably huge advantage that the girls can see me when I ride by. They do boost the beer consumption though, so in the end nothing is saved.

Actually, when you see those on the road, the headlamps don't appear to be coloured at all: The colours only appear once the lamps are switched on.

[anorak mode] A very common mistake, repeated so often that a lot of people believe it's true. But Kelsey Hayes never was a supplier to Chrysler Corp. Instead, Chrysler used wire wheels made by a company called 'Motor Wheel', which has been defunct for many years now. You can see this instantly once you take the tyre off a Chrysler wire wheel. They are stamped 'Motor Wheel'. However, Kelsey Hayes makes reproductions of the Motor Wheel for restorers. [/anorak mode]

Crooks and gangsters. The whole ugly lot of them. Add the global warming scam that serves no other purpose than that the air is taxed now.

Since you provided all the necessary information in one post, I take the liberty to use your example to make my point. So let's do a bit of math. 69000 miles since 1999 is roughly 5500 miles a year (for ease of caculation). Let's just say the price always was 4.00 a gallon. Let's also just say, the Escort does 25 miles a gallon. All for ease of calcualtion, but the figures probably aren't very far away from reality. So, that's 220 gallons a year = 880 $. If it was a big 20 mpg car, it would need 275 gallons a year = 1100$ So the difference would be 220$ a year, or $4.23 a week. Even if it was an ancient 15 mph V8 behemoth, the difference would be less than 10$ a week. Keeping with the Escort, even if the price would increase to 5.00$ a gallon, it would cost no more than $4.23 a week extra, based on 5500 miles a year. I don't even drive 5500 miles per year. It's more like 3000 miles. Hence I couldn't care less how much petrol my car needs, or how much it costs, since it just doesn't make that big a difference. What stinks is the 80% tax I pay in Europe, not because it makes such a difference (see above), but because 80% tax just stinks on a general principle. I know who my enemy is and it's not the oil companies. Just today, the petrol station across the street upped the price per litre by 3p, i.e. from £1.329 per litre to £1.359 per litre. This means, I have to pay the whopping sum of £1.80 more per tank. I need two tanks a month, so this sets me back the exorbitant sum of £3.60 per month. We are talking about petrol, for which wars have to be fought, oil has to be pipelined for tousands of miles, then it has to be shipped haf way around the globe, then it has to be refined in facilities the size of Belgium (imagine the mere real estate value), then distributed to each individual petrol station in the country and dispensed from rather expensive looking petrol pumps. Beer in comparison is little more than boiled water. But they charge me in the neighborhood of 5 quid a litre for that stuff down at the local. Why is it that so many people moan about the price of petrol, while this totally unjustified rip-off beer price doesn't seem to bother anybody?

Jag MKII.

Don't do anything. They will go away. If there are still traces left after a month, jsut wax it with model wax.

It's mutual. Without oil companies I wouldn't have any petrol to dump into my big bloody V8, so I love them. What I hate are politicians. 80% of what I pay for the petrol are their stinking taxes.

Yeah, until you have to fit the windows.

I find that guy's work just unbelievable. I wouldn't even attempt it. Them paper modellers seem to be quite a large community totally dedicated to their craft, like we are to our's. If you browse the related forums, you'll see they do come up with some amazing stuff. There is this total lunatic in Germany who builds a 2-3-1 Pacific express steam loco model predominantly from cardboard and paper mashee -- in 1:6 scale!!! His motivation: One of his kitchen walls looks too blank and needs a nice decoration piece.

Monogram Shelby 350 GT. Man, did that kit fit well into my rubbish bin.

It's about $8.20 per US Gallon here. They recently raised it by 2p per litre (about USD 0.10 a gallon), so when I fill up from dust to flood, a complete tankfill costs me roughly £1.20 more than before. Gosh, the impact this has on my life! I am doing little else than running around in panic thinking where I can save 1 quid 20p every two weeks to make up for it. Imagine, that's 2.40 a month! 28.80 per year! I really should buy a new 25k car that needs less petrol so I can save some 30 odd quid a year. My children now get bark to nibble on instead of stale bread and they have to walk to school barefooted, in the rain, two miles one way, up the hill both ways. For some strange reason, it hasn't made an impact on my model car budget yet.

I have never gone to airbrush in the first place.

How convoluted is it when you dream of a non-existing kit of something that never existed?

This is what could have been:

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