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I agree with Pete ... Papilio is the best.

I came on this demo of Beamng and it a blast to just try the FREE tech demo. It's a driving game that promises real time injury to your vehicle. The demo is just a test area you can drive a pickup into all manner of rocks, walls and jumps that will cause damage as this ... It is only in Alpha now but you can join in for a modest $15. I have nothing to do with this but thought some might get a kick out of it after all those driving simulations that do no damage to your vehicle!

I wish I could post some photos for you but I had posted a thread about how unrealistic carburetors were molded and there may be something of interest in there. Some photos and mention of paints and well done kit carbs were in it. I use a mic of gold and silver to get closer to that goldish carb color.

YES to up on wheels!

GORGEOUS!

ditto ... and it's USEABLE to the end of the bottle! link for photo

Your photography AND your build really show this off to it's fullest! ... and start us all drooling !

I'm so glad this thread has come alive again! There are so many good builders here and seeing their work is the greatest of pleasures.

That is so cool and I totally enjoyed watching your build!

Once something has been copied to the Clipboard (ctrl C copies whatever is highlighted) you just use ctrl V to past that where the cursor is.

ok now ... NH gets it before the Berkshires?? (well, haven't walked down the hill to check mail yet today ....) another edit 5pm I got the mail and issue #180 WAS there! My apologies to neighbor NH!

4WD? what's that??

crazyrichard deserves a defense, especially for making that English Wheel! So here goes ... First, to qualify myself, I'm a structural engineer and I've designed a few thousand concrete floors of all types, especially industrial. There is one thing about concrete, it is designed to crack ... there's not necessarily anything wrong if it does. Concrete slabs on grade are rarely intended to support machinery ... it's the machinists that think a concrete floor can support anything! (sorry richard, ) Concrete cracks as a result of shrinkage as the water evaporates. The groves cut into a grid, as seen in richard's floor, are called control joints and are done when the concrete is still soft. The idea is for the shrinkage cracks to develop at these thinner locations and not be so visible. A concrete floor is only as strong as the soil it sits on. There are rigid tests to insure the soil is properly prepared. The lack of this preparation is the reason for most of the "random" cracks you see in concrete slabs as the soil settles over time and the slab sags and cracks over this soft soil. So the lack of cracks in richard's machine shop floor signifies he had it constructed properly and may even had the slab thickened in the area of his equipment for proper support! I doubt I'll be called to investigate this floor for cracking. !

I'd check the Mud Flaps option

now, THAT'S A LOOKER!!

Maybe it's because people are painting "rat rods" with candy apple paint now!

I use Microscale Micro Liquitape for mocking up. It's a white liquid you apply to both parts and makes a nice bond that can even be taken apart and put back together. It all washes off with water. A quote on the bottle says "A tacky adhesive for temporarily joining most modeling materials". Here's a link to it at the BMF site. It's at the bottom of the page.

yeah??? !!!

Welcome to the site of sites, Tom ... it's good to see such a familiar name here. It's not the address from your browser but a link that is usually generated by the photo site and is usually a simple click or copy from there. What photo site did you join? ... and I'm sure detailed help will suddenly appear here from this great membership! Once you do the mechanics it will be as easy as chopping a '32 Ford.

Looks good ... nice recovery!

This is a bad deal for hoarders ... and I feel like I hoard but have only a small amount of kits compared to many. So, First, how many model kits do you own? about 147 How many builds did you complete last year? 2 ! (this is 0 for the previous 4 years .. ) Calculate build percentage: = 1.36% easy to beat a hoarder even if I don't complete anything.

Air-Trax is high quality resin work. They are expensive, but worth every penny. I have a Triumph TR4A I've started that is the only game in town for this car I owned. It is a bit thick and I believe one of their first bodies, but the casting is dead on correct.. The quality of their newer bodies is even better.

When this started, I never imagined that it was going to end up looking like a kit coming out of a steel mold ... one beautiful piece of work! (your resin casting looks flawless!)

I love the flow of the rear bumper/fender skirt! That's Master Custom Work ... the eye of an artist!

This is standard procedure for me. It's just to give your knife a deeper groove to follow. You just run a panel scriber along the edge of the trim you are going to foil. There are many types of panel scribers available, of which I have 3 or 4. My favorite is a dental scraper which Micro Mark sells. I like it because it seems to follow curves and corners better, probably just works with MY brain better.