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The touched-up trim looks really nice. What color or colors will you use?

EBay all the way. EModelcars is dead. Model club members want things at giveaway prices. Craigslist is full of flakes and spammers. EBay has fees, but you get what you pay for; audience of millions, around the world, (pretty much) gaurunteed payment, no flakes trying to spam you/steal your identity.

Got a great deal in a trade with vintagedragcrazy.

Here's something I didn't miss; your hysterical rambling makes you sound like a nut case. Between this recent post and the hysterical post that was deleted over the weekend, I'm still not sure that everybody got the wrong thing by mistake. If you sent me more than I bargained for, but not what we agreed on, then wanted me to go correct your screw up, I'd just toss the stuff in the trash can and say forget the whole deal. I know for damned sure I will never trade with you. I don't need the drama. This kind of BS is one more reason I will buy a whole kit for parys , rather than do a trade. TOO MUCH DRAMA. Edit: I didn't read the entire post. THIRTY-ONE PAGES of communication about trading model parts? Wacky. Cut your losses.

Sorry for the hijack, but NEVER put up a post asking "Is X dollars a good price for this rare old kit?". I once got a screamin' deal on a Pocher kit that way. I'm such a jerk!

Most soda cans these days have numbers and/or letters stamped into the bottom. No good for making salt flat discs.

Liver is disgusting, but I buy a ton of it. I boil chicken liver and grind it up to make gravy for my dog's food. That's all it's good for.

Which is why I prefer getting a whole kit to rob for parts. You get that cool Jaguar 3.8 inline six, plus some really nice wire wheels, then you have 3 curbside Mk.II Saloons. Nice car on its own, or make a British lead sled. Some of those original parts packs are just blobs that vaguely resemble what they're modeled after.

Which reminds me any country in which dogs are eaten should be turned into a smoldering wasteland of radioactive glass. After the dogs are evacuated.

Back home, years ago... I worked at a place with a lot of Asian coworkers. They would all take their lunch break together and eat Asian food. Another coworker, Tom, was the type who enjoyed getting on people's nerves. He walked to the break area one day and said "What the h is that smell? It smells like someone is eating boiled dog s**t". I thought there was going to be a fist fight.

Oh man I need some Orange Beef

It's like a yoga mat. It's designed for soldiers to carry around and use in lots of different environments. Many soldiers use them daily for sit ups and pushups outside. I'll look for a spray adhesive.

It's bare, and very flexible. The mats are rolled up when not in use.

I have a few of the old foam mats. I'd like to cut one or two up and make a pad 3 or 4 layers thick for when I have to work on something down low. Anyone know of a good adhesive for this idea? I did consider just buying some other pad that's thicker, but it seems everything else is too expensive and heavy or too delicate. (would sometimes be used outside) Thanks. Lee

Or just not buy high-priced parts.

No one is being forced to buy any of it.

All of this is why I think parts pack are a dumb idea, along with lobbying a model company to offer a kit of the 1975 pile of junk 4-door that you drove to high school. Worse yet- someone who encourages other people to write and ask for a model of that 1975 POS.

Thank you Tom G. I'm a plumber and boy do I get tired of people comparing the price of my work to buying the part at Lowes.

I don't look for good deals. I buy at the local hobby shop. Austin only has one "real" hobby shop left. I pay a little more because I like having it around. It's great to stop by once a week or so and shoot the breeze with staff and customers and see what's new. If I want something that is out of production, I go to ebay. Craigslist is hit or miss, and full of flakes.

I got this scope for my pellet rifle: It's a Bushnell 2.5-16x50. It will focus down to 10 yards and focuses with a side knob, rather than rotating the objective end of the scope. Much easier for the short ranges used with airguns. Rifle is a .25cal Benjamin marauder. So far, the only mod is a Harris swivel bipod, but it will get some other mods to increase shot count and make it more quiet than it already is. I also bought a slab of Renshape. It's 2"x 20"x 60". It's not here yet.

Also the Galaxies Chevies, and the ICM pre-war Opel. I've read that it is a very detailed 3.5 liter (same as Chevy 216 inline 6)

Why not lightweight fiberglass cloth covered with CA (super glue)? Thin and strong. I can't imagine that mixing resin and trying to get a consistent thickness would be easier.

I love the Mantaray so much. Also- the Batmobile was a licensing issue.

You can also decant spray paint into an airbrush jar. Better control and you can mix a custom color, if you want. There's a video on hyperscale.com about how to do it. Short summary: put Saran Wrap over your airbrush jar. Poke one hole for a flexible straw and another to act as a vent. Attach a cut-down flexible straw to the paint can using poster adhesive. Decant away...carefully, and outside. Let the paint sit for a while, because it will have propellant gas dissolved in it. You need to let it gas out. No need to thin. Some people use nail polish, thinned with lacquer thinner.

I need somebody.