niteowl7710

I one tried to replace electronic smoke, with that fake smoke stuff you put in Lionel Trains, and it totally do not turn out the way I expected...

Well so far in building out the engine I've found a significant lack of positive mounting points for several parts. The engine does look good once together but the front engine cover sits on top of the lip of the oil pan, and the edge of the cylinder heads but itself is flat on the back mounting to a flat expanse of engine block. The intake valley pan and intake manifold just sorta drop into the valley made by the heads. The power steering pump doesn't really attach to the back side of the serpentine belt once it's installed on the front cover. The power steering reservoir just hangs off the front cover by virtue of again gluing a large flat tab to an otherwise flat expanse of plastic. The instructions show the A/C Condenser going to the wrong part of serpentine belt as the peg it's shown to attach to actually attaches to a hole on the front cover. This leaves the condenser which has a hole in it, mating to a flat round pulley. Do not put it on the belt before installing the belt as having it centered on the pulley will not allow it to clear the side of the engine block. When installing the engine the engine mounts are good, but there is again two flat expanses of plastic meeting where the tranny meets the tranny brace. That's what I've noticed so far. Do your normal amount of test fitting and you'll be good. It does all go together well, and looks relatively decent once completed, but you can tell the origins of this kit ('94 Mustang GT), and the fact this '99 Cobra kit just has some specific parts tossed into it without much consideration to how they'd work together.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that 26 year old hobby supplies aren't going to be good anymore. More than likely everything dried up 16 years ago

I found it Jon...it was under that pile of tires.. Modeler Builder's Code Rule #7, Subsection A, Paragraph 3 - Modeler of the First Part (Herein referred to as builder), shall never upon completion of Model Kit of the Second Part (Herein referred to as 2n1/3n1/4n1 model kit), ever under any circumstances dispose of leftover parts from model kit, except to trade with Modeler of the Third Part (Herein referred to as "Trading Partners") for other leftover parts from model kits. - Violation of this Subsection shall require Builder to be substantially mocked by Modelers in the Fourth Part (Herein referred to as "Forum Members"), when at such time Builder realizes he needs the parts he just disposed of in his next build. I put my spare parts in labeled zip lock bags, and then into a Rubbermaid tub they go.

No but when I laid down my first aerosol paint job I didn't have to worry about properly thinning the paint, selecting the proper sized nozzle, getting the correct air pressure out of my compressor, cleaning up the whole works so I could use my airbrush again without it being clogged up, etc, etc. There is significantly more time and effort involved in getting a decent airbrush paint job, than there is shaking a can and pointing it at the thing you want to be a different color, and then holding the can upside down to clear the nozzle. That time and effort will arguably give you a better result as well, but it's why you see people saying that they've been using an airbrush for 15 years and they still fight with it. No one has ever said they've fought with rattle cans for 15 years and still can't get the paint to come out properly thinned or under pressure (even if the pressure in a rattle can is universal and described by some as painting with a fire hose). If you don't like learning curve, then perhaps "trial and error" is more appropriate!

Man things are really looking up for you in 2011! You've spent more than my mortgage payment on something close to 80 model kits in the few days, that's a far cry from worrying about where you where going to live and if you'd have a car to drive before Christmas.

Excellent job by our brave men and women in the Armed Services!

No sermonizing (is that like Simonizing?) is EXACTLY what your are attempting (rather poorly I might civilly add) to do. You of all people...creator of the "if you don't update your WIPs, you're a talentless hack" mantra have no business what so ever lecturing anyone on proper message forum behavior. Is it snowing up there on that horse of yours? So yes I do believe that everyone is entitled to their opinions, it's the basic tenant of Free Speech which we enjoy in this country. This being a private forum however, it falls to Harry, Gregg, et all to determine exactly how and where they draw the line of how much Free Speech we're granted. Your defenders in this noble endeavor of nonsense include someone who speaks up only to try to suck Mark into a flame war, and someone who's been bounced off another message board. So if we're known by the company we keep... So I have decided, so it SHALL BE!! And since you seem to have a sick need to see my face...so be it.

There were two original issuings of this kit in the late 1990's. The OHiP car that you have, and an Orange County Fire District car that was molded in white, which had the MX-7000 bar (as the real car did). Then the kit was reissued in several different pre-"painted" variations, and one "blank" kit with no decals in the J. Lloyd era (I think it was 2 years ago). I don't know if both lightbars are in the car, but I doubt it since the pre-printed version of the CHP car has an MX-7000 on it, rather than the actual correct Vision/Vector bar that came in the OHiP kit.

Well if the cost benefit is worth it to you then I say go for it. There will of course be another learning curve involved while you get yourself up to speed with a new tool. I have one myself, but probably haven't had it out of the box in 15 years. Most of that because I am happy with what I get out of a can, and that I was out of the hobby as well. But I can see where I might blow off the dust and crack open the box with some paint jobs I want to do, that I'm not sure would turn out quite right using the old cans. For price comparison here, a 1oz jar of Tamiya paint is $4.25, a large can of automotive lacquer spray is $6.69. I'm not sure what the exact paint to propellant volume is in one of those cans, but I think I can make it go further than the 1oz jar.

The problem with "civility" as it's being bandied about here and on the National scene is that it's just another word for censorship. "I don't like what you said in that thread, so you can't say it or anything else for week!!" Well in that case I don't like this thread's tone and I don't think you should be allowed to say it either. So nany-nany-boo-poo on you! Now where did that get any of us? This entire thread is nothing more than a cheap attempt to get Mark in here to have a flame war with all the usual suspects that have piled in here calling him out. Skip did suggest at least some of us who shared our opinions on the locked threads were doing so while drunk. Which frankly is just as immature and useless (if not more so) than the posting of an instructional video on peeling an orange. Bottom line it's Harry's duty here to determine what is or isn't civil. You can say the posts involving the other videos were immature, inane, or whatever. But to condemn everyone who shares a different opinion than you by saying they can't decide what is or isn't boring, is sliding yourself into a giant vat of hypocrisy. Because in doing that you are in effect deeming YOURSELF to be the one that decides whether or not someone else can say something about a particular subject, the very fact you decry some people here of doing in the first place.

Nahh that's the same iffy representation of the MX7000 that it got during the 2nd issue of the Orange County FD.

When this version of the kit was originally released it was an Orange County Fire District car in response to all the howling that went on about the shiny metallic gray plastic the OHiP kit was cast in, in the first run. It had tiny door decals for that department. Now it's just a blank car for the guys who custom build their cars, as the other versions of the newer J. Lloyd runs are pre-"painted" for the departments they represent on the box.

It would be easier to ignore if there weren't seemingly two dozen of them every day. We get it, he's excited, he's got something new he's very proud of, and is dying to share with us...we all get it...believe us. I was very interested, now I'm borderline not caring if it's a new cure for cancer that also provides injection molded parts at 1/2 the cost. If the product/service/etc is as great as this hype leads up to, then the resulting feedback should swamp Dr. Cranky with a wave of adoration that will concern the Weather Channel. However these build up posts are basically the same thread repeated over and over and over again just to give everyone an multi-daily opportunity to tell him how great he is and how excited they are was played out several days ago.

Sounds like a good excuse to disassembled your friend's dryer ducting to me.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop huffing WD-40...

Seems like all I'm doing is traveling in and out of Indy for the past few weeks, if I'm around I'll go...where is it?

Why not put a white primer down instead of gray?

While the people who knocked down PSN might be hackers, there far from cyber-terrorists. I know that's the new in-vogue government term for hackers, but the only people that were terrorized by this outage probably could use the time out of the house and into the real world anyway.

One of mine concurs with your cat's opinion on the tastiness of styrene.

4th! The "I's" have, the lazy motion passes. We are in recess until we get back to working...whenever that might be...

Well the EX is usually the base model, so I think that's - Everything Xcluded