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Rodent

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  1. She's quite contrary
  2. Something About Mary
  3. Humpty Dumpty's butt
  4. Just ordered some. Thanks for letting us know!
  5. The Monte Carlo is nice. I did a grille wash with The Detailer on mine before it went in my case at work. Strangely, it works much better for me on diecasts than on plastic kits.
  6. I find a box to ship the item in, pack it, measure it, and weigh it. I plug that info into the eBay shipping calculator and it tells the buyer what it will cost for shipping. As a seller, you get a small discount, but I am not ashamed of that. I have to buy bubble wrap, tape, paper and ink to print labels, gasoline to make a special trip to the Post Office, and some shipping boxes and envelopes that I had to buy. I cry a little inside when I put a kit on eBay and see what the buyer will have to pay for shipping, but I can't control what USPS charges. I sold a large scale kit a while back and the shipping was around $90. Was an odd size box, and it cost me $12 for a shipping box that I had to modify to ship the kit in. In all, do your homework and be an honest seller. I have had two flakey buyers that eventually paid, but I immediately blocked them from ever bidding on any of my stuff ever again.
  7. Yup, I think you are right. I picked one up at a show a bunch of years ago. The interior had some purple paint on it, so I stripped it. How it wound up on top of something on my bench, I have no clue. I need to dig out the kit and put the platform back in the box. Thanks guys!
  8. Found it on the bench yesterday. Looks like it may have had a swim in the purple pond at some point. I have no clue what it is from. I know that one of y'all sneaked in and put it there just to mess with me.
  9. Yeah. The population is still growing, just not at the historic rate. I am smart enough to do the math that Kevin suggests, and solar isn't for me because of several things. The last bill was $140, and that was with constant AC usage. The house faces south and would be perfect if it wasn't for the 40 year old tree shading the front ? Solar City did a lot of installations around here on lease before Crazy Elon bought it from his crooked cousins.
  10. I have been in Arizona during monsoon season, and it is comparable with what I have seen in Thailand, India, and the end of a US hurricane that bounced off of the south end of Ireland when I was there. Ain't always dry in Arizona!
  11. It looks like a cool kit, but I don't see a Sprinter as a tow truck. The website shows 7430 lbs as maximum payload for a chassis cab. After the rollback bed is added, it certainly wouldn't be able to move a very large vehicle, at least what we see in the US. Sorry, can't tow your Tahoe, but I can tow your Equinox! I would pick another bed option for a US vehicle.
  12. And more easily get air bubbles out from underneath. I have installed a few 1:1 Lamin-X bumper protectors and the thin film of water is definitely helpful. But only use 1/25 as much water on the windshield tint. ?
  13. Revellogram 70 Mach 1 or the combo Mach 1 / Boss 302 kit.
  14. A 1:1 forum I used to visit put up a pay wall some months ago. I don't go there anymore and I don't miss it. I don't have room for a magazine collection, but I think i would subscribe to a digital format of MCM, depending on the cost. I have never subscribed to MCM, but I used to buy it at an LHS or Barnes and Noble. After I read it, I put it in the break room at work for others to enjoy.
  15. LOL. I paid $175 for the 1:1 in question. It was a diamond in the rough. It had been in a glancing head on collision that tore up some sheet metal and suspension, but had no structural damage.
  16. Friday I saw a red 60 Impala convertible with a white top and a blue 69 Super Bee sharing transporter space with a very mundane silver Corolla. No pics unless I look on my dash cam.
  17. I recently found a kit on the 'bay that interested me and it had nostalga factor. The buy it now was more than the kit was worth to me, so I made an offer. Seller countered with a number that was still more than the kit was worth to me. I declined the counter and am not upset that I won't be building the kit I got for my 11th birthday from my godmother again. I will find another or I won't. Someone else will pay the asking price I am sure. A few years ago I was pursuing an AMT kit on the 'bay that I wanted so I could build a replica of a 1:1 that I had long ago. When the bidding for the kit reached double what I paid for the 1:1 version I realized that having a model of a car that I really didn't like that much was a dumb idea. I bought a resin that I can modify into something very close instead.
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