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My next door neighbour fully restored an Austin 7 saloon that he still has. We went to a car show in it on a hot day a number of years back and he jokingly said 'I'll put the air conditioning on !'. At which he flipped the windscreen forward !

It's one thing having someone who either hates of dislikes your hobby. You know where you stand with them and can react accordingly. Eventually ! Just surprises me though how many let themselves get drawn into a situation like that in the first place. Love is blind etc. ?? As for passive disinterest, that's a difficult one as you just don't know what is going on in their minds. Better that than outright animosity towards what you do I suppose. Ace' s last post pretty much is right on the button with regard to having someone who has their own sense of security, their own creative interests and not needing through their own insecurity to be a look at me prima donna!

This has developed into a very interesting thread.

Marry any woman who dislikes your hobby no matter what interest you have is signing up to a life of misery.

The Dykes book would probably be worth a facsimile nostalgia reprinting !

I live in England. The weather is a bit of a national obsession here. Normally first topic of any conversation. Mind you, that art seems to be dying out as most seem happier gazing into their phones instead.

Nice model build. Surprised to hear of the fit problems during your build. I think this kit was also marketed under the Revell banner too. Apart from the Airfix 1/32nd scale one, it is the only 1/24th scale plastic kit of the MGB that I can think of. C1 Models make a transkit to build a coupe version from this kit that really looks good. C1 make a Sebring MGC complete kit too that is very good having seen the one that Matt Bacon has built. South Eastern (ex Wills) Findcast has a 1/24th scale kit in white metal that looks nice built up. Back in the 80's there was a company named Marque One models who made built up white metal MGB models to customer order, but did not make the models available as kits. The venture I think was quite short lived.

Model making woman is a very rare species. The arts, crafts and sculpture side of hobbying appeals more to them to give vent to their creativity. Model making subjects generally to most women are boring. Cars and figures might be the occasional exception. But aircraft, AFV, warship and sci fi are a bit of a no no as far as most women are concerned. The freeform of art, crafts and sculpture creating something is more in their psyche than replicating accurately a full size subject in miniature and the research involved.

I think that, fair to say that the scalemotorcars site is gone. I used it in tandem with this site as there were many scratch builds in larger scales that were a feature of that site. There was a Swiss guy on there making a scratch built Lincoln Continenta! (I think) in 1/12th scale who replicated all the actual pressed panels on the car using tools he designed for the job. Fascinating build to follow. It would have been nice if a number of their contributors had migrated to this site.

Depends on where you got the Revell email address from ? Suggest you look at Revell's own website, either the USA site of their German site, whichever one you are trying to contact to check if the email address you are sending to is current and correct. Alternatively. Have you double checked your own email address sent to them to make sure that there are no typo errors in it that would cause a rejection ?I Cannot think of anything else it might be. HTH.

As Star Trek's Spock would say. 'Fascinating!'

It's been quite a journey so far, and really interesting looking at the progress on this model. The subject is amazing to see coming together. Once the Hydra is finished, will you be going back to that knocked about built up Pocher Rolls that you bought some time ago? It will be interesting to see what you do to it. I guess a complete strip down, overhaul, perhaps conversion and super detailing job will be in order?

I was looking out T35 model builds on a web search and it threw this one up. Had a good look at it when it was current on the forum but going through the posts cannot understand why at the time I failed to join the conversation (don't ask why) as I would have normally responded given the subject matter. So firstly my apology for my tardiness in not responding at the time. Having said that your T35 model is an excellent build of that classic racer. Not far off starting my kit bought well over a year ago so looking at various builds by experienced modeller like yourself. The panel fasteners make a good touch as the wires between them are quite a feature on the real car. I believe that Nick at Unobtainium is looking to do a detailing up set for this kit once he has got all his big Airfix Bentley upgrade stuff into production.

Sounds like a good contact adhesive. Will keep in mind as my current type is nearly exhausted. Heard that Gorilla Brand products good. Any recommendations about their other adhesives?

Nice model of this TV movie icon. The A team. Who could forget that series? Hannibal Smith, B A Barracus, Face and Mad Murdoch. They could never shoot anyone in a close quarter gunfight but could shoot out a tyre at 300 yards !

Thanks for the feedback Rob. Many of us can learn from your answer.

Rob Most mobile phone users are just that. Users. You obviously have a lot of expertise in software engineering that the vast majority of us do not. So may I ask, how have you taken steps to stop your phone from getting hacked it stolen?

Couldn't agree more Pete. Mobile phones are taking over people's minds. Just look at how many people you see walking gazing into their phones as though it is some sort of drug they are hooked on. Worse still the idiots who use them whilst at the wheel of a car. It's one thing walking into a lamp post, but driving 2 tons of lethal machinery looking into one can be devastating and not only for the driver but possibly wiping out an innocent family in another car. One of the saddest things I saw was when I went to my grandkids school sports days. Over 90 percent of the parents attending spent more time looking at their phones instead of enjoying the event.

It never surprises me when I see so many people using their phone to pay for stuff. Apart from the SIM card swap scam, the number of mobile phones that get snatched with all their owner's bank information on them from users hands by organised gangs is getting worse. My bank information is something I would never load onto my phone. Having the phone nicked is just an inconvenience, but having your accounts plundered by sophisticated hackers is another thing altogether, plus the banks will not make it easy to get your accounts sorted out !

I know of them but never seen one living in the UK. The USAF Thunderbirds formation team used them at one time I believe. Nice looking aeroplane !

I'm afraid that having a number of part built models would really get to me, so I concentrate on one build at a time until finished. But each to their own. Nothing wrong with being a butterfly modeller flitting from one project to another. Everyone's attention span, boredom threshold, call it what you wi!l, is different. As long as building models is enjoyed in different ways, it matters not one iota . I can easily understand how projects get put on hold when the distraction of that super new, must have kit suddenly takes precedent or another subject catches your eye.

Interesting project to follow.

Fun model build. I used to own a bog standard Fiat 500 back in the 70's. Did many miles in it and very cheap to run, and parking it where many could not ! The rust got to it in the end. Fiats used to rot like a vampire doused in holy water back in those days! So full credit to those who have fully restored examples today.

Cranky for example is one of those larger than life characters, and I just got curious as I had not heard anything about him in a long time, so I did a search to find out that he had not been on the forum for ages. He might still be a 'lurker' on here without logging in. Who knows ?

Sorry guys, my mistake. The PCB drills do have 3.2mms ( 1/8th inch ) shanks as pointed out quite rightly in subsequent posts. Not 1/4 inch. Should have known better as I have loads of them from when I worked in PCB board manufacture using a dedicated CNC drilling machine back in the 80's. One bit would drill thousands of holes before needing to be sharpened. In the trade they were not throw away items once they lost their edge. Only after a number of re sharpenings did they get disposed of. Very small diameter PCB bits are difficult to use by hsnd. Some peop!e get the knack and have very steady hands whilst others do not and suffer more breakages. I will be sticking to my good quality HSS bits as I can use them in a pin vice. I tend to use a very limited range of certain diameters over and over again in my model making so don't buy sets where most of the bits will never get used. I have corrected my original post to reflect the correct dimension of the shank.