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Rear lights have worked really well.

Do you guys have the self scanning thing going on up there? Increasingly Supermarkets & the big chain Hardware Stores expect us to scan our own goods and pay for them without an employee being there. In fact Masters hardware stores (owned by Wal-Mart) don't have any manned registers - you have no choice but to checkout yourself. I refuse to do this until I am invited to the staff xmas party.

Shane, it made my head hurt thinking that out and typing it. No way i'll ever make a teacher. You're right about grams & ounces. Lets stick to what we know - tads, smidges, touches, drops and handfulls. This stuf gets even more confusing if you start trying to work out what stuff from one scale would be if used in another. Like if I use this 1/35 Messerschmitt engine in a 1/25 rat rod what capacity will that make it... (756 ci based on using a 1/35 Daimler Benx DB601 in a 1/25 build)

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5632

Hmmm yes. I can see how textured foil could add something.

The Revell website http://www.revell.com/model-kits/cars/85-4905.html makes no mention of Mr Foose in it's announcement of this kit.

And are those drilled disc pattern decals on otherwise plain wheel backs?

jims thinking is correct. Mass is directly related to volume and volume reduces by the cube of the scale. Think about it. a 1/25 350 chev does not have a capacity of 14 cubic inches (350/25). Molecular mass is irrelevant unless you a taking a 1:1 scale car and shrinking it by reducing the atomic spacing (as per the 1960's Avengers episode - mmmmm Mrs Peel...) in which case it would remain the same mass as no material has been removed. Everything has just been moved closer and made denser. Think of it in simple shapes. What size cube can you crush a 1:1 scale car up into? Lets say 2 foot on each side if you leave the engine in. So you have a cube 2 foot x 2 foot x 2 foot which equals 8 cubic foot. Lets call the density of that cube D lb/cubic foot. It therefore has a mass of 8D lbs. Now, build a 1/24 scale model of that cube using the same materials. 2 foot equals 24 inches and 24 divided by 24 equals 1. So It will be 1 inch x 1 inch x 1 inch which equals 1 cubic inch. How many cubic inches in a cubic foot? 12 x 12 x 12 which equals 1728. So what is the mass of the scale cube? Its the mass of a 1 cubic foot cube divided by 1728. What is the mass of a 1 cubic foot cube? Its volume x density or 1 x D which equals D. Therefore the mass of the 1/24 scale cube is D/1728. So, if the 1:1 cube has a mass of 8D and the 1/24 cube has a mass of D/1728 you can now calculate by how many times the mass has reduced going from 1:1 to 1/24. It is 8 x 1728 which equals 13,824. And 13,824 equals 24 x 24 x 24. I used 1/24 as it made the sums slightly easier but if you do the same using 1/25 you get Jims answer of 15,625. So, using something I know the weight of and units I am familar with a Tamiya 1/24 Toyota Landcruiser should, if mass is scaled as accurately as length, weigh 2.7 Tonnes divided by 13,824. 195.3 grams

Haven't most of us in the developed world? I was brought home from hospital in a car and then was regularly driven in one by my father until I was old enough to drive myself. Rarely a day goes by when I am not "around" a variety of cars. Time to go home now, with my Hilux around me.. I'm glad they are repopping this as i've been meaning to grab one for a while and I can hopefully trade those wheels (and the no-name overly high profile tyres they are bound to come with) for something i'll actually use. Wonder if Revell have any plans for a range of Foose Parts Pack wheel sets...

Use enough power and you'll get them to mix?

Thanks for the comments. Mike - BMF stuck on the back of the red lens or on the backing? I've tried both and there's not really much difference although it's easier to trim round the edge of a lens that it is round the edge of a hole.

OK, i'm done. Monogram '59 ragtop with the 6 from the AMT '60 Chevy pickup transplanted. It's lowered a scale 2 inches all round with wheels from the AMT '50 Chevy pickup (just don't count the lugs-nuts). I stripped pretty much all the chrome and then put back a too thin coat of Alclad to look like tarnished chrome. Body trim is matt aluminium BMF with a black & gloss clear acrylic wash over it. The chrome I missed stripping (fender spearheads, wipers, bonnet hinges) I dulled with Mr Metal Stainless Steel followed with the black wash. Paint is Duplicolour Deep Aqua and Zero Paints Pure Black with satin clear and I then thinned some grey acrylic right down and airbrushed it lightly from low angles in an attempt to give the impression of road grime. I had a slight model/floor interface issue half way through construction but decided to leave the chipped off paint as it looked like it belonged... The idea was a used and abused cruiser that was driven at every opportunity and thus not cleaned much. And yes, i did glue the side trim on backwards. Only realised when I looked at the box art.

Yes you can. They won't like it but you can. And that's the beauty of this hobby, you can do absolutely anything you want.

Hey guys. Can't believe those teeny tiny bolts. I'd lose most of em. I've almost finished the '59 (one of the benfits of not going mad on tiny details) - just the sun visors to add and then shoot some pics.

Personally the appearance of accuracy is more important than actual acuracy. I am a firm believer in "if it looks right it is right". And, in the end this is my hobby. I'm doing it to relax and have some fun. If i'm sweating it then i'm trying too hard and it's not fun any more.

Thanks Frank. Mrs z has a rellie with a couple of 35's and i'd love to build him a replica Price, uncertainty about quality (unless you have used the caster before), thickness of bodyshells, uncertain ethics (unless you know better), long delivery times, ordering difficulties due to no pics or no website...

Step 1. Go outside and measure the number plates on a 1:1 scale car with a tape measure marked in inches. Step 2. Write down the measurements. Step 3. Cross out the " and write in mm. Step 4. Make some plates using those dimensions- I use Mirco$oft powerpoint.

As anyone building a traditional rod from one of the Revel '32 kits will replace the modern engine there should be a surplus of these engines. I'd sign up to a forum where they specialise in Traditional Rods and Kustoms and ask if anyone has any to spare. Where would one find such a forum? Well you could start by checking your messages.

My alclad comes with balls already inside.

A '35 phaeton would be nice...

Looks japanese to me.

Coming along nicely Mike. You can't beat real wood for looking like er, real wood.

Excellent. I bought land on Mars back in 2001. Finally the infrastructure is being developed. Looks like i'll be able to retire their after all. http://www.moonestates.com/p2/One_acre_parcel_of_land_on_Mars/product_info.html?osCsid=b5cfd5c8abc88210c4b036b57e7ecf38

Looks good. Well done - it's good feeling isn't it?

What about the early Hemi in the AMT '53 F100? How's that measure up (sic)?