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The Mustang E is selling well here in the UK. It has just completed a Lands End to John-o-Groats efficiency run and broken a previous record set by a Tesla. A friend was telling me last week that the Ministry Of Transport here has put a stop to further development on Hydrogen cars as they can't work out the road tax cost for owning one yet, that's been on hold for nearly ten years! Gas conversions, not petrol to us but gas, are popular for those with big cars, Range Rover etc, as per litre that is still only 35pence. The tanks is a pressurised cylinder and normally in the boot/trunk space. The cars have to stay as fundamentally a petrol powered vehicle with the gas as a backup fuel source.
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Raised between body and chassis, body unpainted just clear gloss coated, added tyre decals, alloy exhausts and top and sidescreens that would hinge upwards.
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Thanks guys. That should say 20+ Years..
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Italari 1/12 Renault RE20 Turbo
PatW replied to kpnuts's topic in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers
Fantastic job your doing here! -
Superb! Having watched Volvo's in saloon car competition over 50 years I can appreciate this build!
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MPC Milk Trike
PatW replied to PatW's topic in WIP: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures
Thanks guys, it's all finished now. -
After hearing that Airfix were doing a re-issue I ordered this and having waited since January this year it arrived yesterday. With my latest regime of not painting the body will main the grey plastic and there will be a riser between the body and chassis to give more ground clearance. Oh and I've ordered another one!
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Aoshima/Beemax Mitsubishi Starion Gr A 1987
PatW replied to PatW's topic in Other Racing: Road Racing, Salt Flat Racers
Thanks guys, these new NuNu/Beemax kits are very good! -
Superb! Just the genre of racing that I've followed for 50+ years, well done!
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Neat! We had 5 Beetles in our family around the same time our first was a 1965 1300cc in dark green, then an Orange one and the last a Light Blue one. Our youngest son had a Black 1600 lowered, and bumper less with a sport exhaust, he then had an American import Karmann 1956 cabriolet that came stripped with a huge box of bits, unfortunately he ran out of money and sold it! That's when he went rogue and bought a water cooled car!
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Thanks Rich I have left a coment on there that I recognise the two drivers on there having seen them numerous times a Silverstone over 20+ tears there..
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Superb Rich in my days (20+ years) at Silverstone I recognise the two drivers with the car above.
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Thanks guys. Rich, what upgrade kit was that please? All I had was the kit plus two sheets of decals.
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Nice kit everything fits together nicely. Very good decals, except No. 51 that was too wide for the back panel, so added a black composite panel and a smaller white logo from the other set of decals included in the kit. Although tyre logo's weren't of that era I had some in my decal box so added them anyway.
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Oh well I've used it now for 2 years, and to me it's perfect, BMF is too expensive for a pensioner like me to buy in such small sheets.
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Well products are called different things in different countries, I'm in the UK your in the States. Here are a few photo's of the product made by Bostick, presumably called Idenden. It's adhesive very much so and polishes up to a very bright finish when laid up.
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Problem with Tamiya TS-13 Clear
PatW replied to David G.'s topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
To me any polish used goes on after all the paint and clear coats not before or during the spray up. The waxes if any in the different types of polish react to any type of paint whether it be acrylic or enamel. -
I had all the prob0lems that all of the above have had over the years. A plumber friend left some what he calls 'Plumbers Tape' one day as a reel had nearly run out. A little bit thicker than BMF and nice and sticky I used it on various kits. All needed was a good sharp craft blade. Superb! All I now ask for at my local builders merchants is 'Plumbers Tape'. Oh and it's far cheapy on a big roll instead of a small sheet or two!
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MPC Milk Trike
PatW replied to PatW's topic in WIP: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures
Thanks Christopher. Yes nice kits. -
An all round superb build, very well done!
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Tamiya Ducati 888
PatW replied to PatW's topic in All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures
Thanks Carl. I tried something different! Than a car! -
Tamiya Ducati 888
PatW replied to PatW's topic in All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures
Same here Daniel. I rode a 125 Lambretta as a teenager and a BSA two stroke 175. A mate of mine's Dad won what was then the 'Football Pools' and bought him a 250 BSA to pass his test and then when he passed his test a Norton Dominator 850cc. What bike that was! -
Italari 1/12 Renault RE20 Turbo
PatW replied to kpnuts's topic in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers
Looking very good to start with! This was my second large F1 kit build after the Lotus when these kits were first released. -
I also add my thanks on this subject. The times I've painted the window surround first not realising that the windows are fitted from the outside! Then trying to use a sharpie that's far too wide and getting all over the aperture/door/roof! Masking though again has been a nightmare but I must persevere! Panel lines and using wash is another to mug up on!