Fat Brian

I built Legos from the time I was three or four. The first model I remember was a snap together battleship I got on the Yorktown when I was 6 or 7. My first car kit was Mark Martin's Folgers Thunderbird. I was maybe 10 at the time and ditched was a current issue kit. Since I was used to Legos I pulled all the parts off the trees and then had to dig through them to find the right one. I also used most of a tube of red glue and got gluey fingerprints on everything, I built the entire car in an afternoon and it took a couple days to dry. It died a quick death reenacting the wild 80s NASCAR crashes.

The telephone companies allow this because there is no skin in the game for them in it. One simple law to make companies responsible for scams perpetrated on their systems would eliminate these calls over night.

Ebay won't release the funds to the seller until a tracking number is posted to the transaction, at least for smaller sellers. That's why the tracking number gets posted almost immediately even if they sit on the package a few more days.

They've done that to me too, fortunately it was a kit that has shrink wrap so removing the label was painless. Amazon is always an adventure with packaging, it's either way too much or not nearly enough.

Its interesting how we thought robots would be versus how they're turning out. Asimov's laws require the knowledge of what a human is, what harm means, what a law is, and it means to obey. The current LLMs don't actually know anything so giving them hard directions that last doesn't seem to work the way we think it would. When people think about AI they think about the computer in Star Trek that has a huge database of facts but its more like asking your high friend how stuff works.

Is there any overspray or paint in a discreet area you could try to dissolve with paint thinner and rubbing alcohol and see which one works? That would point you in a direction.

The Lindberg L700 cabover has a big manual transmission and two speed rear end that is good for trucks from that era.

It's hard to do something like that perfectly clean, use a Qtip with whatever solvent you need to clean your painting off quickly before it completely dries. Tamiya panel line accenter also helps with the narrow lines and emblems. Its also helpful to have a chrome pen of some kind to touch up the chrome because you can rub through if you work it too much.

The ones on the Hotwheels truck are the good tires, the holes fit the rims better and they're usually actually round.

To my knowledge the tube frame kits have always had the good tires, and those come in all the other AMT monster trucks now. But not the MPC kits like the Datsun tow truck. In older kits you had to cut the mold disc out of the small side of the tire but for that last 15 years or so they've been precut.

It's like a battleship with the irregular camo pattern that breaks up its silhouette.

Yeah, early tires with the molded in lettering are just bad. All of the later 1/25 Bigfoot and USA-1 tires are better and will still fit the early rims. The Jurrasic Attack and Ninja Turtle trucks also have the good tires and can sometimes be found a little cheaper than the other kits. AMT also put out a parts pack of just the good tires a few years ago. The Lindberg tires are better but they're a bit out of scale for 1/25 vehicles. If you can 3d print there are some good tires on Cults that are honestly better than anything in a kit so far.

I'm far more likely to buy an old truck versus a new one. The Crackerbox and Needlenose Pete's & KWs are very high on that list. I'll be voting with my dollars on the Mack and hope Round2 is listening.

It shouldn't be enough to notice. The rear panel is kind of recessed into the back of the cab so you have a very definite shape to match. Instead of panel scribing around just the rear panel on the AMT cab I would cut the entire rear on the cab off just behind the door lines so you don't need to add any filler pieces around it, just sand it to fit the opening in the Italeri cab.

Do you have a junk cab to the AMT kit? Making one that that should be pretty easy.