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Fat Brian

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  1. I had got some two holes off of ebay a few months ago but the still aren't here so I'm looking for some other options.
  2. I hold the jar with an adjustable wrench if it's a squarish shape so I don't bear on it while turning the lid with pliers or channel locks.
  3. Do those wheels fit other 1/25 tires?
  4. I consider it a new coat everytime I let the paint flash and then paint again.
  5. I would try different base colors until you find the effect you want, you could try different yellows and oranges until one pops for you.
  6. My stash is growing again, without a place to work all I can do is buy. Mine stands around 200+/-, I have some 1/72 armour and aircraft I haven't counted in a while so I'm not sure exactly how big it is.
  7. No drama, you have to protect your business.
  8. Great, I just like to check these things out first.
  9. Some kits have aftermarket sleeper and other have sleepers made by the truck manufacturer, how can you tell the difference? I know the Mercury sleepers in the Diamond Reo, White Western Star, and Road Boss are aftermarket But what about the sleeprs in the IH 4300 and GMC General and the Italeri Superliner? Also, how sacreligious is it to mix brands of cabs and sleepers? I want to build a modernized 4300 with a larger sleeper and I bought the frame, engine, and sleeper from the Revell 353/359 kit to use but it appears to have Pete brand sleeper and I didn't want to do anything that is frowned upon.
  10. Very good information, thank you.
  11. I've tried building for people and I don't enjoy it. For some reason when I have a project I should be working on it becomes the absolute last thing I want to spend time on. And then there is the dealing with people part, God I hate people.
  12. And this is an important point, some car modelers don't even have a firm grasp on how cars work but build them as art more than a realistic represetation of a vehicle. In cases like this scale fidelity is less important than having the right "look" for a project. This is a freedom armour and aircraft modelers don't have so having an accurate representation becomes far more important.
  13. This car raises a question for me. For years we've been told that a correct Mopar model has body color overspray on the bottom of the car. Well, this car doesn't have even a hint of overspray on it and might be the best preserved Mopar ever. Where is the over spray, or has it's presence been grossly overstated?
  14. For some reason most car modelers aren't as concerned with scale fidelity as other groups. Armour and aircraft guys will scream bloody murder if this part or that part is a millimeter too long or too short, but somewhere along the line we learned to accept flawed kits. I wonder if it is because car modelers mostly build custom vehicles and modify the kits greatly and are thus more acommodating of incorrect kits. I mean, there are only so many ways to build a Sherman or Spitfire but a car kit has endless possibilities.
  15. I seem to remember it being between $25 and $30.
  16. I've heard it so many ways I'm not sure what it started out as.
  17. Having seen Erics stuff up close and met him and his wife recently I can say they will be getting more of my money in the future. I don't think I've ever seen resin parts from a multi piece mold that need less cleanup than his.
  18. Good, I was hoping they would be slightly more modern than the stuff in the AMT kits. That gives me some building options to update a few trucks.
  19. The monogram cuda has always looked too wide to me but I've never had a problem with the wheelbase.
  20. The difference in wheelbase is only two inches, I don't think just over 1/16th of an inch could wreck a kit.
  21. What horsepower is the Cummins engine in the Italeri Superliner and would it be considered a big cam or a small cam motor? Unrelated question, I bought a Cummins 475 horse twin turbo from a Revell kit off of ebay, is it a big cam or small cam motor?
  22. God how I hate those boxes, I can't count how many times stacks of models fell over when one decided to crush suddenly.
  23. You mean Soukrauts is still selling stuff? The website says everything is out of stock.
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