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You guys mean the "LanciO StratUs" of course
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2 hours ago, Martinnfb said:
I just love the « Swidish »
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I could volunteer, once I get mine, but then Harv would be even more right
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Keeping on the cardboard model side, found this for you :
https://modelik.pl/0905-jupiter-p-432.html
https://sklep.gpm.pl/modele-kartonowe/kolejki/1/45-43/hcp-1-6-2-bulgar-145
One is streamlined but not American, the other American, but not streamlined. Both shops in the links are worth exploring more. O scale is 1/43 - 1/45 IIRC.
Here is a more general link to train cardboard models :
https://modelik.pl/pojazdy-szynowe-c-25.html
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So do Trumpeter. And IIRC, Revell had some HO steam locs, and Airfix has some old HO kits as well, some of which can be found on eBay.
I am sure there are a lot more models, including in resin and brass in O Scale. Probably if you check on Kalmbach’s dedicated magazines and forums you will find more than what is suggested above.
Last, but not least, there are some absolutely spectacular cardboard/paper models from Polish companies, like Orlik, and others I can’t remember the name of, in 1/25 scale. Good news is they require far more guts than bucks to get an outstanding mantelpiece eyecatcher. Bad news is exactly the same
, but then for someone who tackled rebuilding an old muscle car, the guts must be there aplenty
HTH
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So it seems we are back to Dr Freud’s conjectures for why one chooses this length of stick
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13 hours ago, [CAT]CplSlade said:
My wife is already going grey so her hair has dye in it. We are also experiencing Georgia's wonderful humidity right now and there is no AC in my basement. Will they shrink as the humidity drops?
Most likely, but the total answer is, from others’ experience, you will never have your antenna tensioned identically twice in your model’s life ...
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i hope everything turns out OK for you in the end, CAT.
A word of warning about using hair for aerials. Hair are sensitive to ambient humidity. Which means your antennas will sag if the atmoshpere gets a bit humid, as the hair gets longer.
So it's definitely not as good as other materials like stretched sprue, monofilament or elastic yhread
Take care.
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1 hour ago, Umlaufmotor said:
Almost finished, only the engine cowling and the coolant pipe from the engine up to the wing radiator are still missing.
I hardly dare to write - the Albatros was started to be built sometime in 2009.Very nice Albatros. And don’t worry about the long time. I still have an unfinished Aichi Hansa (a Hispano-powered, Japanese licence-built, W-29). I started scratchbuilding it in 2008, BEFORE WnW launched its kit, and also before it went OOP with WnW
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13 minutes ago, Clunkmeister said:
Bertl, I've ridden Harleys and Indians my entire life. Most of them were pretty tame bikes when it came to raw performance, but what I lost in speed, I gained in style and sex appeal.
The only crazy time for me was after my divorce. I went crazy for awhile and bought a Vespa 200cc scooter. I took it completely apart in the living room of my apartment and hot rodded the thing with a tuned pipe, different carbs, different gears, and shaved the head for more compression.
Back then after the divorce I had a death wish, so I rode like a fool. I actually got a speeding ticket on the Massachusetts Turnpike for doing 90 mph. On a 200cc Vespa.
I'm lucky to still be alive.
Tuning Vespas is a thing for teenagers in suburban dwellings, Ernie. Talk about a 40s’ crisis
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So the lesson seems that, when the plating is well done (i.e. a primer varnish and a -rather thick- homogeneous metallized plating) like in these old 70’s truck kits, the traditional cleaning methods will struggle ... You need to break through the surface tension on the metal plating, and for this you need micro-asperities, that will give a « bite » to the paint stripper. Just like champagne : you need micro defects in the cristal, or dust particles, for the bubbles to form
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Lesson stored for future use
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2 hours ago, IainMackayDall said:
Ooo.. I'm still tempted by your HKM Mosquito? But I'm comparing the Tamiya reviews vs the Hong Kong Model ones. But Tamiya does not do the glazed nose version, although I could build a butchered version.
Don’t hesitate to make me an offer
. It’s a nice kit, not without its fault, but it turns out into a nice result everytime I have seen one finished. The AM I bought can contribute to making it even more stunning. I was thinking of kitbashing it with the Revell kit to correct the slightly too blunt wing-root radiators, and the Revell kit is a (free) part of my package If i can remember where I put it, I will add the Tasman vac-form transparencies, I KNOW I have, but where 
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And there is no beating the slender looks of a glass-nosed Mossie
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4 hours ago, Martinnfb said:
Thank you guys, now I need to get the kit from Hubert LOL
On its way ... Now in the hands of the Portuguese, then Canadian Post Office, which is a lifetime adventure in itself, I understand
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Absolutely. The product doing the work is caustic soda. It’s fairly agressive, so most oven-cleaners now have a «no-caustic soda » formula.
If you can find caustic soda (soude caustique) in your DYI store, try it. Remember to wear gloves, a respiratory mask, and to dilute caustic soda in water, not the other way round. ( in short read the instructions on the bottle
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HTH
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The alternative is to steam the strips.
Take a plumber's PVC pipe long enough to hold the strips. Plug it on one end to the kettle, and on the other end, plug it with a small hole in the plug to vent-off the steam. It will work like a tubular pressure cooker. Pressure-resistant tube, like the one for swimming pools works better just for this safety reason
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Remember heat allows for easier bending, especially if it goes two-ways like at the stern.
Soak the srips in water, then swipe them with a soldering iron at minimum temperature, or under a hot air gun. Pre-twist them to shape, and finish the shaping in-situ. PVA glue adheres well to moist wood, btw.
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Quite a cook, indeed ! Keep it on, and in a few hundred thousand years there will be a new charcoal mine in sunny Texas
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On 5/19/2020 at 11:15 PM, DocRob said:
... As a bueno side effect, surfing generates the best beer thirst you can have with the salty water and exhaustion. There is nothing like a post surf cerveza, best drank with the dudes ...
Well I do find the same after a golf play, especially whan its warm and sunny like now. The only thing is the course is open (anew) but the club-house bar is still closed, because of Covid-19 restrictions
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Nice progress, Ron
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Cool project. I love these heavy duty engines
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Fantastic ! (And so much better looking
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1 hour ago, DocRob said:
Now that's a cheap girl
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Cheers Rob
You're right. I *might* be tempted, just out of sheer curiosity, of course ...
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4 hours ago, Martinnfb said:
Guys anybody knows if there's a kit of 1960 Peterbuilt as such ?
You can’t build the truck without the red car inches in front of it, Martin. Now what make was the car (for me poor European Ignoramus of American sedans of the 70s) ?
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Share how COVID-19 Quarantine has affected you.
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Yes, be extra careful, Ernie, Texas stats are not looking good, especially if you add the extra "pneumonia" deaths in the state (funny, they have quadrupled, but nooooo ... they are not Covid-19 deaths
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Masks do not protect yourself (at least those which are not FFP-2), but they protect all the others. So, if everyone wears a mask, then each one is protecting all the others. Simple logic, but the example has to come from the top ...
I stop here, because this post is veering too much into politics already.
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