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  1. GusMac
    Love the spats. Superb improvisation with the chain as well.
  2. GusMac
    The 4x4 Fiat Panda was pretty good back then as well. Wheels at the extreme corners and basically bicycle tyres on it. There was one that ran around at the ski centre at Glenshee for years and never got stuck. It was so light you could have picked it up if it did!
  3. GusMac
    Don't know about cleaning turnbuckles Phil but I seem to be able to snap drill bits that small just by looking at them!
  4. GusMac
    Great result Phil. They do remind me of an old-fashioned water tank with all those rivets.
  5. GusMac
    Ohh nice. The Stratos was such a cool looking car. The World Rally ones from the 70s and early 80s looked amazing with the big bank of spotlights across the front.
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    Having spent the last couple of days farting about with the fiddly panels on the chin intake of the Airfix 1/24 Typhoon and all the filling, sanding, etc I have a new entry - RESCRIBING. I hate it, I'm crap at it and just why???.... Surely there are better and easier ways to engineer a kit. I know it's so you can have the option to leave everything open and on display but it's a PITA if you don't want to go down that route.
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    My twin

    GusMac replied to harv's topic in General Discussion

    Both lookin good!
  8. GusMac
    Looking very smooth Cees.
  9. GusMac
    Hi Phil, I'm also a lifetime glasses wearer and I haven't found any problems with a Tamiya type magnifier. As I get older and the natural change to long-sightedness 'corrects' for my myopia and astigmatism I'm almost at a point where I can do close work quite well without my glasses which is a weird feeling after 45 years wearing glasses! You can get some cheap but reasonable magnifiers from China on eBay if you want to try a set first to see how you go.
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    Hi Rob, Top Gear actually started in the 70s here in the UK but I think the BBC only started pushing it overseas a lot later once the presenting team evolved to the '3 stooges' line-up of Clarkson, May and Hammond. I love the fact the sides of the bodywork come as separate pieces like that, just emphasises the box-like structure!
  11. GusMac
    Nice Rob. Didn't realise they were still manufacturing Nivas. Haven't seen a Lada here in the UK for years. The early ones from the 80s were truly terrible and the butt of all sorts of jokes. However, they weren't the worst cars around - the other Soviet export, the Moskvich, took that dubious honour. I remember in a friend's one if you opened the air vent in the dashboard you just saw the road underneath!!
  12. GusMac
    Again, sorry to hear that Phil. That really is a low blow. When it rains it f*****g pours sometimes....
  13. GusMac
    That does look seriously impressive. I take it these (or at least the masters) must be 3D printed?
  14. GusMac
    Sorry to hear that Phil.
  15. GusMac
    Wow Carl can't believe those two sleeping there so peacefully. Our two Jack Russell's used to torment the poor bloody cat. One would eat it's food and the other would try and eat it! Cat eventually went blind so she lived upstairs and the dogs were kept downstairs. She lived to twenty so not a bad innings. Do miss her but won't be getting another cat until the dogs are gone.
  16. GusMac
    Looks amazing Tom. All that interior framing will really pop after a wash.
  17. GusMac
    Looks great Cees. The Vulcan cannon pods always look mean.
  18. GusMac
    Yeah, the Greeks don't like to waste water on things like washing the aircraft! Ha
  19. GusMac
    Great to see this back Rich. Glad everything survived the move fairly intact.
  20. GusMac
    Great dusty look.
  21. GusMac
    Wow, that's even more impressive. I reckon I'd have lost a few fingers trying that!
  22. GusMac
    That Mk 103 round is a serious piece of ordnance! Certainly gonna spoil your day.
  23. GusMac
    Looks great. As Rockie says, the splintered prop looks brilliant. Did you use real wood or carve the plastic?
  24. GusMac
    Looks great John.
  25. GusMac
    Just some quick phone pics of my current project, Airfix 1/24 Typhoon. Fairly happy with how the cockpit has come out.
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