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Nearly finished it, messing about with details at the moment and then weathering to follow. Gonna sort blurry phone out as well. Really enjoyed the build though, I'm going to buy two more. / shit pic 4 Fred.

The finished van looks mint but I can't help wondering how much time & money you'd end up spending to get it looking that good. Even if you bought the body, wheels & basic interior, there's still a shit-load of scratch building to do. Having said that, it'd be a hell of a project, You should definitely buy it and build it. You're welcome

Looking nice @Indiana_Jones. Got a little bit more done, though Cornish Winters are short & Spring has sprung so it my fizzle out...

This bloke's pretty good Scale Model Club 2 - YouTube As is Steve. Steve Jones Scale Modelling Site - YouTube * I say "pretty good" like I know what I'm doing, just about to repaint the interior canvas on the HST as it looks shite.

Done a little bit more & started weathering the interior.

I apologize, I shall mention it no more.

I saw this thread heading to the bottom of the page, thought I'd step in. Making time to do this HST but it's a fighter. It's a nice kit, but the instructions are a bit vague here &there. As is the amount of parts & general design. I'm not enough of foamer to know which old molds were adapted for this kit from where or when, but they left some bits out I reckon. Suspension all went together a treat, except for the drive sprockets. Zero location points what so ever. just glue & hope I s'pose, but if I'd done that they'd have fallen off. WTF ? Bit of sprue & some stuff out of the spares box ( recoil dampers for the anti-aircraft version of the Flak 88 if I recall) & axles appear. Glued them in most carefully & won. Started building up the hull. For a change I'm going to paint it all when finished. Except for the engine. Gonna have another stab at the weekend Chur /@Indiana_Jones again, geht es dem Stug gut ?

Time to resurrect the only thread I'm any good at... Now the evenings have gone dark, I've got a chance for a bit of glue sniffing again. Hobby Boss M4 High Speed Tractor. 1/35 Scale. Looks like this IRL... Made a start on the running gear, gonna paint it before assembly. Also, to demonstrate why one should " read & understand the instructions fully before commencing construction", plasticard support for cab floor as some monkey chopped the mounting tabs off. Ejection marks in the hull should really be filled too before much longer. I'm going to try & make this one nicely weathered rather than fucked. How's that Stug going @Indiana_Jones ?

Heat's a bit risky, unless you have a controllable source. Hair dryer to soften it up a bit ? Candles usually end in melted plastic which looks nothing like bent armour. Also, removing a bit of the thickness will ease shaping. There is a lot of photoetched parts available to replace stuff like guards & the skirts along the side. Plastic can't really be molded thin enough. It's a bottomless pit. Looking forward to seeing how it goes.

@Lord Gruntfuttock, @Indiana_Jones & @igor. This is where I dumped my 1/35 gluey fingered clumsiness. Not 1/24 but TBH the thread was dead on its arse anyway and still is by the looks of it.

I thought stalk too. So much stuff going on in there, so much dust & fluff gets in there too. I had a Marina with that simple BL indicator/ flash/ horn setup and it was so filthy that when you flashed the main beams while the lights were on, the engine started missing. / yes, I know. Marina. But the point is a valid one.

First time poster I was just watching a youtube video of a bloke putting coilovers on his Sierra Cosworth. I'd never really thought about it, but if the springs are separate from the shocks & the coilovers bolt in where the shock went, isn't that a disaster waiting to happen ? In my tiny brain, a separate shock mount is in no way built to take any load, let alone the weight of the car. Dan, 56, confused.

Thanks Nick, sadly my starter is is a numberless repro of dubious national parentage. I'm pretty sure the bloke at the rebuild place would smile ironically and chuck it in the bin. / Should've kept my Cortina, etc.

Thanks. Because we were mostly an L series desert here, not many suppliers list the full compatibilities. Found one that says all Z cars & 510's, 1970- 1983, Good enough for me.

Yep, it's toast. Totally fubar. The bits that aren't rusty are all wore out. Anybody fancy messaging KY for me & asking ?

Hello brainy bods. I think the starter on the Hako may be toast. I'm putting it in for a rebuild but it maybe beyond saving. Are all 6 cylinder L series starters the same ? Or even fours ? I can get 240/260/280Z starters but dunno if they're compatible. Help me Obiwans, you're one of my hopes. Chur

Thanks Terry, changes to come. Are we still calling you Terry ?

I should really give a patina'd 1/24 car kit a bash. I'm quite a fan of cars, and indeed patina. I was going to do that 59 Caddy but it threw up more issues than solutions. I'll do one soon. just so I don't get banned for going off topic.

Yeah, I've got an update for this old crate too. Got some overnight parts from Japan. All new water hoses ( except the rad hoses coz I'm a dork) & new strut top mounts. I made up the rad hoses out of bends & also had the rad re-cored because leaky. And, it turned out, blocked solid. So all fitted & it now stays cool, doesn't leak & doesn't crash around at the front. I have plans for it though & I intend to implement them before a couple of local car shows in the spring. I've told Mrs Shuzz she's driving it coz I'm driving the Chevy. She looked worried. / pics of rad & Hako for Fred.

Four pages back & 11 months later. I don't think you fullahs are taking this thread entirely seriously. Lucky for you, there's always an old Pom around when you don't need one. Latest (and only) offering from Studio De Shuzz in the past year.

My Dad bought this 1979 Wheelhorse in 1986. He used it to cut a couple of acres around the house while he was able & then I took over mowing duties until about 2018 when it finally became a burden & he bought a new one. I brought it home last year, having been sat in the chicken shed at his for 3 years and being " proper fucked". /pic. The paint job was just to make it a little less attractive to thieves ( it got nicked once but after painting it stayed put). I got a new bottom end & block for it in about '97 when the rod had an episode & I also bought a new deck in 2001. It still ran, kinda... http://i.imgur.com/Lg42X6w.mp4 Anyway, I decided to get it up & running as the grass ain't gonna cut itself. Wheels blasted & coated Shiny Got a load of panels blasted & primed Got the deck done too. Came back as Swiss Cheese. I paid £ 300 for that as a painted bare shell in 2001, priced a new one now and it's £ 1500. Wat. The jury is out. Forgot to take the engine cover to the blasters. Derr. Had to prep it myself. / good enough for a country job. Anyway, tyres on the way, paint ordered & I've been down the back of the sofa for some deck money. 1,500 quid. You could buy a car for that....

Took it for an MOT, failed on the usual rear brake balance/ handbrake efficiency, a track rod end and someone finally decided to get funny about the right hand indicator tell-tale not working after 26 years. While I was messing about fixing that I discovered I had one of these. Cooool....

21 month update. Finally got the old banger down to Cornwall as its Welsh duties are concluded. We both said it's like the whole family is finally here. Haven't had a tow hitch on it since I did the flatbed but Mrs Shuzz's pikey palace isn't going to drag itself into the meadow so I spent this afternoon doing cutting & drilling as it used to be on a chassis extension with the longer tub. All done Stuck with the up-high pin hitch to deter people from asking me to spend all day pulling fucked stuff out of ridiculous places for a beer. Gotta make an A-Frame to pull the caravan next. / Blardy Travellers.

Yeah, there's one guy who built a "what if" rare German halftrack that had somehow got back to the US after the war and then was used as logging vehicle in Canada after being butchered & tiger striped. It looked mint but you could hear the gritted teeth in some of the comments. Hang on, I'll find a pic..... Think he must have striped it after.

I almost offered one bloke "some form of physical altercation" ( copyright @dane ) when he started going on about something but everyone else told him to stop it so it was fine. They're almost as bad as the " Oh, I wish I was as good as you" type comments which are just impossible to answer without sounding patronising. Just practice and copy the things you like. Idiots. If I jack the model forum in it'll just be you monkeys that I internet with. *sigh*