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Alfashark

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  1. Yep. I know a lot of folks airbrush using gloss paints and seal everything in with a coat of matte clear too. There's also a huge range of decal softening solutions available too that let them really conform to panel lines or details without tenting or tearing.
  2. Others that I know seem to be a 50/50 split between paint/clear/decal/clear and paint/decal/clear. Your mileage may vary, but 20 years from now you may find the decals lifting/flaking if they don't have that thin waft of clear over the top.
  3. Love your work! Also, outstanding use of Banana for scale...
  4. Come on now, start with a full size one and whittle it down...
  5. If you feel like going back to pleb-spec with a brush, a lot of Japanese armour was painted with brooms... That way you be historically accurate and it hides a lot of sins.
  6. The usual italian crunch on upshift to 2nd? I got very good at splitting scavenged 33 boxes to find good synchro rings, or just taking the one from 5th and slipping it into 2nd.
  7. Stab in the dark, but a povo-spec 147/156 box won't fit?
  8. Ahh true, I'm not well versed in transverse setup Italian cars. I thought there would be a bit more plug and play Latin Lego going on.
  9. What flavour box is it? Would a clutch from something like a Punto turbo work? I imagine that'd be a bit higher rated than one from an NA combo.
  10. Without trawling through banana boxes of car magazines/stick mags from the early 2000s for one of the multitude of articles decrying it, here's a snip from Wiki:
  11. Yes - Perhaps not from the same generation as the Vectra C, but yeah there was a big song and dance about Alfa using a GM core from their modular family and adding their own heads to give it a proper Alfa sound and feel. Seemed to do the trick, it's no Busso, but they make all the right noises and certainly feel right.
  12. If you were feeling brave, I'm sure you could find a stacked Alfa 147/156 GTA and use that - GM 3.2 core with their own heads etc. Should be a lot more room for belt & tensioner changes too.
  13. Found in Saab 9-3 and Vectra C down this end of the globe
  14. It's the shit for painting canopy framing on aircraft models - Let's you run a super fine line that's dead straight and then Boom! Peel it off and you'll be the envy of all the kitset Barry world.
  15. Is Maskol still a thing? Clear liquid latex in a bottle, slather it on then when it's dry, run your blade around the edge of the wheel and paint to your heart's content. When the paint dries, peel the Maskol off and you're done.
  16. That said, look at the mileage on some of their rotary powered daily-drivers... Puts the local ones to shame.
  17. That half finished Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind kit I've got stashed in the garage, must be taken from the regular Panzer IV mouldings as there's about a million parts on the sprues that aren't mentioned on the instructions and wouldn't work on what's supposed to be a mobile anti-aircraft battery.
  18. Without going hunting, it's the portal from The Man In The High Castle
  19. Found online - The talent and creativity of people when it comes to kitsets is astounding.
  20. I think he meant a little Rotrex... No taking up valuable real estate for turbo manifolds.
  21. https://www.ricksmodelkits.co.nz/ Unsure of Escorts, but he does get some 3d printed RX models through, along with big Aussie Fords and all the things to finish them off to whatever level of detail you like.
  22. No, purely hoarding them - Despite all advice to do something with them. Same goes for all of her bulldozers/hovercraft/heavy engineering equipment from the 30s to the 70s.
  23. It's a slippery slope... A friend of mine has a shed with 30 or 40 pianos in varying states of repair.
  24. Not with today's price tag. This is more in keeping with the spirit of the late 90s - early 2000s critters flogging their Maketu drill-port 13Bs in the Bay Trader for $500... Except with more science and MS-Paint diagrams. Cheap(ish) and cheerful, and when it goes pop! Back to the wreckers/Pick A Part.
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