Alfashark

Another culprit for this - If you've got lower/stiffer springs and the car is capable of cocking a rear wheel around a corner, that pings the TPMS as well.

Wheel size won't matter at all, as long as all 4 are the same diameter.

I see a lot of Mk6 imports on those rims - Super light, but being so open they're begging for a big brake conversion behind them...

Fuckin hell that's some serious boots.

What's the price point between the 4s and 5s?

Not interested in a Mk7 to add to the herd?

Close enough.  5 x 5" is old Chev innit?

Are you a member of this group?

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1365983997079300/

That's DUBNZVW. There's always wheels being sold on there.

Kit bashing.  That usually upsets them - Finding leftover bits/spares/variant components from a kit and butchering an already fucked build just for the hell of it. That winds them right up and the actual build is quite fun and you're not really restricted to doing anything remotely right.

Once I dig out my kit crates and find my tools, that's what I'll be doing.

At least the goons from the IPMS branch I was in - And it was a small branch, no more than about 10 of us - Were fucking brilliant at doing their own thing and realising that not everyone could or would go that deep down the detail hole.

One of them, just to try it out, masked and painted every individual panel on a 1/72 model to get something like the effect of polished aluminium. Took him forever and while it did look impressive, he reckoned he'd never do it again just to get that 99% right look that some other cunt (likely from one of the forums you've mentioned) to still pick holes in it.

Amen!

Best to ask for thoughts and examples on, then make your own mind up and don't ever show them the finished results...

Comes down to where and how they were operated... The Tonkas and Jags got a quick smearing of Desert Pink and then got throw into the desert at Mach fuck, down in the weeds with a lot of grit in the air so they got sandblasted on all the leading edges/pointy bits. 

Some of the chaps over your way use a Pledge furniture polish sealant, watered down with thinners and wash the whole thing with it which can bring out panel lines with just the right amount of depth.

More scope to dirty it up a bit with the pink too. Get a look at some of the Tornados in theater back then and someone like you could have a field day with the weathering...

If I can find the pod, and that fucking awful camo can be removed without rooting the panels, I'll hit with a coat of Hemp (Tamiya XF57, or Humbrol 168 for those playing along at home).

If the panels don't clean up well, it'll get a dose of Desert Pink and can represent Teasin' Tina which is on display at Bruntingthorp - No one is quite sure why it was painted in D.P as it's quite a different colour to Hemp but presumably someone thought that since the Tornados, Jaguars and Buccaneers wore it while giving Saddam a good tickling, the tankers keeping them fed must have worn it too.

For reference, Hemp:

And Desert Pink:

Had to do a bit of digging, but I found the old duck... Missing a refueling pod from the starboard wing, and the centerline unit is missing as well - No doubt in a box somewhere.  The thing that passes me off most about the whole saga is the time I spent masking off the cockpit glazing and it appears he removed this and had a half arsed attempt at doing it himself and then hit it with the Dark Green again.

Ahh! You've definitely got your eye in then. I never did a lot with that Badger, because it was a lot of shagging about compared to opening the tins of Humbrol's finest and getting work with the brush.

Your weathering is outstanding - Miles above my ability/patience.

@CarolsHusband what's your airbrush setup like?

I'm starting from scratch, but I used to have a fucking ancient Badger and ran it off aerosol supply. 

As mentioned last night, I was all fizzed up to get on with something... Boxes are buried somewhere in the garage and that's a bridge too far for me in my current state.

What I do have somewhere out there though, is a 1/72 possibly Matchbox H.P Victor K2 with a bad history - I picked it up in a 90% complete state years ago from a mates old man and he'd cocked it up rather badly. I rescued it and spent a lot of time slowly wet sanding the horrific paint job off and re-scribing a lot of panel lines and recommended he blow it over with an airbrush in Hemp for the upper surfaces and RAF Light Aircraft Gray on the underside which would bring it to represent one of the Victor tankers in the Gulf War.

A year later I saw the "finished" result where he'd attacked it with RAF Dark Green/Medium Sea Gray camo by brush, someone had knocked it off its shelf and a wing was broken off, the fin had collapsed and the undercarriage was MIA so I swapped him a box of beer to permanently rescue it.

Pics to follow, but I've yet to start that restoration.

12 minutes ago, johnny.race said:

Do you know what is the common dia of rim usually used on VW's? I've never had anything to do with near most all 4cyl sedans/hatches - fucking cars bro. I lived under a rock and had pickups and the older stuff all my life.

15" will fit, assuming you use the VW calipers - Going up to the 312mm discs will require 16".

288mm is a common VW disc size if that gives you a place to start mixing and matching from.

3 minutes ago, nzstato said:

Hmmmm

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/audi/tt/listing/3518714918?bof=BSr2Sgrt

 

Buy now! That's fucking clean!

The arse has dropped way out of the market for most things powered by the ole 1.8T20v so there's gold to be had... Basic tune for that engine is 150hp and a big ole wad of torque, the main difference is the turbo and tune.

The "gang wife" Octavia that old mate bought in 2005 was wailed on day and night for close to 400000km and never missed a beat while being passed around various members of his family and then to my in-laws - Pipercross filter kit, stock DV, Remus turbo-back exhaust and a cheeky remap to 225.

The four-pot ones are a bit nicer to punt around on a twisty road, tons of aftermarket parts - 350-ish Hp is easy with basic mods to support a tune but the rods tend to get a bit bendy after that.

Yeah, but an easy enough job on a T.spark - It's more of a good excuse to swap the variator out before it decides to shit the engine oil out over the belt and on to the floor of the workshop that has just put a clean-sheet wof sticker on the windscreen...

25 minutes ago, datlow said:

Or $7 for 2 500g bags from pak n save.....

 

25kg for $12-$13 at any farm supply outfit...

Waikato Uni had their Geology? department Hiace vans running on it - Again, throwing in a small quantity of dead dino juice every couple of weeks for good measure.