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    1960 Plymouth Valiant build thread.

    It was the desert Beige....bought it used for 100$
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    Lenshead Type B (CHARCOAL) (rebuild with greebles)

    The Camo version of Lens Head Type-B si still available from SF-Paper Craft... for any industrious person with tons of time and patience up the ole' ying-yang... you can load the sheets into Inkscape and replace the camo with charcoal!
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    1960 Plymouth Valiant build thread.

    ah! I remember mine...and the day I trashed the trans...revving up and punching a button on the button shifter really a bad Idea!!
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    Spaceagent-9 2017 build pic threads

    You could use poster paint...but a few problems with it ...Getting it to stick..and after it is stuck..you should cover with an acrylic varnish of some sort to stop it from Flaking off...acrylic is more versatile in the fact you can add matte or glossy permanent varnish that smooths and...
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    Spaceagent-9 2017 build pic threads

    Acrylic...cheap-o-Walmart...they have sets of basic colors that are pretty cheap.
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    Spaceagent-9 2017 build pic threads

    DUDE!!! GET ONE OF THESE...the blades are so sharp they will take off the end of your digits before you know it...they cut through 1/4" foam core like butter...cut at about 30degrees to the core and slow going...for curves hold at about 60 degrees... HERE
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    Holding this space for NEW MODEL BUILD w/ trailer.

    I have been working...day after day of just cutting ...and searching for parts ( more l8er)...I have to work around the pain from everywhere but ear lobes...so going has been slow...that and re-building parts as building by instruction sheets is a nightmare...and instructions are your basic take...
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    Spaceagent-9 2017 build pic threads

    Quick search...
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    WIP - Admiral Nakhimov - scale 1:200 from Dom Bumagi

    I agree!!! :iagree: :iagree: :iagree:
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    New member from the Netherlands

    I used to build a speaker back in the day...before electro was around...but the lower section was 2, 12" full-range basses...center section was 4 10" full-range mid-range and two 4 " HC tweeters, two of these combined and flipped 180, and on the very top, HC Horn and HC tweeter. Lower section...
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    Prelaunch NASA paper Shuttle model

    That brings back some memories...don't remember what product (cereal) used to have things like that on the boxes...I picked up YEARS AGO, the Great International Paper Airplane Book...and I have Da'vinchi's Glider as a Paper Plane and a Glider Book...and somewhere I have Paper Dragons...which...
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    Well, I sure am glad Global Warming is a Hoax...only pushing over 100 for the next few days...

    Well hang on to your shorts, or rather maybe toss them, as this mega Heat Dome is headed that way...it is supposed to hang around here for a week or so, I guess then slowly get there...considering it reaches from Colorado to Mexico and Arizona to Oklahoma...should not take long!!!
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    New member from the Netherlands

    Welcome to Zealot!! Hope to see a build thread of the Tie soon! any questions..just ask!
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    Well, I sure am glad Global Warming is a Hoax...only pushing over 100 for the next few days...

    Yep ...@spaceagent-9 got it bad...Forcast for parts of Arizona were around 120!! Nice warm, Dry air...with the chance of spontaneous combustion....