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i think you should listen to mr blue. try this experiment, jump in a 1:1 car and floor it. see any similarities?:smiley2::8ball:

if you do try this in a real car make sure your experiment is valid, you need a smooth surface for the 1:1 and ice rinks arnt that available for driving on so maybe some wet grass will do the trick!

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i learnt all of my “proper” paint theory at high school doing three units of it. but space marines have been around me since i was 9 years old… a pack of 30 plastic mk.6 armour marines and a rhino for $80 was the best thing a kid could find.

i now have a nicely expanded ultramarine army spanning 13 years of releases, tyranids, tau, a small amount of dark eldar and a large force of traitor marines and traitor gaurd.

what armies have you got preist?

Edited by – z-beam on 16 January 2005 13:38:56

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thanks for that, did you see the reveiws:smiley2:

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yeah i was thinking of useing a watered down ink with just a little detergent added for extra “seeking” ability. its an old trick i learnt with warhammer figures.

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destijl do not fill the diff with plasticene, it will spin out even more than before!

i mostly run my z on smooth tiles here at home and i allways have the same situation, if you accelerate to fast it will spin out of control. even with all the added extras.

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if you got one, loosen the ball diff gradually untill you get a better result on the surface you are driving on.

otherwise get one, the plastic ones will not do a good as job.

p.s. you need to activate the items in your gallery so that other members can veiw them…

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love the colour betty, you did good:p

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whats this about badgers and mushrooms?:8ball:

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sorry, i dont own any i-waver gear but,

in the meantime just take the crystal out of the iwaver tx and put into your good futaba one.

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i need some roll shocks Aaron, so could you please give us an update in this thread when the new batch comes in!

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awesome to hear that you guys like it!

join lines, mmmmm. i have just the idea. i will give it a go with some ink and a bucket of water handy in case i mess it up.

and as for racing with it, no racing so far but household muck abouts have allready hapened with it and it has the scars to prove it!

i will definatly get my hands on at least 2 more supras to do up to the same standard, 1 for permanant display and the other for sale once it all comes together… (i need 2 blank supras:smiley2:)

i might be meeting up with a newer member takata soon so maybe we might get some footage then.

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i rushed it! i was just too eager to get it done by boxing day night so i only spent 2 hours max on putty and 3 on the paint… and half that time was waiting!

dgs, if your serious pm me. it would be way cheaper with an unused blank. the reason is repairs to exhisting damage take a very long time to putty up and then sand back. after doing a lot of awesome (not) roofslides with the wrx i racked up over 5 hours worth of fiddling and it still wasnt smooth (improved tho). but that body was beat up before i ever owned it…

how cheap can you get blank bodies for dave?

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thanks guys, someone over at bitpimps suggested gemstones set in rims and that gave me ideas. rims could work but i thought the headlights could do with some extra sparkle, as most new cars these days have the shiniest chrome headlight fittings and the silver paint just wasnt enough to get this effect.

next time i have a go with this i’ll need some white stones, and zircons are still expensive (BUT WAAAAY CHEAPER THAN DIAMONDS).

as for the paint idea pete: yes they are refered to as complimentary opposites. purple and yellow definatly have this relationship… its the green that would look positivly sickly when it tried to show up over the gold.

the irredescent paint was designed for use over a neutral colour, black is recomended but i decided on using silver wich in colour theory would be considered white.

the only non neutral colour i tested with the paint was a blue ciggy lighter. it looked ok but no where near as nice as silver.

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heres the update i promised…

so what do you guys reckon now?:D

Edited by – z-beam on 11 January 2005 20:55:54

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nope, the tamiya ps46 spray (purple/green irredescent) hadn’t been released at the time i did the camaro. i got in time for the supra tho…

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welcome back dave! it was one of these but a blank + a little putty, paint and two sparkly iolites. i also left off a few of the pieces, like the side mirrors,side exhaust and the front “wings”.

Edited by – z-beam on 10 January 2005 16:58:23

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thanks fellas!

yo pete, this is what i sent you in the pm:
“have a look in the mini-z discussion at the supra ive been working on, you can see the paint i was talking about there.”

what i meant is, by reading how i used the shifty paint (i.e. over silver) you could get an idea of how it would go with a gold undercoat.that and the green is way subtler than how the rex used to be… (its now telefonica blue)

personally, i wouldnt think it would be great because gold(yellow) is opposite of violet(purple) and be a little to much of a contrast.
BUT i could be totally wrong and it could turn out great! only one way to find out…

finalized pics should be up later on today… come back tonight and have a look!

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its all real nice work, specially wizzle:smiley2: and hachi’s pantera. that supra just doesnt do it for me at all…

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i hope you are kidding jamie!

junkyard wars on foxtell had an ep. that two teams built and destroyed full scale cars that had radio gear built into them to control steering and throttle. they fixed pointy weapons onto them and armour plating and let rip at each other in a deep and large dry dam.

the pics are done very well, i think i’ll have to stop beleiving what i see from now on:smiley2:

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i hope you are kidding jamie!

junkyard wars on foxtell had an ep. that two teams built and destroyed full scale cars that had radio gear built into them to control steering and throttle. they fixed pointy weapons onto them and armour plating and let rip at each other in a deep and large dry dam.

the pics are done very well, i think i ll have to stop beleiving what i see from now on:smiley2:

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dont the people who made your gto make them aswell talldude? im pretty sure i saw them on their site.

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what the hell happened to that supra! nice finish on the paintjob, and the putty is smooth as BUT goofy lookin indeed!!!

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how many coats of the pearl transparent did you use Aaron?

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no probs! its working pretty well now but earlier on today was having some serious delemas.

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thanx for the info, send me a pm if you could as soon as the rollshox come in!

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