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I tried it and kept getting a busy signal. Then again, myne has been having issues the last few weeks. Can someone else try, in case something is wonky with my phone? I don't know. In the old days people used to put the receiver beside the phone when they didn't want to be bothered. Excuses, excuse...

For reasons beggaring understanding, it works fine now in its original format.
Maybe we'll never know what went on.

For some reason it works perfectly this morning.
They're just trying to confuse us!

Roll call?

I'll have a New Jersey kaiser roll, buttered please.

Hm. The https trick works! Thanks!

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Yo!

Well it looks like we're back to normal now. Or for now . Thanks to whomever fixed things (IF anyone fixed anything).

Got that SQL error when I posted the above.

EDIT: every time now.

The main thing I notice is that the board often takes many minutes to open a forum or a thread after I click. So long that I'll sometimes move on to another activity and come back to it later.

There we are! Thanks, Boss.

Aaaaand I give up. Second attempt at a Luna. Bought Alclad Chrome. Bought Tamiya gloss black spray. Got nice shiny black finish. Airbrushed a couple of light coats of chrome. Looking good. Model is supported by a stick up its ass so I don't touch the finish. At some point during the spraying of the ...

Well. I was proceeding from a completely incorrect assumption. As usual.

I thought you were supposed to do light dust coats and polish that.

The parts where I pout it on thick don't look any shinier, either.

Okay, I don't get it. I'm rubbing like crazy and there's no difference.

What can I use that's just around-the-house to polish my first-ever Alclad finish? Facial tissues? Eyeglass lens cloth? The dog?

So far so good, btw. A coupla coats of black, a coupla coats of silver, nice and smooth.

That's an awesomely thorough explanation, Lt.

I'm being careful, shaking a lot (me AND the can!) and letting it dry more between coats on my second try.

Okay, I can NOT understand this one: 12" C-57D styrene kit, with lights. The plan is to give it a coat of Tamiya metallic black as a light blocker, then Tamiya Mica silver, both from spray cans, because Tamiya laquer always comes out so beautifully smooth. I wash the plastic parts thoroughly wi...

Heck, I even have some old pastel sets that were my grandmother's!

Mine are 3/8"

Use a high definition setting (800 to 1000 dpi). The images will become heavy, but the quality of the printed image is outstanding. File size is TINY if you use a vector program like CorelDRAW (or Illustrator for people silly enough to own Macs ;)), and you can print them out any size with perfect ...

Time to ditch the wife!

It's usually a tad softer than kit styrene (the Evergreen stuff is, anyway). That makes it easier to cut and glue. I find it about the same as cutting out and putting together cardboard or paper shapes like we used to do in school art class. Here - the whole aft end of this kitbash was done with .02...

Go here:
http://www.micromark.com/

Put "pin vise" in the search box. You'll get a nice variety of choices like these:

http://www.micromark.com/prodimgs/21105.jpg

In fact, I'm soaking in it right now!