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Originally Posted by klutz_100
Poles just LOVE diminutives - after all, Vodka (wódka) means "little water".
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Yes, I remember hearing something about that when I took Russian. I also learned to say, "Не продите зтому фарцовщику ваши джинсы! По-моему, он кагзбзшник."
Sorry for my long absence everyone!
I painted the body, then rubbed through the paint. (This is my first attempt polishing a body.) So I repainted the body, then rubbed through the paint. So, of course, I repainted the body, then rubbed through the paint. Somewhere around here I got pretty fed up with the whole process and decided to take a vacation. That makes this the part of the thread where I get to bore everybody with my holiday snaps. First, my souveniers:
Yes, I was quite excited to finally stumble across the elusive Tamiya Campus Fiends set - I've been wanting one ever since I discovered that it comes with a Vespa!
Plus the little Honda was in the specials bin, so it is a full-engine Tamiya kit that I scored for under $10!
Then some inspiration that I stumbled across on Duval Street in Key West:
Notice it's barely taller than the rubbish can, and shorter than the parking meter? Almost enough to make me want to go home and build some little cars!
So upon my return home I polished out the body that I had repainted before leaving town (didn't actually rub through the paint this time - YAY!) Here are the results:
And I also stripped some chromed parts in order to deal with flash, mold lines, push pin marks, etc. Here they are all ready to be painted:
Next I painted the shiny parts to make them, well, shiny. And here they are on the polished body:
For those of you curious about Minis (see above holiday snap), yes I do have at least one (well, technically speaking three) Minis in my stash. Here's one posing with the Fiat. Yes it
is actually a little bit bigger than a Fiat.
Then I couldn't resist test fitting the body onto the chassis:
Next I'll work on my interior. Hopefully I'll get a chance to do that some this weekend - before I get frustrated and have to take another vacation
Thanks for reading (and looking at my holiday snaps). Let me know what you think!