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Er, if you're going to buy one of those shells you might want to do it quick. It would appear that QT Services (who own the Wildcat brand) know nothing about them, and somehow (ahem) just found out.

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I only asked if they knew if there was a Tomcat one :(

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You cunt!

Anyway, they're not in breach of Bowler's (or whoever) IP rights by making this. There have been a bunch of cases about toy car manufacturers, and the big car makers got told to GTFF when they had a go at the toy companies for breaching their IP in the car design.

As long as they're not holding themselves out as being part of Bowler or officially endorsed, they're doing nothing wrong.

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As long as they're not holding themselves out as being part of Bowler or officially endorsed, they're doing nothing wrong.

Hmm. That would be tricky, as it's not the Bowler Wildcat any more. Accuracy be damned!

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Well, who-the-fuck-ever owns the brand, it's still not a breach of IP unless they're claiming to be endorsed or licensed by or actually be part of that company. So QT Services can fuck off back down their hole.

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Does that apply to everything? Could I, for instance, start selling little Halo models?

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Hmm, good question. I think the answer is no, but I couldn't tell you why exactly. I'll have a look later. Also Koolasaurus still due, natch.

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Does that apply to everything? Could I, for instance, start selling little Halo models?


You can already buy them in handy packs - you just need to file off the word 'polo'.

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Does that apply to everything? Could I, for instance, start selling little Halo models?

You can already buy them in handy packs - you just need to file off the word 'polo'.

Heh.
I do have awesome little Master Chief models:
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Those Master Chief models are ace! Where did you get them?


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Erm... I'll see if I can find out.

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Take the stuff of the drawing of the saucy lady so I can see it properly Grim...

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Limited edition, apparently, but you might find some somewhere.
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Take the stuff of the drawing of the saucy lady so I can see it properly Grim...

It's already on the pad - you draw the dirty bits in yourself.

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You want to feed the Grimlet Tomcat-shaped jello? Cool.

Also, there were piles of Halo figures for sale in my local Gamestation. They look cool. But they're Halo figures.


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Hoorah! All the bits are on their way (various bits of grease, tools, Wildcat shell, Hummer tyres etc). I now just need to think about a colour scheme for the body. If only there were a Team Beex strip.

Grimothy - what are you doing with the back end of your tomcat? is it going to be covered? If so I could make a mini-Grim... machine.

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Grimothy - what are you doing with the back end of your tomcat? is it going to be covered?

Nope.

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Won't your office building air-con unit on the back get wet?

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Probably. It it can't deal with getting wet it's not much use to me.

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When I went skating on Saturday I was talking to the bloke who owns the building and he's building a great big indoor RC car track in an unused part of it. Might get myself something and have a go, as long as they do some sort of stock races. From what I've seen you can spend almost enough to go racing for real if you get obsessed over upgrading these things.


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£25 for 2 alloy body mounts, for instance. Bonkers stuff.

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When I went skating on Saturday I was talking to the bloke who owns the building and he's building a great big indoor RC car track in an unused part of it. Might get myself something and have a go, as long as they do some sort of stock races. From what I've seen you can spend almost enough to go racing for real if you get obsessed over upgrading these things.

Ooooooh. Where's he going to build that though? In Pets Corner? :DD

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Heh, no Pet's Corner is staying intact thankfully, it's going to be the whole top floor of the Deadwood Saloon.


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Bar's re-opening too, with some kind of American Diner, which I guess will just be the same horrible burgers and shit as before but with more American flags and Elvis posters.


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Probably. It it can't deal with getting wet it's not much use to me.
Your GP can probably help with that.


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Right, here we go. Shell has arrived, and I have just finished rebuilding the chassis. I amused myself by forgetting to put a pressure plate in the rear diff assembly and only realising when the build was 75% done, requiring the whole thing to be taken to chuffing pieces again.

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HMMVW tyres, on Subaru rims. May need to get some new rims, methinks, as I'm not a chav. Need to come up with a colour scheme next.

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Black, obv.

That's looks aces, I am more than a little jealous.

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Grim... can't you make your Tomcat radio controlled.. that would be awesome :)

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It would, but 'probably not'.

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The trim was going to be black. I was thinking traditional yellow, or maybe purple. Or, I don't know. Lime green's in this year.

This is completely different from building aeroplanes, mainly because with cars I wish I knew what all the bits actually did. When cleaning and reassembling all the geary bits (GEARY BITS) I couldn't for the life of me work out what it was all for. What the fuck *is* a differential?
I was just following the instructions with blind faith and assuming the man who wrote them knew what he was on about, whilst understanding nothing. This must be what it's like to be a fundamentalist Muslim.

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What the fuck *is* a differential?

It allows the drive to be sent to the wheel with the least amount of resistance and allows the wheels to rotate at different speeds. If it didn't, when a car turned a corner it would scrub its tyres as the inside tyres would try and turn slower than the outside ones.

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Ah, thanks. Um, how does it do that, then? Is there something magic in the size and alignment of the three cog bits?

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Yes, basically. Have a read of this, it's quite good: http://www.howstuffworks.com/differential.htm

If you really want your head fucked with, I can explain how an automatic gearbox works :)

[edit]Start here, actually: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/differential2.htm

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That's easy... An automatic gearbox works the same as a normal gearbox except it changes gears automatically.

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That's easy... An automatic gearbox works the same as a normal gearbox except it changes gears automatically.

Next please!!

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Does that explain how LSDs work, especially pure-mechanical ones? Because trying to figure that out really twists my melon, man.


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It amazes me, stuff like that. I mean how the fuck did someone go about dreaming up something like differential gearing?


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It amazes me, stuff like that. I mean how the fuck did someone go about dreaming up something like differential gearing?

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It amazes me, stuff like that. I mean how the fuck did someone go about dreaming up something like differential gearing?


They took a bunch of psychedelic drugs.

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