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Bleu and Brie in my lap play-fighing.

I heard about this "new" product and picked it up on Amazon. I have not read any reviews so far. Has anyone tried it?

I think that certain current political "files" release nonsense was based on the Oak Island model.

I saw one meme... 2 sports betting junkies were betting on how many rings it took before Gamblers Anonymous picked up their phone call...

I lost a steering wheel for a '59 Chevy, on my kitchen floor. I crawled all over looked under the radiator... nothing. Months later we were doing the kitchen over... I took great pains to dissect the entire area where the part was lost. I never found it. Sometimes I work barefoot.. I can feel dropped parts carom off my foot. Or in flip flops, I have found parts in them. I'm at the point now where I need to vacuum my work area, on carpet. My plan is to crawl under the table first... I will try a loop of packing tape, press the sticky side into the carpet and see what comes up.

I had worked with guys who had worked at places like Sperry Rand and Bulova (as in watches/delicate instruments). These were the guys who did the insane small stuff. Small wonder that some of them drank on the job!

I was referring to a Malco Willys, SWC gasser era. But you are right. There are still gasser classes today, no straight axles and the high suspensions.

I have phobias that will hinder a good build. I just conquered one... 2 tone paint jobs, using Tamiya tape. In general, I'm happy with my paint skills. Then there is BMF. I first tried some Testors stuff... it curled like an eel on a fishing line. Then I got some real BMF, night and day difference... BUT... vent windows, ugh. I'm not the only one, I see builds on contest tables where vent windows look like chewing gum wrappers were used. I've been using the AK paint pens, mostly black and I did a recent stock car with their silver. I have a new liquid chrome foil I want to try next. Those Molotow pens, I have had 2 dry up before I got much use from them. Forgotten projects: I have those too. I was doing a '64 Fairlane stock car using a resin body that needed a ton of work. It went BACK IN THE BOX! for about 8 years, I stumbled on it by accident and finished it in 2023. In some cases, better parts have emerged, like the 3D stuff in recent years. So I jump back into something once I find the RIGHT part for it.

My oldest son was in grade school and wanted help with a math question. It was involving "how many of each coin" is required o make some arbitrary sum. Or something like that. I saw it as a big trial-and-error exercise... or create a simultaneous equation to solve it. Which i did, drew it out to show his teacher that this was well beyond a 6th grader. He never showed it to her... I had a learning disability that was never diagnosed while I was in school. On my own, I learned the times tables, took it into the twelves. So I could do it all in my head eventually. Making change, I had little tricks to help me with that. At the store, I'll tell the cashier what my change for a $20 will be, before they know it. They just look at me. I have a brother, real close to a Rain Man brain. We would test him, what is 34,899 x 7,563 for example. I would enter it on a calculator as I called out the numbers. Before I hit the = button, he had the answer. He is also banned from some casinos in AC for some reason 🤔.

True, but what Moebius has done is quite novel. Those Ford truck kits have great commonality between them. This cuts down on costs quite a bit if you don't have to reinvent the wheel with every kit produced. Many years back, molds were made on manual machines, out of likely 410 or 420 stainless steel. Tough stuff to work on. Then heat treated which introduces another whammy into things. Very thin detail mold sections are fragile and can fail with being subjected to many heat cycles. Look at some old AMT parts frames, sometimes you can see where a section was fixed. Today, we have CAD and CAM to make things easier. EDM came along in the 1970s and wire EDM made mold work even easier and faster. There is still considerable "grooming" that goes with every mold fabrication. Hand polishing is inevitable to get smooth finishes. Sometimes I see milling cutter makes on parts, where it will be hidden when assembled.

Math used to be a progression, to go along with how children learned. Geometry, algebra then calculus. It was a time honored tradition. Common core throws all that down the porcelain receptacle. Kids come out of HS and most cannot add or subtract.

I like it quite a bit. I've been considering doing one. I have a partial '66 kit and would need to source a '62 kit. I like the hood scoop. Doing the hardtop is a must!

With a little care, great paint jobs can be done with anything. The keyboard warriors are quick to join in the blind rhetoric on any modeling facet.

I have to see how many of those i have on hand. That may be my next build.

That is radical as it gets... well done! Keep the updates coming.