Mike_G

There were only 3 girls in my graduating class

You want to paint it silver first, and use something that will stand up to the lexan paint- I've used Pactra RC car paint that way with good results (candy purple over silver, then clearcoated with duplicolor clear)

You can have 8 carbs or fuel injection, but not both. I'm using the same motor in my '48 Ford custom- I used the 8 carbs and made aluminum velocity stacks and it looks pretty wicked. The plug wires are shrouded so that makes it real easy to wire, just need to drill a hole in the ends of the shrouds big enough to glue 4 wires in. The front cover has a nice flat bottom that makes mounting pretty easy.

Howdy! I'm looking forward to seeing some of your motorcycle builds- I was also on escale although I haven't been a regular visitor there for about a year or so.

Inattentive mom or not, an actual "barrier" would have prevented the entire episode. It's not hard to design something that a 3 year-old can't breach.

I especially like the rust around the wheelwells, it's very realistic

2001 Ducati 996R, it's a 1/9 scale Protar kit

I mostly read technical literature these days, but I used to enjoy Bradbury, Heinlein, Poe, Hunter Thompson, Richard Brautigan, and Rick Siemen (aka "Super Hunky")

I seem to remember some green paper caps as well as the red

There were some really good bike builders at the escale site, I'm thinking some of them might show up here

Very nice- lots of drilling, eh?

I got a little portable reel-to-reel recorder in about 1966 The first thing I recorded was the sound of the toilet flushing Later I used it to record my experiments with my Gilbert chemistry set

My wife and I had some pretty good surf clams for lunch today it's our 31st anniversary

Nothing out of the ordinary.

I had a dream one time where this guy was throwing darts at me and one hit me right in the elbow, which hurt like heck. He continued to throw darts at me with me dodging them until his supply was exhausted and the darts were stuck in the ground all around me- I gathered them up and had them all in one hand forming a big round circle of darts, which flew from my hand like they were rocket-propelled and hit him in the head and neck. Then I flew away.

I used PlastiKote white sandable primer on my '53 Victoria that was molded in red and didn't get any bleed-through. In fact, the top is just primer that I wetsanded and clearcoated.

I used to go to IPMS meetings, they're mostly focused on airplanes but there were always a few car kits that people took in trade that were really cheap.

Motorcycles are usually posted under "all the rest", but I agree they should have their own category.

I was a member over at escale but haven't visited there in awhile, it was a good site with good people- I enjoyed the diversity.

My family is French, so I was allowed to drink wine at family get-togethers since I was about 12

I have some candycane shotglasses that say "not intended for use under age 21".

Ann Margret Dangit, ya beat me to it

+1, except I use Testors flat black enamel for the undersides of hoods, engine compartments, and wheelwells because any overspray can be easily removed with a swab and mineral spirits without affecting the lacquer body paint

I did not know that He was in the Adventures of Sir Lancelot

I bought a nice vintage microscope in it's original wooden box for $20 today off Craigslist