Russell C

Sorry to see your foreboding prediction about “plenty of fuel” after your sunset photo almost a year ago was unfortunately accurate. Ocean view, must have been very luxurious. Long as you keep your relative perspective on things, you should be fine. I doubt that even now you’d trade places with me, since I’ve never come remotely close to having a house like that, and - unless my lack of fortunes reverse - might not ever achieve it. Better to have lived luxurious and temporarily/inconveniently lost, than to have not lived that way at all. No chance of nature fires here, but I have renters insurance (poor as I am) because of the potential of my idiot neighbors burning the place to the ground. Put in my vote for the Dino.

Regarding other threads, I bypass the search window for the site and do a Google search that's site-specific instead, like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amodelcarsmag.com%2Fforums+poseable+steering

Surfed across those years back, a demented 3D computer art guy. There's more where that came from: http://www.chrislabrooy.com/auto-aerobics/

The term "weird" goes to a whole new level in the world of 3D computer illustration, e.g. the work of Chris Labrooy: http://www.chrislabrooy.com/auto-aerobics/ https://www.instagram.com/chrislabrooy/

But is it art?

Sno? My remote electronic thermometer says it's 72° outside.

No offense to the fans, never liked the design of the cartoon car at all, but your remake of it is a killer revision!

Would a light yellow-cream basecoat make the pearl yellow appear a bit less .... oh, ... 'too thin-looking'?

Facebook has model vehicle building groups? * * (showing my ongoing lack of understanding of how FB works or what its larger purpose is, beyond posting personal announcements and 'thumbs-ups' for funny cat videos)

Yep, one of my bigger fears is not that my stuff would be lost from anything I do, but instead what the neighbors do (upstairs folks have set off the smoke detectors around a half dozen times since they moved in back in June). Renter's insurance is a dang good idea. Without getting deep into details, today my landlord finds himself unable to defend the idea that he can force me to buy the policy he dictates, so he's dropped the requirement. What an ordeal. However, from my State Farm agent's pressure on the manager to say which state law gave him the authority to demand what he did, combined with my own slog through ARS laws Chapters 3 & 10, I guess I can say I'm more knowledgeable on what's permitted and what isn't. Hours gone from my life that I'll never see again, but knowledge is power and networking is priceless.

Dis Cord?

Fingernail tape. Never heard of it before.

Never forget to count your blessings. At least you guys have houses. I've been forced to waste two afternoons' worth of model building time trying to figure out if my apartment landlord is within state law to force me to buy his organization's renters insurance even though I already have my own State Farm renter's insurance.

And you already did, more than just halfway, sort of. Man, I'm jealous of your building skills!

Takes a while to rummage through all those photo links at that page, but there is quite a variety of neat vehicle images.

#2 should be the Monogram Duesenberg. I bought a gluebomb of that a while back for cheap in order to 'turn it into something it wasn't meant to be.' Might be a while 'til I get into that project, though ...

Great fun save! (that rust'll buff out)

Nuts, I forgot about the tinted windows.

Arizona doesn't permanent anonymity, only for the first for 90 days, so the first thing I'd be obligated to buy is some kind of long-term personal security, and/or some means of heading off the folks who have bad intentions. Such is the reality of the world these days. I have no debt, but I live near the poverty line, so next on the list is a bit more reasonable comfort overall. Nicer place to live, a degree or two more A/C in the summer, a bit more heat in the winter, my daily driver made into a far more reliable one, and a couple of automotive toys beyond that, along with time to devote to more model building. Then I could buy some more overall comfort for family members and those others around me in need of that. But all of that only costs a few million, perhaps. What I'd 'buy' with all the rest is the best possible staff to administer a charitable foundation that'll last for decades to follow, solving human/animal suffering/discomfort around the world that currently go unsolved due to a shortage of financing, along with providing financing a huge variety of other projects to make life better - life saving equipment for underfunded firefighters and emergency responders in small communities, material and money for museums and major building / property restorations, scholarships for students, on and on.

Ditto, the kind of cheap reading glasses that can be bought at a Walgreens-type store. The magnification lettering has rubbed off mine, but the granny-glasses version lets me focus on parts around 6 inches from my nose, and the wider larger lens one lets me see things clearly 8 inches away. Worn in combination, which is not uncomfortable at all, I can focus 4 inches away. Allows me to work on things like multi-piece fuel pumps.

Me, neither. Last night I was Googleing images for other custom cars and ran across a yellow one-off Vette with a body colored Rolls Royce grille, but I don't remember where I found it, and when I put "Rolls Royce Corvette" into the search window a short time ago, I couldn't find that one, and turned up these instead.

Eeek. This current ebay listing might be an indicator of the going rate for one. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Danbury-Mint-1922-T-Bucket-Kookies-Kar-COOL-CAR-1-24-very-rare-limited-edition/163294338750 Nevertheless, there are estate salers out there who occasionally put $19.99 buy-it-now prices on items that just look like toys to them, so it is sometimes possible to get expensive diecasts for cheap when they have broken parts and are missing the original box.

There was the abuse of Corvettes called the "Caballista"

Chore as it might be, would the factory decorative things ahead of the rear wheel openings be reversed and turned into functional air scoops?

Night & day difference since the time it last left my hands as an unpainted gluebomb. Great save! Would be interesting if the prior builder could see how it ultimately ended up.