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a "zipper" is something to keep the wind out of your underwear. jb

blondie: the tide is high. jb

>Remember the whole "hands up, don't shoot" story? Well, it turned out that eyewitnesses to the incident testified to the grand jury that it never happened. do you have a source for that claim? a credible source, which leaves out faux news? and remember, courts and grand juries do not necessarily hear truth, they hear stories nuanced through lawyers, almost NEVER the real "truth". and so how do you know this "fact" and how do you judge this story valid and the others not? as I recall it there was a lot of back and forth on what really happened and I doubt the GJ heard a balanced account. for instance I believe the GJ heard that the officer in question asked the man to kindly remove himself from the middle of the street in a gentlemanly manner. I doubt very much it happened that way. that is just not the way the police operate in modern urban America and particularly not in areas like Ferguson Missouri...and if you think that is the way they operate then I submit that you have never lived there or anywhere close to there or experienced what it is like to fear those who are supposed to be protecting you yet refer to you as "Ni**er" on a routine basis and subject you to harassment just for trying to walk down the street (as you may recall at the time of the confrontation the officer did not and could not have known about the store incident a short while earlier and was in fact harassing this man for what he considered arrogant behavior for walking in the middle of the street). >The media made it up because the media wanted you to believe that's what happened. It was pure fabrication. that is pure BS. why would they fabricate such a thing? to sell newspapers? to further prove their "agenda" that all police officers are wicked bad men who have a arrogant attitude and just shoot people of color for sport? again, what is your source that "the media" made up any such thing? there is no "the media" it does not speak with one tongue. and I doubt very much any of that was fabrication. possibly "it" was told that story to begin with and that's what "it" reported. quite possibly that story was true but people thought better of it when they were confronted with the fact they have to live in the community and have to deal with the storm troopers after that particular storm passed. perhaps the true eyewitnesses were cowered into submission and did not testify. perhaps those people who actually witnessed it and did not have an obvious axe to grind are so marginalized that the grand jury doesnt even consider them viable. I doubt very VERY much that some "media" sat around and conspired to pull one over on the public which is exactly what you are implying. as I recall there was ONE witness who claimed some such story (that no one ever said "hands up don't shoot" and that the officer acted properly in murdering the man in question) and she was believed even though she had an obvious axe to grind and had been criticized in the past as one big police apologist and that pretty much NO ONE who was actually there believed her or anything she has said...yet somehow she testified before the GJ and somehow they believed her and didn't even hear from the other side nor from those who pointed out how self serving her testimony was. but my memory may be fuzzy on that. what I DO know is that the press does not just make stuff up (Brian Williams notwithstanding). so tell me harry, what exactly are your sources for what you claim above and why do you believe them and not other sources you obviously reject out of hand to believe the "official story" so unwaveringly? next you are going to tell me you think this man made global warming stuff is all made up by "the media". "the media" is not "liberal" if anything they are the mouthpiece for business and the established power structure. that's one reason why it has taken to now for any established respected media to actually report that not only is global warming 100% caused by modern life and specifically by our beloved internal combustion engine, but that it is accelerating at a pace much faster than ever realized or reported...they make their money via the oil industry, the tobacco industry, the pharmaceutical industry and they are not going to stab those people in the back unless the evidence is more than overwhelming. the bottom line is that neither one of us believe what we read or hear from "the media", but for completely opposite reasons. ever hear of Gary Webb? that is a very interesting case illustrating just exactly how "the media" treats one of their own when they do not toe the line and cross over into threatening their own self serving interests. the water is getting hot and the frog isn't even noticing. jb this was merged into my prior post without me wanting it to be, re: max romeo and and my surprise at seeing someone quote him when i would think no one here would know anything about him >how do you know this? I take it then you know of the artist? name his most famous song and why it got so much notoriety. name one quite famous Jamaican producer who produced what many would consider his best material. other than Island Records, name one record label he released music on in Jamaica. when he sings "uptown babies don't cry" is he asking that someone take care of children in rich neighborhoods? what famous rock star was featured on one of his LPs but without his permission and what was the LP and how was it modified after the rock star raised a complaint about being featured on the cover of the LP without his prior knowledge. what is the name of the song that contained the line quoted above and name at least one other song recorded over the same rhythm? not challenging you, but wondering the depth of your knowledge of one of my favorite artists of the 70s jb

wow you are quoting maxie romeo? nobody here has ever heard of him. things might be looking up here, we just had him special guest after about 5 tries at sierra Nevada world music festival in Boonville a couple months ago. jb

just need to form your img tags properly, on the other hand, seems that insert other media button worked yesterday but its not working for me today. slo-mo trainwreck continues. jb

some of this stuff was originally meant for one project or another but by osmosis and the theory of proximity, a seed was borne. accu-pro "Zipper" 32 ford roadster, surplus amt XR-6 chassis narrowed and augmented, MT Tempest 4 with Weber carbs on custom hemi head, wheels and tires from Revell Parts Pack and Revell deuce of some sort, running gear mostly from same Revell deuce with Reps and Mins of Maryland competition 9" rear end. photos show rough quick mockup but will sit closer to the ground fore and aft and front will practically drag on the weeds. don't know what I will do with interior but simple bench seat and Mexican blanket might do, paint tinted primer for NNL West but then Tamiya deep blue metallic with some blue clear coat. or something. jb

thanks, the cast aluminum valve covers got to be great. any idea on price? I am thinking it must be 200 US$ plus for the engine. how about for the 1/24 Maseratis? jb

if they are the same, why does one box (AG) say 111 parts and the other (USA) say 118+ parts? jb

I wonder what those cost (the 1/24 cars too) and what the level of work required is. if its anything like TDR stuff, I would pass, way too much work involved just in smoothing parts to something even close to real life textures (despite what they claim). any idea on how the kit(s) actually come or their cost? well at least image posting from url seems to work now. couldn't read the german, but looks like this is 3D printed? again I wonder what the texture is like and whether there are parallel lines of material all through all the parts. certainly looks kool when done though. jb

I been there and done that. and if you are saying "love it or leave it", you first, star, I stopped playing that game during Vietnam. jb

I didn't notice that post was from 2014, I would have bet it was answered within ten minutes of posting jb

I would rather see twenty humans die than one lion. call me a sociopath, but that's the reality of todays world. and that dentist was not an innocent bystander. he is an idiot who thinks shooting animals with a bow and arrow is heroic even when it takes forty hours to track and finally kill his target...with a rifle. he is an excellent candidate for being on the receiving end of a similar hunt. you line him up and I will shoot the arrow. those guides were doing the little they can to make a living, that jerkoff was paying a fortune for the privilege of slaying an innocent animal, one of few left in the world. blaming the guides is just scapegoating, the dentist knew and encouraged them to do what they did so he could get his blood trophy. screw him. and now evidently the lions brothers and sisters are either dead or in danger of being killed. someones got to pay and I don't mean mere money. jb

it aint rocket science man, press the "choose files" text below your reply box, go through your file system to find the photo you want to post, click on it and it will be uploaded here. yeah we like fun here in California, one life brah, don't blow it. jb

so no one here even recognizes rolling stones million seller lyrics? but you know Boy George and his marginal little pop pap? lets call this song exactly what it is, its a funky and low down feeling: rock steady baby probably by Aretha franklin jb

you better watch out with that ad blocker stuff. most of it is Trojan horse based and soon your system will be at its knees. if you paid for it its probably ok but freeware like that is crawling with viri that you just invited home with you. often you will get a ransom note via email offering to "sell" you a key that will remove it. that is generally virus loaded as well. its a jungle out there. jb

now that you brought it up its bugging me. the problem is, if i trim off the bottom of the body then it will need to be channeled pretty much the same amount it is now, which means another 6" or so of channeling (1/4 inch in 1:24). which means, i think, that the rollcage will not fit up inside the cab and THAT isn't going to be easy to fix. right now the main problem i have is the rollcage is slightly too wide to fit past the fender recesses i built. i just spent some time filing the outer edges of the rollcage and i think just a little more manhandling, uh, work, and i will be able to slip the cab over the cage. i do believe i have about a quarter inch of headroom in there above the cage and it would actually look better deeper up into the top, so maybe it will work out. sure gives me something to think about tonite! and i think i will visit the car tomorrow with a tape measure and figure out exactly what needs to be done. about time Dennis saw his model anyway. thanks again! no, seriously, thanks again! oh and thanks for the compliment but the truth is you overestimate me. bodywork is art, doing that chassis stuff is just mechanics. i am much more a mechanic than an artist! getting curves round and lines straight...not my forte! jb

all those photos are of the same truck, but what you brought up does make me look at the body closer...appears to me maybe not sectioned so much as the part under the bottom door line has been hacked off and the body channeled over the frame (that part is for sure, it is definitely channeled like crazy to get the body down that close to the ground. i will have to investigate that...not sure at this point whether i would change horses in midstream, i already told him its not going to be exact, more like an impression of his 1:1, for one thing its going to be a whole lot neater and cleaner! its a race car, not a show car after all. but if i can trim the bottom without messing anything up too much i might do that. the body is still pretty much raw except for my firewall/corner constructions. thanks for pointing that out. when i started thinking about this car, i had only seen it from the street while passing by. i figured it was a basic gasser, drop front axle but mostly stock underneath. one or other of the available kits and a little kitbashing and it would be done. was soon to find out otherwise so here i am. for instance, had never done a rollcage like that and just figuring his layout out was a major chore, but like a lot of things, take things one at a time and it comes clear eventually. but as a giveaway, I am hoping to not have to make a career out of it, know what i mean? so if its a little off but still presents a decent image from a ways away, I think I will be happy. and i KNOW dennis will be happy, he is already pretty impressed with what he has seen. he started to assemble that Revell kit some years ago to make a kinda replica, but never got very far with it, too busy winning with his 1:1. jb

>Curious why you went with a risen cab? well the cab in the kit was pretty well known for its non-accurate features like the rear window, the grille mouth and maybe the side trim, maybe the roof height, etc, so i bought one of those resin cabs some time ago and it was sitting around waiting to be used. my friends prototype has a glass nose, but a metal stock body and it resembles that more than the kit one did but there is one glaring problem: the resin body has a horizontal character line that isn't on my friends car so i am not sure what i am going to do about that...i might leave it as that is how a stock body should look i think but i am very tempted to shave it off. will see when the bodywork phase gets more serious jb

heres what i started with: two base kits, turns out i am using precious little out of either of them...the starting basis for the chassis and the rear fenders, and the hood with the blower scoop hole filled in: and here was the preliminary layout of the parts i planned on using. Note it is a Drag City resin cast cab that i cut the fenders and nose off of, scratched up a firewall and inner panels, and molded the hood from one or the other of those kits onto it after i had filled the original hole for the blower scoop, to resemble my friends prototype...that scoop you see on top of the hood is really just mounted to the top of the hood...i will have to make some holes to feed my scoop once that is all decided. also note i made my own pickup bed, two of em at this point, to replace that kit one and likewise the floorboard. so, essentially, not much of what you see here made it unscathed into the build so far. comments or questions or even criticisms encouraged! thanks for looking! jb

its not really like you (well...I anyway) cannot post photos. I know of two ways. one is to use the choose files option in the lower left under the reply box. that takes you to a window into your file system and you can post pics that way, but they are attached and they are using MCM storage space since you have uploaded them to this site. the other way is to use img html tags of the form [ i m g ] [ / i m g ] (but remove the spaces i put in there). the trick here seems, for me anyway, to assemble a string of the img tags with your url of the photo you want to post in an external editor and then paste the entire string into the reply box. lets see if that still works: kind of a pain but it does work. others have better luck but that's what i have found works for me. the actual url feature behind the "insert other media" button below needs to be made to work but evidently the software guys say next release...which is funny because it worked for me last week. hope that helps jb

thanks folks. Bill all those photos were uploaded to this site instead of being linked to an URL, that feature always worked for me, but I am using MCMs space for storage which is going to be a problem sooner or later. those photos with the air box, those are kind of old. I have redone the box in thinner material but don't have a photo handy. thanks again anyone, comments questions criticisms cheerfully accepted jb

Bill, they are mangled... jb by the way my apologies to the site police for excessive posting in this thread, as far as I am concerned you can erase my posts at some point but I do think we are doing you a favor by documenting how to use some of the features. now I am experiencing a long wait, infinite wait it seems, first time I hit the "edit" button. if I click it again I go right to the editor. has happened a number of times now.

thanks for keeping up with this Bill and Eric. so both of you are seeing what I see then, my first attempt is garbled but then when I assembled the entire string elsewhere and pasted it here, it worked. never seen that kind of behavior before but its consistent so there is something to it and it is probably pointing at the root cause in some way. now doing what you say Bill, my problem is that imageshack, my photo host, seems to store the photos in a funny format (it says file type is "COM/I/IDMFIYJOJ File") because when I look at the properties I see: https://imageshack.com/i/p5ZcJkiTj no file extension and kind of hacked up from the true url. edit: ah now I see, this is a hypertext link to imageshack and my photos there...don't know what happens when someone else goes there but when I click on the link I can see all my photos but maybe that's because it knows this computer. end edit but let me try this then, first verbatim and then I will complete the address. I believe I have already done this with no good result but here we go: https://imageshack.com/i/p5ZcJkiTj and then: https://imageshack.com/i/p5ZcJkiTj.jpg (I KNOW this aint gonna work) some people get paid good money to do this sort of troubleshooting! maybe the software vendor would like to hire some testers! jb result: no go...oh well at least I know of one way to post a photo from a url, that's all I need really. some strange behavior here though. I mean the software!

which picture do you mean Bill? are you seeing a photo I am not? the photo I see is below the line "nope, no love but when I assemble the image with tags in an external editor and paste the whole string here:", but the one above it, done the way you explain, just shows the url with some goofy junk in front of it to me. thanks for your help jb

let me try again doing what Bill just suggested (not all that different from what I have been doing but at this point who knows?): http://imageshack.com/a/img661/8353/TiIuRd.jpg jb nope, no love but when I assemble the image with tags in an external editor and paste the whole string here: I guess its better than nothing. jb