StevenGuthmiller

The nice thing about having a doorbell cam is that it doesn’t matter if they knock or not. I’m alerted every time someone comes to the door. Probably part of the reason why they don’t knock half the time. They figure that you know that they’re there regardless. Steve

Everything EXCEPT a work ethic. Steve

That’s exactly what they did. All of the mail for 8 homes has been being dumped into a box at the post office for the past week. The women at the desk at the post office had to spend about 10 minutes going through all of that mail to find ours, and all because our mail carrier is a prima donna, or more likely, just doesn’t want to roll down his window because it’s too cold outside. I remember the good old days of “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” Yeah, right! 🙄 Steve

My wife had set up a mail hold for a couple of weeks while we’re on vacation starting on January 24th. Thinking that the USPS had made a mistake and started our hold too early, I went down to the post office today to find out if this was the reason why we hadn’t received any mail for the past week. Upon talking to the post master, I discovered that the reason that we have not been getting our mail had nothing to do with the hold. Our street is equipped with “cluster” mail boxes, and according to the post master, the carrier had not been delivering our mail for the past week because the approach to the mail box was not adequately cleared of snow! I told her that I drive a Honda Civic coupe and have had absolutely zero problems over the past week pulling within 2 feet of the box and checking my mail without exiting the vehicle. She explained that it is up to the discretion of the carrier, and that there is nothing that she can do about it! So, ineptitude or just plain laziness on the part of the carrier, and no recourse for the customer because there’s no accountability by the post master. This coupled with the fact that we routinely receive our neighbor’s mail, and they ours, please tell me why we haven’t yet privatized the USPS. Steve

The same tools that Robert depicted above. I will usually let it dry first, and then lightly dampen a swab with a little mineral spirits and lightly wipe the paint from the high spots. If you get your wash thinned just right, you barely need to do anything. The color will wick right down into the recesses leaving almost nothing to remove from the high spots. Steve

Depends on how "used" you want it to look. I just use the same "oily dark brown" acrylic craft paint wash that I use for anything else that I want to look dirty. Steve

Plain old Testors flat black enamel thinned to wash consistency. Steve

The heat wave has begun! A whopping 9 degrees ABOVE zero!!!! 😁 Steve

I wish! Just part of life in my neck of the woods. Nobody gets the day off because it’s cold. Steve

Been working all day in -17 to -23 below temperatures. Wind chill in the -40 to -50 below range. Steve

Chicken, Bacon, Lettuce and Red Onion with Tomato Harissa Jam on Focaccia. Steve

Liver and Onions with Hash Browns and Toast. Steve

The up top was modified from an old AMT 1962 Buick Electra convertible kit to fit the Bonneville. Steve

Yes. Steve

I had the opportunity to enter an online contest for the Fine Scale Modeler magazine's BAMM, (Build A Model Month), and subsequently won first place in the automotive/motorcycle category. Prizes included a one year subscription to the magazine, a $50.00 gift card for the "Trains.com" store, and an appearance of my model in a future issue of the magazine. That required that I take some more photos of my '64 Bonneville, so I thought I could just as well post those here as well. Enjoy folks! As always, any comments or criticisms are welcome. Steve

I suppose you could say that I like to keep all of my options open, and information is a good thing, no matter where you find it. I’ve learned a few modeling tricks and techniques in the Facebook modeling groups that I’ve never even heard of within this forum. I’ll take it where I can get it. I’m a big boy and capable of managing my participation on a social media platform. It is what you make of it. Steve

Looks like the Lindberg ‘64 Belvedere. Steve

Just like the 99.9% of what's on television is complete trash. Just view what you want to see and avoid the rest. Not going to throw my T.V. into the burn pile because of "The Masked Singer". Steve

I get garbage on my feed all the time, but I rarely get people posting anything weird on my page. In either case, I just delete and block. No big deal. That said, I almost never even look at my feed anyway. I’ve known right from the beginning that it was mostly trash and ads. Why bother? Steve

I use foil for most of my touch-ups. sometimes those small areas can test your patience, but hey, what else have I got to do? Steve

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Makes no difference. It’s still worth considerably more than $20.00. Steve

Just getting worse here. Probably picked up 3 or 4 inches of light fluffy snow over the past 24 hours, and now the wind is blowing around 35 mph. Add to that the fact that we're at the high temperature for the day at 1 degree, (headed for a low of about 17 below by Monday night) I'd call it pretty friggin ugly! Steve

For me it wasn't. I very rarely read model magazines. For me it was just something born out of necessity. I used to just tape bodies to paint cans, but that was never really a preferred solution. By the way, I hate stationary paint stands for a variety of reasons. I need to be able to hold my work relatively comfortably in my hand to it can be manipulated how I want it to be. Also the same reason why a paint booth is useless to me. Maybe I'm weird, but when I paint, it's in a standing position with the airbrush or can in my right hand, and the work subject in my left. Just feels natural to me. Any other position would just be a whole bunch of awkwardness. That plus the fact that I don't want the body to be sitting on a surface where there is a good likelihood that there might be dust or debris to get kicked up onto the work as you spray. And I don't know how people manage to be able to inspect and cover all surfaces as they paint with the model sitting on a table. But that's just me I suppose. Steve