TonyK

I quick weighing myself years ago. I can tell more from how my clothes fit and my once a year visit to the doctor.

Great job on the pod racer! I bought one of these to build someday for something different. I'll use your excellent pictures as a guide.

Realized I never got my credit card bill in the mail. I pay online but this means someone out there gets to look at everything we bought, etc. Nice job USPS! Never did get my July issue of Motorsport so that's somewhere out there too. The very nice people with the magazine sent me a replacement.

A nice thing about replacing an old furnace is they are so much quieter and efficient today. Yes, it's expensive but you're good to go from here on out.

It's a complete kit. Chassis is all one piece with roll bar, suspension, etc. already put together. Nice and easy except it takes a lot of finesse to paint all the parts since they're already attached. I've done it before and I like it for a different challenge from our regular kits. No idea what part of the country this car represents or if it is accurate. I thought it looked cool so got it. I spend way too much time researching the accuracy of race cars I build and sometimes I just want to relax and build one without fretting over the details.

Very true. I've never been a fan of Cougars but looking at these pictures of the interior and exterior takes me back to the good ol' days and I do appreciate a well taken care of car.

I was out watering and working in the yard when a bug flew into my head. It hit so hard that it dropped to the ground stunned. Have no idea what it was but it always amazes me when I'm outside and get hit by a flying bug. There's a whole world out there and they manage to fly into me. Do they randomly fly into objects often? The enjoyable part of being outside is how often a hummingbird flies up and looks me up and down and then flies away. And I've never been hit in the head by one.

Not so much an irk as it is so stupid I get a chuckle from it. Two texts on my phone this morning. UPS tried to deliver a package but...... I don't even read it all. Why would UPS have my phone # and I don't have anything on order so they didn't attempt to deliver anything. The other text was something about a part-time job I can get........ Well, I've been retired for umpteen years and if I wanted a job I don't think I'd try and get one from some bogus text. The wife got a letter from Canada saying some relative with the same last name died up there (seemed like it was a few years ago) and there's some unclaimed life insurance. Yeah ok LOL

This is a 3d model I got from A-1 Raceworks. A decent kit where everything fit together nicely except for the wheels and tires. I've had the same problem with other 3d models from different providers where the wheels won't slide into the tires and you have to spend LOTS of time scraping the inside of the tire to get the wheel to fit. Otherwise I had fun building it and added a few things; driver, front and rear bars, window and rear view mirror. Paint is Testors.

Looks great! Just the right amount of "dirty".

Repair guy came today to fix our washing machine. Needs a new mother board or some-such electronic part. Not very expensive but he doesn't have it so ordered it. Gonna be a couple of weeks! Meantime we're running out of clean clothes. Sister-in-law lives about 8 miles away and my son offered to come to his place which is farther away. Nice to have that available but still a pain. Meantime my mother-in-law appears to be dying. She's 95 so it's time. Oh, and I'm taking my wife in tomorrow for a steroid shot in the spine. Just a lot of happy happy joy joy.

Turned out great! Your engine detail is impressive and you're exactly right in describing the terrible kit this is.

Now that the USPS has found your package maybe they can look for my July Motorsport magazine.

Wow! Great engine detail. Ahhh yes, the Eddie Hill days with lots of white hair. 😀

The look on their faces is great. Concentration and focus to get the job done.

I didn't know crows would attack a living thing to eat. Thought they were scavengers and just scrounged for food that way. Guess I learned something.....but it's sad.

I agree but it paused a few times at the end of a cycle and flashed it wanted to run a "self clean" cycle. Does seem stupid and reading the owners manual I decided I'd go ahead and do it. Big mistake! I hope to learn a couple of things from the repair person. Sometimes they can give you some tips about these bells and whistles with these new machines.

Another irk today. Washing machine wants to do a "self clean cycle". Set the dial, close the door and hit the button. The display is lit but nothing happens so I turn it off and try again. Waiting and nothing happens but now I get a "door" message. No idea what that means but can't open the door. Long story short; read owners manual, look stuff up on the Internet and can't get it to work. Unplugged the thing a few times. Door is locked shut. Have to have a repair guy come out on Tuesday which is $115 charge just to come here. Oh, previous irk above that I lost a model part; I used a shop light and found it so there's that I can be thankful for. Rather have the washing machine working.

Losing a little tiny model part. Working on a couple of race car models and decided to attach the little parts to both of them this morning. It was going very well and I even thought to myself how well it was going and that's when it happened. Heard it hit the workbench so know it had to be there somewhere. It's well lit but after looking for the longest time, I couldn't find it. Even used a flashlight to make it even brighter but no luck. Looked on the floor too but can't see it going that far. Really irked!

There's a traffic signal where a side street meets up to the main 2 lane street. It turned red at 6 AM and I was the only car there. Coming back it did it again. Couple hours later I came through there and it happened again. The next morning it happened again so I emailed the "Transportation Maintenance Manager" and he replied right away and said he'd send a crew to have a look. Next day he told me the pedestrian button was stuck on so it kept sending a signal telling the light to change. He thanked me for bringing the problem to attention. Pleased at the quick response from all of them to fix this.

I am amazed you got those energetic dogs to sit still at the same time and get their picture taken. Well trained!

Your finished model looks excellent with the weathering. Thanks for the review. Always amazes me when certain parts were designed completely wrong, as you pointed out. Makes me wonder where they got the idea to design it as they did.

A very nice clean build after all that work. It's an MPC kit and I find they are a pain so I get what you're saying about your struggles.

Whoa, that thing is trashed! But in a good way. Nice job.

Very nice!