Snake45

Back in the late '80s I took a couple shooting/self defense classes from a very respected trainer named Massad Ayoob (those of you in Gun World might be familiar with him or his work). In the advanced class we shot both handgun and shotgun from right and left barricade, which simulates shooting around the side of a wall or building, using it for cover. The idea is to expose as little of your body as possible, so you shoot with the hand that matches the side of the barricade you're on. I'd done this several times before with handgun, but never with shotgun. I didn't care for shooting the shotgun left-handed. Ayoob told us that he'd found that 20 to 25% of his right-handed shooters (police and citizen students) discovered that they actually fired the shotgun better from the left side, or preferred shooting it left-handed, and switched over to shooting it "normally" that way from then on. Couple years later, in one of his monthly columns on eye dominance, he said that about 20-25% of people are cross-dominant, i.e., right-handed but left-eyed. Of course I immediately wondered if the guys who switched to shooting shotgun left-handed were cross-dominant, or if at least a high percentage of them were. Have never had a chance to ask him about that.

I've used them, but the '69 SS wheels have always had a weird curvature to the spokes, and I'm not sure the rim area is right on them. I think the ones in the AMT '70 are better. I haven't seen a good pics of the wheels in the Revell '69 yet, but I remember seeing the optional wheels in the '68 and not being able to decide if they were trying to be SS/Magnum 500s or Cragar S/S.

I got to cite this on one of my gun boards yesterday. There was a thread about that USAF helicopter that was shot at a couple days ago. Someone posted, "Stop flying your government aircraft over the hill country folks in rural areas!." To which I replied, "Especially over Steve Earle's place."

I assume since you started the thread that you're lefthanded. Didn't say my left-handed friends were good-looking (some were prototypical nerds and so forth), but that they were creative, artistic, and smart. But I would say that YOU are a VERY creative and talented modeler. I've seen your work. You're way more creative than me.

Dave Branson, congrats on our fourth completion! GOTTER DONE! Cheyenne, got your Chevelle project on the list for the next update. Dragcarz, looking good!

I noticed back in high school that an unusually high percentage of my friends that I considered especially creative and/or quick-witted were left-handed. Question for you left-handers--are you also left-eyed? BTW, about 30 years ago I got interested in trying to learn how to shoot a pistol left-handed. This took a LOT of work and practice. It was months or years before the gun didn't feel like a completely foreign object in my left hand. Today I can shoot and operate my handguns left-handed, not quite as well as right-handed, but I'll bet better than most people can shoot a pistol right-handed. But I shoot better left-handed if I still use my right eye.

Just spent 10 minutes trying to find online SDS for Miracal paint (which would tell who makes it) without success. Also couldn't find out direct who makes it. I SUSPECT it might be another label for Rustoleum's low-end line, as the Touch N Tone definitely is, and as I suspect the Walmart Color Place is. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to discover that these three lines are all exactly the same thing.

Different and therefore interesting. Very imaginative--congrats on thinking outside the proverbial box. Well done and model on!

This thread just reinforces the importance of doing your own testing. I've said elsewhere for years that every gun and ammo combination is a law unto itself. Similarly, every paint and plastic combination is a law unto itself. As is every paint-over-other-paint (including primer) combination. Spray a couple of plastic spoons with a new primer. In fact, spray several so you can test the primer against several different paints in the future. Then, since your kit might not be made of spoon plastic, also do tests on scrap plastic from the kit. You can use sprues, or the topsides of chassis, the outside of interior tubs, and so forth. DON'T experiment on the body of a kit you actually intend to build and finish! Thus endeth the lesson.

If you get meds, let us know what they are. I wanna get some too.

Yah, I think those Lindberg '38 Fords were stacked up there a year or so ago.

After two or three decades of exclusively airbrushing, I've been using rattlecans about 80% of the time or more for the last five or six years. Just more convenient, IF you can get the color you want in a spray bomb.

Very nice indeed!

Yes, but only as a source of revenue. They have to pay for the salaries, insurance, and pensions for the smog-checkers, dontcha know. Kinda like the toll-takers on roads that were paid for 20 or 30 years ago.

They used to. Apparently they stopped a year or so ago. Tried every way possible online. Had to call, wait forever, speak to a real human to tell me what we needed to do. If the tags had expired during the C19 crisis we'd be okay. But they expired before. And she hadn't had the smog check because they didn't send her a notice on that either.

Good thing it's not the one with Great White Buffalo on it.

Or maybe just not that many modelers wanted a '46 Chevy? I didn't. Didn't then, don't now, Can't imagine ever wanting one. Can't imagine buying one for $1. And the only way I'd ever actually build one is, you'd have to pay me. A LOT. This is no knock on the kit, its price point, its manufacturer, or the real car. It's just of NO interest to me, that's all, and that's okay.

Absolutely fabulous! To quote Simon Cowell, "That's how you do it!"

This. If both make something you want, and you don't mind paying Tamiya's price, get the Tamiya. If only Revell makes it, buy the Revell kit and enjoy your build. I have NEVER built a model just because I wanted to work with "something" from its manufacturer, and I never will. Subject matter is supreme.

Not a good day at the Snakepit. Internet was out in half the county half the morning. That was the HIGH point of my day. Then we discovered that the license plates on The Lovely Mrs Snake's car were out of date. Like since last November. Started trying to sort that mess out. My state's DMV is nearly shut down due to Coronavirus. Enforcement has been put off on all new renewal due to that, but ours predates it, so we're in more trouble. It can be handled with enough money and papers, but by appointment only, and the first appointment we could get is two weeks from today. So she can't drive it until then. It's minor miracle she hasn't been stopped so far. Yikes. BTW, she never got any mail notice about the plates. I didn't either this year. I just happened to notice a couple weeks ago that mine expire end of this month, and ordered them online, but hers are such a mess they can't be handled this way.

Fabulous, cheyenne93! Looks great! Our third completion of this round--GOTTER DONE!

VERY cool! I have the Super Coupe but have never opened it. Looks like it's kind of a ripoff of Aluma-Coupe.

Been dealing with them for 20 or 30 years now. Had some really annoying ones. They come and go. I've asked about them. Was told there's not much they can do in most cases. I'll be interested in hearing what they tell you--maybe some advances have been made in this area. Good luck!

That looks great! Drive on!

Very, VERY nice! Looks great. Well done and model on!