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Snake45

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  1. This pretty much pegs the needles on the Snake Hella-Cool-Ometer and the Snake Badass Gauge, so, well done and model on, my friend! 👍
  2. My personal favorite TT song and performance of all time:
  3. As we say in my family, "She's with Elvis now." (My Dad was Elvis's pilot, and he too is with Elvis now.)
  4. Same here. Dunno how many of them we saw, I'd estimate at least 4-6. The only title I remember is Mechanized Death. Even in those days, long before I'd ever heard of Dave Barry, before Dana Loesch was even born, I thought that would be a great name for a rock band.
  5. If that's not a Steve Harvey quote, it could/should be.
  6. If that were red, and a boy's bike, and a J.C. Higgins instead of a Schwinn, it would look just like MY boyhood bike. Would have been maybe a '64 or '65 model, I dunno. I DO know it's the reason I never had a Sting-Ray or clone, which is why I'm enjoying my '74 genuine Sting-Ray so much NOW!
  7. Oh BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, you win. Is that a Cherry Picker? That's the bike equivalent of a low-milage First Gen Z/28 or maybe a '66-69 Chevelle SS396 or GTO. Re the thumb shifter: Since my stroke, I'm on blood thinner (Warfarin) and my arms and hands are prone to bruises for no reason at all. This thumb shifter has "bruised" a great big maroon spot right at the web of my right hand. I oughta post a picture of that.
  8. Well, just since you asked so nice.... Here it is just as I pulled it out of the shed, where it had been sitting, unmodified, unmolested and unrestored since I bought it at a yard sale about 30 years ago: First order of bidness was to get it operational and ridable, which involved ONLY replacing the front tire tube and covering the gash/divot in the seat with black duck tape. Then and only then, after proving that it would make it around the block, did I bother to wash the 30 years of Barn Find Grime off of it. Detailing of various sorts yet to come, but here's what it looks like right now:
  9. I was out in the shed yesterday looking for something else entirely that The Lovely Mrs. Snake boxed up and piled up last year while I was in hospital, and I came across the Lindberg B-17 and B-58 kits, so at least I now know where they ARE--which, in the Snakepit, most of the time is at least 80% of the battle. Now I can at least realistically fantasize about actually building one or both of them this year! Yay me!
  10. Suh-WEEEET! I was gonna post some pics of the '74 Schwinn Sting-Ray that I'm restoring and riding, but now it would just look like a turd. You win!
  11. ABSOLUTELY! I keep telling The Lovely Mrs. Snake that one of the reasons she's so depressed alla time is that she doesn't appreciate anything; she isn't truly grateful for what she has. Apparently she doesn't believe me. When the Late Great Prophet Warren Zevon, with one foot in the grave, gave his last interview on the Letterman show, Letterman asked him something like, "Going through this experience, do you now know something that the rest of us don't know?" And Zevon rather famously replied, "Not unless it's just to enjoy every sandwich." This ultimately became the title of his posthumous tribute album. https://www.salon.com/2015/05/20/enjoy_every_sandwich_david_lettermans_most_heartbreaking_show_ever/
  12. Good for you! About one year ago, I had mechanical heart valves put in. A couple weeks ago I noticed my overall muscle tone had gone completely to hell, so I started riding a bike. The first few days it took everything I had to make it to the top of the slight hill at the end of my block--in low gear. Now I am doing two blocks, then one block over, then two blocks back and one block over--six in total! (Although, truth to tell, some of the return trip is downhill.) And most days, I'm doing that twice a day!
  13. That reminds me of two of my favorites: Never pick a fight with an old man in a profession that kills young men. ...and... Never pick a fight with an old man. If he doesn't think he can take you in a fair fight, he'll just kill you.
  14. Very sad news indeed. He influenced all of us more than most of us even realize. He will be missed.
  15. Armed Forces Day 2023. Thank You to all who served.
  16. Oh my, two '66 Chevies and a '65, all in the same picture! (And a '64 and maybe a '63, too, but those don't excite me nearly as much).
  17. I've finally accepted the idea that it's okay to customize model airplanes, just as we do cars. Hey, it's only plastic, and it's YOUR plastic, and it's not rare at all, so why not? Personally, I wouldn't paint a B-58 black. It would look too much like something Batman would fly to a showdown with a supervillian. I'd go with Gunship Gray (FS 36118) or something close to it. Bonus Tip: Any cheap rattlecan primer in a medium/dark gray would "pass" for Gunship Gray--cheap, quick, and easy. Bonus Tip #2: A "modernized" B-58 would probably have most or all of the panel lines filled, like the wings of a P-51. So just sand the surface smooth, and don't worry about rescribing the lines. (Well, okay, maybe a few thoughtfully located access panels here and there just to break up the monotony.) A B-58 still has about one million tiny wheels and tires to paint, though, always a PITA. Unless you build it gear-up on a "flying" stand....
  18. I have one of these, a "first issue" from whenever they first came out. It's very unlikely I'll ever build it. I also have a "box scale" one from Monogram that dates back to the '50s. That one has a better chance of getting built. I also have a Lindberg one from the '50s that I think is 1/64 and has some working features. I have a vague recollection of building that kit when I was somewhere around 5-7 years old. I am actually getting in the mood to do that one. I think I'll build the Lindberg B-17 first, just as a warmup. It's also 1/64. I know exactly how I'm gonna build it, too: Absolutely NO obsessing over either details or paint & markings. I'm gonna Snake-slap it together, sand all the glue joints flush, then hit it with rattlecan flat silver with airbrushed antiglares in whatever Testor is selling as "Flat Olive Drab" this month. Badda-boom, badda-bing, DONE!
  19. We now have scientific proof that the Earth is, indeed, spherical. If it were flat, cats would have pushed EVERYTHING over the edge by now.
  20. A scientific study discovered that 87.6% of statistics are simply pulled out of somebody's butt.
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