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  1. 18 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

    That's very interesting. You communicate in written English far better than the majority of native English speakers.

    I wonder what the difference is in the way your brain is wired that makes you WANT to use the language well and fluently, and all the people born here who just don't give a damm, and think that communicating clearly is an unnecessary skill.

    That is a good question. I think laziness, as a personality trait, which also goes hand-in-hand with being sloppy and not paying attention to the "small stuff", likely results in sloppy communication skills.  I think the same traits also play role in whether someone is a good, average, or even mediocre modeler.  I suspect that people with personalities which "sweat the small stuff" usually do well building models  I'm also the guy who when using up the last paper towel in the kitchen puts on a fresh roll.  And how bends over to pick up a piece of trash left by someone else.  It must be the way my brain is wired. Well, at least partially - the other part is the way I was raised by my parents.

  2. How about people like me?  I came to U.S. as a 16-year-old kid and had to learn a new language. English is a very strange language (if all you spoke before was Polish and some Russian). I'm still learning (after over 30 years of living in the U.S.). Understanding puns was another problem I had, but I got pretty good at it. I also see that the way people are communicating nowadays (using computer devices) seems to be devolving the English language. It is sad to see it happening.

    I dislike when people verb a noun, like "I was gifted a model kit".  It also grinds on me when I see people using "ask" instead of "question". Like in "what the ask is?".  :(

    And for some amusement (like that "taking for granite" story), for the longest time, I thought that the saying was "wreck your brain", Or maybe "rake" or "rack" (like the torture device).  But it really is "wrack" (I word I was not even familiar with).  English language has lots of similarly sounding words with totally different meanings.  Very confusing.

  3. 21 minutes ago, Mike999 said:

    Those Panhards are interesting.  Here's a link showing all 3 built up.  The page says "There are only this 3 kits in this series."  Looking around the net,  it seems they were also released by a company named Holland Model Kits.

    http://members.ziggo.nl/dwijsman/Invoegen/europeinsert.htm

    Thanks for the info. I guess I have the entire series then (I own all 3 kits). But I paid much less for them than 50 Euros.

  4. Wow!  And plastic spoons started all this?  I feel like adding my 25 cents (adjusted for inflation) to this. I'm not a chemist, but I play one on online forums. I know enough to be dangerous. :D

    Yes, polystyrene (colloquially known as styrene) is a plastic resin.  Pure polystyrene is a clear and very brittle plastic material.  But mixing in additives/plasticizers/dyes makes the polystyrene more usable and less brittle. This is the material used for our plastic kits. Sometimes those kits are made from ABS (another plastic from the polystyrene family).

    Different manufacturers use different amounts and types of additives in their polystyrene. That is the reason why different kits react differently to the same type of "hot" paint. Some kits bodies will craze, while others wont.

    Plastic spoons can be made from polystyrene or from other materials like polypropylene.  Easy way to tell which ones you are buying is to check the recycling symbol on the package. If it shows #6 then the spoons are polystyrene. Those are the spoons you want.  Others won't work as well for a spoon paint test.  Paint will adhere well to the #6 spoons and not so well to others. But for testing paint compatibility with plastic kits, the only reliable way to do that is to test-paint on the actual kit plastic (spare parts or the parts tree).

  5. On 2/8/2018 at 8:50 PM, ChrisBcritter said:

    Pulled this still from the live feed:

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    B)

    What is that?!  Earth is supposed to be flat!  The Earth's apparent roundness is caused by the distortion of the thick spacecraft windows and camera lanes. Um, but this video is not taken through a spaceship window!  And why don't some things in the car look distorted?  Something doesn't add up!

    We never landed on the moon - it is a hoax exposed many times.  :D

  6. Wow!  Harry's early model - how cool is that? That is a treasure.

    I'm also impressed that it survived shipping (assuming that it was not picked up in-person) relatively intact.

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