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The position of the windshield and vent window relative to the front door certainly imparts a Palmereque quality to it, don'tcha think?

No cliffs around here. People get supremely pissed off getting pelted with stuff chucked off an apartment building roof. We did experiment in rocketry, though. We would "appropriate" acetylene tanks, drag them down to the lumberyard which was on the East River shore in our nabe and made a V-shaped launch rail out of two 3x12 planks elevated on some more lumber. Then, we set the tank onto the launch rail, shut-off valve at the rear, and proceeded to smack the valve with a sledgehammer. The dammed tank would take off and land a couple hundred feet into the river. In retrospect, it was stupid and dangerous. That said, It was still a lot of fun.

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Absolutely brilliant, Tom! You were on target with everything in that article. You perfectly captured the essence of being a kid back then. Ah, the memories.......

Reliving my modeling youth would require me getting cherry bombs and M80s to load into my completed projects.

Yeah, yeah....I know. I was really feeling like crapp that day ( residual effects from a case of congestive chills and a touch of chrysoplas ) and took it out on the wrong people. For that, please accept my apologies.

The future is now.

The inability to focus one's mental faculties for more than four seconds or prioritize their activities in an orderly manner is an indicator of a short attention span, a trait shared by cats and Millennials. At least, cats can be excused for this deficiency. They're cats.

Thanks for posting the link, Bill. A very interesting and insightful piece. A dumbed down society is far easier to manipulate and control by those who pull the strings. Jerry Springer should have never been allowed to leave Forest Hills. If anyone is interested, Will and Ariel Durant's complete 11 volume series "The Story of Civilization" can be downloaded at Archive.org. Definitely worth reading.

Are you referring to Hobbyworld-USA? It's located in New Hampshire and the sole authorized Zero Paints dealer in the states. There is no way you were slammed with a $120 shipping charge. Better recheck the numbers. Here is Hobbyworld's info on domestic shipping: For Domestic Shipping within the USA Shipping is normally calculated by weight and destination. We have decided to go back to a flat rate shipping amount of $6.80 for all packages up to 10 lbs. Anything over 10lbs will go up to $13.80. That's it. We do also offer Media shipping rates for folks that buy JUST catalogs, reference books, decals, any other paper items that fit into a flat envelope. Again this is for JUST paper products. If you have a questions regarding shipping costs, feel free to email, call or PM on Facebook.

You can make some real swell hose clamps by cutting a thin strip of aluminum foil and pressing it around the knurled outer edge of an igniter wheel taken off a cheap lighter, then gluing the strip around the hose. If you want ready made, there's this set from Model Car Garage or, this one from Detail Master.

Thanks for the information, Art. The search continues......

Would a modified roof from the '65 Galaxie 500 XL work?

Original box art Why couldn't an optional hardtop have been included? I need one to construct a replica of a Zigmobile, owned by a guy in my neighborhood.

Liberty NY......back in the late '70s, my friends and I used to head up to Grossinger's during the winter. No skiing, just lots of elbow bending and picking up ski bunnies. We were more successful with the former.

Used to see the band at CBGB's, Cat Club and other great and long gone venues.

He racked up all of the awards in the pimpmobile category.

No problem, Peter. 1956 Passenger Assembly Manual

Evidence of convergent evolution?

I found that out the hard way. I used a steel brush to clean out the junk buildup after filing some soft metal with a cheap Chinese-made file. The junk was gone. So were the teeth on the file.

That's what them zany Collyer Brothers might have been thinking. The stuffed over 100 tons of materials and components into a three story brownstone. One of the more interesting items found was a Model T frame. How'd they get it through the door and hallway?!? Brownstone hallways are notoriously narrow once you get past the foyer, the staircase takes up over one half the width of the first floor hall. It couldn't have been brought in through the door under the stoop because there's no space to maneuver it. Absolute geniuses!!!!!!!

Sure, you can modify the design to fit your requirements. Here's the hitch to using a shop vac. Not everyone lives in a house with a garage or basement to deck out as hobby workspace.This was designed with apartment dwellers as primary users in mind because space is at a premium and a shop vac isn't something normally found in an apartment unless one is emulating the Collyer Brothers and hoards useless junk. Other types of exhaust systems which require an exhaust fan and running a hose through a window adapter are, likewise, impractical because, if one lives in a recently constructed building around these parts, you're more than likely to have large, horizontally sliding windows which are 48' tall. That leaves a pretty friggin' big vertical gap to fill with a mounting plate for the hose and building management would have a s**tfit seeing something like that. Almost everyone living in an apartment owns a vacuum cleaner. So, it's easy enough to stick the nozzle attachment inside the box and clean up the resin dust and pieces

That it is, Steve. Over at Armorama, one of the guys was looking into a tool for cutting off those large plugs usually found on resin AM parts for armor kits. There were people telling him that a handsaw, or sandpaper and water are preferable because there'll be less resin dust created. Not really. Using a handsaw creates the same amount of particles and it's more time consuming. Solution: Construct a cutting box 12Lx12Hx24W with a hinged lid on top out of 1/16" plexiglass. Cut two holes on the front panel large enough to stick your hands through. This will allow you to manipulate the tool and part inside the box. Whatever dust created by cutting/grinding will remain in the box. After you're done, clean out the box using a vacuum cleaner. You can get a 1/16" 36"x48" plexiglass sheet at a plastic distributor for 30-40 bucks.

Yeah, I have a nonamo brand variable speed w/flexshaft attachment and 100 accessories I picked up about ten years ago from Internet Hobbies for 39 bucks. It does the job; but, between the limited flex of the flexshaft and the power cord getting in the way, cordless is soooooooooooo much more convenient.