bobss396

An unseasonably cool 53 F. I may have to wear pants when I go to town.

I ran into body-fit issues. The cowl and hood needed clearance to get around the distributor and breather. Also the paint was flawed badly. This is the first time struggling with the Extreme Lacquers. Yesterday I sanded the bad areas on the body all the way to 2400 grit. This time the paint looks great. I'm not going with clear. Decals are next.

I built a '40 Ford and a '52 Chevy Pyro as a kid. Bodies were multi part, tires molded from whatever color the body was.

Look into gluing tabs to the bumper if it can't be pinned. You may need to add a location feature inside the body.

Mourning Dove and Grackle at the Bird Buddy. 80abb181-2032-43e4-9ce2-d52fdd34421f.mp4 5f7bd06b-b65c-4c37-b999-f7d70b18eb5c.mp4

61 F and about 71% humidity. I may try some paint work today. I really like the cooler mornings to do my garden work.

Nice, looks great. My club is doing them as a theme build for our November contest. I believe that there are about 10 being built.

I find that all the local parts stores have the same exact line up in Duplicolor paint stock. Plum Crazy, not a chance by me.

I still carry a big mortgage and have 3 car payments. The Mustang will likely be paid off sooner, the next earliest one will be paid in 2 years. My credit card debt is less than $1000, for some dental work. Once that goes i can pay down the cars at $500 a month. I'll be playing my usual games tonight, it would be nice to be filthy rich instead of being just filthy.

I had always liked to make things as a kid. Bike projects, models, science projects in school. In grade school there was a separate book section, all from the same publisher. All about captains of industry. Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, the Wrights, Eli Whitney and so on. The Wrights interested me. They made sleds (the Wright Flyer) and bicycles. The book mentioned them making up scale drawings, if it was right on paper, the final project would be right as well. I started drawing things on graph paper with pencil and ruler. It was in HS when I took "mechanical drawing". I still have my portfolio from 10th grade if my projects. In college, there was no CAD for us in 1973. We used drafting boards and were even graded on our printing. CAD was available around 1981 when I went back at night. Computer Vision, which crashed more than it worked. Then the blue-screen Auto CAD with the task bar. I still have a V12 book around, it was even a chore to define your paper space. Autocad got better with it being icon-based. We had a version for Windows 3 .1 using pirated floppy discs that we used on a 386 PC at work. This was around 1994, I had my formal CAD training at work soon after

I just turned 70, my girlfriend will be 71 soon, she is finally retiring. Our health is good, we are active. I need to do some trust work sooner than later. I'd like to see my kids retain the house. If they want to sell it, fine. You can dream TOO big with a ton of money. I'd be happy with a 2nd house, do some traveling and get a good cat sitter.

I knew of a couple that hit something like a $3 million state lottery. They sold the rights for something like $300k when it all settled. After 18 months, they lived in the same apartment, had the same cars and were .. BACK TO WORK! They blew it all partying.

Made macaroni salad and a batch of hot salsa yesterday. The garden is still making Sriracha peppers and plum tomatoes.

65 F with 98% RH. Sticky very early on. Yesterday was about the same, the pool got up to 73.

Another one in my Bird Buddy.... 472482e4-222d-485c-9eae-b64393591654.mp4