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Coolest job was when I was 19, the summer of 1974 between college semesters. From mid May to late August, I hung in. I also worked PT for Sears slinging tires, 12 to 16 hours. It was at a local lighting fixture factory housed in 3 old WW2 Quonset huts, they were immense. The owner was an old Brooklyn boxer, his son helped run it too. They ALWAYS had ads in the paper. They paid minimum wage to all factory workers, no raises, benefits after a year. I'd say that the turnover was around 80%. The assembly lines were filled with women who had been there for 20 + years. The rest of the force was HS kids, drifters, alcoholics, etc. The conditions weren't too bad, hot though. We were generally treated okay. I also drove delivery trucks locally and made dump runs with a guy named Felix. On those we took our time and sipped beers. I was "promoted" to assembly line forman of one side of the factory. The previous title owner was always running out of parts and quit in a sissy fit with the son. So I asked the son to give me a list of what was coming up to build. I have a good memory and knew most of the parts anyway. The stock room was a shambles. I took one of the HS kids, we spent 3 days organizing an entire stock room and took inventory. I did get an atta-boy. It was a great life lesson. While I was there, I saw probably 60 people come and go. Some lasted a week, some days, or less. I saw one kid walk in, take one look and leave on his 1st day. I had status with others who could not believe I had another job that paid me $3.60 an hour. I showed them one of my pay stubs.

Lately I use Mr. Surfacer primers that come in 500, 1000 and 1500 grades. I use mainly 1000, the 500 I use to cover minor imperfections. No airbrush, only spray bombs. Tamiya TS line, Duplicolor, Mopar touch up paints. Also the MM Extreme Lacquers. I have a heavy hand with paints, I do have to deal with a sag now and then. I'll polish out the color coat before the clear. I'll skip the clear on some stock cars. I use a DM 9000 polishing kit. I cut the cloths into 4 pieces and mark the grit on the back with a Sharpie. Clear coats: With Tamiya top coats, the TS-13 clear or the TS-65 pearl clear works well. I like the Extreme Lacquers clear with their paint. It works over car paints. Lastly I have a big can of SEM 1K clear that lays down well enough to not needing polishing after.

Good deal. My printer is dead, I'll pick up my forms at our set up on Friday evening. I'm a kit vendor, if there is anything you are looking for, send me a PM.

My hardest job should have been my DREAM job from 1981 to 1986 in a prestigious machine shop i was transferred into. They had a couple of sadistic lead men and a supervisor that were just plain evil. Very strict, back stabbers, etc. They had personal vendetta against some guys in the shop for years, we never found out why. Finally in 1985 we had enough. One guy knew some Aerospace union guys, so we met with them at their hall .. they gave us free beer! So the push was on to get 3 shops, 2 shifts in some to sign up. We had intent cards in every display in every building possible. Some older guys were dead set against it, their fear was that the parent company (Eaton at the time) would shut all the shops down. There was a lot of yelling going on. Then they brought in the union goons. Someone (not me) furnished descriptions and plate numbers of all the bosses and anti-union cars in the parking lots. Let me say that the local glass, tire and paint shops were kept busy. Rumor was that they would bring in the bone-breakers next. I was up for a promotion into another facility. I went on vacation for 10 days, came back and told my wife if I didn't get that promotion, I was quitting on the spot. While I was gone, lots happened. All the machine shop guys got an instant $2/hour raise, sheet metal and assemblers got $1/hour. I was sort of a hero for some. All we had to do was cancel our union activities. I got that promotion, a nice raise too. My acceptance was contingent on never trying to get a union in ever again. About a year later I was told that we came quite close to unionizing the shops.

I would start wet sanding with a polishing kit. It may depend on how it was fogged. With CA glue, YMMV. Start with around 2000 grit up to 12,000 and see if it improves.

I see a lot of old parts on eBay. I was able to find better bumpers (pre Revell chrome spray) and an up-top convertible roof for a 1962 Ford kit.

I had some leftover hash browns potatoes and corned beef hash from the diner on Tuesday. Fried up a couple of eggs, a diet Mountain Dew .. dinner is served!

Where was this? I need to get out more!

I had my old Ford on the road for about a week in 2016, in primer (as it still is...). Some guy in a new Mustang, a hideous shade of yellow, pulls up next to me and asks me what color I was going to paint it. My reply was, surely not baby poo yellow... he was not pleased.

Ok... this is the new LIARS web site. www.longislandautoreplicasociety.com Google takes you to the inactive site, so this is the only way to get there. You'll find all the contest information there. From what I gather, the web master for the old site passed away and he had the password, etc that cannot be retrieved.

Instagram is loaded with similar content. One to follow is jupiterstar.

Nice! Set your alarm clock, model entry cut off is noon on contest day.

Holy carp, it worked. Rules and classes are here. I have to request the entry form.

I'm having no luck posting the rules right now. I have a jpeg of it finally. I'll try again later. The LIARS web site is down right now. The forms used to be available. What I'm doing is, create a word document for my entries and will tape it to the form when I get there.

I used to buy it when it came folded up small, all pulp printed. Then it got too political... no thanks. I still have some old ones I liked, with reviews of concerts I attended.

There is something wrong with the website lately. The LIARS FB page is up, the moderator is Dave. Ask him to scan the rules and post them. I will shoot him a text and ask him as well. EDIT: I have the rules in a heic format.. unable to post here. I asked Dave to post it to FB or I'll try myself.

I'm doing a Ford truck myself and will be using a similar color touch up Ford paint called Spinnaker Blue. I think the color is perfect on yours.

Got any scrap tubs around? Just cut out the bad and splice the "new" piece in. Sounds over simplified...

I got into that shop in 1981, I was transferred from the main facility, I was swapped for someone who was going on nights. Fresh out of trade school, with 3 months on the job. This shop always gave the newbies tough jobs to see if they were any good. Mine was a complex machined block with loads of material removed, thru and tapped holes. Everything was +/- .005". AND... I had to do it on the Van Norman that had .250" dials, unlike the Bridgeport .200" dials. Without a DRO. I laid the whole job out with blue dye and a height gauge. But I managed to literally crank it out and it passed inspection.

I even bought a duck keychain for $2.87 while I was there.

I worked in one shop that existed from 1957 to 1992. It was an antiseptically clean model shop. Even the old machines looked and worked like new. There was a full time guy who just did machine maintenance and repair. I was out of there by early 1986. When the property was sold, most of the big machines went for penny-weight scrap. There were 2 big LeBlond Regal gap lathes, with the works. Face and dog plates, a variety of big chucks, all kept in custom made boxes. Plus an overhead hoist on a trolley. The chucks were too big for one person to handle. There was a Van Norman universal mill in showroom condition. That had a big wooden cabinet with all the accessories in it. On top of it all, there were spare parts for all of them.

The 1973 one, I was commuting to college. And had a gas hungry Olds 88 to feed. People were dumping big cars left and right. One guy in my class picked up a '71 Caddy real cheaply. In the 1979 one, my mom was in the hospital. My dad was concerned about getting out of his driveway. The line from a local gas station went past the house. It was close to a half mile long.

Instagram is loaded with AI memes that are positively lit. Some list the AI generator that was used.

It is a good show, lots of awards are given out. Another club (LISM... Long Island Scale Modelers) has a show in late March at the same venue. They are mainly a military club, but we support the show as they have lots of car categories.

This was technically on the side of the road out east from us. The Big Duck. It has been moved around the Island and this is the final nesting spot for it. It was almost scrapped at one point in time.