Dave Ambrose

I got very judicious with my kit buying. There's this whole Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) theme going, both at the swap meets, and between our own ears. That certainly drove some of my early buying. But let's face it, almost any kit we want to build is going to be available for as long as we might need it. There are a large number of modelers with massive stashes that aren't going to be around forever. Those kids will make their way into the secondary market and we'll be well stocked for the foreseeable future.

Oh dear. As we used to say, "You are so busted!" I had a somewhat similar experience. My daughter and I had been accumulating models for a bit, and storing them in an out of the way (and sight) space in the garage. My wife goes up there to get something out and discovers both of our stashes. An astonished, "Where did all these come from?" may have been uttered. Naturally, in her eyes, they all belong to me. Explanations are initially dismissed as not credible but proven true when my daughter takes her models to her new place. We did work out an equitable deal. For every two models I build, I can buy one. This seems to work for both of us, and keeps things from getting out of hand. I have two further suggestions. Figure out how long it will take you to build all the models in your stash. That will place its size in perspective. The other is to make an inventory. I used Google Sheets so I could reference it from just about anywhere. This keeps the duplicate buys to a minimum.

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That just sounds gnarly. I hope you recover well and quickly.

What an interesting build! I'm a bit of an MG fan so this build definitely has my attention. It looks great so far.

The heater core in my 2014 Frontier is leaking. $3500 to replace it outright. That's almost more than the truck is worth. Going to have them bypass the heater core and just live with it. This is the first major failure in 176K miles. We really like this truck too. Color me grumpy.

This is a fun kit. Indycals has decals for it. They also have the correct wheels and tires. I did the pink Zink car which was the 1955 winner. I'm looking forward to see what you do with the windscreen. I never did get mine to fit properly.

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Congratulations! That's a great way to buy a house. We had the very good fortune to buy the house we were renting, and it's worked out very well for us.

I don't remember making this new year resolution but I've been on a bit of a concert binge this year. Saw Anoushka Shankar late March, Deep Sea Diver on April 10, and the Jordi Savall ensemble (15th and 16th century music) on the 15th. This has been an outlandish amount of fun. At least I'm not in a musical rut. There are still two more in the pipeline too. I don't recall seeing this particular addiction in the DSM either.

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You should be able to download it now. We normally don't allow downloading, but are running a short experiment.

This is completely unlike previous issues. But, I think we're in trouble when Canada Post is beating out the USPS for deliveries.

My canary copy arrived today. Roughly 2-1/2 weeks later than usual.

There seem to be more delivery problems than we typically have with a mailed out issue. My canary issue hasn't arrived yet and it's usually here within 2 weeks of mail-out. As an aside, I'm having a lot more delivery problems than usual from the USPS, so something systemic is going on. We're trying to ascertain what. The Postmaster General recently resigned, effective immediately and I suspect they're related.