Dave Ambrose

Thanks Dan. The hosting company has messed up our encryption certificate again. They're working on it.

Spent the afternoon doing stupid things with sleds in snow, then retire to the house to warm up and build models with my daughter, son, and son in law. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon.

I had this problem with my mother's Malamute chewing on the cord to my workbench. My mother would unplug it at night, and the dog, who was teething, would chew it. One night, I plugged it back in and went to bed. In the morning, there was a single bite mark. Thereafter, the dog made sure the cords weren't attached to anything before chewing them. Darn animals are too smart for their own good.

If you're here, I seriously doubt you're stupid. You need to resize or crop the picture. If you have a PC available, I use a program called IrfanView for to resize images. It's a free to download and use. It also does a lot of other useful things.

Not sure where you sent your email, but I don't see them. I'll send you a replacement issue. You see 10 issues remaining because we created mailing labels for 218. That issue will be mailing out soon.

You have 2 weeks after posting to edit the post. We had a spam post attack. Unfortunately, one of the vulnerabilities we have to seal is the ability to edit previous posts. We like to run with this enabled, and normally do. But when we're under attack, we have to close it. The breach attempts are continuing, so it's staying at the 2 week limit for the time being.

We've been totally focused on getting magazines out on a regular schedule. For the moment, we're only selling T-Shirts at shows. We're working on online sales, but we don't have all the pieces in place yet.

He's the new turn marshal.

Those are some great finds!

We were treated to an unauthorized deluge of spam posts this morning. The posts have been dealt with as have the accounts that created them. We've put some deterrents in place and they seem to be working. If this happens again, please don't hesitate to report the post(s). We have automatic moderation enabled that will hide posts with too many reports. If a post looks suspicious or out of place, do not click on any of their links!!! Ever. The editing limit was put into place, and will remain for a while. I realize this inconveniences a few people, but it's a better alternative than having a bunch of malware posts on the forum. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to PM me. Dave Ambrose Managing Editor, Model Cars Magazine

Coronado Island is a world unto itself. It's lovely to visit, a great place to bike ride, and will be dropping below sea level. It's also a world full of entitlement, wealth, and Karens.

I watch this on occasion. It gets painful after a few minutes.

My sister turned me on to this ever so many years ago. Loved the Byrds. Loved CSN, and CSNY. And all these years later, it still sounds great.

Yes. I use it so much I didn't even notice.

Thank you for the pictures! I can think of worse places to be stuck. Hope you make it home okay.

Thanks for all the interest. We'll have them at shows. If you come to NNL West, or GSL, we'll have them there.

There is a software engineering aphorism to the same effect. By the time you get most of the project done, you will have discovered that multiple simplifying assumptions you made are simply wrong. That said, some part of them aren't all that important and can be ignored. The rest are important and must be fixed. Figuring out which is which is the real art and wisdom component.

Thanks, I'll try that method, and see what, if anything, our logs tell us.

Posting pictures is a two step process. I drag and drop the pictures into the bar at the bottom of the posting box. You can also click the choose files... text. Then, position the text cursor in the post box to where you want the picture to appear, then go down to the picture, and click on the insert text at the bottom of the thumbnail image. That does the actual insertion into the posting. I'll go check and see if there are any known bugs in this area.

Issue #217 is wrapped and at the printer. This time we dive into things that haul with several great stories on some inspiring car haulers. If that isn’t enough, we also build the new Modifed kit that just came out from Wes’s Model Car Corner. Some great show coverage and much more fills out this packed issue.

I have an iPhone 13 Pro. It's a very good camera, albeit pricey. That said, I tend to keep my phones for 5 or 6 years.

Folks, the no politics, and no religion rules should be well known to you all. You agreed to them when you signed up. If there is anything political in the US, it's firearms. You all know better. Don't discuss them any further. Period.

Went shopping for 1/4" SAE washers at "home improvement" center. Look at the ones in the bag. Those are labeled 1/4", but they're a bit bigger. (I'm guessing 8mm) Open the box because when you have British cars, you need washers. Same thing. Wrong size. The bonehead buyers never realize they're getting ripped off by their suppliers. Will be going to the real hardware store where they know the right sizes.

We (MCM) are seriously unhappy with the delivery situation, but at this point in time, there isn't a lot we can do about it. Northern Europe and Australia are particular trouble areas. I strongly suspect that the US Postal Service is the problem for reasons I won't go into here. There have been improvements, but we still have some areas of the US with chronically slow delivery. Getting the magazine mailed out turns out to be a surprisingly complex activity.

It's okay to post higher resolution pictures. We have disk space for this purpose. Similarly, we don't have a limit on the number of pictures. So far, this hasn't been a problem, but if it does, we'll address it then. The board will only load them as you scroll them into view. (aka lazy loading) this enables us to use high res images with much less impact that they used to have.