Dave Ambrose

There was a glitch. I fixed it.

Fixed the problem. You should be good to go. Thanks for catching that!

We finished out maintenance and reorganization. As you can see, things are different, and we've combined truck and cars in some places, like here. Not all the content is where it needs to be yet. In the coming days, we'll be going through some of the sub-forums, like NASCAR and Drag Racing, to pull out the posts that are strictly finished models and move them to the relevant section of Under Glass. We'll also be segregating the Wanted and Trade posts in the truck section. Once we're done, that section will go away. We're preventing people from posting new topics in sub-forums that will be going away. You may continue to reply to existing topics in those sub-forums. We've added an Other Racing category in both On the Workbench and Under Glass sections. This for any race cars that don't fit Drag or NASCAR categories. Those of you wondering where to put your Indy cars need wonder no more, Please, please, please, post any problems, or comments about our new layout in the How to Use this Board section, and not here in General. I know some of you were having trouble with slow performance. I think we've fixed that now. Let me know if we haven't. And, as an aside, this board has 2.2 million posts. Thanks, and let me know if there are any problems in How to Use This Board.

Welcome back. I was wondering what had become of you. This is going to be very cool.

There can be little doubt. This is a stressful time for everyone. How are you all holding up?

I tweaked the settings again. They should be better. I'm sure you'll let me know if they aren't. ?

I've located a possible cause. I'll be addressing that this week.

I'm so sorry. Saying goodbye to a pet is one of the hardest things we do.

I like this build a lot. My first-ever new car was a '78 FIAT 131. Great car once I rescued it from the professional FIAT mechanics. What engine is this? It's not the factory engine I remember.

We’re having a lot of dislocation in San Diego too. I don’t anticipate any in-person meetings until June, and we're trying to relocate our contest to September. It’s a pain, but I’d rather do this than attend funerals. We lost enough members last year.

Sorry, my adjustments didn't work. I'll try again.

This is, ironically, one of my John Prine favorites. You can play it at my funeral.

They should be less obnoxious now. I adjusted the settings, and I'll be the first to admit, I'm no expert in this area. We are bringing in some outside expertise, and making the ads more relevant will be one of their goals. I'm sure you'll all leave me plenty of feedback. Thanks, Dave

I know the feeling. Those are some interesting pictures above your build table.

That summarizes our situation quite nicely. I’m ready to drive to Mountain View and throttle someone.

Thanks for the heads up. I haven't seen this, but will take a look at our settings tonight. I'm sorry to say, but Google has just been a reticulated disaster with respect to ads. We will either be switching providers, or hiring someone to do this right. Thanks for being patient, Dave

Not to make light of important issues, but if this is the extent of our problems, we're doing pretty good.

All done. Board software is updated, and some other under-the-hood maintenance. You should notice improved page load time. Please let me know if you encounter any odd behavior from the forum software.

Sorry, I don’t have the means to change the smiley faces.

I'm a life-long 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea fan. I have to wait for my rusting and weathering skills to grow before tackling this one, but it's definitely a "gotta do." After talking with Scott Brodeen, and several long talks with my wife, we decided to get this kit while we still could. I'm glad we did. This kit is gorgeous. And we know all the right number of rivets are in the right places. ?

At this point, I think even those who were originally skeptical understand that we're in the middle of a serious pandemic. There are plenty of other places to get COVID-19 information that will be orders of magnitude better than anything we could publish here. Our purpose is to provide respite, support, and friendship. We're going to stick to that mission.

We're taking the board offline for some maintenance Saturday, 6 PM PDT. We expect it to be offline for the rest of the evening. I'm taking another shot at upgrading the board software. With any luck, we should be making some performance improvements.

I doubt it's a private message. Not even mods and admins can see those unless you add one of us to the conversation. In all the instances I've seen, the message has been in response to a member's status. Statuses and their responses are public, not private. This seems to be a common point of confusion. If this was a private message, and not a status, please PM me.

I agree. This is a very fiddly kit. I did some touch-up with a Molotov pen, but really, you should strip the chrome, clean up the parts, then use Alclad chrome. You also need to be extra careful with the rear suspension. Mine wasn't quite symmetrical. I didn't measure them, but I don't think the trailing arms are the same.

I finished final assembly of a Surfite.