Dave Ambrose

It pains me to be deleting some of these albums. There was a lot of interesting stuff. If you still have some of your old photos, please put them in the gallery.

We've started the process of cleaning up the photo galleries. We lost most of the pictures in a hack attack a few years ago. Sadly, they aren't on any of our backups. Now it turns out the empty photo albums are affecting our search results. This has other undesirable side effects, so we need to clean this up as quickly as we can. For the next few days, the other moderators and myself will be going through and deleting empty albums. The albums with pictures will stay. In the meantime, please feel free to put photos there. It's working just fine.

I'm having a hard time reconciling the bat shaped door handle with the longhorns on the radiator. But I gotta say, this was good for a laugh.

This comes from the way the site handles certain kinds of web requests. It's on my list of things to fix. In the meantime, you're fine. We don't store confidential data, and don't specifically need in-transit encryption, per se. But, the browsers have gotten more picky. It does help with security by authenticating that you're getting information from the right site. That's much more important to a bank than here tho.

Don't come to my house. We have horses nearby, and consequently lots of flying insects. Tarantulas are also indigenous. We get lots of spiders. I leave the hunting spiders alone, even if they're in the house. They're eliminating annoying pests. I just wish they had a bigger appetite for ants.* Various orb weavers in the back yard, and lots of funnel webs. My son comes home from 6th grade science class, and asks if he can have a tarantula for a pet. The science teacher's has had babies. Indulgent parent that I am, I said yes. That spider lasted 10 years before dying of old age. * Southern California is one large, Argentine ant colony.

I’m hoping to at least come and look.

Locking this at the request of the original poster.

The price, $3400, is a little eye watering. That’s a hard number to work with, even if you’re running a small custom printing operation.

A lot of Facebook screening is automated. It doesn’t always work right. There is a way to request a human review. You should try that.

You want to invest in the bakery next to the dispensary. We had some controversy here when an enterprising Girl Scout set up a table near a dispensary.

Ah, paint drama. I think we could all contribute if someone started a thread. Glad you were able to recover.

We are coming up on Halloween.

Very cool. You’ll have to suspend it in your display case.

I’m so sorry you’re going through this. We love our children more than anything else in this world. You’ll find a way through. Prayers for both you and your son. Take care of yourself and don’t forget you have friends here when you need them.

Love that car.

Villify me if you want, but I think it’s very cool.

I find the Vallejo washes work well. I suspect India ink with some minute amount of dish soap would work well too.

Drilling thin sheets has always been problematic for me. I would think that some kind of punch will work better.

I got one of these last year and like it a lot. It’s not cheap, but it’s high quality, and it works better than anything else I’ve tried. https://www.simpmodels.com/product-page/utimate-chisel-set-with-hand-made-extreme-comfort-handle

Easiest way is to report the post, and ask to have it removed or moved.

Cat whiskers work too. The locally available ones might be the wrong color, but that’s correctable with a little dye or ink.

I ran across this article from the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/in-praise-of-mediocrity.html it seems very applicable to model cars too. I know I’ve fallen into that excellence trap. If everything wasn’t top notch, it wasn’t good enough. And, it sucked all the fun out for me. It wasn’t until a good friend called me an overachiever that I made the connection. Now I’m building good models and having a lot more fun with it.

I don’t generally keep my boxes. One thing I like about built up kits is that they take less space. I consolidate any kit leftovers into a storage bag and put it in another box with a description and any relevant instructions. I’ll have to change this at some point, but it’s working for now.

Have you tried including your children in your building? I had my daughter do detail painting when she was young. It was great time together, and she’s still an excellent painter.

That’s gorgeous.