Dave Ambrose

That was painful to watch. I suspect the Stanford Band made themselves up to look like the Broncos and locked the real fooball players in a back closet..

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Barnes and Noble carries it in their hobby section.

Hi Kyle, Welcome to the forum. It's a good place to be. Lots of good content and good people. I even hear that even the admins are nice.

I have a Craftsman oilless compressor that's been working great for a few years now. It has a 26 gallon tank and a 150PSI working pressure. You probably don't need that large a tank, and I think they have a model with the same compressor and a 12 gallon tank that should be just about perfect. Mine came with an air ratchet and an impact wrench. Just be sure you follow the break-in instructions.

The craft stores operate one season ahead. People need time to build their projects. I can accept that reasoning. I cannot accept Home Depot putting up Christmas decorations (more like desecrations) before Halloween and including an inflatable T. Rex with a Santa hat. That just made me want to put to sea and not come back.

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I'm not spending as much time here as I used to, but I use it frequently.

Perhaps not too surprising, but I'm a software engineer.

I'm sure there will be lots of differing opinions. The reality is that there are a lot of workable alternatives. I recommend getting a compressor with a tank. So long as you have a filter, it shouldn't matter whether the compressor uses oil or not. That said, the oiless compressors are less maintenance and don't need a yearly oil change. I don't care for the diaphragm type airbrush compressors. Their line pressure pulsates when you have the airbrush full open. The nail gun compressors at the home improvement stores should have plenty of capacity for airbrush work. You should also have a regulator with filter and moisture trap, and pressure gauge so you can repeatably adjust your air pressure. It's a critical variable in your airbrush setup. Make sure you do not get a filter-regulator-lube device. The lubrication feature puts oil in your air line. It's great for air tools, but the last thing you want feeding your airbrush. I have a Craftsman shop compressor. I added a separate regulator with a filter/moisture trap for my airbrush. Whatever airbrush you get should be impervious to lacquer thinner. If you aren't spraying lacquer, then you'll be using lacquer thinner to clean the airbrush. I have a Paasche VL. The set is a real workhorse and will last you a lifetime of models. It's available for a reasonable price if you shop online. The kit comes with three different nozzle/needle sets. They'll cover handle about everything from spraying bodies to fairly fine detail work. You also get two bottles and a color cup. Again covering just about any reasonable need. It also comes with a nice hose. It doesn't coil, but it's flexible and doesn't readily kink. I have an Iwata Eclipse BCS. It's beautifully made, but very much optimized for thin inks and fine line widths. I don't know about the other Iwata airbrushes, but if you can find one with a sufficiently wide spray pattern when using paint, it should serve you well. Iwata cups and bottles will interchange with the Passche airbrushes.

Welcome to the forum. Knee surgery was my route back into model cars too. It's still boatloads of fun and there are tons of great kits and aftermarket parts available. I only occasionally buy kits at the hobby shop any more. I mostly get mine at model contests and other shows.

That is a very nice motor. Thanks for the review. Now, if I could just get a 1:1 for a reasonable price, my MGB would be totally thrilled. :-)

We have a 60 gallon tank in the living room. I'm glad for football season as I can now watch the football game and do tank maintenance. This is the best kind of multitasking.

For me, it was more of a curiosity stimulant than a source of information. It caused me to ask questions. I needed multiple sources too. My dad was a smart guy. He could talk for an hour on how rocket motors work, chamber profiles and pressures, and the role of the nozzle, and why you want different shapes as you get more altitude. But, he couldn't tell me very much about cars. Fortunately, my brother in law was willing to put up with a snotty-nosed kid asking a lot of questions about cars. I can't really tell you how I got interested in cars. It was just something I picked up. And Harry, I'm not trying to generalize my experience to everyone. But, I have seen the notion of model building as educational get traction with parents. Maybe we put some extra information in the instructions, of put it on a web site. Parents would use it. The important thing here is that it would open up modeling to a new audience. I'm not old enough to be aware if any kind of learning aspect was ever used to sell models. I've never seen it. But I do think that model building was considered a good, wholesome activity for boys. Now-days, we should include girls too.On that basis alone, it should be a good thing.

I can only speak from my personal experience. I built all kinds of models as a kid; ships, planes, cars, Oddly enough, no armor. but from that I learned how things were put together. It wasn't perfect and some of my attempts to build flying airplanes were doomed from the start, but I still learned. It probably helped that my dad was an engineer and could answer most of my questions. Most people have only the vaguest notion about how cars work. They'd almost certainly get a much better idea from building a model.

Sometimes the propellant will leak from the can. The paint is still there, but you can't spray it. I've had that happen to me on multiple occasions.

I see they're running it on a very flat runway. Low clearance, and long wheelbase make for unpleasant scraping noises beneath the middle passengers.

I think the ridicule factor is higher than we'd like to believe. A few years ago, I caught a ration of ummm, advice from a family member regarding my daughter's model building activities. It was something along the lines of "gender appropriate" activities. After checking the year on my calendar, I decided to ignore it, but clearly, it's out there. BTW, my daughter is in her twenties. Most of the people who hear of me building models think it's a cool and interesting hobby. Then again, I'm a software engineer. I'd probably get a different reaction in a law office. I'm surprised that no company has publicly made a case that model building is educational. I was talking to the father with a young child and he latched on to that concept immediately. If you get into the right places, that concept could get a lot of traction.

These guys were two of my heroes. Better, I think, to celebrate a life well lived.

I keep an ABC extinguisher in the kitchen and the garage. Gotta replace them every few years too.

I use both. The convenience of a spray can is great, and modern paints work well in them. I really like Tamiya and the Testors one coat lacquers. But there are times when you want to blend colors, Can't find what you want, or you just have to cover a LOT of area. and buying 5 spray cans just doesn't seem financially responsible. I agree that cleaning an airbrush is a pain. It's better if you have lacquer thinner, Q-tips and pipe cleaners. I'm looking forward to the time when I can have a spray booth.

Earlier this year, I saw some prototype 3D printers. They should run about $2700, and in their fine resolution mode, make parts that are nearly model worthy. They heat extrude plastic to make the object. It's paintable. Spools of plastic filament should have a reasonable cost. They currently cost $75 for 2.5 oz of plastic. I don't see them necessarily making parts, but what a great way to make masters for resin casting. Print the part, clean it up, and cast away. That would be revolutionary. As for the ammunition, I don't want to be anywhere near a machine extruding nitrocellulose thankyouveryverymuch. That just sounds like a great way to rest in pieces. The economics will evolve as machine speeds improve, but even short term, there will be lots of good changes.

Yesterday, my wife and I stopped at Pegasus Hobbies. Wile I was getting 4bbl carbs and other detail parts, she brought over a box, and said "Happy Birthday". It was the new Pegasus Nautilus kit.

At her request, my wife and I are celebrating Mother's day by surf fishing at Torrey Pines State Beach. We'll be using our spinning reels w/ 8 and 10 foot surf rods.

I don't know about other areas, but my local hobby shops are only open because of the RC people. They spend big bucks on their airplanes or cars, and most importantly, they crash. That means repeat business. Armor and aircraft modeling is most popular here in San Diego. Not unexpected with the large contingent of retired and active duty Marines. Model cars are something of an afterthought. They have started carrying some detail parts, but if I really want the big selection, I need to drive up to the LA area. Oddly enough, science fiction modeling is growing. They've doubled their shelf space on that genre in the last year or so. Guess there are more geeks than old guys. Though some of us qualify as both.