Harry P.

That's a cool truck, BTW.. Notice the rounded front on the trailer? Seems like they understood aerodynamics better back then than they do now!

For any of you guys who build in a room that has carpeting on the floor, you know how frustrating it is to drop a tiny part and then never see it again. Even for those who build over hardwood or tile or concrete floors, sometimes tiny parts bounce when they hit the floor and wind up far from where you think they landed. Here's a neat way to find those tiny dropped parts: Get some old pantyhose (how you get them is up to you )... cut a piece out and attach it over the end of your vacuum cleaner hose. Use a rubber band to hold the piece of pantyhose tightly against the end of the hose (you could also cut off a leg of the pantyhose and slip the foot part over the nozzle of the vac and hold it tightly in place wih a rubber band if you want to be able to cover a wider area quicker). Then just vacuum the floor! Eventually you'll find that tiny piece (and probably some stuff you weren't expecting to find!) right there on the end of your vacuum! Bonus: The wife or GF will think you're a real sweetheart for pitching in with the housework, and you just may be rewarded later, if you catch my drift...

It bugged you? It bugged me even more... because I have to keep moving them to the correct place! I wish I could fine anyone who posts in the wrong place a dollar. I'd be rich by now...

Exactly. No new section needed. "Under Glass" is for finished models... individually or as a group. Finished car models, that is... We have a Truck section and an "Other Models" section, so let's post our finished models in the appropriate places.

I think you're confused. Hoss never got the girl... Little Joe always did!

Maybe you need more trustworthy friends...

Shouldn't those guys be stacking that lumber a little straighter?

Maybe you need to start locking your doors...

I've never had a problem with good old #11 blades, either. Plenty sharp for whatever I need to do, including foil. And easily re-sharpened with a small sharpening stone.

Well, when I was a kid we had a very specific use for our built models: We crashed them into each other and burned them! Yep, styrene burns real good! I have no idea how many of my friends' and my models wound up going up in flames... but it was a lot! Saturday morning: Go to LHS and pick up a kit. Get back home, build models with friends in the back yard. Saturday afternoon/evening: Well, you know... At some point I realized that maybe after putting in all that work into building them, I might want to actually keep them around a while! But the "Build and Burn" philosophy was fun while it lasted!

Water them regularly?

I think someone needs to give you an atomic wedgie...

No problem!

I don't think he was complaining, just making an observation. Post count doesn't matter. You don't need a certain post count before you're "allowed" to have an opinion here.

I agree with Christian. "Under Glass" is for finished models, either from an individual builder or a group of people. It makes no difference how (or if) the models are grouped, as long as they're finished! If anyone has a problem with "Show us your Whatever" type threads, you already know the answer: Don't click on it.

BTW... Happy half century, Cranky!

Hey Cranky... the Devil called, he wants his suit back... BTW... it must be really cold down there in Florida today. You're turning blue!

That's pretty cool... But how is a person a grave digger "by reputation?"

Now that's funny!

That's cool. I love seeing the more obscure stuff finally getting a turn in the spotlight!

I agree. With the Super Bowl, the commercials are the show!

One of my favorite pieces of new tchnology is the DVR. Record the shows you want, then watch them when you want to watch them... and fly through the commercials at super-fast forward. Most systems allow you to record several programs simultaneoulsy. No reason to sit through commercials anymore. No more fumbling with VHS tapes... and the DVR never runs out of "tape."

Yeah, but they never have anything interesting to say...

For those who see nothing weird about constant cell-phone use... http://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/02/27/22245.aspx

We've lived through technological change since the day the first caveman figured out fire. But all of the major technological milestones of the past... automation, the automobile, advances in medicine, electricity, flight, etc, while they had a dramatic impact on our lives and how we lived them, they didn't dramatically change how we interact with other people. They made our lives easier, or more convenient, or less labor-intensive... but they didn't change the basic fundamental idea of human interaction with others. But the technology we're going through now is changing how we interact with others. We can now say anything we want under cover of an anonymous screen name and instantly put it up on the web where millions of people can see it, we can have thousands of so-called "friends" via social networking without actually ever meeting any of these people face to face. We have become more accessible to others, but in a weird, "non-accessible" way. We have more potential methods of contact with others than ever before, yet actual face-to-face, in-person, human interaction seems to be fading. We're all inside our own little techno-bubbles, "interacting" with each other but not in the way we had been for thousands of years.