Ace-Garageguy

Come...build allegiances with those who share your moral and ethical values, and who are on similar intellectual and emotional levels of development.

"Eye, eye, me hearties" he said, trying to get somebody to help him, as his hands weren't working too well from all the grog he'd imbibed, but the lads thought he was saying "aye, aye, me hearties" and ignored him, as usual.

Gold doubloons will get you a nice parable to sit on your shoulder and call people names, matey.

Life without the possibility of parole doesn't sound very appealing, but people keep marrying partners who think like jailors.

"Live long and prosper" or "nanu nanu"?

Nicely done, with hilarious over-the-top illustrations.

"Trespassing" is a concept that's only valid in societies that recognize individual ownership and/or property rights.

Boy, that brings back a memory that makes me cringe now. I used the rear floor from a '66 Ford Country Squire with a 428 and disc brakes to fab a ribbed trunk floor for a client's '37 Plymouth. Sure would like to have that old wagon now, but it was worthless back then (it was given to me with no brakes). Who knew?

'55-'56-'57 Hudson Hornet

Yeah, the standard equipment zip tie gives it away...and the turn signal arrow bezels as big as gauges.

"Hear what you want to hear and disregard the actual truth" seems to be a popular mindset.

More vintage out-of-production NOS HO scale "craftsman" kits. This latest lot of 12 includes 2 Campbell wood kits, 3 Stewart cast metal kits, and 7 Suydam kits, all complete or very close to it. Just the Campbell coaling station and water tower kits together usually sell for over twice what I paid for the whole lot, and build up beautifully (shown below together on the box art, though they're separate kits). IIRC, both kits are based on real structures in Chama, New Mexico on the Cumbres & Toltec Railroad. The Stewart cast metal kits are the definition of basic, but I've already got plans to up-detail them into as nice as you can buy today. The Suydam kits are interesting, as they're made with real corrugated steel siding that can be force-rusted to provide a strikingly realistic finish, though they lack detail. They were originally intended to be soldered together, but today's CA works just dandy, and aftermarket (or scratchbuilt) windows, doors, and other fine details bring them beautifully up to today's standards. Here's an example of how good the ancient Suydam kits can look (not my model).

Really cool. One I've never seen before, and one of the reasons I love modeling so much...there's so much to learn.

Camel and Lucky Strike unfiltered used to be my brands of choice, but I've been quit for about 23 years.

IMDb is useful to me occasionally for finding particularly interesting locations where movies were made.

Yukon Gold taters is tasty, specially mashed with garlic and butter and cream and rutabaga.

"Ramada" always sounded to me like it'd be a good name for boots, so I floogled it and, guess what...it is.

You don't have to buy the latest-greatest high-buck digital SLR to take professional looking shots suitable for publishing to the web. The photos below were taken with an "obsolete" 4-megapixel Nikon that can be purchased used for $15-$50. It features 3X optical zoom and a macro setting. I bought one new many years ago and it's still going strong. I bought a used one for a dedicated shop camera 5 years ago and it still works fine too. I use a very capable Nikon photo editing suite (which was a free download) on my laptop. EDIT: Good lighting, a tripod, and some care with composition are also required.

And another thing that's apparently not widely known is that "sealed" battery packs may be compromised by running over road hazards, speed bumps, etc. If the seal is broken, ingress of water from driving through a puddle an IC car would have no problem with can cause an internal short resulting in fire. AND...multiple EV fires resulted from salt-water ingress when the vehicles were left parked in flooding conditions during recent weather events.

Dinner with family isn't something I do anymore, because...reasons.

With cameos by Gumby and some claymation dinosaurs.

Nice bunny.

Always liked these in full scale. Model looks great, especially the no-nonsense steel wheels.

Looks to be a stellar 2-door conversion. Great looking little car.