Ace-Garageguy

Cool project. Really changes the character of a car I've always kinda liked but was never hog-wild about. There are a lot of subtle differences between the rendering and the Revell body though. It even looks mildly sectioned and chopped from my perspective.

Man oh man...whassa matter with people? Some of those tires look way better than what I'm driving on.

Never get tired of seeing this one. Staggeringly fine.

Depending on the scale you're working in, small diameter insulated wire is usually much easier to find and work with than tubing, and once installed, nobody ever knows it's not tubing.

Beautiful, beautiful model. It's always a real treat to see anything from you.

Color inside the lines at all times, because any straying into unfamiliar or unorthodox or original territory will be seen as undesirable and dangerous anti-social behavior, and will be dealt with severely.

5 HO scale ore cars nicely built up from Tichy kits, for less than $5 each including shipping. It was kindof a roll of the dice, but they turned out to look much better than the photo. One truck is loose, and there's a little damage to one truss rod post that has been glooed in a ham-handed "repair" attempt, but a little quick work will fix both of 'em nicely. And a pretty decent deal on a vintage HO scale Campbell Norm's Landing pier "craftsman" kit, for about 1/2 the usual asking price.

Process kitchen waste, lawn clippings, and other organic matter into fertilizer in a compost pile; even fireplace ash can be useful, but be careful of ash that may contain heavy metals or other toxins.

See the video on full-scale sheetmetal panel alignment (welding) clamps on the thread below. It's essentially the same idea, scaled down, with a spring instead of a screw.

Supercool. I'll be making a few of those, fer shure.

Nice build, cool story. I would have liked Rex.

It's a Belchfire Horrimobile ZX-Pugugly.

Wow. I believe I'm seeing a disturbing trend here. Soon the landscape will be covered in terminally obsolete and dangerous toilets, wisely discarded as the new mo-better "flush from a phone app" units displace the old-school devices that require the user to (gasp!!!") actually REACH AROUND AND OPERATE A PHYSICAL HANDLE!!! OMG!!! How could humanity have even existed previously, having been required to WORK HANDLES!!! Surely the discarded toilets will contribute to climate-change in some murky, poorly-defined and statistically manipulated way too. It's the end of the world as we know it!!!!! And thank you for so ably documenting this emerging existential crisis. PEOPLE MUST KNOW!!!!

Chunky Cheese is Chuck E.'s overweight little brother.

Think twice before you spit in someone's porridge.

Here you go. Pretty "high tech" for 1936:

To be or not to be, doo be doo be doo be.

Maiden aunts might be young babes, or they might look like Aunt Bee, but I wouldn't want to tangle with a flying panther.

That thing hovering outside my front window might be a UFO, or the cats might have built themselves a drone.

Not really, but they do solve the "clamping and alignment" problem. A more exact term might be "temporary alignment and fixturing solution employing wire as staples".

Wow. That's quite an impressive diagnosis. Even after 50-plus years in the biz, I'm not attuned enough to "smell" when the brake fluid is low.

Looks really good. Another option might be these welding clamps for holding sheetmetal flush...or getting crazy and making up some small ones for model work:

Similar to one above, but something I've told people who were struggling with something obvious and simple: "Pretend you're smarter than whatever you're working on."

With that short wheelbase and high center of mass and the aerodynamics of a shed, I bet it's "entertaining" to drive at speed on a windy day.

Box-of-rocks has a level of intellectual development superior to some of the folks with whom I have to interact.