Ace-Garageguy

I mos' debinitely know dis one. Best remember to PM you this time, too.

I recall seeing in-out boxes on drag cars in the way back. It gives you a "neutral" essentially, so you don't have to sit there with a really heavy clutch depressed and the engine running. Another possible reason would be to provide a single gear ratio that's different from 1:1. 1:1 is all you'd get with a clutch alone.

If I'm seeing everything in the photo correctly, this really wouldn't work at all in reality. Turbo/carb setups can be either suck-through or blow-through. Suck-through would have the carbs upstream of the turbines like this (sorta), but the output of the compressor side of the turbos (which would include fuel that was introduced by the carb(s) would have to be ducted back into the intake manifold, which would also have to be sealed from the carb. A carb bolted to an airbox, floating in space over what looks like an ordinary 4bbl manifold makes no sense whatsoever. A blow-through installation normally has the carb(s) in a sealed box downstream of the turbos, but upstream of the manifold, and the turbo-compressor outputs blow nothing but air into the box, through the carb(s) (where fuel is introduced) and into the manifold.

It's definitely Lenco, either a direct drive in-out box or a planetary "reverser". A scattershield would really be a good idea, too.

Favorite shot AND the closest to being finished...

What a beauty! Wow, wow, wow.

I agree the interior is better than the outside, but then again...REAL aircraft sheetmetal work is beautiful. It doesn't have wonky edges, gaps, and jerky curves. It's as good as you get, and this is a very poor imitation.

My model bench is actually pretty neat at the moment, but the big-car shop out back looks a lot like that. Kinda hard to get much done in a mess of that magnitude. Maybe next weekend I'll have some time to clean and organize. Yeah, right.

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Apparently these little grilles are part of some special floral arrangement promo by Teleflora... Honestly, I usually eat Kosher dogs and lunch meats, just 'cause I'm not wild about all the oddball junk in most processed meat products.

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I don't get the connection either. I never have seen a B-17 made of rusty junk, covered in bubblegum welding and sporting fake parts. Guess I'm just not cool enough to understand.

Mmmm mmm...pork spleens and stomachs and mechanically separated chicken. Boy oh boy. Makes my mouth water just a thinkin' 'bout it.

You're right. With that door shape, which I had taken to be a modification to an A shell, it couldn't be anything else. The drooping lines just aft of the quarter windows too. Never really looked at Bantams that closely before.

Yup...missed it. The tell is the seam in the roof above the door shut-line. Otherwise, it could easily be a modded A with the visor gone. The gold truck's not an A either. Though the firewall is like an A, and it has a visor, look at the stamped details on the door skin. Compare that to a '30-'31 truck cab. Different.

Pretty cool spring kit. Here's a direct link to the instruction sheet. Wow. I want some. ...Problem with the link. Let me see here... Hmmm. Can't get the right link to copy. Odd. Anyway, click on the link in Joe's post, scroll down the page 'til you see "instructions" and click on that. Opens a page with a blowup of the spring kit. Impressive.

The gold truck. Later cab.

Good to know. $11 seems fine to me for all the work saved.

Yeah, that's what I thought too, but I just decided to go with the flow.

I'm old, and I've screwed up SO many things by getting in a rush that I just don't do it any more. Just about every poor result I've ever had on a model has come about because I've hurried or gone ahead without good preparation, or when I really didn't feel like it, or something similar. This IS a hobby, and if rushing to get something done results in turning out craddy work I'll just have to do over again, what's the point? A large part of the satisfaction I get from doing this stuff is looking back at a finished product...even just a finished PART of a project, and being pleased with the craftsmanship. If I don't get that, rushing to accomplish mediocre work seems like counter-productive stupidity to me.