Ace-Garageguy

Scrambled, produced-quick-and-dirty "documentary" videos for yooboob, with mismatched photos that have nothing to do with the "AI" narration, and a mixture of facts and gibberish. This is the vaunted AI revolution everybody is so excited about? Just more of the same inaccurate internet inanity, but now assisted by artificial stupidity instead of the pure human variety. All it's achieving is making it vastly easier for the totally ignorant to produce internet income streams, with little regard for truth.

"Waiting for Godot" was frequently scrawled on club and bar restroom walls in ritzy Buckhead in the mid 1970s and early '80s.

Wow. Really glad you're still ticking. Problems with the central pumping system can be kinda unnerving.

You know Pete, the main point of my post was that shiny naked aircraft skins aren't "chrome" as stated by the OP, but rather polished aluminum. BMF is real metal, and being so, looks more like real polished aluminum than any faux medium. I apologize profoundly and humbly for misleading modelers by stating it's aluminum. Naming the specific alloy seemed to be beside the point, and honestly, I don't know what it is anyway...but because of its handling characteristics I'd assume whatever it is, aluminum is in there somewhere, and maybe bismuth if it melts at a low temperature. Bismuth and aluminum have poor mutual solubility however, and don't alloy well, so I'm probably wrong again. But since you undoubtedly know, please enlighten all of as as to the specific chemical composition of BMF, as my saying it's "aluminum" is incorrect, and your saying it's "some sort of soft, pliable metal alloy" just doesn't give exacting modelers enough detail. EDIT: We'd all also like to know how the stuff is made. At least I sure would. So please explain that too, citing sources for those of us who'd like to research further.

"1967", above, ends another string of words that's not a sentence because it lacks a main verb to form a complete thought, but of course the difference between a sentence and a sentence-fragment or a descriptive phrase in times past wasn't expected to be fully grasped by students until the third grade, and that's the general comprehension level of a holder of an advanced degree today.

But it says "obsolete and rare" right there in the listing. C'mon man. That makes it worth WAY more.

Kinda goes hand in hand with "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging".

Chili this AM, warmer tamale.

Away we go again, with responses aren't sentences.

Beautifully done.

Solved puzzles displayed on the shelf aren't much fun.

mcs1056, above, has the right idea. The front top bow and the folded side members are readily apparent in the photo of the booted Bentley drophead. Make up some pieces from styrene to suit, then form the cover as discussed in the 'tarp" thread. Tiny solder beads are available that can be used to represent the snaps very effectively, as are resin rivets.

If Topher can't get you one for some reason, I have one also.

"Cuteness" and "cuddly" must be what all the folks who seem to be trying to emulate the hippo's body proportions are going for, but when I see those proportions in the mirror, it's neither cute nor cuddly, but a recipe for impending health problems.

I didn't say "jump on it with both feet".

Always a pleasure to see your work sir. ---------------------------------------------- For those who don't know: Pico was one of the early adopters of 3D printing for model cars, and I've been fortunate to see his work in person for years, through the ACME club here. He's done quite a good sized body of 3D-printed work, important cars that have never been kitted, designing his own files and even, IIRC, building his own printer in the beginning. He's also always been very forthcoming about sharing the knowledge he's accumulated through experience and experimentation.

Man, that's nice.

You gotta start somewhere, and you'll learn plenty as you go. Just jump in with both feet, and do your research. There's no shortage of online aircraft forums loaded with all kinds of fascinating stuff.

I just hope they'll take me home this time. I've had about all I can enjoy here.

Shaping up to be really nice fall weather for the long weekend and into next week, lows in the 50s, highs in the upper 70s, and clear, low humiddidditty.

I think you'd be happier with the results if you just used colored clear plastic sheet from notebook covers, readily available in office-supply stores. EDIT: Guthmiller beat me to it.

City girls just seem to find out early that they don't interact much with armadillos or aardvarks or hippopotami.

Year in, year out, the armadillo armada is on the move north.

Owners of aardvarks probably don't feel as close to their pets as do owners of armadillos.