Ace-Garageguy

Great news. So many things I figgered I'd never be able to get... Need to get on the stick while they're available this time.

"B" is a very excellent letter for several things.

Finally dragged my sorry backside to the woods for a 2-hour hike, and man, do I feel better now. Gloomy misty coldish day, but great for a wintry hike. Saw a bunch of deer in their winter camo, and a holly tree with 3 different kinds of leaves all on the same plant. Stopped by HobbyTown on the way home and picked up a few things too. Fixin' to have a grilled ham and blue cheese sandwich, watch an old movie, and sip some 12-year old rye. Some days don't suck at all.

Really nice buncha cars. Really really.

Indeed.

So far nothing particularly irksome other than the fact that my new point-of-use propane-fired shower water heater has already developed an internal water leak, and of course it's dripping on the control circuit board. Guess I better just order another one so's I'll have hot water while this one goes back for warranty. They're only $150 or so, so it's not that big a deal, and I can always use one for a shop shower out West, but it's the idea of HAVING to buy another one for backup that I find annoying. Quality, as always, is job one from our "offshore" suppliers.

Yup. It's artificial stupidity, or at best intellectual mediocrity, so far.

Yeah, but there are a lot of differences between the years. I'm most likely going to de-blobularize the kit chassis, as it's not really all that hard... Unfortunately, the issue I'm seeing at the moment is that the kit chassis appears to be more correct for '61-'63 "unibody" trucks. The floor is continuous, which would not be the case with a truck having a separate bed. Seems odd to go to all the trouble of doing a new tool, and making such a big oopsie. Musta been researched by Googlie's AI. EDIT: I also have most of the fairly recent Moebius Ford trucks as well, so coming up with a chassis I can live with won't be a problem. Just more work, more time, more expense.

Very pretty. The more of this body design I see, the more I like it.

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Exceptionally nice work on a kit that gets a bad rap. Your photos show how good one of them can look, and how well proportioned the body is.

Down at my house, I used to leave the tree up until April sometimes. (not my house, not my tree)

"None" is how much enthusiasm I have this morning, but it'll come on line shortly.

My tastes have changed a little over the years, including having developed a real liking for old wagons. I still have a '74 Malibu wagon in storage that I bought because it was so cheap ($100), and ended up going through mechanically before driving it all over the country way back in '95. One I really wish I'd saved was a '66 Ford Country Squire with a 428 and front disc brakes. Just like this, but on stock rims. Man, I'd love to have that big ol' gashog today. Of course, at the time I had neither the knowledge nor the desire to restore the "wood" (the vinyl was faded and peeling, and the fiberglass trim parts were turning to dust), hated anything fake, and was a sports-car snob to boot. Looking back, it would really be a cool old trailer puller now...and it was fast for a battleship.

Agreed. Only use I have for these types is for what's-in-the-box. There seems to be no shortage of slap-it-together content, but hey...3rd rate mediocrity abounds on the interwebs. EDIT: Speaking of which, I just looked at one, and I simply don't get things like huge blobs of gloo to hold on hubcaps and chrome trim. Really? I built like that when I was 8.

Place your bets, ladies.

I didn't go too crazy with car models this Christmas, 'cause i went crazy with train stuff instead. Still, these showed up under the tree: I had nice restorable builtups of the '59 Imperial and F-100, but just felt like getting new kits. I hadn't realized the Ford pickup was a "new tool" (assumed it was just another repop), so that made me happy when I opened it, but left me disappointed by the blobular chassis. The Blazer is a parts donor to convert a nice 4-dr promo I got earlier into a full-detail model. The '32 Imperial was purchased specifically to use as a starting point for building a '33 Plymouth coupe powered by a gen-one Chrysler Hemi, like a real one I built some years back. Between the old 1/24 Monogram '34 Ford and the Imperial, I should be able to scratchbash something pretty close. EDIT: The '33-34 Plymouth is a slightly larger car than the same year Ford. We had a '34 Ford in the shop the same time as the '33 Plymouth, and I was able to compare them visually and collect body measurements from both of them...hence the reason for starting with the larger 1/25 Imperial and the 1/24 Monogram '34 Ford bodies.

Some interest was expressed in learning how these machines were built. I just got this book, which goes into some detail, including a last chapter on Big Muskie.

"Fixed" is what I'd like to be able to say about a nagging personal issue, but it ain't gonna be any time soon.

Methinks thou dost have an interesting idea there.

Can can dancers were considered to be pretty racy a long time ago in a galaxy far far away from the interwebs.

Hit one out of the park every now and then if you can.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas