Ace-Garageguy

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

"Think" is something IBM's Jeopardy-winning Watson was able to apparently do better than most of the highly touted consumer-grade "AI" we're seeing today, though it didn't actually understand context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Watson#

Side with the machines because, unlike humanity, their intelligence is increasing.

I know of several kit sources, but haven't researched 3D availability yet. Just be sure to get actual side-drafts, as some modelers interchange side- and down-draft Webers without realizing that's as blatantly incorrect as mounting a Holley 4bbl upside down.

Over all of humanity AI will perhaps someday rule...

"Sure" is often written "shure" by those who can't spell or by the terminally clever.

Nice detail photos.

Pastries could be used for snack-size pasties.

Some fine looking work going on here. Good stuff.

Soda bread of the Irish variety uses bicarbonate of soda instead of yeast for leavening.

Just a thought...some of the kits produced in the early '60s are pretty much perfectly scaled renditions of their full size prototypes. It's nothing to do with the "tech" available at the time. The issue with this kit was no-talent tool designers and insufficient management oversight.

I applaud your efforts. I bought several of these kits when I first returned to hobby modeling years ago, having been satisfied with Revell's ability to render lines and proportions correctly on many other kits produced in the 1960s. I've rarely been so disappointed with any kit, being a 356 owner and enthusiast myself. The body shape rendition is almost as bad as anything Palmer ever did, a loose impression of a Speedster done apparently without measuring, by an artist lacking talent. Every time I've taken one out to see what I could do to improve it, I've put it back in the box shaking my head. Pretty much nothing is right. I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do with the thing. I definitely need some inspiration, as I kinda hate to give up on the models if anything reasonably like a Speedster can be achieved without starting from scratch.

"Koolaid" is pretty much nothing but sugar water, with zero nutritional value.

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop of whisky to drink.

You can't buy time.

Christmas spirit seems to me to be more elusive with the passing years.

PM'd