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Sorry...there's no magic solution. Just precise control exercised over a variety of tools.

"Betterment" also applies to an insured property, vehicle or other item that is actually in better shape after it's been repaired than it was before whatever kind of "loss" it was subject to.

Yeah, 2WD pickups are kinda useless in snow, even worse in ice, especially if they don't have limited-slip diffs. Neither of my pickups have limited-slip (both bought used) and it simply defies my understanding: why would ANYONE buy a new truck without it?

Always a treat to follow along on these builds of yours.

Poor little car. I lyke heem.

Drive, She Said didn't receive much critical acclaim.

Dead men tell no tales, and they don't wear plaid.

Halloween is derived from the Celtic New Year celebration, Samhain.

Behavior modification by forcing violent offenders to watch images of extreme violence was featured in A Clockwork Orange.

Trust me...it's entirely possible to meet a jerk every day and it not be yoself. At some times in a life, you may need to deal with the same jerk every single day...for a while, anyway. EDIT: Which is why being able to keep your sense of humor while somebody repeatedly jabs you in the eye with a sharp stick is a survival skill.

TMI.

Now, at this point in time, I'm so starved for female companionship, I'd invite Miss Piggy over for dinner.

Being green isn't easy, according to a frog who has a thing for pork.

Maybe kinda like eating an elephant?

Specific gravity doesn't have anything to do with how much you weigh at home as opposed to somewhere else.

Really? Honest? Gee willikers. Who'd a thunk it. Maybe he went to Europe to get a break from the daily. Not everyone has to stay connected 24/7, or take his hobby halfway around the world with him.

Doggone it. You mean they put dates on these things??????

Between the NIMBYs and the politicos and the graft and the grifters, it's amazing anything ever gets done anymore. Oh wait...not much actually does.

Man...what a project. Seeing that brought back so beautifully really made my day. Probably my year, actually.

(That's going to be hard to follow.)

Among a buncha oddball stuff nobody else really wanted...the cool thing here is the diecast plate girder with tapered end sections. If you look close, you'll see there are what appear to be rollers on the underside of the small ends. So this thing was either intended to be a very heavy overhead traveling crane, like you'd see in an engine erecting building, or more likely, a locomotive turntable. Turntables in HO scale long enough to accommodate something like a UP Big Boy, or the experimental Pennsy steam turbine are kinda rare and spendy, but I can cast copies of the straight center sections and make up turntable girders of any length I need, and building the pit, rail, and a drive isn't all that difficult. I'll be needing a heavy overhead traveling crane too, so more copies will furnish that as well. Other stuff included are several diecast "wooden" boxcar doors, helpful to restore some pf the parts-missing rolling stock I've acquired, various small detail parts, and a very nice pair of vintage rubber passenger car diaphragms (that I'll be trying to figure out how to copy). While I have info on making them from folded paper in a few vintage model RR mags, the molded "rubber" ones are much better appearing. Working diaphragms between cars really add a lot to the realistic appearance of a passenger train. These days they're not too expendy in HO scale, but if I can make 'em for a few cents in material per car instead of several dollars, I can have more.

Moar:

Wow. Way cool, but seven grand is a little out of my price range. Still, it looks like a not-too-bad subject for a scratchbuild, using drives and trucks from something, something, and something else. I bees needin' to look into that. Scaleable...

Very nice...but sorry to hear about the line and proportion issues with the kit. Bummer.