Ace-Garageguy

Truth. Period. Solvent glues dissolve the underlying plastic, and fuse with it permanently. Solvent glues do NOT come off.

Player pianos are probably not real familiar to the last couple generations.

High school memories fall into two categories, the best of times and the worst of times; "It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair”.

Puked up a hairball did my kitty.

Picked up a few HO OO scale Hornby English style freight cars in a bunch of other unloved and cheap HO stuff... EDIT: I've been reliably informed these are in fact OO scale, which is slightly larger at 1/76 than HO at 1/87. The wheels are gauged to run on HO track, they're not appreciably wider than most HO scale equipment, so I'll probably fudge running them as background pieces on an HO scale layout, considering the majority of American model railroaders probably won't be all that familiar with old British equipment. EDIT 2: Two-axle freight cars were not uncommon on American narrow-gauge short lines, and though the British cars shown above don't match any American prototypes I've found so far, they're similar in concept...and it's my railroad and I can do what I want. Examples of American 2-axle narrow-gauge cars, below: I also dragged home an unpowered plastic HO (OO?) scale English Rosebud Kitmaster Diesel-Electric "shunter" (a switcher to us), to pull 'em with. It can be powered by one of the small drives I already have. It's a model of a real British locomotive class, quite well detailed for its age. Apparently some of these are still in operation...remarkably long service for locomotives built in the early 1950s through the early '60s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_preserved_British_Rail_Class_08_locomotives All I need now is a plausible backstory as to how British equipment ended up on an American mining/logging short line in the late 1950s.

Detail parts from the aftermarket slathered all over a sloppy model with poor paint and fit won't make it into a first-rate piece.

"Care", as in the verb meaning "to give a da--", can't be taught, and some folks are born without the ability.

Like painted with a dirty pinecone? (AI agrees:) AI Overview Learn more…Opens in new tab You can use a pine cone dipped in paint as a paint brush to add a unique detail to your painting project. To do this, you can: Find a sturdy, unblemished pine cone. Wash the pine cone to remove any dirt or debris

Hopefully unused... EDIT...and what can't be returned will doubtless show up on eBay next time there's an "existential crisis":

"Witch" doesn't necessarily mean a crone with warts, a pointy hat, and a flying broom.

Too be or not too be, ballerina dogs wear to-tos two.

Nights In White Satin still wrenches my heart for love lost, after 53 years.

"Mechanic" ain't what it used to was.

From my perspective, there seem to be problems all over the web cropping up. Sites that have no history of slow-or-never-to-load all of a sudden becoming unusable...stuff like that. But a lot is intermittent. If I were a card-carrying conspiracy theory kinda guy, I might think some of it was intentional. But of course that couldn't possibly be. https://industrialcyber.co/critical-infrastructure/china-linked-hackers-allegedly-target-us-internet-services-in-salt-typhoon-attack/

It just never stops...

"Penny wise and pound foolish" describes a particular kind of financial illogic.

Exciting pastimes like making sculptures from dryer lint pale in comparison to collecting, cataloguing, and mounting navel fuzz. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8084594/Librarian-collects-26-years-of-belly-button-fluff.html

Table tennis would be more interesting played with basketballs.

Impala legs on a chimp would look pretty silly.

Besides the stunning quality of the work, the how-to info is very much appreciated. Wonderful stuff. PS: Are you going to be at the ACME meeting this coming Saturday?

Hanging so bad this AM 11:30 EDT as to be virtually unusable. Photos extremely slow to load, if at all, generally unresponsive, and sometimes the site won't open from a browser. But it's intermittent, as I was able to get in just now through Firefox, while I got timed-out repeatedly on Chrome. PS: it locked up on Firefox, but I was able to get back in on Chrome to re-post this here...

Hanging so bad this AM 11:30 EDT as to be virtually unusable. Photos extremely slow to load, if at all, generally unresponsive, and sometimes the site won't open from a browser. But it's intermittent, as I was able to get in just now through Firefox, while I got timed-out repeatedly on Chrome.

Speak for yourself.

Alabama has some beautiful places.

It probably went past its "best if used by" date, and everyone threw it out.