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Though the names have been changed to protect the innocent, I suspect this is part of the previously unreleased backstory of Sarah-n-Tuned's penguin sidekick.

So far same-old same-old...but nothing worth complaining about.

The pushbutton shifter quadrant can pretty much only be high-end early '60s Mopar. I found a matching image that says it's a '61 Imperial, though '62 and '63 seem to be very similar. The '63 wheel is different.

Studebaker Avanti. Studebaker used gauges supplied by Stewart Warner in several car lines. I prefer the engine-turned fascia of the older Hawks.

Side with people who share your values, or if you're a sheep, change your values to go along with the crowd.

Merrilly merrilly merrilly merrilly, life is but a dream...so row your boat.

Is that the reason...oh, never mind.

Sequels and prequels and remakes, oh my; sequels and prequels and remakes, oh my...

Choose wisely your significant other, because the wrong one can make your life a living nightmare.

Pea emmided.

Another smokin' hot deal...15 HO scale Proto 2000 freight car kits for less than $6 each. These normally go for between about $25, delivered, to over $50...each. I needed several "drop end mill gondolas" for the steel mill, and the eight in this lot ought to do it. The covered hoppers are perfect for limestone delivery to the mill, and there's always a need for boxcars everywhere. These kits are very very nice, definitely "foreground" material, and would be skill level 5 if they were car models because of the intricate detail and fragile parts. Today's other score was a vintage NOS Walthers HO scale Santa Fe work train #2 multi-kit, sealed inside, consisting of 6 cars including a 25-ton crane. These go for about $100 to over $200 (delivered) if you can find one, though I paid a small fraction of that. I'd recently acquired a NOS silver SF MOW bunk car too, so I have a pretty complete work train to sit on a siding, along with a couple of snow plows, bigger cranes, and fire cars waiting for trouble. Other items in the lot are a sadly incomplete AHM 1/38 model of the Trevithick 1804 steam loco, and a nice little NOS Berkshire Valley HO white metal track speeder/tool trailer kit, complete.

Online banking and banking by phone (mobile banking) aren't the same thing, and it's an important distinction.

It always seems I rarely get around to most of the projects I'd really like to do.

Cool project. Really changes the character of a car I've always kinda liked but was never hog-wild about. There are a lot of subtle differences between the rendering and the Revell body though. It even looks mildly sectioned and chopped from my perspective.

Man oh man...whassa matter with people? Some of those tires look way better than what I'm driving on.

Never get tired of seeing this one. Staggeringly fine.

Depending on the scale you're working in, small diameter insulated wire is usually much easier to find and work with than tubing, and once installed, nobody ever knows it's not tubing.

Beautiful, beautiful model. It's always a real treat to see anything from you.

Color inside the lines at all times, because any straying into unfamiliar or unorthodox or original territory will be seen as undesirable and dangerous anti-social behavior, and will be dealt with severely.

5 HO scale ore cars nicely built up from Tichy kits, for less than $5 each including shipping. It was kindof a roll of the dice, but they turned out to look much better than the photo. One truck is loose, and there's a little damage to one truss rod post that has been glooed in a ham-handed "repair" attempt, but a little quick work will fix both of 'em nicely. And a pretty decent deal on a vintage HO scale Campbell Norm's Landing pier "craftsman" kit, for about 1/2 the usual asking price.

Process kitchen waste, lawn clippings, and other organic matter into fertilizer in a compost pile; even fireplace ash can be useful, but be careful of ash that may contain heavy metals or other toxins.

See the video on full-scale sheetmetal panel alignment (welding) clamps on the thread below. It's essentially the same idea, scaled down, with a spring instead of a screw.

Supercool. I'll be making a few of those, fer shure.

Nice build, cool story. I would have liked Rex.

It's a Belchfire Horrimobile ZX-Pugugly.