Ace-Garageguy

"Best by Test" was an advertising slogan used by Newhall Gasoline.

Into smithereens is what many models have been smashed by frustrated children.

I believe that was someone else, i pretty well remember who it was, and I'll refrain from announcing who it was just because I'm such a nice guy. EDIT: On another note, I have a package that's been "out for delivery" since 6 AM today, supposedly going to be here by 9 PM. They're kinda running out of time...but it's raining, and everyone knows distances between mailboxes expand dramatically when it rains. For what it's worth, the PO is only 2 miles away, and I would have been more than happy to go get it myself.

Days of Our Lives featured beautiful Coleen Gray back in the mid sixties.

Curse the darkness or set the world on fire; neither solution is really a good one.

Explore the fuzz in your navel for high-adventure without ever leaving the comfort of your living room.

Forehead o' mine seems to take up more surface area with age, so it's only logical to assume I'm becoming an alien.

It's been raining steadily here since early afternoon, and we're already under a flood watch. I'm on high ground, but I expect some older trees to come down as the ground gets saturated next few days.

Watch out for termites. Aw hell...it'll just be a little extra protein. Eat ze bugs.

Very, very nice. I'd like a real one just like it.

If you mean to shoot more clear over what you have and the Molotow...you might want to rethink that.

NOS Westerfield resin HO kit #1101, A-50-4 "Auto car" boxcar. For $5. Production ended in June of this year (2024), and remaining stocks were being offered at about $18 to $35, plus shipping. I've snagged several of these at terrific prices, but this is the best one yet. It builds up into a real beauty. With some effort. (Not my model below, but a "pro built" model that sold for over $200.)

Everything looks great. I'd certainly be satisfied with your results, and I'm a nasty, picky SOB.

"Others" can be easily distinguished from "self" by sticking an icepick in the eye; if it doesn't hurt, it's an "other".

The good news is that, to date, I haven't had any cans of older Tamiya ooze binder and leak propellant like Testors. So hoarded stashes should still be good in a decade or 4.

I still have over 20,000 rolls...you know, just in case...so I'm good there. Maybe I can trade some for Tamiya paint. Oh wait...I'm not in Canada. Never mind.

Primer's not even "necessary" on a real car. You can paint directly over bare steel, dirt, sanding scratches, and bondo if you want your car to look like it was painted by a bunch of drunk monkeys or 5-year-olds. The question is...how much effort are you willing to put into a project to make it look like it was done by a competent adult who had some concept of "quality"?

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, watin' for a train, I was wonderin' why they named a city "Red Stick".

Not to put too fine a point on it, but eBay's management is either 1) grossly incompetent, or 2) they just don't care. I've lodged a couple of complaints in the past where obviously bogus horrible-quality knockoff garbage was being auctioned as genuine. The response was deafening silence...other than an automated bla bla bla response. No action was ever taken against the lying sellers.

Racers who win, and other people involved in actively accomplishing things in reality, develop a sense of focus that keeps the incessant gibbering of the world at bay.

Hmmmmm...I'm just not seeing the "hysteria" part. Could you point it out? I'm kinda slow.

Good site. But beware. There has been a spoofed site using the same name listing vintage train stuff at prices "too good to be true". They take your money and your card info, never ship anything, and try to buy stuff on your card. I haven't checked lately, so they may be history, but I posted a warning here when I almost got suckered on an A-B-A set of custom painted brass Alco PA/PB locomotives.

All that glitters is bling.

In Arizona, adults can buy and use any number of "harmful dangerous deadly OMG OMG OMG!!!" materials in the hardware store. Go across the state border, and getting some stuff like MEK is like trying to buy plutonium. Oddly, Az. doesn't have a whole lot of scary mutants running around. And (partially depending on whose data you parrot) Az. has one of the lowest cancer rates in the nation...lower than Cali according to some statistics, only marginally higher according to others. Go figure.