Ace-Garageguy

You can always mix straight "sparkling" or carbonated water in it if you really want something fizzy. https://fitwell.recreation.ucla.edu/file/27a0358b-896a-4c8e-bab9-30b5ad4e51a9

Fuzzy dice aren't often the first choice for shooting craps.

There's ongoing research that looks like excessive or long-term use of any artificial sweeteners may have negative health effects. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/artificial-sweeteners/art-20046936 If you can get in the habit of making a whole-fruit smoothie in a blender, or eating a handful of blueberries or strawberries or just about any fresh fruit instead of drinking a soda, you'll be doing yourself a big favor. Fruit, though naturally sweet, is low in calories and is full of stuff that's actually good for you. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324431 Unfortunately, most commercially processed "fruit juice" is not a good alternative, as it's usually sweetened and stripped of most everything beneficial, like fiber, and is just empty calories.

The results speak for themselves. Congrats for your perseverance and overcoming multiple problems.

Dogs as underwear sounds uncomfortable.

DISCLAIMER: NO REAL VW BEETLES WERE HARMED IN THESE SIMS

Provide food and shelter and care and affection to pets and they're usually appreciative and affectionate in return.

I don't know. IT is not my area of expertise. However, after running the most current Windows and Chrome updates, the real site comes up every time now, not the spoofed one. EDIT: There are several online references to "www.pay-box.in", the origin of the supposed Xfinity email, and it quite obviously has absolutely nothing nada zip zero to do with Xfinity / Comcast...other than being in India, where Xfinity has most of its customer service people. There are some pretty sophisticated hackers all over the planet these days, so who knows.

Nice score. Looks to me like some have squashed roofs / damaged A-pillars. I hope that's not the case.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Oh yeah. That's nice.

FAKE EMAILS supposedly from Comcast / Xfinity going out to "account recovery" emails saying "Your automatic payment was declined bla bla bla" And "your service will be interrupted", but they say "we will temporarily Turned off our service." Anybody see anything wrong with that? Then there's the originating email sender: www.pay-box.in Of course there's the standard "click here, idiot" button to "update your account" that takes you to a spoofed site where they steal your debit card or bank account info. Well see fellers, I don't do autopay. So that's another red flag. And of course I'd never click the moron button. BUT...the new twist is that if you try to go directly to Xfinity from the same browser, they've got some kind of redirect set up that makes the site seem to be inoperative, to try to scare you into going back and clicking the moron button. DON'T DO IT. I used another browser on a different ISP to access the real site and there's no problem. Obviously somebody has hacked Xfinity and has all the "account recovery" emails, so BEWARE.

Crazy is as crazy does.

Really really cool. Double cool. I've always loved this kit, but haven't built one for decades. Time to bump one to the top of the list. Thanks for the inspiro.

Imagine being smart enough to realize you're not as smart as you think you are.

Exactly pi is: 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482...etc., forever...and the fact that it's an irrational as well as transcendental number always struck me as being one of the great cosmic jokes of the universe.

Hmmmmmm...not what I first thought it was. The search continues.

https://www.hopupmagazine.com/blog/2017/6/5/chet-herberts-beast-iv

Kits for meals are available for the simple-life-skills challenged.

Underwhelmed by another Ollie's "score"...the Polar Lights repop of the old Aurora Undertaker dragster kit. I should have looked up some online builds, but I got suckered by the low price and the box art. I should have known better. It looked like at least the front-blown Chrysler 392 and some other parts would be worth the price, but on opening the kit, it looks like the 392 is underscale, the front blower setup seems to be way underscale, and there's not much of anything else I can really use other than possibly the old-school whitewall narrow slicks, rear wheels, and some chassis stuff. The upside is that the intake manifold for the front-blown 392 and possibly the up-pipes from the blower, and maybe the front cover/blower drive, might make a starting point to convert a scale-correct 392 to a front-blown (Potvin?) configuration for something else. Oh well. At least it was cheap. I also picked up a Monogram 1/24 Nomad, just because I'd never had one. I knew exactly what to expect though, because it's just a Nomad body on the old 1/24 Bel Air kit, with sorta Centerline wheels and no-name fat tires. Pretty funny, it looks like people are buying these at Ollies and listing them on feePay for 2 or 3 times what they paid. I'd intended to do a gasser with the Bel Air kit, as the front bumper looks too heavy to me, but removing it for a gasser eliminates that problem. So the Nomad will probably get gasserized too, something like this, but not as silly nosebleed-high. I DO like the illustration though.

There was some interest here last week in old aftermarket hot-rod and 12-port heads for the big old GMC sixes (and similar equipment for the smaller Chevy inlines) from years past, and it kindled my interest as to what's still available info-wise on the web. Information is getting more and more difficult to come by on a lot of old stuff that's "no longer relevant", so I did a search for some primary source material. One of the best things I came up with was this, a NOS 1995 reprint of the 1954 original...and for a fraction of the current asking price all over the interdwerbs.

I like the end result. Very convincing had-a-hard-life beater van. All it needs is "free candy" spray painted on the side.

Oh boy...all this advice. Looks to me like your passes shooting the color or the clear simply didn't overlap sufficiently there in the middle, so there wasn't enough paint to wet out and flow. Try cleaning the panel with 70% isopropyl to get any contaminants from the polish off it, scuff the whole panel, and shoot a couple more coats of clear...paying extra attention to getting good overlap at the edges of each pass with the airbrush. Then colorsand and polish again. That should take care of it. OR, if you feel like living dangerously, try sanding the peel more aggressively with something like 600 wet. If you don't go through the clear, sand up to 3000 or so and polish it. If you do go through the clear, or even all the way to primer, just scuff the whole panel, clean it with iso, and shoot it again. EDIT: Just for credibility, this is what my paint consistently looks like.

Feet and inches are more of those concepts that are unfamiliar to most of a generation.

Go get your patty-melt recipe and put that errant hand in it for a crunchy change of pace...that's tasty. (fixed it for you, Mr. Rich)