Ace-Garageguy

Subject yourself to challenges that will grow your skills and ideas that will broaden your worldview.

The Galaxie '46 Chevy kits, at least two of 'em, have some Wayne speed equipment and decals...probably the sedan delivery has the decals. EDIT 2: The "Wayne" was for Wayne Horning, so Horning heads are closely related, and the Fisher is an offshoot of the Wayne/Horning tooling. There are two different trick heads in the AMT '51 Chevy kits, and I used to know which was what, but I've forgotten. EDIT: The Fisher 12-port head in the AMT '51 Chevy hardtop is pretty much the same as the Wayne 12-port IIRC. Here's more...

THANK YOU for the great photos.

VIDEO OF EMPTY STARLINER UNDOCKING FROM THE ISS EARLIER TODAY Watch close (and listen to the commentary) and you can see the thrusters firing from the service module.

Pretty much. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram-of-CST-100-Starliner_with_labels.png The labels are in French bit the meanings and functions are obvious...or if not, run them through Google Translate. Moar: https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2022/03/15/cst-100-starliner-infographics/ More moar, specifically how it all works: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57971910

Lookit all them purty kellors.

"Motors" is a term that's come to refer primarily to devices that turn electrical energy into mechanical motion, but the term is often applied to "engines" that turn heat into mechanical motion as well. (SEE: rat motor, mouse motor, all motor, etc.)

Make mine a double bourbon, straight, beer back.

I think this is the way to go, though adding some non-transparent red might work too. Tangerines in the wild have a reddish cast.

Model. I was responding to the mention of the "MPC Stutz". I should have been more clear. As you say, the two cars are visually similar enough to achieve the same effect.

"Males" is another of those simple words that's become potentially "triggering" and can get you in deep...stuff.

Mmm mmm good. Just had a fat Boar's Head Black Forest Smoked Ham sandwich on crusty rye with a nutty Kerrygold Irish Swiss cheese, lotsa mayo, a little Coleman's hot English mustard, some fresh cracked black pepper, a dill pickle spear, a scoop of deli "southern style" potato salad...and a Yuengling "traditional lager". Life is fine. Amazingly, I'm not dead yet. Maybe tomorrow.

Not necessarily even then.

Beautiful beautiful. I want one.

It may have been mentioned before, but Tamiya has several nice silver lacquers for a base, and transparent orange, red, and yellow lacquers that should get you to "tangerine" with some experimentation.

Equation-solving can be fun if you're lucky enough to have math teachers who understand their subject well enough to be able to explain things simply and logically, and can show examples of how something seemingly esoteric and mysterious is useful in the real world; unfortunately, many math teachers who are very good mathematicians are poor teachers.

Thanks for posting the photo. I bought one of those not having any real plan for what to do with it. I think I know now.

Exactly. I AM going to buy some on the way home this PM for my lunch sandwiches.

Need to getcha some rechargeable Ds, and a solar charger. I have solar chargers for every kind of battery I own, just "in case".

And they often want to pay 'em $15 per hour when the shop is billing well in excess of $200 in some cases. I made really good money way back in the days when mechanics and bodymen got 50% of the hourly billed. I could always "beat the book" by a significant margin, always did quality work, and never had comebacks. And I always stood my ground and made sure we billed if a job ran over "flat rate" due to unforeseen damage, etc. But a lot of service writers and managers and estimators were afraid of the customers and insurance companies, and wouldn't up-charge them when it was legitimate. And then shops started chipping away at the percentage they paid mechanics and bodymen. That's the reason I quit the "service" end of the business after I learned welding and fabrication and machine work and everything else that goes with restoration and race-car prep and full builds. I work as a self-employed subcontractor now, in some cases getting significantly more than 50% of what the shop bills. Pay me what I'm worth, or get some bubble-gum welder who spends most of the day on his phone anyway, and generates mostly comebacks 'cause nothing he does is right. The two jobs I'm finishing up now will be the last client jobs I'll ever do in somebody else's shop, and frankly, I never intended to even do these.

Not all of us.

Clocks that are round and have hands pointing to numbers are beyond the comprehension of an entire generation.

All true, but mention it and you inevitably get shouted down by "everything today is way mo better than ever before" types.

Based on your recommendation, I'm going to try it. If it works great, great. I used some big-box metallic gold (I forget the brand) a while back to do some Olds 303 valve covers (1/25), and once I figured out how to spray it, it looked quite good. Come to think of it, I shot the engine with a big can of green, and it looked pretty good too, just about the right color for that particular engine. Photo below before I stripped the valve covers for a redo, but not bad. Big ol' cans of consumer-grade paint can have a place in quality modeling, but you need to be aware of their limitations, and learn when and where and how to use them to best advantage.

Foods like donuts and bonbons and chips and ice cream and Oreos and sugar-coated breakfast cereal and pizza and pasta eaten constantly will guarantee you'll live to a ripe old age in perfect health, at the peak of physical fitness with no excess poundage, so don't buy in to all that silliness about a "healthy diet and exercise" being good for you.