Ace-Garageguy

The constant tinkering continues to destroy aspects of functionality that have been standard...and worked just fine...for many years, from search functions to display options. Best analogy I can think of is some clueless "mechanic" who has no idea of how a carburettor or EFI works in the first place, but beats on it and twists screws and changes settings mindlessly, actually believing he's making it "better" just by "working on it", and eventually gets to the point where the car won't go down the road without bucking, spitting, coughing, and stalling.

Finally just bit the bullet and bought another NOS one of these Walthers Blast Furnace kits in HO scale. Last one I bought cost about half what this one did, and in the meantime they were re-released and sold out again. Anyway, now I have two, to keep each other company. Even though they're very big kits, they're on the small side for blast-furnaces of the period I'll be modeling, so one of them will be getting kitbashed into a larger, newer version. They'll never get any cheaper than what I paid for this last one (identical to the one below), and if Walthers releases another run, they'll surely be more expensive. At this point I have just about everything I need to get a good start on modeling an integrated steel mill complex with two blast furnaces...except the blower house kit. It's very rare, and a fairly simple though large building, not too difficult to scratchbuild.

One of these, 'cause I need the wheel covers to pull molds from for a Duesenberg hot rod... ...and to hackbash into this: https://www.classicandsportscar.com/features/meet-unique-rolls-royce-phantom-ii-continental-thinks-its-hot-rod

Injured my rt. knee somehow, no idea how. It's swollen about 30% larger than the other one, hurts like jell to extend if fully. I can walk OK with a little limp, so it's not as bad as it could be...but it's just weird. Alternating heat and cold, a light wrap, intermittent massage, trying to stay off it mostly, but moving around enough to insure blood flow. Really bites because I have actual physical work I HAVE to get done if I'm ever going to get out of here. Mystery injuries suck.

Years may come and years may go, but supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is forever.

Speaking of evocative smells...any of you fellers remember this stuff?

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Burros roam the streets of an Az. town called Oatman.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Interesting guy...

Great story, cool build.

"Posting" while riding a trotting horse is more comfortable for both the rider and the horse, a much better outcome than posting drivel on the web.

Very nice. Always interesting to see other creative outlets, especially those having to do with the history of humans making things.

Dream big dreams, then develop the skills and work hard to make them reality.

Hive-mindedness is when someone accepts and participates in groupthink, and generally lacks much in the way of individual critical-thinking, often defying reason and rationality and rejecting empirical evidence that's contrary to the chosen group's point of view.

"Stinks" is in the olfactory receptors of the beholder.

Thank you very much, sir.

There are proportion issues, as there with almost all the '34 Ford kits ever offered. Value is what anybody is willing to pay for it on any given day. The "double" kit is quite "collectible" if it's complete in a good box, and can make a nice pair of very evocative period models if built.

If you put him in a hole, you have classic English cuisine.

Buncha lottery tickets and burger wrappers/boxes thrown out by passing fellas who assumed, I guess, that I needed more waste cellulose fiber to brew up a batch of methanol fuel. Real considerate if you ask me.

Looking good. Interesting that kit apparently comes with the blobular molded-in-rear-axle chassis, as IIRC, the regular 5-window coupe is one of the AMT '32s that has a separate rear axle. Are the wheels-tires-engine shown on the box-art included in the kit?

Screeded some Tamiya white putty into the pinholes on the new f'glass decklid for my Sock It To Me M/SP Corvette. Pretty exciting, eh?

Kinda funny how the doom-n-gloomers have been bleating about the bottom falling out of the classic car market. Maybe for the 3rd or 4th string cars, but the top-end cars tend to hold value pretty well ...most of the time, sorta.

Maybe it was to cover the stench of rotting meat in the food. That is, after all, the oft-cited reason behind the development of elaborate French sauces.