Ace-Garageguy

Halloween is derived from the Celtic New Year celebration, Samhain.

Behavior modification by forcing violent offenders to watch images of extreme violence was featured in A Clockwork Orange.

Trust me...it's entirely possible to meet a jerk every day and it not be yoself. At some times in a life, you may need to deal with the same jerk every single day...for a while, anyway. EDIT: Which is why being able to keep your sense of humor while somebody repeatedly jabs you in the eye with a sharp stick is a survival skill.

TMI.

Now, at this point in time, I'm so starved for female companionship, I'd invite Miss Piggy over for dinner.

Being green isn't easy, according to a frog who has a thing for pork.

Maybe kinda like eating an elephant?

Specific gravity doesn't have anything to do with how much you weigh at home as opposed to somewhere else.

Really? Honest? Gee willikers. Who'd a thunk it. Maybe he went to Europe to get a break from the daily. Not everyone has to stay connected 24/7, or take his hobby halfway around the world with him.

Doggone it. You mean they put dates on these things??????

Between the NIMBYs and the politicos and the graft and the grifters, it's amazing anything ever gets done anymore. Oh wait...not much actually does.

Man...what a project. Seeing that brought back so beautifully really made my day. Probably my year, actually.

(That's going to be hard to follow.)

Among a buncha oddball stuff nobody else really wanted...the cool thing here is the diecast plate girder with tapered end sections. If you look close, you'll see there are what appear to be rollers on the underside of the small ends. So this thing was either intended to be a very heavy overhead traveling crane, like you'd see in an engine erecting building, or more likely, a locomotive turntable. Turntables in HO scale long enough to accommodate something like a UP Big Boy, or the experimental Pennsy steam turbine are kinda rare and spendy, but I can cast copies of the straight center sections and make up turntable girders of any length I need, and building the pit, rail, and a drive isn't all that difficult. I'll be needing a heavy overhead traveling crane too, so more copies will furnish that as well. Other stuff included are several diecast "wooden" boxcar doors, helpful to restore some pf the parts-missing rolling stock I've acquired, various small detail parts, and a very nice pair of vintage rubber passenger car diaphragms (that I'll be trying to figure out how to copy). While I have info on making them from folded paper in a few vintage model RR mags, the molded "rubber" ones are much better appearing. Working diaphragms between cars really add a lot to the realistic appearance of a passenger train. These days they're not too expendy in HO scale, but if I can make 'em for a few cents in material per car instead of several dollars, I can have more.

Moar:

Wow. Way cool, but seven grand is a little out of my price range. Still, it looks like a not-too-bad subject for a scratchbuild, using drives and trucks from something, something, and something else. I bees needin' to look into that. Scaleable...

Very nice...but sorry to hear about the line and proportion issues with the kit. Bummer.

Words can never hurt me, but sticks and stones can cause grievous bodily harm.

Looks very good, and I bought one to torture myself with after seeing your WIP, which is most helpful. Builders like you who post WIPs, especially on difficult kits that don't go together easily, are the best resource on this site.

"Personality" used to be what folks said the 400 pound zitty horse-faced girl with the pig-nose and webbed fingers had to compensate for her lack of looks, but today we're not s'posed to judge appearance.

Friendamine gave me some stuff called Patriot Flex Roll On some years back, said she'd tried it and it worked for her. Mr. Skeptical me poo-pooed it, until one day my hands were so bad I tried it. Didn't knock the pain all the way out, but man, it sure as h. dulled it. Definitely enough so I could work. Kinda smells like the old Vicks VapoRub or Ben-Gay. Been using it the past coupla days and it still does the job. Anyway, apparently they don't make it any more, but it worked so well that Mr. Prudent me laid in a supply back then that ought to last for years at the rate I use it. I keep some at home, in my toolboxes at both shops, and take a bottle when I travel.

Winter just isn't winter without snow.

Products that used to be made in the good ol' USA are now mostly made elsewhere.

Most interesting. I like the beads "rolled" into the roof filler panel. Are you planning to use the QC center section with IRS?

"1" used to be widely touted by a certain car company as the job-number assigned to "quality".