Ace-Garageguy

That's the way I took it, sir. "Be careful what you wish for" is always good advice.

Prophet-seekers might want someone to predict the best way to make piles of money.

I wish I had known at 18 what I know now about human nature.

A citation from the county code enforcement. Seems an anonymous Karen has nothing better to do than to count the cars in my driveway, and complain. First time in 10 years there's been an issue, and it's not like there's an HOA, or like this is a particularly "nice" neighborhood, or like I'm the only one within a block who's in multiple code violations too. Not hard to comply, no big deal...but it's just one more reason for me moving to a part of the country where neighbors are far away and mind their own business. My property out West is zoned commercial including being grandfathered in for mechanical and body/paint on cars, and it's where a man's home is still pretty much his castle anyway, and he can do what he dammmm well pleases on his own land.

Factory options are where car manufacturers make a lot of their profit.

Free Willy.

Achieve long-term goals by doing a little every day, and remember that doing anything, no matter how small or trivial seeming, is much better than doing nothing.

Climate change...

Day to day responsibilities should be balanced with progress towards long-term goals.

Man...country fried steak and a hot buttered biscuit is a pretty satisfying breakfast on a cold crisp morning at the farm.

Desert Desserts would be a good name for a sweet-shop in the Southwest.

Never put off til tomorrow what you can just not do at all.

Don't feed the bears.

Think for yourself.

"Vary" sounds like "very".

Puppets abound, because when one has no use for independent reasoning, dancing to the whims of the string-pullers is the result.

Bee stings aren't on my list of favorite things.

There's no substitute for cubic inches. There's no such thing as 'too much power'. You can always throttle back. Size matters. Bigger isn't always better. It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. 42

Dinosaurs like me will all be extinct in not that much longer, so all the little fellas who can't do anything without an app can fix everything that they perceive to be wrong with civilization soon enough.

If everyone lived by the Golden Rule, we could pretty much dispense with the rest of the rules.

Here's one: the Dunning-Kruger effect is real, and anyone who denies it is probably suffering from it.

"Believe nothing that you hear, and only half of what you see". Not original, but pretty much on point. With the advent of AI-driven "deep fakes", you might want to question everything you see on the web too.

Yup, I was wrong. It's got the 5-bladed prop. I have a rusty brain or eyeballs, apparently.

For the smaller scales, I personally think it's overkill. BUT...it kinda depends on how good your vision is, how good your lighting is, whether you use magnification when color-sanding, and how rough or slick you can get your primer. The full-scale shop I work with that consistently turns out world-class paint, even on collision repairs, uses guide-coat on everything.

Yeah, I was going to suggest doing one in 1/24. The Airfix kits aren't too expensive, and I'm pretty sure somebody made a 1/24 resin Griffon. EDIT: Nope. https://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?/topic/33844-is-there-a-good-r-r-griffon-engine-in-132-or-124/ EDIT 2: The 1/32 scale Matchbox Mk 22/24 Spitfire has a Griffon with contra-rotating props. Either use that as a reference to scratchbash wotcher need in 1/24, or get the right Mk. P-51 in 1/32 and have at it.