Ace-Garageguy

Yup. SOP for everything-I-do.

Anyone want fries with that?

Sorry to hear about your health issue, and applause for your attitude towards finding a way to continue doing what you obviously enjoy very much in spite of it. I have no experience with using "safe" materials, other than using PVA glue to hold clear parts in place, which I've found to be entirely adequate if sufficient drying time is given. Best wishes and good luck to you.

Yeah, I've yet to see a chromed engine block on a real car...though somebody's surely done it.

Wait; there's more.

Yup, we're all different. I'd build myself a nice little big fab shop and build everything I've been working towards building since I saw my first cars and airplanes. I have all the skills, but at the moment, nowhere to build anything of my own...and I'm getting kinda short on time.

Words with hyphens can be tricky, and I've asked the same question here, but I think in the context of this game either choice would be acceptable.

Soon enough we'll all be worm-food.

Coming together very nicely.

"Foot Size Hankies" on the label probably wouldn't engender sales though...

Ann, unfortunately, just happened to be a man.

Fran San Cisco may have been the Cisco Kid's estranged little sister, but there's still no consensus among the genealogical community.

Low 80s, moderate humidity, no rain forecast but it kinda looks like it's thinking about it, and radar shows sprinklege in Charleston slowly heading this way...in the opposite direction that weather usually travels in. Last week was the coolest early August I can recall here since 1969, and the upcoming week calls for more of the same. But that's OK. I understand it's cooler because it's actually hotter, and I'm delusional.

Pretty fine piece of work...

Lately some things have gone up in smoke, but other things are working just fine, thanks...and I think I have a plan.

Last time I went to the "antique mall" where I'd been scoring a lot of old HO scale railroad cars and kits, all they had was O and a little S scale tinplate stuff. Little voice told me to drop in Wednesday, and they'd just restocked a bunch of HO. Not the goldmine of "craftsman kits" I'd cleaned out earlier, but I picked up a few nice old pieces, like a full-train set of Varney AeroTrain kits, mostly unbuilt, unmolested. Not cheap, but easily worth what I paid. The real AeroTrain was an experiment built by GM in the mid 1950s to test new ideas in moving commuters by rail. The passenger cars were widened GM bus bodies riding on special railroad trucks. Two were built and evaluated by several railroads in regular service, but didn't make it to production. They were said to ride "hard", attributed to their very light weight compared to traditional passenger cars. The newly-designed suspension system could have been developed further to fix that, but it didn't happen. IIRC, both full-scale trainsets still exist, in non-running condition with no engines. I also brought home a few Ambroid and other "craftsman" kits, plus some vintage built-up freight cars.

I agree.

This is another of Atlantis's semi-repops of Revell's double kits from the 1960s that were made up from the then-current parts packs. So...yes...it has a lot of extra parts. The extra engine is a 427 Ford, which can be built either blown/injected, or with two 4bbl carbs. The Ford engine is this parts-pack kit tree, not chromed:

"Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored" Aldous Huxley Nor do facts cease to exist even in the face of "scientific consensus".

"Models" is one of those words that excites little Googli's not-too-bright ad algorithms and AI, so they force risqué material to appear all over the thread you're viewing.

WHOOPEE!!!!!! Turns out the power strip I had the desktop, its monitor, and the landline phone base-unit on WAS surge-protected, and it valiantly gave its life to save the machines that relied on it from the electrical debacle yesterday. All three work 100%. Before giving it a decent burial with full military honors, I think I'll take it apart so as to better understand just exactly HOW it fried... Unfortunately, the power strip the vintage high-end stereo amp was on was just a power strip. The power strip survived, but the amp is toast (maybe repairable if it's only the power-supply section)... I've located a brandy-new Sony unit with similar power and all the inputs and outputs I need locally, for not insane money, but I seriously doubt it'll last as long or sound as good as the dead one.

So far no particular irks yet today, but I'm just about to change the fried power strip for a new one with surge-protection and try to fire up the desktop and its big monitor and the landline base-unit, so all that may change momentarily... Fried tofu strips won't work either:

Since a Duster is basically the same car as a Demon, and as both kits are supposedly 1/25 scale, either engine should fit either kit relatively easily. BUT...different tooling designers may have "interpreted" things like engine and trans mounts somewhat differently, so some minor rework is likely to be required. Here's more...

Yup, and I should have known better, but the odds against a damaging surge coming in are pretty slim, and the odds against the neutral cable breaking at the transformer connection are astronomical. Needless to say, I've just today replaced everything with surge-protected strips, and found some at Best Buy that address the neutral wire specifically.