Ace-Garageguy

Explore the fuzz in your navel for high-adventure without ever leaving the comfort of your living room.

Forehead o' mine seems to take up more surface area with age, so it's only logical to assume I'm becoming an alien.

It's been raining steadily here since early afternoon, and we're already under a flood watch. I'm on high ground, but I expect some older trees to come down as the ground gets saturated next few days.

Watch out for termites. Aw hell...it'll just be a little extra protein. Eat ze bugs.

Very, very nice. I'd like a real one just like it.

If you mean to shoot more clear over what you have and the Molotow...you might want to rethink that.

NOS Westerfield resin HO kit #1101, A-50-4 "Auto car" boxcar. For $5. Production ended in June of this year (2024), and remaining stocks were being offered at about $18 to $35, plus shipping. I've snagged several of these at terrific prices, but this is the best one yet. It builds up into a real beauty. With some effort. (Not my model below, but a "pro built" model that sold for over $200.)

Everything looks great. I'd certainly be satisfied with your results, and I'm a nasty, picky SOB.

"Others" can be easily distinguished from "self" by sticking an icepick in the eye; if it doesn't hurt, it's an "other".

The good news is that, to date, I haven't had any cans of older Tamiya ooze binder and leak propellant like Testors. So hoarded stashes should still be good in a decade or 4.

I still have over 20,000 rolls...you know, just in case...so I'm good there. Maybe I can trade some for Tamiya paint. Oh wait...I'm not in Canada. Never mind.

Primer's not even "necessary" on a real car. You can paint directly over bare steel, dirt, sanding scratches, and bondo if you want your car to look like it was painted by a bunch of drunk monkeys or 5-year-olds. The question is...how much effort are you willing to put into a project to make it look like it was done by a competent adult who had some concept of "quality"?

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, watin' for a train, I was wonderin' why they named a city "Red Stick".

Not to put too fine a point on it, but eBay's management is either 1) grossly incompetent, or 2) they just don't care. I've lodged a couple of complaints in the past where obviously bogus horrible-quality knockoff garbage was being auctioned as genuine. The response was deafening silence...other than an automated bla bla bla response. No action was ever taken against the lying sellers.

Racers who win, and other people involved in actively accomplishing things in reality, develop a sense of focus that keeps the incessant gibbering of the world at bay.

Hmmmmm...I'm just not seeing the "hysteria" part. Could you point it out? I'm kinda slow.

Good site. But beware. There has been a spoofed site using the same name listing vintage train stuff at prices "too good to be true". They take your money and your card info, never ship anything, and try to buy stuff on your card. I haven't checked lately, so they may be history, but I posted a warning here when I almost got suckered on an A-B-A set of custom painted brass Alco PA/PB locomotives.

All that glitters is bling.

In Arizona, adults can buy and use any number of "harmful dangerous deadly OMG OMG OMG!!!" materials in the hardware store. Go across the state border, and getting some stuff like MEK is like trying to buy plutonium. Oddly, Az. doesn't have a whole lot of scary mutants running around. And (partially depending on whose data you parrot) Az. has one of the lowest cancer rates in the nation...lower than Cali according to some statistics, only marginally higher according to others. Go figure.

Besides the "obvious", many studies that were done in the '50s get redone at vast expense by folks who don't bother to look at research done previously, believing that the smartphone generations are so vastly superior to their forebears, nothing in earlier scientific literature could possibly be of any value. And then they often come up with the same results documented more than three-quarters of a century ago.

...but if you're running your AC and lights and wipers and infotainment and charging your phone you might have a problem...and some can't be pushed off the road if the batteries are dead and they're stuck in "park" mode. Some electric vehicles depend on a separate 12V system to disengage the "park" mode (and that 12V battery system can fail), some require a human weight in the driver's seat before they'll allow it to disengage park mode, etc.

"Son, this beating I'm about to give you, that your mother told me to be careful with so your teachers won't see the bruises, is going to hurt me more than it does you" said the loving father as he grinned and snapped his belt.

With six, you get eggroll.

You know, if this is true, some of these rulemakers really need to get lives of their own and quit living for ways to meddle pointlessly in everyone else's.

Amen. AND...many paint brushes intended for use with oils and acrylics will shed their hair and become useless if cleaned with lacquer thinner. Brushes used with acrylics are best cleaned with water before the paint starts to harden, and those used with oils or enamels should be OK if cleaned with turpentine or possibly mineral spirits or specially formulated "brush cleaner"...but as with many things, over-generalizing advice can be counter-productive.