Ace-Garageguy

Very nicely done.

One old rule-of-thumb when I was painting dinosaurs with lacquer was "the right viscosity is about like skim milk". After a while it became second nature to thin paint products correctly, and I could even "hear" from the sound of drops leaving the stir stick hitting the paint in the cup, and tell if I needed more thinner. Today, with most professional refinish products requiring quite accurate mixing using graduated containers, there's little to no guesstimation. But the OP's problem is yet another reminder why we harp on TEST ON SOMETHING OTHER THAN A MODEL to figure out what you need to do to get a good finish with a specific product or equipment. And believe me, though I've been painting real stuff, expensive stuff, for more than 5 decades, when I shoot anything on real cars today I sure as h. don't go in the booth and start blowing paint without first dialing in the gun for whatever material I'm using...on a scrap test panel. EDIT: most excellent splellchuck has never heard of "scrap" and wants it to be scarp or scrape or scrip. It doesn't like "dialing" either. How do the people that program this garbage get jobs?

Understanding of the physical world, things like exactly HOW electricity is generated, is way beyond many folks, and things that used to be "common knowledge" are now arcane.

Yup, a lot of truth in that, and one more reason I'm really beginning to despise eBay. It's maddening to have to dig through idiot listings that have pretty much nothing to do with a search...and it's not just car parts. Whoever designed how their search interprets search criteria and displays results pretty obviously knows nothing about anything.

I had a very productive week in one shop, so I decided to take the day off. Got to the woods early in the cool, hiked at least 4 miles. Then went to HobbyTown on the way home, bought a couple of recent production 1/25 truck kits. And then I stopped at a big indoor flea/antique market and found a bunch of vintage HO-scale model train kits (the ones that take effort and skill) for CHEAP. Fixing to have a braunschweiger and Swiss sandwich on crusty rye, with big fat juicy heirloom tomato slices. Best Saturday I've had in a long, long time.

Doors of cars slammed on little fingers "accidentally" might tend to make some children wary of adults.

If only there was a phone app for turn signals. You could work them while texting and never take your eyes off the screen.

Yup. It works very well for some kinds of competition. But I've never found it to be a problem on the street. I've been driving my recently acquired slushbox Blazer a lot recently, and left-foot-braking is as natural to me as driving anything with a stick. EDIT: I don't mean to sound like I'm all-so-hot-stuff. I'm just stating fact.

Sequestered jurors are still often subject to influences that may unduly influence their decisions.

Story of my life lately...often just can't get the good stuff and the stuff you can get is junk.

Released criminals who do more crime are called "recidivists".

I took these shots with a 4-megapixel 18-year-old Nikon that can be found used for around $20. It has 3X (called "power", not "times" like everyone says) optical zoom. I used a tripod I got at a thrift store for $15. The Nikon photo editing suite for a computer is free.

"Thought" about anything serious or difficult is never practiced by the majority of the population.

Away with you, infidel, and never return to the kingdom of dirt floors and mud soup !!!

Here come the unicorns, vomiting rainbows.

Hay-make today while the sun shines.

I like 'em all too...and Irish, bourbon, rye, vodka, gin, tequila... I pretty much never met a drink I didn't like including saki and grappa. Just depends on the mood I'm in, what I'm doing, who I'm with, or what the meal is. Oban 14 is my current favorite at home after-work one-and-done.

The Packard Hawk looks as much like the car in the photo as this looks like this...

Sounds like "dry spray". Possible causes: 1) Insufficient thinning; 2) air pressure too high; 3) shot from too far away; 4) paint passes too fast; 5) excessively hot air temp with very low humidity; 6) any or all of the above in combination

"Method acting" involves stabbing yourself so you "feel the pain"...unless it doesn't.

So far today no irkage at all...but give it time...

Indeed.

"Typo" is the number one reason most of my posts are edited.

Be all you can be, and don't let small minded, scared people hold you back.

Let me guess where it was made...