Ace-Garageguy

In the paint sector, it goes like this. Brands like Testors, Floquil, PollyScale, and several others were started as small businesses many years back, aimed directly at the model market, often BY modelers, in a time when businesses worked on the idea that if you make a good product, the money will come, and massive profit wasn't the primary goal. These smaller entities were absorbed over time by much larger companies, and recently Testors was gobbled up by Rustoleum, the same company that absorbed...and killed...both Floquil and PollyScale, loved by model railroaders. "In 2013, Testors discontinued the popular Floquil and PollyScale paints that had long been a staple of any model railroader’s workbench." "Founded in the 1930s by Nils Testor in Rockford, Ill., Testors’ glue and paint products have been a staple of the hobby industry for generations." Rustoleum is a manufacturer of a confused line of products aimed at the general DIY market, and apparently nobody in management knows or cares enough about the model market to continue producing products that probably contribute only a miniscule profit to their bottom line, so they kill them off...which kinda makes one wonder WHY they bought them in the first place. But according to Testors management, it's all OUR fault. "Spokesperson Vince Pierri said that demand for the discontinued brands has been on the decline for a number of reasons including aging demographics, (and) less interest among younger audiences." (But) "we will continue to support the hobby market with a robust line of aerosols, brush paints, tools and accessories and are always looking for opportunities to innovate in these categories,” he said. "Innovate"? Really? You already had the only buffing metalizer aerosol product on the market, as "innovative" as it gets, and you kill it. SOURCE: https://rrmodelcraftsman.com/testors-discontinues-popular-lines-of-model-paint/#:~:text=Testors has decided to discontinue,focus more on other products.

Crisp bacon sizzling on top of a big ol' greasy burger is heaven to many carnivores.

Sterling silver is worth more than dirt.

And an AI-equipped robot to put it together for them...and paint will be illegal.

PM'd

Monday can be a fun day if you love your work.

If I play, I'll most likely do a curbside of my '89 GMC longbed daily. She looks like something that shouldn't run, with the typical self-stripping GM waterbase fleet white from the late 1980s, which green moss has apparently developed a taste for. Where the paint is down to the primer, surface rust is coming through, and after a ditzy chick ran a light in front of me, the virgin bodywork isn't any more. The upholstery on what's left of the bench seat is a fender cover and a pink bath towel...but she has a brand new windshield and 4 fat M&S blackwall radials. It should be interesting trying to do her appearance justice.

Beautiful airplane, beautiful model, really cool Dad too.

Don't. Never put lacquer over enamel...and if you just HAVE to try it, DON'T do it on a model. TEST TEST TEST TEST and TEST SOME MORE.

Music playing innocently in the background on a YT video can trigger copyright-violation reports by Karens who believe it's their mission in life to tell the teacher when anyone does something baaaaaaad, whether anything is the least bit negatively-impacted or not.

Do as I say, because I'm in a position of unearned authority, and it makes me feel important to tell people how to behave...especially when they have no power to fight back.

After seeing Can Con's post about modding a Ford to look more like the big Caddy, and pulling up some photos of the Caddy...with even exhaust port spacing and a front-mounted distributor...it kinda seems to me the hot setup would be to lightly massage a Ford and see if you can score a set of the Caddy valve covers from an Eldo. EDIT: Maybe...but I certainly have not researched this enough to really give any advice here, and I know essentially nothing about that generation of Caddy engine.

What about the supposed 472 in the later model Johan Caddys? I honestly can't recall the straight scoop on that one right off hand...

Quandaries be like "is the moon really made of gas like we were told last week, or is that just hot air?"

2 packages from the same supplier, similar sizes and weights, both shipped on May 1 at the same time at the same PO...one of them has arrived at my local PO to be delivered tomorrow, one is wending its way across the country. Nobody can tell me this is because of "logistics" that I'm too dense to comprehend.

Feeling frustrated can be perfectly justified, but stamping your feet, screaming, and smashing things like a giant out-of-control baby isn't the way to deal with anger, it does nothing to alleviate whatever is causing you stress, and only makes you look like a an immature fool.

Drums and cans from Wespe in 1/24 resin, now on sale... https://www.wespemodels.com/military_models/military_models_scale_1_24/scale_1_24_diorama_accessories/drums_set_wes_24002

Good looking model. I'd like to have a 1:1 just like it as a daily.

What's this "TV" you speak of?

Day in, day out, it's usually mostly the same old stuff, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

Live long and prothper.

Regulations are often the province of tiny minds who think we're all as stupid and helpless and as prone to poking ourselves in the eyes with chopsticks as they are. (...and it's against the law to do that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Saw this one as a WIP. Good looking result. I'd like to build something full-scale in the same flavor.

"Released" is what you hope your mold has done when you try to remove your newly-cast parts.

Up the Down Staircase was a novel published in 1964, made into a movie in '67.