Ace-Garageguy

Numbers are hard.

Much Ado About Nothing, if written today, would probably be better titled Much Doo-doo About Nothing.

"Thoughts" are an alien concept to a large part of the public, those to whom mindless rebleating is life itself.

Good grief, Charlie Brown !!

The doves around here tend to nest quite low to the ground, and very few young seem to survive being cat-lunch, whereas the sparrows and finches and wrens and mockingbirds and bluebirds and others that nest high in the trees are doing just fine.

Over the years, I've seen a few guys do truly stellar builds of the old Monogram Kurtis, and it's the car I remember seeing still racing at Indy when I first became aware. Kurtis cars (and the similar Watson and Kuzma cars) dominated their classes for a long time, and I've wanted to build several of the "big cars" from this Monogram roadster and the smaller short-track "sprint" cars (using the 1/20-or-so Monogram "midget" as a starting point). I've amassed a fair pile of upgrade parts, like the old Chris Etzel Offy engines, and various flavors of Halibrand wheels and better tires with correct offset treads, etc. and books. Still a lot of research to go, but these cars are some of my real top-line priorities once I get settled out West in a few more months.

Got a coupla these, sealed, at prices too good to pass up considering the stupid money some folks are asking now. Bought another one of these too, with a PE set. Again, too cheap to let go, and I LOVE these kits.

Software incompatibility issues between old hardware (2006 camera) and old software (Nikon photo-editing suite running under Win7) where unasked-for "updates" sneaked in without my knowledge, apparently during the few minutes the old computer was online with the firewall disabled. Took all morning to manually delete the "updates" so I could get on with my billing. Man, I sure wish all the IT dweebils would leave stuff alone THAT WORKS JUST FINE. Again, undoing some numbnutz ideas of what's "better" so I can get on with my own work.

Yup. Dove soup. Mourning doves are just about the stupidest birds on the planet. Beautiful, but stupid.

Night frights, sometimes brought about by PTSD, can cause even grown men to wake up screaming.

PM'd

Wills shouldn't be put off until the last minute, and most states recognize inexpensive DIY versions if you can read the instructions and fill in the blanks, and that's a whole lot better than nothing.

Crank calls were what the phone was for before telemarketers.

I think they'll look great. Most period shots of the real car show wheels that are pretty obviously polished aluminum or magnesium, not chrome, so either dulling that shine or stripping them and going Alclad or Testors buffing metalizer should give you the right look. I realize you're not building the SWC car as-was, but those wheels/tires just look so right on it...

Couple o' hamsters will make about a thousand more in a year or so.

Yup. So I have to give feePay points for having intelligent US-based English speakers as live agents...but they sure don't make it easy to connect with one. Unfortunately, being prevented from bidding on two items that were WAY under market value cost me quite a few bucks, assuming I can't find equally good deals...which I probably never will. There is, of course, no recourse for that. Nor is my 21-year perfect record untarnished. It will always show several "non-payment strikes" that were successfully "appealed"...which just isn't the same as having them go away...and all for something I WASN'T GUILTY OF. And THAT'S what chaps me the most.

"Amsterdam" is how people who drop the aitch pronounce Hamsterdam.

On the phone with a live rep, trying to get this mess sorted. ON HOLD We will see. ON HOLD So far I'm having to be kinda pushy to get ALL the strikes resolved, as they don't all show on the agent's end for some reason. EDIT: SEEMS to be fixed, 20 minutes invested. Very helpful and professional live agent, in the US, speaking perfect English. Pity the rest of their system doesn't function as well.

Celibate or unrepentant satyr, you'll find that translations of nuclear physics texts into Swahili and Somali aren't generally big sellers.

Well, it's not what I thought it was, but I know I've seen it somewhere...

Bill developed coping mechanisms over the years.

"Summer Madness" from 1974 is still one of my mostest favoritist tracks ever.

That, sir, is really cool. Very nice work. Soon as I get settled in Az., I'm going hunting for one of those engines (real) and a 5-speed to stuff in the middle of a gen1 MR2.

I'm wondering if you're not confusing it with the B-26 Marauder (often also confused with the A-26 Invader AKA B-26, but a different B-26). The early B-26 Marauder, which looks kinda like the A-20, had a high wing loading that made it "hot" to land (high speed required to maintain control). B-26 Marauder: The A20 (also known as the "Boston" by British operators) was noted for its handling ease and responsiveness. Quoting wikipee: "In a report to the British Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (AAEE) at RAF Boscombe Down, test pilots summed it up as: "the A-20 has no vices and is very easy to take off and land ... The aeroplane represents a definite advantage in the design of flying controls ... extremely pleasant to fly and manoeuvre."[12] Ex-pilots often consider it their favorite aircraft of the war due to the ability to toss it around like a fighter.[13] The Douglas bomber/night fighter was found to be extremely adaptable and found a role in every combat theater of the war, and excelled as a true "pilot's aeroplane"

Nice clean job on a somewhat unusual kit.