Ace-Garageguy

Ebay's "algorithms" and automated systems are about as stupid as it gets now. NEVER IN MY LIFE HAVE I NOT PAID FOR SOMETHING, but due to a seller apparently having problems setting up the controls on his end, my account has been suspended for "failure to pay", even though I was in constant contact with the seller while I continued to bid on sellers OTHER ITEMS. The seller was supposed to suspend sale cancellations until I HAD BID ON EVERYTHING OVER THE COURSE OF SEVERAL DAYS AND REQUESTED A COMBINED INVOICE. BUT...the automated system CANCELED several sales early due to "failure to pay", and put strikes against me. Interestingly, the SELLER GAVE ME THE CANCELED ITEMS FOR FREE AS AN APOLOGY FOR MY "INCONVENIENCE" (I've spent over a grand with the guy in the last couple months) but eBay still has me suspended. Furthermore, I WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE SUSPENSION AS EBAY SAYS IS THEIR AUTOMATIC POLICY, and didn't know of the suspension until I was just refused to be allowed to bid because of the suspension. On top of that, their chatbot is a repetitive idiot that can't understand plain English, and they make you jump through hoops to talk to a live operator. I'm sick and tired of "expert systems" that are designed by morons and can't deal with real situations, and I'm sick of fixing problems I DIDN'T CAUSE and that aren't my responsibility, yet they severely hamper my ability to do MY work. If things I build worked as poorly and intermittently as a lot of internet dwerbology, I wouldn't be able to get a job sweeping floors. I have no idea what it's going to take to get this resolved...

If you're referring to the 550 Spyder, well...yes. A REAL 550 will go for north of 2 million bucks even as a basket case, whereas a fiberglass replica can be had for around $30 thousand in kit form with no guts, cheaper if it's been bodged. Far as 928 replicas go, far as I know there has never been one...other than this horrible mess... https://www.carscoops.com/2014/11/darling-i-shrunk-porsche-928-brazilian/

"Snatch bunny" turned up this result.

Pool in the pasture will guarantee you get at least one bovine bathing beauty.

Here is just like everywhere else, but entirely different.

People who beg you to do a job for 'em, you're really too busy but relent because they "NEEEEEEEEED it so badly wah wah wah", then when you're well into it decide they're going to "finish it themselves" but call you every 15 minutes for free advice. I really should know better by now.

"Bought, not built" is a derogatory term applied to checkbook hot-rods whose owners would faint if they had to so much as change a flat.

928s, like most sports cars, got to the point where they were so cheap, particularly after having heavy mechanical failures or body damage, that many of them ended up getting gutted for parts, or rodded. There's one here in town with an alloy big-block Chevy in front and a Ford 9" out back. Though the drag car may seem to be sacrilege, I'd personally rather see it like that than put through a shredder to be melted down for its steel content.

That particular kit is, of course, a model of a very specific, very famous car, and the blown Olds 394 engine makes it a period piece. That's not to say you can't modify it any way you want to, but with the Olds, it's pretty much either a period car or a "nostalgia" or "tribute" of some sort or another, and wheel choices are limited if you want to keep the period look. EDIT: The Ardun in your build thread is pretty much a period piece too, but it's your build, so use whatever wheels you like. Those hard-sidewall slicks are on 16" rims on the SWC car, for whatever that's worth.

Lotta that kinda stuff in the world today, and it's just going to get worse with more reliance on AI...at least until AI decides it's smart enough to figure things out for itself, and that "getting it right the first time" should be a priority.

Nice work. Really pretty.

"NO!" isn't dealt with well by a lot of adults, either.

Newborns have little agency other than the effects of crying.

Flavor is in the mouth of the beholder.

Good looking color combo.

Anyone see the squirrel that ran off with my bag of Cheetos?

From the way things are mis-delivered by my local PO, I'd have to surmise some of the drivers don't read English or understand numbers.

Glues to the left of them, glues to the right of them, into the valley of glues rode the six hundred...instantly stuck to each other.

Good looking Mountain. Is that Bachmann?

"Head cheese", which I've mentioned before, must be the worst product name in the history of mankind. https://deependothepool.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/why-its-called-head-cheese/

Another brass HO rescue...this time a Southern Railway 4-6-2 Ps-4 by United Scale Models. In excellent condition these go for around $500, but this one needs help, is missing the trailing truck on the locomotive and part of a tender truck, so I got it for a fraction of that. I'm always amazed that people hack and bodge and lose parts from expensive, beautiful models like this, but I guess...Oh well. No need to go there. One interesting thing is that the Southern Railroad's Ps-4s paint scheme was inspired by the London and North Eastern Railway (UK) colors in 1925. Though they were in service from the mid-1920s and were extensively modified and updated through the years, by 1952 all 64 of them had been replaced by diesels and were on the scrap line. One was saved by an enthusiastic railfan and a Southern board member. Number 1401 was cosmetically restored and lives on as a static display at the Smithsonian, the only one of her kind left anywhere on Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Railway_Ps-4_class

After some logins, the forum is unusable, period. Photos don't display, pages won't load, can't view different topics and threads, posts won't, nothing. Sometimes can't even log out. Same issues with both Firefox and Chrome. I had to try various things just to post this. EDIT: And other times it works fine, like the post I just made over on the "what-didja-get-non-auto-models" thread...or with only minimal hanging like it did as I navigated here to edit this post.

Somewhere in the galaxy there's intelligent life that's not as rare as here.

Thanks, and I appreciate your interest and comment. But it's extremely unlikely I'll get her done prior to finishing up my last two big-car client jobs here, and finishing the move to Arizona...all of which have been dragging on for years now. Until then, I really don't much feel like working on anything I want to do when there's so much I have to do.

Again and again and again and again, the boys who keep on trying will make the world's best men.