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Bad things sometimes happen to good people.
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Candy is dandy but liquor is...well, you know the rest.
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Forum website has been sluggish for the last few days
Ace-Garageguy replied to peteski's topic in How To Use This Board
Now I'm getting all kinds of weird glitches. [[Template forums/front/index/forumRow is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme[[Template forums/front/index/forumRow is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.] -
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Favorites of the power structure often get the cream, while those not so loved get the contents of the cat's box.
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How To Make Some Easy Driving Lights
Ace-Garageguy replied to oldcarfan's topic in Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials
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Jaguar XK120 Race Car
Ace-Garageguy replied to Pierre Rivard's topic in WIP: Other Racing: Road Racing, Land Speed Racers
I have several of these, one as a WIP Chevy-powered Bonneville contender. That's NOT a "mold mismatch" around the rear wheel-arch. It's a flange put there specifically to mount the fender skirts. After you file down the body side parting lines, you'll need to re-scribe the door opening lines. The best way to deal with the hood gap is to file the body on the front to allow the hood the slide a little farther back. Don't overdo it. And there's some variation from body to body unfortunately. The hood hinge slots in the firewall are huge and klugey too, and really need to be filled so as not to show...with smaller more prototypically correct hinges fitted. The body is very well proportioned though, and responds beautifully to some metalwork...and the flanges for the rear skirts can be removed entirely OR minimized to the point they're almost invisible but still allow mounting the skirts with rubber cement or white glue if you want them to be removable for some reason. One more thing...I'd recommend a self-etching automotive primer for the metal parts. -
"Do be do be do" sang Frank.
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Beautiful model, well deserved recognition.
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About time for logic, rationality, and common sense to make a big comeback.
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"Retirement" means different things to different people, and it's not always unlimited free time...depending of course on an individual's personal choices.
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Rite spling duddnt seam ta bee tot inn skool no mor.
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Basement layouts are great if you have a dry one, attic layouts are great if you can keep them cool in summer, but garage (or in another dedicated building) layouts at ground level are the best.
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Forum website has been sluggish for the last few days
Ace-Garageguy replied to peteski's topic in How To Use This Board
Even logging in and out are starting to hang up now, on both Chrome and Firefox, and photos are taking longer and longer to display...sometimes not at all. No problems with ANY other sites or forums. -
Kits of railroad equipment manufactured in the '40s and '50s, mainly of the "craftsman" variety that are close to scratchbuilding, are the subject of much of my collecting interest at the moment.
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Sense of the common variety is remarkably uncommon.
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Both the old 392 Chrysler hemi and the later 426 have even exhaust port spacing, and the heads are about the same length. Unless you're a real nitpicker, the 426 headers should look just fine in 1/25. Big-block Chevys and many Fords also have even exhaust port spacing, so something made for those might work for you.
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Co-worker shirking and hiding somewhere with the smartphone is becoming ever more common.
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Results of human/chimpanzee hybridization attempts were supposedly never successful...
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Came from a long line of pontificating procrastinators he did, and became positively petulant when questioned about his penchant for pompous platitudes and platypi.
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"Waste not, want not" may be prudent advice, but if you always eat everything they pile on your plate at most restaurants in one sitting, your waist will certainly show it...so is turning food into useless poundage a waste or not?
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"Opinion leaders" (otherwise known as "influencers") effects on the general populace really make me question whether average IQ is much over 75 these days.