Ace-Garageguy

"Hallelujah trucks" aren't anything I've ever heard of.

Yeah...though I've been "officially" retired for a number of years, I still work pretty much full time. I'm WAY behind on my last two client projects, and I have a really hard time doing anything much for pleasure with a clear conscience.

Accumulated points for rule infractions will eventually get your driving license lifted.

https://www.oldmodelkits.com/blog/plastic-model-kit-history/227/

PM me. I don't have time to get involved in anything else right now, as I'm finishing up my last two client jobs here, while packing and getting the logistics worked out for moving my shop and home and cars to Arizona...but I could take a quick look. I'd be glad to sign a non-disclosure agreement, naturally.

Train tools. Steam locomotives, both full scale and models, require the driving wheels on each axle to be in a very specific angular relationship to each other, known as "quartering". This Northwest Short Line "The Quarterer" tool facilitates getting it right. Because many of the older HO locos I buy have bodged driving rods or broken gears and axles, repairing them requires quartering of the driving wheels. A companion toolset allows working on small shafts with an arbor press, without twisting.

Just some old vintage cast metal "Buick brake drums" by Herb Deeks. Mounted back-to-back in pairs, they'll make believable wheel-motors for an upcoming fantasy hybrid project.

Morning sounds like birdsong and morning smells like coffee make me glad to be alive and in the moment.

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Two backstory-dependent builds...

Yes, and yes. The degree of static negative camber that's beneficial is dependent on the specific design of the suspension geometry and the tires on the vehicle under scrutiny...and it's always a compromise between what's best for acceleration, braking, and cornering. The primary rational goal of any performance suspension modification is to increase traction. For any given tire, traction is increased by maintaining a contact patch between the tire tread and the road surface that is as large as possible. This is accomplished by keeping the tire tread flat on the ground, which happens when the wheel/tire centerline is perpendicular to the ground. Cornering produces lateral loads on the tires, a tendency to slide sideways, and maintaining as large a contact patch as possible on the outside tires in a turn, the most heavily loaded ones, can often be achieved by the introduction of varying degrees of negative static camber...again, depending entirely on the general design of the suspension geometry (strut, upper and lower lateral control arms, trailing arms, etc.) and tires. Unfortunately, many humans are content to operate on the "monkey see, monkey do" principle rather than make the effort to develop an UNDERSTANDING of what they're doing...because TLDR. The OP's illustration is of an idiot's car.

Voices in my head keep saying "buy more models".

Soon enough we'll shuffle off this mortal coil, so why rush it (for yourself or anyone else) by texting while you're driving?

Purchases are different from "it followed me home...honest".

Instructions often get tossed by the overconfident, usually to their peril.

If you're going to order from Norm, you might as well make it a big one. Buy 12 items, that's only a buck a piece for shipping. Can't get a rate like that anywhere else on the planet. Besides...his stuff is absolutely the best in the business, and it's not going to be around forever.

Under constant heavy stress isn't a good way to live, but sometimes it's just unavoidable.

Or competence.

Here ya go... https://www.ebay.com/itm/176254222443?itmmeta=01HQDRYF1XRHV0FFSGSZB44C6K&hash=item290992006b:g:QQsAAOSwjr9l2OEQ&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4MIrb9GTH%2FLiGymi%2FTiBKBaapEkdW6jL31ys8IvmoN%2BShEPuP7XS%2BUSuR3PD6ezsV6a5XHjlW4mWHlhAC%2FIM3ufbCUKR%2Flc9doEU0hHuowywEZqOAqjMxDGH0E3G0DKvpF747Vgj7HUKVxVN%2F7ZWDvqGkPRGO5xZy5n83mXn11Hl%2F8O7iDNvAsMDRaL9okWxf6dNOS03Y1ukdDfQFRDLh2bb8P%2F%2B6OcBGuC1LCDA%2FOIfH822FVoK5IEWXanL2Sdfu2u0XPRPO5OcBIv1l4ilO%2F7VJz4T0U9onv3Hdlk6FFeX|tkp%3ABk9SR4Tx-bi7Yw

Lots of great ideas there for anyone who scratch-builds structures in any scale. Thanks.

Hard times make hard men.

Oh man...this thing blows me away. Beautiful work and photography.

"Elves Presley" might have been Elvis's name if his momma woke up one day wondering how she got to be with-child.

Yes, but I don't recall exactly what. Seems like there was some Ferrari stuff, and I definitely recall some '60s road-racing bits.

I have a mental backstory for almost everything I build, because the majority of my interest is in "what ifs" rather than replicas of anything 100% real. Most of my builds represent era-correct but fictional hot-rods, competition cars, or prototypes that never were. If I'm going to pull something out of my imagination, but as I have respect and understanding of how and why things were done the way they were done in a particular era, I find I enjoy having a plausible backstory in order to create a believable model.