Ace-Garageguy

Similar to what Phil said...I'd cut the rear pillars just to the point your roof clears the cage, then lay the front pillars back by whatever amount it takes to get the roof level with the body side, or maybe angled down, but very slightly.

That's a real beauty. Wonder if it's still there.

Somehow I missed this one earlier. It looks great, and this is not an easy kit to get right, especially when it's been pre-bodged by somebody earlier in its life. Very nice save, and definitely one of the best jobs I've seen anybody do with one of these.

I tend to complain and moan frequently about people not returning emails, or just not bothering to do their jobs with any sense of responsibility. This week I had TWO suppliers who messed up, one with a ridiculously poorly packed order that was subsequently badly damaged in transit, and another one who shorted an order bigtime, and one of the parts that did arrive was of poor quality. HOWEVER, BOTH of these responded immediately to my emails, and have already or are working towards making things right. Everybody makes mistakes. It's how you deal with and correct them that counts in the end...and these two suppliers have top marks for follow-up so far.

I tend to complain and moan frequently about people not returning emails, or just not bothering to do their jobs with any sense of responsibility. This week I had TWO suppliers who messed up, one with a ridiculously poorly packed order that was subsequently badly damaged in transit, and another one who shorted an order bigtime, and one of the parts that did arrived was of poor quality. HOWEVER, BOTH of these responded immediately to my emails, and have already or are working towards making things right. Everybody makes mistakes. It's how you deal with and correct them that counts...and these two suppliers have top marks for follow-up so far.

Realism can be added to a wide variety of toy-like models by a creative and skilled modeler.

So is most commercial paint stripper. Ask me how I know...

Looks great so far. Very interesting project.

Or spray cans of stripper labeled as clear...

"Slope sheet" is the correct name for the angled part of a railroad hopper-car body that facilitates the load sliding out when the lower doors are opened.

'Cause that would interfere with capturing video of it to post on the interdwerbs.

Nonsense is accepted as truth in a lot of places these days, and woe betide anyone who disagrees.

Word games can help build a participant's vocabulary.

Facilitation of functions in facilities by facilitators may be frightfully frequently far from fascinating.

What he said.

A beautiful day in the neighborhood, rain blew out last night, coming week's forecast looks pretty decent so far. Might get at least one long hike in...and maybe primer or paint a model part or three.

Fools and their money are often parted by internet scams.

Cars respond to logic, people not so much.

Circles and squares and triangles have specific, easily identifiable attributes.

Low standards everywhere today, and it's just the way it is. But before anything gets fixed, somebody has to acknowledge that it's broken. Driving a car with the engine clattering because there's no oil in it, because there's a small oil leak that nobody ever cared enough to fix, and nobody bothered to add oil as it dripped out because the car always got us there up 'til now, ultimately results in a very large BANG...and the engine stops permanently.

That's nothing. Read this post by Superdan, one of our moderators. The USPS isn't the only shipper who's a little, let's say, "logistically challenged". QUOTE: "I have 32 brand new 2025 Ford E-450 cutaway now in transit to me. Should be here next week. These are all sold, and customer is super excited because their previous dealer couldn't get them any chassis over the past couple of years. However, these are supposed to be dropshipped to a body build in New Paris, Indiana. Even though I received confirmation that the vehicles would be dropshipped at the vendor, all 32 of these units are coming directly here instead. Ford's response? Ooopsie. Our bad. Nothing we can do to help. So now we need to ship 32 of these things back down to Indiana." So...if Dan's dealership gets stuck with the transportation cost to correct Ford's "oopsie", I imagine that will pretty well wipe out most of the profit on the deal. I'm impressed.

"Head cheese" must be the most unappetizing name for a lunchmeat, ever.

Now life will forever be "like a day without sunshine".

I always have to laugh when people who don't experience this kind of stuff on a regular basis want to say it isn't happening, or it's the weather, or it's some arcane effect of sophisticated "logistics" that mere mortals like me are too dimwitted to understand...like trying to keep every truck "full", no matter how far out of the way a package goes to accomplish that goal. Whatever. But the tracking allows those of us who have hundreds of dollars worth of paid for goods in transit at any given time to at least see where a shipment WAS when it went off the radar. Last month I had two shipments that took over two weeks to get here from one state away, with no inclement weather between...and one of them bounced around between zipcodes in THIS state for several days...going back and forth between two post offices 5 times for no apparent reason.

Scratchbuild one? The body is mostly flat panels, kinda like this...