Ace-Garageguy

Avoid eBay and you miss out on some really spectacular deals.

That's just reality from my perspective.

To still have the poor eye-hand coordination, nonexistent knowledge base, lack of common-sense, and general skills I had when I was 5 years old, but as an adult. EDIT: The real sadistic kicker would to be able to remember having had superior skills, but to not be able to get the hands to function with any kind of fine control.

"Rare" is the adjective of choice for selling on eBay.

Every kit made to Palmer or Premier design and scaling specs.

Ah yes...the turbine car. Very nice.

Hmmmm. I wonder if a cottage cheese or sour cream container would work. Weeks of intense experimentation and research to follow... Probably going to need to apply for some kind of grant though.

Nice work.

What if you don't like potato salad?

Also bought a couple broken Baldwin "Sharknose" deisels in Pennsy livery. Though the worst one was looking beyond saving, I've already carefully pieced her back together, and the repairs are all but invisible. Every Shark built (but two) was scrapped decades ago, and those two have recently come out in the daylight.

Sad remains of a very heavy cast brass HO scale 4-8-2 light "mountain" type steam locomotive. Bodged, parts lost, thrown out, and rescued from the scrap metal bin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USRA_Light_Mountain I have enough bits to make a nice engine from the boiler, cab, cylinder assembly, frame, pilot truck and trailing truck shown below. I paid $12 for this mess. Decent plastic ones go for $100-200, nice brass ones for up to $1300+. But she'll take a little work... While she's getting rebuilt, her major parts will be featured in an engine erection building diorama. What she looks like finished.

Only if you're currently in the witness protection program.

"Toys" are generally import duty free...especially to individuals. Importing a container load might be different.

Single malt.

The best: Cream. Chastain Park Amphitheater. October 1968. Front row seats.

As I believe somebody else already said...there's already almost everything imaginable available to build any flavor '32 Ford you can think of. The existing AMT 1/25 and Monogram 1/24 '36 Ford kits are pretty good as far as proportion and line go, though the last partial retool from AMT is oddly awful in some ways. Any correct '34 Ford would be nice, but since tooling designers seem to be almost universally measuring-and-math-challenged today, I won't hold out much hope. A '26-'27 Ford rod, a very popular real-world thing, based on the current Revell '29 and '30 offerings, or even on one of the '32 kits, is such an obvious slam-dunk it's surprising nobody's done it yet...though it was proposed right here many years ago.

I'm currently right here, sitting in front of my computer.

I prefer the brush on as there's zero waste and no overspray...which can ruin anything nearby.

15-part YT series on the Jag...

Easy one. PM'd

OK everyone...hold your breath.

That's how I know I'm feeling particularly clumsy.

When I'm feeling particularly clumsy, I just keep the bottle in a cheap clear glass coffee cup.