Ace-Garageguy

Yes, very nice work.

Hard times create strong men who make good times; good times create weak men who make hard times.

1/43 Matrix Models 1930 Cord L29 Brooks Stevens custom speedster https://www.conceptcarz.com/profile/6411,7428/1930-cord-l-29.aspx I usually don't have much interest in anything smaller than 1/25, but this little guy is such a good looking car, and such a nice, well-scaled model, I bought it as a desk/reference piece. It's slated to get a nice glass case. The real car was purchased almost new by to-be noted industrial designer Stevens, who customized it extensively and apparently ran it in motorsports events during his 65 year ownership. After his death, it underwent a lengthy restoration, and won Best of Show at Amelia Island in 2015.

Track shoes can get pretty fragrant if you put them away in the dark when they're wet.

Easy one. PM'd.

Retiring sounded like a great idea 7 years ago when I made it "official", but I let myself get talked into "just a few more jobs as a contractor until we can find somebody else", and here I am, still working pretty much full time.

"Forever" is what it feels like it's taking to finish up my last two real-car client projects.

Stiffed I'd rather be than shot and stuffed.

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave...

Different strokes for different strokers. I favor a compass for starting scribed lines that I want to be parallel to something else, then my fav-o-rite Tamiya engraver/scribers to go the rest of the way. And just needle and riffler files to "adjust" window or other openings.

"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country" is derived from a typing drill proposed by Charles E. Weller somewhere around 1889, so etaoin shrdlu to you.

But for how much longer? People, after all, exhale carbon dioxide. TAX THE BREATHERS TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting design elements, appears to be great quality, nice profile (the car), hate the wheels and the offset. But there's certainly enough other cool stuff there to rate a Riddler win.

"Me me me me me me me me me me..." was an ex's sole topic of conversation, as she was apparently incapable of thinking of anyone or anything but herself.

ONE of the FIVE shipments of small parts in small packages previously MIA in the Postal Orifice has made it to showing as "out for delivery". Yippee. It was shipped on Feb. 26, one state away.

Sorry to flog the old deceased equine, but this is another reminder of why it's now, more than ever, prudent to test all the materials and procedures you'll be using on a hidden part of the specific kit you want to paint PRIOR to going ahead and hosing everything, and then wondering what happened when plastic crazes or your paint looks like it was applied with a fuzzy roller.

Army Rangers are usually pretty capable guys.

Pool rooms used to be full of unshaven guys who had no skills, didn't want to work, and would rather play a game all day...but times have changed.

Art classes I took in college taught me some history, but much more importantly, how to use #11 X-Acto blades much more accurately than I'd ever done before.

"Perpetrator" is often shortened to "perp" in the tough-guy cop shows, lessun they're a callin' the wrong'un a "bad actor", but none of the cops I know talk that way.

Show me the money, and I'll show you a trail of corruption.

"Faster, faster; the lights are turnin' red..."

Publix has worked well for me over the years, as their frequent "buy one, get one free" pricing determines a large part of my weekly menu choices. I just got back in after spending $89.67...which would have been $36.96 MORE without the BOGO savings. That's pretty significant...and I eat quite well, quite healthy. My local store is only a mile away too, so I'll often walk if I don't need more than 20 pounds or so of stuff.