Ace-Garageguy

Too cool. Is it a lunchbox?

Nope.

Tale-tellers are often caught out when it becomes obvious they actually don't know enough to lie convincingly.

Spent cartridges get recycled at my house.

Yup. MFH is what I meant. Saw it on the Hiroboy site. Duh. https://www.hiroboy.com/124_Ferrari_250_TDF_VerA_MultiMaterial_Kit_Reissue--product--10071.html EDIT: However, after having researched the various versions, I believe I'll use a styrene 250GT donor for guts and scratchbash the body. Ought to be able to get pretty close, especially considering that no two coachbuilt Ferrari bodies from the period were absolutely identical anyway, and they tend to diverge even farther after being raced, crashed, repaired, and eventually restored.

Fight for rationality and common sense if you really believe you can make a change happen, but don't hold your breath.

Nice thing about being home in the daytime (broken ribs) is that I'm here when the post arrives. All the way from Japan, 1/24 Italeri Ferrari 250GT California, factory sealed, considerably cheaper than any I've seen Stateside recently. Opened it to inventory just to make sure. Nice kit, appears to be well-proportioned, reasonably accurate in its representation of mechanical guts, etc. HOWEVER...I thought this would be the end of my collecting scale Ferraris, but I just now saw Hiroboy did a 1/24 250 TDF (one of the real Ferraris with which I have considerable experience), so the hunt continues...

Days like yesterday kinda make me question my sanity.

I like the Americans, but as I'm kindof a fan of ba-tardized hot-rodded real Ferraris, the new look fits the bill nicely.

1/24 Italeri Ferrari 275 GTS/4 All the Italeri 275s are getting pretty spendy (if you can even find one), so when I came across one that was kinda reasonable, I bought it. I'm pretty sure I already have it's GTB/4 brother, but a 250 GT California is on the way from another source...and that should be the end of the vintage Ferrari grails.

Very nice. I like the toned-down look of the satin chrome too.

Great looking build. I love these things. Thanks for the reference to James Lyles books on the Vietnam Gun Trucks. I need to spend some money...

It never ceases to amaze me that some native English speakers don't know the meaning of "it never ceases to amaze me".

الكلب لا يعلم سيده كيفية النباح

I have found that for me, the only possible long-term partner is a woman who has her OWN creative and constructive interests, and doesn't derive her sense of security or identity or importance solely from being the center of someone else's attention. Women who have their OWN interests...and I don't mean collecting shoes or pool-boys...understand that a man's hobby is NOT A THREAT, and they appreciate their OWN time just as much as a man who has varied interests does. They also understand that trying to run a man's life is the surest way to make one who's worth having start looking for a way out.

Had to physically go to one bank yesterday, and with a couple ibuprofen it wasn't too bad. Since I was within 100 yards of the "antique mall" where I'd been getting the fantastic HO scale train deals, I figgered I might as well take a look. The stall that used to be my train go-to no longer has anything worth anything in HO, and has shifted entirely to mostly toy tinplate O gauge and a little S gauge stuff. However...the stall that sometimes has pretty good deals on plastic models had a 1/32 Revell Spitfire Mk. I in the "Lone Eagles" boxing, a little crushed but still sealed, cheap. Years ago I'd buggered the wing assembly on one with an experimental bare-metal finish that crazed it badly (which I ended up salvaging by building it as the light blue test prototype from 1936). Anyway, I'd wanted another one to do as a production aircraft, and this one was so cheap, I let it follow me home. EDIT: Years back, I found a 1/32 Matchbox Spitfire Mk. 22/24, so now I have what I wanted, models of the first Spitfire prototype, the first production version, and the last production version, all in 1/32 scale.

Had to physically go to one bank yesterday, and with a couple ibuprofen it wasn't too bad. Since I was within 100 yards of the "antique mall" where I'd been getting the fantastic HO scale train deals, I figgered I might as well take a look. The stall that used to be my train go-to no longer has anything worth anything in HO, and has shifted entirely to mostly toy tinplate O gauge and a little S gauge stuff. However...the stall that sometimes has pretty good deals on plastic models had a Monogram 1/24 427 Cobra "Metalflake" edition and a repop boxing of the AMT 1/25 '63 Ford 500XL Styline kit, both sealed and unmolested...cheap. I already had plenty of 1/24 Cobras, but this one was so cheap I can always use it for parts...or maybe a what-if blown Dragonsnake...and the '63 Ford plugged another hole in my AMT annuals lineup. Though I'm kinda tempted to build one of the Styline kits with the full-boogie kit-supplied custom bodywork now that I have the skills (the ones I built with AMT's shrink putty when I was a kid weren't great), most likely I'll do it up prepped for NASCAR. There's something I really like about the wide steel wheels and fat rubber under this body style.

Yup, that would be the way I'd describe it. And don't be afraid to ask real money for it. A genuine one-owner low-mileage creampuff is worth WAY more than something that's had a hard life, several owners, and who knows what kind of flipper-chimp "restoration" done to it.

A while back I suggested starting a thread about 3D-printed parts suppliers, naming names for both the good ones and the garbage. I've bought a fair amount of 3D stuff that was just plain trash for one reason or another, either incorrectly scaled, poorly proportioned, poorly printed, warped, or gooey. I've also bought some stuff that was acceptable, and some that was over the top excellent. HONEST product reviews with no bashing, just fair and reasonable descriptions of quality and business practices, would go a long way towards getting the bad makers out of the game...or just warning us who to avoid.

Free TV wasn't, because you had to sit through mindless commercials that eventually became so long and frequent that programming became unwatchable.

Wars cause more damage than even bacon-flavored interplanetary food fights.

"Series production" of automobiles can mean anything from a few handbuilt semi-prototypes to 50 or fewer "homologation specials", all the way up to hundreds of thousands of similar units.

Dime rolls contain five dollars.

Waddya mean? I finished two since about 2012.

Video cameras around your property may not deter theft, but at least you'll know what the thieves look like, and maybe get vehicle descriptions and tag numbers.