Ace-Garageguy

I wash my trucks every 3 or 4 years, whether they need it or not.

Here's a 6X8 inch sheet of self-adhesive stickers too... https://www.ebay.com/itm/264410564189

https://www.ebay.com/itm/187614986355

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186749380658? Scratch-building the frame should be very straightforward.

Mercedes G-class. Originally a light military vehicle, it's morphed into a luxo status symbol, kinda like Land Rover. https://www.motortrend.com/vehicle-genres/mercedes-g-wagen-g-class-history-generations-specifications-photos

Bought a buncha stuff from Replicas and Miniatures at the ACME show, way too much to list. Filled out several missing slots in my MCG stash too, including another 1/8 '32 Ford grille insert to replace one that may be lost and gone forever. Also, cheap at the show... And this Emhar Bedford OSB wrecker came in this week too. Gees, what a beautiful kit. I had all of the Emhar Bedford trucks at one time, but they may all be gone as well.

"Upon my honor" has no meaning to some.

But what's Bezos really achieved? Yeah, he's leveraged the internet into becoming a global master of buy low, sell high...predominantly trading in Chinese garbage...while he pays his people as little as they'll stand for. So what? He has a third-rate independent 'space program' that's, frankly, a joke. He has a hellishly expensive trophy wife who used to be a pretty girl, but is now so artificially inflated and botoxed she's unrecognizable. He's a hypocrite of the first order, calling carbon-emission-driven "global warming" the "biggest threat to our planet", but his company's carbon footprint is the size of a small country's, and just his personal private jets dump as much carbon into the atmosphere annually as several normal human lifetime emissions combined. Whenever I hear Alan Parsons I Wouldn't Want to be Like You, the first person that pops into my mind is invariably Bezos. It's not sour grapes on my part, either. I don't mind at all seeing people who have vastly more wealth than I can even imagine. But I wouldn't throw a bucket of liquid horse exhaust on Bezos if he was on fire.

I ran this through Googli's AI "Good luck is 95% being in the right place at the right time, by working hard to get there." And that PC excuse-making gibberish is what it vomited up.

"Submitting" is another of those words that has a coupla meanings, but they're both spllelleded the same.

Only thing irking me today is me...

I respectfully disagree. I've always loved my work, probably because I chose to work at things I loved. I loved working as an apprentice photographer and as a draftsman when I was in school. I loved the work in my early days as a fledgling engineer in the white-collar world...but as I became more and more convinced that the 'workday' was taken up by most of my coworkers attending endless meetings and playing CYA and suckup, I left to work on cars as a dealership apprentice. There I also loved the actual work, but politics were in evidence that always soured everything in most of the shops I ever worked as non-owner.. It wasn't until I started working on Euro sports and race cars and aircraft that I got to the point I could say I loved most of it, because the work was so challenging and satisfying, almost always way out of the box, but I did, and still do for the most part. There are aspects of my work I despise, but there's still nothing like looking at something I've made, especially after some time has passed, and thinking to myself "damb man...that's as good as anything I've ever seen from anyone; did I actually DO that?".

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune

I also remember when the US market for high-quality aviation fasteners was infiltrated with cheap under-spec "offshore-made" knockoffs that had all the right markings, and plausible-but fake-paper trails and documentation, but failed under QC testing. The episode has been pretty well buried, and very few references to it can be found. And nobody knows how many in-service failures occurred. Bogus aircraft parts are, unfortunately, not at all uncommon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unapproved_aircraft_part

Business decisions that don't take the long view are, in a word, stupid...and I've made my share.

Take my word for things if you want to, but I'd really prefer that everyone do his own research and critical thinking.

Hardest is the one I'm doing now, finishing up a lower-high-end pro-touring '66 Chevelle, on my own until I hand it off for paint. And every day as I get older and more useless, the harder it gets. Coolest was probably as a racing mechanic, doing the prep in the shops, test driving, and going on the road with the cars.

Here's an OK completed build of the Italeri 348TB (not the TS, but 95% of it is the same) with plenty of shots to judge proportions, detail, etc.

GM's electrics are now largely based on Chinese design and content (drive units, batteries, etc.) GM basically traded away whatever lead they had in EV engineering (arguably the foundation of GM's long term viability as a manufacturing entity) to China for short-term profit. GM downplays this, dissembles about it, and most Americans are unaware of it, but the evidence is easy to find if you look and put all the pieces together. And GM's CEO Mary Barra reportedly just sold 40% of her GM stock. Hmmmmmmm...

Tweezers should be in every first-aid kit and medicine cabinet.

I've liked every Italeri kit I've seen to date...Euro sports cars, classics, big trucks, etc. Every one was good enough to be the basis of a fine model. Some are better than others, more accurate, higher parts count, etc. But IMHO they're all good kits.

Yes, especially other people who actually know stuff.

I love the looks of the B-61. I'm in for at least two...