Ace-Garageguy

Mine is white...and man was I miffed when I opened the box expecting to find all kinds of cool parts and found exactly zip beyond the normal kit. Put me off of buying any new AMT kits for quite a while...like years Somebody really ought to have communicated the negative connotations of "bait and switch" or other deceptive practices to the marketing dwerbles.

"I'm not smart enough for so many people to be stupider than me."

My back was pretty bad at 06:30, but it's manageable now. Time to get moving...

Just looked at thee NWS radar. Kinda unusual that the precip is moving in from the east rather than the typical west-to-east movement. Looks like we'll get some sprinklege early, high only around 90F. So it'll be cooler in the shops. Whoopee !!!!!!!

Very very nice.

"Beer-o-clock" or "clock" is the next operative word, but is "beer-o-clock" considered a hyphenated word, or is "clock" a separate word in this instance?

And will lie for no reason.

"Good grief, Charlie Brown" may or may not be a sentence, depending on what your definition of "is" is.

Pretty much what I've always told my clients. There's cheap, fast, and good. Choose two.

Acrylic lacquer, for instance, was used by GM and other manufacturers in the early 1960s through the '80s, as well as collision repair. It's still available in some automotive refinish, restoration, and touchup products. Acrylic enamel was used by manufacturers and was very popular for all-over repaints as well as collision repair because it slicked out to a nice gloss if shot by a competent painter, and dried much faster and was more durable than the earlier alkyd or "synthetic" enamels. It's also still available. These are both "solvent based acrylic" paints, but the solvents, though somewhat similar, are NOT interchangeable. EDIT: There's also acrylic urethane, yet another "solvent based acrylic" paint type. EDIT 2: There is a huge amount of misleading, contradictory, and just flat wrong info about all these coatings on the web. I've been working with them professionally for over 5 decades, and though I am by no means an expert, I know baloney and made-up gibberish when I read it. Be very careful about what you believe, because most internet "experts", including AI, aren't.

Yeah, those offshore taps made from pot metal that are "cheap and just as good" work pretty well in soft plastic...once.

The term "wheel well" usually refers to the inner fenders on an "envelope" bodied car, starting with the '49 Ford era. If you're not going for a factory look, it's entirely up to you. '60s GM cars, for instance, usually had black front inner fenders. '66 Chevelle below. But the high-end real '66 Chevelle I'm building will have body-color applied to them...something like this:

The way they list the scales can be confusing for car modelers. Typical rivets on period railroad equipment are much larger than what you'd see on an automobile, so G-scale rivets will most likely be appropriate for heavy truck rivets (frames and structural brackets, etc.), or riveted parts of '20s-'40s car frames. I've used smaller scale Archer rivets on a Lindberg Jag D-type tub on an up-detailing project with good results. This was back when the original company was still making them, and they sold a "sample" sheet or kit with various sizes and spacings so you could easily figure out what you'd need for any model. It takes some thought and effort to get exactly the right look, but I think the potential results are worth it. I'm pretty sure at least one modeler on this board used Archer rivets on a modified COE truck cab (where the molded-in rivet lines were destroyed during the mods) in 1/24 or 1/25 with good results as well.

1967 and people still don't understand what a S E N T E N C E is.

"Music hath charms etc. etc. etc." but I've known people to whom some of the most beautiful, most moving music I've ever heard is just noise.

Too hot to cook. Eating hot Pace picante sauce out of the jar with a spoon. Big fat strawberries later.

Hmmmmm...."standard father fees"? Most interesting.

I have found it's usually much easier and gives better results to strip any seriously bad paintwork and start over. There's plenty of info on this site regarding safe stripping. EDIT: I also agree with Steve G. A little orange peel or likewise minor not-perfection can be saved and turn out just beautiful with wet-sanding and polishing. But why not strive to learn how to paint well anyway?

There's no stopping. Once the model-car needle is in your arm, you're lost.

Not really an irk, more just life with old cars...and a little personal disappointment. Blazer water pump was weeping when I got her, about a pint a month, no biggie as long as I kept her topped up, and not anything I couldn't let slide for a while. So now she's losing about a pint a day, and it's not coming from the pump. Found the leak on the radiator, and there's a stalactite of old cooling system sealer right there that's been oozing out and hardening. Previous owner, who I thought was a 100% upright guy never mentioned it, and when I cornered him today he kinda gave the shady-eye shuffle like he knew dammmmed well it had been leaking. No real big deal, as the rad has to come out to do the water pump anyway, and as it has crimped plastic tanks and over 200,000 miles on the clock, it's the right time to do it, 'cause I really like it and intend to keep it forever. Still...full disclosure woulda been nice. NEVER TRUST ANYBODY. EVER. ABOUT ANYTHING.

Yup. I was beside myself with glee when I saw that on a model RR forum.

Outdoors in the shade on my front porch would be a great place to build models in the summer if it weren't for the mosquitos attacking in force whenever I put a (human) body part out the door.

Fingers up your nose aren't immediately available for model-building.

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