Ace-Garageguy

I said I had up to 5 being actively worked on at any given time, spread across multiple benches. I also said I had storage shelves for in-progress projects immediately adjacent to the benches. That means I could easily rotate between builds when something needed to dry or cure or I needed to figure something out before proceeding further. The highest "in-progress" count I recall when this topic came up several years ago, including active builds on the benches and stalled or resting builds on the "in progress" storage shelves was somewhere around 60.

Method acting often results in some exaggerated facial expressions...

Newly minted "journalists" journalisiming. Lotta that around now. Numbers are hard. Words are too.

True pigheaded stupidity is really quite something to see when it's so proudly displayed.

Weather is whether or not there's precipitation or other atmospheric disturbances wherever you are.

"For he's a smelly old fellow" is what they'd sing if I went out in public today, pre-shower.

I've been flogging this dead horse for years. I've been building, restoring, modifying, and race prepping real cars for decades. I have had access to most old American engines. I have measured and scaled most 1950s engines, including Mopar's Chrysler Firepower, Dodge Red Ram, and DeSoto Firedome hemis. The Red Ram in the original Ala Kart and all its derivatives is very, very close to being correctly scaled, as is the Firedome in the AMT '53 pickup, and the majority of Firepower hemi engines from all manufacturers in 1/25 scale. The Red Ram in the "new tool" AMT Ala Kart is an underscaled joke. And just FYI, the Chrysler, Dodge, and DeSoto engines are entirely different, though similar, designs.

There are lotsa clever little tricks, called "mnemonics", designed to aid memory.

When I was at my building peak I had as many as 60 going at any one time, in "rotation", with 3 or 4 or more getting actively worked on, and I've never had a problem staying current in my head with several projects running concurrently. This was possible because I had several benches where I could leave a project undisturbed while I worked on another one, and in-progress shelves immediately adjacent to the benches. My projects usually involve heavy modifications, scratch-building, problem solving, and much scale-engineering, so pushing one through to completion really isn't a realistic option. When I'd get to a major stopping point or run up against a complex problem that I needed to work out, before boxing things up for the "resting" shelves, I'd make notes to record exactly where I was. Probably not an approach for everyone, but it works well for me. Last time I was building seriously I had 5 going, but most of them are now boxed up for a cross-country move, the benches are stacked high with packed kits, and the atmosphere in my house right now just isn't conducive to building much of anything...and the modeling space that's clear is tied up making parts for a custom full-scale instrument panel for a client.

Honestly, sometimes trying to communicate is 100% totally and completely pointless.

If being stupid and willfully ignorant weren't so popular, the world would be a much better place, but idiots are rarely aware of their own idiocy and many folks seem to think ignorance is a virtue.

"Right" is sometimes considered to be defined solely by who holds the "might".

Looking at the previous post carefully, responding with some understanding of exactly what constitutes a "sentence", and comprehension of standard English punctuation would all go a long way towards playing the game according to the very simple rules, but that's apparently expecting too much.

There's a sucker born every minute. (Attributed to PT Barnum) Today, with 250 births globally every minute, it's considerably higher.

And beautiful animated girls with six fingers who eat ice-cream cones like something from a horror movie with bizarro-world rock-nm-rooll music-overs...

Very nice, great looking models. Think I need to build one. I loved Phantoms when they were front-line fighters, loved them when they were operating as Wild Weasels in SE Asia, still loved them when the Guard was flying them out of Dobbins here (my shop was just across Hwy.41 from the end of the main runway, and a pair would leave together in full AB at dusk several times a month), and I was sad seeing many of them out in Mojave Ca, panels painted in fluorescent red after being converted to QF-4 unmanned one-way target drones.

Demand your institutes of higher learning impart some useful life skills in addition to the esoteric gibberish of your major, like how to do your own laundry, how to make mac-n-cheese and Ramen noodles and basic sammiges and scrambled eggs without Gramma's help (odds are your mom can't cook either), how to make coffee in your own kitchen, and how to figure a 10% tip in your head (so at least you'll know if you're being screwed when you have to resort to waiting tables to survive).

Climate change.

C'mon guys. The poor little AI is no worse than most recent common-core HS grads...and more than a few college grads with advanced degrees.

Looking good. I've started to do something similar with that Flintstone piece several times, but always put it back in the box, eventually bought a cheap damaged diecast as a starting point. Looks like you're well on the way to having a great little model.

Surprisingly, the PO has been knockin' 'em out of the park for me for the last several months. Every now and then they seem to have the need to run back and forth between 2nd and 3rd a few times on the way, but everything has managed to make it home in "reasonable" time. Still, every time I have to order anything that will be shipped, I cross my fingers (but I don't hold my breath).

What I find so amusing is that I've been posting for years how injection molded plastic items can be made cost-effectively right here in the good ol' USofA, and all I got was shouted down. I know injection molding companies here who are entirely capable of doing the work, from design and prototyping right through to packaging, but no, model companies chose to chisel out the last few pennies of profit per item, and dug themselves into the hole they're in now. I hate to say "I told you so"...nah, I don't.

The rear end assembly looks to me (on first inspection without having built it up) th be the best representation of the Jag IRS I've seen to date in any kit...and I'm, you might say, somewhat familiar with the real ones.

Right now I'm thinking the above poster just recently graduated from college.