Ace-Garageguy

In my old world, somebody would get taught a lesson that probably would involve significant bruising.

Never look a gift giraffe in the mouth.

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2 of any food item is better than one, 'cause you can eat one now and save the other one for later.

What he said.

Looking good. The magneto is especially nice.

Looking really good. I was very curious about the accuracy of the Arii kit, and now I know. Thanks a bunch for posting this build here.

Well suh, that struck a chord. Some of the 50, 60, and 70 year old model railroad "craftsman" kits I've been acquiring come with really miniscule parts, usually die-cast, about the size of your Caddy fin tip. Honest. Although most parts that small were on sprues when new, at this stage of the game it's inevitable somebody will have been in 'em and have broken stuff off the runners. Then, when they're handled or packed on-end to be shipped and the shipper boots 'em around upside down, the tiny things tend to get lightly stuck between the box top and the inner, so when you open them, you hear several tiny little "tinks" as parts hit the floor. I have hardwood floors, so it's usually not too hard to find 'em on my knees with a flashlight, but I'm never really sure if I got 'em all.

Bell ringers go dingalingaling, or maybe ding dong, or bong bong bong.

Looks great. Mo def (geezer tryna be cool) time for me to start thinking about adding 3D capability to my repertoire...now that you early-adopters have figured out what works this good. I have a '35 diecast as a donor to mod a plastic '36, and I'll still probably do it, but man, this thing looks sweet.

The Model Railroading Handbook, Vol. 1, by Robert Schleicher. Recommended above by Old Buckaroo. Thanks Sean. Yup, probably the best single-source model railroading book I've seen to date, advanced-entry-level, if that makes sense, and besides plenty of how-to, it's packed with inspirational photos of exemplary craftsmanship on existing layouts. Though it would take at least 20 volumes this size to cover everything there is to know about model railroading in just one scale, it touches all the basic and intermediate concepts, making it a great place to start getting seriously involved.

Pretty kinky if you ask me.

Punch bowl angling for goldfish can be an entertaining and edible party game.

I drove the US Chevy version of one of those a long time ago, and to this day I recall never having been so impressed with the smoothness and total lack of vibration from any American V8. I'm talking turbine smooth. It's only some iteration of the venerable smallblock Chevy, and maybe all the factory tolerances lined up right on that one engine, but like I say... s m o o t h .

No, no no no no. It's real. The truck is carrying a cooling tower. I've analyzed the shadows and parallax and calculated lens attenuation and plotted the location on Google Earth and checked my horoscope just in case. Exact same methods I used to prove conclusively the Earth is flat, and that humans never went to the Moon.

Never judge the payload capacity of anything by its size.

Nothing about the hobby itself "pisses me off". Really. I got past the point of getting mad at inanimate objects some time back. Challenges during building are part of the process, and if you make ANYTHING, there are going to be mistakes and setbacks and unexpected problems to solve. Deal with it. I'm occasionally disappointed that my lack of sufficient development of a particular skill interferes with my ability to achieve my vision, but I've been encountering that sort of thing my entire life, professionally as well, and all it signals is that it's time to put in a little more effort or learn something new. There's nothing anyone could say, no comment or remark, that would in any way negatively impact my enjoyment of this hobby or any other, but I do get tired of know-nothing internet experts endlessly offering their useless opinions and often just-flat-wrong advice about every topic under the sun. Again, there's nothing anyone could say, no comment or remark, that would negatively impact my enjoyment of this hobby or any other...but there are comments that completely turn me off of specific individuals, and make me wonder sometimes why I bother with social media at all, here or anywhere else.

"Mouth" in some circumstances can getcha in a heap of trouble.

Could you maybe use a camera instead of a potato? EDIT: Though I suppose those are internet-sourced photos, taken at the dawn of time when images were still recorded on potatoes.

I got tired.

Time me while I make some stuff happen.

"Anymore" and "any more" are frequently interchanged, though they mean entirely different things.

Nice stuff. Beautimus.

That really is pretty much a forever car (mechanically) if it's cared for. I'd buy it in a NY minute for $1500, just to have a dead reliable backup piece.

"Anymore" isn't a popular sentence starter apparently.