Ace-Garageguy

Die trying.

Dean Jeffries' Mantaray. Resin repop of an old slot-car body, with correct resin wheels and tires to build a curbside. Some dimensional and proportion errors, kinda rough casting, but plenty close to start from. I've been looking for one of these for years, finally found one. What lotsa folks don't know is that the 289 Ford, Weber-equipped engine was a gift to Jeffries from Carrol Shelby, and the underpinnings are vintage Maserati formula car. Can't get much better pedigree than that.

Got the most recent one... Dean Jeffries' Mantaray. Resin repop of an old slot-car body, with correct resin wheels and tires to build a curbside. Some dimensional and proportion errors, kinda rough casting, but plenty close to start from.

Offerings to the model-car-paint gods are rarely as effective as practice and understanding what you're doing.

Yup...strip it.

Finally scored a couple of grails. Dean Jeffries' Mantaray. Resin repop of an old slot-car body, with correct resin wheels and tires to build a curbside. Some dimensional and proportion errors, kinda rough casting, but plenty close to start from. I'm happy. And a 1/24 resin Morris Minor, a limited edition curbside kit from the Motor Museum in Miniature, in England. Also snagged a couple of F2/F3 cars from a period I'm particularly interested in. A Hasegawa 1/24 VW pickup followed them home, too.

Pitchers still not showing...just google links that won't display.

Not content to release buggy software... Can you say "OceanGate", boys and girls? I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

In some major cities in Ca., it's getting pretty hard to avoid stepping in caca, apparently.

I have a few. They're challenging, but can be the basis of spectacular models of historically important subjects. Thanks to Bug Fan for the history, too.

Yup, it's all because of video games...

"Prisoners of conscience", political prisoners, were the main focus of Amnesty International many years ago when a good friend worked for them.

Lotsa shekels. I passed on a '68 convert a long time back, rode real hard and put up wet, for $500. Even if I'd just put it in storage, it would have easily beat most conventional investments.

Now more than ever.

"Accomplished" is also an adjective meaning "expert, proficient, skilled"...and doesn't apply accurately to a high percentage of people.

Our new entry-level first screening question: what's wrong with this picture?