Ace-Garageguy

Thriving small businesses, many of them employing well-paid, skilled blue-collar tradesmen, and a strong American manufacturing base made that possible.

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So nice. Kindof a shame to hide that fine looking body under a layer of grunge, but she looks great anyway.

Television was supposed to help unite the world, remember?

Another guy whose work is definitely worth the wait; it's some of the highest quality on the planet.

Up the Down Staircase was both a novel and a film in the mid 1960s.

Just beautiful...

Beautiful. And boy, do I miss being out there.

Who said anything about responses had to be actual sentences, anyhow?

Yeah, there still seems to be a deficiency in complying with the "sentence" part of the one-sentence-game rules...but not everyone cares anyway.

I think it's impossible to make a blanket statement about AMT kits, as they're all over the board in terms of accuracy, complexity, "buildability", and general quality. The annuals from the early 1960s, being developed from factory blueprints, usually have very accurate bodies and actually look exactly like what they're supposed to represent...but the chassis are simplified blobs. On the other hand, the classic '32 Ford roadster from the same period (and AMT's other '32s developed from the same basic tooling) have serious body dimensional errors in the height of the cowl that require major work to correct. The AMT '34 Ford 3-window is, in my opinion, one of the worst kits ever, bearing very little resemblance to a real one, with many of the parts looking like they came from a toy designed by people in some foreign land who had never seen anything but blurry Xeroxed photos of what they were trying to represent. AMT's much later '34 Ford 5-window is really pretty decent, though it has its share of scaling errors, but their '33 Ford sedan (that shares its chassis and engine with the 5-window kit) has annoying body scaling and proportion issues. Bottom line: if you want to avoid disappointment, research the particular kit you're interested in. Look at multiple sources, as not everything you'll read on the internet is true. In particular, consult sites like this one, and look at what other competent modelers have to say about a kit, and what they've been able to accomplish with it. And remember that there are whiners who routinely bad-mouth anything that doesn't assemble itself, so take whatever you see with a grain of salt.

"Done and dusted" is British idiomatic English meaning "completely finished".

Pork jalfrezi, not quite as eye-watering hot as my version of vindaloo. https://ericaobrien.com/jalfrezi-vs-vindaloo-comparison-guide/ Basmati rice with peas, toasted and buttered onion pita bread, and sweet chutney...all washed down with a pretty decent California Pinot noir. Unadorned fresh blackberries for dessert.

Cost in wasted time, buggered fasteners, broken or dull drill bits, and non-warrantied tool failures usually offsets any money "saved" by buying 3-rd rate garbage to work with.

These quizzes are great web-search skill builders. As I explained to Michael, I'd never seen this one before... "but as bizarre as it is, I figured it was either Soviet-era Russian, or from the American Budd company, that made corrugated stainless-steel-sided railroad passenger cars. An image search of "Soviet prototype car" brought up a picture and a name, and a little more digging identified it as a REAF-50, built at the Riga Experimental Factory in 1950. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/01/in-rigas-museum-but-since-i-dont-read.html https://philseed.com/riga-motor-museum-latvia/"

Trash tools are generally made for markets that shop price first, and have little understanding of or demand for quality.

My peeps don't come around much since the aftereffects of the "nothing to worry about, folks...move along" chemical spill left them a little, uh, different.

Yup, this'll be cool.

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Concept cars appeal to me much more than most boring production vehicles.

"Are opinions distinguishable from facts?" is the position of the fuzzy thinkers who have no use for objective reality.

Oh, the humanity !!!