Ace-Garageguy

Rap is a genre that usually turns me off, but every once in a long while, I'll hear something I really like.

Fisheyes are almost invariably the result of surface contamination. It can occur from airborn stuff settling on the basecoat, while sitting a few hours or days, and from skin oils. If anyone is using spray furniture polish, or anything containing silicone nearby, that's a recipe for disaster too. Pollen can also cause it, believe it or not. It's a problem with real-car and aircraft paint jobs as well, where a re-do can cost a shop literally thousands in materials alone. Best preventative I've found, 100% effective, is a wipe with a lint-free cloth or soft paper towels (I use the super cheapo generic white recycled ones), soaked in 70% isopropyl alcohol. Then blow whatever dust or lint is on it, and don't touch the surface with fingers. And be sure the surface is completely dry.

Movie plots seem to be becoming secondary as Hollywood puts more emphasis on hammering audiences with "The Message".

Dead flatbed semi loaded with enough lumber to build a house, in front of my house since about 2:20 when it showed up on my security cam feed. Still there now I'm home, guys working on it don't seem to have a clue. How the driver got it there's a mystery too, as there's a narrow 90degree hairpin turn that he would have to come through, and even big box trucks usually wipe their RH sides on a huge pine when they try. Fascinating. Oh yeah...and double standards always chap my wrinkly old backside.

"Work" means wildly different things to different people.

That one was removed earlier. It had to do with walls and blame shifting.

"Fellow" is often shortened to "fella", and there sure are a lot of little fellas masquerading as grown men all kinds of things these days.

Radio of the AM variety is being dropped from many new cars.

^^^ Obviously Photoshopped, but yeah, I have one of the misshapen Aurora 1/25 kits to do something very like that...actually, the one I'm stealing a few parts from to do this one, though I'll fix the awful proportion and line issues. Too bad what's in the box looks nothing like what's on it.

World Peace is just a pipedream as long as greed and lust for power-and-control are such basic components of human nature.

Yup. Somewhere, something thinks this is pretty hot...

Gee willikers. I was given a forever-point and banned for 30 days for making a joke about a pres-dent's mom-jeans. Should be interesting to see what happens here.

I don't get enough bench time to ever experience a "slump", but there are days I just don't feel like building models, period.

Ummmmmmmm... And in other news, only 19 more days to the Summer solstice. ?

I'd buy at least two sets, but only if the knockoffs were separate parts like the HRM version. Might be nice to have the actual OD specified too, or sell 'em with period-correct rubber. Some 3D guys seem to want to print wheels as assembled units, hubcaps, spinners, knockoffs, etc...all as one piece. Makes it the devil's own level of difficulty trying to finish them realistically.

Heads exploding in 3...2...1...

Thanks for the suggestion. The front suspension looks better on the Fire Fighter too, at least on the built photos I've been able to find. Thinking, thinking...

"Person" is the word for a member of what is supposedly the most intelligent species on the planet, but every day my doubt as to the truth of the "intelligent" part grows.

It's sure as h. why I used to.

Oops. I really like the contrast between the heavy rust on the body and not so much on the decklid. Looks like somebody made a new decklid skin, punched louvers in it, and then forgot to primer it...or just wanted to let it rust. It looks like just a couple of weeks of rust on fresh steel. Pretty cool effect.

Yeah, I pretty much had no use for 'em until I saw "Sudden Death", which I wasn't familiar with 'cause '75-'76 was right in the middle of my Euro-sportscar-snob period. Always liked Pintos though, and what's a Mustang II but a prettied-up Pinto? Stick a big engine in it, with a lot of setback, huge slicks...you have my attention. EDIT: Now that I think about it, a Mustang II could make a great smaller pro-touring build too, 1:1 or scale.

Guy's pretty phenomenal. And he gets his lines and proportions better than a lot of kit designers seem to be able to manage.

Fe is the symbol for iron on the periodic table

Another one I decided I "needed" after its full-scale big brother came up on a thread here...an AMT Mustang II bought specifically to build "Sudden Death". Being one of the originators of the whole "pro street" thing, it needs a place in my collection.

Yup, I have the drawing saved somewhere. Thanks for the reminder. And frankly, I think it lost something in Barris' translation. AMT doesn't mention Mr. Daniel though, IIRc...at least not on the box.