Ace-Garageguy

Tried to find it on eBay, no luck...but I sure wish I'd known about that publication a long time ago.

Cat puke in your shoe can get your morning off to a bad start.

Meet reality with your fingers in your ears and a blindfold over your tightly closed eyes, shouting lalalalalala...so nothing that might make you think things aren't all rainbows, puppies, and unicorns can possibly get in.

Victory over a physical adversary is only temporary if it doesn't destroy his malignant ideology, but you can't kill an idea, no matter how irrational and evil it might be.

I did get another cheap, trashed body for the project, as the one I'm working with, and will use, had so much gloo slathered on some areas that I couldn't really tell what they were supposed to look like. The extra body is more for reference than anything else...and sadly, the extra wire wheels and tires that came with it are 1/32.

Filling jelly donuts must eventually become a boring job, without much hope for promotion.

"Perfect stance" doesn't get any more perfect than that. No smoke-blowing...that thing is just righteous, with plenty of room for beach bunnies.

If you haven't checked out https://www.3dscaleparts.com , you should. Everything I have from him is first rate. He sells on eBay too. Beautiful stuff.

Groovy Grove...anybody else remember him from Dick Tracy?

Top-line-sunglasses (see what I did there? ) of the 'aviator' style are still my preferred summer outdoor eyewear; the pair I wear most often are military issue from the late '60s.

I'd already pretty much made up my mind to go ahead and get one of these, figgering they wouldn't get any cheaper, so when this one came up in a slightly damaged box for enough under current market to get me off the fence, I did. Nice kit, complete, no damage inside. The plan is to bash it into a semi-replica of my daily-driver '62 double-cab I ran in the '70s (letting it get away in the early '90s was the second most stupid car mistake I ever made), but build it into what I'd envisioned it could be when I first got the thing. It was the color of this one, but not as nice, having a few rot holes in the rockers, and a caved in nose after I let someone else drive it...pretty easily fixable though. I bought it with a tired 40-horse (that snapped the crankshaft but still got me home and back to work the next day) for $250, and it never got farther along than a mildly warmed over 1600 dual-port. I miss it, almost every day.

Losing things that are almost in plain sight on the work bench can be annoying, but it's nothing new for this old fossil.

Really cool. Love those fishtails too.

Wall-throwing is not the best way to get a difficult model to cooperate, and though it can be tempting at times, the trick is to always remember you're smarter than inert plastic...at least, in theory.

Looks like the cat's been eating mustard again...

Nothin' like going out with a bang... https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/20/business/dodge-demon-170/index.html

Models draped over exotic cars were once every lad's favorite wall decor, though it's kinda hard to believe now, I know.

Double extra good plus, especially all the hack and swap to get the trans right. That's where it really helps to have your own junkyard.

Alligator-skin-looking paint can be caused by prolonged weathering outdoors.

Here's the one that comes in the AMT '39 Chevy Wagon Rod (not my model; it was built by Raul_Perez http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=28488) And anudder one...

First official day of Spring (yesterday) and my dogwoods have just started to bloom, first round of daffodils have already come and gone. Also the vernal equinox, when the daylight hours are the same as the dark hours, and days continue to get longer again until the Summer solstice, the longest day of every year.

You can almost certainly fix it by VERY CAREFULLY wet-sanding, right up next to the bleed edge, using a folded over piece of 600 grit, then use a polishing compound to bring the gloss back up. CAREFULLY is the watchword, but I've fixed stuff worse than that. In the future, you might also consider one of the 3M fine-line green plastic tapes made for real cars. They adhere very well to prevent edge-bleed, are very thin, and will follow curves well. I've used the stuff for flames and stripes on real cars and numbers on real aircraft for decades.

Do wa diddy diddy dum diddy do...she looked good, she looked fine, then I nearly lost my mind...

Thing is though, Gramps's going to need to be a master hacker to repair much on the newer ones these days...

Another cheap 3-fer deal. I never buy this generation of Nascar kits unless they're practically giving them away (as I get 'em for parts), but I'll probably actually build the '89+ T-bird at some point, though most likely as an obsolete NASCAR piece repurposed into an LSR car. Also snagged an extra body for the Ferrari 275P project, as there was so much gloo slathered on some parts of the one I'm working with, I couldn't tell exactly what a few areas were supposed to look like. Unfortunately, the wheels that came with it are 1/32 scale, not 1/24.