Ace-Garageguy

Makes me think of barbeque...

Meal worms in your Cheerios make for a less than appetizing breakfast.

Rival Crock-Pots make great, almost idiot-proof roasts.

Beer is the answer to all of your problems, unless it becomes a the problem.

95 is about when I'm planning to get my second wind.

Spotmodel shows new stock arriving for some part numbers.

Sometimes there's info available on this very site:

Yeah, I never understood why some aftermarket maker didn't offer a sprue of 'em. Some truck kits have trees of various lenses in yellow and red, Revell used to do a bubble top and other clear stuff parts-pack, some of the parts in the AMT and Revell bumper and grille parts packs needed clear lenses to complete 'em, etc. Looks like trees of clear fluted lenses would have been a no-brainer, especially when you look at some of the goofy parts-packs that did make it to market. Like chrome seats. Really?

"Watch this" I shouted as I donned my wax wings and prepared to fly around the Sun.

Riveted fans were pretty common back before everything went to plastic. 1" thick blades though...nah.

Frustrations abound when one attempts to travel across the Sea of Red Tape with anything remotely resembling speed.

Morning coffee and MEK, or cutting oil, or a little lacquer thinner or bondo stink...man, that's the smell of money being made.

Man, those look great. Nice trick there, sir. Yeah, I sometimes forget how measuring-challenged many in the model-tooling biz apparently are.

Unless you vacuum-mold them, like the googly-eyes people sometimes use for no-flute lenses.

The most important part of getting a realistic looking headlight lens is remembering the fact that the flutes on the real glass lenses are on the inside, and the outside convex surface is smooth. Many kit or diecast lenses put the flutes on the outside, and this looks immediately toylike to me. The problem with having the flutes inside the lens is that it requires a 2-part mold to capture both surfaces. There are plenty of UV-inhibited clear casting resins that won't yellow appreciably over time. But it's still a lot of fiddly work to make good ones...worthwhile in my opinion, as good headlights really set a build apart. EDIT: Something else to remember is that there are only two standard sizes for US sealed beam round headlights, and only two for rectangular as well, so there aren't that many molds you'll need to make.

The court case is absolutely hilarious.

I think it's pretty obvious the federal government should pass laws forbidding anyone from owning boxes marked "ACME", explosives in any form for any purpose, magnets, bird seed, detour signs, catapults, anvils, and hot air balloons, and all these items should be confiscated on a nationwide basis. According to multiple studies that ignore or willfully misinterpret easily accessible data, this will solve the coyote crime problem.

Give me a trailer full of Spam, a few chickens, and a small vegetable garden, and I'm good for the collapse of Western Civilization.

Well that's pretty dangity cool. I need something like that to do plaid seats in an old Mercedes race car. Have to give it a try.

One is not necessarily greater than zero, according to a lot of zeros who insist that math and logic are oppressive.

Man after my own heart. These days I'll usually smoke less than a pack a year, but if I smoke at all, it's unfiltered Camels or Luckies when I can find 'em.

The question was about using DTM primers on die-cast, I related the answer to real-car practice, and yes, I'd definitely scuff fully dry DTM primer with 180 prior to applying polyester filler. I usually scuff plastic with 180 prior to applying polyester filler as well. And I don't have adhesion or featheredge lifting problems. Ever. EDIT: I have had featheredge lifting problems after applying polyester (catalyzed 2-part) over plastic only scuffed with 400 or so. After shaping and featheredging, subsequent priming with lacquer primer would sometimes pull up the featheredge. But hey...I've been experimenting for decades, and I know what works for me.

Wow. What-ifs are among my favorites in the hobby, and this beats everything I've ever seen by another order of magnitude. Few things really rate "stunning", but this does. Thanks for turning us on to it.

I need to lose the equivalent of two to three cats.