Ace-Garageguy

Freud had some interesting ideas and theories as to what makes people tick.

Before comes after bethree.

Yup, pretty much the universal problem. It's highly skilled work that doesn't pay great, as is resin casting well. Far as casting goes, you need to have a broad enough product line so that something's always selling if you want to even think about making a living at it. That takes a whole lot of up-front work in masters and molds, and after all that, the products you like may not have much market appeal. Then there's the growing problem of being unable to find help that has any kind of physical skills, or interest in learning any. But out of 330,000,000 people there's not even a few?

Love that somebody else dealt with the non-sequitur.

She sits right.

Mo' debinately.

"Checked in da mail" is something I hate to hear.

Diet and exercise have been shown to help control type-2 diabetes.

My "tool storage and organization" is a lot like military planning. Everything looks great until the battle actually starts, then rapidly goes all to jell.

Best suggestion yet...and you get the rest of the kit to boot, all for about $35, shipped to your door Original: Recent modified reissue:

Free the whales, and eat a peach.

Yup, not cheap. But quality of the parts I've bought from him justify the cost.

Money doesn't grow on trees, but the way some folks spend other folk's bucks, you'd never know it.

Them pigs ain't gonna turn theyselves into chops and bacon.

Thanks for the interest and comments, gennelmen.

Yup, what he said.

Tenses are what you puts up to sleep in when you go campin'.

Yup. Great stuff.

I don't think Casey does those, but there's a good chance this guy does: https://www.ebay.com/str/3dscaleparts

Maybe the same ones that you already have...I kinda thought they were 17 inchers, but I don't have the kit here at this time to measure. They're pretty narrow too.

Them cows ain'ta gonna milk theyselves.

Cash payment can often substantially lower the cost of goods and services from individuals or small companies.

EDIT: As these things can be street-driven cars lightly prepped to drag (headlights removed, etc.) I figger it's appropriate to post here as a street roadster. This thing's been making a little progress, so I thought I'd give it its own new WIP thread. Started many years ago as a gluebomb rescue / rework, it's been languishing, sad and lonely, until the RoG drag-racing themed group build was proposed. It is, of course, the ancient AMT '29 Ford roadster, originally issued in a double kit with the first tooling of the Ala Kart, and reissued many times. This one's molded in red, so it's not a first-issue, which was molded in white. It came in already painted a somewhat pebbly, insipid yellow, and missing lotsa parts. I'm probably going to leave the yellow, but sand it with 1500 and possibly lightly polish. The bland banana yellow is typical of cheap Earl Scheib-type allover enamel paint jobs a lot of backyard rods of the period ended up with, and I'll be going for the low-gloss look these took on after a few years. To accommodate the flathead V8, the frame lost its center crossmember and battery box. The stock frame would have put the rear fenders pretty high relative to the tires. Can't have that (forgive the poor focus; my duh). After careful measuring, I found that a simple mod to raise the crossmember at the rear of the rails was all that was required to get the tail down to where I wanted it. Fabbing the white "wedges" from rectangular tube stock would be the strongest, cleanest way to accomplish this on a real one too. That dropped the fenders down over the glooey parts-box-sourced quickchange (already hung on an appropriate transverse spring)...though a fair bit of clearancing on the fender unit was necessary. Resulting rear tire clearance will be fine even for narrow slicks, if the axle width is carefully fitted so as to allow movement up into the fenders on bump or hard acceleration. Stance is where it needs to be now for the look I'm after, though the front is only mocked up at this point. More on that later