Ace-Garageguy

Yup, tasty indeed.

Yup, really pretty...and a rebuild too. Double points from me.

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DELETE IMPERFECT DOUBLE POST.

Why not define perfection, for our purposes, as achieving the results you set out to achieve? If you set out to build a model that is as reasonably accurate as can be expected in the scale you're working in (it varies enormously, of course), with good fit of parts, a finish that represents well what you wanted to represent (gloss or patina, etc.), and mechanical elements that could actually work in reality...all with a consciously defined level of good-enough...fine. You've achieved what you set out to achieve. If you set out to assemble a model without correcting flash, sink marks, paint everything with a brush and leave the brush marks showing, and aren't bothered by glooey fingerprints on clear parts, wavy masking lines, and some parts on backwards, then you've also achieved what you set out to achieve. EDIT: Trying to define perfection is like calculating pi. No matter how far you go, you can still go farther. The goal is unattainable because it's infinite, but it might sometimes be of interest to see how close you can actually get. For me, 3.14 is usually "close enough".

Set high standards for yourself and then try to live up to them, moment by moment. You may not always succeed, but the conscious, honest effort to be the best you can be is what counts most in my book.

Alps printers' ability to lay down a precise white opaque underlayment, and then print colors over it, made them the favorite of custom decal makers.

On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed.

"Anomaly" would be an understatement if a black hole were to open up and swallow DC whole.

Loud IC engines on a track still make me all misty-eyed.

In the year 9525, I wonder if intelligent life will have evolved on Earth yet.

Bars on the windows when you wake up in the morning are usually an indication there may be unpleasant consequences for the previous evening's activities.

The beveled centers on the knobs and handles take them to a whole 'nother level. I assume you did that by twiddling appropriately angled drill tips? And what "plating" method did you use?

Fried peanut butter and banana sammiges rocked Elvis' world, and Scotland is known as the home of battered and deep-fried Mars bars.

Yup, but "cool" doesn't begin to describe how cool this thing really is. I want one.

Very nice. This is why I love the old parts-packs and the kits derived from them. You can't get much more period-perfect.

Apply logic, reason, and critical thinking to everything you're told, and you just might stand a chance of understanding the difference between truth and highly stacked boloney.

Yup. Anyway, Mr. Zippi did a nice job with his, and I appreciate the shot of all of 'em together. They look like a flock of cute little robot bird-things. I'd enjoy living in that alternate reality.

Norman Bates didn't have the same reaction to having Janet Leigh staying at my motel as I would have.

Response time can be a mother.