Ace-Garageguy

Some do, some don't. Modelhaus kits are going for 4 or more times what they went for when they shut down. My vintage Revell parts-packs had appreciated hugely up until Atlantis repopped several of them. But that doesn't bother me particularly. I bought the originals with the intention of building them, and the availability of repops just means I have more source material to build from. For instance, I can do as many Fiat altereds as I want (lots), with no worries about running out of first editions. What with old tooling being dusted off and brought back out, and the looming possibility of accurately scanned repops of long gone tooling hitting the market, it's probably not smart to buy models as "investments".

Category 6, 7, and 8 hurricanes failed to materialize this season, which was in fact remarkably average in spite of hysterical rhetoric warning otherwise. https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/damaging-2022-atlantic-hurricane-season-draws-to-close

Yeah...try THAT with your smart phone!

Frankly, I think ALL printed books should be banned. That quaint ink-on-chopped-trees technology is so past-it. I mean if you can't read whatever you need to read on a digital device, you just need to crawl in a hole and die because you're too old anyway. Besides, who needs to actually read? Everything you could possibly need to know comes with, like, voices over the web, for god's sake. Reading is for people who think they're special or something. And nobody needs to understand this ancient "alphabetical order" junk. There are countless websites operating just fine, thank you, without it. "Can't live in the past", you know. We're in the selfie-tik-tok-app-for-everything world now, and nobody needs to understand fractions or know where England is...or look at stupid words printed on stupid paper when you have "smart" right in the palm of your hand.

Yes, they are. I have one of his Ferrari 166 Barchetta kits. Only thing I'm not ecstatic about is his non-wire wheels and tires are molded in one piece...which I'll be changing.

Laws can be needlessly intrusive and illogical.

I hope it doesn't seem I'm picking on you; it's a great looking model anyone would be proud of. Far as the engine goes, the exhaust port configuration is consistent with a Y-block (port spacing like a SB Chevy, rather than evenly spaced like the majority of Fords), so calling it a 302 doesn't work either. Again...it's a fine model, so probably best not to sweat it. Who knows? It could be a one-off experimental Ford engine.

Depart ya needs is always somewheres else.

Very nice...but the distributor's in the back on a Y-block.

Mind watcha say, or mommy won't letcha play.

Funny how for decades eggs were the absolute best protein value going, and now that the idea of eating bugs is beginning to be pushed, and animal farming is being attacked as a contributor to "climate change", egg prices are skyrocketing.

Kisser fish, or kissing gourami, are one of the odder species.

Yup, or the whole book was gone, or the handset was missing, or the coin slot was jammed...which just goes to show there's never been a shortage of human-shaped walking excrement.

That's really pretty. But damm...just when I thought I had all the American cars I needed...

Yeah, just ask Siri, right? I'll save you the effort...

Yeah, it takes maybe 5 to 30 seconds to find a number in a printed book. Time how long it takes on a "device". EDIT: I forgot...there are two generations lacking the concept of "alphabetical order".

Always a treat seeing your attention to detail. I'm working through a few Poncho engine issues on a build of my own, and your work here is certainly helpful.

Yup, and the tight grain makes them look much more scale-correct than balsa.

"Mama" hasn't run my life since I was a young lad, which probably accounts in part for me being single.

Lucky Strike cigarettes were my favorite brand back in the dawn of time, when dinosaurs ruled the earth and men lived dangerously.

Law of averages holds that even a blind hog gets an acorn occasionally.

One of the best kits of all time, IMHO. Nice work.

Well, I'll have a Tamiya Bug body left over after the split-window build, and it needs a home...

Yup, the Airfix Boomerang is indeed pretty bad, but it's not nearly as difficult to correct as the C111...though it's still no walk in the park. http://forum.autoinscale.com/viewtopic.php?id=7538

I sprung for the C111 some time ago, thinking "how bad can it be?" Pretty bad. Not as challenging as carving one from a block of pine, but not by much.