Ace-Garageguy

Happy is the man whose significant other has a "mute" button.

"Enough" is not a word that can be used in the same sentence as "cherry pie".

Even the real seller sites like feePay are full of flakes, but at least there's somebody kinda riding herd on them. I would be much, much happier if I never had to deal with a human ever again. The real me.

Mine eyes have seen the glory...

Chili today, snowing tamale...

Enjoying the forum is as close as I've been to actually building a model in a pretty good while.

"Longer" is back in the lineup again, and it makes me think of a phrase that would undoubtedly bring on the wrath of the site police.

Longer I live, the shorter I seem to get.

He does look pretty calm at that.

"You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a prince" was humorous advice for young women in the past, but lately they seem to be taking it seriously, and posting their numbers on the web for "prestige".

I appreciate your input and agree entirely. The cheapo knockoffs will only be used for appearance upgrades for heavily weathered rolling stock that will be sitting on dead-lines or staged as if waiting for repair in one of the car or loco shops, and anything equipped with them will be clearly marked on the underside. I probably have enough scale dummy couplers to use, but I'd prefer to have the staged rolling stock be at least minimally functional, and use the dummies for scrap loads and yard clutter.

Much many NOS Kadee HO-scale #5 and other couplers and parts to equip over 100 cars, for considerably under standard market prices. And enough no-name knockoffs to do 48 more... So between these and the bulk coupler lots I've been buying for the last three years, all my junk railroad rescues/rebuilds and vintage craftsman kits ought to be covered. Also snagged a vintage Roundhouse powered 2-truck Shay locomotive kit, to keep the 3-trucker company on the mining/logging shortline. Complete, about 1/2 the going online price.

Logic and rationality and facts be hanged; I'll believe and mindlessly rebleat every idiotic thing I see on the web, and don't try to confuse me with reality or actual proof.

Yeah, nothing says hardcore-gearhead like random parts "artistically" misrepresented, looking nothing like the real ones. I like this mo better...

Very nice job. I wondered what this kit would look like built by a regular human and not extensively retouched in the photos.

More is better and less is more so less is better QED.

What I expected to be an annoying PITA at my bank, after the rep I've been working with for 10 years transferred to another branch, was a piece of cake. The new person is smart, knows her job, the bank regs, and took care of everything almost instantly. It's really nice to encounter competence.

Soaps sometimes seemed to be the last refuge for b-list actors who were past their sell-by dates.

I have some engine kits and engine parts that were 3D printed by wizards exactly like you're describing...from CAD rendering all the way through to final prints. The ones I'm referring to are staggeringly good...and most of the guys here have probably never seen them. Considering the quality and detail, in MY mind, the prices are entirely justified. As Carmac says above, developing accurate tooling from scans for injection-molding (the most cost-effective way to make plastic parts for large runs) may very well take a combination of scanning technology to get the shapes, lines, and proportions copied from existing kits, and some CAD work to tune up fine details. Still, it's all within the realm of what's currently possible, and the prices for exceedingly high-resolution scanners will continue to come down, as all tech does with time. There are, by the way, many poorly-rendered, poorly-proportioned, and marginally printed 3D kits out there too...and I have several that disappointed me mightily considering how relatively easy it would have been to get the numbers RIGHT. As with every field of human endeavor, there are people who are very very good at what they do, and those who aren't and just don't care.

"Diorama in the Style of Picasso" would be an interesting subject for a piece of contemporary greate arte...or you could just nail up some bananas.

COOL!!! I had one of those too. Great for making muddy colored water automatically.

100% agreed. Some is. And some is just stupid change-for-the-sake-of-change. Not everything new is better.

Opposite ends of the same line are equally far apart.

Worries seem to be the only thing some people live for, but I prefer to change the things I can and ignore the rest.