Ace-Garageguy

They can't figure out how to turn on the rakes and brooms.

Me too...but much as I love the P-51, I'd opt to fly a P-47, the original "Thunderbolt" if I could go back... Like its namesake A-10, it could take a lot of punishment and get its pilot home, and was an effective close-air-support platform.

Satisfying a primal urge to create is part of my attraction to model-building.

Thanks very much. I'll be looking for the slot car shell...

Have you seen this? (compiled by Jordan White) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EsIQ5YN87r7TrJv89FpNq8lAiqihIfcapOUJ2IP1gQ8/edit#gid=0 And read through this thread for the color you're after...

Very nice build of a kit that definitely has its share of issues.

Proportions are right, stance is dead-on, parts choices work together...and the bare metal effect is the absolute best I've ever seen for what it's supposed to be. Truly outstanding work.

Wow. Just plain wow. I swear, if I had my life to do over, I'd try to be an A-10 driver. Wonderful photos, and those big 'ol B-1s sure are pretty.

Nice indeed. Love to see pristine kits actually built, almost as much as I love to see bodged messes rebuilt.

Cool bike. I'd love to have that out in the desert.

Experience, if one has talent and desire, ultimately leads to expertise.

Great stuff, love every one. And what's the story on the XP87?

You really don't need "hard" wire for the length of runs you'll use on a model. Softer wire, not even as stiff as paper clip wire, is entirely acceptable. It's stiff enough to support itself, but soft enough to be easily formed around anything of a suitable radius. What is important though, is to use the right diameter wire to accurately represent 3 or 4 AN (brake lines), 6AN and 8AN (fuel lines), 10AN (large fuel and most oil lines), and 12AN (larger oil lines).

Movie producers today often seem to want to hammer the audience with guilt-inducing "social justice" messaging, rather than just telling a good story...which is why the new Top Gun movie was so successful without all the baloney.

Claypool, Indiana had a population of 431 in 2010, according to that year's census.

Great resource. Thanks for posting the link.

Love the colors and the pinstriping and the rolling stock. Nice.

Fuel senders are almost always floats of some kind, either swinging in an arc, or linear, vertically. If the sender is positioned at the front of the tank, and you're parked with the nose uphill, there can still be sufficient fuel at the pickup to run, but the sender will be at the bottom of its travel and read "empty"...which in the case of your truck's internal logic, inhibits starter function (which is probably a good idea if your truck has that annoying stop/start function, as those starters are insanely expensive compared to their dinosaur ancestors, and prolonged cranking is hard on any of 'em). Anyway, most vehicles have the senders and pickups roughly at the center of the tank, so you've got a about a 50/50 chance of picking up fuel however the vehicle is oriented. But I gotta tell ya...and it's going to p--- you off...these days, don't assume there's any well thought-out "reason" for doing anything. Almost daily, we see things that defy logic from a functional engineering standpoint, and we have a great time poking fun at folks mousing around on their little CAD screens who have very obviously never seen how anything works in the physical world.

^^^ How helpful.