Ace-Garageguy

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.

I wish you luck. I have a couple cans from 2012 that haven't started oozing binder at the bottom, and still spray fine.

No pix, but as with most of my builds, the research into getting things right...this time with the Poncho engine block, primarily...has sent me down innumerable internet rabbit-holes. The upside is that I now know much more about Pontiac V8s than I used to, and it turns out some of my real parts are definitely the good ones. But there has to come a time I say "good enough" for a model, and settle for a reasonably correct representation, but even that is taking some fairly serious rework of the kit parts I have readily available. Pictures shortly, as I decide what to fix and what to let slide.

"Difficult" problem solving gets easier with practice.

"Bebop" jazz is sometimes my model-building music of choice.

Fine looking model. Loved needlenose Petes when I was a kid, always will.

https://jalopnik.com/emerson-fittipaldis-double-engined-volkswagen-beetle-5799726

http://www.vwfuncup.eu/en

Free video how-to library from a company that makes the silicone for molds and the resins for parts. https://freemanvideos.com/Moldmaking-Casting/

"Decorum" shouldn't be confused with "gutless suck-up".