Ace-Garageguy

Snake45 (http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/profile/14409-snake45/) is an avid aircraft builder, and seems to be knowledgeable about older kits. He might be a good source of info for you.

Looks great, especially considering all the problems the kit was born with. Sure would be nice if somebody would tool an accurate 914 that actually looks like a 914, as the body lines and proportions on that kit are awful. But somehow, I don't foresee that happening.

There's a pretty good market for builtups on eBay as "rebuilders", and they usually bring decent money, but not a lot unless they're something really rare, like clean adult-assembled early '60s cars. I've bought loads of them, as the prices are considerably less than unbuilt kits, for interesting subject matter. Far as built aircraft go, I really don't know...but it looks like he has some very interesting and unusual planes in there, and I'd think there'd be a market for most of them among connoisseurs, again accessible through eBay. I've sold oddball stuff all over the planet through eBay, and you can't beat it for reaching a global market.

Re-chromed real-car parts often come back from the plater with waves, deep scratches, and uncorrected bends that spoil the fit, but hey...they're shiny.

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Enterprise software is not a substitute for effective, knowledgeable hands-on management, but is just another tool in the box.

Gloobomb Monogram 275P, to be race #23. This is going to be more work than I thought. Teardown complete except for sawing off the heavily glooed roll bar fairing and interior bits. Getting the wheels out of the tires without destroying anything was as close to brain surgery with a chainsaw and a hammer as I'm likely to get. The builder apparently used what remained of the tube after assembling everything else to make sure the wheels would hold together at 200MPH. Testors/Italeri 250 GTO, with Deeks wire wheel centers (which I may or may not use), to be race #32. Though I prefer the proportions of the Gunze GTO (the only other Ferrari GTO kit I haven't moved west yet), this one has the correct rear wheel arches and lips, and a slightly flatter nose that looks,to me, more like the Sebring #32 car...but it needs an additional gill on each front fender. Kit had been lightly started. Front lower pan sawed off, templating gills to add one forward. Roughly transferred initial drilling guide.

Well to "H" with that.

Potties of the Porta persuasion are often welcome sights at outdoor events.

Yup. I ran into that on one Cobra Daytona kit...guess it was this one, and why I put it away until later in life.

12:00 PM in what time zone?

"Therapeutic" is definitely what I can say my recent, though limited, bench time has been.

Gang connectors of different configurations and numbers of conductors make my custom wiring harnesses somewhat idiot-proof if/when serviced by chimps in the future.

You seem to have failed to grasp the meaning of my original assertion, so there's not anything I can say to refute an argument to something that wasn't part of my assertion. Try thinking it through again, using precision.

Logic by the numbers: 1) The EU and Britain are pushing for people to buy electric vehicles. 2) Energy and food costs are skyrocketing, so there's a very real chance people will have to choose between food and heating their homes. 3) That leaves them no money to purchase electric vehicles. 4) The cost of fuel for existing ICE vehicles wasn't even a part of my original assertion, and is totally irrelevant. EDIT: 5) BUT, as you chose to try to make it a part of the discussion here, if a household can't afford fuel for an existing ICE vehicle, it sure as hello can't afford to buy a new EV.

Straw man much? Before you can charge an electric vehicle, you have to BUY an electric vehicle. See how that works?

A quick overview of California's energy policy, including proposed plants under review for future construction, those few already under construction, and the recent energy bill passed into law, indicate Cali is in no way prepared, nor will it be, to cope with the coming mandated-electric-vehicle recharging loads. https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/06/california-power-plant-deal/

Britain's winter energy cost to citizens is now predicted to be SIX TIMES what it was just earlier this year. Yeah, go get that electric car when in reality you have to choose between heating and eating.

Bench time has been hard to come by the last couple years, but what I've managed to squeeze in over the past few days has done my head a world of good.

Got in a box of beautiful stuff from Model Builder's Warehouse, including one each of the 3D printed transaxles Randy announced recently. After I load the photos in the computer, I may post some here.

VERY nice. I'd been contemplating going something similar. You've sold me.

"Form should follow function" is a design philosophy that will never let you down.

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