Ace-Garageguy

Thanks. I sometimes have to drag myself kicking and screaming to do it, but it's always worth the effort.

Supercool. I've seen a few operational British steam tractors, but never a truck. And you got a ride.

Looks like a surplused-out Oshkosh PLS M1075A1

Advice, the free kind, is very often worth exactly what you pay for it

Got in a 2 hour hike in 90 deg F, humidity remarkably low at 55%. Drank 2 quarts of water. Feel pretty great for an old fossil right now.

Nice lot of kit, nice drawings. You have some talent.

Interesting car, not my taste, but I'm still glad to see it's survived and has a good home.

You're not being singled out for not bothering to read the rules and spoiling this round for everyone else. Rounds have been cancelled in the past for exactly the same infraction by other people, and have been handled exactly the same way. It even says right there in the rules that in the event somebody violates the rules, the round will be cancelled and no winners will be announced. I'm sure everybody "forgives" you, but that doesn't restore this round of the game.

I don't believe anybody said that. At least I'm dammed sure I didn't. But his quality isn't usually top notch, and is inconsistent. That's the simple truth. Some of his pieces I have aren't any worse than some Flintstone stuff, which can also be spotty in quality. But I do NOT believe I should have to correct literally hundreds of pinholes in something, or fabricate missing areas that just didn't get molded. Some people get their work RIGHT before they sell it, and to some it obviously doesn't matter. But yes, a competent modeler CAN build beautiful models from his stuff (as is the case with the re-released "junk" kits that get hated on from time to time here), as you demonstrate convincingly above.

Pretty cool. I may need to find a copy of that.

"Ever and anon" is an old fashioned way of saying "now and then".

Trees, knees, bees, and fleas all rhyme.

Yup. I found a couple when I was packing last week. Not quite as bad as all that, but pinholey, missing rocker panel on one, etc. Only thing is, for some of his subjects, he's the the only game in town AFAIK.

Dwelling in the desert frees one from the swampeast summer annoyances of rust, skeeters, mold, mildew, and assorted species of fungus.

"Avenue of Broken Dreams" could be the title of a diorama featuring unfinished models, parked on a weed-grown street.

"Is" is apparently a word of various and sundry meanings, depending on what your definition of "is" is.

I've noticed the price of a jar of Hellman's mayonnaise in one store is now well over $6, up significantly over the $3 and change a couple years back. This old mans shop i can barely support because of what he does, because I'm not that stupid to pay almost twice the price for a jar of mayo when i know i can get it else where cheaper and i have. [sic] I'm looking for a sandwich-builder's web forum where I can belabor this endlessly.

"Have Glue, Will Travel" could be the name of a TV series nobody would watch where an adhesive-slinging latter-day knight travels the country dealing with injustice in the modeling community.

Mittens make it tough to pick your nose.

Bobcat excavators are fun to use, and make light work of trenching and post-hole digging.

Nothing unusual here. People who write marketing and packaging copy don't always actually know anything about what they're describing. Pay attention and you'll see similar idiocy everywhere. Competence isn't necessarily a requisite for employment, and knowledgeable, effective oversight is often lacking. It's just the way things are today.

Have you waxed the model previously, or possibly used a "polish" containing wax or silicone? Any of the above will cause your problem too.

Zeppelin propulsion, specifically the American rigid airships Akron and Macon, was one of the originally intended uses of the Allison V-1710, but both ships were lost while the engine was still in development.