Ace-Garageguy

Man, that looks good. Nothing special here either...just a hearty Tuscan pork and lentil stew, with warm buttered black bread and a cheap California Pinot Noir. Pumpkin muffin for dessert, and dark, strong, black coffee.

Just flat stupidest model-related thing I ever did was leave the first car I ever got a good spray-paint job on in the convertible top well of my parents' Oldsmobile, in the sun, for hours. Somehow, light coming through the rear plastic window concentrated on the model, just as though it had been a magnifying glass. I vividly remember my horror at seeing my beautiful Pontiac Grand Prix, painted with AMT's metallic green lacquer, warped all out of any semblance of repairable. It was a good kick in the butt, and made me start thinking about things before I'd done something really idiotic. I still have the real '63 Olds, too.

Care in most things I do has, thankfully, left me with two eyes and ten full-length fingers after over five six decades of continuous playing with things that can be seriously hurty.

"Breath" and "breathe" are two more similar words careless writers often misuse.

"It doesn't get much more fun and entertaining than this!!!" said nobody about this game, ever.

I expected to see one going through the wood chipper.

For what it's worth (not much), I quit eating king and snow crab many years ago. The populations have been declining from overfishing for decades, but it's been more expedient to lie about it, or more recently to blame "climate change" or other boogieman causes, and avoids placing any responsibility on the part of consumers. https://peer.org/alaska-red-king-crab-dethroned-by-scientific-fraud/ PS: Anybody remember seeing vast herds of buffalo recently? No? Why do you suppose that is?

Frankly, the scaling of many kit engines is so imprecise, you can usually swap between 1/24 and 1/25 sources without it being obvious. Truth: often, if you compare the same engine (like smallblock Chevys for instance) from a kit labeled 1/24, and a different car entirely labeled 1/25 side by side, while they should be noticeably slightly different sizes, they just aren't. Several kits have even been released labeled as 1/24 and 1/25 at different times, and some aftermarket parts are labeled as appropriate for both scales, on the same package. I've really had no immediately noticeable problems, and I'm kinda a stickler about appearance. There are, unfortunately, several engines in kits labeled 1/25 that are so ridiculously under-scale, you can't even use 'em in what they come in if you have any feeling whatsoever for correct relative sizes.

Always nice to know you've still got some time, and a good time to be thankful for each remaining day. Glad you're OK.

Nah. All the pasty white skin, wrinkles, sagging fat rolls, and age spots scare the wildlife.

The bird is free.

That looks really good.

Well, if it'll make you feel any better, analysts are saying the US could run out of diesel by sometime around Thanksgiving. If that happens, the price of model kits will be the least of your worries. Gee...remember just a couple years ago when we were totally energy independent, fuel was plentiful and relatively cheap? Hmmmm...I wonder what happened...

Oh baby... I've got enough old Revell 1/8 bike pieces-parts to build that. Thanks.

Yeah, I read that. Maybe they evolved a collective intelligence, decided they were tired of being dinner, and moved into hiding.

Peculiar individuals can be quite interesting.

First of the "century" series, one of my favorites, and the original Wild Weasel platform. What kit?

Clocks that go tik-tok are undecipherable by a certain class of individuals.

I believe you'd be correct. Full torque instantly available at every stab of the throttle, most likely no pesky gear shifting either. But it still sounds like an enraged golf cart.

Manner and manor are often used interchangeably, and wrong, because using words correctly is only a concern of past-it, pedantic old fossils who shout at clouds and kids on the lawn, and probably don't even have the toilet-flushing app or know how to take selfies or post videos on TikTok.

And there'll likely be a whole lotta poaching too. After all, who's going to enforce the closure? There's never been any shortage of folks who'll ignore restrictions.

Occurrence of the phrase "trip the light fantastic" is something we don't encounter often these days.

The result of showing the "Schrödinger's cat" illustration to today's collegians...

Nah...that's the definition of "drifting" as the word is used today. Ken Block's precise control is so far beyond most of those clowns... This thing does sound like a slot- or RC car though.

I'm in love.