Ace-Garageguy

Fire-in-the-belly is a commodity in shrinking supply.

Wow.

Not exactly on the road, not exactly today, and not exactly me...a friend sent me this shot of a Mig29 at a little airport in Tmon, Az. yesterday.

Yourself is who you're going to have to count on when the stuff hits the fan.

Pole sitting was once a somewhat popular way for people craving attention and fame to get it, long before the interdwerbs and social media made attention and fame instantly accessible to anyone with a connection, regardless of their ability or talent.

Great work on my kind of truck: she ain't pretty, but she gets the job done every time.

CHiPs was a long-ago girlfriend's roommate's favorite TV show, so much loved in fact that she had a waterproof Eric Estrada poster in her shower.

"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do."

Pop goes the pimple.

Do frogs bump their tails when they hop?

Wanting in skill, perseverance, or patience, they are.

Sexy isn't all that sexy to me when it's the result of trying to be, kinda like being cool doesn't come about by trying to be cool.

Todays irk, and one that's been on my mind for many years, is the draining of Lake Mead. Created by the building of Hoover Dam back in the 1930s, and having last recorded "full" in 1983, two generations of incompetent water management practices in the region have reduced it to the lowest level in history, and there's a real possibility the dam may not be able to continue to generate hydroelectric power shortly. Prolonged drought be dammed...it's the responsibility of "leadership" to deal with reality, rather than sit on their hands, doing nothing but bemoan "climate change" while they continue to squander the single most critical resource necessary to human survival. For some perspective, consider that Israel is a desert country, but due to forward-thinking investment in and development of waste-water recycling and water infrastructure, including desalination plants that make sea water usable for farming and consumption, Israel now has a water SURPLUS. The same kind of intelligent vision that did that, and that built Hoover Dam in the first place, would have realized the hugely expanding population in the American Southwest, as well as declining snowpack in the watersheds that feed the Colorado River (the source of Lake Mead's water) were a recipe for disaster, and started building desalination plants on California's coast decades ago for drinking and agriculture. Mead's water could have been conserved as an emergency reservoir, and to guarantee a reliable source of electricity generation, increasingly important every day with the idiotic push to electrify the automobile fleet over the next few years. But no. All we got was dithering and incessant bla-bla-bla, while Mead's water flowed down the drain. If Israel can accomplish this, what's wrong with America, the country that once led the world in engineering ?

Machines are the foundation Western civilization is based on, as they allowed human and animal muscle-power to be replaced and amplified many times over.

Nantucket sleigh-rides were an exciting form of aquatic transportation in the days of sail-powered whaling.

Really sad and sorry for your loss, man. Love the bike.

Looks great up on its feet. Seeing it like this also makes me think the tooling designers did a pretty good job capturing the lines and proportions of the real one...not always the case.

Not exactly. See my post immediately above.

Contrary to at least one other response, it is NOT the propellant leaking. It is the clear carrier the pigment is suspended in, that makes it into "paint". The lower, rolled, sealed can edge on this generation of Testors rattlecans has a tendency to leak over time. Pigment mixed with carrier and propellant ("paint") are not in separate parts of the can. Propellant is a gas on top of the paint (though some is also dissolved in the liquid), so when the lower seam leaks, it's not primarily the propellant that escapes. The clear carrier you see oozing out is essentially clear lacquer or enamel, depending on the paint formulation. Besides being the medium that the pigment is suspended in to make "paint", it is also responsible for the "drying" characteristics of the paint, so using product that's lost some of its carrier CAN be a risky roll-of-the-dice. TEST the product on something unimportant BEFORE you commit to shooting a model with it. I speak from experience, and have had paint from these leaky cans work fine, and some that never dried and had to be stripped.

Yeah, I know that, and a look at recent results will confirm that I know that. Though I knew the car, I hadn't yet done my verification research to confirm I remembered correctly, and to try to get the production years. Verifying my remembry is something I've learned to do pretty religiously, after having on a few occasions posted WRONG information. I hate when that happens, and valuing my reputation as a "know it all", I try to avoid it.

Not too hard to hammer this together from a T kit and some 1/32 airplane wings... Here's a few more ideas... https://themindcircle.com/the-weird-history-of-flying-cars/

I had a girlfriend (I know, hard to believe) who referred to it as "squished bug green". I think she hit it pretty good.

Many is the time I've wished I could just hit some interdwerb troll in the face with a shovel.

Just a typical day in the world of internet experts.