Ace-Garageguy

stupid as ever

Australia folks be upside-down.

Expense accounts are among the perks I've missed since walking away from a white-collar profession.

Revolution simply for the sake of revolution...without having any understanding of what's being revolted against...seems to be much of today's game plan.

Gravy...yes please!

"Fathom that" she said with an oh-so-superior sneer, not realizing I too knew the word could be used as a verb.

Fighter aircraft based on carriers and built by our inscrutable friends in the Far East have seemed to be having difficulty achieving flight with full fuel and weapons loads.

My only real problem with the kit is its Jay Leno chin. The front bumper is way too heavy looking, incorrectly proportioned, and spoils the initial impression of the face. It's correctable, but beyond the capability of a casual modeler. The '57 Nomad, based on the same tooling, has a roof that droops towards the rear, too. Again correctable, and again a PITA to do. People complain about the operating features, but they're fixable...and again with more effort necessary than lotsa folks want to put out. I rather like the engines and chassis in the kits, high parts count, etc. IIRC, there's an intake manifold base that works well as a Man-A-Fre. The separate opening panels make the kits naturals for representing low-buck junkyard-refugee drag cars (assembled from mismatched parts), and in that case, you can lose the front bumper entirely (depending of course on class and era you're trying to represent).

Boxes in the attic are often the final resting place of broken dreams.

Days of Future Passed has been one of my favorite albums for decades.

Really like what you've got going with this one.

Bane of civilization: willfully ignorant ideologues trying to force a "green energy" revolution before it's in any way practical.

Did anybody see Yoda?

Convincing proof of how good that relatively simple kit can look.

Yup.

"Game" is what the young lady was asked if she was, in a ribald joke I can't repeat here.

Almost all the "sandable" automotive rattlecan primers are lacquers. And the subject of one-part putties, just thick lacquer primers, has been discussed to death.

If you have a lifetime of experience, all you have to do is smell it to know what it is. Paint product labeling actually used to be better, but since most consumers don't have a clue as to what enamel or lacquer or much of anything else is, the can labeling is getting dumber with every passing year...along with the consumers. Lacquer primers used to say whet they were, but today, not so much. And all that differentiates lacquer from enamel is the carrier and the binder.

Yes, there ARE enamel primers. When I started painting real cars, cheap shops were still using synthetic enamel topcoats, and some of the primers were enamel. Enamel primers are typically NON-sanding, because of their drying characteristics. I've had all kinds of problems trying to topcoat a urethane repair when some doofus had previously shot hardened acrylic enamel or acrylic urethane over a synthetic enamel primer. You can get away with it once, sometimes, but when the repair topcoat hits it, the previous topcoat wrinkles like you shot paint stripper on it.

Luck is that thing you make by working while everybody else is sleeping late.

Nice project. Paint looking really good so far too. I've always really liked AMT's little '29. Perfect kit for a build like this.

A little food for thought: when you get something for free, it's usually worth exactly what you paid for it.

For some odd reason, first phrase that pops up in my mind: who gave the monkey a gun?

Disillusioned was 1970; now I'm just downright fed up.