Ace-Garageguy

It's over.

Nice work, specially that imaginative frame graft, and the expanded metal for the stack heat-shield. I like it.

I don't know what kinds of music you like, but this one works on Win7, and has lotsa different stuff. Free. https://somafm.com/ YT has a lot of different live-stream genres that run 24-7 too (free, and no commercials if you run AdBlock). I've set up all my computers to play through amps and real speakers, and I can always find exactly what I'm in the mood for...even 10 hours straight of rain and thunder, or waves breaking on the shore. If you like smoky, jazzy instrumental blues, YT has this that runs for 8 hours:

Not a very smart cat either, apparently. Probably unfriendly because his water always tasted like pee, and he blamed everyone but himself.

I think Dunkin' Donuts has gone the way of most stuff...cheapened and de-contented to barely resemble the product they originally sold. Their coffee used to be among the best back in the '70s, but it's insipid dishwater these days, and the bagged stuff just doesn't cut it anymore either...unless you like insipid dishwater. Over by the federal park where I go hiking, there opened a biscuit/sandwich joint a few years back. Best biscuits I've ever had anywhere, bar none. Expensive but worth every nickel for their flaky, buttery goodness. Last time I went in they'd fiddled with the recipe, and the new improved result is tasteless greasy cardboard.

Stopped by the local HobbyTown for some odds and ends, they didn't have the kit I wanted, so I just got some panel line enhancers to try, the last bottle of Model Master zinc chromate in the universe, and an Aoshima #78, 14" wheel/tire set. The centers are somewhat similar to wheels that appeared on the front of the Lotus 23. The plan is to narrow them to something more reasonable than how they come, fit narrower higher aspect-ratio tires, and use 'em for a Lotus 7 slalom car.

Yeah, and I hate it when the ferals disappear too. Outdoor momcat and one of her brothers still come around every day for chow if hunting is poor, but I only saw her last litter once, and they should be coming to get solid food by now. I heard a cat fighting with something else a while back, and I'm pretty sure a raccoon got the kittens. There's a huge raccoon that takes the cat food if I don't put it away at night. It really is a jungle out there, rough on cats that don't have people.

I'm really looking forward to getting one of these back on the bench now, and working through all the interrelated interference issues. I'm surprised I completely failed to notice the kit's incorrect orientation of the carb velocity stack mounting flanges, but Joe is absolutely right. Wow.

Several ways to skin this particular cat. Randy's brass and copper fabrication work is getting up there in Wingrove territory, and that's saying a lot. Though I'd also opt for brass if I tried to build this frame at this point in time, Bill Cunningham did 3D-print a birdcage frame for the model he showed here back in November. He exhibited several models, among the best I've ever seen in 1/24-1/25. They have to be seen in person to be fully appreciated.

Thank you. Good to know.

Nice.

NICE !!

Clifford Brown, With Strings. Never heard it before.

As part of my continuing quest to nail down as many '50s big American cars as I can find, I bought this little 1/26 Maisto '55 Buick in CHP livery...cheap. Though it looks pretty rough in the photo, it cleaned up nice. It's a pretty decent model, much better than I expected, for not much money.

Very interesting...

Yes, beautiful...just beautiful. Lately I find my interest in old, heavy trucks to be on the upswing, and this really lights my jets. NICE.

It's amazing what a great job the USPS is capable of doing, and even more amazing how uneven and sporadic the service is. I still have those sewing machines to photograph, too.

Last time I shot B&W, it was Tri-X, Pan-X, Plus-X, Ilford HP-5, etc., some time in the early 1990s. In the '70s I'd routinely push ASA 400 Tri-X to 1600 for motorsports shots, as high as 3200 for available light. I miss the darkroom part of the work, where the graininess or reticulation was an artifact of the film chemistry and processing, and not an artificially introduced effect. I lost my darkroom equipment long ago, but this thread has got me interested in getting out the old cameras and seeing what's still available in B&W film. Maybe after I'm moved...

I just checked the parts-pack version...no manufacturer cast in, definitely. And I could almost swear I've seen real ones with Stromberg 97s too, three-bolt pads...but I could be wrong. EDIT: See the flyer copied in my post above for engine availability: All Chevy V8, Pontiac and Ford V8, Pontiac OHC 6, and Chevy inline 6

Could be several things. First Man-a-Fre was about '62, IIRC...but could have been earlier. EDIT 2: Further research indicates they were not made for Caddys: EDIT: Quoting from https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/meet-man-fre-guru-makes-carburetor-injector-systems-look-like-new/ "Speed Mechanics (Dec. 1962 and Feb. 1963), Hop-Up, Custom Rodder, Speed and Custom (Jan. 1963), Car Craft (Oct. 1964), Popular Hot Rodding (May 1966), and HOT ROD (July 1968) all ran stories about the system. It was also featured in Petersen Publishing's Basic Fuel Systems Spotlite Book and the Custom Rodder Handbook No. 4."

Glad he's OK. A good guy, and I need to buy some of his outstanding resin wheels.

And it has a beautiful French cousin, the Ford Comete, with bodywork by Facel. This is a '54 Monte Carlo coupe...

Seein' as how you get multiple vintage parts-pack trees (that I'd assumed were long lost and gone forever) that bring pretty fair money for the '60s releases (and that I've been buying up for years 'cause I thought they'd never be back), this kit is a pretty sweet deal. Just the original "roadster accessories" pack with the axles, springs, and hairpins routinely brings more than this whole kit is going for. Looks like they may have addressed the slight short-shot problems that a lot of the later chromed Revell engine kits had, causing sink marks that didn't appear on the original runs. Bravo Atlantis.