Ace-Garageguy

Gloobomb Monogram 275P, to be race #23. This is going to be more work than I thought. Teardown complete except for sawing off the heavily glooed roll bar fairing and interior bits. Getting the wheels out of the tires without destroying anything was as close to brain surgery with a chainsaw and a hammer as I'm likely to get. The builder apparently used what remained of the tube after assembling everything else to make sure the wheels would hold together at 200MPH. Testors/Italeri 250 GTO, with Deeks wire wheel centers (which I may or may not use), to be race #32. Though I prefer the proportions of the Gunze GTO (the only other Ferrari GTO kit I haven't moved west yet), this one has the correct rear wheel arches and lips, and a slightly flatter nose that looks,to me, more like the Sebring #32 car...but it needs an additional gill on each front fender. Kit had been lightly started. Front lower pan sawed off, templating gills to add one forward. Roughly transferred initial drilling guide.

Well to "H" with that.

Potties of the Porta persuasion are often welcome sights at outdoor events.

Yup. I ran into that on one Cobra Daytona kit...guess it was this one, and why I put it away until later in life.

12:00 PM in what time zone?

"Therapeutic" is definitely what I can say my recent, though limited, bench time has been.

Gang connectors of different configurations and numbers of conductors make my custom wiring harnesses somewhat idiot-proof if/when serviced by chimps in the future.

You seem to have failed to grasp the meaning of my original assertion, so there's not anything I can say to refute an argument to something that wasn't part of my assertion. Try thinking it through again, using precision.

Logic by the numbers: 1) The EU and Britain are pushing for people to buy electric vehicles. 2) Energy and food costs are skyrocketing, so there's a very real chance people will have to choose between food and heating their homes. 3) That leaves them no money to purchase electric vehicles. 4) The cost of fuel for existing ICE vehicles wasn't even a part of my original assertion, and is totally irrelevant. EDIT: 5) BUT, as you chose to try to make it a part of the discussion here, if a household can't afford fuel for an existing ICE vehicle, it sure as hello can't afford to buy a new EV.

Straw man much? Before you can charge an electric vehicle, you have to BUY an electric vehicle. See how that works?

A quick overview of California's energy policy, including proposed plants under review for future construction, those few already under construction, and the recent energy bill passed into law, indicate Cali is in no way prepared, nor will it be, to cope with the coming mandated-electric-vehicle recharging loads. https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/06/california-power-plant-deal/

Britain's winter energy cost to citizens is now predicted to be SIX TIMES what it was just earlier this year. Yeah, go get that electric car when in reality you have to choose between heating and eating.

Bench time has been hard to come by the last couple years, but what I've managed to squeeze in over the past few days has done my head a world of good.

Got in a box of beautiful stuff from Model Builder's Warehouse, including one each of the 3D printed transaxles Randy announced recently. After I load the photos in the computer, I may post some here.

VERY nice. I'd been contemplating going something similar. You've sold me.

"Form should follow function" is a design philosophy that will never let you down.

"Trait" adjectives include taciturn, tactful, tactless, talkative, tame, tasteful, tasteless, teachable, temperamental, temperate, tempestuous, temptable, tenacious, tender, tender-hearted, tenderminded, tense, tentative, terse, testy, thick-headed, thick-skinned, thick-witted, thin-skinned, thorough, thoroughgoing, thoughtful, thoughtless, thriftless, thrifty, tidy...and that's just some of the words starting with "T".

Say what you will, saying nothing when you have nothing to say is quite a rare virtue.

Don't be too hard on yourself. Most operating features on models aren't really very well engineered, and manufacturing limitations often preclude the kits coming with precisely-operating hinges, and panels that fit their openings closely.

Matters of state should be in the hands of mentally competent, knowledgeable people.

Alas and alack, Shakespeare is being ditched by the destroy-Western-heritage brigade, who by and large seem to lack adult reading-comprehension skills and thereby misunderstand or misinterpret pretty much everything.

Illustrative examples, like photos, factual videos, or links to technical articles or studies, go a long way towards giving credibility to internet advice and opinion.

Yeah...when CNN was a news organization, and not a propaganda outlet. Anyway, he was a good guy, a real news guy, and a credit to the profession.