Ace-Garageguy

Lovers, wives, and mothers will try to boss you around if you don't stand up for yourself once you're an adult.

Pretty cool project. I have a couple of 1/24 Dumas kits with similar works in mind, but will probably replace the visible planking with stained basswood for its finer grain.

Plans unravel rapidly once the battle begins.

Exactly. There are some kits that got so expensive as unmolested virgins, I really had little interest in acquiring them if they weren't real high on my subject-of-interest list, but the very reasonable prices (to me, anyway) for the repops have put kits on my shelves I wouldn't have had otherwise. And having acquired a few skills over the past 6 decades, I don't get frustrated and cry "it's junk, mommy" by any of 'em.

'64 Peterson (Hot Rod) gearbox and rear end book. Just more tech refs for fast geezermobiles. EDIT: Maybe I'll incorporate that in the sign over the shop door in Az.: Ace Garage...Fast Geezermobiles

Nice job of making lemonade.

Clean machine. One of my favorite kits and in full size. Few people get the roof install that nice, and the flippers are perfect for it.

Wanted a Divco for some time, looked at Flintstone's (blech), then this little guy came up significantly under market. Boxed, etc., but a few minor issues. 95 points overall...like somebody glued the headlight lenses back in with CA and fogged 'em, but everything's easily fixed. EDIT: Danbury Mint, 1/24

A tragic loss, but he went out doing what he loved. https://bangshift.com/bangshift1320/weve-lost-a-good-one-god-speed-pat-ganahl-hot-rodding-grew-and-flourished-with-your-help/ https://www.customcarchronicle.com/forums/topic/pat-ganahl-passed-away/

I didn't fall through my rotten roof. Always a big plus.

Hmmmmm...???

This has been the nastiest, wettest, buggiest, rustiest, most mildew and fungus infested summer since I first came here in 1969. Not only have the daytime highs been mostly in the mid-to high 90s, the shop temps have been consistently hovering at 100+ in the afternoons, with the humidity typically in the 90s too. Yech. I sure am glad I'm going to the desert. I won't miss this awful swamp-like environment one little bit. Spent most of the day on my roof, patching leaks, 'cause we have another forecast for heavy rains over the next several days, and the unrelenting wetness has caused more deterioration than I'd expected prior to vacating. Did I say how much I HATE it here now?

Stones aren't as prevalent in one demographic as they once were.

Stewart monarchs of Scotland began their reign in 1371 with Robert II, I believe.

Coast downhill with the clutch in to save gas and wear on the engine, if you have a manual gearbox.

Sport fishing from a boat offshore always looked like something I'd like to try.

"Shocking" may be the most currently overworked word in the clickbait arena.

So, ummm...how often do you go way beyond the minimum necessary to do the job you get paid for? Just curious. I'm far from lazy, but I only do professionally what I'll get a return on these days, having learned the value of time and the futility of going above-and-beyond what's realistic...for free. Business decisions require careful analysis of things like "how do we get the maximum return on the minimum investment?", and if you don't think in those terms, you don't remain viable.

I have to agree, that looks great... ...but maybe this will help to illustrate some of the inaccuracies:

"Look here" said the blind man, "and tell me if this is a rope or an elephant's tail I'm holding".

I've thought the same thing, but haven't measured yet. I've worked on stretching the too-short nose on the Revellogram snapper, but haven't tried raising the chopped top yet. I've also been working on modifying the kinda OK body from the otherwise awful AMT 3W kit, and that's promising. And out in my very limited shop in Az., I started a swap of the Revellogram snapper, sans hood, on to the AMT 5W. But AMT's pretty OK 5W, with a new-tool 3W body shell...it just seems like a slam dunk to get some geezer bucks while we're still kicking. Strike while the iron is hot...or at least before we're all back to room-temperature.

Here, There, and Everywhere is a Beatles song from 1966.

Stick the palm of your hand to your lips with superglue for a low cost weight loss program.

I think a good 3-window would be the real hot ticket to get a little more mileage out of the old tooling. There's never ever been a good 3W in 1/25. They all have serious proportion issues. Tool a stock 3W body shell, throw in a louvered extra decklid like Revell did with their 5W coupe, and I'd buy a case of the things.

Several possible reasons, depending on the model in question. Here are two. 1) Some of the earlier kits had extremely accurate bodies, because when they were the basis for promos, they were developed from OEM blueprints and had few measurement and scaling errors we often see today, or the creative "artistic" interpretations of proportions. 2) A significant expense incurred in tooling design is the layout of parts and runners, injection points, the need for sliding elements in some cases, and other esoteric things directly involved in the molding process. Scanning a known-good sprue eliminates a large part of this design and development labor. We could hash out the relative benefits and drawbacks of doing things several ways, but we have to assume the tooling and design guys know what they're doing, and will make the rational tradeoffs between accuracy, cost, potential market size, etc.