Ace-Garageguy

I don't make AN fasteners or AN fittings and hose or Delphi electrical connectors or gauge sending units or gauges. These are all standard bought-in items. That's why I have suppliers. Or are you just being snarky? I don't get a salary for sitting on my butt at a workstation and going to meetings. And I don't do business the way we did in the old days of "order and wait", or keep a lot of stock. I generally use the "just in time" material supply model. If the "supply chain" fails, any part of it, I'm left twisting in the wind. So it IRKS me. EDIT: And it's also a large part of why these two projects will be the LAST I ever do for clients. The constant bulldroppings just aren't worth the effort anymore.

Interesting question. I've been kinda looking for something similar for a build of the Eddie Dye roadster. Closest real-world color I've seen was on a late-model Caddy hippopotamus. Somebody like MCW or Scalefinishes otter be able to mix it if you can find a color code.

This horse isn't getting up again, but I'll say just this: the front brakes visible through the spokes are probably adequate for a hot Pinto or Porsche 914 pushing 150HP and 2000 pounds, with a manual gearbox. No way in jello are they adequate for a 3000 pound car with 1000+HP...even if working properly. Add in a sticking throttle, and a slushbox making it necessary to ride the brake pedal and probably boil fluid that's full of moisture contamination from sitting, you get what you see here. ------------------------------------- But lotsa "car builders" are idiots, and so are lotsa owners. First complete hot build I did for a client way back in '77, I put a 365-horse Chebby 327 in a Triumph Stag. Clean, well engineered and fully sorted car I road tested extensively before sending it home. Imagine my horror when it showed up on the hook two days later, 3 feet shorter. My God I thinks to myself...was it MY fault? Nope. Owner's 16 YO son took the thing without permission, drove it smack into the side of a Buick as he crested a blind hill. Crazy thing was that ol' dad said "build another one".

"Unfortunately we are unable to retrieve your tracking results at this time. Please try again later." Getting this horse exhaust for days now from FedEx. $525 worth of parts I need to make a living, lost in the "technology" ozone. I'm impressed.

Looks like a beautiful model, and all your added details make it better. The all metal semi-monocoque is quite convincing. Very impressive.

SALT treaties have really done very little to functionally decrease the possibility of a nuclear military engagement.

Bin dooin rantin an ravin bout dumm an dummer fo yeers, an itz kep me sane by lettin out the pressure.

your own hat.

Music hath charms to soothe the long-leggedy beastie.

not that ye

Sentences are hard, as is counting them.

I'll never be cool enough for that.

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.