Ace-Garageguy

Let's hope they use steel. It's easy to design with, it's relatively cheap, it fails less spectacularly if even marginal redundant load paths are present, if it's designed right and maintained it's at least a 100-year solution, it builds fast with fewer inherent variables that could jeopardize the quality of on-site fabrication, it can be moved into place as a unit like they tried to do with this mess with no issues, and there's no shortage of good designs already out there to draw inspiration from. Nah. Let's make another artsy-fartsy over-designed under-engineered debacle.

The green one. I need the green one.

Good luck.

Same bridge. I posted that shortly after it happened. But the video here is about the results of a lengthy investigation by the relevant authorities...and pretty much the same conclusions I came to back then. With the investigation bearing out my assertions of widespread sloppy incompetence, the story goes well beyond the "old man shouting at clouds" I'm often characterized as.

Yup...and as most of us who have been in this hobby for any length of time already know, the Revell kits from the period in question are often referred to as "fiddly" and "difficult", and are dismissed by a lot of builders for that reason. And that's unfortunate, because many of them are also rich in scale-accurate detail, and are the only game in town for some very interesting subjects. Frankly, in many ways I prefer Revell's kits from that era to what they're making today...kits I feel have been dumbed-down to an extent to appeal more to those who view the hobby as "something to pass the time" rather than "scale modeling". And that's OK too...but allow those who want to develop their skills and dive into something that takes a little more effort to get a fair and balanced idea of what they're in for with the old tool offerings. I've been heartened to see several builders on this forum begin working some of the older Revell kits with a degree of trepidation, having heard all the horror stories...and then to their surprise, find they're really not so bad, and end up turning out very respectable models. There ARE kits that probably aren't worth trying to build nice models from, like old Palmers (with awful lines and proportions that look almost nothing like the subject), buy some guys even seem to enjoy getting the best out of those.

No disagreement there. But hearing a kit called "trash" because it doesn't practically self-assemble gets old to those of us who can deal with a little difficulty.

You're very welcome. Glad it helped.

I've been after this one for a while...a reasonably priced but perfect AMT '67 Galaxie. Yeah, there are resin repops, but I wanted a real-deal. This promo is exactly what I needed. I'll be pulling molds to do a scale version of Blunc's (Mike Cassidy) stunning restyle of the car, shown here some time ago. I think his rework on this is some of the best I've ever seen, taking the already nice lines of the Galaxie and cooking them down to a roughly Mustang-sized car...kinda like reducing a sauce to intensify the flavors. BEFORE: AFTER:

It's not trash. It's a challenging kit that an accomplished builder who can deal with fit issues and overcome them can make an exquisite model from. That kinda limits the field.

Excellent. I snagged one of these some time back, very interested in watching your buildup.

Think of it this way...the real car is 197 inches long. The model is 12 inches long. If you divide 197 by 12, you'll find out how many models will fit within the length of the real one...which tells you the actual scale. It's 16.42, so your model is 16.42:1 scale.

I answered this a while back but some of the pix have disappeared. Here's a mechanical injection plumbing schematic. Between the two, that should be enough. There is linkage from the throttle pedal that operates the metering valve (sometimes called "barrel valve"), and the throttle butterflies. EDIT: The link below will take you to an explanation of mechanical fuel injection. The linkage and plumbing should start to make sense if you read the material and look at the pix. https://www.enginelabs.com/engine-tech/fuel-cooling/need-know-mechanical-fuel-injection-types/

Here's your answer... https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a19978607/this-corvette-is-a-volvo-and-this-volvo-is-a-corvette/ https://www.autoevolution.com/news/corvette-with-volvo-p1800-bits-and-bobs-looks-neat-photo-gallery-96018.html https://autos.yahoo.com/news/meet-incredible-child-corvette-volvo-130007416.html

I sure hope not. But we had a black bear sighting in this county not far from me, and I imagine this suburban area is similar to where you are. Coyotes have been taking cats and small dogs for several years here too.

I'm in my 70s and I really have to wonder just how old and decrepit you have to be to need a motorized cooler.

Think for yourself. Ask questions and speak out when something seems wrong. Refuse to just go-along-to-get-along.

What I can't ever quite grasp is the "reasoning" behind the fools leaving little black or blue or yellow bags of dog exhaust on the trails. Plastic takes a long time to degrade. Un-bagged dog exhaust is returned to the ecosystem in short order by beetles, ants, flies, etc. If you're too friggin lazy and stupid to take your little bag of poo and place it in the specially provided receptacles, as requested at the stations where you get the bags, just let your dog leave its exhaust OFF THE TRAIL. Nobody will step in it, nobody will ever know, and it will be naturally recycled quickly, just like the raccoon and badger and coyote and squirrel and deer and mouse exhaust is. It's not hard, people. EDIT: Oh wait. It would require a little common sense and rational thought. Never mind.

Thanks. His parts are 100% first-rate. Really glad he's OK.

How about the world's longest gasser?

A+ on the color and stance.

Gotta agree with Ray.

Yup. Every time I go to the sto', I'm more impressed. Might be time to plant that vegetable garden and build a chicken coop in the back yard. Some of the fear-mongering media are, naturally, warning of impending food shortages too. Still have a closet full of TP left from the last crazed run on supplies? Might be time to try some new recipes. * In reality around half of Americas's food production is wasted every year anyway, so a little applied common sense (yeah, I know...fat chance of that) should stave off widespread hunger unless things get really bad. But most Americans could stand to lose some weight (74% were overweight, a whopping 42% being obese for 2017-2018), so maybe it's a health blessing in disguise, ya think? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/food-waste-americans-throw-away-food-study_n_1819340 https://foodprint.org/issues/the-problem-of-food-waste/ https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html * The quoted numbers vary by source, but they're about right overall And to preempt the ever-present reality deniers, here's me, just a crazy old man shouting at clouds... EDIT: Still waiting for the inevitable "confused" reaction emojis, or the laughing ones from those who don't get the joke.