Ace-Garageguy

Looking at the previous post carefully, responding with some understanding of exactly what constitutes a "sentence", and comprehension of standard English punctuation would all go a long way towards playing the game according to the very simple rules, but that's apparently expecting too much.

There's a sucker born every minute. (Attributed to PT Barnum) Today, with 250 births globally every minute, it's considerably higher.

And beautiful animated girls with six fingers who eat ice-cream cones like something from a horror movie with bizarro-world rock-nm-rooll music-overs...

Very nice, great looking models. Think I need to build one. I loved Phantoms when they were front-line fighters, loved them when they were operating as Wild Weasels in SE Asia, still loved them when the Guard was flying them out of Dobbins here (my shop was just across Hwy.41 from the end of the main runway, and a pair would leave together in full AB at dusk several times a month), and I was sad seeing many of them out in Mojave Ca, panels painted in fluorescent red after being converted to QF-4 unmanned one-way target drones.

Demand your institutes of higher learning impart some useful life skills in addition to the esoteric gibberish of your major, like how to do your own laundry, how to make mac-n-cheese and Ramen noodles and basic sammiges and scrambled eggs without Gramma's help (odds are your mom can't cook either), how to make coffee in your own kitchen, and how to figure a 10% tip in your head (so at least you'll know if you're being screwed when you have to resort to waiting tables to survive).

Climate change.

C'mon guys. The poor little AI is no worse than most recent common-core HS grads...and more than a few college grads with advanced degrees.

Looking good. I've started to do something similar with that Flintstone piece several times, but always put it back in the box, eventually bought a cheap damaged diecast as a starting point. Looks like you're well on the way to having a great little model.

Surprisingly, the PO has been knockin' 'em out of the park for me for the last several months. Every now and then they seem to have the need to run back and forth between 2nd and 3rd a few times on the way, but everything has managed to make it home in "reasonable" time. Still, every time I have to order anything that will be shipped, I cross my fingers (but I don't hold my breath).

What I find so amusing is that I've been posting for years how injection molded plastic items can be made cost-effectively right here in the good ol' USofA, and all I got was shouted down. I know injection molding companies here who are entirely capable of doing the work, from design and prototyping right through to packaging, but no, model companies chose to chisel out the last few pennies of profit per item, and dug themselves into the hole they're in now. I hate to say "I told you so"...nah, I don't.

The rear end assembly looks to me (on first inspection without having built it up) th be the best representation of the Jag IRS I've seen to date in any kit...and I'm, you might say, somewhat familiar with the real ones.

Right now I'm thinking the above poster just recently graduated from college.

Much as I hate to admit it, I've started going to Wallyworld when I'm on that side of town to save a few bucks on some groceries, so next time I'm there, I'll have a look.

1. Ultrashort power cords on Small Countertop Appliances. Since the Safety-for-All folks decided that small appliances (mixers, blenders, toasters, can openers, small grills, and such-like) are at risk of causing Death and Destruction from the long cords getting tangled or causing mayhem some other way, now all the S.C.A.s have ridiculously short cords. I'd bet anything the short cords are done in the name of "cost-engineering" to save a few pennies per unit, and marketed as being done for "safety". Sure as H wouldn't be the first time. 2. Modren Distracted Drivers.....All of a sudden, folks (esp. in left Turn Lanes) are leaving a whole car length between cars... I started noticing this some years back around here, mentioned it on the board, and was shouted down by people claiming it was "safer" in the event somebody plowed into your butt. I personally believe that most of the dozy phone-obsessed drivers can't multitask well enough to keep a foot on the brake while they're texting, and leaving a car length in front of 'em makes it that much less likely they'll oopsie-roll into the car ahead. That, and I'm seeing a growing number of drivers who seem to have zero sense of spatial awareness, either stopping 10 feet behind the white line at a traffic signal for no reason, or poking their car noses well into the cross-traffic lane when stopped at side streets.

Always like seeing this kit built. It's really the best proportioned of all the '32 roadsters out there. Really like the color too, and I'm always enthusiastic about seeing previously-built kits resurrected into much better models.

SEE: Iberian blackout

Malibu was home to one of my aunts and her husband after WW2.

Him bid bad mean man made me cwy an I'm dunna take my toys an do home.

Politicians, for the most part, have strong and vocal opinions on everything they have no knowledge of, just like most of their constituents.

Exactly. I have a couple sets of US-made small number drills that have lasted for decades doing model work, and I've bought cheap sets "just to see" that wouldn't drill a single hole in soft styrene.

Most of my life has been spent building or modifying or repairing things for other people. Though it's been rewarding creatively and monetarily, there's nothing for me as satisfying as building something entirely to my own vision, without having to accommodate customer goals and influences. And though I've owned a lot of interesting cars, I've rarely built anything for myself exactly the way I wanted. Building cars in non-work time takes huge motivation, shop space, and money, and I usually lacked at least one of those at any given time. Car modeling lets me build things I would have liked to do for myself under different circumstances, and to have scale replicas of some of the real cars I'd like to own if I'd made better life and financial decisions, or things I would have enjoyed building (and possibly racing) had I lived in other eras. Model cars have also been a way to experiment visually, and to some extent work out packaging and engineering, for the small number of full-scale projects I'll be able to get to (maybe) in the time I have remaining. Like these. And I particularly enjoy building replicas of cars that really appeal to me, but that there are no models made of...like this. I also love rebuilding stuff most people would throw out, like these... And finally, I occasionally like to do radical what-if? customs. DIESELPUNK AND JAG C-X75 INSPIRED TWIN-TURBINE ELECTRIC HYBRID:

A little less pain, a little more mobility every day...for which I'm very thankful.

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"Guy things" often involve getting sweaty and dirty, and sometimes an element of danger.