Ace-Garageguy

From the standpoint that "any landing you walk away from is a good one" philosophy, anyway. Not so OK for the poor airplane though.

Yup. Juan Browne is the most credible aviation commentator I've ever seen. As a high-time airline, military, and private pilot, he really knows his stuff...and explains things simply enough so non-aviation people can easily grasp them.

Like most incidents like this, it was a string of events leading to ultimate disaster. Actually, it was a hot, hard landing with a bounce, and the failure to immediately firewall the throttles and do a go-around that began the sequence.

Yup, I prefer a hardwired home/shop network for it's speed, stability, reliability (one less thing to fritz) and security.

Beautiful.

Hey...that '41 Chevy really speaks to me. When I was a kid in a small town on the east coast, there was a farmer who'd bring fresh vegetables in to market on the weekends. Your '41 is a dead ringer for his truck, even down to the slightly sunburned nose his had because it stuck out of the end of the shed it lived under most days. Vehicles weather lotsa different ways, but I've never seen a better executed rendition of that particular look than your '41 here. I like the other two as well. They look like all the well-maintained old trucks I've seen all over the country, trucks still hard at work earning their keep. No longer shiny, but just as good at being trucks as the day they rolled off the line. It's a good look, a reminder of a time before everything was thrown away when the new wore off.

Don't feel bad. I've been in exactly that position literally dozens of times. We learn and grow in any endeavor by pushing ourselves past our perceived limits. Sometimes we fail. But if we persevere, eventually we find we come back to a project that was beyond us once, and it seems easy. it was your build here, by the way, that inspired me to find that kit to do a mild custom I'd had in mind for years. So thanks.

Yes, that should work fine...but again, if there are Ethernet jacks on your in-house router, all you need is a long Ethernet cable. Here are what's supposed to be good splitters: https://www.newswatchngr.com/best-coax-splitters/

A little off-topic, but years ago (2011 maybe) I saw a sectioned mid-'50s Caddy with that roof chopped and grafted on, in bare steel, out in Az. It's my understanding the thing went to Oz or NZ, but it was a stunning piece of work. You wouldn't think those parts could all be melded together into a coherent whole, but whoever did it had a real feel for design and form and line. Pretty sure I have photos somewhere...

And thank you too, sir. Now the question is whether I'll flog myself unnecessarily by upgrading the chassis, or just build a nice mild custom...maybe even a curbside. Hmmmmm...I think in this case, less may be more.

Thank you, sir.

Yeah, I'm going to live with it. I like the look of the model so much that if I were to build a real one, I'd lengthen it. Do you happen to know if it's a screwbottom-derived chassis, or a newer tool style with separate details? (Mine is on the way, not here yet)

Those look great. Nice work.

No reason that shouldn't work. Another option, possibly better, would be to just run an Ethernet cable from your home router to your shop. Most cable-internet routers have multiple sockets for additional plug-ins (mine here has 4, and I routinely run 2 computers accessing the web through it simultaneously on a single account). The maximum recommended Ethernet cable run is about 300 feet, so you're fine.

Plugging a couple of holes in the long-way-out project stash, these two as a result of having seen inspiring builds of both kits on this forum.

Great looking weathering, just enough, just right, very realistic. You should do a tutorial.

Got a little more done on a "minimal" upgrade of the engine for a 1/24 GTO project...which is turning into brain surgery. As little of the damm thing as is going to show, I should have just used one of the decent 1/25 engines...but noooooooo. I had to take a POS blobular mess and make it into a nice representation of the real thing. Oh well. Guess I can make a mold of it so I won't have so much work next time.

Yes, but because the suit is soundproof and eliminates any possibility of physical contact, it effectively discourages any "inappropriate" behavior...saving potentially millions in lawsuits for me, too.

I got my new super-duper Panik King C19X1 breathing isolation/local atmosphere purification apparatus earlier today. Here I am sitting at my desk, working on a retro-styled computer keyboard. It dispenses hand-sanitizing wipes from the roll on top after every 200 words. My personal executive assistant (I've been informed that the term "secretary" is irredeemably misogynistic or some such) has a different setup from the same company...

Here's a little more inspiration...

Something to remember...not everything labeled Rustoleum is the same kind of paint, so different thinners may work better with different decanted products. Rustoleum makes a latex paint, so your "thin it with water to spray" reference was probably to that...unless the guy posting was a complete moron, which is kinda standard on the web. Anyway, the decanting procedure is identical for all rattlecan paints. And you will most likely HAVE to thin your decanted material. ALSO...lacquer thinner works as a thinner for lacquers, obviously, but as Donn Yost has proven, it can also work with some enamels. Mr. Yost has been doing world-class paint work with Testors enamels thinned with lacquer thinner for a long time now. So...test yourself. In this case, there are so many variables and so much potentially conflicting information out there, THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW FOR CERTAIN WHAT WILL WORK WITH THE PAINT YOU HAVE IS TO DO THE EXPERIMENTING YOURSELF.

Digital is $4.99 per single issue. Printed, bound, and mailed is $12.00 per single issue. A 4-issue, one year digital sub is $16.99.

Stock rear end in the '49-'51 Merc was a Dana 41, kinda reasonably well represented in the old AMT kit.

^^^ All this "supply chain" stuff is the inevitable result of having handed almost all our industrial and manufacturing ability to outside countries, some of whom are our avowed enemies, to satisfy short-term corporate greed...and an idiotic idea rebleated by morons everywhere that a "service" or "information" economy could exist indefinitely with no underlying manufacturing base to sustain it. Americans dug this hole for themselves. I told you so.