Ace-Garageguy

"Department of Corrections" is a name I always found misleading, as it seems like "detention and punishment" are what's provided, and considering the high rate of recidivism, I'm not too clear on just exactly what gets "corrected".

You reminded me that Caribou Coffee used to (still may) sell little bags of chocolate covered coffee beans that looked like...well, you know.

I read about that in one of he US model railroad mags. Sometimes it's hard to believe what kind of mindlessly destructive people there are in the world. I don't understand...

Toy sections of some drug and department stores used to sell models too.

Very interesting model. The Beriev BE-6 was a Soviet cold-war-era semi-copy of the American Martin PBM Mariner that was built about 10 years earlier.

Roll-on applicators were invented in the late 1940s, inspired by the ballpoint pen, and in 1952 the first roll-on deodorant hit the market.

3 more complete NOS vintage HO scale model train "craftsman" kits, for about the same dollar amount they sold for when new in the late '50s-'60s (typically 5 times that today). The top Ambroid kit is a composite plywood-side, steel-framed wood chip gondola, part of a later "One of Five Thousand" series. The center Quality Craft kit is an all-door boxcar built for Weyerhaeuser. The kit has very nice die-cast side framing, which I didn't expect. The bottom kit in the blue box is a second series "One of Five Thousand" collector kit, an insulated tank car built for Riverside Oil Company. Ambroid and Quality Craft began producing very high quality craftsman kits of unusual or unique railroad cars in 1958. Ambroid's were manufactured by Northeastern Scale Models (who still make scale lumber and wood parts to this day), and who later boxed and sold some of them under their own name. Carefully built, these ancient kits produce jewell-like models easily rivalling the mass produced high-end cars made today.

Away across the ocean is where a lot of "customer service" people are working for US companies, so you might want to pray you get somebody on the phone you can understand when you're trying to find the chrome framis you ordered from Amazon, but UPS keeps texting you "delivery attempted, address does not exist", or when your internet service goes out every other day for no reason, but you still have to pay the full bill.

Day in, day out, you can't fix thick.

Yup. 1/25 kit #2462 molded in tan-salmon. Clear red taillight lenses, absolutely positively.

"Thick as a brick" describes some of my past co-workers quite accurately.

"Elvis the pelvis" was one of the great one's nicknames.

Reach for your dreams and work hard to achieve them, 'cause they won't just materialize from wishing.

First print looks really good. I'm always inspired by anyone who jumps in with both feet and learns as he goes. "Sure, I can do it. I just have to figure out how."

Here's a '40. Same basic idea...

Time has a way of passing more rapidly as we get closer to running out of it.

Something that size is likely out of reach for most of us, but achieving that level of craftsmanship and detail is certainly possible on a 4X8 layout, or even a small module or diorama.

Ahh...that's pretty. Very well proportioned model too. I had a very clean stripped P1800 shell many years back, getting ready for a 289 Ford swap, but it disappeared during a shop move, probably sent to the crusher for $50.

Beautiful model.

"Differently" is certainly the way I'd do some things in the past if I'd known then what I know now, but I'm OK where I am in spite of some incredibly stupid moves on my part.

Direction-finding without technological aids is becoming a lost art as well, with people seemingly unaware that the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west, and don't even think about finding someone who can read a map or a compass.

Not as many as it takes blackbirds to make a pie, which is 24 IIRC.

Quarter midgets are tiny, built for little kids. https://quartermidgets.org/ Several online sources mistakenly list the scale as either 1/24 or 1/25, which is ridiculous. I've seen one site call it 1/12, which is more believable. ON FLICKR: “THE SILVER FLASH” QUARTER MIDGET RACER Monogram – PC63 1/12 Scale – 1961 Art by Clement Fraser" The size of the model (not the scale) is similar to the Monogram Midget that you have, perhaps just a little smaller overall IIRC. I don't think I still have it here, having moved a large group of models west already, but I'll check again and measure it if I can find it.

Problem-solving is supposed to be something humans excel at, but I'm beginning to think ravens are better at it on average.