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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. Holy cow...that's some fine work there, sir. Most impressive. If you ever should decide to sell a kit, please let me know.
  2. Great heads-up on some stuff I wasn't aware existed, and beautiful work too.
  3. Glad to see you building this thing. I bought one not too far back just because, but I haven't really looked at it. Your work and insights are invaluable resources. Also glad your little internal mod went well, and that you're on the mend. Here's hoping you never need to take them up on any warranty issues.
  4. I hear somebody prominent is recruiting for a "Meme Team". Maybe you ought to sign up...
  5. Clean clean clean build, beautiful paint. Very nice indeed.
  6. Pretty cool pix and vid. She's quite a machine. Glad to see there are lotsa folks who get it. Thanks.
  7. Correcting or warping fully cured composite or polymer parts is a tricky business. Plastics generally have a "glass transition temperature", or Tg, above which they can be forced to change shape. Cured plastics also have a "memory", and want to return to the shape they were molded in. It can get complicated pretty quickly, because if the part was removed from its mold early, before full cure (or in the case of "styrene" parts, pulled from the mold before being fully cool), the plastic in question will take a "set" on its own, not supported by a mold, and can be difficult to correct. To get most plastic parts (and resin parts are a type of plastic) to change their shape permanently, both the limits of the Tg and the "memory" need to be exceeded...and it's a crapshoot as to how hot you need to get, and how far past the desired shape you need to go to achieve the desired "springback" as the part cools. Just fyi...the Tg for most "styrene" grades used for models is around 212F or 100C...too hot to handle, obviously, with bare hands. There's no telling what the Tg of your resin part might be...and there's just no other way to get a resin part reshaped. I'd suggest you build a little jig that holds your part very securely, bent slightly past the final shape you want it to have. Then pour boiling water over it, slowly enough to heat it all the way through. After it's cool, remove it from the jig and see where you are. Sounds like a PITA, and it is...but it's your only real option.
  8. Yes sir, that was my motto for quite some time. I recently found out that an early lobotomy procedure involved injecting ethanol directly into the frontal lobes. Kinda the same thing, just a matter of degree.
  9. Ahhh...but that won't work if an anti-gravity device is employed...
  10. I'd probably forget I was wearing it and do a DIY lobotomy while trying to pick my nose.
  11. He's got a thread on it...
  12. Never were truer words spoken. The work shown below was done by Pico Elgin almost 2 years ago. The technology has progressed since then. This is the same resin print after one light coat of primer and a light sanding with 600 grit paper. Easy finish work to get it slick...and again...the tech has improved since then.
  13. Good looking weathering. I saw a few old vehicles recently that looked exactly like that.
  14. What if they're actually huge banana spiders?
  15. Most of my builds end up going dormant for one reason or another, most commonly to await my skills catching up to my vision (though building real cars has a lot of overlap with building models, the very fine motor skills required in modeling take time to develop), or due to changes in the initial vision...some large, some small. Eventually, they always seem to get back on track. The longest running project I have is one I started back in the early 1990s when somebody asked me if I wanted a few of their old kits they'd lost interest in. I hadn't built models for fun since I was in my late teens (though I'd done presentation models for product development and testing). I started this little sectioned '40 Ford as a "Forsche", initially intended to be running 928 guts, in '93 or '94. It didn't get very far before it was shelved. Somewhere around 2005, as I was just beginning to get back into hobby modeling seriously, it came back out and went through several mockup iterations...none of which I really liked. Then in 2010, after I'd accumulated enough parts and skills to come close to what I had in mind, I got this far... Still later, I decided to try a '37 nose on it (as above)...though I still really liked the '40-nose version as well. I've now gone almost full-circle, and have a gluebomb to build another one with the '40 nose...and I will, eventually, finish both of them. (PS: I'm pretty sure it was Jantrix who supplied the '37 front fenders. )
  16. My sincere congratulations. I know it's been an uphill battle all the way. Here's hoping the mag has a long and prosperous run from here on out.
  17. Well, here are some of the reasons I'm going: technicolor sunsets and like-minded neighbors.
  18. I have something in progress, using the engine you mentioned...
  19. Thanks for thinking of me in my absence, gentlemen. I was indeed, in part, getting the Az. property prepared for move-in.
  20. I've seen things in the sky that defy rational explanation when compared to any known natural phenomena or Human technology. And believing Humans to be the only intelligent life-form in a universe that has countless billions of stars strikes me as the height of narcissistic arrogance.
  21. With a little ingenious machine work, you can mate any gearbox to any engine, even if there's no commercial adapter available.
  22. Yes sir...this from Pico Elgin, our local 3D guru who showed me his parts this last weekend..."Anycubic Photon. To get the latest news on it and other printers get on Facebook and go to the Anycubic Photon Owners page and the LCD SLA Printers Shoot Out page. The shoot out page is done by Andrew Gott of Athens, Tn., he has recently been appointed by the Elegoo Mars company to do repairs and development on the Mars, which has an excellent reputation, also."
  23. Bill Cunningham told me to look for him on the ACME Facebook page for links to additional info, auctions, progress reports on projects, etc. The kit, as I understand it, is just the body. Wheels, tires, and additional detail parts are apparently all available from his Shapeways store (though I may have misunderstood exactly what you get with the kit). The completed model is pretty spectacular.
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