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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. With those wheels, there's a good chance it's a little F3 car, a Brabham, or a Cooper T-56, rather like this...(Steve McQueen owned and raced one in SoCal in 1962. It was raced very successfully by another owner through 1965.) NOTE: My eyes aren't focusing yet this AM. If it's not a Cooper, it's something very similar. EDIT 2 : Nope. Not a T-56:
  2. Man, those look good. I love trucks from the era represented by these. This might get me started trying to build some...especially that needlenose.
  3. Resin engines are usually assembled with either CA or epoxy. If it's CA, this thread on de-bonders will be of interest to you. https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?534870-What-s-a-good-CA-debonder If it's epoxy, which is highly solvent-resistant after it cures, there are really no chemical means to soften it. If 5-minute epoxy was used, it has little real strength, and you can probably pry parts apart using an X-acto chisel blade as a wedge. If it was assembled with a good grade of epoxy, you may be SOL. Epoxies can sometimes be weakened with heat, but it might take SO MUCH heat that your resin parts would be damaged before the epoxy breaks down.
  4. Perfect representation of how that class of car would have looked. The low-sun-angle daylight photography adds realism too. Very nice work.
  5. OK. I'll play. Sorry I can't go back 10 years as requested by Tom. I've only been building again since 2011 or '12. Based on the AMT '40 Ford Sedan... Based on the Revell snapper '34 Ford... Based on the AMT '25 T... Based on the Revell '37 Ford pickup, building into a much more accurate '38 than the kit builds, and going for this... Based on the Revell 2009 Challenger... Based on the Monogram Orange Hauler... Revell '37 Ford slantback, chopped, on a narrowed and stretched C5 frame, with a modular Ford 4.6... Ferrari Boxer-powered '34 Ford pickup... '61 Dodge Phoenix custom roadster... AMT '34 Ford 5W chopped, tube-frame, DeSoto-powered drag car... Mustang Mach III/Stingray III mid-engined mashup... Predicta II: Viper/T-bird mashup... Widebody 1/12 240Z... '58 Corvette on C5 chassis...
  6. Made a pan of cornbread to go with the last of the chili, itself subsequently modified and stretched with the addition of half a bottle o' leftover sghetti sauce and half a can o' corned beef hash...both probably within hours of sprouting the first fuzzy tufts of mold...all re-tied together with a masterful blend of spices, and cooking down until almost burned. Hard to beat a steaming bowl of sweet-hot chili and a slab of coarse butter-slathered cornbread after a crisp fall day in the woods.
  7. I have the place. It's just waiting for me to finish up my obligations here, and then get moved. Thought I'd be gone by now, but two jobs have spiraled into WAY more than I was contracted to do, and I figure if these folks want to pay me, I may as well stick it out.
  8. It can be a real bummer if you forget and happen to turn on the gas, too.
  9. OK. You answered the second part of the question. But what's Slack? A purveyor of pants for the habitually unemployed? Question 2B. Why is "Twitch" a good name for a company that does anything? PS. Please try to explain in terms an old fossil who tends to take words at their actual meanings can understand. I know it may be impossible for me to grasp, but please try anyway.
  10. Wow. No photos up yet. I didn't take a camera, assuming somebody else would shoot it and post up. Bugger. There were definitely plenty of cars worth seeing, and lotsa photogs photogging.
  11. One of the many reasons I'm moving...
  12. I'm with you, Rob. Nice shots. Nice neighborhood too. Reminds me of where I was a little kid. The trees are just starting to turn here. Went for a six mile hike up at Kennesaw Mtn. I'm very pleased I can do six miles again without being crippled afterwards. I had slid pretty far down the out-of-shape slope, and the older I get, the tougher it is to come back.
  13. Man has a couple of very valid points.
  14. Yeah...and it also shows that "old" cars aren't impossible-to-use-for-actual-transportation, highly dangerous, evil-handling, unreliable deathtraps requiring constant maintenance and repairs...as seems to be the prevalent opinion in some circles.
  15. Something not brought up yet (unless I overlooked it): spraying ANYTHING paint-like indoors will make "dust" appear all over every horizontal surface. When you spray paint or related materials, what doesn't go on the object being painted drops to the floor or floats away as dry, colored dust. Most women I've encountered don't like having to wipe every surface in the house down all the time, and vacuum constantly. Good on you if you clean your own mess up, but it's another powerful reason to set up a booth that exhausts OUTSIDE before you spray anything, toxic or not.
  16. Here are a few threads you may find helpful:
  17. And everything signed "Elvgren".
  18. Nice clean work. Brings back memories. I had as S II/III way back in the 1970s.
  19. Well, it's history. Pretty good turnout, very high quality models, several vendors with great stuff...including the guy who started this thread. I had the pleasure of meeting him and talking. Nice guy. Good product line...and the 3D printed wire wheels coming out soon (I saw pre-production samples) are simply mind-blowing.
  20. One post. Zero content. No actual mention of anything to do with model cars (and we do usually welcome and encourage newbs). All he wanted, apparently, was to get people to his thingamajig. One would tend to think that if his actual interest WAS in participating in this existing forum, and if he had even the tiniest little bit of testicular fortitude, we'd hear more from him. He's certainly welcome, as far as I'm concerned.
  21. A wall in their Baltimore warehouse collapsed last night. Spokeswoman attributed it to "bad weather". 2 people dead. https://patch.com/maryland/baltimore/amazon-building-collapse-1-reported-dead
  22. ^^^ Only downside is the danged stuff turned into 'bout enough methane to drive from here to Tulsa. Desert wind indeed.
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