Ace-Garageguy

Different strokes work in different situations.

Hobbies like collecting fast cars and women take boxcars full of cast to sustain, so it helps if you have a few oil wells or diamond mines.

Legs should go all the way up to whatever they're intended to support.

"Dazzlers" always meant knockout babes in my lexicon.

If the files are utilized to make a product to SELL, the originator of the file should be entitled to a cut of every part SOLD. In the big-boy world, the cost of design work is amortized by spreading it through the cost of product. Individuals purchasing a file probably ought to be able to make as many parts for their own use as they want. But sellers of parts who have only paid for one file are getting free design work and making a profit on it. EDIT: When Model Railroader publishes scale drawings of buildings, locomotives, cars, whatever, there is a stipulation on the page that they can be photocopied and re-sized, but FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. Same basic idea.

Just take the bulb out.

Aunts who serve you baked ants (or even raw, fried, or fricasseed) aren't my preferred kinds of relatives.

Better results are usually achieved by people who have at least a basic understanding of SOMETHING in the physical world.

The whole point is to represent the "technique" chimps have been using since cars and stick-welders existed...slap a way-too-thick patch over a rust hole, secured by bubblegum "welds".

Definitely one of the coolest things I've seen in a long, long time. Twin blowers...who woulda thunk.

Vintage Ulrich Mini-Men anybody? https://www.ebay.com/itm/116034617784

Zodiac boats are fun, but they don't deal well with bullet hits.

Looks really good. Just a thought...I've often seen step-plate (diamond-plate, tread-plate) that was WAY too heavy to be appropriate used to repair vehicle cockpit and bed floors too. Detail Master makes it in PE for 1/24-1/25, as do some others, and there's plastic sheet available as well.

Masses of bacteria, fungus, and algae in diesel storage tanks can clog fuel systems.

Vehicle design has progressed past the point where cars are actually getting "better", but they're "market driven", different just to be different, with a lot of add-on silliness.

Bbbbbbbuttt...LOGISTICS !!!!!!!!!!!

I have to think that whoever is doing the beta-testing for all these so-called "smart" systems must be a bunch of yes-men who either have zero critical-thinking ability, or are just afraid to speak up and say the-emperor-has-no-clothes.

Sure. They're kinda horrible cars. I'm finishing up a complete rewire on one now, including a full custom instrument panel, and even if it hadn't been previously mangled by chimps, the OEM wiring would be almost as bad. They don't make much power for the complexity of the engine, and they're kinda tail-happy due to being rear-engined (65% rear weight bias, where a comparable 911 is around 60%) rather than the originally proposed mid-engined. They're prone to overheating and a wide variety of other failure modes. The urethane bumpers get warpy and wavy over time, and the bodies are almost impossible to repair and have the repair be undetectable. On the positive side, the fiberglass structure and stainless steel skins don't rust, the Lotus-designed suspension works about as well as anyone could ask (from a handling standpoint), and they look cool. How's that?

Franklin Mint 1/24 W-196R Merc. Plans are to use it as the basis for a heavily upgraded model (wheels/tires, panel fit, etc.), but that swoopy body is so pretty just as it is...

Yeah, I'm only seeing two big turbos and two wastegates in this view...

Whoa...THANK YOU !!! I have several old '36 kits from AMT, and have never seen one single perfect wheel. Guess I better get an order in to Norm pronto. Ex-moderator and resin-caster extraordinaire Casey (Forward Resin on feePay) used to do a set that he'd mastered from (I think) the Revell '37 Ford pickup rims (that lacked the wide-5 center details) with the wide-5 centers from the AMT wheels added. I have several sets and they are exquisite...but fragile, and I believe too many ham-handers ruining them influenced Casey to stop offering them...at least that's how my increasingly foggy old brain remembers it.

Very nice, all of them.

Mind games played by neurotic narcissists can ruin your focus on actually accomplishing things if you let them.

Last time I was at the place in AZ, there was what appeared to be a huge communal nest in a big pine close to the house. Always full of them, cackling and cawing, flying around having fun, and soaring almost motionless over the property when the winds were steady out of the west. I want to build a high feeder for them, make some friends without attracting rodents. Hear them talking to each other here... https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/common-raven