Ace-Garageguy

Probably a little gray wash? Maybe thinned flat-black acrylic, allowed to collect in the folds and mostly wiped off everywhere else?

Probably the best solution by far (or some other means of shadowing)...unless you have micro tools, extremely steady hands, and excellent magnification. As far as I can recall, I don't remember ever seeing louvers opened up in 1/24-1/25 that looked really good. But I could be mistaken. EDIT: Even the much larger factory-molded open-louvers on some kits, like one of the Lancia Stratos kits for example, take extreme care to open further so they look "right".

I look at it like this: if I were an elementary school teacher and I wanted to introduce music to a class that included some kids who'd never heard any really "good" music (jazz, classical, rock, etc.), I wouldn't start them out listening to a bunch of 3rd rate amateurs who couldn't play well together, who screeched and lost the beat, and had no real "feel" for what they were doing. I'd take them to hear performers who, while maybe not concert-hall quality, were at least accomplished enough to make truly beautiful music, to show them what was possible with a little applied talent and effort, not just a bunch of noise.

When I read "4-door 'Cuda", my first reaction was to cringe before I even saw it... HOWEVER...you've done a masterful job of maintaining attractive lines and proportions. Very nice craftsmanship too. Excellent work.

Forecast now down to 30%, what looks like snow showing on NWS radar, but nothing falling here yet. 20F outside, which is very cold for here, and impossible to heat this house "adequately" under the current circumstances...but a lot of people live in much less pleasant conditions, so no whining from me.

Osteoporosis can be prevented or slowed by getting enough vitamin D (from sunlight is best), calcium (dietary sources are generally preferable to supplements), and engaging in weight-bearing exercise.

Made poor Twiki stutter, she did...

Be de be de Bede Aircraft BD-5 was a single seat high-performance kitplane, and even real jet power was possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede_BD-5

Now that you mention that, I had to do something similar several years back. There was also an issue, when we were still allowed to edit old posts (to change the title header to revive a long-dormant thread for example), when editing the header would somehow delete all the photos in the first post. Beautiful model, by the way.

"Close Encounters of the Garbage Kind" could be a movie about aliens throwing their trash on the street in front of my house, and their surprise when they start finding themselves teleported to a galaxy far, far away.

Why? You getting combat pay or sumpin?

I seem to remember reading it in either Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler too...

I understood him to say "I can re-create the issue pretty easily", not that he necessarily uses <img> tags. Sometimes during diagnostic procedures (in mechanical systems as well), you try to recreate the effect any way you can, which often sheds light on the actual cause. Well, I do, anyway.

Time to take out the garbage...

Bumper cars running on electrically conductive floors probably aren't allowed anymore.

You might want to look at the OP, and review how this "game" is played.

I still believe that aspiring mechanical engineers (or any degree path that has anything to do with any kind of manufacturing) should be taught to machine at least simple things on non-CNC mills and lathes. At Ga. Tech, it was mandatory when I was there (as was basic programming in Cobol). In the mid-1990s when I hired an intern from the Tech ME program, they no longer had to machine anything manually, and the kid told me the beautiful old manual machines were sitting outside in the rain, going to rust. There is simply no better way to understand machining processes than to make things with your own two hands and a fully engaged mind.

Want to see something "just built out of the box" using more advanced techniques, care, and skill...but nothing else? This is one way we learn...by watching somebody who's good at what they do.

Superstition can be less than helpful late at night when something goes "bump".

Aliens are still trying to find intelligent life on Earth.

"Stash" has different meanings in different circles. (though this is correctly a "stache")

Inspirational. I bought one.

I've tried a bunch of stuff, on both car and HO scale railroad models. My favorite to date is Tamiya flat-black acrylic in the little jars.

"Cash for Clunkers" was an expensive program that, according to the majority of after-the-fact studies, had none of the forecast economic benefit and negligible environmental impact, but a lot of perfectly good vehicles (over 675,000) were destroyed, and their engines were made permanently inoperative and useless even as parts donors.