Ace-Garageguy

We have a gizmo at the grocery store that you just dump the change into, and it separates and counts. Takes something like 10% for the service, gives you the rest in bills mostly. And one of my exes gave me a battery-powered sorter / roller. 'Bout the ONLY useful thing she ever gave me.

What kind of glue are you using at the present time?

How's 'bout getting up a joint op with the Needlessly Quoting an Entire Post Complete with 20 Photos Squad?

Someone once told me "if you can't be prolific, at least be consistent". And someone else said "Some people think there's a trade-off between quality and quantity. To do truly 'great work' - you can't do very much of it". So...consider my meager output as part of my pursuit of excellence.

Yeah boy. It takes some powerful effort to get reflections that are that crisp. I figure there's nothing behind it either... Well at least the nose isn't all jacked up...

Here's mine...

Thanks for the interest, sir. Here she be...

1) How much are you paying for perfect functionality here? 2) There are exactly three other people complaining on this thread, and I know for a fact one no longer has a problem. It was on his end. Pretty small "mass hallucination".

The message to the admin is only there if you're NOT logged in. Kindof a trivial glitch, dontcha think? And I'm running Chrome and have ZERO significant issues.

I don't know him, but you both have my sincere best wishes.

I'm not so much interested in "reliving" my modeling youth as I am in taking up where I left off, but with the benefit of a lifetime's worth of manual skills and knowledge. Revisiting my youth might be the better word, because I enjoy replacing kits I had as a kid, but I don't ever want to do the kind of horrible work that was my best effort then. In "my modeling youth" I was a ham-handed hacker, and it wasn't until my teens that my skills even began to approach the level required to achieve my vision. I guess I was lucky in a way, 'cause even as a little kid, I KNEW my glue-smeared, brush-painted, ill fitting messes were crapp, but try as I might, I just couldn't get my hands to do what was required to do much better. I remember getting my first can of spray paint, and thinking that would make all the difference. Well, no. At first, it was just a new way to produce a new kind of unsatisfactory result. But I could see the potential in the few decent looking areas on a mostly orange-peeled or runny, solvent-popped spray job, and it didn't take long to get it pretty much down. My models started looking good, and I won a few contests. I learned to solder and built brass slot-car frames, then started rewinding the motors for more performance. I built a flipper wing on one that was supposed to work like the air-brake on the 300 SLR, but it was so heavy, it tended to make the car fall over. Then I tried what may have been the world's first full monocoque slot-car, fabricated of styrene sheet. It WAS light, and accelerated like a rocket, but it was also fragile, and tended to go straight when the track turned. By my mid teens though, I was working on and driving real cars, and sometimes they had girls in them. By my late teens, my modeling days were done. Throughout my career(s), I've drawn on many skills first acquired as a young model builder, and today, approaching retirement, I've come full circle. Now, my modeling skills are built on real-world knowledge and experience, and with enough effort (when I have the time) I can finally build to the quality I aspired to as a sticky-fingered 8-year old.

One of my exes was a million-dollar-club member, and of course an FMLS member. She was the queen of schmooze, loved running her mouth, and ALWAYS followed up with clients and potentials because she had a phone-talking addiction similar to the smart-phone junkies of the present. She was particularly adept at selling to men, and we won't go into her extra special incentive program that I only found out about late in our relationship. I bought a house through her, and believed I was special. Nope. Anyway, the new one I was waxing poetic about earlier seems to have come down with a case of the brain farts. Let's hope it's only a temporary affliction.

You failed to mention the stunning maritime view, and that the location location location would be perfect for someone in a discreet import business.

Second one is definitely positively Mercedes...though the CHROME inner door panels don't ring a bell.

First one's pretty obviously Bugatti T-50. Probably Definitely Heller or Airfix...same tooling. Second one is '30s Mercedes...though I don't recognize the chrome interior door panels Third one is Jag Mk II. probably Tamiya.

This is the single most useful post in this entire thread. I'll be following up.

That's a 14.5 inch diameter in 1/25 scale...useless for dragster wire fronts, which were motorcycle front wires, typically in the 17" to 19" range. Herb Deeks also makes some nice 15" conversion centers, but NO LONGER makes the larger ones (to the best of my knowledge).

What's really unfortunate is that so much of human interaction apparently has to come down to "who's in control"....the old power struggle BS. When I go house or car shopping, I know what I want, I won't settle for anything that's TOO far off the mark (but I try to be reasonable in my expectations and not be the whiny baby), and I expect the sales person to LISTEN to me and accommodate what I want to do with MY money. That's what the sales person is paid for, in my view of things, and if somebody tries to steer me, or push me, of just doesn't listen, I don't play any idiot power games. I walk away, and try somebody else. That said, after dealing with several lazy morons while looking for out-of-state real estate, I've finally found someone who's bright, energetic, resourceful, knowledgeable, and will jump through as many hoops as necessary to get the job done...to MY satisfaction. Good people in ANY profession are out there, but they ARE rare...and far too many buyers let themselves be manipulated by not-the-best sales people.

Hey man, it's the "long hood, short deck" proportions pioneered by the Mustang.

Better than nothing, but it's only about 1% of what's available, and the only fabric listed there that's appropriate for this kind of model work is the "108 Lightweight". Composite cloth comes in a mind-boggling array of weights, weaves and compositions. Then there's non-woven materials like surfacing veil and mat, and multiple permutations of those too. There's unidirectional knitted fabric, and 3-dimensional fabric that has fibers in all three axes. They all do some things well, some things not so well. Some drape in complex shapes easily, some just flat don't drape at all. I've stated countless times that what folks need to get started doing glass work for models is the stuff sold by hobby shops in the RC model plane section. It's the right weight (approximately .55 oz. and .75 oz. and the 1.5 oz that's about what's shown as the "lightweight" cloth in the chart above), it's readily available, and it's cheap. It's a "plain weave" and follows complex shapes OK, but not wonderfully. Nobody listens, or instead of taking the damm advice, they want to know "what about this?" and "well, what about that?" I've also offered to write an in-depth article for the mag explaining the entire process, and apparently there's no interest...or not enough to pay for my knowledge. I'm tired of answering questions one at a time, for people who don't seem to pay attention to what I say anyway. I know this stuff upside down and backwards, it's complex, I made it a large part of my life's work to learn it, I've largely pioneered using high-strength epoxies and fiberglass for almost-scale-thickness panels for models, I've pioneered repair procedures for REAL aircraft that the factory engineers said couldn't be done, I've refined and developed the processes over many years, and still...oh, never mind. Good luck. http://www.sigmfg.com/cgi-bin/dpsmart.exe/IndexText/FSIGGF001.html?E+Sig https://fiberglasswarehouse.com/breakdown-of-different-fiberglass-cloths/

Ain't it great to know your services will ALWAYS be in demand, no matter what?

The unfortunate fellow on the right probably doesn't have much in the way of intellectual options, but after doing an image search, it would seem he wasn't hittin' on all eight prior to the accident anyway. The disturbing trend is ignorance-by-choice, especially when it's worn as some misguided badge of honor. Ignorant and damm proud of it. There's a lot of it around.

You Some Folks Now Have a Shorter Attention Span Than a Goldfish http://time.com/3858309/attention-spans-goldfish/