Ace-Garageguy

"Universe" and "galaxy" are frequently confused terms.

Sounds good. Sometimes I really enjoy old simple standards from my kidhood, like frozen fish sticks, macaroni and cheese, and Boston baked beans, or sloppy Joes with sauce from a can, or a pan-fried burger with a baked potato. Nothing wrong with not "exotic".

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Doors to parallel universes may be what we access through sleeping dreams.

Store resin models carefully, as any pressure on the bodies over time can make them warp worse than any acetate promo you've ever seen...and you can't fix them

Homemade spicy pork tikka masala, shahi paneer, whole-grain brown rice with peas and Indian seasonings, hot buttered pita bread (though I'd prefer naan, there's no local source), and Mrs. Ball's chutney, Modelo Negra to drink. Made enough for 3 days, finished it up last night. I could happily eat Indian food every day.

Good reminder Many of us who have been building for a while are aware that measuring and dividing, contrary to what common sense would expect, are far from universally accurate procedures on the part of model tooling designers. Numbers are hard. There are identical kits from the same manufacturer that have been released at different times labeled as both 1/25 and 1/24. There are kits that have ridiculously underscaled parts (for instance, one Revell '34 Ford is the size of a '34 Fiat, and the "new tool" AMT Ala Kart engine is closer to 1/32 than 1/25). There are engines from different model manufacturers that are the same physical size in 1/24 and 1/25 kits. There are numerous kits where measurements taken or subsequent scaling are clearly wrong, leading to odd looking proportions. The internet is also awash with incorrect "expert" listings of kit scales (the Lindberg / Pyro Gee Bee race plane is even boxed as 1/32, but measuring the wingspan reveals it to be about 1/26 in reality...though the included pilot figure is indeed 1/32). So any reminder that these issues exist is worthwhile, especially to less experienced modelers.

Looks like a good technique to me.

Great looking boat. Nice work, nice proportions.

Floor joists are never really appreciated until they fail.

Lab-coated beauties doing science appear more in fiction than reality.

And it was such a great one, many other manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon...and are having the same problems. This is the kind of stuff that happens when engineers look down their noses at the greasy-hands guys who actually know how stuff fails from real-world experience.

Time is important, and squeakers on your brake pads shouldn't be ignored until the grinding noises start, but I still see metal-on-metal all the time...and then the owners get mad because the cost of new rotors and sometimes even calipers is a "ripoff".

Bits and pieces of many kits or junkyard cars can sometimes be combined into much more than the sum of the parts.

Thanks for posting that. I'm pretty sure that old R&C article is where I first got the idea to build a 1/25 scale sprint car from the old Monogram midget kit...years before I had the skill to do it, or even much interest in sprint cars.

Meat 'n taters still top my list of favrit things ta eat.

Hamburger mixed with elk is pretty tasty for if you like game meat.

I would wager that nobody in the history of the universe has gone as far with this kit...at least while keeping it a midget in the scale it came in.

"Burger Booger" has a nice ring to it for a restaurant; apparently "Booger Burger" is already taken.

Boogers to the right of them, boogers to the left of them, into the valley of snotballs rode the 600.

You'll need to get a CD of the music from Miami Vice, a pair of Wayfarers, a white suit, and a collection of pastel T-shirts too.

It'll probably take a little extra care to get the doors operating properly, and overall it's a nice kit. Seems I recall the seats may be a little underscale.

Toast with beans on it is a resoundingly British inexpensive meal.

One whole day, no significant irks. Wonders never cease.

What a concept. You suppose it'll ever catch on?