Ace-Garageguy

Quarter midgets are tiny, built for little kids. https://quartermidgets.org/ Several online sources mistakenly list the scale as either 1/24 or 1/25, which is ridiculous. I've seen one site call it 1/12, which is more believable. ON FLICKR: “THE SILVER FLASH” QUARTER MIDGET RACER Monogram – PC63 1/12 Scale – 1961 Art by Clement Fraser" The size of the model (not the scale) is similar to the Monogram Midget that you have, perhaps just a little smaller overall IIRC. I don't think I still have it here, having moved a large group of models west already, but I'll check again and measure it if I can find it.

Problem-solving is supposed to be something humans excel at, but I'm beginning to think ravens are better at it on average.

Go on now, you can't really mean that...

Snake and pygmy pie, with a Guiness. Sadly for me, most of the British beverages from my youth are no longer available in the US. Anyway, I've got enough s&pp to last a few days.

"Do you like to shake paint bottles?" Yup...almost as much fun as watching paint dry, or grass grow. I'm a real party animal.

Contamination in the form of induced currents from unshielded noisy circuits nearby can play holy jello with an aftermarket EFI system's ability to function, and even cause the "self learning" ones to go dumb.

Mother ships usually carry much more firepower than the little fighters, but they're not as nimble, and make easy targets unless they're shielded.

Snack calories can really add up quick, and may make the difference between a successful fitness program and a permanent "I can't lose weight" jelly belly.

Snow makes everything seem clean and quiet.

Beautiful piece of model building.

Somewhere along the line I did measure it, though I've forgotten, but it is indeed somewhere between 1/18 and 1/20. Which makes it a great starting point for similarly shaped but larger "championship" cars of the period in 1/25 or 1/24. I'm pretty sure somebody on this board has built one. Just as an aside, I have a vacuum-formed kit of the 1941 Indy winner co-driven by Floyd Davis and Mauri Rose. The kit came to me with no packaging, so I don't know its maker, and the one-sheet line drawing of the real car that came with it doesn't specify scale, though it's clearly 1/24 or 1/25. The point is that held side by side, it looks very much like the old Monogram Midget body was the basis for the buck the vacuum shell halves were pulled from. I also have a built-up chrome-body model that appears to be a midget, but I've been unable to find any info on it to date (though I haven't tried very hard). EDIT: Found it.

Unlikely some things I was looking forward to will come to fruition...though anything is possible...but at this point I really don't care.

Beautiful so far.

"Him" is a word that can get you in a lot of trouble.

"Color inside the lines" is a skill that should be mastered, along with general eye-hand coordination, before one tries to create "great art", but that now seems to be an obsolete concept.

"Natural" is certainly an overused word in marketing, and I'd really like to see the plant that some things labeled as 'natural' come from. (A young Cheeto plant) (A mature Cheeto tree, below)

Sweet truck. Is there a build thread I missed?

OK. Got it.

Doctors and lawyers are frequently as logic- and reading-comprehension-challenged as a large segment of the populace, which is pretty scary if you consider all the implications.

Writing legibly is becoming a lost art, but has been for some time among MDs on prescriptions. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37308401/

"Subject to change without notice" is often part of the fine print.

Zebra costumes are popular with giraffes at Halloween, but they don't fool anybody.

I gotta try that.