Ace-Garageguy

You reminded me of a doofus move I made. I had a clear 1/24 Lotus 30 body with a cool fade paint job on one of the sidewinder chassis, probably Cox. I had seen the real Chaparrals with their big flapping wings and thought it would be pretty slick to try something similar. I made a rig that let the motor swing up under acceleration, down when you let off, with struts to a wing and a bellcrank to flatten it on go, flip it almost vertical for an air brake on decel. The mechanism worked great, but I made the wing out of something like .040" brass sheet. Way top heavy. You can guess the rest.

Nights in White Satin was so long ago it sometimes seems like another lifetime, but other times those memories are as vivid as yesterday.

Hope you feel better soon, Bob. Joint pain that seems to come out of nowhere can really ruin your outlook.

"Horn-dog" is a semi-mecha species of dachshund/trumpet hybrid. (not from Wiki...)

I've bought a few of these ancient MRC power packs as NOS or NIB, after testing one. The "pulse power" is amazing, especially for old tech. Even el cheapo old Tyco locomotives will creep pretty well, and anything with a 5-pole skew-wound motor will move so slow you can barely see it. Yes, sometimes they'll buzz a little, and might try to overheat if you leave 'em creeping too long, but they make realistic switching in block-wired yards very doable without DCC. (I do have some DCC equipped locomotives, but it's not hard to wire a layout to do both. You just have to remember which locos are which, where they are, and flip the right switches powering the blocks.) The ones with "momentum" are even better...

My too pence...I'd happily pay that for the funny cars.

Says who?

"Three world wars and you're out" could be humanity's ultimate legacy, but hey...we wouldn't have to worry about "climate change" as an "existential threat" anymore.

World War Four, it was once said, will be fought with sticks and stones.

I get inspiration everywhere, from real cars we get in the shops to ancient printed matter I've hoarded over the years, builds right here on this very board, and the seemingly limitless supply of stuff I've never seen before on the interwebs.

About time people were allowed to think for themselves again, eh wot?

Kinda half irked and half pleased. Friday A chance of snow before 1pm, then rain and snow. High near 36. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Friday Night Rain and freezing rain, possibly mixed with snow before 1am, then a chance of snow and freezing rain. Low around 29. Chance of precipitation is 90%. According to the NWS forecast, it looks like I'll get my snow day Friday, and I'm just not going anywhere 'round here with the way these people drive on anything frozen. Probably ought to put the truck all the way up on the lawn too, so's some numbnutz doesn't slide into it in the driveway "on accident" as they say now. HOWEVER...it looks like later we'll get a "wintry mix", which means freezing rain, which means almost for certain a huge dead limb is going to come down and take out either 1) my power line from the pole, or 2) my 2-axle trailer. Time to move the trailer and lay in a supply of candles, batteries, and propane, 'cause last time the same line went down, I was in the dark 3 days.

Kinda half pleased and half irked. According to the forecast, it looks like I'll get my snow day Friday, and I'm just not going anywhere 'round here with the way these people drive on anything frozen. Probably ought to put the truck all the way up on the lawn too, so's some numbnutz doesn't slide into it in the driveway "on accident" as they say now. HOWEVER...it looks like later we'll get a "wintry mix", which means freezing rain, which means almost for certain a huge dead limb is going to come down and take out either 1) my power line from the pole, or 2) my 2-axle trailer. Time to move the trailer and lay in a supply of candles, batteries, and propane, 'cause last time the same line went down, I was in the dark 3 days.

I'm disqualified. Wasn't the first three things I thought it was, so I used "image search" to find it, which at least used to be against the rules. But now I know.

Yup. And I had more than a few destroyed before I got a fast enough thumb to let off enough, early enough before turns.

Yup. Been there.

Oh man, I remember those horrible things. If you wanted to open panels using one, you had to have 2 kits, because there was NO WAY you'd get a panel open without destroying either it or the panel next to it. I remember trying to use thread to "saw" panels out too. More control, but took forever and still wasn't great until you'd practiced for weeks (pretty funny that spllellchick doesn't recognize "saw" as a verb; that tells you a lot about modern culture right there). Then the old standby "the back of a #11 blade", which some people still try to use...and still end up with 2" scale door gaps.

Life with a neurotic narcissist can make you wonder just exactly how you got yourself in that position.

Here's a little bit, as recent as 2022...

You really couldn't make up some of the stuff that's going on in the world, hence the expression "stranger than fiction".

Looks to me like a whole lotta fun, but I know zero about it. Glad you brought this up.

Home is where the model bench and stash are.

Cavewomen probably smelled pretty ripe, but if they all looked like Racquel, I could suffer through a little olfactory discomfort.

I pretty much never make new-years resolutions, 'cause I learned I just don't keep 'em. HOWEVER...I've been losing range of motion and having a lot more joint pain and muscle cramps than I can enjoy (yeah, pain reminds you you're still alive, but enough is enough), so after some research I've started a DAILY targeted stretching routine as of Jan. 1. And it's working. The results are so positive after even such a short time, I'll definitely be sticking with it.

Maintenance of old codger bodies is at least as important as it is for cars, but lotsa folks would rather just complain about things rusting up and going to hades than do anything about it.