Ace-Garageguy

Please elaborate, Mr. Keeper of all Wisdom. Help me to be as enlightened as you. In other words, if you're gonna put it out there, back it up. I used the term "maggots" to refer to whoever ends up feeding off the corpse of a dead company. Appropriate, I think.

Perhaps not in your understanding of the concept, but you're free to define your version of "morality" as you see fit. As am I. Timing and intent are operators here, and those particulars set this instance apart from a simple buy low / sell high scenario...which is usually a perfectly legitimate way to make money. But it's getting just too tiring trying to get a subtle point of ethics across to people who refuse to see.

That was never the issue, never the intent, never the thrust of the argument. I believe I said something about people incapable of making subtle moral distinctions. Thank you for so eloquently illustrating THAT concept.

There are obviously a fair number of people who don't like to make subtle moral distinctions (or are incapable), so they have a little easier time in life deciding what's right and what's wrong...or they just do what everybody else does and don't even think about it. If something puts money in their pockets, it's right...as long as it's not blatantly illegal or they have little chance of getting caught if it is. I'm glad not everyone sees life as a series of opportunities to screw the next guy in line. Have a nice day.

Thanks for getting the point I was trying to make, Tom.

See, the movie "Titanic" wasn't about going on a beautiful cruise...oh, never mind.

AKA: Missing the Point...entirely.

I wouldn't advise it on rattlecan or airbrushed lacquers or enamels. I've tried it and the speed was simply too high with my particular setup...which was a corded variable speed Dremel on the lowest setting. Rather than polishing the paint, it melted it and smeared an area, requiring a strip and repaint (this was the last time i experimented on a model rather than on a test panel). You can probably get away with machine-polishing a 2-part urethane clear after it's fully cured...maybe...but experiment on a test panel before you try it on a model. Once you sand all the orange peel out, hand polishing really doesn't take very long, and you're far less likely to damage a nice paint job.

Lay the centers out carefully and drill exact-center pilot holes with a pin-vise and small-diameter bit, maybe .030" or .040" You don't need a pin-vise to use twist drills to enlarge the holes in styrene. Fingers work just fine. Use SHARP bits. Don't be in a hurry and don't press too hard, which will tend to tear the plastic and run the bit off center. If you can get bits made specifically for drilling into plexi, they have a different taper on the flutes and will tend to stay on center better without tearing or getting caught. Two notes: few things look stupider than unevenly-spaced holes, and visors that haven't been thinned to approximate scale thickness. I've seen plenty of model visors that would be 1" thick if scaled up. Wrong.

Point missed again. Geez. Let's review. 1) Modelhaus is going out of business, probably at least in part due to the death of the son. 2) As a courtesy and service to the modeling community (rather than just shutting down and leaving everybody twisting in the wind, which would have been entirely understandable) Modelhaus announced their projected closing date so modelers could get what they may have missed in the past. 3) Possibly, SOME large order placers aren't buying for their own use, but to resell at inflated prices after production ceases. 4) In MY view of things, folks doing that are taking unfair advantage of the folks at Modelhaus. 5) WHY would Modelhaus be content to sell product at regular price to hoarders / resellers when Modelhaus could get the inflated prices themselves if they simply shut down and auctioned off stock as they saw fit, for the highest possible prices? 6) They wouldn't, unless they were idiots, which they aren't. (But if they were operating solely on business principles, human-greedy-nature or laws of economics, that's EXACTLY what they'd do). 7) Again, I maintain intentional big-order resellers are unfairly taking advantage of Modelhaus' kindness, consideration and courtesy in announcing a closing date. If you can't grasp what's at issue here...whoever you are...I sincerely hope you'll be treated exactly the same way you seem to think is OK in all your future business and interpersonal dealings. It may be "good business", "human nature", the "laws of economics" or whatever you want to call it. But buying large orders specifically for the purpose of reselling at inflated prices is simply taking unfair advantage of the kindness, courtesy and responsible behavior Modelhaus has extended to the modeling community.

Boy, there's really some convoluted 'logic' that somehow got that question from the issue under discussion here.

I think what we're seeing more and more is what happens when a society begins to think concepts like fairness, courage, ethical behavior and pretty much any worthwhile values whatsoever are obsolete and laughable ideas. Wherever you look, including in corporate and government sectors, the idea of "is this right?" doesn't seem to occur to anyone anymore. When I was in the England in the early '70s, very few police were armed or wore bulletproof vests. It was almost unthinkable that anyone would shoot a cop. Not so today, and it's worse here. But this isn't about guns. It's about people failing to respect other peoples' rights, and reacting without thinking of the "right and wrong" of any action.

Glad I could help. Mr. Hoving's photos of that work really showed me the way to go on making custom windshield frames too. He's very talented and skilled, and his masters are as good as it gets.

I've been painting 1:1 vehicles for 50+ years, and I don't understand why your clear is still tacky for so long (you say "1-2 hours"). It's common in the real world for a 2-component urethane clear to be "dust free" (no longer tacky on the surface, so that any dust that falls on it is easily removed) in 10 minutes or so. If you're using the "one use" 2-part clear, are you certain you're getting ALL the hardener out of the little bottle and into the big one? Too little hardener could conceivably slow the dry time. I'd be careful about using a sealed container for drying, too. It COULD inhibit initial evaporation of the carrier solvents and lead to solvent-popping as the clear cures. To inhibit dust getting in your paint, all you really need is a clean flat thing to put the just-painted model under, in a draft-free area. Dust normally settles on horizontal surfaces, or gets blown on to other areas. Having a simple clean cardboard plank to put the model under will eliminate the former, and insuring you're in a draft-free environment will eliminate the latter.

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Modelhaus resellers (in this instance, assuming a block of product was purchased specifically to resell) are acting without the consent of Modelhaus. THAT'S the point. I doubt Modelhaus would be happy about knowing they were producing a large number of orders so someone ELSE could profit on them. Frankly, they would be fools to do it. Much better for them to withhold product and sell it at inflated prices themselves after production stops. If people are reselling with the CONSENT of Modelhaus, fine. I rather doubt it though. Modelhaus never sold through middlemen, to the best of my knowledge. If people are reselling large orders of product without Modelhaus' consent, it's taking unfair advantage of a situation. But feel free to call it "good business". I reserve my right to call it something else entirely.

Ethics and the golden rule just have no place in the world today, do they? And if that's really the way you feel, quit complaining about your corrupt Crook County politicos who exist to do nothing but line their own pockets. They're just following "human nature". It's kinda like "I was just following orders". So many people ALWAYS miss the point. Reselling BY AGREEMENT is NOT the issue here. Another not-too-subtle difference that IS apparently too subtle for most.

Quote from Tesla: "Autopilot does not turn a Tesla into an autonomous vehicle and does not allow the driver to abdicate responsibility".

And I, for one, have no use for middlemen. I'll try to cut one out of every deal I can, every time. I've spent the majority of my life MAKING things and getting no credit and way less than half the money. I'm sick of a system that rewards the resellers and screws the producers, the originators, the inventors, the ones who make it possible for everyone to live. This is the principle involved: If you can MAKE something, you deserve as much as you can get. If you can't make anything, you don't have any right to a free ride on MY effort and skill. Buying up a bunch of Modelhaus product specifically to resell is wanting to profit for doing nothing but posting the parts on ebay. It's lazy, greedy, and sleezy. Anybody who actually ever made anything original will get it. Free-riders won't. And another thing: reselling someone's product BY AGREEMENT is one thing. Loading up a company with orders (specifically to resell) whose principals are trying to end production following the death of their son is something else.

Sat outside on the porch at dusk with a cafe con leche, watching the fireflies come out. (image taken from the web)

A fundamental change in human nature that eliminated the desire to make a buck for doing nothing while riding on someone else's back.

So, MCM isn't the only forum with the occasional glitch.

I keep coming back to look at this. Really beautiful work, especially considering it's only her second, and one of the more challenging kits at that. It's better than a lot of folks who have been building for 50 years or more. Fine, fine, fine. There's a lot of talent there.

I know this is the accepted wisdom, but there may be brains that work a little differently. I have had, on occasion, quite vivid and memorable dreams while only dozing for a few moments, and thought to myself at the time "how can this be? I can't possibly be in the defined 'REM' sleep mode yet".