Some really cool stuff by Dave Dickash

[Greg Myers]

http://www.angelfire.com/in4/blu4/index.html

Another random on line find 

[Greg Myers]

a straight shot to the good stuff,  http://www.angelfire.com/in4/blu4/p4.html

[oldnslow]

nice

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Yeah, this guy is one of the greats.  

I'm kinda surprised you can say "Dickash" on here though. Surely somebody is going to misunderstand completely and run crying to the hall-monitor. 

[Gregg]

That is his real last name. Why would you even bring something like that up?

[Ace-Garageguy]

18 minutes ago, Gregg said:

That is his real last name. Why would you even bring something like that up?

It's just a joke.

And it's a joke because, more and more, people are taking things entirely out of context, getting hurt feelings for no earthly reason, labeling simple posting of facts as argumentative, and calling comments "bordering on abusive" that are nothing of the kind.

It's almost impossible to tell these days what someone is going to take as "offensive".

The finding-offense-everywhere trend is completely out of hand. I've been censured for simply stating facts...facts that I can back up from personal experience...like the propensity for overly-complex and insufficiently robust (and poorly supported) electronic systems to fail.

It will be nice when some adults who are familiar with the children's phrase "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me" step forward to run the world again.

Having to walk on eggs to avoid hurt feelings constantly gets to be tiresome, and it's all but impossible to know in advance what someone is going to cry over. Having posts removed because they have the audacity to express an opinion that disagrees with the main-stream, or that is deemed to be digressing excessively, and being threatened with "points" gets to be tiresome as well.

 

Edited July 5, 2018 by Ace-Garageguy

[styromaniac]

Dave Dickash....wasnt he a member of L.I.A.R.S. modeling club on Long Island? He passed away in 2004. His motto went something like "anyone can collect old model car kits, it takes a real man to cut them up". Met him at a NNL in Towson Md many years ago...built some crazy stuff. R.I.P.

Edited July 5, 2018 by styromaniac
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[SfanGoch]

Yes, he was a L.I.A.R.S. member.

[Tom Geiger]

It's good to see Dave's site is still alive.  Yes, he was one of the more colorful Liars.  Dave wound up with cancer.   He talked to the doctors about his plight  and found that he he had two choices.  He could go through chemo etc and be in pain and it would buy him a bit more time.  Or he could simply do nothing.  Doctors told him he'd feel fine until near the end, then he'd suffer a short time before he died.   He chose the later and I always respected him for this. He told everyone in the hobby his plight, and then said he didn't want to hear about it again.  Just treat him the same.  When I'd see him at shows I'd simply say, "It's good to see you!" 

He posted on the boards that he had a huge parts hoard and wanted to share it with people who would use the parts for builds.  He wanted to watch the builds.

John Agugliaro  became the caretaker of Dave's  "Da Deuce"  (which Dave's family kept).  Unfortunately John died in his 50s.   I'm still in touch with John's wife Amy.  She comes to NNL East to see everyone and I'm Facebook friends with her.

I hope I remembered all this right!  

 

 

Edited July 6, 2018 by Tom Geiger

[Miatatom]

4 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

It's just a joke.

And it's a joke because, more and more, people are taking things entirely out of context, getting hurt feelings for no earthly reason, labeling simple posting of facts as argumentative, and calling comments "bordering on abusive" that are nothing of the kind.

It's almost impossible to tell these days what someone is going to take as "offensive".

The finding-offense-everywhere trend is completely out of hand. I've been censured for simply stating facts...facts that I can back up from personal experience...like the propensity for overly-complex and insufficiently robust (and poorly supported) electronic systems to fail.

It will be nice when some adults who are familiar with the children's phrase "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me" step forward to run the world again.

Having to walk on eggs to avoid hurt feelings constantly gets to be tiresome, and it's all but impossible to know in advance what someone is going to cry over. Having posts removed because they have the audacity to express an opinion that disagrees with the main-stream, or that is deemed to be digressing excessively, and being threatened with "points" gets to be tiresome as well.

 

+1

[Ace-Garageguy]

I certainly didn't mean for this thread to become a soapbox, but the joke I made addresses a very real problem.

Back on topic, youse guys really need to appreciate Mr. Dickash's work. For those who didn't click through, here are some more pix:

          

         

 

 

Edited July 6, 2018 by Ace-Garageguy

[iamsuperdan]

Pics don't work.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Just now, iamsuperdan said:

Pics don't work.

They show on my screen. 

[iamsuperdan]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

They show on my screen. 

Weird. Here's what I see.

[Ace-Garageguy]

5 minutes ago, iamsuperdan said:

Weird. Here's what I see.

Weird indeed. I copied them to my own drive. I'll reload them from there.  

Done. They should all show now to everyone.

Edited July 6, 2018 by Ace-Garageguy

[SfanGoch]

That works.  

[Spex84]

Thanks for the link; this is very cool stuff. 

I appreciate when modelers' work is displayed online even after they've passed. CJ Hilton's site still looks exactly the same as when I discovered it as a high school student in 1998, spending my lunch hour in the library computer lab and exploring this exciting new thing called "the internet": http://www.cjhilton.com/Models/

I can't think of any other websites that both stuck in my memory and still look exactly the same as they did in '90s!

 

 

[Ramfins59]

Dave Dickash wound up becoming one of my very best friends after I had my series of TIA's, or "mild strokes", in June of 2000.  I had lost interest in models for awhile and Dave took me "under his wing" in order to get me back into building again.  On Saturday mornings he would drive to my house (we lived on Long Island, NY) in his all steel bodied '32 Ford sedan HiBoy Street Rod to pick me up and we'd go back to his home to work on models.  While in his basement workshop he'd play (blast) numerous CD's (Pink Floyd, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, etc..)  Dave was a drummer and I played Bass so we appreciated the music and had pretty much similar tastes.  We'd break for lunch and "refreshments" and also spend some time sitting on his front porch "imagineering" various projects.  We had some hilarious discussions on that front porch.  Dave and I would go to local model and car shows and cruise nights in his Hot Rod and I'd be a grinning fool in the passenger seat of "Dadeuce".  I was devastated when he lost his battle with cancer in 2004 and will always cherish the wonderful times we had together.  I miss him greatly and still look to him for inspiration at times, even though we had different tastes in the models we built. 

[Greg Myers]

Thank you for sharing that with us Richard. I feel that really puts a face on this, yours as well as  Daves. Thank you again.

[styromaniac]

Ditto. Sounds like you shared great times together.

[Ramfins59]

2 hours ago, styromaniac said:

Ditto. Sounds like you shared great times together.

"Great times" doesn't even come close to describing how much fun and laughter we had together for those few short years.  Dave was only 52 when he passed.  

[styromaniac]

I spoke to him only briefly when I met him at the Mid Atlantic NNL many years ago....think he had an Isetta model that  he had turned into a dragster. Seemed like a real jovial character.