Ace-Garageguy

Thank you sir. Found a NOS copy in the States, it's on the way.

Thanks. Found a "like new" copy, it's on the way.

Pleased that some prices in my most-frequented grocery store are down, with the sliced ham I currently favor for lunch sandwiches down by almost $1 a pound, and a dozen large eggs down to $4.50.

"Counts" is what one of the sub-apps running in our brains does, and it's the subject of an interesting look into neuropsychologist Brian Butterworth's work with people who've lost their number sense in his book What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math.

...IIRC, the old Modelhaus 1/25 "medium duty" truck wheel/tire set molds were pulled from a 1/32 or 1/35 big truck set that looked pretty good, and scaled out to 17.5" in 1/25.

I think it's a pretty cool color. Clear it, call it "dusty rose metallic", and you're golden.

Not much in the way of irkage yet today, but I have to go out for a bit, so give it time...

Them others is s'posed to taste like pork, hence a cannibal name for human is "long pig".

After the big cold front went through, it's clear and cooler again, 60F high w/ 40% humidity today (had been in the 80s daytime). 30s forecast tonight, kinda cold here for this late in the year. Pretty decent forecast rest of the week, high 70 and sunny Sunday, so either a hike or a trip to the Savoy car museum.

Cool. I want to do some hand-laid dual gauge for the heavy engine and car shops down in the "flatlands".

3 lots of NOS HOn3 "craftsman" kits and pretty decent builtups. For those who may not know, HOn3 is HO scale, but the equipment represents 3-foot narrow gauge in the real world (USA standard gauge is 4 feet 8 1/2 inches, though standard HO track is not exactly to scale). I was surprised to see how spendy HOn3 stuff is these days, so when the opportunity came up to acquire a good number of kits and RTRs at well under half market value, I jumped. My layout plan calls for narrow gauge mining, drilling, and logging operations in the hills, feeding sawmills, crude oil tanks, and ore loaders that are served by standard-gauge railroads as well. Narrow gauge equipment usually has a lot of "character", making it great fun to represent kinda funky backwoods short-lines operating on a shoestring, using full-scale "kitbashed" rolling stock.

Eye candy to some is in really poor taste to others.

Colors on the color wheel are broken up into primary colors (red, yellow, blue) forming the foundation, and secondary and tertiary colors (like orange, green, violet) derived from their combinations.

Rats were butchered and sold to Japanese officers as "mouse deer" by American POWs in the novel "King Rat", and in some parts of the world, particularly in Thailand and Vietnam, roasted rat on a stick or skewer is served as a snack.

Again and again and again, can't anyone end a sentence with anything but "again"?