Lord Gruntfuttock

Some big screws straightened things up a bit. Waterblasted the sheepshit and slaters off the old palings and it came together ok. Rough but sturdy, and at the back of the house so nobody will see it...

Got a bit of waste ground by the back door that's only good for weeds, so just banged up a woodshed that'll save a trip to the big one. All scrap timber from an old fence so only cost me some screws and a bag of cement... Got the piles perfectly level then discovered the 100 x 100s were warped AF...

1/24th scale hornets/nest in engine bay pls. They always seem to find em in American shows...

^ Those weird cutouts are for soldering gear, but normal tools quite easy, just cut to depth req'd and peel out shapes...

@h4nd's Weller soldering iron post reminded me I've been sorting tools lately. Bought a stack of tool foam from Temu, got half it as freebies, satisfying work. Just need a pen, ruler and scalpel...

How does one encourage their offspring into such things pray tell...?

Get into bonsai for further realism/wasting your life making silly little things...

Looks like my one. You can still buy different sized tips for em...

Just found them, were in my toolbox. Think I grabbed a yard or so of them from the engine room at a previous workplace. No idea if you can still get them but they're super comfy under a helmet...

How good... Sounds awesome. Weekend of tunes upcoming... Could be some albums getting an ultrasonic bath too.

Reason I got it out is I won a record on the radio, so keen to get my beer crate of albums out. I've ordered a new stylus for $30 and looking fwd to traumatising the kids with arcane music and the rituals in playing it... I've even got the smoked glass doors somewhere I think. Be good to refit them and experience the satisfying magnetic closing 'clunk' again...

Dug out my old Sanyo stereo system, circa 1981. Tape deck is koozed but rest of it makes a great sound. The cabinet however looked terrible, all the lamination had peeled in the sun. I pulled the entire top off, discovered it had a rough finish so smeared on some filler, sanded, brushed on some varnish and sanded again before applying some Temu woodgrain vinyl and trimming with a scalpel. Looks much better...

Which was east of Britain. Must have used the German description...?

Have you considered recreating the western front in your garage...?

That's brilliant. Question from a numpty. Can you simulate dents like you'd get on a working truck? I'm imagining using heat to create a lifelike fold in panels/bent grills etc. But sounds risky/easy to fuck up...