Lord Gruntfuttock

^ 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...

Scale model pest...

Greatest scene in cinematic history...

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE...

I've been creating...

Hope she made ring-ding-ding noises...

Lifeless, Leaky, Leyland...

Isn't there like a page on the NZ police website where you can check if it comes up as reported stolen? Pretty sure I used that once trying to re-register a bike, just saved a screenshot of the 'this vehicle has not been reported as stolen'...?

Intrigued by the Ukrainian model page. little plastic men and trucks, not blonde booby ones...

Best plugs I've found are soft cotton type ones. Don't suffer the discomfort of foam ones under the helmet...

3 parts boiled linseed oil, 1 part mineral spirits, and you can add some WD40 to reduce the shine a bit. * I think. Seen a video referencing his recipe somewhere...

I was parked beside this at Cromwell car show. I asked if it was clear coated as it looked great, but owner just said he'd only cut and polished it. They lived in Alexandra tho so very dry climate, not the same corrosion issues as most of NZ...

Not to mention zee uniforms on der baddies...

Pics m8