Fridays Funday
Posted by Dr Diecast at 5/23/2008 6:51 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
OK....... well first off I think we had a record number of comments posted for yesterdays blog. I do count 6 comments though one guy commented 2 times but thats ok, least ya'll are reading it.
I want to thank those of you who made comments as some just cracked me up. Between the ones about the diecast replica would be worth more than the car he owns to making Corvette guy fly here to pick up his car to a new bloggers love of JLO's butt all made me laugh that's for sure.
So boys and girls, moms and dads, kids and children of all ages.... (big lead in huh ?) lemme tell ya about assembling diecast cars, LOL. As I stated yesterday I had most of the Jaguar XKE assembled and only needed to add the outter chrome trim. Yeah well it wasn't that easy. For starters somewhere between the plastic bin I have the car parts in and the 6 inches over where I assemble them on a soft towel one of the door handles made an escape for freedom, LOL. Most of you have seen my primary work area..... bins on both sides with all the different projects in them. Table in the middle with all my little tools of the trade and where I do 90% of the work. Well Wednesday I was assembling the Jaguar and had ALL the parts there in the bin or in front of me. Yesterday I had ALL the parts to finish it BUT the left side door handle. I mean it was thier now its gone...... whats that all about ? I swear sometimes its like these parts try to run away.
Anyhow..... after I get done fighting with getting the hood to close all the way due to SOMETHING under the hood stopping it I gave up on the door handle. OK, not really...... I cleaned my whole work counter...... swept up the floor and dug through the crap I swept up. Man you would think im a pig based on this crap I sweep up. I mean I sweep every couple days but still.....ugh, yuck, oh well. Still no door handle. As far as the hood goes, well if you know what a Jaguar V 12 looks like you will kinda understand. Lots of motor under the hood and since this is an Auto Art and they are the kings of topper engines they can sometimes be a pain to get back in exactly right. I mean I spent at least 20 minutes messing with this. No I'm not a dumb as a box of rocks...... and no I wasn't drinking, LOL. I mean lets all remember these little cars aren't really made to be taken apart so once thats done its just as much fun sometimes to put them back together.NOT!
Well I finally got that done and had to move on to something else. That something else is the bus. I have to get this finished and I noticed the other day that while comparing what I had cut and sectioned to the schematics drawings they supplied I was basically trying to put my pants on over my head, LOL. See I took this project with a plan in mind..... while it was a viable plan the reality its such that sometimes you need to change on the fly and thats what is happening here. I have decided to use sheet styrene and actually cut the sides out based on there drawings reformulated to scale then do the front and back and basically create the whole thing from scratch. But now I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just use a slab of clay and create it then make a mold over the top...... hmmmm....... I have never done anything like that with clay.... I mean I have made little parts but not a whole body. Heck design guys do it...... why can't I ? OK, see typing this out made me think.... and I might just have to try clay..... guess we will see.
OK..... so I also have this small convertible conversion project for a diecast dealer in house. Six, 1970 Chevelles made by Ertl. Just wants them turned into convertibles. No problem.... (cheap plug time) I've been cutting roofs off cars longer then anyone so this is just another top chop, LOL. Well..... first off I don't want to use my original GM "A" ? body boot I made it back in like 2001 and its way too big and bulky. Man have convertible boots come a long way. So I decide that since I have a 70 Oldsmobile boot here from a junk car I will use that one as a master to mold from. Then pour them in resin and poof the cars are done. Well.... today is day 5 on FIND THE MISSING BOOT mission. Man I sound a mess don't I ?
Seriously..... if you saw all I have you would understand. I mean people say, well put this on one box and that in another. Yeah....well I would have to hire someone for a couple days to do that. I really do have that much "junk" aka Perfect Parts For Customers Cars, LOL.
Well..... I have these El Cheapo Ertl Chevelles apart at least and while they are a simple convertible conversion the fact that they have no sunvisor area means I have to think up something that will look right when done. So that search continues... heck maybe I will find the boot too, LOL.
So I sat back down at the work table to continue polishing out the Torana..... which by the way I FRICKEN HATE now, LMAO. I don't recall any car I have ever done being so hard to polish out. What a PITA this has been..... I had the body done and polished out the doors and hood only to go back and use some more 2400 grit on the body hood and doors again. Oh wait..... look....... ya see that ? Its right there in the middle of nothing.... its the missing Jaguar door handle HA !!!!!! ya fucker....... oops sorry but thats what I said....... GOT YA ! I mean really...... thats what happened... I'm like WTF.... how could I look for it, clean this area, look for it some more then just have it pop up ? I mean unless it was stuck to my arm or something and fell on the table I just don't get it. I think its God playing tricks on me. He's sitting up there laughing his butt off at me, LOL.
Speaking of butts...... hehe. Yesterday on my daily trip to town I decided to stop for some food, even though it was like 1:30, at my local Sonic drive thru. So lets recap quickly the women John (Dr Diecast) has found interest in. Mind you they are all in the food service industry, LOL, but hey.... its where I meet them.
OK...... first we have Amy .. oh let me interject that there will be no more diecast talk in this blog today so if your looking for that you may leave now. It's ok... I will wait a second till you click out..............................(long pause, really me going to the bathroom)........ ok , well back to it.
So we have Amy..... cutie, great eyes and butt (not a JLO one, I like them small) worked at Denny's then moved over to Mimi's (nicer place). She and I have become distant....sadly..... maybe its because she has a boyfriend, LMAO.
Then we have Heather.... who works at JB's which used to be the Denny's but is now privately owned. Shes tall....... cute, blonde hair, great butt (notice my thing with butts.... LOL. Hey some guys are boob men and if this is wiggin ya out then leave now, LOL ).
Lastly we have Kim who works the drive up window at Sonic. Cute cute cute, hot even.. great bod, long blonde hair.... great smile and personality. So you all know these are women whom I believe are at least 35 ????..... I hope, LOL. Anyway.. I have been playing the subtle flirt game with Kim and Heather for months now. Hey I'm like a turtle... slow and easy gets the gold. Cause yanno what women have down there ??? its gold, LOL and we (men) are always trying to prospect it, LOL.
Well.... I haven't been to Sonic in a could weeks I think and if I was she wasn't working so yesterday I drive up and shes all HI!!!! where have you been? I haven't seen you in ages ? Look at me I'm the assistant manager now. Whats going on ? I mean she was about hanging out the window to chat with me.. which is all good mind you, LOL it brought a big smile to my face. Heck she come out any further I would grab her and tell them to keep the food, LOL.
So we chat a little and she asks what I'm doing for the holiday and say nothing since I really don't know many people here. Mind you I do have my bunch from Chili's but they in reality are a bunch of drunks, LOL. So I tend not to brag about knowing them. Well then she says you should call me and could hang out over the weekend. Then she writes her phone number on a napkin and hands it too me. Whoo hooo....... subtle works I guess. Ok........ wait though.... then she asks me how old I am..... and I tell her.... and shes says cool my (female) roommate is 50. So... now im thinking is she trying set me up with her roommate or just making conversation as to the age thing is fine. Hmmm........... guess I will find out over the weekend, LOL. Either way it was cool..... and she did give me her number and didn't write her and her roommates names on it, just hers. So I will think positive that she wants me, LMAO, and leave it at that. Hey we all have fantasies that sometimes become reality, LOL. But even if I am living in fantasy land at least I have made another friend, LOL, so I have that going for me, LOL, beats the hell outta toy cars.
Ok..... I'm out ! Have a great holiday !
I want to thank those of you who made comments as some just cracked me up. Between the ones about the diecast replica would be worth more than the car he owns to making Corvette guy fly here to pick up his car to a new bloggers love of JLO's butt all made me laugh that's for sure.
So boys and girls, moms and dads, kids and children of all ages.... (big lead in huh ?) lemme tell ya about assembling diecast cars, LOL. As I stated yesterday I had most of the Jaguar XKE assembled and only needed to add the outter chrome trim. Yeah well it wasn't that easy. For starters somewhere between the plastic bin I have the car parts in and the 6 inches over where I assemble them on a soft towel one of the door handles made an escape for freedom, LOL. Most of you have seen my primary work area..... bins on both sides with all the different projects in them. Table in the middle with all my little tools of the trade and where I do 90% of the work. Well Wednesday I was assembling the Jaguar and had ALL the parts there in the bin or in front of me. Yesterday I had ALL the parts to finish it BUT the left side door handle. I mean it was thier now its gone...... whats that all about ? I swear sometimes its like these parts try to run away.
Anyhow..... after I get done fighting with getting the hood to close all the way due to SOMETHING under the hood stopping it I gave up on the door handle. OK, not really...... I cleaned my whole work counter...... swept up the floor and dug through the crap I swept up. Man you would think im a pig based on this crap I sweep up. I mean I sweep every couple days but still.....ugh, yuck, oh well. Still no door handle. As far as the hood goes, well if you know what a Jaguar V 12 looks like you will kinda understand. Lots of motor under the hood and since this is an Auto Art and they are the kings of topper engines they can sometimes be a pain to get back in exactly right. I mean I spent at least 20 minutes messing with this. No I'm not a dumb as a box of rocks...... and no I wasn't drinking, LOL. I mean lets all remember these little cars aren't really made to be taken apart so once thats done its just as much fun sometimes to put them back together.NOT!
Well I finally got that done and had to move on to something else. That something else is the bus. I have to get this finished and I noticed the other day that while comparing what I had cut and sectioned to the schematics drawings they supplied I was basically trying to put my pants on over my head, LOL. See I took this project with a plan in mind..... while it was a viable plan the reality its such that sometimes you need to change on the fly and thats what is happening here. I have decided to use sheet styrene and actually cut the sides out based on there drawings reformulated to scale then do the front and back and basically create the whole thing from scratch. But now I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just use a slab of clay and create it then make a mold over the top...... hmmmm....... I have never done anything like that with clay.... I mean I have made little parts but not a whole body. Heck design guys do it...... why can't I ? OK, see typing this out made me think.... and I might just have to try clay..... guess we will see.
OK..... so I also have this small convertible conversion project for a diecast dealer in house. Six, 1970 Chevelles made by Ertl. Just wants them turned into convertibles. No problem.... (cheap plug time) I've been cutting roofs off cars longer then anyone so this is just another top chop, LOL. Well..... first off I don't want to use my original GM "A" ? body boot I made it back in like 2001 and its way too big and bulky. Man have convertible boots come a long way. So I decide that since I have a 70 Oldsmobile boot here from a junk car I will use that one as a master to mold from. Then pour them in resin and poof the cars are done. Well.... today is day 5 on FIND THE MISSING BOOT mission. Man I sound a mess don't I ?
Seriously..... if you saw all I have you would understand. I mean people say, well put this on one box and that in another. Yeah....well I would have to hire someone for a couple days to do that. I really do have that much "junk" aka Perfect Parts For Customers Cars, LOL.
Well..... I have these El Cheapo Ertl Chevelles apart at least and while they are a simple convertible conversion the fact that they have no sunvisor area means I have to think up something that will look right when done. So that search continues... heck maybe I will find the boot too, LOL.
So I sat back down at the work table to continue polishing out the Torana..... which by the way I FRICKEN HATE now, LMAO. I don't recall any car I have ever done being so hard to polish out. What a PITA this has been..... I had the body done and polished out the doors and hood only to go back and use some more 2400 grit on the body hood and doors again. Oh wait..... look....... ya see that ? Its right there in the middle of nothing.... its the missing Jaguar door handle HA !!!!!! ya fucker....... oops sorry but thats what I said....... GOT YA ! I mean really...... thats what happened... I'm like WTF.... how could I look for it, clean this area, look for it some more then just have it pop up ? I mean unless it was stuck to my arm or something and fell on the table I just don't get it. I think its God playing tricks on me. He's sitting up there laughing his butt off at me, LOL.
Speaking of butts...... hehe. Yesterday on my daily trip to town I decided to stop for some food, even though it was like 1:30, at my local Sonic drive thru. So lets recap quickly the women John (Dr Diecast) has found interest in. Mind you they are all in the food service industry, LOL, but hey.... its where I meet them.
OK...... first we have Amy .. oh let me interject that there will be no more diecast talk in this blog today so if your looking for that you may leave now. It's ok... I will wait a second till you click out..............................(long pause, really me going to the bathroom)........ ok , well back to it.
So we have Amy..... cutie, great eyes and butt (not a JLO one, I like them small) worked at Denny's then moved over to Mimi's (nicer place). She and I have become distant....sadly..... maybe its because she has a boyfriend, LMAO.
Then we have Heather.... who works at JB's which used to be the Denny's but is now privately owned. Shes tall....... cute, blonde hair, great butt (notice my thing with butts.... LOL. Hey some guys are boob men and if this is wiggin ya out then leave now, LOL ).
Lastly we have Kim who works the drive up window at Sonic. Cute cute cute, hot even.. great bod, long blonde hair.... great smile and personality. So you all know these are women whom I believe are at least 35 ????..... I hope, LOL. Anyway.. I have been playing the subtle flirt game with Kim and Heather for months now. Hey I'm like a turtle... slow and easy gets the gold. Cause yanno what women have down there ??? its gold, LOL and we (men) are always trying to prospect it, LOL.
Well.... I haven't been to Sonic in a could weeks I think and if I was she wasn't working so yesterday I drive up and shes all HI!!!! where have you been? I haven't seen you in ages ? Look at me I'm the assistant manager now. Whats going on ? I mean she was about hanging out the window to chat with me.. which is all good mind you, LOL it brought a big smile to my face. Heck she come out any further I would grab her and tell them to keep the food, LOL.
So we chat a little and she asks what I'm doing for the holiday and say nothing since I really don't know many people here. Mind you I do have my bunch from Chili's but they in reality are a bunch of drunks, LOL. So I tend not to brag about knowing them. Well then she says you should call me and could hang out over the weekend. Then she writes her phone number on a napkin and hands it too me. Whoo hooo....... subtle works I guess. Ok........ wait though.... then she asks me how old I am..... and I tell her.... and shes says cool my (female) roommate is 50. So... now im thinking is she trying set me up with her roommate or just making conversation as to the age thing is fine. Hmmm........... guess I will find out over the weekend, LOL. Either way it was cool..... and she did give me her number and didn't write her and her roommates names on it, just hers. So I will think positive that she wants me, LMAO, and leave it at that. Hey we all have fantasies that sometimes become reality, LOL. But even if I am living in fantasy land at least I have made another friend, LOL, so I have that going for me, LOL, beats the hell outta toy cars.
Ok..... I'm out ! Have a great holiday !
Just use the right head to make all your decisions this weekend. we all know what happens when the male uses the little head to think for the big one. Have a great Holiday weekend and I hope you mine some gold
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Today's blog almost made me wet my pants I was laughing so hard. You're definitely on a roll, man. Yesterday's was also classic. If you're gonna do the Hyundai, could you also consider doing my '92 Caprice? LMAO. Sadly, the diecast would also be worth more than the 1:1. At least I have a classic that can be reproduced in diecast. BTW . . . . is it done yet? LMAO!!!!!!!!
Congrats on finding the Jag mirror. Maybe it's time for a new set of glasses. Didn't your mother warn you about this?
Good luck with your lady friend!
OH . . . about the guy with the AO Corvette . . . I say F**k him. He's definitely out to screw you! I see nothing but (more) trouble if you do the re-paint.
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Well John, I’m not into the dating scene but if I was it would be just hilarious to say the least. I’ve been at our beach and the girls 50 plus for me wearing bikinis you would swear the map of the world was engraved on their body with all the operational scares. I’m sure if the top were to drop off what was would not be. Man the water in your part of the world must be very healthy. Good luck in your pursuance of your dream gal.
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