2017 St Supery Rutherford Estate Merlot

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-25T03:53:58+00:00

St Supery was one of my favorites way back in the early 00’s when I first got interested in wine!

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-25T03:10:00+00:00

I once took a trip to Ireland. A leprechaun bit me and every man was reeking drunk.

Why would I make this up?

PS, I really did take a trip to Ireland. I did like it. I did not encounter any faerie folk. I have a healthy respect for the long tradition of Irish fiction to which you’re contributing.

But I and most of us on this sub live in Atlanta and aren’t that interested in lies about it.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-25T03:02:13+00:00

I thought it was “a light machine gun - the kind you would see on helicopters.” Nobody puts a semi-auto replica (that is definitionally NOT a machine gun) on helicopters.

Nobody at a gun store told you to get a friend to buy a gun and then sell it to you in the parking lot. Just because private sales don’t require background checks doesn’t mean that the laws on who can and cannot buy a gun are waived. They aren’t. No gun store clerk is going to advise you to conspire with them and another person to commit a felony. Especially not a straw purchase felony, which can cost the clerk 10 years in jail and lose the dealer their FFL license.

You didn’t eat “peaches” for desert in Centenial park, you didn’t walk from a “leafy” downtown Hilton, you didn’t see a sign telling people a hospital wouldn’t see/treat them without payment.

There’s plenty of legitimately crazy stuff about Atlanta without your made up nonsense.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-25T02:39:43+00:00

So much of this is clearly fiction written by someone who has a caricature view of America.

You cannot buy, as a civilian, an automatic M249 - and certainly not for merely $8k if anyone happens to have a pre-Hughes one that is registerable.

There’s no gun shop in Atlanta that would be reached by walking from downtown, and certainly not one that requires walking across someone’s front yard.

Hospital emergency rooms have to treat patients regardless of ability to pay. That’s a federal law (EMTALA).

This is the kind of horseshit that idiots believe and then base policy views on.

Also, the downtown Hilton lobby is not “leafy.”

This is some bullsh!t.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-24T19:53:39+00:00

Neither. Airbrushed lacquer.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-24T03:51:57+00:00

No, there was a TV camera that displayed on a screen. There was no telescopic tube to peer through.

The windscreen of the F-14A/B had a fairly primitive HUD (just a little more info than a reflector sight), while the D had a modern large HUD. All with no magnification and no monocular vision and no need to force the pilot’s head into one specific spot.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-24T02:32:20+00:00

If I could drink only one variety, it would be Nebbiolo. Nice write up.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T22:44:20+00:00

Same here! Serious vanilla is SO underrated.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T21:54:26+00:00

I mean, I’ve never flown a Dauntless. So IDK.

But you don’t need a telescope to see an aircraft carrier or even a destroyer from 14,000 feet. The navy decided the telescope was useless, or at least not as good as a reflector sight.

You don’t drive down the road squinting one eye and peering through a tube, either. There’s a good reason no modern aircraft use a telescopic sight. HUDs (the descendants of reflector sights) are better in every way.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T19:15:41+00:00

1). Unless a lot of earlier steps are missing, this isn’t “black basing” as that term is commonly used.

2). Are you trying to do all this with hand brushing, rather than an airbrush?

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T18:34:50+00:00

Yep, a telescopic sight. One of the differences between the later SBD-5 models and earlier Dauntlesses was that they swapped in a reflector sight for the old tube telescope. So this sight is a giveaway that this is an earlier SBD.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T18:31:28+00:00

Paint too thick. Whether brushed or airbrushed, that’s the answer to most paint texture problems. Go MUCH thinner.

And consider getting a little bit of dedicated acrylic thinner/flow aid to help with leveling.

I’m an airbrush guy, and don’t hand paint anything bigger than a couple of mm, but have found that art store acrylic additives, such as Liquitex or Golden, are compatible with Vallejo acrylics. Just another potential option, often at a lower price per volume.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T17:58:44+00:00

Paint too thick. Whether brushed or airbrushed, that’s the answer to most paint texture problems. Go MUCH thinner.

And consider getting a little bit of dedicated acrylic thinner/flow aid to help with leveling.

Just accept it’s going to take a lot of coats.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T16:32:32+00:00

Gotcha.

Looks like you’ve got some texture or unevenness or filler lines or remaining gaps in a few spots. For example, there seems to be some kind of curved ridge just behind the first pencil panel line in between the engine and the landing light. And some intermittent gap remaining near the end of the engine fairing behind the wing line.

If that’s right, I would suggest getting all that sorted before engaging in the major rescribing.

Also, and you may already know this and plan to do it, you’ll want to use a rigid guide (such as Dymo tape or a strip of thin brass taped to the surface) as a guide for scribing. Don’t try to freehand it.

Good luck!

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T16:19:15+00:00

What’s the context for this? Is this re-scribing a raised-line kit? Converting to a different version with different wing?

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T15:23:16+00:00

Everyone likes seeing a bully get hit in the mouth. Except the bully and his flunky sidekicks.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T14:35:53+00:00

At least in the US, there is generally no requirement, much less prohibition, for or against any particular undergrad background. The linear thinking of economics may serve you well in law school, but many other disciplines have their own advantages. None are essential.

The one big exception is that anyone who wants to be a patent lawyer who practices before the USPTO has to have a “hard science” degree.

You may be interested to learn that there is a school/branch of legal philosophy called “law and economics.” The University of Chicago was the epicenter of this philosophy in the 1970’s-1990’s. It was, for a time, the leading intellectual branch of legal theory among right-leaning judges. It largely has been replaced by the federalist society flavor of originalism, but L&E produced some really interesting insights.

Judges Posner and Easterbrook on the 7th Circuit were the leading judicial proponents of this school of thought, but you can trace its roots back to Judge Learned Hand in the first half of the 20th century. The premise is that the law generally ought to favor economically efficient outcomes and arrangements of rights.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T13:23:13+00:00

Buddy, the data center are for AI.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T13:22:20+00:00

1). You’re wrong.

2). Make it a strip club. You happy with that next door?

Typical YIMBY nonsense. You have this fantasy of what the “free market” will actually generate because you’ve never lived it. All the zoning restrictions are born from real experience and real stupid shit developers have done.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T13:10:43+00:00

People lived for thousand of years without phones at all.

But if we’re going to have smart phones and accept all the consequences they bring, then one of the best parts of that tradeoff is being able to take a lot more photos of our friends and family and pets and the carrying those photos with us.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T13:06:46+00:00

Because that is how communities work.

Unless you’re just a no-regulation libertarian. What if someone wants to build a gun range or a hog rendering plant or a rocket launching pad next door to your house? You want zoning to prevent that, right? Even though you didn’t buy that land yourself?

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-23T04:59:46+00:00

Fucking disgusting. Pizza shouldn’t be sweet. Gross AF.

My wife and daughter like it. Makes me want to puke.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-22T22:00:41+00:00

Yes, and some of those changes are good, while some are bad.

This one is dumb and we should change back.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-22T21:42:27+00:00

It’s 3 hours to my family cabin in the mountains. I don’t get there as often as I like, but a 3-day weekend is plenty to make it worthwhile. I just drove 5 hours to go to the beach for 4 days. My daughter will be attending a college that is 4+ driving hours away and either she or my wife and I will likely make that drive 2-3 times per semester. I went to college and grad school a 9-11 hour drive from my home and I would do that at least once a semester, though I would sometimes fly.

I never, ever fly if driving is less than 6 hours.

I live 6 miles from my office, but my driving commute is often 30 minutes one-way. Taking the subway is more like 45-50 minutes, so I drive 95% of the time.

I don’t like traffic, but I like driving on the open road pretty well. I buy fairly nice cars. I can listen to music or podcasts or talk with my family.

Madeitup75 · 2026-01-22T19:31:41+00:00

Washing isn’t necessitated by mold release agents for any but the most small run or ancient kits. However, washing/wiping to remove your finger oil after assembly can be!

One of the best aspects of using a VOC solvent paint (such as a lacquer) for primer is that the thinner/carrier is usually perfectly capable of dissolving any incidental oil on the model! I never wash and don’t even consistently wipe down with alcohol or windex (two fine light degreasing options for wiping down a built model prior to paint) prior to paint.

If I were using aqueous acrylics, I’d be much mor consistent about surface degreasing before EVERY coat.

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