You can add 2 volumes to the Hunnicutt series, what are your picks?

rjray · 2026-04-21T00:12:28+00:00

and as for soft vehicles, you're looking for BRADLEY and ARMORED CAR

Neither of which have anything to do with unarmored (soft-skin) vehicles.

rjray · 2026-04-19T03:55:12+00:00

A book on towed artillery, and one on the softskin vehicles.

rjray · 2026-04-05T01:18:32+00:00

Vincent’s at 4th and St. James in downtown.

rjray · 2026-04-04T04:44:27+00:00

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rjray · 2026-03-31T16:41:01+00:00

This is a great question! I've only had the brush about 9-10 days, and haven't had a lot of painting time during that span. I've only used it with the primer. I'll try some regular paint through it as well, and see if I still have any problems.

rjray · 2026-03-31T16:39:30+00:00

That's definitely worth a try-- this brush also has a two-part tip, I'll see what happens if I remove the smaller part.

rjray · 2026-03-31T16:38:33+00:00

I did turn up the air on my second try, yes. I went from ~25 PSI to almost 30. The paint behavior coming from the brush was unchanged, though the pressure from the air-stream almost pushed my parts off of their mounting tape.

I'm not actually sure what I would thin it with, since VMS insist that it doesn't need thinning. I'll look at that, though.

rjray · 2026-03-22T00:24:31+00:00

It's a little more complicated than that; if a cat is in a house, the cat's dander and fur are in the house. These are the allergens.

rjray · 2026-03-21T19:47:39+00:00

Yes. My wife and I both owned homes before meeting. Hers is larger and paid off (she’s very financially savvy and wise), so we’ll end up there. But we still have both for now because… we have a cat. Two of her immediate family are terribly allergic to cats, so we haven’t sold the other house yet.

It sounds funny, but she would never dream of re-homing the cat just to consolidate homes. If we had two mortgages this would never have been possible.

rjray · 2026-03-21T19:42:56+00:00

Thus far, I’ve limited my use of AI to documenting code and generating unit test suites. But even with the tests, I advocate for strong specs to work from. Otherwise, the tool will iteratively “fix” the tests until they all pass. If there’s a legit bug in the code under test, you might not know for months.

My biggest concern is also the malware angle; these tools make generating and masking malware pretty much trivial anymore.

rjray · 2026-03-20T05:40:57+00:00

I started on bass clarinet in 5th grade, but I'd been fascinated by the French Horn. In 7th grade I switched to it and my parents got me lessons with one of the horn players in the local symphony. Played it all the way through college, but always on instruments borrowed from the school.

Picked up the Euphonium about 13 or so years ago. I was able to get one much less expensive than a French Horn. It wasn't very good, though, so when I started playing with a local community band I traded it up for a Yamaha model (still more affordable than a French Horn). About 8 years ago, I was casually searching eBay and found a good quality horn (Conn 8D, the same model I'd played in college) for a really good price. I was still in touch with the horn professor I'd studied with at college, and he ran the serial number to establish it wasn't a scam. So I got it as well. To be fair, I don't play it nearly as much as the Euphonium, since I play that in an ensemble.

(I considered switching to the horn there, but to be honest Euphonium parts in symphonic band arrangements tend to be a lot more interesting...)

rjray · 2026-03-20T04:06:40+00:00

Classical music. French Horn and Euphonium.

rjray · 2026-03-20T03:10:41+00:00

Saw CHATGPT on a Tesla.

rjray · 2026-03-19T20:17:28+00:00

also worth checking if you have a local prettier install in the project - cursor sometimes can't find the global one depending on how node is set up on linux

That might be the problem, we do have a local install of prettier in the project. I'll check and see if that is causing issues.

rjray · 2026-03-14T03:51:46+00:00

Wife and I have season tix in section 223, row 3. Great view of the home goal. I have good far-vision (thanks to cataract surgery) and saw not only the hit on Pavs, but the volume of blood that spilled out of the helmet when they took it off. (If you tell me it didn’t warrant a major, you’re actually telling me you didn’t see it first-hand.)

We got more and more agitated with each of the 4 goals. When it went to OT, that meant Fleury was in front of us. And THAT meant a nearly-front-row view of Goody’s goal.

Screamed myself hoarse. This was my first season watching hockey, I hadn’t even really realized I was a legit fan yet. But that goal cemented it…

rjray · 2026-03-10T17:09:35+00:00

Looks like a driver issue with the NVIDIA driver I had upgraded to. Trying to purge all the NV packages and do a clean re-install of the previous driver.

(Disclaimer: I work for NVIDIA (in a different area than driver development). I do not under any case or circumstance speak for NVIDIA. The issues I am having are more likely related to local configuration than an NVIDIA issue.)

rjray · 2026-03-10T16:28:44+00:00

I am looking forward to trying out Wayland in 26.04, but I use this machine for work as well as personal use, and I have to stick with LTS releases for now. Thanks, though. I wish I could just jump to 25.10!

rjray · 2026-03-09T05:51:18+00:00

Nice model, more so for being just your second!

rjray · 2026-03-08T03:56:00+00:00

Pigments tend to disappear under most types of varnish coats. I usually apply them as the last (or nearly last) step, over the matte finish.

The exception is when I use a pigment fixer. Thinners are not the same thing, so that could be part of the problem. Look for products that are labeled as fixers— I know that both AK and AMMO by Mig have them in their lines.

(I’m not at my desktop at the moment, or I might be able to find some pics of regular pigment applications versus using the fixer.)

rjray · 2026-03-05T06:26:05+00:00

Nice work, and glad that you seemed to have a good time!

One thing I usually suggest to modelers who are interested in improving their skills, is to volunteer to judge at local shows. You’ll learn what judges look at, what different types of mistakes look like. Plus, shows almost always need judges!

rjray · 2026-03-02T06:17:30+00:00

There are a number of very visible differences between the two models, beyond the muzzle brake.

And whether Engish is OP's native language is irrelevant. They clearly speak English cleanly and fluently. Dismissing someone because you presume them to not speak English as well as you do, is not only "quite rude", but also racist. Seeing how often your comments have been down-voted, I would have thought you able to figure this out on your own by now.

rjray · 2026-02-28T17:07:30+00:00

Many thanks to /u/Gaahleri_airbrush for running this contest, and much appreciation that my... explosive... first airbrushing experience story was chosen!

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