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  1. Clunkmeister
    These large multi engine kits are one seriously GREAT value. IF you look at it in potential hours per dollar spent. If you look at it that way, the Border Lancaster, all HK kits, Wingnuts Felixstowes, and all HPH kits are the best modeling values around, with Tamiya being just about the worst value. (Dollars spent vs time invested). They snuck this kit up on us. I certainly didn’t see it coming.
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    Exactly. I’ve preached that exact thing for years, till I’m blue in the face, and many think I’m crazy. But if we think about it realistically: the US and Canada account for what? 400 million people? Mexico possibly doubles that, but it’s still less than 1 billion in all of NA. China alone is double that. We are the richest Nation on Earth, with a ton of space, and kids are into Video Games, R/C cars and planes/drones, cars, and a bunch of other stuff that we can do here because we’re Blessed with wide open spaces and huge houses, comparatively speaking, which allows all kinds of alternate hobby choices. Model Building is huge now in Europe and growing crazily in Eastern Europe, where, I believe, the world’s foremost builders (and Companies) reside. Japanese people can’t do a lot what we do due to a lack of space, so they build. Same in Chinese cities. It’s growing over there, but fading here. Such is life. But, along with model building, other traditional sports and hobbies are fading as well. Look at traditional shooting sports. Find me a dozen serious skeet or trap shooters, or competition long distance precision rifle or pistol competitors under the age of 45 in one town. Pretty much impossible these days. Sad. Czech and Slovak citizens not only build, but they are fanatical competition shooters. I know. They’ve kicked my ass everytime I think I can take them in a pistol competition. And I even took to using Czech equipment. (No luck) 🤣
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    This is one serious list!!! It’s a GREAT time to be modeling in a large scale!
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    The US, believe it or not, is one of the smallest model markets in the world.
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    Actual radiation burns, yes
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    I’m thinking I need another. Dirt cheap and as obnoxious as hell. They’re sloooow, and the black trail they leave behind them looks like a 1963 Sud Caravelle on takeoff. They TOTALLY piss off the greenies in a way that simple words and a lifted modern 4x4 will never do. And then, mention to the morally offended how it’s basically an improved version of the first diesel that Mercedes started producing in 1934, and the insanely anal tweed wearing college prof types will immediately lose shit. OH how I do love to screw with the minds of people who can be easily screwed with. 🤣 I don’t create trouble and mayhem, but setting up the conditions where moral mayhem can flourish is always a fun sport when you’re bored. If they’re too dang nosey to mind their own business, I’m too childish to let such perfect opportunities go totally to waste.
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    Oh yeah. Or he go full military and get a wheel winch. No pulling off bumpers that way.
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    And the best thing about a Benz? Nothing is ever obsolete. They’ll get it for you, it might have to come from Germany, but if DB made it, they’ll get it. Plus, DB can and often is much cheaper to repair. Unlike American and Japanese cars, German car parts are sold a-la-carte. On. Toyota or a Chevrolet, if you have a broken radio button, you need to buy a new radio. DB will simply sell you a new button. Much, much better that way.
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    We say the same thing, but it involves the difference between a BMW and a Porcupine. A Porcupine carries it’s pricks on the outside.
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    Same thing here with BMWs. They must be an extra cost option. Also, once a Rover hits 5 years old, the indicators stop working. NOBODY who drives a Rover beer signals. I must admit that I feel a small bit of evil satisfaction when I spy an M series BMW all spun around, in the ditch, with nice, expensive pieces of black carbon fiber body cladding tore off by the concrete barrier. And the hair gelled punk yelling on his phone with his free hand gesturing wildly, trying to explain to his fancy Rent-A-Wife how this old codger in a Benz was in his way. 🤣 My heart may just sing a bit more than considered socially acceptable.
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    Exactly. Joy’s Ford Flex gets scratched on the bottom from those as well. Drives me insane. I usually drive my loud, smoky, abnoxious redneck-mobile, the 97 F-250HD 4X4 diesel. I just drive OVER those things if they’re in the way. Along with pesky boy racers in BMWs. But it had to be THIS car that got tore up.
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    Carl, I baby that car. It has travelled 81K miles since new and has got to be the most coddled Benz ever built. I like a car with a good turn of speed, but I like impeccable manners as well. So far, I haven’t found a better car for that. I’m one of the 10% of the population that is more than willing to deal with the issues of a W211 just to have the experience. I’d like to find a babied E55, and if I do, it’ll follow me home, too. I test drove one of them, and it turned me into the Three Legged Party Monster. It made my old XJR into yesterday’s news. All that being said, by far the best car I’ve ever owned is that rackety old 1985 Mercedes 300D. Like I said earlier, it’s STILL clattering around town, years after I sold it. It would burn literally anything, including filtered used cooking oil. Talk about cheap to run. Slower than molasses in January, and it was a draw between it and a loaded milk truck off the line, but one doesn’t complain when it’s cheaper to run than a Lambretta scooter. If I ever find a good, solid 1985-87 300SDL, I’ll probably snap it up, although it’s the Holy Grail of the old in-line diesels.
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    Yep. CAN-Bus love affairs. All German cars, and most British cars use vegetable oil based wiring insulation. Living in Texas makes for a lot of fun keeping rodents at bay. But I LOVE this car. Seriously. It’s is an absolute BLAST to drive and is the ultimate sleeper. The electrical isn’t a big deal as long as you understand the system. The big issue was always that a single fault could cause entire network to collapse, leaving you with a dead car. I had an update done to it to allow more info to flow on the low side of the system so it’ll all go into limp mode and bring the driver home. It’s only happened twice in 17 years. I really like the electronic braking. The Magazines despised it, but those of us who live with it, love it. This gives me a goor reason to install the Zenon projectors I have sitting on a shelf. I like the Mercedes, but it’ll be a cold day in Hell before I ever own a BMW I’m no boy racer wannabe. I like to ride around in style.. Heck, my ancient old 300D is still clattering around town. I got rid of it with 300K+ miles on it, a d that was 15 years ago when this W211 followed me home. That 300D has got to be the ugliest car in Texas. German Taxicab creamy puke yellow paint, and quite literally, a block cloud follows it everywhere it goes. 0-60 MPH in about a half hour or so as well. Slooooooow car.
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    Honey, can you check my car “Something popped”. 😡😡😡🤬 6K air suspension option and the idea is to use it and raise the car when you’re in a parking lot 😡 Bloody waste of money too much to ask someone to remember to push one simple button
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    I look at Martin’s last picture and wonder about the open canopies. Was that to let them air out on the long sea voyage? I assume these are headed to the South Pacific, since they generally flew European planes there. Maybe to keep the ambient temps inside down some?
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    I felt bad the next day as you really looked like you came from Chernobyl
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    Absolutely!!!!! It was pretty drunk out that night.
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    A beach? In Portugal is a good place to be. Sipping a Mai Tai would be even better, but hey, I’m here in North Texas waiting for a massive 3 weeks of winter.
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    That’s one that I expect will be built. I have the 36, the 52, and the 70 in 1/48, and JetMads is going to release a 47 in 1/48 to complete the set.
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    That has got to be one of the most lame, (but real) excuses I’ve ever heard in my entire life. 🤣
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    YES!
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    1/48 is cool as well y’all.
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    ROG, Trump, or Hase are all FINE!!
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    Yep. I just CAN’T do it guys. Thanks though. Although in some years, some of the raffle prizes have literally blown my mind. I
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