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I had too much bourbon one night. My USMC buddy was filling my glass... especially when I left the room. Memories are sketchy. I remember stumbling back towards the squad bay quite merrily. Then I remember the duty NCO handing me a mop handle and telling me to mop up my puke. ... I had ribs for dinner... The next morning I woke up feeling strange, but not particularly bad... then I noticed a 6" wide puddle of vomit next to my pillow on my still-made, but rumpled bunk. We had barracks inspection that day, being Friday, so I rolled up linens and pillow and blanket and stuffed them into my wall locker. On my way to the communal head, I realized that my mop-up job of the previous night hadn't been particularly successful. I went to work and by 0800 felt like death hounded by a jackhammer with Mike Tyson pounding on my guts. I begged my gunny to go to the 7-day store on base, and he let me go. Three aspirin and half a bottle of Pepto Bismol later, I felt good enough to work the rest of the day. It took a few months for me to learn the rest of the story... I had been picked up off the floor, never too far from the not-separated toilet bowls (think of Gomer Pyle's toilet salute) and led back to my bunk a few times. The next weekend I got a wiff of somebody else drinking bourbon, and it made my stomach heave. I still don't drink the stuff.

Louis XVIII... one of the last Bourbons

Thank you, Kstadt! It is SMS Großer Kurfürst.

Those guys look great, Kstadt! From me... more warship. The Artwox deck gives a splash of color to the seas of gray. I'll probably tone it down with a wash later. What's with the red arrow, you ask? The ship is crooked. The red arrow denotes the curved line where I separated the the fo'c'sle from the battery deck. Otherwise, getting a decent fit would be improbable. I don;t know if the crookedness is my fault, or the kit's. Either way, I didn't want to have to suffer the consequences of having the battery deck fully installed and then have to fill and sand places on the fo'c'sle. I also began to rig the torpedo net system. If you get to see close-ups of warship with torpedo nets, you'll see it's quite busy between the torpedo net shelf and the waterline. ...but you'd need the patience of a saint to try to get everything there in this scale. For the rigging, Uschi line sold under license by MiG Ammo.

Remember this shiny thing? This was my Ta-152C repurposed post war as a racing plane. If you wanna make rivets... PCM is for you. You will either have to shave the IP to get it to fit... or make your fuselage sides perilously thin. Or both as I've done Here: Not sure why a me-262 is showing there... but it is my PCM FW 190 WIP. Just think of it as an upscaled 1/48 kit... and you won't be too disappointed. LG detail is soft, and worst of all for a 1/32 aircraft.... the tailwheel and strut are molded together.

It's either the 1/350 scale Seydlitz, or WNW Albatross Trilogy.

I haven't used AK Extreme metals, yet. But I am looking fora replacement for Alclad. Alclad just seems to fly out of the airbrush.

Re Puttied wings: Don't ask... and don't tell.

Excellent workmanship!

That's really nice work!

N'est-ce pas là l'essence de Trumpeter?

Thank you. I'm sure you'll find more pics of them in RLM 66 than you will in 02. The colour call out was for 02 so I went with it.

There's only two things I've done for more than 6 years. My marriage and my job. I'm not sure which shits me more.

I haven;t done a lot. Mainly cuz I've been working on that warship and doing other banal things like mowing the lawn every few days since we're getting a fair amount of rain. Anyway... here are my sloppily rendered inner bits. There's absolutely no reason to do any more to the engine. The plastic isn;t conducive to showing inner detail. I trimmed the hell out of the IP to make it fit. Last time, I spent hours trying to shave the cockpit walls thin enough without going through, thank goodness.

Battleship fun. I just feel this kit is gonna take me forever.

Looking good so far. Every time I have a model with drop tanks, I tell myself I'm going to mill it thin from the inside, and then dent it up from the outside. Hopefully I'll actually do it someday.

I had ignored this HGW kit because I'd heard it had the Eduard 109 in it... But when I heard it was the Dragon kit, I rushed to find one. Apparently they're getting harder to find. Still in the cellophane. Most of the PE and resin is ship model stuff.

Don;t think I've ever seen a dio for those... except for the ones they used on the TV show.... I like it.

That is awesome, Carl!

Круто! Где я могу купить?

Sharp!

Hi Rob... I had to look, because I'd forgotten. I did canvas covered aluminum. But all of my Albatrosen and Pfalz have leather. I was never really happy with it. Tried to make it look scuffed and dirty as I imagined the pilot would have stepped on it every time he got in and out of the plane. And no cushion... because I believed that a late-war pilot would have had a parachute to sit on.

Five shots of rum, and contemplate another kit in your stash?

Thanks for that recipe! I'll give it a go on my next roast. After last years bush fires, beef an lamb prices went very high. Because both are range animals, they died out there in millions. But I was raised on grain fed beef grown on my uncles farm. But it's been so long since then that I really couldn't tell you how it was different. I know they didn't get fed hormones, just grasses, grain, dried corn, and silage. ugh... this fat man needs to quit thinking about food!

I'd originally thought the seat was covered in black leather. Seems I was mistaken. looks great! I haven't really seen a lot of real WWI seats. Only one, and it was covered in leather. So, I really have little idea about them.