ScottsGT

Looks great! I need to crack open my Tamiya kit and tackle it one day soon. Hopefully it won’t turn into an addiction like you have with these kits.

Wow! John, I honestly think that’s one of your best yet! But then again, I’m kind of partial since I’m at the decal stage of my K build now. Your weathering is very tastefully done and not “over done”. I just hope mine comes out half as nice as yours looks. Question, The circular antenna on top. Did those things spin or were they fixed?

Let me see, it the past couple of weeks I’ve sold on eBay….. 1/48 MRC/Academy CH-53 1/32 Huskey 1/48 AC-47 1/72 C-54D Not modeling related, an old Kodak Brownie in the original box. A left over from Moms estate. Just clutter. We have a vacation coming up in a couple of weeks and will be gone almost three weeks between the trip and planned adventures (more trips) when we get back to the states. Once things settle back down I’m planning on posting a lot more items up for auction. My basement area is a disaster right now with all the boxes I’ve collected and models stacked up to liquidate

I found something I need (want) to purchase from a hobby shop near Wodonga. Their website only allows sales in Australia and NZ. I’ve sent an email asking if they have a work around, but have not gotten an answer yet. (Albury RC, models and hobby) In a nut shell, I need someone to order it sent to their home and then reship it to me in the states. It’s a small item, a mufffler for an RC airplane engine. Of course I’ll cover all expenses and make it worth your time. This would require you to have a PayPal account. Strange thing is, it’s a product that was made in the States, but the company has been out of business for many years now. Anyone able to take this on?

The sender contracts with the carrier, not the recipient. I’m selling off kits I’ll never build on eBay right now. If one gets lost by USPS, it’s on me to collect the insurance because I paid for the service. My CH-53 sold for well over $100 and I paid an extra $2-$3 for full insurance. But I’m only going to be patient for so long before I put in a claim with PayPal.

Super Hobby replied back that they will issue the refund once their carrier (Polands postal system) notifies them it was lost. “Be patient” was her reply. I forwarded her the pic I posted here.

I just replied back to my last email they sent me requesting a refund.

Well ain’t this some $h!t. So in a nutshell, we sent you a copy of the shipping info, but your stuff is gone forever. That’s a big FU from the USPS.

This popped up on LSP classifieds last week. I was shocked no one snagged it before I saw the ad. John was gratuitous enough to gift me with a set of the Parrot Head decals a couple of months back. I just couldn’t turn this down for $80.

LOL! No. 😡 going to wait until the 13th and send another email to Super Hobby asking for a refund. They chose the shipping method. If they balk, PayPal will pull the funds. I hate that idea because I’ll probably burn that bridge with Super Hobby. They stock a lot of odd things I cannot find elsewhere.

Impressive! When I built my F-35 last year I did a really impressive bronze finish on the exhaust. For the life of me, I cannot remember how I did it. Damned old age kicking in.

LOL! Right after we got married, the wife and I was at the local mall in Woolworths department store. I picked up an M1 Carbine out of a trash a full priced at $165. Wife was all “you don’t need that. Put it back.” Being new into the relationship, I was a good boy. I made up for it later in life. 😁 I picked up what looks like a never issued Winchester carbine for my son. It was $2000. It seriously looks like it just rolled off the assembly line. Showed it to my wife and she just shook her head and “$2000 for that!?” Me: “Yea, remember when I tried to buy one just like it at Woolworths back in 1989? It was only $165. You told me to put it back? I bet now you wish I grabbed the whole trash can full of them and dragged them to the cash register.” I did luck out and bought my Garand when they were right at $500 or $600 at the CMP. I also bought 2 of the woodless Dane’s for $300 each for my sons. Each got one on their 18th birthday.

Story of my life.

I drive by this place all the time. 15 miles from me. They’re a Superperformance dealer. https://www.downforcemotorsports.com/ Nice days they have a few pulled out in the lot.

305? They put that pig of a GM motor in the early GT40? Blasphemy! Pretty sure it was a 289. Very early was a 255. Been thinking about getting one of these.

Well since I posted last in this thread, the Lukgraph Duck was announced. Yea, bench clearer. Trying to wrap up the P-40 and see if I can keep the bench empty until it’s out.

LOL!

I guess ICE is too busy rounding up bad guys lately.

Same old same old…

Nada. Nothing. Zilch.

Tough to let one go like that even though natures slowly stealing body parts.

At least for us down south. Springs here and the wife feels that she needs to generate another “to-do” list to keep me busy. Of course pollen is in full bloom and everything is a haze looking through it. Wearing a mask this time of the year is one thing the covid days taught me. Me: Find project, figure it out in my head, run to Slow’s, Home Depression or local hardware store. Grab what I need and get home to knock out project. Or even faster, sit down in the evening and order online and knock out that project when it arrives. Wife: “Oh, I want to put pavers down where the grandkids sandbox is at. I want to go with you to Home Depot. She looks at pavers, trying to find the cheapest way of getting it done and she’s guesstimating on sq ft of the area. Has no idea she’s looking at a $1000 project until I do the math for her. This alone took about an hour trying to convince her she actually needed two pallets of pavers. We leave with her brain cooking that one for a few days. ”Oh, swing into the grocery store. I need a few things.” ”Oh, let’s grab lunch since we’re out.” “I bought flowers for the neighbor that just has surgery. Let’s take them to her.” So a “quick” trip to grab something I ordered started when we left home just after 9am and ended when we got home after 3 pm. 🤪. And she wonders why I “never get anything done.” Something told me to make the run to Home Depot on Tuesday while she was at work. Oh, and here’s the good part. HD told me my order was two boxes. It was a 12’ X 10’ awning system. Got home and box #2 was someone else’s order. Now this afternoon I have to drive the 25 miles back to HD and return someone’s closet door system.

LOL! I think that’s my problem. I’m trying to run a museum. 🤪

Nice! Looks like everything I would have grabbed. I’ve built the U boat but still have the Gato in the stash. I’m actually contemplating putting it up for sale if I can get a box big enough to ship it in.

It should be an entertaining follow up.