ScottsGT

I got hit with covid 16 months back from visiting my Dr’s office. I was around no one, went no where except for my yearly physical. It took almost a year for my lungs to heal up where I could airbrush my lacquer paints (in a paint booth too) without it feeling like it was sucking all the air out of me.

Okay, it’s just the N that gets the forward vents. I was thinking the K had them as well. But with the N boxing, it’s parts F1 that Carl needs to include with his N tail. @BirwestSiR Any yes, I would give my left one up for a set of these Parrot Head decals too!

Yea, great idea. Poking holes with my twist drill will be a real beotch!

I did not need to know that. 😐 Pricing is double of Andy’s Sherman. I’ll wait and see if Andy brings one out or a sale on ILK.

Glad to see you got one John! I just ordered another E kit off Amazon from Japan for $40 to go with my tail. Now off to order those exhaust tips!

I’ve said it before, I’m waiting on a 1/16 M4A1 Sherman. But the new half track is another favorite of mine. I’m extremely tempted!

Sorry Chris, it was a one day flash sale. A lot of guys had a hard time getting the store to honor the price if they walked in without buying online. I did the online purchase and picked them up in the locker system they use now. Easy as ever!

Problem with flu vaccines is they are produced on the newest strain of flu at the time. By the time they get into production and then on the street the strain has either mutated where it’s not nearly effective or a different strain has gone “viral”. And not to mention the risks associated with them. My wife has had several patients that came down with Guillain-Barré Syndrome from a flu shot.

Back to working on the HEMTT with the Patriot missile launcher for my son. Trumpeter A Team was on this one guys. Everything fits perfectly and the detail is to the point of ridiculous. This is a ladder bracket. Has two of them. Yea, that’s my fingertip. Here’s the ladder it went on. See those 4 tiny ladder clamps on the right? Yea, I launched one to be forever lost. Stretched sprue replaced it. I have to pause here to apply more wash before proceeding.

My son sent me this minutes ago. Dingbat thinking it’s okay to drive around like this.

Yep, that’s it. Paid $20 for it on clearance at Walmart many years ago.

I’ve been trying to find a new home for that huge Avenger. It’s just too big for my area.

Oh boy! You done gone and done it now!

Since I wrapped up the P-40, I jumped on a quick project I’ve been putting off for 20 years or more. I bought this Pachinko machine off eBay 20 years ago and had it working great at work. Finally had to take it home to keep the boss from playing on it all day. LOL! There it sat in my basement ever since including after the move here. Wife lit a fire under my butt to get it mounted on the wall and get it working because the grandkids want to play it. So after $100 of lumber and a piano hinge, it’s mounted. I have 500 more Pachinko balls on the way and getting a piece of glass cut in the morning to replace the plexiglass on it now. And now she’s on my butt to get on this….

Well, she said no to the Amphicar. Said I don’t take her out in the boat enough as it is. I was big into RC back in the 1990’s. I was also about to buy a 5X10 enclosed trailer to haul my planes in. Wife gave me the choice between the trailer or irrigation system for the lawn. I was really sick and tired of dragging the hose around. So I sold my car and bought a van. Here’s a few from back in the day. This was a scratch build from plans I enlarged. Originally a 60” wing, I made it an 80” monster. I never flew it. Didn’t have the nerve to attempt it. It flew once by a friend of mine. This was a Joe Bridi kit. Big Bee. 96” wingspan, OS 300 FT twin cylinder 4 cycle engine. Only flew this one a couple of times and parted it out and sold it. We had just had baby #4 in April of 1999 and I started liquidating to build myself one more car, the ‘66 Mustang. In the meantime I was flying a low budget 60” wingspan Cub. With a brood of kids running around and the wife and I working opposite shifts at work, I never had time to learn to adequately fly and get my confidence up to fly the expensive birds.

Son just told me Myrtle Beach supposedly got about a foot of snow.

We got maybe an inch here. Closer to the coast, much heavier.

Mail delivery day!!! First up is a new part from Tim at B&B resin. No longer have to pay those inflated eBay prices for a Hasegawa P-40K! Tim has come out (with a little persuasion I’ll add) an improved K tail Now you can simply buy the abundant E kit and decals of your choice! Now I just need to sneak another E kit in under the radar. Second up is one of my Christmas raffle prizes. Big thanks out to Fran. Okay, I feel bad now because I didn’t post pics of the haul I got from Chris. I’ll follow up with that one later. And this final item might just be the final nail in my coffin. You see, I use to fly RC back in the 1990’s. I made a deal with the wife I’d give it up and build the ‘66 Mustang. I sold off everything but one kit I still have. One day it will be a display piece. But lately I’ve been thinking about getting a small backyard RC airplane again. Tiny. Not even interested in going whole hog like I did back in the day. But I still love the old 4 cycle glow engines and wanted one just incase I get my hands on a small airplane kit. I’ve discovered the hobby has gone to hell in a hand basket with all the low budget foam ARF planes and electric power now. Figured I’d grab a motor while I could since Saito discontinued to .30 a while back. If I do this, I want the smell of nitro burning in the morning! But I found this NIB Saito .30 out of Australia. It’s so tiny! Just under 9 oz. Yep, this might be a slippery slope I’m going down!

Not model related, but Lowe’s had a flash sale yesterday for Kobalt socket sets. How the hell am I supposed to say no to all this for $30??? Huh?!? I guess I can leave them in my shed out in the front yard so I don’t have to walk all the way around the house to access the garage for my Snap On stuff. the 1/4 drive set was $10 and the 3/8 set was $20. Normally $200 and $20 for 1/4” set.

Thanks Hubert! I also have a set of very old Microscale decals and the Tiger is completely different. Especially the eyes.

Well this took longer than expected! The huge tiger head decal just did not want to cooperate. So I ripped it off and started over. Thank goodness I had the foresight to scrounge up two sets of these decals over the years. Okay, truth be known? I probably forgot I bought the first set and bought another accidentally. 🤪 But I photocopied the second set and made a stencil out of Tamiya 40mm tape and painted the yellow and then the same with the black areas. Outline was done with a paint pen after too much caffeine in the morning. The old hand isn’t as steady as it used to to be. In hindsight I should have just trimmed the black outline off the good decals and applied them. The eyes and mouth is also sections off the second decal set. White bands were painted on. Stars would have looked better if I had stencils and painted them as well. Cockpit details are Quinta.

I’m calling it done! I’ll put up more pics in completed builds.

I think that’s one of the best yet! Weathering is spot on.

How about an RC version? https://profimodel.cz/en/cestovni/290900-1-16-rc-vw-schwimmwagen-t166-desert-camouflage-4250229627533.html I just asked the wife if I could get a real one since we live on a lake. She said no. 🙁

Jeeze, I’m having flashbacks of building my 1:1 scale ‘66 Mustang. My body panels are all custom fitted with exact gaps. Nothing like the crap Ford put out back in the day.