ScottsGT

Wow…I thought Barracuda was on their game when they designed decals. I dug out my old Squadron/Signal book on the P-40 to do some referencing. The Aleutian Tigers had a Star without the blue surround. I also noticed one of the planes had diamond tread tires. Im off to look for correct decals now. I might just have to live with the kit tires though. Take note that the eyes are also different. I’m trying not to let my OCD take over and start calling this “unbuildable” and throw it on the SOD.

Pulled the trigger on this one last month when Fantastic Plastic put it up on a flash sale. I’ve been watching it on eBay priced just under $100 for a long time. But with a sale price of $65 I was willing to take the beating. Besides, it’s just a resin accessory for the Enterprise kit I have. 😇 But as my luck sometimes goes, it was sitting in the mailbox since Saturday and I just checked tracking this morning. Was scheduled for delivery tomorrow. And momma had just gone out of town for the day.

28 years. Labor of love! I’ve spent 25 years on a Mustang, full scale 1966 GT fastback though, not the flying type. 🤡

Carl, that 190 is fantastic! Without going back and reading the entire thread, which kit is that?

I still love this awesome tool!

I posted a pic on another forum of my wife trimming the hedges. Someone commented I should be hung for making her do the yard work. I replied “Why do you think she’s doing it?”

Inside my box is very well organized. It’s just any flat horizontal surface that faces the wrath of a slob. I call them HSC’s. Horizontal Sh** Collectors.

Now I will admit, my garage work benches and the top of my tool chest looks like Carl’s bench. Mostly because they’re just used for storage because I never found a “place” for the junk in the new home when we moved in 3.5 years ago.

Oh man, I need therapy after that pic.

Off to the medicine cabinet…..

This one’s going to be an E using the Barracuda Decals Aleutian Tigers.

Well, I cannot believe what I did. I started cleaning things up for the Quinta details and just discovered that I ordered the set for the Trumpeter kit. D’OH!! Another set ordered…..Off to work on other areas of the kit. …..I’m such a big dummy.

Just got a call from the hospital about my lumbar injection I was supposed to get Monday. Due to staffing issues they have bumped me to Dec 2nd. Well that settles it for me. I was going to wait until late next week to get started, but the heck with it. Time to get back on the bench on this rainy fall day. It’s been a while. I need a fix!

Actually, no. I didn’t. But now that you pointed it out

Carl, I don’t know how you do it. Work from that “bench” that is. 🤣🤣 My OCD would have me taking meds if I tried working in that clutter. You are truly a master of focusing on your work.

Nice! I’ve got one sitting in the stash with a lot of AM I’m wanting to get to. Watching with much interest. A tip I picked up on the gauge faces is to use UV activated glue. Epoxy works too, but sometimes yellows over time. My wife just bought some casting resin to make some Christmas ornaments. I might commandeer a couple ounces for my bench. 😁

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Stay positive brother! Just last week on the way to visit my neurosurgeon my wife read me the riot act for ordering $200 of truck parts that “I won’t be able to install for another year” according to her negative outlook. We left the appointment with great news of me progressing so I ordered another $200 of truck parts I’m picking up today. 🤣🤣 We leave on another cruise Thursday and return Monday. Tuesday I’ll be installing all the new front brakes I’ve been collecting parts for. So sorry to hear about your brother. Losing one’s eyesight has to be a horrible experience, especially that late in life.

I bought the FI system when it first came out. Lots of improvements in aftermarket FI since then. And better options too! I thought about yanking all of this out and starting over until it seemed to improve by starting over.

Been spending some time with this old girl. Today was her 59th birthday. She rolled off the assembly line on Oct 25, 1965. And Oct 25th was also my late mother’s birthday. Had to wipe the tune off the EZ-EFI fuel injection system and start over. Ran very rough until it hit the 200 degree operating temp then smoothed out. Let it sit a couple of days and she fired right up. Just a little cantankerous at first, but I was too at 59. After putting a few more miles on it, I pulled out the IR temp gun and noticed some big temp swings on my exhaust ports. Found some potential vacuum leaks I need to address and try again later.

Keep it warm, I’m on my way over! So far I’m 0 and 3 on trying to cook a proper brisket. I’m always over cooking them for one reason or another. One time the batteries in my thermometer were dying and it was reading low. Damned brisket came out like a shoe leather. I need to go hang out with Ernie down in TX and get me a proper brisket education.

Just a quick build today. I think I beat Johns record! An hour and 15 min later….

Oh, that’s so true! I’ll set a goal for the day when she’s home. Get it done by noon and she’s already asking what else am I going to work on today. My standard answer is “Retirement.”

Woohoo! Great news. Went in today for discussion with neurosurgeon after he got my latest MRI’s and X-rays. Since my first visit when I hobbled in with a cane, I’ve had some significant improvements. No cane now except situations where I know I might lose my balance. Like a cruise ship on rough oceans. Yea, that was last week. PT seems to be helping and he wants me to put off surgery at least another three months and then follow up and re-evaluate. They are going to schedule steroid injections in the next few weeks as well. I am slowly getting back the hypersensitivity in my lower extremities and he did say it could take 6-9 months. Now the bad news…The wife has kind of gotten use to me knocking out projects in preparation for 6-12 months recovery. She wants me to keep it up and stay off the bench a little longer. I’ve spoiled her. But I make no promises. Might do a few more odds and ends then back at it.

I’ve been watching threads online about the DIY kits. Biggest complaint is heat from tires causing the paint to bubble and lift up. My brother had this issue in his garage years ago. Supposedly the pro stuff doesn’t do this. Another factor with DIY is people not spending enough time cleaning the old oil stains and getting in a hurry to put it down. I did read where one guy parks in his driveway when he gets home, let’s the tires cool off and then pulls the car in at night. Others have used carpet mats where the tires sit.