ScottsGT

Yea, I use to have a paint and bodyshop. We always got a little “whiff” of the fumes and got quite use to it when spraying primers or old school lacquers. My booth does a really good job of pulling out the overspray, just not sure if I was getting a good dose of fumes in the past because I was use to it from my prior career. But now it definitely lets me know! Related story. When I had my shop I had an employee ask if he could come in and spray a car on a Sunday when we were closed. Sure. Come Monday he calls me up and tells me he cannot breathe because he left his respirator at home and painted without one. I did the typical name calling and cursing at him then told him to get to a doc ASAP. Doc chewed his butt as well and gave him some sort of injection that he said it felt like a truck parked on his chest for a few minutes then cleared everything up. Those catalyzed urethane paints were nothing to fool around with.

Just had a couple orders show up. First is my Hobby Nut order of a few things I’ve been wanting to try out. Flory washes and some UV glue. Second order is a charcoal activated N95 mask. Ever since I caught Covid I’ve been having issues with a nasty dry cough and when I was primering last week, just the smell of the paint and thinner acted as if it sucked the air out of my lungs. My Doc told me this cough and lung condition could last me months. Figured I’d try out this odor reduction mask before going full respirator.

🤷‍♂️ haven’t even loaded it yet! Of course I haven’t been to a range in almost two years. I need to work on that. I will say that PSA has “corrected” the grip angle feel with the Dagger vs the Glock. Points more natural like a 1911 ( my favorite BTW). I also have a Glock 17 that I use as my silencer host. Yea, it’s far from silent like Hollywood would like to make people think.

I’m on their email list. Just reading their wall of text gives me a headache. I think I ordered from them once years ago, thus the constant emails. I should unsubscribe. My go-to’s are Hobby Nut, Sprue Brothers and Squadron. They are my local hobby shops.

Me and the wife on one of our sunset cruises on the lake. Yes, I’m smiling in this pic

Now you’re just calling me a nerd. 🤪

Carl, click the Hyper Scale link I posted above. Lots of good detail photos of the real thing and the found model. They have comparison photos that look like it’s the real deal. Scratches and chipped areas perfectly match original photos. Forgot to add, looks like it’s going back to the Roddenberry estate. Not sure if they will keep it, or sell it or donate it to the Smithsonian to go on display with the 11’ model.

Mr. Primer and leveling thinner is the stuff!! edit: Mr. Finishing surface 1500 gray.

Starting to get there. Sanded out the filler this am and now I’m laying down more primer. Looks like I caught the majority of the sink holes. I did pull the gear doors out of the sprue drawer and primed them as well. Front doors have some nasty sink hole I don’t think I can ignore.

Chicken!

I did! I posted the link to Hyper Scale over on the X Wing thread. What’s cool is how they mounted it on a microphone goose neck of the era. I have a couple of them from my old job at a University where I did A/V work. My long 18” one is mounted on a plywood base I use for airbrush work. Somewhere I have a short 6” or 8” like they used. I’m thinking I might recreate the Roddenberry display for my plastic model.

Not trying to turn this model into a career project! There’s probably a 100 ways to skin a cat with this thing, but I just want to get along with my life and put a dent in those 300 other kits in the garage. As far as the doors fitting, pretty darned close. I had a few obvious gaps that I taped off and then loaded up with sprue goo to fill them in.

Looks like the original 3’ model of the Enterprise has been found after years of wondering who took it. Story on Hyperscale

It’s been a while since I’ve been at my bench due to the wife having a 9 day stretch off from work. Trips everywhere and then has me wrapped up in her little projects. But got a few good primer coats laid down and the low spots from sink marks started showing up everywhere. I got the ResKit wheels and tires painted as well. I’m starting to see why this kit wasn’t a big seller even though it was the only game in town forever. The weapons bay doors are horrible. And almost impossible to fill due to the raised edging. Only way I could see doing them is sand off all the detail, flatten out the low spots and use Evergreen stock to rebuild them. Those are a lot deeper than they look in the pic.

I’m honestly not sure. I bought it off another syfi forum and it was simply listed as a resin 1/350 D-7 from what I can remember.

Just assembled this one. A South Carolina gun manufacturer put out their own version of the Glock 19 since the patent times out on the Glock design. I bought the complete lower frame for $50. Shopped for the options I wanted on my slide and ordered it last week. Of course they had the same on the red dot and I had to get that one too. All in about $550

FYI, $103 shipped to a USA address. I’m gonna defer on this one. Saving for the new version of the A-20

Someone wake me up when an airfoil correction for the 1/32 comes out. So disappointed.

Yea, looked closer. But at almost $800, gonna give it a hard pass. ….Unless they want to provide one to a website moderator that’s willing to write up a review. 😇

Lookin’ great Peter!

Neat! It’s a Diecast metal kit.

1/32 F-14 Tomcat. 🤪

Blasphemy! Someone drag this heretic to the dungeon for a proper torture!

Done!