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Are going to be released by Caracal. Limited run of 250 sets. ARC forum link

Sweet! couple interesting points I see. 1). The brick design is completely different than the brick style made here in the US. Are the outside walls going to be made of brick only or studded walls with brick attached? Here we use a much larger concrete block if solid brick without studded walls. 2) metal door frames. Here those are mainly used in commercial/industrial applications. Housing 99.9% of the time always get wood door frames and doors. Nicer builds get solid wood doors but hollow doors are common as well for interior doors. Semi-related story. A close friend helped (financially, not putting his back into it) build a school/orphanage in Liberia. Due to corruption within the entire county and not having trust in anyone, they made their own cement blocks. If the bought them half would have broken during delivery due to low cement content. Mostly “mud blocks” because mud is cheaper than cement. So you make your own. But they bought the block molds and a cement mixer and all the supplies and produced their own. Now here’s the catch. They had to hire an armed guard to keep them secure from theft since walking away with a block in each had is equal to a weeks pay. Building materials getting delivered had to be almost doubled due to loaded trucks going through check points by local police. Each check point they had to give them a few sheets of plywood or lumber to be allowed to pass through. Corruption runs so deep in that country. That was the biggest hurdle my friend had to overcome when he started assisting with the project. He even had to pay off the public education officials just to get a meeting with them.

Just went back to the website to look around. Even their regular price is great. I did see they are in Australia. How’s the shipping charges to the CONUS?

Looks good for retail display where you have rows of the same color, but bench use looks like it would be a PITA to sort through all the bottles in the back looking for a particular color. Looks exactly like the hobby shop racks but smaller.

Well after 9 days away from the bench from grand kid sitting for a week, I just got a few minutes time in to fill the crater with body filler. Took all of five minutes work to fill it and trim it down close enough for sanding once it’s cured all the way. And I’m done for the day. 😢 Maybe I can get more done tomorrow. And of course the daughter is showing up with the three monsters again as well.

Good to see you back on it. I just discovered that Ali (Aerocraft models) sells brass landing gear for this kit. Ordered a set today for mine.

Interesting. Dad was in MAC. Military Airlift Command, a Loadmaster. He actually helped work on the design and testing of the C-5 Galaxy. I remember him saying something about helping redesign the nose gear so it wasn’t in the way of the front loading abilities. I remember when the first C-5 flew into Charleston AFB and it lost a few wheels on landing. When it parked we got to go in it and Dad was showing us the huge box in the middle of the front loading ramp. He said he worked with the Lockheed engineers to eliminate it. It housed the nose gear. I still have one of the C-5 Test team patches and a small Zippo lighter with the C-5 on it Lockheed gave everyone involved with the project. I also have a Nat Geo from ‘58 with him in it down at McMurdo station in Antarctica when they built it. Lots of great stories we got from him. It was kind of cool walking through the USAF Museum and him pointing out airplanes he actually spent time on. Not the type of plane, but the actual plane. He lit up like a kid on Christmas morning when we walked up to the C-124. As he put it, hundreds of hours in that plane. The “Yeager” MIG on display? He crated it up (after the wings were removed) and flew it back to Wright-Patterson on a C-something after the pilot defected out of North Korea.

I’ve heard nothing.

That’s awesome! I come from a military family as well, but I skipped it after growing up an Air Force brat. Having a dad that was an E-9 that couldn’t separate home life from work really turned me off to the military lifestyle. I kid around and tell everyone I served 15 years until Dad retired in ‘77. My son is now an Army Captain. Grand dad was an enlisted man in WWI and got called back to duty for WWII as an officer. Bird Colonel under McArther.

Thanks for clarifying, I cannot figure out y’all’s funny rank insignias! LOL! Almost as confusing at the US NAVY. Congrats big time! Quite the achievement she’s made there. Edit: I just noticed it’s served up in a bag like Canadian milk. What’s with all the plastic bags?

Yea, but if you could re-engineer that top center section where the wings join and correct the wing root air foil and make resin replacements, I’m sure we could figure out how to make one show up on your door step!

One of my more memorable parenting outings was a grocery store run. It was a weekend, wife was working and we needed groceries. So I loaded all my rugrats up in my minivan and headed to Kroger. In one of the very rare moments of parenthood all the kids behaving and being wonderful, this was it. The youngest was just big enough to sit up in the shopping cart seat, second youngest was sitting in the actual cart and not jumping around this time. Oldest two were following behind me being perfect pre-teens. I was on cloud 9. As we walked down an aisle there was a coupe with two kids around the ages of mine. Dad was doing his best to wrangle his little monsters into behaving. The kids were obviously winning that day. The wife had her back to the disaster scene unfolding behind her as she was reading the food packaging. As we casually strolled past them, I looked at the Dad and called him a light weight. That was it. Just looked at him and said it. Didn’t slow down, didn’t miss a beat. His wife spun around and saw my 4 perfect “angels” and burst out hysterically laughing at her better half looking like it was a scene from the WWF Wrestlemania. My kids got treated to lunch on the McDonalds playground that day.

I wasn’t asked. I was voluntold. 🙁

Oh, I forgot. We have their dog too. And Thursday evening our youngest daughter showed up with her husband and dog. And Sunday our SIL’s mom and step dad showed up for an overnight trip. So we had 6 adults, 3 kids, 3 dogs in the house and we lost power at 8:30 pm until 12:15 am. What a poop show it was! Edit: Forgot the cat. 🤣

The wife and I raised 4 great kids. We had our first when I was almost 28. Wife was 25. Year later, second one showed up. Next two were 1995 and 1999. It seemed very easy at the time. This week our oldest daughter and her husband took off to Jamaica for 6 days for their 10th anniversary. Of course super grandma says we can handle this. No problem. LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Famous last words. She might as well have said, “Here, hold my beer. Watch this.” Last night she admitted Super Grandma is good for 6 hours, not 6 days. I managed to squeeze in some mandatory yard work yesterday and a run to the trash dump. No bench time, no quiet time. Even the thought of me sitting at the bench is out of the question. That’s my relaxation place. And if she caught me there, well let’s just say it wouldn’t be a happy moment. Every cough and sneeze is a germ super soaker. Why do kids feel the need to look you in the face when they cough and sneeze? Grandma is up 2-3 times during the night feeding the 10 month old. Of course I’m wide awake as well from all the crying and whining. And the baby crying too. The silver lining to this cloud is now she’s thinking our summer get away will be just us at a resort or on a ship and not a beach condo with these rug rats running around us again. Counting down, t-minus 30 hours until their parents pick them up!

I’d do the same.

I’ve had accidents like that. I picked up the Arizona many years ago. I was targeting the Missouri as well, but just never found one at the price point I was comfortable with. Yea, it would just be taking up room in my stash right now (like the Arizona is) if I did get it.

Hehe..I’m glad I didn’t see that earlier. As bad as that kit is, I’d still be tempted.

Even though I’m not going, I’d buy one if it wasn’t for the T shirt collar. All I wear is button ups or Henley pull overs. I get something around and up close to my neck and it’s like putting tape on the bottom of a cats feet.

I really like the Australian standards! Seems our home builders have the standard of cheapest, fastest and most expensive sale price they can get. I’ve seen gradient work done for wet areas, but it’s a special request adding lots of $$$$ to the price.

Ok, pretty neat how they keep the bathroom floor slab areas lower than the rest of the slab so it can be built level once flooring starts going in. Around here it’s all one flat slab with the tile thickness basically a rise to trip over.

And that humidity. Like 99.9999%. I know, it’s an old joke about “but it’s a dry heat”. But my first visit to Las Vegas in the summer let me experience this dry heat thing. Yea, much more tolerable than getting soaking wet with your clothes stuck to you and a bad case of swampass. I’ll take the dry heat any day over the southern swampass season.

Wow Ernie, so glad to hear you and your loved ones are ok. Amazing how tornados pick and choose what gets destroyed. Old friends daughter was telling me Friday night about a tornado the went over and partially through her house in NC a few years back. Completely knocked in the front door, frame and all, windows too. But that was it with the house. 4 plastic lawn chairs in a circle in the back yard. Two completely shattered into pieces. One up in a tree in the neighbors yard and the fourth still sitting where it was before the storm.

Wow, what a long life she has had. Good to hear she responded well to her care. My feline fur ball won’t let me near his nail, but as a kitten I was able to trim them. He’s not having any part of that now. He will bite his off to keep them in check though. He wakes up at night while he’s on the foot of the bed gnawing on those things.

Isn’t it amazing how a set of good springs can completely change the personality of a car?