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Impressive builds there. Now get busy on that Fisher Sea Fury!

I like light beers. Since the Bud Light debacle, I discovered Yuengling Light and Flight. It’s all I buy now. use to love a stout beer in my younger days, I guess old age does funny things.

The purest are a dying breed. Had a discussion yesterday with my son about this. They won’t touch a numbers matching car to restomod because A. Too rare and valuable these days. And B, just too much to buy one to sink another $150k-$200k into. They did get a line on someone that has collections of basket cases they can buy. All they want is the body with the VIN and a title. They resell or trade back the OEM frames, drivetrain, and any other parts they pull off and replace with custom aftermarket. And this helps out the guys restoring vette’s back to original. But they are focusing on ‘67 and ‘63 cars right now. They have a split window at another body shop and a ‘67 vert in a different shop.

Yes…as my son put it, “The reserve price just went higher.”

Please make sure she stays on top of her mammograms. Our situation is a perfect example of how medical professionals make the worst patients. She got a call yesterday morning from the imaging center wanting to cancel her appointment for the scan Monday morning because they didn’t have insurance approval yet, and they wanted to slot someone else to keep the $$$ rolling in. Wife went ham on them and told them that under no circumstances are they to reschedule this. We’ll pay out of pocket if we have to. Come to find out, the imaging center sent the results to her surgeon and not the doc (our GP) that requested the mammogram in the first place. The same doc has to write the order for the advance scan. It was good to hear her chew someone else’s butt for once. 🤣

A few updated pics on the ‘67 Corvette my sons building. It’s a the painters right now, and she is awesome! outside this is the BOTTOM of the hood. Between the painters Instagram and the suppliers he’s buying parts from posting it on their website and social media, and his Instagram as well, this build is getting a lot of attention. Their talk of it being on display at the next SEMA in Vegas at the Mecum Auction booth.

Sorry guys, I cannot in clear conscience drop a bomb like that and walk away. But I’ll keep it short because we’re in the discovery phase and lining up appointments and meetings and testing. But Mary was diagnosed with breast cancer on Tuesday of this week. It’s tearing me apart right now just typing this out. Mainly because we don’t know if it was caught early since her last mammogram was 2.5 years ago. We’re trying to live a normal life until the work starts, which will be real soon. She has a wonderful support staff at work at the hospital she works for. Her surgeon knows her from working side by side and he has taken charge and running the show coordinating everything like a wedding planner would at a wedding. She knows the cancer type, I cannot remember details like that, but it is a common breast cancer. Golf ball size lump up high. I’ll update throughout the process.

You know, this would have been a hell of a lot easier if I had ordered the correct Eduard mask set. My dumbass self ordered the He111H-6 set and not the He 111 P.

Martin, leg is healing up great. Unfortunately other very serious health issues have cropped up. Not quite ready to discuss it yet.

Welp! Too late.

I think I’m finally ready to start applying all those Eduard masks now.

Dang it Carl! This is looking so good I picked up a kit off LSP. Still waiting to get shipping costs, but with the He 111 and the Stuka kit I picked up, I’m on a Luftwaffe roll.

Happy to report that I’m not having anymore issues from my SI joint area! Let’s hope it lasts. He’s put me on a weekly schedule for now since I board a cruise ship in the morning. Related story, my son the Corvette builder called as I was on the way to today’s appointment and he’s now having really bad upper back issues. My chiropractor hooked him up with a guy in his area and he goes for his first adjustment in the morning.

.38 ACP? Same as .380 ACP? Odd choice of round for a rifle. Must have been built for a country that does not allow military calibers in the common folks possession.

Gotta be photoshopped, but funny.

Just stop it! You know how close I’ve come to setting up a lathe for turning pens? Go away evil hobby spreader!! I don’t need another hobby. Im just thankful I’m too broke to afford a big building to set up a wood shop. Of course then I’d have no time for models. BTW, beautiful work there!

I just assembled this upper from used parts I picked up online. The vintage DPMS handguard is actually off of my .22 upper I built years ago. Works better with my big fat silencer since it slips right into it, barely. Can’t wait to try it out with subsonics. But I have to be careful to not have too much fun. Ammo to feed this is a buck a round.

Let’s not forget some of the larger syfi releases too. The big Tie fighter is a doozie! While these may not be “our” cup of tea, it might introduce others into the hobby of plastic models. The more they look into things, they may take a liking to military modeling. Not to mention it’s a welcomed income flow to the manufacturer to keep the lights on. Im on several hobby mailing lists. New car kits, new Gundam stuff. A great time for the hobby for sure!

LOL! I read this as I’m sitting at the park with the grandkids. Of course I have no revolution to join in on…..today.

Sorry to hear about Moms condition. She’s a bit higher on the importance level than build time. I took a five year hiatus from life attending Moms needs in the end and another almost 2 years to settle her estate due to covid. Courts were shut down, “Work from home” employees at the VA didn’t care to get anything done on a timeline (worse than usual) trying to get documents needed, or the SC State Retirement system. Edit: Even worse, the IRS. I had forgot how horrible they were at getting her final returns processed. Apparently they were assigned to handing out free money to everyone with the “de-stimulate” the economy checks that we didn’t qualify for.

Well this was a bit of glass work! of course Revell shows mounting oxygen systems and machine gun drum mags directly to the window areas. Nope. I could not see anything halfway resembling this anywhere online. I just left them out. Yea, B team designed this cockpit probably using made up images from a video game. If any kit ever screamed for an accurate aftermarket cockpit and with all this glass, it would have to be this kit.

Ok. Cut the bottom of the wing glue joint open, dug out all the filler Evergreen I glued in and CA’d it shut. It’s still off a little by 3/16”. If I place a .030 shim under the low side LG, it now sits even. I feel shaving a slight bit off the high side tire will get it close enough for the eye to not pick it up.

Now you’re just trying to reel me in. Oh you….. But thanks for the compliment!

I love watching these WNW builds. Something I know I would not have the patience to attempt, but enjoy watching from the sidelines.

Wow, coming along nicely! I’m still waiting on that J/K release.