ScottsGT

You win the internets for today!

Yea, I’ve noticed a trend of auctions starting very high now since eBay is taking such a huge chunk of the sale (and shipping) and the risks of flaky buyers ripping off the sellers without eBay supporting the sellers. eBay has ruined what use to be a great thing. I quit selling years ago.

Not her personality type. She’s go, go, go, go…..cannot sit still. She loves going running, vacations (even though our home is like a mini-resort she insist she has to get away from household chores) driving 2 hours up the road to see her 85 yo father, etc. Were about to pull the trigger on a $2800 treadmill for her (and she thinks me) since it’s so damned hot and humid in the summer. She use to do the traveling half or full marathon thing a few years back. Anything within 8-10 hours is a drive. Beyond that she insists on flying. She wants to do a New England in the fall trip, but she wants to fly up and rent a car. I told her there is lots of stuff in between we should see as well. Nope. That 4 days of traveling. Get there, get it done and get home.

Nice. I saw the nose correction go on eBay a while back for $185. I really wanted it, but not that bad. I think my highest bid was $75. A few weeks later I was going through my box of AM stuff and discovered I did indeed buy the nose correction from Paul. But I think all I have is the nacelles/props, radome and nose. Didn’t splurge for the flaps. I did buy three sets of G Factor landing gear though.

I also have some of the Connie correction parts and correct radome. But I have all three of the Heller Connies in the stash. My unbuilt Fishers… Connie corrections, but not all. F9F-5 Panther A-1E Skyraider Ryan PT-22

Wow! Thanks for the generous offer! Let me look at some pics of one built up with the wings folded and make sure I want to go that route before committing.

Another one I regret not getting. I do have the Hobbycraft kit though. I understand there’s a major flaw with it though. Something about the wing profile upside down or something like that. I’m thinking of pulling it out and putting it on the bench after the Tomcat is done.

As predicted…just had to lay down 4 or 5 more coats of yellow. My low temp Monokote heat gun sure comes in handy!

Meh, solid white base and lots of slow buildup coats. I ran out of time yesterday and I think I need to put a few more coats down.

Medieval torture time.

I wrote down the numbers for Squadron and Hobby Nut since they’re both the nearest places and it appears as if they resell stashes. I actually bought some decals from Squadron that were from a stash. Told her to call them and show up with a U Haul truck so they don’t hit the dumpsters down the road. Not worried about the value and “return on investment”, just want them resold and not landfill fodder. No clubs in my area since I’m practically out in the middle of nowhere. But her cousin is in the same boat. Her husband has a stash bigger than mine, but mostly armor. She’s already said to the dumpster. Hopefully he’s made arrangements as well.

Squeak, squeak…squeak… In all seriousness, I come from a family of hoarders. It scares the hell out of my wife thinking she’s going to have to deal with my 300+ kits stash if I kick off first. And she sees no reason to buy another kit (she doesn’t understand the modelers logical mindset) if I don’t have time to build all of my stash I have now. In the past two years I’ve bought over a dozen kits. I’ve only built 8 and half those were kits I already had before then. Edit: I could have $300 of supplies or aftermarket for kits roll up to the door and no words would be said. Just the kits. She did say when I build half the stash I could buy more.

Nope. No getting past it. Ring looks straight down the driveway. Gotta get a hookup with a neighbor that can take delivery.

Installed a new Ring doorbell last week. Wife wanted the app so she can have fun talking to people at the door like I did. So I downloaded the app on her phone. Her: What’s in the box the mailman just put on the porch? Me: 😳 crap. I didn’t think this one through. I just lost my ability to sneak things in. Gotta come up with a new plan.

We’re at 97 rest of the week with heat index up in the 101-105 range. It’s miserable. I can’t get anything done in the mornings because it takes hours for the bones to stop creaking, muscles to start flexing and pains to work themselves out. By then it’s just too damned hot to do anything outside. But this morning my wife is down at the shoreline running the weed eater. Last time she did it, she broke it. I told her the string does the cutting, not the spinning thing you keep slamming into the rocks.

I’d toss them in a pot of very hot, almost boiling water and see if they go back to the shape they were in the mold.

Masters have to be a slight bit larger due to shrinkage. Great thread over on LSP where Paul chimed in. In a nutshell, scan original kit, increase size a few percent in software and 3D print a new master.

Yea…thanks for posting those figures. Now I’m going to have to think about this really hard. I just got all my gear doors mounted today. Moving on to the 2-2-2 loadout as per the movie.

Those rectangles and funny shapes are supposed to be script? What a pile of 💩 BOO Trumpeter!

Love it! After my all yellow Texan, I might be doing something similar with one of my kits.

I bet during bench time you would have heard him making airplane noises zooming around.

And my Skyraider Guppy. This was a real fun build. I wish I had tried the Future canopy dip on this one like I did the Cougar. It really brings the clear resin to life.

Here’s my Cougar. I had to replace the cast splitters on the wings with sheet brass since they were paper thin and cracked. Had a few symmetry issues with the cast openings on the bottom I had to correct and a few pinholes that kept popping up during prep. Flaps were warped a little too. If I put them in the drooped position it would not have been noticeable. But they never parked in the down position. I also got a surprise when I glued on the front canopy. It didn’t match up with the molded in body lines and I had to add filler to blend it in. Rockets were also badly warped so I went with aftermarket. Oh, and the decals fell apart and even microsol decal film wouldn’t save them. I kind of made up generic decals.

Never had that pleasure!

Oh man, love that Cutlass!