ScottsGT

Been decaling all morning. Took a break to go to lunch with the old farts club in my area. Sitting there chatting afterwards and felt like something was stuck in the back of my throat. I did have shrimp, maybe a piece of shell? Coughed it up and it was a very tiny piece of the decal backing paper from my Tomcat project. I even know exactly what decal it was for. But for the life of me, I have no idea how I ingested it or if it had been there since early this morning. I swear, if I find something I thought the carpet monster grabbed looking up at me from the bottom of the toilet, I’m selling it all off and taking up a hobby with parts big enough for a 2 yo to play with. Like giant Lego blocks or those big wooden puzzles.

Progress!! Woo Hoooo!!! I feel like I’m seeing light at the end of the tunnel. I just hope it’s not a train. 🥴 But started decals after reshooting the stabilizer.

Oh boy. Here we go again. Already this hot at 11:30

I cannot stand wearing gloves. Unless it’s cold out or using yard tools/work. Even the latex mechanics gloves. By the time I pull them off, half filled with sweat. 🤮 Maybe I should get some finger cots for decaling.

Yea, I’ve never tried cleaning lacquer paints with IPO before. Even in the auto painting I did at one time. It’s a new one on me. The fresh paint was picking up my oils on my fingers and was obvious on the high gloss black, so I wanted to get that off before applying the silver. Not sure how good distilled water would do on removing oils from my fingers. Maybe a little mild glass cleaner?

My vertical stabilizers are kicking my butt. I went to wipe down the LE to spray the silver. And who knew (or rather who didn’t know) alcohol melts Mr. Color lacquer paint? Got under the tape and ate into the paint. Slow fix. Between the wings being upside down and my paint issues I’m about to lose patience with this build. Nope. Not setting it aside. I’ll continue on…..

Well, this is as close as I can get it… they’re just sitting in place right now. They’ll tighten up one I put some grunt behind shoving them in place.

Keep us posted. I have the kit for “one day” as well.

Uh oh. LSM car group build in 3…..2….. But since it’s LSM, cannot be the usual 1/24. Gotta go big! 1/12 or 1/16

I’m done too!

Speaking of Corvette models…..my sons building this 1:1 ‘67 right now. Dropping in an LT4. This is it stripped down and he’s painting it to match the car. New custom chassis is on the way too.

Ron, I was sweating bullets yesterday just seeing the USPS “Out for delivery” from eBay tracking for my Tempest. Of course the wife was off as well and sitting next to me drinking our morning coffee. Lucky for me, she had a hair appointment around the time it was supposed to be delivered. And even better, her appointment ran over. Another mail delivery touchdown! I think my score is 4 wins, 1 loss. Ain’t it fun being a hoarder? 😁

Just ordered the Barracuda nose upgrade and intake ring from Roy. 👍

Awesome! Congrats guys and thank you very much, Ernie!

Just trying to get me to spend more money, aren’t you?

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Yea, since you talked me into ordering the helmet decals I’m trying to figure out which way to go. Full figures or helmets strategically place in the cockpit.

Off to add red paint marker to my shopping cart!

Fresh off the front porch!

Got a few fuzzy edges to fix from tape not seated at panel lines.

Movin’ on!

I’ll be watching this one! Not sure why, but I just cannot get into building car models. I spent my youth building real cars, restored my Mustang over the years, love looking at detailed car models and I even have a huge 1/18 diecast car collection. But just cannot get into building them. Peter, I’ll just live vicariously through you on this build!

As always, I’m shopping for AM to go with my kits I already have in the stash. I bought this Eagle Transporter kit shortly after they came out. Just couldn’t stomach the $100 price tag of the machined aluminum engine bells. Surfing around I stumbled across the Eagle 2 set on sale for $64. But would it fit the Eagle kit? Took my chances and rolled the dice. Yep! Same parts but with the addition of two more bells for the auxiliary power pod on Eagle 2. Now, the big question. Build as is, or delete the crew pod and make it a heavy lift Eagle like the CH-54, but Space 1999 version carrying around a Star Trek Shuttlecraft keeping with my “Science Fusion” builds? I just need to find a 1/48 SciFy subject to go with it. Thought about a bottom half of a lunar lander, but that would be too realistic. 🤪