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Man, we don’t speak those funny C numbers down here! LOL! Around here it’s the humidity that chokes you up. But we’ve had a strange summer this year. May was nice, June was extremely warmer than usual with a few days just over 100 degrees (F) but kind lower than usual on the humidity but still high enough to open the door to the screen porch in the morning and say “Nope”. We had a very dry June with almost no rain. Just a pop up storm here and there. Water bill doubled keeping the grass alive. My old place we moved from I was getting peak summer water bills above $300 a month on city water. Here I’m in a completely different county and my highest bill was $85. I’m about to dump big bucks in the old well to use for watering. Not to save money, but to have un-chlorinated water to keep the grass alive. July seemed to rain every other day, high humidity as usual that created the daily pop up storms. It was tough getting out to mow the lawn. August seemed to start out normal with high temps in the mid 90’s and stifling humidity. I was looking at the lawn all last week needing mowing and kept telling myself…Saturday will be cooler and drier, wait….It was. it is nice though to just walk down the sidewalk and get in the lake to cool off.

And busier than ever! How the heck did that happen? Might get a job so I can slow down a little.

Yes Martin, we call this swamp ass season down here. I literally sat in my truck with no AC and drove 5 miles to the garbage drop off and back. Well, unloaded 4 bags of trash while there. Got home and had to change my shirt. Soaked.

“Cold front” coming through tonight with drier air. Looks like I can’t use the “Too damned hot and humid” excuse for a while to sit at the bench. Just this afternoon the wife was going over her want list of projects. Hot tub drink tables, shelves for pictures on the wall, laundry room table, steps/deck for hot tub, lower the kitchen countertop riser over the sink (Yea, moron builder put it at eye level for short wives so they can’t see out the back door into the lake view while making my sandwich), trim the over growth along the shoreline blocking the view, pressure wash everything…..I guess retirement comes with a gotcha clause Cant wait for winter to get here! Or rainy days. 😆

Fisher Cougar I started back in May. Finally got paint on this morning! So many times this kit almost hit the SOD. Latest was the faring on the fuselage was smaller than the canopy base. Lots of filler! 3 months! And I’m retired too!

Hope they don’t call the A Team. Those Mini-14’s they used never hit anything but fence posts and bumpers.

Yea, conversion is where I’m going. Speaking of….thread creep…. Meet Cousin Eddie. My sons “V6 1996 Mustang”. Twin turbo LS swapped. He glued this crap,together over the past three years to get it to Mustang Week at Myrtle Beach last week. The week before he was swapping the short block with a Pull A Part truck motor. And he got it done in time to drive it from Charleston, even with the non-fitting Camaro radiator. Hmmm, can’t remember if I’ve already posted this here or not.

It’s a damned shame Ford didn’t built the newer retro T-bird on a Mustang chassis instead of that stupid jag platform. That car would be worth a fortune today with Mustang guys. Imagine that with a Coyote under the hood.

Another shot of the ‘55

Just something about that classic ‘57 look though. I found a rag top my son said I could probably trade for. Fully restored. And as you said Ernie, that’s the problem. It’s all original. I want a modern upgraded suspension, stock LS, quiet exhaust, AC, power windows, etc. As I told my wife, that $125,000 convertible would be a money and time pit. Here’s a modernized ‘55 my son is driving for his boss. He bought it to flip it. Of course he paid full retail plus on a dying classic. Not many want these like they use to.

Ok, I was waiting on Ernie to jump in and nock over all the dominos. OK guys, y’all go for the stash. I want the ‘57. I’ve even thought about selling the ’66 Mustang GT Fastback or trading it for one. But something tells me that wouldn’t fly with the wife.

Oops! I just counted 12 phantoms in the old stash location. See, I’m worse than I thought I was. 🤪

This was the biggest part of my stash before I had to box it all up for the move. I kind of miss having them all out for my own “display” setup in my basement. Now they are all in moving boxes in lofts I built in my new garage. Just no room in my shared downstairs. This is this all along the right side loft and the one in the top left corner of the pic.

I was going to guess a 1/32 C-5 Galaxy.

Amateur’s stash! Mines all boxed up, but off the top of my head….all 1/32 of course 6 or 7 ea. F-16 kits. 9 12 ea. Phantoms. 5 are Tamiya. Rest are Revell. 2 ea. A-10’s 3 ea. F-18’s. C, E & F 2 ea. T-6 Texans 2 ea. C-5 Galaxie’s (Derp! 1/144) 2ea. F-105’s 2 ea B-17’s 2 ea B-25’s edit: 3-1/48 C-130’s to add And to add icing to the cake, I’ve already built 3 Phantoms and 8 F-16 kits. Which reminds me. I need to get off the internet and go visit my building bench!

Obnoxious smells? Takes me back to my youth spraying lacquers in the body shop during the early ‘80’s! But yea, I switched over to MRP and Mr. Color lacquers this year. Love the results and the stroll down memory lane when using them. But proper ventilation is a must! I still have quite a bit of my Tamiya acrylics left and I’ll slowly use them up.

Just ordered a couple more sets for my KH Texans.

Just read he was still alive and in hospice. Even though, time is short. Grew up watching Wally and the Beaver.

A story about women selling their breast milk came up on another forum. I took the opportunity to meme my grandson.

How does one create the part/program? any scan tools out there? Well, low cost scan tools that is. With all the “Missing part from Trumpeter” threads I’ve seen over the years, this could be very beneficial.

I use to tease an old employee that had a Puerto Rican flag on his desk all the time. I would ask what ties did he have to Texas or why the Texas flag. Of course him being Puerto Rican, he would get a little hot under the collar. But that was half the fun.

https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/california-home-listing-mystery-room-17303685.php room for stash and the built! Talk about taking a lifetime to fill it with built models….

I just now walked to the mailbox and got my order in finally. Wow! Almost feels like cheating. These are amazing.

Getting bored waiting on coats of putty to dry on the Fisher Cougar so I decided to pull the old C-17 out of the moving box labeled “shelf of doom”. I forgot how long ago I started this kit. It has that nasty Squadron green putty on it. I started using Tamiya white at least 5 or 6 years ago. Let me see if I can straighten out these amateur mistakes I made probably 10-15 years ago.