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Chris, why the 3/4 cam? Couldn’t afford to buy the whole cam? Man, that’s some real old terminology back to the Ford flathead days! I always thought that was some street slang until I looked into the history of “1/4 race cam” or “1/2 race cam”. I was an old hotrodder from the ‘80’s. We cut our teeth on things like the Duntov 30/30, Competition Cams 280H if you had an auto trans and couldn’t afford a stall torque converter or a 292H if you were rolling in the dough! When I built the 5.0 in my ‘66 I was hit with questions like “Are you running the stock ECM or will it be tuned?” How about no ECM? I wound up using the Trick Flow Stage 1 cam that is their mildest cam that matches their heads. But I am running aftermarket EFI that has turned into a major PITA. I’m going to play with it a little more this spring and if it doesn’t straighten out, I’m yanking all that crap and slapping on a Holly 600 cfm carb.

Hey Rob, similar life learning experience with me as well. I was in high school taking a printing and photography course at the trade center. I was running an AB Dick 360 printing press and I was in the process of cleaning the rollers. We were warned about getting over zealous cleaning the top roller and getting too close to the roller below it as it was running. Me being the hard headed kid I was got my finger in the wrong place at the wrong time. Lucky for me there was a built in safety feature that ejected the top roller straight up into the air with a loud banging noise as it smacked the ceiling tile. Instructor came over and in his very calm demeanor, “Well, I guess you learned just how close to not get?” I still have all my digits! I just pulled the table saw out Friday evening to cut down the edge molding for the base. It was about 3/16 too wide. First one went through and using my push stick something wasn’t right. Wood kept lifting. Closer inspection showed my push stick has too deep of a notch for thin wood and it was hitting the table top. Taped a piece of scrap wood to the push stick and all was good!

Just shot more primer. More primer = more bad spots I’m seeing. Ugh…..

I’ll add a little tip that might come in handy for y’all. I wanted to make damned sure I didn’t get dust up inside the model through the open bay on the bottom. Each time I do some sanding of filler or primer I’ve been using my small Milwaukee M18 portable vacuum to get the dust off and not simply wiping it or blowing it off. It has kept my work area surprisingly cleaner as well. I think I found a new home for the vac.

Oh man…. If any of y’all ever decide to take on a huge model like this or say that big B-36 Ernie is working on, make sure your meds are in check and your liquor cabinet is stocked. Just taping up the sub bay and the bottom flood lights is an exercise in swinging this thing around from one side of the bench to the other. Look out work light! Here it comes again! Im now at that fiddly stage of checking every seam and making sure it’s filled all the way, block sanding all the hull seams to make sure they’re flat and straight and finding minor errors. I need a nap! I’m getting grumpy.

Got the email last night. Use code PaintApex as per the email. Sale ends on 2/12. Prices a bottle of Mr. Color lacquer right at $2.25 I’m going to unnecessarily stock up! My past experience with my one order was good other than a little slow to ship. That being said, it was right after the last hurricane went through Florida. They are in Daytona. EDIT: just placed an order. Saved about $10 on a good size order.

I was looking at the 1/72 kit thinking it was a bit too large……

I just stumbled across this website on Cybermodeler. https://www.cybermodeler.com/resource6.shtml C026, Duck Egg seems to be a Pre-WWII color. According to the charts, C368 is supposed to be it. I have noticed that sometimes Mr. Colors caps are a few shades off of the actual color. I’m in no big hurry, so I’ll probably throw a bottle in my cart on my next Sprue order just to see how it looks.

Ok, wife’s mouse pad arrived!

Those big bottles are hard to find around here. Seller had it listed for $80. I paid her $60 for it and had to drive almost an hour one way. I’ve got a friend that works for the local beer, wine and liquor distributor. She said she thinks they have one in the back, but still cannot find it.

And she brings this home. I kid..I kid. I actually found it locally on eBay and it didn’t sell. Contacted the seller, met her yesterday and bought it cash in hand. I had no idea it was still full of wine. But the cork leaks, so it’s 6 liters of vinegar I’m sure. Going to make an “Art Deco” light fixture with it. I have a high wall separating the kitchen from the family room that does not go to the ceiling. well, here. Here’s a pic. I’m going to build a bottle holder with it tilted down and hanging over the ledge. I’ll have to drill a hole in the bottom of the bottle, run a wire through it and let it hang down about 3’-4’ and put a hanging light socket on it. I bought one of those huge Edison bulbs with the twisty LED filaments inside it I’ll use. I was shocked when the wife was on board with my crazy artistic plan. And when I told her I was going to replace the wall sconce in the stairwell with a similar bulb and using an old glass power line insulator, she didn’t blink an eye. See guys, this is the trick. Start with “art” she likes. By the time I’m done, I’ll have that 116” wingspan Stearman hanging upside down in the family room up here! It’s 19’ to the peak.

If you look at my wet build progress pics you can see it still sitting on the top shelf of my bench. One day…

Just an update…wetting the wood did the trick. It would take a chisel to get that stuff off the wood now. I did get some drying cracks, but I can go back and fill those in.

Nope, not a kit. My shipping email for the Spitfire deal. Got a tracking number last week for delivery today. When I click the tracking link it takes me to a shipment from Tamiya that is getting delivered to KY. Currently preparing for delivery, will be there today. Ok, I’m hundreds of miles from Bowling Green, KY. If I log into my UPS account and look up my deliveries coming, there’s the correct tracking number and it’s in town preparing for delivery. Now I just hope I’m getting the right kit. My luck I’ll wind up with some wrong scale 1/48 crap. Or maybe an RC car? 😁

Wouldn’t that be ironic! Just maybe the balloon was sent up to get close up pics of the F-22 for R&D? Think it will come with a balloon kill decal? How about a balloon in the kit as well? DISCLAIMER: No, I’m not this stupid. Post was made in jest. Please recalibrate your joke and sarcasm meter if y’all think I’m being serious.

Just got my TBM-3W decals from them last week. Shipped out same day. Sat in customs in Warsaw a couple days and then NY Customs a couple days. Pay close attention to the shipping options. My order first popped up with the highest cost option, but lowest cost for a sheet of decals (with tracking) was still $15.

Gotta love owning velociraptors.

Those ideas are probably from recent MBA graduates they hired. They just don’t get how cheap us old farts are! Especially when it’s online a click away.

Thought you got “Red pilled” by somebody or you were collecting red M&M’s. Those would be tough to swallow.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. For the life of me, cannot figure out why not a few holes punched in it from the mini-gun and let it slowly descend where it could have been recovered intact.

We were joking around earlier today that we were surprised our governor didn’t send up the SCANG’s F-16’s to shoot it down. Just imagine Foghorn Leghorn telling the world that he was protecting the sovereignty of the great state of South Carolina. Yea, his nickname is Governor Foghorn. Told my buddy he’s on his last term as governor and can’t run again so he didn’t need the free press.

I was looking into foiling a model and I read on a forum that Edgar sold a home made foil glue from available household products. I reached out to him only to find out that he had passed a month or so earlier. Apparently he took his recipe to the grave with him.

1/2 ply with 3” doubled up on the edges for a total of 1” thick. I don’t think a wet top is going to warp it. Now if I threw it in the hot tub to get it really wet, we might have a problem. Besides, if you varnish it, the clay won’t have anything to bite into. Supposedly it’s the swollen wet wood fibers that bonds the two. And I’m working short sections at a time. Right now it’s just testing. I’ve got to run get some molding for the edges and trim it out so I can proceed.

Think about this for a second. First military shoot down in anger over the CONUS. That pilots going to have some bragging rights.