ScottsGT

Well if we want to get specific....(LOL!) I have Photography thrown into the mix myself. Models as a kid, early teen years/9th grade got into photography then cars (completely forgot about models at this time since I caught the fumes- Gas fumes from cars and perfumes from the girls!) Caught my wife around '88 and got involved in RC while we were dating/early years of marriage. Hung onto that hobby until I gave up because I never could go flying due to taking care of kids on the weekend while she worked. Bought a few rifles around '94, went shooting at a local range now and then. Around '99 I sold it all off and bought my '66 Mustang GT project and a few models in between along with picking up a few guns here and there. Mustang is about done, I think I've reached burn out stage where I need to drive it or sell it. Around '07 I got back into photography. Canon 5D Classic, L lenses, 7D, etc... Now I think I'm getting too old to haul all this heave gear around. Might sell it all off along with the '66. Of course with the new home and all the wild life around me, I might pick the cameras back up again soon.

LOL! I moved from RC back to plastic. I sometimes still miss it too.

I didn’t have good luck with the fit of the Revell kit parts. Scoop, interior structure was too wide and I had to sand it down to fit inside the fuselage. Bad gaps on wing parts, etc...

The first mow!!

Got one in the stash that I’ve put aside in the “too sell” boxes. Just not sure what all I can keep now with a smaller home.

Just to screw with Murphy I’ve been known to keep looking for something after I’ve found it. That’s right. I showed him who the boss was!

Last time I saw a Cougar she was willing to pay $300.....

got the AF version too. Also have a Panther kit, Ryan kit too.

Moving time depends on buying and sales/closing dates. We still own our old home, but it is on the market. We priced it high hoping to take advantage of the crazy real estate market. After we get it cleared out we’re dropping the price to move it. Any decorating need to be done? LOL! Of course. What woman would move into someone else’s home and not make it hers? But we are going slow with changes to make sure we do the right thing. New home came fully furnished and we are also selling off things too. At both locations.

Just an update..... Things are going pretty smooth, other than I realize I have too much. Yes, just too much. Too many tools, too many models, hell, even too much car cleaning stuff. Who else has a huge Rubbermaid cart just to keep car cleaning supplies on? Today I was boxing up the models for storage and I had enough. I marked a box “kits to sell”. Once I’m settled in, going to start looking for shipping boxes and post them up for sale. I’ve got a gut feeling I’ll have a lot more before the sun sets tomorrow. I am happy to report that my display case made it here ok too. I had 4 strong 25 yo men doing it all for me. Funny thing is, they started rolling it around the house and all of a sudden they were like, “Uuhh, it ain’t going through that door.” looking at the basement level sliding glass door. Thankfully, it made it through the door from the garage with maybe enough room for a hair to fit in between. I had to pull off part of the door threshold and once we were in, there’s a support pole that I had to remove the decorative trim off the base to get through. Wife again was telling me, see, you built it too damned big! But it’s in, we got the glass door here and installed safely and now I just need to get the shelves over laid out flat in the back of the wife’s Honda Pilot. Now just curious to see how the models have done on the trip. Still have a lot at the old house though. The guys man handled the gun safe like it had PlaySchool written on the side of it. Of course all the firearms were piled deep in the trunk of my Mustang. Pretty funny thinking back that I had more $$ in the guns stacked in the trunk than the car is worth. Oh, and ammo. Yea, got enough of that too. Everyone always says you can’t have enough ammo. I guess they never have moved. once I get settled in, I’ll post up some pics.

Isn't Model Master itself being discontinued? Going to miss the old standby. But if it's going away, I don't want to stock up. Might as well rip the bandaid off now and change myself.

Extremely frustrating!!! I just trashed 2 built models that fell from the boys ceiling 15 years ago and I never got around to repairing, tossed out the early Revell Phantom I built when I got back into modeling. God, it was butt ass ugly. Started building it with SEA camo (yea, on a Navy jet. Like I said, I had no idea what I was doing when I got back building as a big boy) and I painted the interior green like it was a WWII aircraft. Also tossed a half built phantom Mustang I gave up on 12 years ago, or when ever it was Revell came back out with the kit. just so no one thinks I have totally lost it, I did carefully pack up some off the shelf of doom. C-17, C-124, Revell P-51D and a few more I have to bring boxes home tomorrow I have at work. My biggest task yet was accomplished today. Years ago I built a huge display case. Almost 8’ wide, 2’ deep and 6’7” tall. I got it all broken down, sliding glass doors removed and packed up sideway sitting on foam everywhere for the 45 mile journey in the back of a U Haul truck. No way I could have made this move and keep everything if it was a long distance move.

So overwhelmed with everything that I just logged into my Hannants account and cancelled my Helldiver order..... Maybe later I’ll revisit after the dust settles and possibly if I sell off a few dozen kits.

Just spent the past few hours boxing up kits and building tools. In one box alone I have two 1/32 B-17’s and a Lancaster. Do the money math on that one box. As I’m going through the stash and putting my hands on kits I have decided one of my retirement projects is to sell off about 50% of the kits. There is no way I’ll ever get to all these or have the room for them all. Ex: 3 - 1/48 C130 kits. Ok, where the hell will those go built? Or for that matter, that $1000 box mentioned above. Seems my hobby is turning into a burden if I’m not careful. Probably going to start donating some of these things...the built ones that is. My Thunderbirds bomb burst display really takes up real estate. Might stop in the local ROTC class and see if they want them. We have decided to rent a 12X16 storage locker, but I was just discussing with the wife, what do I put in there? Don’t want model kits left in a non-climatized area, all my wood working tools will probably be needed as soon as we get in and start projects. Can’t put ammo or reloading supplies in storage, Guns sure as hell aren’t going. And I sure don’t want the new place to look like a storage facility too. Once we’re in we plan on getting a 12 X 16 “barn” with a lean to for lawn tractor, yard tools and general storage. I need to take a class on becoming a minimalist.

Yea, the wife is giving me a hard time about not reducing enough. Of course she’s looking at the stash when she says that.

Well we close on our new lake home this coming Friday. Up until today I have spent every waking hour doing all the minor repairs we’ve been putting off. Ever count how many cans of latex paint you have laying around from all the times walls have been painted? After 25 years, I think I counted about 30. Thankfully half were so old and lids rusted through so the paint has been long dried up. Simple enough to toss out. The others? Mixing with kitty litter then tossing. But back to the packing up....I managed to score about 20+ large and heavy duty boxes from video projectors at work. And so far about 13 bags of packing peanuts from U-Haul, I have managed to empty out my entire display case. A box will hold one built 1/32 Phantom with ease. Some boxes have three smaller planes in them. Now I’m trying to figure out how I can safely transport the oversized sliding glass doors on the case. Might even call the glass company I bought them from and see what they would charge to transport them 50 miles on their glass truck. Tomorrow I have to pack up the shelf of doom! And sadly I have decided to toss out a few I built when I got back into building models. Some were done very badly, others have fallen from the ceiling and lost a few parts. I know damned good and well if I take the time to pack them, they will be the last opened probably 5 years from now.

Yep, same issue. My daughter is about 6 months pregnant and her Doc wanted her to get the J&J when it was available. She told him not under any circumstances would she be getting a vaccination while pregnant. She feels like she dodged a bullet.

Good Gravy Hubert! Do you build kits, or make everything from Evergreen stock??? Quite the well stocked supply you have there! Now I have to think of how I can pack up my "shelf of doom" models along with my builts for safe transport.

Jeff, that 12 X 12 work space sounds about right for my fold out table that is almost 6’ long. i love Huberts Lay-out, but the wife would classify that as clutter. Might do some cabinets with paint racks. I’m thinking like the builders hide everything in those tiny homes.

OK, I'll admit it. I'm a real slob when it comes to my work areas. In my garage I have found it a bit easier to be organized and cleaner if I have the proper work bench, drawers, storage, etc. Ever since I got back into building models well over 20 years ago, my go-to bench was a simple fold out cafeteria type table. A few years back, I ramped up the game a little by building a riser where I could stack more crap, and more important, I put magnetic strips on the front to hold all of my metal tools. Files, Xacto knives, clamps, etc. For any new kit I just opened, I would place it on the table until the clutter took over or I added tools in the way. Then I resorted to another chair or to set the box in, or simply place it on the floor. Now that we are about to move, the wife has persuaded me to try and clean up my act a little. My workshop will be in the corner of an active entertainment area that I want to keep organized and easily capable of storing and closing up what I am working on. This will help keep the cat from playing while I'm away too. Seeing how another hobby of mine is woodworking, I can build a really nice bench to keep projects neat and orderly. I'm thinking of an actual "desk" with a couple of really large but not too deep drawers so each active model can be removed from the box and kept separate and not out in the open. Maybe a roll top desk system like the old antique desks of years past. I do have two sheets of stainless steel that are right at 2' X 5' that I could use as a building surface. Any spills, would clean up easy. My current paint and odds and ends are in an old 3 drawer roll around crash cart from the hospital. Basically a glorified tool box with better casters on the bottom. I would like to eliminate this as well, but not set on it. While all the bottles stacked out in the open is great for speed and ease of finding the color, I'm not running an assembly line. Of course with my stash as big as it is, I probably need to. If anyone here suffers from the anal retentive habit of clutter free living, please share!

Yea, I guess I have to share modeling with boating and fishing now.

Thanks Carl. Although this is the upstairs, I’ll have the same view. Looking at this pic, if you look below the screen porch, I’ll have a bench in front of the window under it. Shaded from direct sunlight, but a most excellent view!

Wow, my simple center section and brake conversion exploded in my face.... i built the car with a 4 link rear that included a bracket that bolted to the top of the axle housing utilizing the top three bolts that hold in the center section. New center is much thicker than stock, bracket would not fit. So I had to build up welded in brackets on the housing. Here it is all back in the car. Lots of re-engineering brake lines, parking brake cables and suspension. But I have about an hours work or less to get it off the stands and back on the ground.

Well, looks like all vacations and trips are off our schedule for a year or two since we just bought a new lake home. Told the wife that huge puddle behind the house is her vacation spot now for a few years until the dust settles on getting use to a new lifestyle and income redirected.

After almost a year of discussions, watching the market in our area, looking at home, convincing the wife we don’t need a “weekend place” due to no time for maintaining two properties, paying tax on two places and we need to just pony up for a relocation place. Today we signed a contract on a lake home! This place has a huge finished basement with a wall of windows where I can set up my bench with a view and finally have a true ventilation system that exhaust the fumes out of a window now. I am having to downsize a few things though. I’m passing on to my son some of my automotive tools like my shop press and engine hoist that take up a lot of real estate. Also discussed with her about just leaving the 60 gallon air compressor and air lines with the hose reel setup as well. New place has a deep one car garage, or should I say, one boat garage. I’ll just get a small 30 gallon compressor since most of my tools are all battery powered now anyway. Probably going to wait until this fall for another big Ford auction with Mecum and have my son take the ‘66 GT Fastback to see what it can bring. The last one he went to in January cars built close to mine were bringing over 6 figures. Putting that on the mortgage will help get the wife across the retirement finish line quicker as well. Time to start packing up the stash, the tools and toys and get ready for the move! ...Oh, and in other news, our youngest daughter got engaged this weekend too! She’s shooting for a December wedding, in the mountains. I don’t think she has given much thought to the weather patterns in the mountains in December.