ScottsGT

How do you keep up with it? I refuse to box up items with the kits I bought them for, so I’d just pile it all up on a shelf and hope the old gray matter is firing in order when I start said kit. When we moved last year I shoveled all my AM into a moving box. I kind of kept some order? Few months back I saw a Fisher nose correction for the Connie come up on evilBay. I bid a high of $75 and said no way I’m spending more. Woke up the next day and it had sold just shy of $200. The other day I found one in that moving box. Apparently when I bought the corrected radomes and cowlings, I got one of those as well. I thought I had 4 or 5 more sets of Rhino or DMold Phantom intakes. Nope. Just 2 and 5 or 6 kits. Should have bought more when I could have.

John, that turned out fantastic! As quick as you burned through it, I cannot figure out why if was placed on the SOD?

Welcome to the forum! Myself, I simply do a search for a particular subject on modeling websites. Now what would come in handy is an app that would keep track of all my kits in my stash, the piles of aftermarket I have and have it where it cross references with each other. Just the other day I went through my boxes of aftermarket goodies and discovered I’ve bought too much one one thing, not enough of another. Maybe even a location like ”Box 14-Garage shelves, right side” I try to keep a list in my notes, but it gets mixed up in the shuffle.

WooHoo! All done. Doc said I probably won’t need the implant since it’s the rear molar. Saves the modeling budget too! And now the wife has me out furniture shopping with a mouth full of gauze. I can’t make this stuff up.

Wow! Looking great. Are you using any of the kit decals? My Cougar decals were brittle and impossible to use.

Neat!

Scheduled for 8:30 in the morning. Yay! Let’s get this going. I’m taking Hydrocodone for the pain and doing goofy stupid things like I did 24 years ago when I was living on the stuff before my back surgery. I was cleaning my airbrush this morning and dumped the dirty thinner right back into the bottle of clean thinner while looking at the dump cup sitting right there. Derp. I was going to take the ‘66 for a drive, but no way now. It can wait a few days.

And I’m not talking about for the wife. Had a small crack in my left rear molar years back, dentist did a quick fix, but in reality we just kicked the can down the road. Couple weeks back, pain returned and got an appointment for 10/23. This weekend pain reached a threshold I could not tolerate with OTC meds. Got in to my dentist this morning and they sent me to an Endodontist for a root canal. Get to his office, nope. Your cracked all the way down the root. I could try, but it won’t last. Nope, not pissing away money to put off the inevitable. Waiting on call from Oral Surgeons office for a Thursday tooth pull and post installed in my jaw. Years ago my back surgeon told me I have an extremely high tolerance to pain. If my tolerance is high, I’d hate to see how someone with normal pain levels handles this. At least they gave me some good pain killers.

What Mustang?

Started out the day doing some work in the F-16A but around lunch time I said no more. I cranked up the old ‘66, found the new plate, sticker and registration and installed them and went for a ride. I’ve never heat cycled the ring and pinion all the way since installing them almost 2 years ago. Went on about a 5 mile ride. Yea, that’s garage dust I’m trying to see through… Got it home and realized I was driving on tires that only had 14 psi in them. Oops! Aired them up and gave her a bath. In the morning I’ll go on another drive for a good heat cycle again. Might stretch it out a little further though. I’ve got to either drive it or sell it. Tired of seeing it sitting in the garage all the time.

Yea, that stage of the Cougar was a little nervous! It’s looking great!

My MRP and Mr. Color lacquers both came right off the resin unless I primed it. It was very frustrating. I also scuffed the surface I could get to with 400 or 600 grit wet or dry using water to help keep the sandpaper clean. Even small interior details I sprayed top coat on was flaking off days later in some areas unless I primed them. And yes, I scrubbed everything with Clorox/soap and warm water before I started the project.

Amazon refused my review. LOL!

If anyone here has never built a resin kit like this, just look at the pic closer at the air bubbles that come with casting. It takes a lot of patience to go over a resin kit to correct all these blemishes. One reason my Cougar was a 4 month build.

Great news! Had a discussion on ARC with KursadA of Caracal decals. Said he’s had a lot of requests for 1/32 F-35A splinter schemes that he is working on something.

Yay! Another tool I must have! Wide variety of blade types. I’ve got to seriously look into this. Wife being a nurse and now a CRNA, I bet she has some handles stashed somewhere.

Nope. They were marked #11 blades. But good info to have.

Digging deep into the stash for an old classic!

Yea, winds are starting to get sporty right now! Just looked at radar and the worst rain band is going to hit us in about 30 min. Looks like the eye will come in at Georgetown, just south of Myrtle Beach. I rode out Hugo in ‘89 down in Summerville, outside of Charleston. Bad mistake!

All garbage. Sorry, need to vent. Sometime back I was ordering supplies. Don’t remember where it was. But I added a generic pack of 100 #11 “X-acto” blades since I was running low. Fast forward a few years and I finally had to open said pack. They look sharp, feel sharp by touch. Damned things won’t even cut Tamiya tape. 🤬 Tried to tape off a canopy to paint it and the friggin blade slides over the top of the tape. More pressure you say? It just tears the tape. I’ve got another 100 in my Amazon cart that are labeled X-acto brand, but with all the counterfeit crap on Amazon these days I’m going to hold off and buy the X-acto brand in the little black plastic holders. Yea, I’ll pay more. But I want good, sharp blades. I’d run to Hobby Lobby that’s 20 miles up the road but we have Ian causing an issue now and trees love to go to sleep in the middle of the roads in my area when the winds pick up. Besides, last time I was at a HL it seems that they like to swap out a lot of name brand stuff with generics as well. Hmmm…might check out Sprue Bros. Of course that’s going to cost me a lot too because they are like a bag of Lay’s chips. Can’t just get one thing. Update: Techni-Edge from Amazon. Just left a very negative review after I got back from dodging branches in the road and these “extreme” 15 MPH winds were already getting to make a Hobby Lobby run. It’s been so long since we’ve had rain I almost forgot where my wiper switch was on my car. But HL carries several different brands of #11 blades. X-acto also has some Z Series blades. Zirconium Nitride coated. Supposed to be twice as sharp and last twice as long. I guess that means I’ll cut off twice my fingers now? What the heck, I’m giving them a try.

Ours managed to dunk a C. https://news.usni.org/2022/03/03/navy-recovers-crashed-f-35c-from-depths-of-south-china-sea

Anything that gets wet? Does my new Trumpeter 1/32 F-35C count??

Of course!

Less than 1 month build time. I honestly believe that’s a record for me. I will add, ever since I got back into plastic, this has always been one of my grail kits. Just something about the T-6 I’ve always loved. Kind of ironic that a close friend lost his life in one back in 2004 when he was a passenger at a community fair and a guy was giving rides. My buddy cut in line because he had to get to work and during takeoff, the engine died because the pilot didn’t check his fuel knowing the fuel gauge was bad. It stalled and pancaked right into the ground. I have a second kit in the stash and hopefully lessons learned from this build will make the next even easier and better. But I’ve got to learn the aluminum foil trick first. I’ve got a few kits screaming for a real aluminum skin. Including Texan #2.