ScottsGT

LOL! It was just a light sprinkle. But honestly, it was only the second time in 22 years it spent the night outside. First time was when I loaded it the night before on the trailer to take to the exhaust shop first thing in the morning. That was about 7 years ago. With the new house only having the single car garage, it might be getting a few more back yard camp outs if I have to do a large woodworking project.

Some of y’all might remember I moved back in May with no time to get back to the bench in sight. I had all of my kits in a rental storage unit up until September when we had our 12X24 storage building delivered and we vacated the rental. Of course I’m not putting the stash in a non-climate controlled building, so they’ve been still boxed up in the “man cave” with plans to build loft storage in my garage that is semi-climate controlled. Well this week I got busy with the build. Started on Sunday afternoon and wrapped up today. I also added new LED lighting strips throughout the garage and washed the ‘66. The start of it Sunday Here’s the first shelf for kit storage I put up back in the summer Now I finally get to focus on building my new building bench and paint booth. No more folding cafeteria table for me! Building something with drawers I can label for sprue numbers the kits I’m working on and not have to share the bench with the open kit box.

Hang tough! You can beat it again.

Get well Ernie!

OMG! I see a Lake Life sign on your end table my wife hasn’t bought yet. Maybe I can make her one in the shape of SC before she finds one and buys it.

You’ll put your eye out with that thing! I have the full size leg lamp in the kitchen.

Look for Resinprince on Hyperscale and shoot him a PM. He’ll fill you in.

He mentioned another temporary shut down a few weeks or months back on Hyperscale.

Just last Monday we had to have our old girl of 14 years put down for one last nap. She was suffering pretty bad with arthritis of her spine and legs, stayed in the same spot in the corner of the bedroom all day and started having incontinence issues. This pic was from 4 years ago. Of course we have this guy that’s about 4 years old. He can be a bit of an asshole at times. Sit there, stair at you and push your iPhone off the night stand. The other night it was my phone, then the wife’s and then her alarm clock. how he spends the evening. He’s doing this right now as I type this.

Would have been nice if Trumpeter would go back and re-tool some of their other major kit flaws. A-7 Corsair’s come to mind as their worst. Looking at my build using the Zacto correction vs. an out of box kit build is a real eye opener. I keep reading that the A-10 also has front fuselage issues. Too wide? Paul Fisher was working on a correction when his world fell apart.

yea, just last week I started trying to organize the ammo fort. Stashed away 3500 rds. of 9mm, lost track of how much .30-06 I packed in cans (Cabela’s had a deal for 6 .50 cal cans for $52 shipped) I thought I was going to have left over cans. Nope, gotta get more. Probably 1k 5.56, 500 rds of 7.62X39, lost track of my .308 too. I’ve got ammo can trays on order and I’m heading over to Harbor Freight tomorrow for furniture dolly's to be able to move them around. Hoping I can make room to set up the old reloading bench in the man cave. Unfortunately the wife has to have her mark on the territory as well and there’s a useless old antique buffet taking up one wall. The safe is just to the left of the big black ammo cabinet the can is sitting on.

This is my case that started me down the path I built these for my die cast car collection

Very nice Kevin! I got into woodworking when I built my display case for my models. Started out with some basic tools, now have a Jet 14” bandsaw, jointer, planer, better contractor size table saw, track saw and lots of others. I keep my tools on the bench top size except my bandsaw and drill press. It’s been a whirlwind 8 months since buying our new home and there has been no time for models or any woodworking outside of necessary projects for the home. I’m hoping by this time next year I’ll be back at both full swing.

Ernie, that's horrible. I lost Mom a year ago this past September. She was in assisted living for almost 3 years and then into a nursing home from Jan to Sept. Although she was bed ridden, she also suffered from lung issues where she could not clear her body of CO2. She was always hallucinating and coming up with stories that would have been believable if she wasn't bed ridden. I will say though, her care wasn't as horrific as your Mothers. Glad to see you're back.

Yep, 24’ with a Mercury 150 four stroke. It’s a 2019. The couple bought it new in July of ‘19 to pull the grandkids and now they relocated to DC. Might have 60 hours time on it. We paid about $4000 less than the same model I’ve seen for sale on line.

Not model related, but looks like I picked up something else today.

Thinking about it, but the original studio model was never lit and the thick resin makes it a little difficult.

Just got this one in the mail. Not my pics, but stole these off the web. It’s the 1/350 Klingon D-7

Agreed. I gave up painting cars back in the day because my ability to mix and match paint sucked. I stuck with the body work end of the business a few more years before I got out entirely.

😱 get well Harv!

Is the Trumpeter kit really that bad? Is it the shape or rivets over done? Or both? I’ve got the kit, never opened it up.

Had some old friends come visit the new house last month. The husband brought me a bottle of Buffalo Trace. I managed to get a glass that night to try it out. Glad I did as he managed to almost finish off the bottle he brought me! He left me one more sample in the bottle for Sunday afternoon. Stopped at the red dot store on my way home last Friday. Got more of my Scotch, but they were all out of Buffalo Trace.

Happy Birthday (apparently early!) At 71 years young, you've earned it! But your birthday is on Halloween? Awesome. Cake & Ice cream and candy all on the same day!! I remember when I was a kid we use to have a Honda 50 Monkey. I would tear up the neighborhood with that thing. One year we went of a vacation to the beach and we got to ride some three wheeler go-carts around a track. I kept trying to lean that thing like I did with the Monkey and kept running into the tires along the edge of the track. Fun times! Hope you have better luck transitioning to 3 wheels than I did.

Looks like it needs another part as well! I'm actually in the market for a pontoon right now. But I'm finding that the boat market is like the used car market right now.

So Clunk, this kit still in the box?