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And just tonight she told me to see if I can move the date from May 1st to April 15th. She works that weekend and wants to have a retirement party and if I bump it back two weeks, she’s off from work.

New bench, first coat of sanding sealer.

I’d like to see the results airbrushed on a polished surface.

I think my hardest part is going to keep telling my daughter "NO" to monday morning babysitting duty for our 9 mo grandson. He's a cute little bugger, but getting up at 5:30 am and driving to their house and sitting all day is not my idea of a retirement. I can't even bring him to our place because there is no way to safely put a baby seat in a 2015 Mustang GT. Summer is around the corner and the truck's AC doesn't work too.

Well, I thought I'd dig up this old thread just to say she gave me the green light on retirement Friday evening! Called the state retirement center today and things are even better that the initial numbers I got using the online calculator. I'm rolling about 6 months of Annual and Sick leave over to time served, and that alone was a huge bump in retirement pay as well. I think what finally got her on board was a combination of a lot of little projects around the new home, we have our boat now, got her the hot tub she wanted and now she wants me to start building some of the outdoor furniture after pricing them out online or at the stores. I'm still kind of in shock over the whole thing. It's finally happening!!! Edit to add: Looking at a May 1 start date on retirement.

Na, all my hair dryers are 1/32 and those will be the last I let go. Unless someone wants to pay me that $777 a guy was asking on ebay for a 1/32 Tamiya Thunderbird. What I'm looking to unload is things like 1/72 EC-135C, couple of 1/48 C-47 kits, 1/72 KC-135A that I swapped out with parts to build a K, older Testors H-43B huskie, UH1C Huey that's already started and a few more odds and ends kits. Nothing really highly sought after. I think my only large scale is a ZM-P51 I got a few years ago on one of the Christmas gift drawings on TOS. I've built two Revell P-51's since and just cannot see myself building it.

I'm starting to liquidate some of my stash I know I will never get around to building with so many new large scale kits coming out or have come out since I bought these. Are we OK to post non-LSP items up here? Couldn't find any rule book on the subject, so I thought I would just post up the question here.

I cooled the flames a little by selling my 1/48 B-1 kit I was about 99.9% sure I would never build. I've pulled a stack of non-1/32 kits and slowly posting them up for sale as well. Only makes sense to dump those I know I will never build, and makes momma happy knowing its less for her to haul to the dumpster up the road when I go.

I thought I was going to be joining y’all’s club last night. Thankfully she was at work today when another one arrived.

My other post about ordering the ICM Stearman kit, yea. Was supposed to be delivered tomorrow. Thursday. I planned it like this since the wife is at work until late in the evening. But noooooo!! USPS decided to finally get off their ass and deliver it today when she's home. Oh, and the hitch for my new riding mower is also showing up a day early as well. You know, the hitch she said I don't need for my new $6300 Zero turn mower that she said I didn't need as well. Expect ranting text pics from my wife sometime today. I love living on the edge!!

And today I discovered Revell has rekitted the ICM under their brand for almost half the price. 😐

Just ordered an ICM Stearman PT-17 kit off eBay. I’m sure with the happenings in the Ukraine ICM will go away soon. 😡 Already have the Roden kit and was fence sitting on getting the ICM. I guess down the road it can be sold if I change my mind.

LOL! Not long after I posted this I found a hell of a deal on a 24’ Tri-toon. We took it out Saturday and Sunday with the nice break in the weather we had. EDIT: Nice spam bump! Not clicking on that link.

Now that sounds like fun! My shooting buddy sold his farm at the first of the year. I now have to join a range to go shooting. Or get to know my neighbor I keep hearing him doing mag dumps on a regular basis.

This thread just made me realize I have dreamed about work issues for a few years. Probably about the time I quit giving a crap about work due to getting smoke blown up my …….well, you get the point. Eligible for retirement, plan is one year from tomorrow will be my last day I get a paycheck for. Unless I can convince the wife. Funny thing is, she’s afraid I’ll sit around and do nothing. Jokes on her. That’s what I’m doing now at work. But I did wake up in the middle of the night around 3 am Saturday after a dream I had about my build table I was about to start on yesterday. I put it off because of the brilliant epiphany I had about the layout and design. Gotta take the tape measure to my area and see if I can make it happen.

I need to start looking in my area for a 2-3 day a week easy job no one wants so I can retire too! Sucks I'm limited at 59 with back issues that cause leg issues of standing all day.

It was quite obvious on my old Z-28 I had back in the late '80's

Very sad and one of my biggest fears. I’ve been collecting kits for over 25 years setting myself up for retirement this time next year. I’ve got arthritis setting up in my hands and my second covid vaccination really put the left hand into question. Getting off and on numbness, arthritis symptoms are much worse on some days. Doc told me do not get a booster with these side effects because they could get worse.

Same here. Awesome looking kit.

I can now officially say I have not worked a full week at all during the month of January.

Thought I had the perfect design in my head until I took a tape measure to my area….back to the drawing board. Area is smaller than I thought it was. Now looking at an 8’ table with a 3’ paint booth built in on the far right side and ducting over to the window when I can open the window and either just let it blow out, or an insert I put in place. Probably and insert since most of my bench time will be during the winter. Now trying to figure out what paint is the best surface that doesn’t have that “sticky” soft feeling you get with latex paint.

Man, all that horizontal space would be so trashed in no time around me. I’ve actually come up with a new plan for my area. I think I can fit in a paint booth that’s 4’ wide and 18” deep. Been in the new home 9 months and I’m finally giving this area some thought. Don’t know why I waited so long.

My wife tested positive yesterday too. Came home Thursday evening starting a fever of 100.3 and it got up to 102. Body aches, just flu like symptoms. Slept a lot next day Took her to get tested yesterday morning, results last night. She’s already feeling much better today and anxious for a glass of wine this evening.

I’m mentally drawing up my new bench in my head. While looking online at pics I see a common trend of shelves on the back of the bench just tall enough to hold paint bottles. Some of these benches look like the bench of more of a paint collector rather than a builder. My current paint storage is basically a tool box with short drawers full of Tamiya and old Model Master paint. The new trend of the taller plastic bottles won’t fit and they wind up eating space on my bench. Giving some serious thought to eliminating the roll around toolbox just to help reduce floor clutter and go with custom shelves I can build. Maybe a few small pull out drawers for PE bending jig, air brushes, etc.. Anyone build or have the wall of paint and regret it? Got any nice bench pics you can share?

I just bought another Colt tonight online. It’s the baby 1911, the .380 Govt. Model in stainless. I’ll post a pic when I get it. Had one years ago (took my CWP qualification with it) but a friend talked me out of it only to have it stolen by a parking valet. What’s bad was he didn’t notice it was gone until a few weeks later. I forgot I already had an image from an email with the seller. 🤣