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Oh boy, I guess that makes me a toddler at 53. My bad knee had been with me since I was 12 or so. Acts up once in a while for a couple days and then goes away. Biggest scare healthwise was my heart attack and triple bypass when I was 48. At least my cardiologist is mostly happy with my health these days.

Looks great Ernie. The open cockpit window is a very nice touch.

Paul, there's going to be so much potential for the kit. Like you said, a lot of users and a lot of variants. I wouldn't mind an M163 one myself.

No pics yet but Andy's HHQ has just announced that their next 1/16 kit will be an M113 APC with the option of doing it as an ACAV version.

Out in theatres today is Civil War. I will probably see this Tuesday.

Fallout just released on Prime. It's a 8 episode series based on a video game.

Blade Runner. My favourite movie.

The bench reorganization continues. I finally got the paint racks back up on the wall and off the floor. I also sorted through them and consolidated things. This will hopefully give me more room on the bench as I work through the big pile(s) of stuff still on it.

Sorry to hear about Diane's fall. I'm glad it wasn't anything worse than that. Hope there aren't any complications from it. Give her our best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Time to finally call this one done. I added the last few parts to the 262 which was mostly the antenna and that was it. The bench is still a work in progress so I'll try to take some better pics soon. Maybe on the weekend.

Late last year I contacted a vendor on eBay whom I had previously purchased a set of resin rims and tires for a 1/12 Porsche. I asked if he could do some rims for my 1/12 Countach and he agreed. At the same time I asked about replacement tires for my Tamiya 1/12 McLaren MP4/6. The originals were badly deformed from age and I was just going to build it without. He had a set of slicks for the other F1 cars in that scale but didn't have an MP4/6 for use as a template so I sent my rims to him. Today, I got a package full of rims and tires. The Countach rims along with a new set for the Ford GT40 which I also sent along at his request. The new MP4/6 tires. The black rims are the kit ones I sent him. He made resin versions as well as a rain tire version and sent me those too. You can see the tread pattern here compared to the slick. Here's what my kit tires look like after 31 years. Needless to say I'm thrilled by this and now I can consider getting my longest running kit build finally done. Maybe.

Not a bad idea.

I thought you were going to say the "sniffing glue" scene

Tried to get tires for my Best. Can't seem to find the sizes I need. Any suggestions? Sizes are F: 195/45/15 R: 195/40/16

Slug is right. Me likey! They remind me of the Enkeis I had on my '06 Civic.

For a moment, I thought the first pic was a forced perspective image. The tank looks awesome as does the presentation.

Thanks Peter. I've been trying to figure out the best way to fill the various gaps and smooth out the contours. I settled on planking the rear section and then sanding things smooth.

Looking good there Scott.

That looks great Dave. Nicely done. Carl

We were in a large park watching it so some folks had dogs with them and a few started to bark right before the totality. I think the birds stopped chirping at around the same time. It was definitely quieter during the eclipse. Well, except for Edward being loud with excitement.

Now I'm really jealous. I've got the Gunze 1/24 kit but it doesn't compare to that.

Gundam can be quite the rabbit hole to fall into. And potentially addictive too. If you're thinking of building a larger one, Master Grade is the next size up. They're 1/100 scale, Real Grade (the one you built) being 1/144. Master Grade have more detail, and generally more pivots. The top of the line is Perfect Grade. Those are 1/60 but quite a bit more in price. Then there's SD which is the eggplant style series of kits. They're generally simpler in build than the Real Grade ones. Recently Bandai has come out with MG-SD which combines the details of the Master Grade kits with the SD style. Like I said, quite the rabbit hole. Anyways, looks like you had fun and hopefully the grandsons will like trying them out.

Or possibly the size of the mess on one's workbench.

I'm liking the bronze look myself. I have a set of Koenig Heliums on my Beat in the bronze. They're great with the burnt orange that the car is. Had to do a +2 fit to find tires that would fit due to the stagger. I'm hoping to find something similar for our next car which might be dark blue.

Ernie, it does doesn't it?