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DrKerry

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Besides modeling, I also like to:

1. Collect WWII Army Air Force militaria, i.e., uniforms, caps, uniform wings and airplane parts. A couple of the more unique pieces of my collection include an armored plate glass window out of a B-17 tailgunner's position and a salvaged ring sight off a .50 cal machine gun from a wreck in the states during the war.

2. Collect books and videos about the 8th Air Force/B-17s/personal accounts from WWII.

3. Sing - God gave me the ability to sing, so I am a member of our church worship team and I also sing baritone in our local men's barbershop chorus.

4. Follow the Minnesota Twins baseball team. I've been a Twins fan since 1967, when I was 11.

5. Help my wife with her antique metal head doll collection. I do the photography for her as she has written some articles published in the Antique Doll Collector magazine. She is also writing a book about metal head dolls and I have done, and will do, the photography for that - a major undertaking, as it will contain several hundred pictures. While she knows considerably more, I've learned a lot about them.

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Besides models, I also collect dealership promotionals ( Mopar only btw )

I own my own shop to repair cars - restore vintage cars . So I get to work on toy cars as well as the big ones. Best part is I get to spend other peoples money for the big ones. The little ones sadly it comes out of my pocket.

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Building and refinishing furniture,

researching in order to restore architectural

details on older residences,

collect and use local cookbooks

from travels, photo and videography.

Do my two grandchildren count?

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I am into quite a few things. Most anything to do with wheels and a motor, cars, motorcycles/trucks. I collect airbrushes. Buy and sell on feeBay. I got a high speed engraver that I hope to relearn (had one a while back) and I'd like to make some side cash with it. I am a hockey fan in general and a Penguins fan in particular (hence part of my signature) with a small collection of jerseys.

I have a bad habit of getting into something and then going "Whole-Hog". I buy stuff and then when I need cash, well, there it goes. I have a newer job that takes a lot of my time so I haven't had a chance to do much besides work and spend money (yep, it's been an upside time right now. The down side time will follow).

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Kool beans Scott, my fgather in law was a boom operator in a KC-130 until he retired about six years ago.

Just out of curiosity, did you mean KC-135? The 130 doesn't have a boom to my knowledge. It has dual probe and drogues in the wings. Just asking because I spent 10 years in the 70's as a pilot in 135's. The Boomer on a 135 is also a load master.

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The only other thing that I spend a great deal of time on, (not sure if it would be a "hobby"), is bike riding. Like DPNM said a few posts up, I tend to go whole-hog on things so I limit myself. My wife and I discovered rails-to-trails and ride every chance we get. We have rode from DC to Pittsburgh twice now on the C&O Canal and Great Allegheny Passage, GAP. It is around 350 miles in length. We have been kicking around the idea of making a "bucket list" item of riding at least one trail in all of the 48 lower states. We'll see what happens. It is not only a money issue but a time issue.

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Just out of curiosity, did you mean KC-135? The 130 doesn't have a boom to my knowledge. It has dual probe and drogues in the wings. Just asking because I spent 10 years in the 70's as a pilot in 135's. The Boomer on a 135 is also a load master.

Oh, duh, yeah your right it was a kc-135. He flew out of Chicago and then the whole 126 was transferred to Scott Air Force Base. He's been to Germany many times and the first crew to Desert Shield/Storm. He was in the 126th ARF. My wife said he was flying in the late 60's to the early 90's.

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