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I was up in Duluth MN visiting the wifes family. I had been up there having a great time, got some good ol BBQ done, caught a couple trout, I took the new four wheeler out and was riding with her brothers. Got plenty muddy! Mid afternoon we all packed up and decided to go back home.

I arrived home about 930 and I had pulled into the drive and I noticed my front door was open. instantly, I knew something isn't right.  I walk through the front door to basically an empty living room. Someone had definately walked through and took what they wanted...

I panic, call the police to make a police report. I then have to go through my house and look at what was missing. However, I won't go into details at the words I used but I will list what I lost...

2 month old 60" LG TV
2 month old Xbox 360 250 GB
2 month old black oak tv stand
Complete surround sound system with 8 speakers and 2 subwoofer
Wifes grandmothers wedding ring
3 Minnesota Viking framed authentic autographed jerseys signed by Adrian Peterson I personally got at training camp
Autographed Randy Moss rookie football in a case
4 Authentic Minnesota Viking helmets signed. Chad Greenway, Antoine Winfield, Percy Harvin and Christian Ponder.
Box of authentic real NFL jerseys I had boxed up from just being boughten that were sitting on the mantel. Was 7 jerseys in there at around 80 bucks a pop.
Wifes Victorian style jewelery box with a lot of gold ear rings, necklaces and bracelets. No costume jewelery.
My wallet, I.d. credit cards, check cards (usually never leave it out of my pocket but the one Time I forget, go figure)

There was a lot more smaller items taken. Some of this stuff is not replaceable. I am so heated right now...

As far as suspects, I bought that TV for 2200.00. Made a mistake because a week after I bought it, I found a 72 inch TV. I decided I'd try my luck with Craigslist. I was gonna sell it and buy a 72".

I had these two guys come look at it. One came with his wife, the other came with his daughter... Both seemed real down to earth and interested. One thing I noticed, the guy who came through with his wife had been very interested in everything else but the TV. Asked about all my diecast collection, My plastic models, the football items, I thought he seemed weird but we left in a rush and it never.dawned on me...

Now I am out of all my stuff and the guy used a Trac phone to call me so there having a hard time finding him tp question him. what was a good time away turned into complete hell...

Anyone I am doing trades with, please bare with me. I'm good for it,I just got hit kinda hard with.this. ill have everyone's stuff out before Friday.

Anyone else have there place broke into? How did insurance handle it. This is my first time..

I am looking to build a replica model of a real car I fell in love with. I found the wheels and everything ill need to build this car. I am gonna try a few things with this one that I've wanted to try in the past. Nothing extreme but just a couple things that I feel will make it stand out a bit.

Which kit would you choose?

So I had bought about 15 cans of Krylon Paint from a old hadware store that was going out of business. I personally do not like this paint. I have never had a single paint job look descent with this stuff. Now I have 3 Projects on my table that I've been getting ready for paint.

I know the Tamiya paints work descent but are expensive here. 6.00 for that very little can of paint, then I need the primer, then I need the clear coat which adds up to about 20.00 per model after tax and I don't really have enough to use even if I wanted to do a touch up.

The next one is Testors One coat. I like this stuff, I've painted a couple bodies with no primer and just a clear coat on top of it because before, the paint didn't pop as well as I felt if should have..

Last is duplicolor. I find myself using this on almost all my home projects but am yet to use it on a build... How does the paint lay down? Does it polish out well? This I.like because I can pay 5.00 and squeeze 2-3 paint jobs out of one can.


I know everyone's answer will probably be a air brush but right now that's not in my budget. I'm planning to get a compressor and brush at tax time. So for now I am stuck to the rattle can.


Any input, criticizm, help is welcome! I want to be able to lay down some descent paint, I've seen others do it,  just never done it myself.... yet...

I am looking for about a 4 inch cowl for my build. I seen one a few days ago before I needed it so I didn't pay much attention. Now I need it and can't find one. Also looking for a resin small block. Who makes the best resin engines? Thank you

I bought one of these off the local craigslist.. I had intentions of setting it up, Now I have far to much stuff in my house and my wife wants one room for her paintings and I have a model room. It was a impulse buy, ill never use it. I am curious what its worth? I just planned to trade it off for some models if I can I just wanna get an idea what its worth.. It's missing the two cars, has only one remote and 3 packs of extra track brand new in boxes. This stuffs gotta be from the 70-80s. Guy I bought it from told me it was from a company called MArx? I can't be sure if that was it but that comes to mind. Any one know anything about these?