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I'll be watching.

Nice body work. It definitely improved the lines of the car a lot!! I could see the improvement with the initial mock-up picture.

Does anyone else wonder how 'ol Coyote get's all that stuff in the middle on no where?

Wow..... That's luck right there!! I hope they throw the book at that guy.

Nice RR!! He Probably was late on his credit card payment to ACME supply...

"and a Pint of old harper".......

"HEY, WHO CUT THE CHEESE??!!"

"Tell him I aim to blow his azz right off the road!!"

"Nah, That must be your mothers car!!"

Just the idea I needed!! Thanks!!

Very true.

I think that many of them should be left standing as a tribute to the struggles that took place all along the Atlantic wall area of France. I suspect that's why many of them are still standing to this day. That and most of them were so strongly built, they'll never collapse . The Greatest Generation is passing away at an ever quickening pace, and its important that following generations can connect tangible places with the history they read about. These battles were REAL. These people were REAL. Not just movies or books.

Our shop area in Schweinfurt was built on an old Luftwaffe airdrome , and they had rubber "skirts" about 5 inches high around the entire perimeter of the unevenly shaped runways. We couldn't figure out what they were for, so we asked some of the older people from the area, and they said that during air raids, they would flood the runways with about 4 inches of water. From 30,000 feet in the air, it looked like a pond or lake. We also found the drains,pumps, and storage tanks for all that water while doing p/m's on some of the base equipment one day. what a mess.....

I hear ya, Nick. I switched over to airbrush to try and save money on paint. Yeah, right...... spread out over auto, military, and maritime subjects, i need to refinance my house just for paint.

Tallboy 10 ton bunker buster bomb under a Lancaster. Yikes!! its just been released.. That'll leave a mark!! I think that ones in France. Not sure which port. Its in pretty good shape though.

Bergen or Trondheim then. Most of the photos i've seen of the inside of any the bunkers was heavily censored, and i've found precious few photo's.

Is Bruno the one in St. Nazaire? Or Brest? I can't remember. Sweet type VII c-40, by the way.

If they doubt your version, just ask them for they're proof your wrong!! LOL!!. I was stationed in southern Germany for 2-1/2 years, and saw what our carpet bombing did to a lot of the older sections of the city(Schweinfurt) There were sections that were all new buildings next to old cobblestone tudor style buildings. It was pretty rough on weekend pass getting to and from post after a few German Lowenbrau's trying to navigate those streets.

I had an idea to do that very dio in 1/144 scale, but good reference material is hard to come by. Most pictures are post- war after we bombed the living dog snot out of those bunkers.

The molding on the parts is much more "crisp" than when Matchbox had the molds. If I remember right, I think the hull halves have the Matchbox stampings ground off. Still a good kit though. I like chasing it around the pond with my 1/72 type IX U-boat!!

It is, but they cleaned up the molds. I built an R/C version of this kit afew years ago.

That cage looks too nice to cover up with paint!!! stunning!!!

A couple slugs of good Kentucky Black label wouldn't hurt either.