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A hit! I'd like to see that on the final box art.

Stubb's sauces and marinades are fan-freaking-tastic! They make even the cheapest cut of meat taste great. Get a large red onion, cut it open and scrub it on the grill when you're finished cooking. It will clean off any and all burnt on food residue.

Thank you for your comments, Carl. I could understand not being interested in military models. Armored vehicles aren't what you would consider as sexy and sleek like a Ferrari. Nowhere as fast, either. I enjoy building them because they present a mother lode of opportunities for scratchbuilding extra details and modifications for specific, historically documented vehicles and equipment of all types. Also, they provide a canvas on which one can improvise and improve one's painting and weathering skills. Total time spent on the Bradley was 152 hours, spread over three months. Painting and weathering required more than 1/3 of that time. I enjoy researching the mechanical aspects of AFV's and apply what I learned. These are photos of the Gunner's position in a Trumpeter 1/16 King Tiger. The entire turret basket and floor sections, including the traversing gear housing/elevation mechanism are scratchbuilt from brass. The gunner's traversing foot plate is fully functional, including the lock. With the exception of the hand traverse wheel and shaft, which are kit parts, everything seen in the following pictures was made from brass. The lever on the right is the traversing control. Every part connected to it is fully functional and connects to the Power Take Off motor via the small link rod seen in the first photo. This is a German TFZ 9c tank gun sight. I decided to scratchbuild a fully articulating one for the Trumpeter 1/16 King Tiger: This is the 8.8 cm KwK 43/L71 main gun. All of the molded-on bolt details ere removed and replaced with 0.3 and 0.5 mm brass hex bolt. The recoil buffer at the top contain spring loaded steel rods, replacing the plastic kit parts; so, now it recoils in the same manner as the actual mechanism. all of the stenciling on the recoil buffers and side plate were hand drawn using a .13 mm technical pen. I do take my scratchbuilding seriously.

Still available. Actually, it's a '54 Mercury Sun Valley: http://www.resinrealm.net/Star/STAR Models/54_Mercury_Sun_Valley.html The owner of Resin Model Ranch purchased all of the R&R Resin masters and is planning to recast them all.

I like them just because they're Mopars. I have the Dodge Dart 440 4 DR and Plymouth Fury HT.

And, Stalin studied to be a priest.

Thanks, guys. I appreciate your comments.

If you ever watched "Apocalypse Now", you would have seen two of the most iconic helicopters of the Vietnam War, the UH-1D Iroquois and the OH-6A Cayuse. This is probably the greatest movie scene ever filmed:

Wow! Absolutely stunning!

I just finished this. It's a Meng M2A3 Bradley w/BUSK III. Meng did a superb job with this kit. It has a fully detailed turret, driver and crew compartment, detailed engine compartment and individual workable suspension and track links. I built it OOB, with the exception of adding anti-reflection coatings on the thermal sight/commander's CITV and the various periscopes. AFV Cub's AC35017 Anti-Reflection Stickers for M1A1 AIM/M1A2 SEP were adapted for use on the Bradley. The model was painted with an overall coat of MM 4720 Acryl Sand FS33531. The interior was painted using Krylon ColorMaster Satin Pistachio Color/Primer, which is a dead-on match for FS 24533 Seafoam Green. Weathering was applied using Vallejo Model Color acrylics applied with Q-Tips, cosmetic applicators and misted on with an airbrush for a dust coat. Using Q-Tips dampened with water and 91% IPA, the weathering colors were blended and then wiped with a lint-free cloth. It was an enjoyable project; and, I'm definetely going to get a couple more. This kit is that good. Thanks for looking in.

That house will become a money pit, spending good money after bad, if you do piecemeal repairs. It will be less expensive, in the long run, to perform all necessary repairs at the same time. My ex-girlfriend's family attempted to go the cheap route when renovating a 6/5 wood frame house constructed in 1910. Many of the same issues which you are encountering. They thought that they would save money. Wrong answer. They paid through the nose because they didn't get the wiring and plumbing replaced/repaired when they had the plaster/laths replaced with sheet rock.

Iggy was no worse than a large number of musicians past and present. Keith Richards should have been dead 40+ years ago.

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I'm old. I saw all those groups.

What, I gotta look that up too?

There's this from Hasegawa No fuss, no muss, no mess.

The older guys in the neighborhood turned us on to The Stooges, Nugent, MC5, New York Dolls, Roky Erickson, etc. I saw Iggy and The Stooges at Max's Kansas City in July 1973 with my friends. This was Scott Thurston's first gig with the group. Nobody ever got carded back then.

Rhymes with "luck".

Factory fresh FNG privates would be sent to find a box of grid squares. Grid squares are found on topographical maps and are used to determine location. My pal Eric Rex and I just got to our new unit and were wise to this gag. So, just in case this gag was pulled on either of us, we cut up a topo map into individual grid squares and put them in a box with a B.S. pseudo-military-speak label. Rex's Platoon Sergeant sent him on this fool's errand a few days later. Five minutes later, Rex walked into his office in the company orderly room and put the box on SFC Clay's desk. Clay asked him "What's this?" Rex told him it was the item he wanted. Clay looked at the box, opened it and dumped the contents on his desk. "What the hell are these?!?" "Grid squares. I got the last box from Battalion S-4." Our First Sergeant thought that was "pretty slick". Regrouping himself after busting a gut from laughing so hard, he gave us both two days extra duty for being smartasses. Rex told him it was my idea.

Nice! Love them land yachts!

Thanks, Dave. Actually, they were trades. I sent the other guy four Fujimi and Aoshima supercar kits I never had any plans for. The Johans aren't mint; so, it was pretty much an even deal.

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Whoa! Where have you been, in the witness Protection Program?

Nothing special, just a couple more Johan Mopars. They should arrive Monday or Tuesday. Two Dart HT's Two Fury HT's A Fury convertible and a Dart convertible With these, and the other Darts/Furys I have in the stash, I have enough to open a dealership.

Another great film about that scene was "Urgh! a Music War". One of my favorite bands, The Fleshtones, was in the film: The band live in my neighborhood of Greenpoint and even wrote a song about the hipster invasion there.