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Will any trailers be reissued?

Would prefer unbuilt & complete, glue bomb is ok. Want it mainly for the engine. Thanks. Lee

https://tx3dcustoms.com/collections/engines/volkswagen

IMHO, social media is pretty much a wasteland, but Facebook seems determined to reach the bottom before anyone else. I’m all for freedom of speech. If someone wants to waste free bandwidth, more power to them. But there is no need to put their garbage in everyone’s feed. I was in lots of special interest groups, but the nonstop stream of garbage outweighed the good things. It will free up time for building models. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Ok…the sidewalk. I believe this is available in 1/35. It needs a Hayabusa engine.

I’m not a fan of unboxing, at least with models. The parts may look good, but we don’t know how well…or badly…they fit together.

It’s cool to see a dog’s reaction to seeing snow for the first time. Lady (my Black Lab) was fascinated.

Internet picture, but I got one off eBay last night. Oddball scale, but what a cool bike. I saw one years ago, I believe it was in a German magazine called Streetfighters. It was a custom , long and low, with a Ducati single sided swingarm and the fuel tank was two cylindrical tubes with an angled cut in each end and convex ends. I believe those were purple. I wish I could see that bike again.

I never knew this existed until I saw one at a model contest swap meet…without the sidecar. I bought the bike. If someone can part with the sidecar and related parts, that would also work. Second pic is what I bought. Thanks, Lee

A couple more German WWII planes. Both made by Trimaster in the late ‘80s. A Ta-152H-1; a high altitude version of the V-12 engine FW-190D. It had a longer fuselage and longer wings, among other changes. Also an FW-190A with radial engine. The box art is really good, but the Wine Red nose is incorrect. It was a misinterpretation of a black & white photo, so interesting in that way, but also these kits were really detailed. Sort of ahead of their time. Photoetched parts were included. Some had cast metal parts like landing gear. The company went out of business and some kits were reissued by DML/Dragon. The Ta-152 was also reissued by Italeri. All reissues eliminated the metal parts. I have heard that the Revell TA-154 “Moskito” was from Trimaster molds. Not 100% sure on that. Internet photos.

That’s pretty cool.

I thought this ancient Greek battleship was cool, too. It’s an injection molded kit. I may look for one of these some day.

“An act of mercy” WWI diorama of a French soldier rescuing a German soldier from quicksand in a shell crater. I heard about this on a podcast. It’s based on a photo of a real situation like this.

A couple of really nice 1/24 low riders. Beautiful paint. Cool motorcycle, too.

1/8 scale Big Deuce “Tweety Bird”

1/8 scale Big T with modifications. The blower is from a parts pack. Does anyone know if was front mount in the parts pack, or was it modified for this application?

1/8 scale Monogram Big T

The old Esci/Aurora/a couple of others…1/9 scale German WWII BMW sidecar rig with aftermarket rider, dog, and a few accessories. The whole aftermarket set is called “Ketten Hund” or Chain Dog. The dog is wearing a chain like a necklace, so I guess that’s where the name came from. It’s a very nice resin set.

1/16 Scale Vega funny car

I only got a few photos. The theme for the contest was big scale. I like this sidecar rig. The builder pieced it together from other, unknown kits. I think that is pretty cool. The Protar racing sidecar is pretty cool, too.

I looked in the book I got. There is a project called Entwurf mit BMW 802 and Einsitzer mit BMW 802. No mention of one with BMW P.8011, which would have been a BMW 802 with boost. So the proposed variant with 8011 and contra props may be an imaginary version of another plane that never left the drawing board.

I couldn’t remember, so I did a search. I only saw it called FW Fighter Project with BMW 8011 engine. I know it is in a magazine special issue Called Luftwaffe 1946 or something like that. I have it at home. I’ll check later tonight. Now I’m wondering if it was invented on the internet.

Oh yeah, the XP-55 with the engine in the back. It had a strange name, IIRC.

I’m just looking for a sheet or plate for now. I had one that was roughly 3/4”x 7” x 12”. It was a cutoff from something a metal shop had in stock. I just want to tinker at first. I’m waiting to hear back from an eBay seller on combining shipping for two jeweler’s repousse hammers

I just looked up what he used. It was a chunk of cast iron from a scrap yard. I think that would be hard to find, at least around here. Years ago I bought a piece of what I remembered as cold rolled steel. It was about 3/4” thick, but apparently CRS is not available that thick. So what would be good to use for hammering brass and copper? Thanks, Lee