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  1. Jack12477
    Well I finally got around to repainting the entire shell with base green, then the camo pattern. I decided on the desert sand color over the read earth shown in the kit. Now to let the paint throughly cure before I decal it. I need some more practice with airbrush especially with the Vallejo paints.
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    I find their miniature block plane and edge plane very useful for that. You might want to consider using their mini work top as a starting point since it is already predrilled for their bench dogs and hold downs.
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    Hi Gary, yes I have their miniature bench vise but the bench vise is the only thing I have not used yet. I also bought their miniature work top with accessories and have been using it. I'm still debating how and to what I want to mount the bench vise. I've been mulling over in my head whether I want to add legs to the mini work top and mount the vise underneath it or keep the current one unchanged, it works nicely on workbench as is, and buy a 2nd mini worktop to modify for the vise. As it stands there is not enough clearance to add the vise without adding legs. My other consideration is to build a small table like the one shown in the Lee Valley video of the two guys using their miniature tools to make a tooth pick 😳 😅 Right now RL is getting in the way. My Veritas miniature work top. Lee Valley video screenshot with bench vise
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    Arrived today
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    Have you looked at the car market lately. You can buy a 5 year old car with over 100,000 mile with no warranty for $28,000 or a brand new 2023 car with 0 miles with 36 months/36,000 mile bumper to bumper warranty for $34,000. Just one example.
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    I'm in 🍺🌭🍟
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    Nice ! Great job on both model and display stand. 👏 Looks like a Lafayette Escadrille airfield
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    Looks great !
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    I'm 4 weeks post cataract surgery in both eyes, I'm 81. Medicare won't pay for surgery until the corrected vision is 20/50 and will only cover single vision distance correction, no bifocals, or astigmatism correction. I'm both nearsighted and have astigmatism in both eyes. My left eye finally met the criteria but the right eye didn’t, but once the left eye was done it created a huge imbalance in my vision which then made my right eye eligible for Medicare coverage to correct the imbalance caused by surgery. ( Love those government bureaucrats! ) As a kid I always wore sunglasses because my eyes were hypersensitive to bright sunlight. But Dan is right it's genetic, age related and UV exposure. Now I can pass the DMV Vision Test and drive without glasses but can't see (clearly) the food on my dinner plate. 😒 Once both eyes have completely healed the doctor will prescribe reading glasses. In the meantime they gave me a pair of dime store cheaters, 2.50 diopters, for reading. Chris, I'm told that will make nearsightedness worse.
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    I may have but don’t recall it at moment, but I do remember what Father Schiffer himself said about its morality. BTW Craig, I was educated by Jesuits
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    In 1963/1964, shortly after I graduated from College, I had the privilege of meeting Father Hubert Schiffer S.J. one of 8 German Jesuit missionaries who survived the two atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. He was a dinner guest of my parents. Father Schiffer was 8 blocks from Ground Zero in Hiroshima. His description of what he experienced and saw on that day curled the hairs on my neck and made my blood run cold. The news clipping and photo below, from the Internet, show him and the pilot and his parish church amid the destruction. Miraculously he suffered no radiation and only minor injuries, as did his fellow Jesuits.
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    My first dog was also a Shepherd Collie at around same age as you. Lived to be 16. My last 4 dogs were Pembroke Welsh Corgis (3 at one time).
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    Looks like the Chancellor of Exchequer must be consulted. 😉😉😉😊
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    Just got the Lee Valley Christmas Catalog in today's mail and Wow they've added another miniature tool set to the excellent line of functional miniature tools. Thought you all might like a look-see! I already know what's on my Christmas List. 😁😁😁😁😁😇 BTW I have their entire miniature collection and use them frequently and not just for model work. Lee Valley 2022 Christmas Catalog Shooting Board $25.50 Right hand shooting plane $79.50 ( both for $89.00)
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    Nice model ! Nice photography also !
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    Yea! My kids keep asking me if George Washington was President the year I was born ! 😉😉😉
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    Yes it is for siphon tube airbrushes.
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    I hope the Finance Minister approves all this Military Spending 😁😁😁😁😇
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    Have you looked at Badger's In bottle filter I've used on for years
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    It's simple ! Get a 15x15 piece of 1/2 inch plywood, coat it with Gesso, before that dries sift some backyard dirt over the whole surface. Let dry! (Use the finest mesh kitchen shifter/strainer you can find. Lay the Gesso on rather thick). Then lay the matt on to that base.
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    Actually I didn't! I started out building model HO scale train car kits with my Dad when I was 10 or 11, got my first 35mm Kodak camera in 8th grade. After that it was both modeling and photography.
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    I guess when they did my cataract surgery they sucked a few extra brain cells along with the cataract debris. 😉🤔 I was thinking I could avoid taping all the windows by not installing them till later. But I realized they are installed in their own frames which are then installed in the door frames. So matching the camo patterns across the frames would be a bear. So after coating the clear plastic windows, headlamps, in two coats of Pledge, I glued them into their frames using Gator's Grip Acrylic Hobby Glue, then glued the frames into the doors and windshield, glued the doors, except driver's door, into place (driver's door got taped in place from inside because the drivers right arm has to be glue to his body after the top is glue to chassis.) Then came the tedious task of taping all the windows, headlights, tail lights et al. Results look like this I think I will re-spray the green coat since it got a little mucked up in the process, then spray the camo coats. And this time I will try the Vallejo Model Air paints. Question for all you users of the Tamiya stands shown above: how do you keep them so new looking while spray painting? 🤔 Do you have two stands, one for spray painting and one for decaling etc? Sorry for the fuzziness in photos, the cellphone camera doesn't focus close and neither do my eyes at the moment. 😁😆
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    Growing up as a wee lad post WWII, we had a neighbor across the street from us who had flown with the Lafayette Escadrille. I remember him telling Dad about their flight instructions/training. Basically classroom instructions using those airplanes on a stick, then out to the airfield for some static instruction on controls, then you took off solo, flew around then landed. If you landed with both you and the plane in one piece, they pinned your wings on and pronounced you an aviator/pilot. And yes he did talk about the castor oil and the post flight (sometimes in-flight) oopsies. I heard the same comments from Cole Palen, founder of the Olde Rhinebeck Aerodrome here, and got a whiff of the castor oil from his planes.
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    I'm in

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