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13 hours ago, popeye the sailor said:

gotta get me a plane like that!

Yea, it is a very good miniature plane. I have their entire collection. I just saw in their Christmas catalog that they introduced a Miniature bench vise to their collection. Very very tempted to add on to mine, should be pretty easy to adapt to miniature boat building. 

Hi Spinach Man, welcome to the party.  Don't sound crazy to me. I don't get out much either these days, been bouncing off walls. Can't wait for snow and ice to arrive, if it arrives at all this year. I figure a outdoor space with a volume of 40-60 cubic miles and a constant wind of 5 -20 mph should be sufficient to dilute the plague. 😉   

The red on ours is a skin that peels off but is eatable...  the nut is round but looks just like peanuts in color

I just restocked at grocery store tonight $2.99 USD for 354 gram, 12.5 oz,  can.   Yours seem very pricey. Wonder if they are same nut.  Anyway you could substitute regular peanuts for your sundae 😉

@Edwardkenway  just curious, but is this brand of peanuts available in UK ?

4 hours ago, lmagna said:

Sounds like late night snack time to me.

Bon appetite! 

Me too on the honey roasted peanuts, also salted cashews.

Try a Mexican Sundae,  2 or more scoops of vanilla ice cream, pour either Hersey's chocolate syrup or Hot Fudge syrup over ice cream, sprinkle generous amount of Planters Redskin Spanish peanuts over the combination, and enjoy.  In some areas it is called a Tin Roof Sundae, origin of name(s) and dish is steeped in mystery. Where I grew up in Western New York, it was always called a Mexican Sundae and was always made with Redskin Spanish peanuts.  Other variations exist.  

4 hours ago, Edwardkenway said:

Are you sticking with the walnut planking or using a substitute?

Yes. The kit supplies a generous amount of 0.5 mm x 5 mm strips of walnut and a cream colored wood veneer for a "white/cream" band at the wales. 

20 minutes ago, lmagna said:

am a Peanut Brittle fan

Me too ! Ditto the salted peanuts, especially the Redskin Spanish peanuts ( great over chocolate syrup or hot fudge over vanilla ice cream).  

The 2nd planking is a 0.5 mm thick walnut veneer, typical of AL kits.  No hear bending needed. 

Well I finished planking the other side of the hull. Now the first planking is done. 

I guess it came out okay. Not too many errors visible.  Planking is not my strong suit.

12 minutes ago, knightyo said:

Anyone know how to lose around 50 lbs and have a washboard stomach in time for summer after the age of 50?  Asking for a friend). 

When you find the answer please share ! Been trying to find out since I turned 55 (years that is)😉

10 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

I failed moderation class........

Me too ! 

5 hours ago, Edwardkenway said:

Nice work Jack!

It looks suspiciously like it's from above, hmmm popcorn, Lou in the rafters,  just sayin'

Yes, Lou does like to lay in his hammock with his munchies. Must have spilled a few kernals. 😀 

Finished planking the one side and started planking the other side now.

Looks like someone has been making late night raids on Mark's Popcorn Machine !  Lou, are you raiding the popcorn stash again ?

Happy Thanksgiving !  And as my Admiral always says "get stuffed" 😉

No! That comes at the end and is followed by "Sherlock" ! 😁😁😁😁

Hmm! I see by the duty roster that Lou has KP duty now.  Oh Lou ! How about rustling up some grub for this crew. Maybe some of those Dungeness Crabs you guys are so famous for. I hear they are better tasting than Maryland Blue Crabs, which I get every time I visit my daughter in Maryland.   

No, antelope is very sweet tasting. I have had  venison but did not care for it much.  My sister in Colorado used to make Bison burgers, one of her boys had a severe food allergy and could only eat game meat. Which she was able to get with a special permit  through the Fish and Game dept for cost of packaging. 

This was some 40 years ago, so my memory is a tad vague. 

I've had Bison, Elk and Antelope but never any wild birds. Antelope grilled is super tasty. 

The mute swan (Cygnus olor) is a species of swan and a member of the waterfowl family Anatidae. It is native to much of Eurosiberia, and (as a rare winter visitor) the far north of Africa. It is an introduced species in North America – home to the largest populations outside of its native range – with additional smaller introductions in Australasia and southern Africa. The name 'mute' derives from it being less vocal than other swan species.[2][3][4] Measuring 125 to 170 cm (49 to 67 in) in length, this large swan is wholly white in plumage with an orange beak bordered with black. It is recognisable by its pronounced knob atop the beak, which is larger in males.

The trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) is a species of swan found in North America. The heaviest living bird native to North America, it is also the largest extant species of waterfowl, with a wingspan of 185 to 250 cm (6 ft 2 in to 8 ft 2 in).[2] It is the American counterpart and a close relative of the whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) of Eurasia, and even has been considered the same species by some authorities.[3] By 1933, fewer than 70 wild trumpeters were known to exist, and extinction seemed imminent, until aerial surveys discovered a Pacific population of several thousand trumpeters around Alaska's Copper River.[4] Careful reintroductions by wildlife agencies and the Trumpeter Swan Society gradually restored the North American wild population to over 46,000 birds by 2010.

Those pheasants look like different species from the pictures.   Our mute swans are now considered "invasive",  even tho they are beautiful looking birds up close. 

8 minutes ago, Edwardkenway said:

dinner gets served, ate

If you can call Duck and/or Goose dinner 😝  Chicken and Turkey okay but not together. Don't know about Pheasent. Are English and American breeds the same?  Like the mute swans that the "landed gentree" imported from England and Europe to grace the ponds of their estates, and which drove the American swans out, at least in Hudson Valley anyway. A few years back I counted 75 of those swans wintering in the cove by our lighthouse. 

From Wiki

Turducken is a dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey. Outside of the United States and Canada, it is known as a three bird roast.^{[citation needed]} Gooducken is a traditional English variant,^[1] replacing turkey with goose.

30 lb. roasted turducken

Sausage-stuffed turducken cut into quarters to show the internal layers

The word turducken is a portmanteau of turkey, duck, and chicken. The dish is a form of engastration, which is a recipe method in which one animal is stuffed inside the gastric passage of another; twofold in this instance.^[2]

The thoracic cavity of the chicken/game hen and the rest of the gaps are stuffed, sometimes with a highly seasoned breadcrumb mixture or sausage meat, although some versions have a different stuffing for each bird. The result is a fairly solid layered poultry dish, suitable for cooking by braising, roasting, grilling, or barbecuing.^[3]

The turducken was popularized in America by John Madden, who evangelized about the unusual dish during NFL Thanksgiving Day games and, later, Monday Night Football broadcasts.^[4] On one occasion, the commentator sawed through a turducken with his bare hand, live in the booth, to demonstrate the turducken's contents.^[5]

Duck duck Goose !  Oh YUCK ! 

No, more like they wanted y'all "stone cold sober" and not hung over around all that heavy artillary you were packing! 😃😃😃😃

17 minutes ago, Roger Pellett said:

As a child growing up, I had an erector set

Me too, Roger. Still have in the original red metal box. Pretty beat up but still there

I took down my layout when my youngest child, son, needed the space to setup his US 1Trucking (brand name) slot car/truck layout, HO scale as I recall. My layout was only partly started then, 3rd attempt. I repurposed hiss table for my shipyard workbench.  I used the old L-girder construction which is easily modifiable. It is incredibly strong.

I inherited Dad's more classic/collectible engines and passenger cars, few freight and a monstrously heavy wrecker crane all cast metal, plus some odd pieces of track. The Rapido track and switches were unigue in design, still have them.

So yes I could rebuild an N scale layout, if I ever quit building ships, cars and planes. 😉😉😉😉

Starting new with your grandson would be fun. Dad always enjoyed "running the trains" for his grand children, one grandson took up the hobby and now his son is enjoying his trains, mostly Great-grandpa's trains. 

BTW Dad started with Lionel O, sold that when American Flyer introduced S-scale and went into S-scale. He skipped TT-scale, sold the S-scale and went into HO.  I got the bug from him 

1 hour ago, Egilman said:

old standby is plaster gauze & chicken wire

My Dad and I used cardboard strips stapled together to form a matrix then newspaper strips dipped in very watery plaster mix. Toe max hills it was also wadded up newspaper with the plaster strips over it.