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You don't know how true that is, Mark.

Nope ! Going to build it pretty much OOB. Not familiar with that book or author .

The Army had a program called "the Science and Egineering Program" which scooped up most draftees who had a degree in Science or Engineering and assigned them to slots at one of the Army's research facilities. That is how I wound up there. Just sheer luck !

Nice model ! Years ago there was an automotive junk yard I drove past on my way to work. One day I went by and there was a mint Phantom and Silver Cloud parked in front of his garages. Weeks later I stopped in to purchase a pair of wheel rims so I could permanently mount snow tires, instead of mounting/dismounting them from the rims every winter/spring. Iasked him about the cars and he took me around to the side garage to view them. Mint condition and driveable, impressive cars.

I am thinking of leaving to rag top off or folded down.

That is my take also, Ken. Thanks for the link.

I don't know, Yves. The documentation is rather sparse - again the picture books type. Not much prose. Nicely molded tho, no flash, and sharp details.

For my next non-ship build I am going to build this 1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom II 1:24 scale kit by Italeri. All the parts came in pre-colored sprues to match the box art. I plan to paint some parts and Clear Gloss coat others rather than try to match the colors. The bright yellow sides I will Clear Coat with a Gloss. The fenders, hood and some other parts will be painted with a Gloss Aluminum (Tamyia). The engine and other parts will be painted black. The roof, boot, seats, and interior door panels are molded in a strange orange/brown color. I will probably re-paint them, haven't decided tho. Here's the box and contents photos.

I remember my Dad sitting at the dining room table back in the 1950s building HO scale rolling stock from Athern kits. I remember him putting the tiny springs in the trucks. There weren't a lot of ready to run HO scale cars back then, mostly engines, but no cars. I still have his Athern heavy railroad wrecking crane with all its moving parts, it is all heavy cast metal. His brother had the largest collection of HO scale boxcars and cabooses I ever saw as a kid. He had them on shelves on the walls of one bedroom, filled two walls. Never built a layout tho. Dad built several layouts, Lionel O scale, then American Flyer S scale, then HO scale. He skipped the TT scale tho. I got the modeling bug from him and his brother, my uncle.

No, it was, in our case anyway, more a matter of pay. Remember back in 1965-1967 an E1 in boot camp made about $90 a month, after boot camp they promoted you to E2 and raised your pay to $96 a month. We had a Sergeant Major (SMAJ) who tried to get us promoted as fast as possible for the pay. For an E5 with less than 2 years service the pay was $211 a month, and we did not have a Mess Hall, Commissary, or any of those other amenities of the big bases, just an NCO club for meals or the Arsenal's civilian cafeteria and the cafeteria was only breakfast and lunch at economy prices, dinner was only available at the NCO Club with deeply discounted military prices; otherwise it was off post and economy prices. Because we had no Mess Hall, we did get a "food allowance" of $1.50 per day added to our base pay, except when we went on leave, then we did not get the food allowance while on leave... . Of course that did not cover much. All enlisted ranks were members of the arsenal NCO club with only E4 and above allowed to vote or hold office, because it was only place single enlisted could eat on post. We had less than 250 enlisted in ranks E3 to E5, and most if not all were College grads with a Bachelors degree in Science or Engineering; I know 50 of them held a Masters degree also. The Officers were mostly ROTC, with similar degrees and in the rank of Captain or 1st Louie. Our detachment commander, rank of Captain, held a PhD in Physics, they assigned him to the slot until his Clearance came thru, then he was reassigned to one of the Research depts. The Arsenal commander was a full bird Colonel with 2 Masters degrees in Engineering; the Major General who commanded our higher command, which resided on the Arsenal, held a Masters degree also. The civilian employees outnumbered the military by about 3 or 4 to 1 back then. Of course we could get gasoline on post at the motor pool for about 10 cents a gallon, off post it was somewhere around 25 or 30 cents a gallon. So we tanked up on post. The Arsenal is still in operation today. Altho the mission has changed. BTW - we often referred to ourselves as F Troop after the TV show that was popular back then; used to get the Sergeant Major a tad upset with us tho.

Actually I made E5 in 15 months from date of service entry, shortest time allowed. I was E4 for about 4-5 months before being promoted to E5. Entered service as E1. I was only on active duty for 24 months.

I guess I would be considered ancient of days then since I was 24 when I got drafted.

My niece after graduating college with a Marine Biology degree got a job with the Alaska Fisheries dept. Her job was to go out with those fishing boats and monitor the catch, collecting data for fisheries dept. After a few years she came back to the lower 48, got her Masters degree, applied for a job teaching Science at a local high school. During the job interview the Principal asked if she could handle a bunch of teenage boys; she replied that the fisherman of the "deadliest catch" had been her "drinking buddies" and felt she could handle a bunch of teenage boys. The Prinicpal hired her on the spot. Welcome aboard, Bob

Us too, John.

Towels ???? Are we back in the kitchen now ?

Oh man has this topic ever taken a GPS detour thru the hinter lands. Or is this a new episode of Comedy Central ?

Guess that depends on the day of the week !

Yea, it is like the GPS in my car. Wanders all over the countryside taking me from point A to point B. I refer to it as "taking the scenic route", altho there have been a few times where it took me full circle back to point A. In Boy Scouts, back in the dark ages, we were told to use clean dirt or sand, put it in the cast iron to soak up the grease, then use a clean rag to scour the pan clean of sand/ grease.

Good one, Jud !

I can't eat tomatoes either, but do like spaghetti sauce and ketchup which are made from tomatoes. Just can't eat the fruit raw or stewed. I wash my cast iron also in soap and water, no rust, no bad taste either. Go figure !

All I can say Michael is WOW !

Cornbread is a Native American quick bread made from cornmeal. See Cornbread

See this Post. The bolt rope goes along the entire edge of the sail.

Does that include the iron as a dietary supplement ? ☺️

I just use a hand stitch with needle and thread. I stick the needle thru the rope going between one strand, then into the sail, loop around bottom edge of sail and back up thru the rope.