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My wife bought my new best buddy a Valentines Day sweater yesterday. He’s five months old now, a mix between a King Charles Spaniel and Poodle. So much life, energy, and personality. Smart little buggar, too. My grandson bought his little sister and my daughter a bouquet of flowers before we all went out for a fabulous Valentines Day dinner. Dinner was fabulous.

Once the details have been painted inside the cab and all the instrument decals placed, it is cemented in place inside the cab. Next the window seal and placard decals are applied to all the glass, then those pieces are cemented into place. The window seal decals were very fiddly and quite easy to break apart being very thin. In hindsight, careful masking and painting of the extensive rubber seals would have been perhaps a better option. I doubt there are aftermarket paint masks available but if there were, I would buy and use them if doing this again. All the fit was good except for a little fitting issues with a couple glass pieces.

I took some photos of this massive shore battery that’s been on display here in my hometown all my life. If I remember correctly, it’s an 8 inch gun. The sheer size and weight of these old guns is incredible.

After laying down some of the primary colors, the cab is dry fitted before adding more details.

Construction begins with the operator office and cab. After sub component assembly, everything gets a coat of black primer to begin.

Add a little armor for the operator and this thing could be an urban combat nightmare. 😁

Scrapyard scene, cutting up old equipment for scrap. Or...a disaster scene, clearing construction debris. I'd guess there are a lot of things you could do with it, but for now, I'll be satisfied just building, detailing, and weathering it.

Well dang, it seems that this machine is used to cut apart even heavy equipment as can be seen in this promotional photo. Being a high-powered robot fighting weapon may not be too far-fetched after all. Double-Front Work Machine - Hitachi Construction Machinery (hitachicm.com)

I've never seen one of these in real world usage, but it looks like a forestry tool, maybe for harvesting timber, although machines I have seen utilize a circular blade for cutting the trees vice the type of cutter this machine employs. It does look like a mean alien extermination tool. 😄 Spruebrothers have "lightning sale items" and this is where I scored this kit for a favorable price. I've seen a few more heavy equipment kits in this series from Hasegawa and I was interested to see how well it was done. Looks pretty darned good inside the box. Detail is excellent. Having been in and around heavy construction most of my life, I recall when heavy equipment from the East were the brunt of many jokes, but that is no longer the case.

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Looking forward!

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On this guy's YouTube channel, he creates movie props/sci-fi models using dollar-store items. He builds some interesting models for small money.

The nice thing about the Flory wash, if you don’t like the way it looks after you’ve applied it, you can wash it away with water and start all over again. Very forgiving whereas most washes are somewhat permanent. Trying to remove them will damage the paint underneath. Flory doesn’t do that.

A gloss varnish, decals, seal the decals with another gloss varnish, then a liberal covering of Flory Models dark dirt wash. Almost done now.

Man, that is fun to see. So many details to capture the imagination. Great model/diorama Greg.

Will add a gloss varnish, then do some decals and weathering before calling this finished.

What's the history of that castle, OC. The name of it?

Have you ever read the story about the Coral Castle and its mysterious builder? It's one of those things that makes you scratch your head, that's for sure. Coral Castle Museum

Wow, what a great looking model Alan. You know, the more I think about it, you may be revealing something about the mystery of how the great pyramids and other ancient world wonders were constructed...by a yet unidentified gigantic scale modeler from the ancient past. You are handling those huge stones with ease. 🙂

Great looking Fokker, Denis

I've been having a few small issues with my PC lately. I built this PC rig somewhere around 8 or 10 years ago and used quality components throughout and it has served me well. Processor, motherboard, and RAM have held up well. Along the way I relaced the power supply and upgraded my video card, the video card only a year and a half ago. I decided to buy a new upgraded motherboard, processor, RAM, additional 2TB SSD, power supply and new RAM as the old was the previous generation DDR3 variety while things have moved to DDR4 today. On Monday all my new parts had arrived, so I tore down the old and began assembling the new. After a few hours when it was all together, I tried to fire it up and nothing happened. I tried everything I knew to try and could not sort it out. Yesterday I decided it was time to take it all to a professional, and boy am I glad I did. Turns out that an old peripheral device, a card-reader, an interface that allows you to plug in and read SD cards, USB memory sticks and the like, had shorted out and burned out the new power supply. Next time I'll save myself some aggravation and take it to a pro right off the bat. He really did a great job with the wire routing/cable management, and trouble shooting. I probably would not have diagnosed it myself in a month of Sundays. Man, this thing is fast and smooth as silk now. I'm getting upload and download speeds of better than 500MBPS. Before the upgrade I was chugging along around 90MBPS which isn't terrible but much lower speed than the fiber optic provider standard.

Sure, I'll make a copy and post them here.

Oh yeah! I forgot about that trick.