Bonehammer73

You're lucky, I'm building one wheels up... PM me with your address.

Many thanks for asking, Horrido. I live near the border with Slovenia, far enough that I didn't even wake up. As luck would have it, I was doing work in the area (NdT in a waste incinerator) and came home a day before the quake... but the hotel where I was staying is still standing, I heard.

Any song that changEs the positiOn of the accEnt in a word in ordEr to rhyme with some othEr word that it normAlly dOesn't.

For some national flavor, have some good Italian songs. Caruso by Lucio Dalla Normandia by Fiorella Mannoia (about the D-Day)

I feel like I brought this one into existence as four months ago I secured one of the elusive POMK Tu-2s on eBay... at a ridiculous price of course. Well, $25 more are not going to hurt. Just a pity that it's the same version as the POMK kit (three blade prop, bulges on cowlings). Don't know about accuracy as the pictures are "stretched", but the Chinese model DOES look good.

The Hunavia site has a comprehensive walkaround of the cockpit but with the seat in place. However, some details can be glimpsed such as in this picture.

"Get out of the RAM, Neo boy - I was ththththere first!"

The username is a loose translation of my family name, the avatar is the graphical rendition of said username. Actually the hammers are martels, i.e. medieval weapons, rather than hammers i.e. working tools.

I clip them with regular scissor, then trim with a sharp blade. Usually I make a nick on the "far" side first, then change side and cut all the way through. This way I have more control (less blade slippage and finger-slicing) and there is no risk of the plastic getting torn - this used to happen especially with Tamiya plastic.

AFAIK all the AMTech plastic has the Allison nose. So, kit minus the resin nose equals to a P-40E, or late -K to M if it has a long tail; source the appropriate decals and Bob's your uncle.

Cool! It's nice to see the government putting some thought to the conservation of recent history. With that in mind, I see your Lanc, and raise you a submarine: considering the effect that military relics have on some people (some of which are politicians), the fact that the transport happened at all is a miracle in itself, and the technical details that had to be overcome are minor in comparison.

I have the Swiss decals from the Revell kit, sitting somewhere. Should I go looking for them?

It's nice to see maturity and level-headedness prevail for once. <_< From the trunk the plank is cut, my grandfather used to say.

Well given the panic-mongering that was going on one or two years ago about how the bees were going to die out and famines would follow (even picking quotes from the late Albert einstein along the line of "If bees go extinct, humanity will follow in three years"), I can see how one would at least try and see if it's doable. Didn't Asimov replace bees with microbots at some point? After all robots had been dismantled and only a couple of them preserved?

Hi, Floggerman! Great job on the La-9. I think another purchase is worth the expense if the final result is to the same standard...

Thanks for looking, Tim. Zagar - PM sent.

They're not WWII (apart from the Gladiator) but the Inpact range is worth mentioning. Other than the Gladiator they had a Bulldog, Flycatcher, Fury, Boxkite, Avro Triplane and some others. The molds were subsequently reissued by LifeLike, Pyro and the last and current owner is Lindberg. I've read that the best decals were those in the LifeLike boxings. The Artiplast 1/48-1/50 molds (reissued by SMER) are generally accurate and depict rare subjects but they're not exactly easy. On the other hand, some vendors will literally toss them at you.

Hello everyone, I'm building a Heller Amiot 143 that I got for free. It has no interior - but I saw to that - and no engines. Does anyone have a couple of 7-cylinder radials that would fill the gaping void inside the cowlings? Thanks in advance. Please LMK if you're after something yourself.

A woman marries a man thinking he'll change. No he won't. A man marries a woman thinking she'll stay the same. She won't either. She does sound bossy, OTOH I'm hearing only your half of the issue, and you could do worse than quit those two - think of the health and economic advantages. The hubby had promised and indeed quit smoking after we moved in together, he said it was rather easy since he wasn't as stressed as in the house with his old, frail, depressed mother. Things are not going to work out or not because of "me", or "her". It's the mutual interaction that makes or breaks a relatio

Oh, I can see at least two movies come out of this: an Italian subdued thing with Diego Abatantuono as the bumbling captain and an unrelated Hollywood blockbuster in which "Get back on board, dammit!" is said by Ed Harris.

I'm following the comments to news in a national paper (I have a morbid, masochistic interest for the national attitude) and unbelievably some of the people are defending the captain versus the Coast Guard officer who's accused (mix'n'matching multiple posts) of being "coarse, venting out his own hysteria against the poor captain who was afloat in the dark while the officer was safe and warm in his armchair". Because "even the captain is just a man" and "he's going to be the scapegoat when in truth there are shared responsibilities"... basically there's much shooting of the mouths with no basi

952 feet length, 116 feet beam, 114,500 ton girth cruise liner. Not many of them around, and if all others are accounted for...

Probably the imponderable psychological factor will weigh in whether the ship will be salvaged or not. From small talking in the office I've heard that the initial cost of construction is paid off in 5 years or so, although the economical landscape has changed since. One of the last cruise ships to be launched had a problem with the electrical services on board that was only detected during the sea trials and required changing all the wires - miles of it. And in the process damage and reapir all the upholstery. But it was done, of course. So the problem is not whether it costs more to scrap he

I'm not sure I understand... Mossies couldn't be NMF as the frame was wooden, as were parts of the Vampire. HSS is the finish I had in mind and Meatbox had it too, at least for part of their service life, even if they were metal frames.

When he was young (we're talking 1940-something in Italy), my father, his bigger brother and some friends went to steal at the "general markets", the vegetable & fruit warehouse. My father was hauled through a broken window as he was the smaller one, with instructions to fill his pockets - in pitch darkness - and get back. After a narrow escape from the night warden, they all gathered, breathless, under a lamppost to divide the spoils. So my father turns his pockets and reveals a pound of ... ...potatoes.