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  1. 1 hour ago, SBARC said:

     

    I've been a car nut since the age of 2 when I could hold my first car....according to my Mom.  At 16 I bought an MG Midget and the constant repairs quickly stripped me of any cash and forced me to learn how to fix cars.  I've done pretty well everything...self taught...learn as I go.  I must say the internet is a fantastic resource I wish I had when I was learning.  In hindsight I should have become a mechanic.  I plan to get into restoring my cars in the next few years as I drift into retirement.

     

    I understand that! My dad is on his third MG. First a TD, then an A and currently his '66 B that he's had since 1975. He recently just got done restoring it. My brother bought a '71 B in high school and when it came time to get me a car my dad was adamant that I wasn't getting a project car. Although we came close to getting a BGT. Maybe someday!

  2. Woohoo! Glad to be back. I spent most my time over at RPF, learning about how to do mods and getting inspiration on my Hasbro Millennium Falcon. 

     

    I almost started building a ding a model while ARC was down, but finding an estate sale full of models cured me of that. 

     

    Thanks Steve for all your hard work!

  3. Thought I'd share this in this thread as it's somewhat relevant, and would get more appreciative views than elsewhere. I posted in the other hobbies thread that I collect autographs. The most recent one I got is from Peter Armitage. He was Senior Flight Test Engineer on the Avro Arrow and one of the guys snatched up by NASA when Avro Canada shuttered. One of the many hats he wore during his NASA career (1959-1986) was program manager for the LLTV to get it back on track. His interview is posted on NASA oral history page if anyone wants to read it. It's pretty amazing!

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  4. Fantastic! I've been a member there for 6 years now but have been visiting it for at least 20 years. I first remember going there in Boy Scouts in 1995 when the lobby was being built around the Blackbird.

    I've had great experiences with Jim and Shannon getting access to collections for research and Chris Orwall before.

    No matter where I might be living, the Cosmosphere will always have be a special place for me

  5. Last night I was able to attend a very special event at the Kansas Cosmosphere. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Gemini X mission, astronaut Michael Collins made his first trip to the museum. The Cosmosphere has really cracked down on recent events about no autographs and no pictures...which is a whole other story.

    They did have an event photograph and will have the pictures available on their website to download starting tomorrow, so that's at least something.

    Everyone filed through a line to meet Michael, who was flanked by both his daughters. All three were very nice and polite, genuinely happy to be there. The reception line was next to his capsule, which was awesome to see. This weekend was the first time he'd seen it since the mission, and the first time for his daughters.

    Supper was nothing amazing to write home about, but after was a Q&A session moderated by the president. We all heard some amazing stories from him and his daughters.

    All in all it was well worth the 6 hour drive each way to meet one of the most reclusive astronauts!

  6. I've got hundreds of books, but I don't consider it a hobby...it's a given to read as much as I can. The smell of books might be a hobby though.

    What I think of hobbies for me are scale models, photography, and collecting autographs.

    It's been a long road to come to terms with it, but within the last six months I've been able to open up about my chronic depression. There are no ifs ands or buts with it...it just sucks. I haven't built anything on a model in 5 years; plenty of ideas but no drive. Same problem with photography; I've got lots of awesome ideas, even building my own camera.

    Collecting autographs has been very therapeutic for me. I've got quite a few projects going on, from my Return Of the Jedi poster to my 20"x30" SR-71 print for Blackbird pilots/RSO's to one off actors/actress/history related themes.

  7. The boat tail on the A-12 is about 3-4 feet shorter than the SR-71. It is only a few inches past the trailing edge of the elevens. The nose is also about 2 feet shorter. The resin conversion parts measure out to be really close to the real thing.

    Darwin

    I knew the boat tail was significantly shorter. Cleaner look to the backside IMO. I guess your photo looks deceptively short to me; that sure looks like more than half an inch for scale 2'!

    I'm hoping I can get mine out of storage at my parents to give it a go. My modelling has been on the back burner the last 5 years since adulting got in the way. Plus I've never done a conversion before, so felt a bit daunted by the task.

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