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  1. This new update to the site sucks.  I had to go through ggl chrome to be able to post a reply.  I uploaded the pics the same way I have been doing it for a couple of years now, when I have a little time later I will try your suggestion Dutch.  I guess the new update is not compatible with windows internet because everything is all jumbled together when I try to use that.

  2. I had a few kits going that all seemed to finish about the same time.  The first one was a  truck model.  I like having trucks on the shelf but I just don't enjoy building them.  About every 5 years I try another one and about half way through I know that I still don't like building them.

     

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    The next was a 1:72 Heller kit that I bought at a kit auction that my local modelling club had a few years ago.  It cost me a dollar and it it had been sitting on the shelf long enough.  The date on this kit was 1987 and the decals were still good and the kit went together really well.

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    This last kit is a 1:48 follow me jeep resin kit by SOL.  I have had this kit for a long time but every time I pulled it off the shelf and saw all the bags of tiny resin parts I put it back.  Once I got into it though it went together really well.

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  3. Da SWO, did you have any injuries other than the results of your flight?  We have a lot of lightning here in central Florida and I have heard about a full gambit of injuries from lightning strikes. 

    A couple of years ago lightning hit right outside my house.  It fried out all the electronic devices down that side of my house.  All TV's, DVD players, my cable box and router and most devastating was all the kids gaming systems.  I was able to witness all the stages of grief and then several days of them driving my crazy because apparently there is nothing else in the world to do.

  4. Wow, that looks suprisingly awesome in black.  I had never been interested in this show until I recently bought a ROKU and it had the series on one of the free channels that came with that.  I am really enjoying the show and am about half way through the first season.  The panels/markings that you picked out in grays and the metal on the engines really makes it pop.  The red of the cockpit also goes well with the black.  Great build.

  5. I live about an hour away and can't decide if I want to drive out to see it.  I can usually see the rockets from my house but I really want to get closer for this one.  It doesn't look good for the weather though.  Right now outside my house it is windy, rainy and lots of thunder.  Hopefully it clears...

  6. Thanks guys.  Ikar, everything on the NX came in the box.  It is a pretty good kit, it gives you the parts to build the NX-01 and the NX refit.  It also gives you decals for the NX-01, refit, the mirror universe NX and another (NX-02 or 09???)  If you use the discount code at Michaels it was only about $14 for the kit.  I will probably pick up a couple more after this virus mess settles down so that I can build the refit and the Mirror Universe versions.

  7. I was wandering around my local Michael's about a month ago and decided to check and see if they still had the same 11 kits on the shelf that they have been selling for the past 5 five years when to my surprise I found that they had the 1:1000 Star Trek NX-01 kit.  I have been wanting one of these for a while so a discount code later and it was on its way home with me.  It is a nice little kit and has several options to build.  I decided to go a little different with the paint.  Instead of aztecing it I just mottled different metallic shades over it.  I found a cool picture of a planet on the web and tried to recreate it on the dome base.  I should have stopped with just the planet because when I tried to paint clouds it messed it up a bit.

    49778319651_e7a4365a82_o.png02 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

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    Since I had a lot of parts and decals left over and I was bored from staying at home I decided to use the stuff on an old 1:1000 Klingon D7 kit that I have been using to test paints on for about 10 years.  So I used the additional secondary hull that was supposed to be for the NX refit and the Mirror Universe decals.  This is how it turned out...

    49778663677_84b2f626d6_o.png03 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

     

    49778663637_b0d1084a7d_o.png04 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

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  8. Hello all,

    This is the Hasegawa 1:72 kit.  I have never watched an episode of the show but I have always liked the way these look.  I know that these are supposed to be painted white but I wanted to build mine in grey, more like modern Naval aircraft.  I bought this kit as a bundle with a photo etch set.  I didn't use much of the photo etch though because it was for a different version of this vehicle.  Since I wanted it in flight I bought a cheap wood plaque.  The skull and crossbones is one of those stick on car accessories from Wallyworld.  It was a nice little kit and I barely had to use any putty.

     

    49101610806_7d95a51759_o.png09 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

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    Thanks for looking,

    Els

  9. After reading Dana Bell's article I was very surprised to learn how much stuff is missing from the National Archives.  Mr Bell was only looking at a very small section of items and how many of those were missing?  Extend that average out to vast quantity of items in the archives and the total of missing items must be incredible.  Very sad that those irreplaceable items may be just walking out the door and will probably be lost forever.

  10. Yesterday I had some leftover putty from another project so I decided to start fairing in the eyes and roughing out the head size.

    48236879971_4dd28cb426_o.png04 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

    I gotta get working on this, September is right around the corner and I still have a few "Ain't real" projects I would like to work on.

    Els

  11. I was pretty excited to get started on this project but now that I am working on it, it's not really keeping my attention the way I thought it would.  I chopped the top of the head off and put a couple of coats of epoxy in it to stop it from flexing every time I touched it.  Some wooden half ovals were bought to use for the eyes.  I put several coats of filler primer spray paint on them to smooth them out and hit them with some silver spray paint.  Then I super glued them together in the shape I will use for the eyes.

    48167029922_7a48cfeff1_o.png03 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

    Els

  12. I am not sure if this really qualifies for this Group build.  I guess it depends on your beliefs.

    Several years ago I picked up this doll kit when it was on sale at Hobby Lobby.  I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it but back then I was really into figure kits so I thought I might use it at some point.  Fast forward a few years and my daughter showed me this picture in a magazine and told me it was the creepiest thing she had ever seen.  Well, I knew what the doll kit was going to be.  I found this while I was looking for something else to build for this GB and haven't built a figure kit in a while so this should be fun.

    Here is the kit.  It was missing some of its parts, that is why it was discounted.  It has the head, two arms and two legs so it is fine for my purposes.

    48124703656_42c41c0d85_o.png01 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

    Here is the head with the picture I cut out of the magazine.

    48124791257_5a6c118db1_o.png02 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

    I am not a sculptor in any way, shape or form so I plan to leave the lower portion of the skull with the nose and mouth intact so that I do not have to do anything with that.  I am hoping to cut it at the mid eye level and chop off the top portion of the head.  One thing I am not sure about though is the material it is made off.  I always thought it was vinyl but today when I took it out of the bag it has a sort of rubbery feel to it.  I am going to try cutting the head and paint one of the feet to see how it reacts.  If it is not good, this will be a very short project.

    Els 

     

     

      

  13. Well I finally finished this kit.  I will post some pictures of some of the things I had to fix, maybe it will help someone else who is trying to build this kit.

    I added some bracing to the swing arm because the attachment is very weak and the plastic that this kit is made of is very hard and grainy.  I found that the glued pieces were fairly easy to pop apart after assembly so this will add some strength.

    47982531316_21839336f6_o.png09 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

    In this picture you cans see the problem that I was having with the tires.  The walls of the tires are not of an even thickness and this makes the tires pull/lean to one side or the other.

    47982479953_04c74b9878_o.jpg10 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

    The first thing I tried was to flow some epoxy into the tires to strengthen them.  This did not work, the epoxy did not stick to the tires.

    47982531251_535f38a6d8_o.png11 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

    So then I wrapped some styrene around the rim to fill up the empty space in the tire.

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    Then I cut a hole in the tire and put it on the rim.  After that I filled it full of epoxy.  After the epoxy cured I filled in the hole with Bondo and sanded it down.  That worked pretty well

    47982479603_e0da905884_o.png13 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

    I also modified the rear shocks to make them a little more realistic.  Here is a before and after.

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    Here is the finished kit.

    47982479483_b498dff60c_o.png15 by Hal Elsberry, on Flickr

    Because of the size of the finished kit it looks pretty impressive and I am happy to have it on the shelf.  Is it a replica of Dick Mann's Daytonal Winner?  No.  There are a lot of differences between the real bike and this kit.  The tail piece is different, the front fender, front suspension, shocks, exhausts etc...It is a good starting point if you wanted to make all the changes and accurize it but I am going with the idea that someone wanted to build a tribute bike.

    I don't think I would build another one of these.  I don't want to say it is a bad kit, it is just that this is a kit of the 60's or 70's and they are not up to the standards of today's kits.  The engineering of the kit is a pain in the backside.  One thing that they could have fixed though are the instructions.  They are terrible.  There are bad views, parts just show up later in the instructions that the builder was never told to install.  There is no decal chart, there is tubing that you are told to install during the build that you are not told to attach to anything.  It is nothing that someone who has built a few kits could not figure out but they should have fixed it before they reissued it.

    I will post more pictures in the display tab.

    Els

     

     

  14. You should build more Star Wars because you are very good at it.  I like your choice of colors, they might not be technically right (What ever that is) but to me that looks just right.  The standing figure on the base is a nice touch to give a sense of scale. 

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