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Are you in med school or are you taking graduate level classes? If in Med school, when I was in veterinary school, we had "Big Brothers and Sisters" who were students from the prior class who acted as advisors and mentors to help the incoming class. Go talk to your Big Borther to see what he can provide in the way of guidance. The best part was they often provided a test library from prior years that was invaluable as a study aide. This helped me greatly during the first year. If there is no test library they can usually remember what was important material and what was fluff. But really, in

I use a Waldron punch set to cut the dials from the larger decal sheet. It is like this Micro Punch Set sold by Micromark. Super handy tool and well worth the price of a good kit to pick one up for scratch building. I don't know how you would control the rest of the decals from getting wet when trying to soak the desired decal. These aren't like dry transfers. So using the punch and die to cut the gauge off the decal sheet will prevent this. I suppose you could carefully trim the carrier film from around the gauge and then just cut the desired decal from the sheet but it is so easy with t

Thanks for posting the link to the Tehran Times, I was wondering which camel won the third race at the Tehran Downs yesterday!

Some of those answers are just hilarious! If you want to hear real scary answers to questions just hang around a Walmart and listen to some of the conversations amongst the patrons. An oh yes, they have usually already reproduced -- and in great numbers!

Well, it is quite simple to determine the use once we look at the origins of the Scriber device itself. Of course, we know that the Scriber in its present form has changed very little from those first described by the ancient Roman modelers. The name is derived from scribo which we all know means to carve. Carve of course means to to tear, tear up, cut up, cut open -- which is what one does to their plastic kits when one tries to create recessed panel lines as well as to one's fingers when trying to use one of these ancient torture devices. So the first iteration of the scriber is as a physica

A few words of advice from one father of some young 40 K player to another: I would recommend staying small to start with and not buying too many minis until you know that your son really likes 40K and really likes a particular army, in this case the Tyranids. He may lose interest in the game altogether or dislike the Tyranids and want to become an Ork or a Daemon in a few weeks leaving you with a fortune worth of minis for an army that your kids have no interest in playing. One of the good things about 40K is that even with a small number of minis you can still have really fun low point bat

I hope she feels better, they are benign, and they resolve uneventfully. BTW, not to be a smart @#% but it is spelled ovarian "cyst". So if you are looking it up online or reading about them it will help to have the correct spelling. Hopefully your get some modeling time in while giving her the extra TLC she is going to demand, err, I mean need! Please give her my wishes for a speedy recovery!

Best of luck in your transition. I admire your determination and respect your priorities. I truly hope your move provides the opportunities you seek for your family and you. We (I don't feel that I overstate by saying we) look forward to seeing you in the future... Take Care of you and yours! Sincerely,

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Humm... the green parts are actually "Green Stuff" two part epoxy (Kneadatite) that has been rolled, cut into strips and applied to the model. The Green Stuff is sculped to look like tattered bandages/bindings -- well, at least that is what I was hoping to do! The model is not painted yet! So you don't think the sculpted parts appear to be tattered bandages/bindings? I was concerned I was applying too many tears and tatters...

Hey all, I would like to share with you my progress on The Mummy to this point. Originally, I thought of just throwing it together and then using tape on the entire model to recreate the bindings. But it actually has good fit of the parts and good detail for the bindings so you don't lose too much detail at the joints during assembly. So instead of adding tape bindings to it entirely, I just used Green Stuff to modify selected areas. Furthermore, since I don't like the loose bindings supplied by the kit, I decided to modify these using Green Stuff. I feel it gives it a little more scale effe

I like using The War Store. They have good prices, fast service and other stuff such as paints and building supplies. I use them all the time for my paints and green stuff.

Like Don said, magnification is so helpful doing detail work such as masking. To help me see, I have an optivisor, reading glasses, and sometimes I even use some surgical loupes (I have a few pairs that I use in the OR so sometimes I'll take a pair home if I think about it...). I find that I use the reading glasses more and more these days since my wife usually has a pair sitting around and so I can "borrow" -- one might say appropriate -- them as needed. Regarding the actual masking, have you tried to mask using bare metal foil? I find that it is so thin that it shows very subtle surface de

Vallejo has an Equivalent Values Chart PDF that lists different colors between the different paint manufacturers.

Awesome...thanks for passing that along!

I would probably stay in the brown and grey range as far as colors to tint the white. Black may be a little too harsh a contrast. Using white as the highlight and avoiding black tint in the shadow. There a several articles about painting white at Missing-lynx and at Games workshop that you may be interested in taking a look at. Andrea Colors also makes a set of colors for painting white if you can find it (or at least you can use it as a reference).

Me too. I find the vuvuzuelas annoying but they do add flavor to this event. I think they aren't any more annoying than the blaring music at some major league baseball games (i.e. in Atlanta) or the cacophany of noise during a girls softball game. I find the volume of the PA system is so irritating at Braves game that I don't go anymore. Kind of how baseball was when I was a kid. All you needed was a ball. Sometimes you only had a bat but if no one did, you could use a broom handle for a bat. If you all didn't have gloves then we used a tennis ball or shared gloves. Now a days kids have

Though spectacular, I can't help but reminded by this video of the horrific images of the fiery break-up of the shuttle Columbia. :blink:

I too was apprehensive about glare on a plasma before I purchased one. I have a 50" plasma and just love it. Watching sports and Blu-ray movies is a totally unreal experience. Too bad hockey just ended because it is fantastic on a plasma. The glare I have with the plasma is no worse than my old TV so if the glare from your old tube TV bothered you then it will be the same with the plasma. If you have a light source casting onto the screen you will notice a reflection. When I'm watching movies I usually turn off the lights facing the screen. When the lights are off to watch a movie it is specta

Lets take one step at a time so let's work on the paint seeping under the masking causing the jagged edges ... I'm glad datahiker pointed out the paint seepage and the need to burnish. Please let me add my thoughts as well. First, I don't want to insult you in case you already know how to do this but burnishing is gently rubbing down the edges of the tape to improve the contact with the substrate. So to burnish all you do is, after placing the tape, just rub the edge with a smooth round object like a knitting needle (or I use the end of an old plastic coffee stirrer that I rounded) to ensur

That is what I do, well actually I just turn it down low to try and hear some of the play call.... I agree, Mendoza is a good color announcer who is knowledgeable and and doesn't try to over analyse every detail. Mowens is good play-by-play and calls an accurate agame. There is another play-by-play announcer that did some of the regional for ESPN that was just terrible. She was constantly making mistakes about the details like calling sac fly in the top of the seventh a "line drive base hit to left" that is caught a "game winning hit" when it is neither a hit or a game winner. There are o

They are called a "Slapper" or a slap hitter. Sort of like a swinging bunt or a drag bunt in baseball. The distance to first base is so short that with the walking/running start, pretty much any ball hit anywhere other than to the pitcher or first base has a good chance of being beaten out by the hitter. As an aside, some of the girls have nice swings and they are pretty athletic, but I just can't stand the constant cheering, chanting, singing, and overall caterwauling during the games from the two teams. It is just so annoying!

I never had a dropped call with Verizon (living in rural North Carolina) and with my eye-phone (sic) it is a daily ocurrrence (at least). I live in a metropolitan area -- well, that may be a stretch here in Mobile, Alabama -- but a city none-the-less! I can walk 5 feet in my house and go from 5 bars to No Service. I use the "Mark the Spot" app so many times I keep it on the front page of my phone. I've used that app 15 times so far just in June and I don't send a notification every time I have a dropped call or Data - can't connect.

Just how exothermic is the reaction for the curing? The 2 part epoxy I use gets very hot -- enough so that I am concerned it may warp or alter the plastic. During curing, I run it under cool water to help alleviate any chance of hurting the styrene. Just like we do when using bone cement (methylmethacrylate) in surgery You can get this stuff at Lowes in the plumbing section. I have also seen CA and lead pellets get pretty hot during the curing of the CA (I used a lot of the CA and it got really hot!) but it was in a location that didn't really matter if it distorted or not...