KenM

That's a pretty cheap pound the exchane was roughly 1GBP = $3.25 GBP so about $160,00 to $165,000 give or take. A P-47 was $85,000 in 1945 A B-17 in 1945 was $187,000, B-24 in 1944 $215,000 all of these are rough costs since they were purchased in in blocks and the price went down with with more being built. Seventy grand it's once in a lifetime. Ken

On Augst 5,1944 There were 8th Airforce missions Magdenburg, Halberstat and Hanover, all fighter groups except 357FG were involved sourced from Roger Freeman's Mighty 8th War Diary. sorry there's no futher breakdown. Ken

Well in honour of PAPA here are my favorites Joya De Nicaragua Big Bull smooth all the way through for such a big cigar My Father Flor De Las Antillas Toro Gordo box press my absolute favorite Don Tomas Corona Grande for just a good cheap smoke Rocky Patel esp 1990 but they're all good Romeo Y Julieta Wide Churchill Kentucky Cheroots just like Clint Eastwood in Good Bad & Ugly Ken I drink to to make other people more interesting. E. Hemmingway

Honest Top Gun trailer. KenM

One thing to note: Squadron (Sqn) is the official importer of Roden, so Sprue Brothers (SB) pretty much has to buy their stock of Roden from Squadron. Amusingly, if you check the stock available at both sites, you find that SB has 3 in stock, Sqn has 93 in stock. Ergo, those kits are taking up quite a lot of space in Sqn's warehouse and cost them a pretty decent amount to get from Roden. While those kits continue to go unsold, they're effectively costing Sqn money, since the money they used to pay for those kits is tied up, preventing Sqn from acquiring other merchandise to sell, or spend on a

I agree with you Les people who like EV's generally don't care for cars to begin with and only tolerate them because it beats walking. Besides EV's will NEVER replace this Ken

Well the winners get about $45,000 and the losers $22,500, so the loser get less than what a first year rookie gets on a per game basis and the winners get about the same as the maximum base. As far as bonuses clauses go most star players don't have them as they are already being paid well ie. if we're paying you $10 million a year you should be voted to the pro bowl it's the players are unlikely to get voted that have those clauses because it costs the team nothing. The players go because they can talk to players from other teams about good/bad agents, contracts etc. Ken

The only reason the players show up is because the game is being played in Hawaii, otherwise they wouldn't bother. I also wouldn't be to happy if one of the star players on a team I was rooting for got hurt in a meanigless game like this. Ken :cheers:/>

Joe Gillis: You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big. Norma Desmond: I am big. It's the pictures that got small. From Sunset Boulevard And from Dr Stangelove Major T. J. "King" Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in g

WOW! Jerome Iginla to Penguins............didn't see that one coming too bad for Calgary good for Iggy, he played junior with my cousin's kid maybe he'll finally get that ring. OOPS!!! spelt Penguins wrong in topic Go Jets!!!!

I've seen a number of photo's of 509th aircraft and the application of red paint varied from aircraft to aircraft and also time frame niether sheet is is right or wrong, go with the one you like. K en

It will be out by the end of June, when Tamiya makes an announcment on a model it's already good to go they don't tease like other players in the game. Ken

Nose weight and landing gear by Model Factory Hiro, Model Factory Hiro = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Check out there F1 kits. Ken

There is one in 1/48 by Fonderie Miniatures but it is a bit of a bear to build and the quality control a bit spotty. Here's a review http://kits.kitreview.com/halifaxbiiireviewbg_1.htm Ken

CBC Radio program on trenton Halifax http://www.cbc.ca/livingoutloud/ Ken

The 332 was based on the Agean side of Italy in June of 1944 about a third of the way up the boot they would not have been able to fly to Normandy. Ken

Well I went to the nats in Omaha and had dinner on Friday night with Warren Buffet to discuss the debt ceiling and the S&P downgrading, only to realise Saturday morning we were drinking Maragritas and listening to Jimmy Buffet in the room.........Oh well. Good time to buy. Ken

I wish you were coming buddy :( , I also heard a romour about Portland OR in 2013. Ken

I know the Nats are in Orlando in 2012, but what's the scoop on who's bidding for 2013. I understand there's one definite and one maybe, I'm going to Omaha but I can't wait two weeks for the results, I want to start planning now (need something to talk about on the drive down). Ken

Couldn't find cell phone today so I do what I always do pick up the home landline and phone the my cell..........front pants pocket starts ringing, and then.............uh what was this thread about again? oh yeah 150% Ken

FIRST!!!! Oh that was quick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Van 3 Boston 2 Game 2 OT Ken

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!! We have a winner put down your dabbers. Ken

My apologies I did not notice your post about bedevilment. I guess that photo is just one of things that get my knickers in a knot for some reason, it's probably because some people try to use it as the rule, rather than the exception. But as far as doing that on a model it would unfortunately just look bad, it's had to do sloppy in scale without it looking overly sloppy. Kem

Why is it this is the only picture anyone ever posts where are the others? most invasions stripes were pretty well applied. This picture is also after D-day and they are touching it up as can be seen by the condition of the aircraft note the exhaust staining, It's been used long and hard repeatedly, not something you would in a run up to the invasion. Ken

That is basically true but it used the Cadillac Northstar engine, what I was refering to is that Corvette won't move fron Chevrolet to Cadillac. Ken