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  1. Now and forever "Sitting on a beach, earning twenty-percent"...
  2. I tried to buy something with this feature about a year ago. The seller was asking something like $40, I offered $32. Little while letter the seller sends me a counter-offer of 39.75. I bump mine up to 33, he comes back with 39.50. Since I didn't feel like exchanging a dozen more messages to finally settle somewhere in the middle, I just let it go. If you're that set on getting your price that you're only willing to come down 25 cents at a time, just set a firm BIN and don't waste people's time...
  3. LOL, I love how so many people still bring up Spygate who either have no real idea what actually happened, or just don't care enough to find out cuz they figure that something called "Spygate" must be really bad. The Patriots videotaped a defensive coach who was standing on the sidelines, in full view of 80,000 people, sending in coded signals. The rule they got punished for breaking didn't say that they couldn't do this--it said they could only do it from certain locations, which they weren't. Also, the rule wasn't put in place until 2006, so their first 3 SBs (2001, 2003, 2004) weren't co
  4. If the Seahawks had won, I would've said that the Patriots gave it away every bit as much as the Seahawks stepped up and took it. If that had happened, it would've been because NE's defense had been unable to stop an opponent from going ~80 yards in 2 minutes... (or 80 yards in 29 seconds at the end of the 1st half; Seattle has a good offense with some great players, but not many would describe it as "elite", and that's not what they hang their hat on), and also because NE had completely mismanaged the clock in the final minute and would've left themselves no time to do anything after Seattle
  5. Great game, but that final minute was a case of two (otherwise great) coaches trying to give a championship away, and only 1 of them succeeded. Everyone's justifiably talking about Seattle's playcall, but on 1st-and-goal from the 5 they ran it down to the 1, and the clock kept ticking. At that point, with ~55 seconds to go and 2 (or 3?) timeouts, they're absolutely going to have time to run 3 more plays, so for New England there's no advantage to letting the clock continue to run. They should've started taking their own TOs there, and even if it takes Seattle all 4 downs to score you're pro
  6. I generally use Sprue Brothers for kits and accessories, and hobbylinc for supplies. Always been satisfied with their prices and service, tho it can take them a few days to get the order packed and shipped.
  7. AFAIK all the 1/720 Italeri/Revell/Testors Forrestal-class kits have the identical plastic in the box--the only difference in them is the boxart and decals. And since you wouldn't want to use the kit decals anyway (get the Gold Medal Models 1/700 USN supercarrier sheet, which includes Indy markings) you can expand your search to boxings of the Forrestal, Saratoga, and Ranger, too. I'm in the process of building one of these kits as the Saratoga, circa Desert Storm, and I feel like I'm scratch-building the entire thing, because of the amount of modifications needed, and also because it's just
  8. Did they not do one for VF-84? Maybe cuz the Jolly Rogers lived on in -103?
  9. Looks like a great recovery--by the pilot and you! :thumbsup:/>
  10. Apparently Independence and Constellation have already been sold for scrap, so you were lucky to see them while you had the chance...
  11. My method for avoiding major steps in the fuselage is to join the upper piece to the nose, like you did, then join the upper beaver tail to that. Then add the lower fuselage, and finally the lower beaver tail. Too late to help you on this one, but maybe if you ever build another you can give that a try.
  12. It's been a couple of months since I've been at the workbench. Warm weather and all. But I did get all the major parts of it out again a couple of nights ago to remind myself where I was at, and what the next few steps are. Hopefully I'll be back to work on it again soon. Even if it was the middle of January, tho, I think I might've been burned out for a few weeks after finishing all 20 of those 40mm mounts. Like I mentioned, the Niko ones are gorgeous, but just a little too big, IMO, and I decided to shorten them all up a bit. Trying to find a way to hold them so I could file down the u
  13. You don't need all that stuff. Get the kit, decals, Steel Beach bombracks, and you'll have everything you need (and 1 or 2 Hasegawa weapons sets, depending on how you wanna load it). Aires, Royale Resin, etc., are just nicer versions of things that are already in the kit.
  14. Use that piece only if you're building an F-14A or B that was TARPS-capable. Otherwise, leave it off.
  15. Ok so don't forget to include the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator...
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