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Kevan Vogler

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  1. Funny this subject should come up, I spent part of the past weekend binge watching the old Barney Miller series.

    After all these years, it still has relvance and is still considered one of the most realistic portrayals of police life ever put on TV.

  2. When you look past his own music and take into account how many songs he wrote for others that became hits, the scope of the loss is magnified that much more.

    His own music may not be everyone's cup of tea, but there very likely is a song or entire CD done by someone else over the past three decades or so that you do like that has his signature or fingerprint on it as either songwriter or producer.

    Even if he had never had a career in the performing end of music, his loss would still be felt in the songwriting and production end of things.

    He wasn't just a performer; he was an influencer and trailblazer.

  3. Those are chaff dispensers and they were unique to the EW version.

    From what I've read, they were specifically made for the purpose and not modified from any exisiting drop tank designs, so I'm not sure what a good starting point would be for scratchbuilding them.

  4. Yeah killing the old man was different.....but I don't think he was as bad as Vader or Sideous. Came across to me as being insecure.....afraid to fail the dark side.

    He's clearly in a grey area as far as the force goes. He wants to be dark, but isn't as dark as he'd like to be and is having trouble getting there.

    He's clearly designed for audience empathy and the hope that he's not too far gone to be redeemed.

  5. It's been a while since I built that kit, but I recall there being relatively few ejector pin marks of any great consequence on the insides of the gear doors or flaps.

    However, I recall the main wheels each having a couple of ejector pin marks on their backsides that required a bit of elbow grease and finesse to clean up well. Though I think you can cut your work down by hiding those behind the door that attaches to the main gear leg and covers most of the wheel backside.

    The most difficult ejector pins to clean up were on the inside surfaces of the airbrakes. However, there is absolutely no detail on the inside surfaces of the airbrake doors so you can go a bit rougher in removing the pin marks on them if you plan to build them in the closed position.

    A more challenging aspect of the kit for me was adjusting how it sat. Compared to how the actual MiG-15 sits at a bit of a tail down attitude, the Monogram kit sits quite level when built from the box.

    There's also the matter that it measures closer to 1/50 scale than 1/48.

    I'm not sure how much the latter two points will bug you; the scale thing will only jump out if you plan to park it next to one of the more modern MiG-15 kits which are to true 1/48 scale.

    I hope that helps

  6. Then there was Minot. The nearest town was the city of Minot some 15 miles away. To help out someone put in a trailer park just outside the perimeter fence, then a metal building with a recreation center of sorts to help out. The mistake came when they added a post office to the rec building. This automatically made it a town and for anyone on base making a call to the city was charged long distance because they were calling past the nearest town.

    Up there the wind constantly blew at least 25-35 MPH and could go as high as 80. I watched one of our pilots going to his fighter carrying his bag and wearing his chute. He leaned into the wind and kept going in a straight line. I had my outside door ripped out of my hand one day and it broke off the wall, They had a saying, N.D. has five seasons: winter, winter, summer, winter, winter. Ice crystals drift through the air and blot out the sun , sometimes forming "Sundogs"

    The S.A.C. guys would go out with two teams if they had to work on the tail sections of their aircraft or the ones completely exposed. One for maint. work and the other to watch for frostbite.

    All operations would shut down at 98 below. If you were home fine, if at work, you went nowhere until it was safe. SOmetimes the only running vehicle was a snowcat and those engine block heaters were useless.

    That reminds me of something I once heard said; that for all of Minot's shortcomings and the weather, people would take a transfer there to get out of Seymour Johnson AFB.

    From all I can find online, Seymour Johnson and the adjoining town of Goldsboro are about as dull as can be.

  7. I bought a new desktop computer earlier this year that came with Windows 8 as the OS and I hated every moment of it. Windows 8 was clearly made with the assumtion that everyone had a tablet computer or some other touch screen mobile device; it actually worked OK when a friend let me try it out on their tablet.

    On a desktop with a non touch screen monitor, it's just a headache. I breathed a huge sigh of relief when I could upgrade to Windows 10.

  8. If there is one thing the 144th world needs, it is a good A-7 kit (and an F-4B,C,D!). I would love to see Revell or Platz do both types, but, as is there are three options for a SLUF: the Miniwings, Aeroclub - also an A/B, and F-Toys. The F-Toys are generally assembled and decorated, but that can all be removed and reworked to a higher standard - and it is an E to begin with.

    Try to find the F-Toys one if you can. At 1/144, the M61 gun blister shouldn't be too hard to scratch build.

    I've seen quite a few Miniwing kits in the box and been left quite non-plussed by the all around quality of them.

  9. So a bunch of us middle-aged model builders are mocking Val Kilmer's current athetic shape? Have none of us SEEN any of us at the last model contest or hobby shop??? If given a choice between a 56 year old Val Kilmer or one of us, who do you think the ladies would rather take home?

    Eric

    Point taken! :lol:

  10. I'm still excited at the prospect. And if the Iceman is to make a reappearance, then he'll trim down for the role.

    Of more concern is does he actually have the state of health to do it?

    His weight's been like a yo-yo over the years because of health problems and his choice of "treatment".

    No doubt he can trim down, but would his health permit him a role with more than moderate energy and action requirements?

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