Thanks guys... No, didn't follow Manny's kamikaze attack or whatever it was, in fact... Not even sure what happened there, think I had heard some rumblings of it, but then that could've just been some from his semi-regular tour to the stockade.... Mine a combo of rather serious medical crap, and having to locate, buy, move, set up, and move into a new mobile home, with the latter being the more aggravating (and expensive)....
At any rate... It's good to be back, and I'll try to follow-up on some of the things I left undone, or at least give some of them a proper burial. I'm still w/o a PC, just have a phone... So while I read the forums, I don't have much to say yet, simply because my phone's a PITA to type on...
Right now, I'm still in rebuild phase of the Hammer-cave. Due to circumstances in the real world, I lost just about everything I'd collected in the way of spare parts, figures parts, paints, brushes, tools, bench, lights, well... The list is long... Worst part-loss was my collection of resin P & W T-2800 radials... Had twenty of those babies poured...
Most heart-breaking was the NOT loss of my figure and engine-molds for resin extras... It was my gen-u-wine 1960s Mattel Vac-U-Form! I managed to buy TWO more though... Second one arrived yesterday!
The GOOD news is I didn't lose my kit stash! In fact, I added to it by about fifty-sixty kits.. Mostly the 1/32 Revell birds, but a goodly number of soft-skinned military vehicles, to go with the artillery I have... (got a towed howitzer, ya gonna need the Prime Mover!)
Now I have to buy two or three Tamiya Gamma-Goats though...( They were the prime-movers for our M102s back in my 82nd days) Noticed their release in latest issue of FSM... Still, gotta get a couple CUCVs too...
Well, tortured m'self enough on this damned phone keyboard...
See y'all in the build-forums!
Rock Fury
P.S. I fully intend to return to my Gizmology 101/201 "courses"... During my hiatus, I found some really cool and (key point) cheap, readily available stuff for aircraft cockpits and tank turret-interiors!
Hammer Six Actual