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On the bench: Revell-USS Arizona; Airfix P-51D in 1/72
It seems to me that whatever she was using to make copies had to be a step or two below the mimeograph machines. The first one of those I encountered was when I was in 9th grade and it was a original placed on a metal drum and rolled. It had the snell of alcohol.
Remember the paper towels? The dispenser had a log cabin pressed intothe front and the paper was a sort of light brown with what looked like shaved pieces of wood scattered around.
Real G Gamera Someone may have mentioned it and I missed it but mimeographs in school. I remember that funky chemical smell, the weird purple ink, and the way it would come off and stain your hands. Hey I remember those in elementary school! The prints smelled of alcohol, and they came off the press wet and had to dry.
Gamera
Someone may have mentioned it and I missed it but mimeographs in school. I remember that funky chemical smell, the weird purple ink, and the way it would come off and stain your hands.
Hey I remember those in elementary school! The prints smelled of alcohol, and they came off the press wet and had to dry.
On the bench: A diorama to illustrate the crash of a Beech T-34B Mentor which I survived in 1962 (I'm using Minicraft's 1/48 model of the Mentor), and a Pegasus model of the submarine Nautilus of 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas fame.
Back then there were no commercials allowed for Lawyers.
They just started a policy that to do commercials you had to belong to the actor's guild.
Sometimes while watching a program a light would reflect of something on set and a flash or trail of light would follow the camera for a couple seconds.
The Beverly Hillbillies would do cigerette commercials at the end of the show with grannie saying that Winston tastes good like a cigerette had outta.
Darl Shadows was dopne live and sometimes things just didn't go right, like the fire on stage and you could hear teh extinguishers going off in the background while the actors did their lines.
Recalling that originally when watching my favorite TV shows all the commercials were for sports cars, beer and the Marlboro Man.
Now I watch reruns of those same shows and all the commercials are for Depends, step in bathtubs and medical alert pendants
Sigh.
Gil
Mary Ann, deffintely better. I never did go for the M.Monroe bit from ginger.
Going to the record store, or department store and having not only to buy needles but checking the records. You had two choices in 33 1/3, mono or stereo.
Later it became a choice of what receiver you wanted, mono, stereo, or quadrophonic. In a few years, we were back to two choices.
Then came video tapes, beta or vhs, Beta had better picture quality but in the end it didn't matter, now no tapes.
Gamera Someone may have mentioned it and I missed it but mimeographs in school. I remember that funky chemical smell, the weird purple ink, and the way it would come off and stain your hands.
We had one at home that Mom used to print the church bulletin every week. I have visions of my siblings and I as young'uns, gathered 'round the table watching in fascination...and probably breathing those fumes deeply, looking slightly glassy-eyed....
Greg
George Lewis:
My first driveable car was a Crosley. How many of you remember those?
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Your comments and questions are always welcome.
“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”
gregbale Back to the bench Wow I am an old fart. I'm sure there is more but it's almost time for a Gilligan's Island rerun. Which of course begs the 'eternal question'... ...Ginger or Mary Ann?
Which of course begs the 'eternal question'...
...Ginger or Mary Ann?
GameraI need to do the same, I keep hearing about disc rot.
It was a long, tedious process to get everything on there, but definitely worth it. Now I don't have to do anything but push a button or two on the remote to watch a movie. Also have a second 8TB drive that I mirror everything to, just in case the primary one dies.
"You can have my illegal fireworks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers...which are...over there somewhere."
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
Eaglecash867 Gamera 1). Killer backache- yeah I'm old. 2). I don't trust owning a movie on streaming, if I don't own a physical copy I don't consider it owning it- makes me old. I'm definitely with you on #1. For #2, I'm the same way, but I've done kind of a hybrid of the two. Every DVD and Blu-Ray I own is in fully digital format on an 8TB hard drive that I can stream from with my TVs.
Gamera 1). Killer backache- yeah I'm old. 2). I don't trust owning a movie on streaming, if I don't own a physical copy I don't consider it owning it- makes me old.
I'm definitely with you on #1.
For #2, I'm the same way, but I've done kind of a hybrid of the two. Every DVD and Blu-Ray I own is in fully digital format on an 8TB hard drive that I can stream from with my TVs.
I need to do the same, I keep hearing about disc rot.
And with you on 'Airwolf', God I loved that show as a kid. Bought it on DVD and well it don't stand up that well today. Beautiful chopper though.
In Blue Thunder, at least in the movie, they were looking through closed curtains with their IR camera. Not sure if they showed them looking through walls in the TV show.
Edit: Nevermind. Forgot about IIR not being able to see through glass.
ikar01 Didn't Blue Thunder have thermal capabilities as well as those weird mics on top of the canopy and silent mode? Dana Carvey was in the back seat for teh series. Don't forget Street Hawk and Viper. Diver Dan Deputy Dawg Man From U.N.C.L.E. Dark Shadows
Didn't Blue Thunder have thermal capabilities as well as those weird mics on top of the canopy and silent mode? Dana Carvey was in the back seat for teh series.
Don't forget Street Hawk and Viper.
Diver Dan
Deputy Dawg
Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Dark Shadows
Oh, that was the one I was thinking of, that could see through walls and windows. Thermal IR cannot do that- it is fiction.
GMorrison Tripping over the dog at 1.30, 3.00 and 5.30 a.m....
Tripping over the dog at 1.30, 3.00 and 5.30 a.m....
And getting that right away, and not finding it funny at all.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
wayne baker Listening to the Lone Ranger on the radio. Playing board games with the family. The Korean war. Party lines and dial telephones. The political conventions of the 50's on television. It"s been 52 years since I got out of the Corps.
Listening to the Lone Ranger on the radio.
Playing board games with the family.
The Korean war.
Party lines and dial telephones.
The political conventions of the 50's on television.
It"s been 52 years since I got out of the Corps.
Hey, you never get out of the Corp....once a Marine, always a Marine.
I may get so drunk, I have to crawl home. But dammit, I'll crawl like a Marine.
Being told to come home when the daily air raid siren test goes off.
Walking down to the dairy at the end of the street to pick up a extra bottle of milk, or maybe two.
My Father having the cream from the top of the bottle for his cerial.
Having the milk truck leave the new bottles in the insulated box by the fromt door. I have a metal model of a milk truck and oddly enough I find that it's one of the more memorable vehicles from back then.
Listening to my Father go on abouit how the new music is usually about girls crying, bad relations, or just music that wasn't all that good to begin with.
When returning home from my first tour during Vietnam, seeing the banner welcoming me home.
My parents first visit to Little Rock AFB. They showed up at the gate in their camper and the police desk called me to clear them. I had them get directions to the base lake where I met them in my 1974 Chevy pickup mounting red lights and a shotgun. My Father said he had just seen a very large black plane fly overhead. The first time he had seen a B-52. Sometimes I wondered if he was proud of me and This was the first time I got the feeling that he really was.
rocketman2000 keavdog gregbale Which of course begs the 'eternal question'... ...Ginger or Mary Ann? Why choose? At my first engineering job I was coding on a VAX/VMS cluster of 4 11/785s and when I would travel I would take this Silent 700 so I could check on my batch jobs I started with mainframe. Had to take my punch cards to the temple, then go back hours later to see if printout was there. Then they installed a new computer with time share, and teletype terminals at nearest coatrack. We could punch out program and data on paper tape, and if we were lucky in about 30 seconds the printer would either print out our results or the error message. Later on, departments started getting their own VAXs and DGs.
keavdog gregbale Which of course begs the 'eternal question'... ...Ginger or Mary Ann? Why choose? At my first engineering job I was coding on a VAX/VMS cluster of 4 11/785s and when I would travel I would take this Silent 700 so I could check on my batch jobs
gregbale Which of course begs the 'eternal question'... ...Ginger or Mary Ann?
Why choose?
At my first engineering job I was coding on a VAX/VMS cluster of 4 11/785s and when I would travel I would take this Silent 700 so I could check on my batch jobs
I started with mainframe. Had to take my punch cards to the temple, then go back hours later to see if printout was there. Then they installed a new computer with time share, and teletype terminals at nearest coatrack. We could punch out program and data on paper tape, and if we were lucky in about 30 seconds the printer would either print out our results or the error message. Later on, departments started getting their own VAXs and DGs.
Ahhh the Silent 700, I remember those! It's kind of ironic to me that things have come almost full circle. I remember much celebration when it reached the point that everyone had a workstation on their desk and didn't have to rely on mainframes and network connections to get work done. Now the push is to get everything onto "the cloud" including all of the everyday software like MS Office. The more things change the more they stay the same I guess.
I found quickly that I would starve if I had to write good software for a living and ended up more on the hardware side. I remember programming our EPROMs using a paper tape programmer. You lifted a small "gate", placed the paper tape on the toothed drive wheel and closed the gate and watched it pull the tape through while it read the codes punched into the tape and translated that to bits in the memory of your EPROM. For it to feed correctly you stacked three nickles and two pennies on top of the gate lol. The memory chips were UV erasable so we stuck a piece of lead tape over the erase window so the device wouldn't "loose it's mind" over time when exposed to light. Pretty crazy to think that we now carry phones in our pockets that have many orders of magnitude more processing power than the mainframes that were relied on "back in the day".
Maybe that's one reason I still find scale modeling to be so relaxing. Technology is making big differences in our hobby as well, but when it comes down to it our satisfaction and success with a build still usually boils down to a good set of nippers, an X-acto knife, some sandpaper, paint and brushes and probably and airbrush. The basics are still pretty much the same and I like that. And I guess I now have to include more magnifying devices since I am officially "chronologically challenged"
gregbaleWhich of course begs the 'eternal question'... ...Ginger or Mary Ann?
Hey it's a win-win
And my wife got a big laugh out of your response
Eaglecash867 Heh...I bought the complete series of Airwolf because of how much I loved it as a kid. Yeah...it was really a hokey show that only a kid could get into as it turns out.
Heh...I bought the complete series of Airwolf because of how much I loved it as a kid. Yeah...it was really a hokey show that only a kid could get into as it turns out.
It was the first of the crime/police shows that implied thermal (infrared) cameras can see through walls and windows, which is fantasy. But all sorts of shows now imitate this.
Thanks,
John
I am 60 and bought it and still love it. Anyone remember this
https://youtu.be/-KgPC5RkYFo
Hi, I am Lee, I am a plastiholic.
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Back to the benchWow I am an old fart. I'm sure there is more but it's almost time for a Gilligan's Island rerun.
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