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  • Member since
    July 2009
  • From: North Carolina
Posted by Back to the bench on Friday, August 27, 2021 2:03 PM

Happy belated birthday, another year wiser!

Hope it was a great day.CakeBeer

Gil

  • Member since
    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Friday, August 27, 2021 1:49 PM

Thank you all for your wishes. It was a beautiful day, warm and sunny.

Thank you,

 

Bill

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

  • Member since
    September 2011
  • From: Milaca, Minnesota
Posted by falconmod on Friday, August 27, 2021 7:48 AM

Happy Birthday Bill!   I hit 60 next year! not looking forward to that,  mainly cuz  can't believe I'm getting that old.

 

John

On the Bench: 1/72 Ki-67, 1/48 T-38

1/144 AC-130, 1/72 AV-8A Harrier

  • Member since
    January 2020
  • From: Maryland
Posted by wpwar11 on Friday, August 27, 2021 7:18 AM

Well happy birthday.  I hope everything went your way.  I wish you many more happy and healthy birthdays.

Paul

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Friday, August 27, 2021 2:55 AM

Happy Birthday Bill.

And as the saying goes, growing old isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
    February 2012
  • From: Olmsted Township, Ohio
Posted by lawdog114 on Thursday, August 26, 2021 10:22 PM

Happy Birthday Bill.  Fortunately I know when I'm going to die because my birth certificate has an expiration date on it.   

 "Can you fly this plane and land it?...Surely you can't be serious....I am serious, and don't call me Shirley"

 

 

 

 

  • Member since
    June 2017
  • From: Winter Park, FL
Posted by fotofrank on Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:33 PM

I was 65 once, I just don't remember when it was.

Don, I'm only six years behind you.

Oh yeah. Happy Birthday, Bill.

Sixty-five? Damn kids.

OK. In the stash: Way too much to build in one lifetime...

fox
  • Member since
    January 2007
  • From: Narvon, Pa.
Posted by fox on Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:10 PM

Happy Birthday Bill!!! Toast Toast Toast Toast Toast

Wish I was 65 (again).

Jim Captain

Stay Safe.

 Main WIP: 

   On the Bench: Artesania Latina  (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II

I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.

  • Member since
    April 2015
Posted by Mopar Madness on Thursday, August 26, 2021 2:18 PM

Happy birthday Bill!

Chad

God, Family, Models...

At the plate: 1/48 Airfix Bf109 & 1/35 Tamiya Famo

On deck: Who knows!

  • Member since
    July 2014
Posted by modelcrazy on Thursday, August 26, 2021 1:42 PM

scottrc

Good for you Bill.

I hope 65 is better than 55.  At present, Its all work and no play between work, kids starting out, and now taking in ailing parent.  Its why I'm not here much.  

 

Yes Scott. It seems that the sixties do fair better. Everything hits you at once in the fifties. Health issues show up, parents are ageing and often ill, children still settling....

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

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  • Member since
    December 2003
  • From: 37deg 40.13' N 95deg 29.10'W
Posted by scottrc on Thursday, August 26, 2021 11:53 AM

Good for you Bill.

I hope 65 is better than 55.  At present, Its all work and no play between work, kids starting out, and now taking in ailing parent.  Its why I'm not here much.  

  • Member since
    June 2014
Posted by BrandonK on Thursday, August 26, 2021 10:59 AM

Happy birthday. Enjoy it to the most.

BK

On the bench:

A lot !! And I mean A LOT!!

2024 Kits on deck / in process / completed   

                         14 / 5 / 2  

                              Tongue Tied

  • Member since
    August 2021
Posted by goldhammer88 on Thursday, August 26, 2021 10:56 AM

Happy Birthday GM.  I see you're trying to catch up to some of us.

Enjoy the burger.

  • Member since
    May 2020
  • From: Omaha, Nebraska
Posted by learmech64 on Thursday, August 26, 2021 10:47 AM
Happy Birthday Bill!! Enjoy your day!! Doug

Doug

  • Member since
    March 2015
  • From: Close to Chicago
Posted by JohnnyK on Thursday, August 26, 2021 10:33 AM

Happy birthday young man Happy Birthday

Your comments and questions are always welcome.

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Thursday, August 26, 2021 10:00 AM

Happy birthday Bill!!!

Happy Birthday

Working on getting to sixty-five, if some idiot on the highway doesn't kill me first...

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    May 2013
  • From: Indiana, USA
Posted by Greg on Thursday, August 26, 2021 10:00 AM

Happy Birthday, Bill. Happy Birthday

Mine was July. So far, so good.

It wasn't too shocking, years ago I started noticing youngsters holding door open for me. It was shocking when nice middle-aged ladies started doing it. But that started happening before the actual benchmark.

  • Member since
    July 2014
Posted by modelcrazy on Thursday, August 26, 2021 9:57 AM

I'm just a tad over 4 years behind ya Bill.

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

http://www.spamodeler.com/forum/

  • Member since
    May 2020
  • From: North East of England
Posted by Hutch6390 on Thursday, August 26, 2021 9:51 AM

Happy birthday, mate, eat, drink, and be merry - enjoy the beer & burgers!

BeerBeerBeer

     

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

   

TakkaTakkaTakkaTakkaTakkaTakka

 

  • Member since
    July 2014
  • From: Franklin Wi
Posted by Bakster on Thursday, August 26, 2021 9:34 AM

GMorrison

Another notch in the door frame. I'm going to like being sixty five.

My wife still loves me, my dogs still ignore me, my daughter has started listening to me, and I un-retired in order to keep my mind active.

Taking the day off to go down Big Sur way and eat hamburgers, drink a little beer and enjoy what God has provided.

Cheers to you all and lift one for Toshi.

 

Bill

 

 

Dude--you are a spring chicken at 65. 

Hey. You know what would cheer me up? If I was at Big Sur eating hamburgers and washing it down with beer. Wink

Enjoy your day, Bill. It sounds like a fantastic way to celebrate. Wish I was there.

  • Member since
    March 2007
  • From: Northeast WA State
Posted by armornut on Thursday, August 26, 2021 9:29 AM

    Happy birthday GM, mine was last Saturday and I'm alittle behind you in life experience.

    I made the choice to semi retire last year.....you will not regret it. Enjoy your day good sir and many more.

we're modelers it's what we do

  • Member since
    August 2015
  • From: the redlands Fl
Posted by crown r n7 on Thursday, August 26, 2021 9:28 AM

Happy brithday you made it 65 next is your aarp card..

 

 

 

 Nick.

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Thursday, August 26, 2021 9:15 AM

rocketman2000

Have to have brighter light on workbench, stronger readers, and rest both hands on bench to do fine tweezer work....

I've gotten to the first two...looking forward to the third.... Wink

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
  • Member since
    June 2021
Posted by rocketman2000 on Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:43 AM

gregbale

Enjoy, Bill!

I passed that same milepost in May, and it didn 't sting quite as much as expected. Big Smile

 

Well, I have eighteen years on you guys, but still modeling away.  Have to have brighter light on workbench, stronger readers, and rest both hands on bench to do fine tweezer work, but models still coming out nice.  I think of old watch repair and camera repair guys I knew, and know you can do fine work at almost any age.  Old dogs can learn new tricks- it just may take a little longer.

 

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    November 2003
  • From: Naples, FL
Posted by tempestjohnny on Thursday, August 26, 2021 4:59 AM
Happy birthday Bill

 

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Thursday, August 26, 2021 4:38 AM

Enjoy, Bill!

I passed that same milepost in May, and it didn 't sting quite as much as expected. Big Smile

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
  • Member since
    August 2020
  • From: Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Australia.
Posted by Dodgy on Thursday, August 26, 2021 2:24 AM

Good on yer Bill, enjoy mate. I'm having a coldie too and I've just raised it to our mate.

I long to live in a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned

  • Member since
    September 2012
Well folks, it's happened again
Posted by GMorrison on Thursday, August 26, 2021 12:57 AM

Another notch in the door frame. I'm going to like being sixty five.

My wife still loves me, my dogs still ignore me, my daughter has started listening to me, and I un-retired in order to keep my mind active.

Taking the day off to go down Big Sur way and eat hamburgers, drink a little beer and enjoy what God has provided.

Cheers to you all and lift one for Toshi.

 

Bill

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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