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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Friday, October 17, 2003 4:15 PM
                        Thats cool,look forward to seeing them. Still working on getting those others scanned, pretty much waiting on an insurance settlement so i can get me one. I know most of the photo places down here can put pics on a disc to when you get them developed, that could be something to look into so you can have some on hand to put here.
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:50 PM
                        ok so its friday and i still dont have the pics sent off yet! i've told myself all week to go get stamps, but with four kids and a night shift job, need i say more.but then again i'm planning an going by the post office again in the morning. maybe i'll have better luck this time? p.s. i included a couple of pics off my models in the cabinets i have them all in. dont know if you will be able to tell much of what i got in them, but maybe you'll get a sence of what i do have? also took a photo of my code 3 trucks. hope you like, ( that is if i ever get to the post office ).
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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Sunday, October 12, 2003 9:59 PM
                        Thats great can't wait to see them. Can't complain about the weekend, got through with a build and started the next head to head build round with my wife earlier. I hope to be able to try a truck soon, got a few things ahead of it though for chrsitmas.
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 12, 2003 9:44 PM
                        hi cris , hope you had a nice weekend? nice pic in your signature block!. got the photos of the ford on sunday. i'm going to try to get them in the mail one day this week, i've still got some stripping to do on the rescue body, as you will see in the pics, but all in all i think it came out ok. no prize winner thats for sure.
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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Thursday, October 9, 2003 4:13 PM
                        Our tankers double as pumpers, mainly because a volunteer dept. there is no telling which truck is going to get there first. The tankers we have now have the pumps mounted on the front bumper, that would probally be the hardest thing to scratch build.
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 9, 2003 12:04 AM
                        yea that will work. the thought of the box type tanker really never crossed my mind for some reason? thats about all you see on new rigs today.do you guys have pumper tankers or just straight tankers? i'll be looking forward to the pics.
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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 2:30 PM
                        Well the tankers we have right now and the ones that we are getting are box shaped. Probally just be able to take some sheet styrenne and make the box and do some weld seams around the edges and be about right. The box tanks are better cause you can store stuff on top and they are more low profile and easier to drive. I'll try to email you a pic of the ones we have now to give you an idea. The jeep did'nt suprise me, there were some very good dios there. The one that did suprise me was the Bradley, it was mainly a learning experience. I'm sure you could do well with some of your trucks not really anything at the one I was at that would have been close in the truck catagory.
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 12:41 AM
                        cool, i've wanted to do the tanker before but always got stuck on what to make the tank out of? i've though of using cut up pop bottles, cans, anything that had that eliptical shape?what do you think you will use? i caught one of your posts about the show you went to. i cant beleive you didnt win anything on your jeep. go figure. thats why i dont enter contests,to affraid i guess? ok, i'll keep you posted on the ford,also looks like the dio is on the back burner again, i cant seem to make up my mind on what to do?
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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 4:18 PM
                        Yea painting, my most favorite part of doing autos, Don't think I have ever gotten one to come out like I wanted. Look forward to seeing what you have so far. We got word of our new tankers today and from the sound of it I might try to one of them since it may be a it easier to scratchbuild most of it.
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 12:24 AM
                        ok, thats cool. i appreciate all your doing for me on this. i 've been working on the ford f350 over the weekend, had a bad experience with the paint on the rescue body though, so it had to go into the stripping box. got it all sanded last night and shot 2 thin coats on it this afternoon(monday),so ill try to get some pics of it this coming weekend and send them your way.
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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Monday, October 6, 2003 2:07 PM
                        I was going to try to get up with him this sat while i was down near his house at the contest but he had a wedding that he had to go to and did'nt get time to get up with me. If nothing else I am hopefully going to have scanner sometime soon if a paticular insurance co. can get motivated to settle with me. Most of my friends around here are afraid to even turn on computer so they don't even know what a scanner is.
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 5, 2003 9:36 PM
                        yea im sure about that. any thing going on yet with those pics? i'm getting nervous waiting to see if your friend can scan them or not.
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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Friday, October 3, 2003 7:16 PM
                        And yet in some cases it would be realistic in a way.
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 2, 2003 9:36 PM
                        yea make it look like a small circus !
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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 2:53 PM
                        Hammerfly- Can't say that I am from LA. Don't even think I have any family from there. About the closest I come to that is I like cajun food and used to live with one.

                        Dave- Sounds like with all those apparatus on scene it would be hard not to get large with it. Just remember to put the onlooker in the way of everything going on and the cop trying to get the victims wallet while rescuers are trying to get him packaged ( not to offend any cops or onlookers we may have here, just my experience in the matter).
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 3:10 AM
                        lizardqing2, i scraped my first foam peice. i made it monday night, got it home and it was to small for the models i wanted to put on it, so i just made another tonight(tuesday) so i will try that one out when i get home. i want to have my elmira eng. 2 , my support service truck and an ambulance on scene. would like to have a cop car and maybe one onlooker if possible. i dont want this thing to get to large. i'll keep you posted.
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:40 PM
                        Chris,

                        You wouldn't by chance be from Louisiana origionally would you? I have a nephew in Ga that is into models that I haven't seen in some time now. It would be pretty strange if you were wouldn't it?
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                        lizardqing
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                          July 2003
                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:07 PM
                        Sounds like it is coming along good. Look forward to seeing it.
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 29, 2003 11:57 PM
                        i made the foam 'scene' last night. i've got it so as the road curves kind of sharp, then i trenched out a gully that i will put in some sort of creek, and then i have what i hope will look like a steep upgrade behind the creek? that expanding foam is pretty neat stuff, i've used it alot for my mountains on my old h o railroad layouts and it looks really good if its painted right , place a few trees and some brush in the nooks and crannys. dont know how it will turn out but i will send you some pics lizardqing2 after i get it done.
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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Monday, September 29, 2003 11:19 PM
                        I can give alot of details of cars over embankments, I have spent countless nights down them getting people out of cars and back up. What we call an embankment though some may call a mountain. One thing to remember is think of the angle and how you would go about getting someone up it. Over a ceertain angle and ropes are used. Plus be sure to leave car pieces from the top down mainly bumpers and such. Could even have the front end wrapped around a tree with beer cans falling out of the car, be a good visual aid and pretty real to.
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 29, 2003 9:03 PM
                        hey with that expanding foam , make a trough on the side of the road or what ever that has dirt a female blank mold set up the curve in the dirt and sand et al and just oh also the angle of said bank and presto you got rocks and sand sticks(large logs stuck into the foam already set just paint and i think the foam will be correct in showing scale "nuggets of the roads gravel?? what you think besides the fact i might be tripping, lol hahahaha hey just bought a aeromaster kit the multi media kit p/e resin and damn a heller kits damn damn!!! well i will go bak to the tamiya meerc 560sl got new 3/0 paint brush for the small letters hey any ideas about painting those 1/128" high letters on the air cleaner?????I have no air brush but found out bout MM buffing metalizer what differentail with alclad??
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 28, 2003 9:50 PM
                        hello george, and welcome. the cotton candy idea is great. i will give that a try if idecide to do the burning house dio. i think im committed right now on doing an accident scene, we've got expandable foam here at work and i think im going to try and create some type of curved road with a gully and try to put a car over the embankment? i was going back to play around with it tonight and see how easy or hard this is going to be to work with. ill keep you guys posted.
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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Sunday, September 28, 2003 7:10 PM
                        Yea I would have never thought of cotton candy, of coarse my kids would be trying to eat my project though.
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 28, 2003 5:06 PM
                        hello and thanks!!! yes the insulation is/was part of nasa's division to put new technologies and create markets for them and make them mainstream I will have to call my buddy up and find where you can get it, its really cool stuff no pun intended, but it has the same density as air the fibers are so small that they look fluid, hey did you like the cotton candyt idea??lol
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                        lizardqing
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                          July 2003
                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Friday, September 26, 2003 6:22 PM
                        Sounds pretty cool george, and welcome to the forum. First post and already giving advice. So how does someone come by nasa's insulation? Is it something available to the public?
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 26, 2003 5:48 PM
                        Go to a town fair and get some cotton candy keep it cold so it wont melt(get diarama outside even better, then spray the cotton candy with a laquer coat to stop rotting and seal it or look up nasa's web site and they have this new insulation that is lighter than air, looks just like smoke you could attach this but i think it is brittle sao you cant bent it and shape like cottn candy I will try this experiment over the weekend and see how it goes, but the nasa insulation looks exactly like real smoke frozen in time
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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Friday, September 26, 2003 4:44 PM
                        I've got a whopping one code 3. It's one of the small ones I found at a toy store at the local outlet mall. They had one of the big ladders but I just don't really like the green paint job it has. Of coarse nothing beats the 1:1 that I get to drive and play with frequently.
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:37 PM
                        ok thanks for stoping and looking though. ive seen that code 3 house i was going to get it to go with my code 3 stuff, but never got it. i have 15 of there trucks, do you have any(stupid question , huh) i also collect the corgi trucks in the 1/50 scale, i've got 10 or so of those. thanks again for checking that durango out for me.
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                        lizardqing
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                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:01 PM
                        I stopped by MIcheals to look for that durange today but did'nt see one. Don't know if they might have sold it or if I saw something else and just remembered it wrong.
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