Hi Everyone,

Another busy evening, but not at the workbench.  My Mom called this morning to tell us that in addition to the fluid in her lungs she also has fluid around her heart.  Not a great way to start the day.  But by this evening when I visited her after work she said she felt better than she did this afternoon.  So maybe they are taking care of the problem.

I just don't trust doctors, at least not with blind faith.  I still believe that my Dad could have lived a couple of years longer except the doctors screwed up when he was in the hospital.  So this is all too familiar.  I am a lot more suspicious and don't just "take their word for it".

Ken

Son Of Medicine Man

Hi Everyone,

Another busy evening, but not at the workbench.  My Mom called this morning to tell us that in addition to the fluid in her lungs she also has fluid around her heart.  Not a great way to start the day.  But by this evening when I visited her after work she said she felt better than she did this afternoon.  So maybe they are taking care of the problem.

I just don't trust doctors, at least not with blind faith.  I still believe that my Dad could have lived a couple of years longer except the doctors screwed up when he was in the hospital.  So this is all too familiar.  I am a lot more suspicious and don't just "take their word for it".

Ken

Ken, I can't say I blame you for your mistrust of Doctors. Mom was diagnosed as having a "MRSA" infection, which is an antibiotic resistant form of Staph. Where do people get this infection? People who have been in hospitals or nursing homes or any type of institutional health care! Most are elderly, very ill or people who have weakened immune systems. I knew Mom's time was short as her health was very bad, but in a way, I blame the system which was supposed to help her for finishing her off.

Gee! Do I still maybe have some anger issues?

In a way, it was probably better it happened this way as her mental facilities had gotten so bad, and she was so week, that I would have had to seek permanent long term care for her.

In any case, I sit here tonight decorating my little Christmas tree and having a good cry as I do it.

Its like Norovirus. Most people who get it, get it from hospitals. It doesnt seem natural to mix sick people all in one place. Its like "Oh, your sick, lets put you with other sick people and hope you dont catch what they have"

Admittedly if it wasnt for doctors i wouldnt be around. So i guess i have to be thankful for them a little.

Sucks to hear about your moms ongoing sickness dude. Hopefully she gets better soon.

A while ago my dad gave me a couple of A-4 Skyhawks to build. He had started them, but couldnt carry on because he had too much to do already. The cockpits were almost finished (little glue bombs lol) and i wasnt happy with the ejection handles. So i did a little mod that i got from Ken. Modified slightly. I didnt have any pinstriping tape, but i had plenty of fuse wire. So i took a long length of it, (about a foot) painted half yellow, and half black. I folded it in half and put the ends in a vice. Then i put the folded end in the chuck for the drill and turned it on. Heres the result.

To get around the cracking problem Ken talked about, i brush painted it and did it while the paint was still tacky. 

Kbuzz: Got around to reading the article tonight- all I can say is WOW! I wouldn't know where to even begin.

Ken: My thoughts and prayers are with your mom. And yes, doctors are people too and do make mistakes- in some cases big ones.

Jim: Wow, one of my former bosses had the same thing happen to her. Went to a hospital, was getting better and then got MRSA and bang she was gone. Darnest thing.

ScorpyMike: Sharp work there, I like it!

Ken - my best wishes and prayers for you and your mom.

Jimbot - good thoughts to you also.

Kbuzz

You know Mikey.  You just came up with a great idea here.  I am going to have to try this, but with some finer wire and my Dremel so I can use something with a smaller chuck.  Or maybe manually with a pin vise for smaller lengths.

Rich

Scorpiomikey

Its like Norovirus. Most people who get it, get it from hospitals. It doesnt seem natural to mix sick people all in one place. Its like "Oh, your sick, lets put you with other sick people and hope you dont catch what they have"

Admittedly if it wasnt for doctors i wouldnt be around. So i guess i have to be thankful for them a little.

Sucks to hear about your moms ongoing sickness dude. Hopefully she gets better soon.

A while ago my dad gave me a couple of A-4 Skyhawks to build. He had started them, but couldnt carry on because he had too much to do already. The cockpits were almost finished (little glue bombs lol) and i wasnt happy with the ejection handles. So i did a little mod that i got from Ken. Modified slightly. I didnt have any pinstriping tape, but i had plenty of fuse wire. So i took a long length of it, (about a foot) painted half yellow, and half black. I folded it in half and put the ends in a vice. Then i put the folded end in the chuck for the drill and turned it on. Heres the result.

To get around the cracking problem Ken talked about, i brush painted it and did it while the paint was still tacky. 

Ken, I agree about blind faith.  I wouldn't be here either if it hadn't been for some very talented neuro surgeons and vascular specialists.   I think there are good reasons for the mistakes we see in the medical profession.  In hospitals, they push the staff so hard that they are worn out.  My Wife has a bunch of degrees that are in the health field, mostly office info and billing, but she is also a CMA (Certified Medical Assistant), and has some other certificates.  When she was in school, she had to do externships at local hospitals.  It's like you see on TV.  Super long shifts with high pressure and always understaffed so whoever owns the hospital can get a new BMW every year.   I would really prefer not to be in the hands of a poor Resident who has been on shift for 36 hours without sleep and run ragged during that time.  I want a Doctor who is calm, not stressed, and has had a good night sleep.  I think if they stopped the long shift practices, they would see a sudden drop in mistakes that cause malpractice suits.  Doctors are human, but people tend to forget that;  Especially their bosses...  I have had my family Doctor for about 6 years now.  I switched to him because my previous primary Doctor did nothing but shove more and more pills down my throat.  He keeps the patient in the exam room for half an hour or more, and then spends about 5 minutes with him.  And his support people are rude.  My current Doctor takes time to explain everything he is doing and why.  He has a very nice group of CMAs Nurses, Techs and office people. 

My point is that they aren't all bad, but some of them are.  Just remember, even if you are in a hospital, you ALWAYS have the right to fire your Doctor and get a different one.  When I had the Aneurysm, I did a lot of research about it and then I understood why the mini-strokes I had during the procedure did what they did.  I did the same thing when I had my heart attack a year or so before the aneurysm.  Education is your best tool to make sure you are getting the best care possible.  And it makes sometimes very frightening conditions not quite as scary.  I know when I heard the words Cerebral" and "Aneurysm" put together in the emergency room, I thought...  Okay so this might be it...  And while it has seriously messed up my life, at least I am still kicking (even if its not so high anymore).

Losing a loved one to bad health care is never fun.  My Dad, even though he was a complete jerk, was still my Dad, and when he died, it was his second heart attack.  I demanded to see his health records and finally got a court order to get them since I was his oldest child.  I made sure that everything they did was proper, and fortunately (for the Doctor), it was.  I did the same thing a year later when my Mom died of her first heart attack in the back of a cab going to buy groceries.  She was pretty much DOA.  They said she had the heart of a 90 year old due to years of stress and drugs to keep her mental health conditions under control.

I would be worried if I wasn't adopted, because Heart Attacks seem to run in the family on both sides.  But as long as I trust my Doctor, I will stay with him.  I recently fired my Pulminologist (sp).  I didn't like him very much.  He was kind of creepy.  I have an appointment with a new one coming up after the holidays, and my Doctor said this one is very good. 

Don't trust blindly, but once you are sure you can trust them, you sort of have to. 

Have a great week.

Rich

(P.S. to stay on topic,  I will be starting on a new build while I wait for some paint for the FGR.2 kit.  I don't quite know which one yet.  I have been polishing off some quickie builds, I just completed a 2 day Lindberg 1/48 Skyray, and I just started a quickie Matchbox 1/48 F2J Fury.  It should be interesting.  I just hope the decals survive even after putting decal film on them.  They were almost stuck to the wax paper and slightly faded.  I may scan and print out a duplicate set, then place them on top of the kit decals to bring out more color.  Now I just have to get some decal paper and wait for that. lol.)

Son Of Medicine Man

Hi Everyone,

Another busy evening, but not at the workbench.  My Mom called this morning to tell us that in addition to the fluid in her lungs she also has fluid around her heart.  Not a great way to start the day.  But by this evening when I visited her after work she said she felt better than she did this afternoon.  So maybe they are taking care of the problem.

I just don't trust doctors, at least not with blind faith.  I still believe that my Dad could have lived a couple of years longer except the doctors screwed up when he was in the hospital.  So this is all too familiar.  I am a lot more suspicious and don't just "take their word for it".

Ken

Son Of Medicine Man

Hi Everyone,

Another busy evening, but not at the workbench.  My Mom called this morning to tell us that in addition to the fluid in her lungs she also has fluid around her heart.  Not a great way to start the day.  But by this evening when I visited her after work she said she felt better than she did this afternoon.  So maybe they are taking care of the problem.

I just don't trust doctors, at least not with blind faith.  I still believe that my Dad could have lived a couple of years longer except the doctors screwed up when he was in the hospital.  So this is all too familiar.  I am a lot more suspicious and don't just "take their word for it".

Ken

Yeh, I hear you on that, the lack of care from the pros really shortened my folks stay.

Bad news, my MIL went in for a suspected heart attack yesterday. Maybe this thread is floating over an ancient burial ground.......

I found her on the floor after work and we were in the hospital until 6:00 a.m.

I had to go to work. I just had my job review, and the good news is that I'll be working for another year, at least until the next i.e. things may 'change', and no Santa Presents from the Boss this year i.e. cola or stocking stuffer. That was a brutal day.

Ken, the medical world loves the 'Liverpool Care Path' a progressive prescriptive approach to modern medicine, that you really must look up. it explains everything.

Dom

Sparrowhyperion

You know Mikey.  You just came up with a great idea here.  I am going to have to try this, but with some finer wire and my Dremel so I can use something with a smaller chuck.  Or maybe manually with a pin vise for smaller lengths.

Rich

Scorpiomikey

Its like Norovirus. Most people who get it, get it from hospitals. It doesnt seem natural to mix sick people all in one place. Its like "Oh, your sick, lets put you with other sick people and hope you dont catch what they have"

Admittedly if it wasnt for doctors i wouldnt be around. So i guess i have to be thankful for them a little.

Sucks to hear about your moms ongoing sickness dude. Hopefully she gets better soon.

A while ago my dad gave me a couple of A-4 Skyhawks to build. He had started them, but couldnt carry on because he had too much to do already. The cockpits were almost finished (little glue bombs lol) and i wasnt happy with the ejection handles. So i did a little mod that i got from Ken. Modified slightly. I didnt have any pinstriping tape, but i had plenty of fuse wire. So i took a long length of it, (about a foot) painted half yellow, and half black. I folded it in half and put the ends in a vice. Then i put the folded end in the chuck for the drill and turned it on. Heres the result.

To get around the cracking problem Ken talked about, i brush painted it and did it while the paint was still tacky. 

I hope you have variable speed on that Dremelmy last dino-dremel had two speeds: on and off.

Dom

jimbot58

kbuzz01

Wow - sorry to hear about these romantic (or non-romantic) escapades!  I'm definitely a total novice when it comes to such.  My best friend and I have been faithfully married for 57 yrs.  But, hang in there with as much optimism as you can muster - good things will still happen.  

Getting back to things that fly in the air, a friend emailed me this story.  It's quite lengthy and I apologize if you have seen it before, but I found it almost unbelievable.  Makes me realize that my modeling skills are totally inadequate.  

www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/park.htm

Kbuzz

Yow! That guy is building small aircraft and the rest of us are just gluing bits of pre-formed plastic bits together!

Off subject for just a moment; years ago I signed up for this telephone based social service. You posted a profile and then others could listen and respond if they were interested. Girls signed up for free and guys had to pay (through the nose) to listen to responses or respond to women's personals. It was expensive and was based on a per minute charge for guys to participate and helped to contribute to my eventual bankruptcy. I met up with a couple of women and both times things just kind of fizzled and never went beyond the first meeting/date. I think we were both mutually disappointed. I was also surprised when several girls left me messages with offers to be my girlfriend "of the hour" if you catch my drift. No thanks!

Back to flying things.

I repaired/repainted the damaged wing tip:

Then I scraped the paint away as the clear red will look better over the light colored plastic. Don't know why I didn't do it this way to begin with.

The other side was much easier. It came out looking just fine (to me) using just dark blue (gloss).

I also added a half dozen more or so of the plentiful "NO STEP" decals. Once done with those I get to add a few more decals that say "NO PUSH". Yea for me!!!!

You nailed it!

Also Jim:

Three parents and and aunt and uncle who really suffered

a lack of attention and due diligence on the part of "care-givers".

Naturally, I have one 'issues', 'don't worry, be happy'

Dom

Bockscar

Ken,

Yeh, I hear you on that, the lack of care from the pros really shortened my folks stay.

Bad news, my MIL went in for a suspected heart attack yesterday. Maybe this thread is floating over an ancient burial ground.......

I found her on the floor after work and we were in the hospital until 6:00 a.m.

I had to go to work. I just had my job review, and the good news is that I'll be working for another year, at least until the next i.e. things may 'change', and no Santa Presents from the Boss this year i.e. cola or stocking stuffer. That was a brutal day.

Ken, the medical world loves the 'Liverpool Care Path' a progressive prescriptive approach to modern medicine, that you really must look up. it explains everything.

Dom

Wow, sorry to hear about your MIL, Dom!  Hope she makes a full recovery.

Russ

Bockscar

Sparrowhyperion

You know Mikey.  You just came up with a great idea here.  I am going to have to try this, but with some finer wire and my Dremel so I can use something with a smaller chuck.  Or maybe manually with a pin vise for smaller lengths.

Rich

Scorpiomikey

Its like Norovirus. Most people who get it, get it from hospitals. It doesnt seem natural to mix sick people all in one place. Its like "Oh, your sick, lets put you with other sick people and hope you dont catch what they have"

Admittedly if it wasnt for doctors i wouldnt be around. So i guess i have to be thankful for them a little.

Sucks to hear about your moms ongoing sickness dude. Hopefully she gets better soon.

A while ago my dad gave me a couple of A-4 Skyhawks to build. He had started them, but couldnt carry on because he had too much to do already. The cockpits were almost finished (little glue bombs lol) and i wasnt happy with the ejection handles. So i did a little mod that i got from Ken. Modified slightly. I didnt have any pinstriping tape, but i had plenty of fuse wire. So i took a long length of it, (about a foot) painted half yellow, and half black. I folded it in half and put the ends in a vice. Then i put the folded end in the chuck for the drill and turned it on. Heres the result.

To get around the cracking problem Ken talked about, i brush painted it and did it while the paint was still tacky. 

Rich:

I hope you have variable speed on that Dremelmy last dino-dremel had two speeds: on and off.

Dom

The speed doesnt matter. Wire tends to twist fairly uniformly and if its going too fast as long as you keep tension on it it should just snap off at the right time.

Mikey;

Errr;

Yeah, at 3000 rpm snap a bit off right into your eye......lol

There are always glasses

Anyhow, I've twisted wire to make miniature barbed wire sets,

maybe that's why I prefer much, much lower rpm's.

Dom

Dom, I have one of the older variable speed Dremels.  I treat it like gold because I don't like the newer ones.  To me, they just seem to not be made as well.  I got a quick disconnect collette for it, and I usually use it on my plunge drill stand.  One of these days, I need to get a flex shaft for it.  The only drawback is that it's not cordless, but that's only a minor inconvenience to me.

Scorpiomikey

Its like Norovirus. Most people who get it, get it from hospitals. It doesnt seem natural to mix sick people all in one place. Its like "Oh, your sick, lets put you with other sick people and hope you dont catch what they have"

Admittedly if it wasnt for doctors i wouldnt be around. So i guess i have to be thankful for them a little.

Sucks to hear about your moms ongoing sickness dude. Hopefully she gets better soon.

A while ago my dad gave me a couple of A-4 Skyhawks to build. He had started them, but couldnt carry on because he had too much to do already. The cockpits were almost finished (little glue bombs lol) and i wasnt happy with the ejection handles. So i did a little mod that i got from Ken. Modified slightly. I didnt have any pinstriping tape, but i had plenty of fuse wire. So i took a long length of it, (about a foot) painted half yellow, and half black. I folded it in half and put the ends in a vice. Then i put the folded end in the chuck for the drill and turned it on. Heres the result.

To get around the cracking problem Ken talked about, i brush painted it and did it while the paint was still tacky. 

Hi Scorpio Mike,

That is a nice alternative to how I did mine!  Very creative thinking!  I like it!     

Ken

Bockscar

Ken:

Yeh, I hear you on that, the lack of care from the pros really shortened my folks stay.

Bad news, my MIL went in for a suspected heart attack yesterday. Maybe this thread is floating over an ancient burial ground.......

I found her on the floor after work and we were in the hospital until 6:00 a.m.

I had to go to work. I just had my job review, and the good news is that I'll be working for another year, at least until the next i.e. things may 'change', and no Santa Presents from the Boss this year i.e. cola or stocking stuffer. That was a brutal day.

Ken, the medical world loves the 'Liverpool Care Path' a progressive prescriptive approach to modern medicine, that you really must look up. it explains everything.

Dom

Wow Dom, very sorry to hear about your mother in law.  I hope she recovers.  But that is good news that you will have a job for another year!  It beats the alternative.

My best friend's girl friend of 22 years (they are practically married) lost her job a month ago.  She worked for the company for over 10 years, countless hours past the standard 40 a week (she was salary), always went far above and beyond the call of duty.  But in an instant of an accountant's swipe of a pen, her position was "eliminated".  Merry Christmas.

Good news today, my Mom was released from the hospital!  Apparently the excess fluid was a result of the I.V. saline bags the hospital was pumping into her veins!  (Although they never came out and admitted that!)  But it was as soon as the excess fluid in her lungs and around her heart was discovered, the I.V. bags came off, and the next day she is fine.

So I spent this evening getting her settled back at home.  She still cannot have anything but clear liquids until Monday, which is a bummer.  But she is so much happier to be back home!  We stopped on the way home to fill a script for pain medicine, but she said that she is not feeling any pain from the surgery.  She is still short of breath, so she will have to be careful not to over do it.

Ken

  Been out of the loop for a little and was saddened by your situation Ken. My father passed away 3 months ago from cancer but as weak as he was my sister and I never thought he should have been getting chemo. He died within a month of starting it; we literally watched him go from bad to worse. The oncologist recommended it and my dad just was never one to question those people or ask for a second opinion. I'm sure he would've gone eventually but I'll always believe the so-called "treatment" was the worst thing for him at the time. As for me, the last time I was hospitalized I contracted C Diff. It's miserable.Really bad stuff!  Turns out it happens more than I knew. Getting that wonderful bug prolonged my stay by almost 2 weeks.

All that aside, I'm very relieved to here that your mom is back home; this kind of thing always gives one a perspective on the important things in life. It may be a cliche' but the truth is one's health is first and foremost. Best of luck to you!

mikeymize

  Been out of the loop for a little and was saddened by your situation Ken. My father passed away 3 months ago from cancer but as weak as he was my sister and I never thought he should have been getting chemo. He died within a month of starting it; we literally watched him go from bad to worse. The oncologist recommended it and my dad just was never one to question those people or ask for a second opinion. I'm sure he would've gone eventually but I'll always believe the so-called "treatment" was the worst thing for him at the time. As for me, the last time I was hospitalized I contracted C Diff. It's miserable.Really bad stuff!  Turns out it happens more than I knew. Getting that wonderful bug prolonged my stay by almost 2 weeks.

All that aside, I'm very relieved to here that your mom is back home; this kind of thing always gives one a perspective on the important things in life. It may be a cliche' but the truth is one's health is first and foremost. Best of luck to you!

Hi Mike M.,

I am very sorry to hear about losing your Dad.  Yes, it sounds like it was a very bad call to get chemo that late in the stage of his health.

I am still concerned about my Mom, I don't think she is out of the woods yet.  I half way wonder they just wanted her out of the hospital so that if anything happens they could avoid getting blamed for it.  I am going to keep a close eye on her to make sure that she is okay.

Ken

MikeM: Yeah, sorry to hear about your dad, gee only three months ago no less.

Ken: Not much to do as far as I know but wait, watch, and hope.

mikeymize

  Been out of the loop for a little and was saddened by your situation Ken. My father passed away 3 months ago from cancer but as weak as he was my sister and I never thought he should have been getting chemo. He died within a month of starting it; we literally watched him go from bad to worse. The oncologist recommended it and my dad just was never one to question those people or ask for a second opinion. I'm sure he would've gone eventually but I'll always believe the so-called "treatment" was the worst thing for him at the time. As for me, the last time I was hospitalized I contracted C Diff. It's miserable.Really bad stuff!  Turns out it happens more than I knew. Getting that wonderful bug prolonged my stay by almost 2 weeks.

All that aside, I'm very relieved to here that your mom is back home; this kind of thing always gives one a perspective on the important things in life. It may be a cliche' but the truth is one's health is first and foremost. Best of luck to you!

Sorry to hear about your dad, and your loss, that is very tough, I went through that myself 3 years back.

The cancer hospital up here used my dad as a training subject for student surgeons.

My mom went into hospital to have a sprained ankle and small fracture set. When she was there, they gave her C-Diff. They have over a dozen cases in a ward, and the bug spread through-out the hospital.

Hospitals up here can allow a quota of people to die of C-Diff without any consequences, my mom was one of those.

I was in the hospital waiting for almost 9 hours and this lady with suspected infection was coughing all over the place and hacking up chunks. They didn't even tell her to cover her mouth. When I asked a nurse about a face mask for myself she said "I always protect myself sir" but didn't offer me one.

If I catch something soon you'll know why.

Dom

Im sure i mentioned something about this thread being cursed.

Last night, when i got home from work. There was some mail waiting for me.

Whats this? Lets open it.

WOOT WOOT Phantom alert.

But wait, theres more.

Upon further inspection however, The photoetch is for a J/S model. The intakes are significantly too short (Probably for an earlier version) and the other bag contains a refueling probe head....still trying to figure that one out. At the least i can use it on my skyhawk.

Now i need to do something about this.

Well its a start i suppose.

Humpback skyhawk in the works, at the rate im going it should be complete over the new year. I was to use the skyhawk to get my bench set up properly. You guys know how it is, a new bench is never right till youve run a few kits through it to work out the kinks.

My MIL is stabilized, her blood pressure had soared to almost 200 so the doctors

are keeping her in for a suspected heart attack. The little dog is freaked out she

is not home.

Good news, my Christmas present to myself arrived, it is the Trumpeter 1/72 Bear.

Until you see these things it is hard to guage the substantial differences in size

between this Soviet heavy bomber and the BUFF.

The Bear was a re-design of the B-29 Nato "Bull" TU-4, and maintains the B-29's fuselage radius.

The kit is fantastic, a real beauty, and I'm quite happy to have it in the stacks.

Here's the Bull:

Dom

Yaah...those commies....lol:

Dom

Yeah the ruskies did some strange stuff, but then who didnt?

Well:

The top photo is a project that became the standard for small drones and stable helicopters, ie no counter-rtational prop on the tail boom, as the counter rotational momentum was supplied at shaft. Like Kamov. Or even the Kusnetsov engines for the Bear.

The other photo is of a NASA attempt at cutting every American Males' hair by the government, at supersonic speed, yeh, I wake up dreaming about that all right, so it stands as clear technological equivalent to that fat Soviet fantasy!!!

Good one Mikey!

Dom

Scorpiomikey

Im sure i mentioned something about this thread being cursed.

Last night, when i got home from work. There was some mail waiting for me.

Whats this? Lets open it.

WOOT WOOT Phantom alert.

But wait, theres more.

Upon further inspection however, The photoetch is for a J/S model. The intakes are significantly too short (Probably for an earlier version) and the other bag contains a refueling probe head....still trying to figure that one out. At the least i can use it on my skyhawk.

Now i need to do something about this.

Well its a start i suppose.

Humpback skyhawk in the works, at the rate im going it should be complete over the new year. I was to use the skyhawk to get my bench set up properly. You guys know how it is, a new bench is never right till youve run a few kits through it to work out the kinks.

Very cool Scorpio Mike!  It is always nice when a package arrives with a kit inside!  So I take it the extras were not expected?

It looks like you have a good start at getting the workbench broke in.  Are you losing interest in the Skyhawk?  If you are, maybe you need to find a kit that really electrifies you.  Is there something that you have been saving for a special occasion?

Ken

Bockscar

My MIL is stabilized, her blood pressure had soared to almost 200 so the doctors

are keeping her in for a suspected heart attack. The little dog is freaked out she

is not home.

Good news, my Christmas present to myself arrived, it is the Trumpeter 1/72 Bear.

Until you see these things it is hard to guage the substantial differences in size

between this Soviet heavy bomber and the BUFF.

The Bear was a re-design of the B-29 Nato "Bull" TU-4, and maintains the B-29's fuselage radius.

The kit is fantastic, a real beauty, and I'm quite happy to have it in the stacks.

 

Dom

Hi Dom!

Just like I was saying to Scorpio Mike, there is nothing like the feeling of seeing that package waiting for you on the front step when you get home that you have been waiting for!  It is just like Christmas!  Then you open it up to find the kit inside, still factory sealed, ready to be built to your specifications!

Ken

Bockscar

Yaah...those commies....lol:

Dom

That is just plain funny!   

Ken

The skyhawks were given to me by dad. Ive only just started them.He has started the cockpits and interior so i just quickly buttoned it up with some weights last night (After a tidy up on some of the paint from his shaky hands) Tonight ill start on the exterior and planning the paint. Should be fun. Ill leave the second skyhawk til i can figure out how to sort the instrument cowlings. Its going to be done as a late model K with the upgraded glass cockpit. Basically the same as what was in the F-16's so i need to raise the cowling up and add a bigger HUD. 1 project at a time though.

Also i have a new game arrived today (Dead island, only horror game to ever give me nightmares lol) and ive got 2 shiny new Eduard kits arriving in the next couple weeks (I hope)

I ordered the new mold BF-109E-1 and the BF-110G both in 48 scale.  

First off I wanted to thank all those who expressed kind words regarding the passing away of my dad; 3 months isn't that long but I'm just glad I was able to speak with him while he was still lucid and not lost in the fog,so to speak. Dom and Ken, best wishes to both of you with your respective family medical issues. I'm an optimist for the most part; hate negativity so I'll believe things will work themselves out.

On a lighter note, I'm loving the crazy Russian flying machines. There were some outstanding engineers in the design bureaus of the USSR in spite of Uncle Joe's paranoia. It's amazing what they did under those conditions. Of course they were always willing to "borrow" a few ideas from the Germans jet program as well as a smidgen from good old Uncle Sam. Never admit it though that could earn you a trip to the Gulag! Have nice day comrade!