THE OFFICIAL IN THE BUFF B52 GROUP BUILD

Kong;

Good luck with the LED's. After 1972, I never put a battery in a model kit again. I admire your ingeniousness to carve a lense out of toothbrush plastic, it's a good idea. The closest I get to that are Tru-Glo front sights

It might be an idea for me to try putting the lights in but without the actual LED's.

Yeah, I'm waiting on a laser bore sight from China, I ordered it, now that I think about it, prawley 5 years ago! It was cheaper than a laser pointer and won't break if I drop it. I use them for a micro flashlight when camping.

Oh yeah, J-57's, I actually did the opposite and removed the pylons because, because, hmmm..... ferr gott. I was trying to get them to look like the ones in Russ' pictures.

The exhaust plastic is way too thick, so I'm filing out the insides and trying to make the exhaust cones look better, as if anyone will see them when they're hanging from the ceiling. But not many folks outside this website build BUFF's anyhow. Maybe just a few thousands of us in the whole wide world.

I found my round riffler files on the weekend by accident, I was looking for sandpaper, so now I can start finishing those exhausts as originally planned. Hey; I actually started thinking about the paint scheme and looking for flat black and olive drab in my stacks of supplies. Did I already say my Badger is in the trunk of my car? -since August or so? One of the last things I moved out of the house,,,

Good luck with the lenses

Dom,

Went to paint the black on the engines, (primered them last night) and discovered that the primer had cracked on all 4 engine pods. They are all soaking in the strip tank as we speak. Have no idea as to what happened.  I swear, Im gonna take up knitting!!

Majer Kong

Dom,

Sounds like we might be related... Do you live in Toronto?? If so Im not too far from you. Im 2 hrs south of CLE. To make you feel better, I've been lookin for the CIA donor body kit. Ima figgerin a BUFF nut like me needs his own "personal jet... Thats when I came up with the toothbrush idea-Go figure..

Batteries for the Nav/landing lights will not be in the jet. Will have some wires hanging out of the quad 50s, maybe disguised as the lower 2 ?? Will have 3 black guns and one will be red. If anyone asks, that gun just completed a fireout and is still hot...

Was looking at Toronto on google earth but didnt see ya waving!!

For the record down here in the USA round files are called *** files...

Majer Kong

Gosh Al,

***files, is that like the X-Files?

Hey, I was waving, zoom in on the west side of the city!

I also just found the shell for the 200 megaton gadget. It's fer' when

regular paving jess' won't do.

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Dom,

Sounds like we might be related... Do you live in Toronto?? If so Im not too far from you. Im 2 hrs south of CLE. To make you feel better, I've been lookin for the CIA donor body kit. Ima figgerin a BUFF nut like me needs his own "personal jet... Thats when I came up with the toothbrush idea-Go figure..

Batteries for the Nav/landing lights will not be in the jet. Will have some wires hanging out of the quad 50s, maybe disguised as the lower 2 ?? Will have 3 black guns and one will be red. If anyone asks, that gun just completed a fireout and is still hot...

Was looking at Toronto on google earth but didnt see ya waving!!

For the record down here in the USA round files are called *** files...

Majer Kong

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Here's a repeat of the internal aluminum endo skeleton of My BUFF:

It's Friday, and tomorrow I'll be doing more preparation for my hobby room and if I get it all done I can start setting up a paint hood system. It's been a bit rough what with all the drugs...I swear my liver is shot through...

Good news is that I can now walk aout 300 feet a day without crutches.

Bad news is I can't drink any beer while I'm on the meds.

Good news is I can't drink any beer... my doc loves hearing stuff like that...

Still haven't got to my website to post pics yet, but it is on my list.

Have a great Super Bowl Weekend guys.....

Two weeks flew by. Saturday I got the last of the kits put away after setting up a table stand for my paint hood. This is a big step, and now I'm going to get the pieces for my hood out of storage. It's times like this I thank goodness I didn't throw the thing away. As many of you know, sometimes under massive stress and lack of space we do things we regret later.

A pal of mine just got rid of his entire train set from the 60's and 70's - almost 300 rolling stock pieces. He said he had collected almost 50 engines alone. He sold a single package of 25 engines to someone at a model train show. Another package had 10's of lumber flatbeds. He also disassembled the big track set that took up an entire top floor of the old family home. He had hundreds of feet of silver-nickle track.

He gave me three beautiful engines, and get this, two flat beds - one with Panzer IV's and a King Tiger Panzer Jaeger! He also left me a paper sign from the train room:

WARNING!

HOBBY POX!

Contagious to all ages!

Gosh, I came so close to setting up tracks as a kid...glad I stuck with styrene aircraft.

Happy President's Day guys!

Dom,

 I picked up2 more spare engines from a feller in Cincinnati today. Brings the total to 18 spares... Also got complete landing gear sets for 2 A/C including wheels and a set of 4 power pods from his monogram "D"- all for a set of "G" power pods. Hes building 2, a "D" and an "F"

MK

Hi Guy's I wonder if I can join your buff party. I'm building a 1/144 scale B-52H it's in the aircraft forum from the start of the build.

crown r n7

Hi Guy's I wonder if I can join your buff party. I'm building a 1/144 scale B-52H it's in the aircraft forum from the start of the build.

 

Welcome aboard Crownr!

The most important rule is that you can't hurt any real BUFFs in the making of your kit...

I wish I could see that small, I have an original Revell solid plastic kit from the 50's, and it's the smallest BUFF I have. All scales welcome.

I'll put your build on the list.

buffjock

Dom,

 

 I picked up2 more spare engines from a feller in Cincinnati today. Brings the total to 18 spares... Also got complete landing gear sets for 2 A/C including wheels and a set of 4 power pods from his monogram "D"- all for a set of "G" power pods. Hes building 2, a "D" and an "F"

 

MK

 

It's great to have those spares. I used to love finding and collecting kits and even built-ups from friends. Actually, an old pal is moving and has decided to give all his model stuff to me, and I said yes. Oh boy, more Harriers and sci-fi stuff....

Yeah, some guys dream about wealth, women, winchesters, and wine, but me, my best dreams are almost all the same: I walk into an old shop somewhere and what do you know, they have stacks of old kits hidden on the back shelves no one in town ever wanted to buy for decades. It's almost always 50's and 60's aircraft...stacks of them. Sometimes there's a tank or ship...

So, I may have mentioned here, I have a set-up for my paint hood but can't get to it as it is still buried,,,at least I know where it is this time. I found all the paint sets and tools. Digging out from the last 2 years has been rough, but there's light up at the edge of the trench!

thank you

Crown,

 Saw the start of your build the other nite and was going to recommend jumpin in over here but ya beat me to it. Ya got lots a friends (and advice) over on this build. Did I see some cars earlier that you built?

 Dom, If ya got too many bomber, you can always put em on the boat over to Ohio.. I know someone who could give em the love they need.

Hit the Swank claim this mornnig and I got a little gold to cleanup...

MK

crown r n7

thank you

 

 

Ya' know Kong,

Soon you'll be too rich fer' us fellers.

Dom,

 Not likely, 10 hrs standing on me head, bout  $16.  I will need to be 165 years old to break even... But  I had a good time...

  Finally finished up your old -36 the other day. Gonna hang it im me room...

MK

Dom,

 I told the guy I got the engines off of to come visit our group build. Dont know if he will but he is building a "D" and an "F" concurrently so he would be a good fit....

MK

buffjock

Dom,

 I told the guy I got the engines off of to come visit our group build. Dont know if he will but he is building a "D" and an "F" concurrently so he would be a good fit....

MK

 

This isn't a big busy town like some of the other threads, which is fine. That's one of the things I like about FSM, there's something for everybody. Honestly, I wish more guys would just build more BUFFs where ever they want to!

buffjock

Dom,

 

 Not likely, 10 hrs standing on me head, bout  $16.  I will need to be 165 years old to break even... But  I had a good time...

 

  Finally finished up your old -36 the other day. Gonna hang it im me room...

 

MK

 

That's the prawlem ryt thar!

Try not standing on yer head fer a change!

Wish I had a gold magnet...mind you, panning for recreation does sound like fun. I'm such a tin-horn jasper, I figure I'll be tripping over 50 pound nuggets just to get to the real big ones.

I tried fishing for recreation but after working at a 30-foot seafood counter for a few years it kinds a' dun took all the fun out of it. Besides, after you've cleaned and filleted a 150 pound Alaskan halibut, you can never go back to stream trout.
Unless you bring your pans with ya'

Dom,

 It cracks me up when a fella brings a 45oo dollar  2" suction dredge in and works for two days and pulls 25 bucks wortha "G", And then he says, "We killed it this weekend" like hes making millions. If you know where to look, I can put that dredge to shame with a 15 dolla plastic dog dish....

 Gold magnet?? get ya a woman-same thing she pulls the gold and yer still broke....

I emailed Jeff and told him to get his butt over to FS and get signed up.

I may send ya a pic of this weekends haul of AU later

MK

Just about got my 2 1/2 inch dredge ready to go.  We will have this year to hit non-salmon waters here.  Managed to kill a bill that would have pretty much ended the practice in this session, but it will be back with a vengence next year.  Working the GPAA show in Portland in early April with our chapter.  Can't wait for mid May and first of June to get here to hit the claims and areas I have access to.

Hey GoldHammer, did you notice that our GB badge has gold lettering?

Dom,

 Cripes, i swear your rubbing off on me. I got me camera out today and the dang thing wouldnt turn on. Dead batteries maybe? Opened er up and guess what, NO batteries. So, off to town I went, installed new batteries, worked like a charm. Went to download to me puter and do you think I could find the cable that attached cam to puter?? Looks like Ima goin back to town tomorrow... Now if I could just figger out where me shotglass is. I got a pic of mondays "G" but you will get it eventually.

MK

Goldhammer,

 I just joined GPAA, (Aint even got me card and pan yet) im stuck in Ohio so all I find is flour "G"...  Just once, id like to get me a big ole nugg. i just pan and have a small 4'x12" sluice I use in the creek with a shovel. Not to much excitement with that.

MK

Hey guys;

I was setting up my new hobby room then got completely derailed.

My brother was diagnosed with terminal cancer so late spring and summer have been rather awful. I find it almost impossible to think about building.

I even stopped unpacking and moving into the apartment. I'm a cave man right now.

They gave him until November. I was in Ohio a few weeks back to see him and he's not looking good. 

Oh well guys, I hate abandoning all of you and this great thread, but I'll probably be out of sorts until next spring.

I will return mesages if you send them.

All the best,

Dom

Very sorry to hear that, Dom. Your brother will be in my prayers. Take care and we'll all hope for a miracle.

Russ

Thank you Russ!

I don't want to whine about my troubles, but I'm also very glad to know some of

you guys are on my side! It's been rather rough, I buried a friend two weeks ago whom died suddenly while grabbing a midnight snack out of the fridge. Hey, on Thursday my X called to say my dog is dying of a pancreatic disease.

This is just the way it goes, as most of you have gone through these things a few times already. Look, I'll keep you all posted and see if I can pull it all back together.

I think it is just another of those bad times; a few weeks ago a pal was kicked out by his wife and he ended up billeting in my hobby room, his kids wouldn't offer him a couch! There's good news though, she broke her foot so as it turned out he only crashed for 2 nights before the damsel called him back to nurse-maid her. Except now all his stuff is crammed into my hobby room SLEB...

My head is spinning right now.

I'll keep you posted.

Dom

Dom, I feel your pain and I'll be praying for you too. I also feel like everything is dumping on me and I know what you're going through. Hang in there, keep the faith and don't worry about us. We'll leave the light on for you.

Thanks Duke!

Late today he seemed to begin coming back to life.

We still don't know what hit him.

Anyways, he was able to walk around a bit this afternoon 

which was a huge improvement.

Yesterday I thought he was a goner.

(He's just yanking our chain to get more goodies!)

Thanks again for the good words, 

Dom

Your're welcome. It's great to see prayers answered. I'll continue praying for his swift recovery.