Recent content by Barney

welcome! I have ben on several different forums, but this is the friendliest!

Kids are all grown, grand kids are getting there. We have the usual mortgage and cars today off, credit cards are slowly being reduced.Too many kits? And??? There has to be a certain kit you'd really like to have. This year's Amazon Lists from the kids are including $400 chairs and $200 pairs...

I was floored this morning on my way to the VA for treatment. Christmas Songs!!!!!! Santa Baby at that! So, I was thinking, what do I want this Christmas? Absolutely something I wouldn't buy of myself. Something massive? Something tiny? I can barely see to do 1/38 so forget 1/72. How about...

Very nice work.

I think I have mentioned that I grew-up in a machine shop. This was long before computers and everything was set up by hand. Milling machines and lathes were part of my life. I absolutely think that such devices are fantastic for y'all that might use them. However, they remind me of my father...

I built this kit when LBJ was president. I lived for different 1/72 Revell kits to come to the shelves of the local Gray Drugs, Rouch Hardware, or (gasp) the Hobby Store in Columbus...

Sweat Jesus! How did you survive such a crisis? SWMBO would have killed everything lying in the city limits if she didn't get her morning coffee.

I used them today, painting the cushion on a FW190 seat and touching yp a tire on a 1/72 Corsair. very nice!

I have been VERY lucky over the past few months! At my local IPMS meetings I have won several kits at our monthly raffle. And I got lucky with an eBay purchase of the AK paint pens. Additionally, I have spent a few dollars buying a couple of kits I have been eyeballing... shame on me! I am...

This is great! More information for my files. And, what a lovely kit!

Very cool. I have that kit, the aurora kit and a Fokker DVI in the Stash of Never Builds

Hey Chip, Welcome back. I truly understand a "music obsession." SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) says I have more albums that kits! (It's a lie!)

When I was working for the Navy (2015-2019) a B-29 landed here in CLE. I got to see is land and take off, since I worked on the 9th flor of the federal building. My cousin, Richard, flew. in B-29s as a gunner in WW2 and later flew as a Navigator in several larger aft.

I'll be there... God willing and the creek don't rise!

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