Recent content by Rhino

Hey Adam. Where ya been, Brother?

I had a bit of sad news to bring to out membership this night. It seemed good and right to convey this news in person. Plastic Surgeons plank-owner, and good friend Ray Powers is moving to his daughter Suzy's house in Altoona, IA for home hospice care. His chemo therapy so weakened his...

Nicely done, Indeed sir.

I believed tonight's meeting would be mostly contest business, as is usual for the final club meeting before the "Really Big Shoe" but there was Show N' Tell too. We arrived just a little late, after a sumptuous Wendy-burger supper and missed most of Matk Johnson's ortello about the stunning...

27 March Surgeon meeting post. We arrive a little bit late to tonight's gathering of Plastic Surgeons. It's a Full House! Only one empty chair, and only a few members not in attendance. We missed mark Mark Johnson's explanation about his stunning paint obo n his Datsun 240Z model. Wait...

That's too cool! My ol' Dad went for a ride in a Shaw AFB RF-4C. The tail code was "JO". He said it was an exciting airplane ride.

This fundraising idea is evidently not well received. Please forget I mentioned such a thing.

Big Cutter kits are selling again, and I'm running out of 1/350 HH-52A Seaguard Helicopters. Since I have more time than $$ these days, and Shapeways still doesn't offer these scale egg-beaters, I supported them and prepared to make molds. The winders are marked out with a sharpie marker and...

This new mold should satisfy the "Strike From the Sea" kit 1/700 aircraft requirements. Thanks for looking in!!

Wow! I may have used up all the complimentary words there are already. Can you show us how all these elements lay-out on the base you plan to use?

Having built this model as a much younger child, my hat is off to you, Paddy! I like the blue! I see the color with the eyes of admiration, rather than those of critique. :vgood:

The 2-piece mold has yielded 3 decent 1/700 SeaMasters. Cleaning up the mold lines on a object this scale is a challenge. Assembling of the parts from the new mold should be simpler and easier that all this sanding and shaping.

So, Alclad Chrome over Tamiya flat black looks a lot like gunmetal. I find this acceptable, but not ideal. If THE TURTLE-NATOR looks a bit malicious, that was the idea. With all the great names that were submitted, I chose a few, and made a decals to apply to the sides of the Rapid Rabbit...

Max's Dad tells me his son is just 14 years old. Matt shared a picture of Max' USS Nautilus From the IPMS Nationals. If this doesn't make you hunt up your DVD of "Ice Station Zebra" and watch it, not much else will! Bravo, young Mr. Whitaker!

Details are in my Airfix 1/72 Firefly Vc thread.