2024 Plastic Surgeons Posts

[Duke Maddog]

Wow, what fun! It's also great to see so many young people at your meetings too. I want half those Vespid kits that Lorne brought in! Time to go shopping!

 

[Rhino]

I call it "Scratch-building with yarn." Teresa says it's crocheting. She starts with a pattern (blueprint) makes parts and assembles them. Very much like I do, but much bigger and cuter!

Her Tyrannosaurus in pumpkin orange, is coming along quite nicely! He is made from Red Heart yarn and FUN!
Don't you hurt him, Glenn! He's very friendly!

In a little more time than it takes to tell you about Teresa's yarn T-Rex scratch-build, she finished him!
Thanks again for looking in!

 

[Rhino]

Teresa's yarn scratch builds are getting more complex. I called these "Dyan Cannon dollies" because of their golden, curly tresses.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

She is making nicer and nicer creations. Excellent work Teresa!

Was at my brother's place over Thanksgiving. He ran across some Yarnimals that had a bit of a twist. He forwarded these pics to me (and these were NOT the funniest nor best) But these give an idea. I immediately thought of you folks and wondered if she would find something like these interesting as joke pieces.

 

[Rhino]

Last Saturday we went ot the Hy-Vee Christmas party and had a fine time. Teresa got uncharacteristically skunked in the raffle. One of the Floral dept. ladies won a $200.00 gift card to a prominent sporting goods store.
"$200.00 worth of Dick's! What's not to love about that!"

We picked out our first Christmas tree together this year and Sunday we decorated it!
Club meeting this coming Thursday and Plastic Surgeons Christmas party 2 January.
Stay tuned, friends! More exciting surgery to come!

 

[Rhino]

More yarn scratch-builds! These are Christmas presents for Grandkids. No, we didn't go all Disney. 2 of our girls are of mixed race.
It pains me to relate that the planned Christmas yarn scratch-builds are complete.
Don't be sad. I'm sure more yarns will be spun here on the frosty prairie!

 

[Rhino]

Teresa's yarn scratch-builds are mostly for Christmas presents this year.

We were watching Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer on the Blu-Ray the other night, and I realized my apprentice is, in fact, the Bumble Snow Monster of the North. In a few hours, she produced a warm, soft Bumble Snow Monster beanie for Big Tim Clark.
The Godzilla hat is for our grandson, Roy.

In other Plastic Surgeon news, from the far flung, wintry reaches of Cleveland, Wisconasin, Mark Karolus is making good use of some TLAR castings that could not be sold, but could keep my friend's hands busy and happy.

See here, 1/700 US Navy YMS-304 as she is hit by an acoustic mine off UTAH Beach, 30 July 1944. My YMS-1 Mold was holding air, so I had several castings with big cavities in their waterlines. A bit of mold tooling fixed the bubble problem. The in-progress, mined 1/700 YMS model is posed on one of the Masters for the TLAR Models 322 Base.
I sent Mark a couple of good quality YMS-1 castings and other wonders in his most resent Waterline Model Care package.

Mark is quick to find plans and illustrations for whatever Nautical Obscurity I may choose to next produce in scale model form.
His talents and library are key to TLAR Models operations. He's excited about the TLAR 1/700 1833 revenue cutter Roger B. Taney.
Mark is the proud owner of one of the priceless, pre-painted 1958 Pyro Revenue Cutter kit by the same name.

Mark usually makes a seasonal model-something for Christmas. See here what may be an H-19/HO4S-3G with quite a large fluid load.
I wondered if the markings were Israeli Snowflake/ Happy Holidays. Mark said it wasn't intentional. This was an mp4 video, it shows the main rotor spinning, but so far the helo has been unable to lift the bottle of Christmas "spirits". I watched his video 4 times, and still nuthin'.

I will apologize for the sparse wintertime Plastic Surgeons posts. After my day of getting paid to be cold, I find as I age I am less inclined to make the long drive to Ankeny. I am also becoming less skilled at night driving. The wages of aging, I suppose.

I am content to be in my comfy jammies, with a pot of hot, fresh coffee and work on website projects in our warm, snug country home. Teresa seems less resistant to the chilly Hobbytown climate as well. I hate to disappoint Ray Powers. If he doesn't go to Club meetings with us, his outings are only to the hospital for his treatments. Ray would ride to a Club meeting in the dark, during an Alaskan Willi-waw, pursued by Bumble Snow Monsters if he had his druthers.

The next meeting is the Club Christmas Party at the Wig & Pen Pub and Pizza Emporium, in Ankeny, 2 January, 2025. Clear next year.
It sounds cozy, don't it?

Thanks for tuning in! If anything really funny happens in 2024, I'll let all y'all in on it!