Model Forum / General / Models / December 2005

Models, model related:

1) Master bare metal finishes

2) Paint a figure that looks as good as one by Bill Horan, etc. - yeah,
maybe if I close both eyes, turn out the lights and step back twenty paces.

3) Get consistent results with my airbrush.  Dreamer... nothing but a
dreamer...

4) Old kits - let 'em go.  Old Tamiya armor & other brands that are no
longer up to snuff (if they ever were) and that I'd otherwise waste precious
amounts of time on when simply upgrading to Dragon and newer molds will
solve the problem (in most repects).

5) And to that end - I've been dying to super-modify a WWII great like the
B-17 or P-38 into a post war lesser known variant.  Fire-bombers, turboprop
testbeds - you get the idea.  That'll scratch two itches at once - esp. the
itch  to thin out the herd a little.

6) Put some of this wood shop hardware and scrap lumber around here to good
use and make some display bases - maybe even a couple of small display
cabinets.

7) Finally pull that big 4x8 diorama project together (See above).

8) Photography - learn how to light and shoot these muthas.

OK, why pussy foot around here. 2006  is the year that I -

9) Lay ultimate tribute upon the altar of the AMS  gods - I will complete
that perfect scale model kit that is exact in every detail down to every
last rivet fastener and paint detail - or I'll amass a storage room busting
stash of model kits while trying!

And where it really matters, shooting caution into the gravitational pull of
the moon, on the subject of  model finances, 2006 is the year that in
regards to -

10) Women:

   A) I figure them out.
   B) I tell no one.

WmB