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Model Forum / General / Models / September 2010That one kit you keep putting back in the stash...?
What is it? What's that one kit that you've got in the stash, you keep pulling it out say, "I'mma be building this one NEXT!" and it's still there the NEXT time you look at your stash for what to build. Tell us about that one kit? What is it? Why is it STILL in the stash? What keeps pre-empting its build? I'll start y'all off: At home in MN it's the AMT/ESCI/ERTL XB-70 kit. I suck donkey stuff at gloss white paint schemes, and I've also heard that the fit is att- rocious. I want to do it RIGHT the first time as the replacement is so freaking expensive. Here in Korea, it's the Airfix 40mm Bofors kit. The thing is so horribly bad, and the flash is out- rageous, and it's the only goldurned kit on the freaking MARKET! There's more parts to the gun aiming system than in the entire Airfix Churchill Mk 7 kit! What the hell!?!?! So, tell me, dudes and dudettes... What's that one kit you keep pulling out and putting back in the stash? -andyh [just trying to keep the group in existence at this point...] >What is it? > >What's that one kit that you've got in the stash, >you keep pulling it out say, "I'mma be building >this one NEXT!" and it's still there the NEXT >time you look at your stash for what to build. It's not one kit, it's a stack of Williams Brothers 1/32 kits, air racers and a Sparrowhawk. Love the subjects. The plastic looks great but the instructions.......... gaaaaaaa and the paint schemes are, to say the least, a challenge. Afraid of messing up beyond any hope of recovery. >> What is it? >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > say the least, a challenge. Afraid of messing up beyond any hope of > recovery. Your just sick and need help here.........  SignatureAM http://sctuser.home.comcast.net http://www.novac.com >> It's not one kit, it's a stack of Williams Brothers 1/32 kits, air >> racers and a Sparrowhawk. Love the subjects. The plastic looks great [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Your just sick and need help here......... I am not sick. I can give buying plastic anytime I want. I can. Really. Why are my hands shaking....... The voices, the voices..... "Help fight Advanced Model Acquisition and Stash Syndrome, AMASS, Build a kit!" >>> It's not one kit, it's a stack of Williams Brothers 1/32 kits, air >>> racers and a Sparrowhawk. Love the subjects. The plastic looks great [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >"Help fight Advanced Model Acquisition and Stash Syndrome, AMASS, >Build a kit!" just take it easy. open your tlc bottle and splash a little around on safe surfaces. now take the super dooper solver for decals and sniff a bit. splash it on some old aurora decals, now take the emergency kit, (a bottle of clear dope and some tissue) and use it to clear your mind. now get up slowly and face micheal's or hl. empty your mind for 10 minutes. sniff the tlc and you set to go. >>>> It's not one kit, it's a stack of Williams Brothers 1/32 kits, air >>>> racers and a Sparrowhawk. Love the subjects. The plastic looks great [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > now get up slowly and face micheal's or hl. > empty your mind for 10 minutes. sniff the tlc and you set to go. ...fumes, don't fail me now... Signature- Rufus >> In article <nugn869mlqh0j2bdb75apn5tulkfcds6lv@4ax.com>, rfranklin@ripnet.com > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > >....fumes, don't fail me now... is that like the aztec 2 step from bad water? how you doing? >>> just take it easy. open your tlc bottle and splash a little around on safe >>> surfaces. now take the super dooper solver for decals and sniff a bit. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > is that like the aztec 2 step from bad water? > how you doing? ...I'm about to become a medical experiment...in the past 6-8 weeks I've been back and fourth to UCLA and had MRI of my brain and both ends of my spine, left ankle, a treadmill test, an electromylogram (which is like getting tazered one nerve at a time...), and a spinal tap. Latest development is that I have some inflammatory arthritis in my sacral joints on top of my Crohn's and iritis - which the docs say is near impossible to have all three in one individual, and my blood is going off to the NIH for some genetic workup. I knew my back was bothering me, now I know why...Monday I have to go get a chest x-ray... ...all in preparation for going on Humira...which I'm really scared of - both the needles and the drug...I HATE NEEDLES, JOCK!!! I HATE 'EM!!! Other than all that, life is suckin'...I would have settled for a red tube scrip... Signature- Rufus >> In article <drqdnWo6I9NBdRbRnZ2dnUVZ_q6dnZ2d@mchsi.com>, Rufus <not@home.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >Other than all that, life is suckin'...I would have settled for a red >tube scrip... i had one of those nerve tests. they wear you down by going on and on. if you ever need backup on wheels, just yell. sometimes they keep you overnight if you don't have a driver. i understand about needles and spinal taps, too. needles should never hurt. check all the info and holler about that, too. i was having a great summer until the monsoon and hailstorm. i've only ridden once this summer and it is really pissing me off. i can't even go on a good drunk. so i might as well commiserate with a bud. just yell. >>> In article <drqdnWo6I9NBdRbRnZ2dnUVZ_q6dnZ2d@mchsi.com>, Rufus <not@home.com> >> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > ridden once this summer and it is really pissing me off. i can't even go on a > good drunk. so i might as well commiserate with a bud. just yell. Thanks for the backup. I don't think I've ridden out of town in about two years now...I can make the outbound trip, but I don't trust myself to have enough stamina to get home. I haven't even been riding to work as much as I used to. I stayed overnight after the spinal tap...later that night it felt like I had been burned in the back with a cigarette. That lasted about a day and a half, and then the headaches kicked in...like a low-grade migraine, and it felt like my upper teeth were wrapped in aluminum foil...that lasted about four days. Better now, but really, really tired. Hasn't helped that I'm also still spending more time tearing down and rebuilding 1:1s than I am building models...if I can get through this next week I may be able to get caught up and recharge. Of course, I'm supposed to start sticking myself on Friday...ouch. A guy I know here that has RA and is on Humira tells me the shots burn...especially if you shoot them anywhere but your belly. Think I'm gonna draft up a hot chocolate and Kahlua and stay in tonight...I've been doing that of late - staying in - and all the street-creatures are starting to ask and worry about me...I'm ok for the most part...just really, really run down. Been that way all year...I'm supposed to have good days and bad with Crohn's - this has been a bad year... Signature- Rufus >> In article <5K2dnZqgWp2etBHRnZ2dnUVZ_rKdnZ2d@mchsi.com>, Rufus <not@home.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] >supposed to have good days and bad with Crohn's - this has been a bad >year... 2010 will not go in my good file. but i'll still keep time for anyone needs help and is one of the good guys. the a.sholes seem to have left. i was meaning if they wanted to keep you in ucla and you wanted to bolt. but riding would be awesome, too. need to get my email a.s off to bill b. he's been having a tough time so i gotta bang his email box. just holler do you need help and we will fix the whatever and get you wherever. i spen a lousy night at saint wahatevers in v-vill cuase of no ride. no one wants that fate! so give a holler if you get bored or anything else. never again! >>> In article <5K2dnZqgWp2etBHRnZ2dnUVZ_rKdnZ2d@mchsi.com>, Rufus <not@home.com> >> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 76 lines] > so give a holler if you get bored or anything else. > never again! WILCO - thanks. The hot chocolate and K went down smooth...I may actually sleep tonight... Signature- Rufus There's the out of production kits - now pricy on ebay or not available - so I think if I screw someting up I can't replace the part.- something looks weird to do - so back it goes There's the great kit when I was a kid. I open the box and remember it was really a bummer - so into the stash it goes. Val Kraut > What is it? > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > [just trying to keep the group in existence at this > point...] Right now, I'm preparing to put *all* of my unbuilt kits back into stash...I hope to finish what's on my bench at present, but I plan no new starts until I retire in 4.5 years. That's so I don't have to move built kits to wherever it ends up being that I plan to retire to... ...I got a plan...and priorities. Signature- Rufus >> What is it? >> [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >...I got a plan...and priorities. My major stash fixture is a CoopersDetails vacform 1:48 Westland Whirlwind. Have not done much vacform (canopies are about all) so I am hesitant about starting something expensive that I could turn into landfill. The only other item that will be waiting a while is a Trumpeter Fw-200. That is on delay due to the shear size of the thing and problems over where to display it as all my models go behind glass. Tony Christchurch NZ Well, actually a couple of them. I've only recently got back into plastic models and I really suck at it. I did a 1:48 LM and it wasn't too good. Next was a 1:32 CSM and it was better, but not anything to crow about. I've got a second one which I'll do later but I'm doing other models until I think I am ready to do the 1:144 Saturn V. If I can do that to an acceptable standard, then I start the 1:12 Mercury capsule. Until then, many more models must die in the name of my proficiency.... > Well, actually a couple of them. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > 1:144 Saturn V. If I can do that to an acceptable standard, then I start > the 1:12 Mercury capsule. The 1:12 Mercury is mine, too. I want to do it *right* so I keep putting it off and building other things instead. I'd classify myself as a competent rather than expert builder so I really don't want to screw it up. There's also the 1:24 Mosquito - so long as it's in the box, not yet started, I can imagine that one day I'll build it to the standards I hope for (and the people on here seem to achieve every time). But as soon as I do start building a model I realise my limitations... Practice might not make perfect but it does make better. And the practice is fun... SignatureGordon Davie Edinburgh, Scotland "Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God." >Well, actually a couple of them. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Until then, many more models must die in the name of my proficiency.... i know what you mean, i went back after a long break. perhaps this can help you. i started thinking of kits as a series of models. i could break it down to sub assemblys and i looked at each as a seperate kit. this allowed me to concentrate on one at a time. interiors are a good place to start and by making the cockpit a stand alone assembly, it was easier to do one. i think you see what i mean, just work on a chunk at a time and see it as one seperate assembly that you don't think about untill the last model, which is putting all the finished chunks together. one task at a time, concentrate on it and forget the other details until you're there. did this make sense to you? i'm bad at explaining. Probably my '65 Riviera. It's in the 'Hijack' series and I've had it new since the mid-'70s. I want to do a fabulous job on it and I'm nowhere near fabulous yet. IMHO, that car is a modern classic. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr, > Probably my '65 Riviera. It's in the 'Hijack' series and I've had it > new since the mid-'70s. I want to do a fabulous job on it and I'm > nowhere near fabulous yet. IMHO, that car is a modern classic. > > Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr, A friend of mine had one 1:1. It was a show car that was supposed to be crushed at the end of the season, but was rescued by a GM biggachot, who lost it in a divorce to an aquaintance. He got transferred to New York City and sold the car to my friend, who drove it for a couple of years and traded it for a 28' cabin cruiser. It had every option available at that time on it (more things to go wrong) and a candy red over gold paint job that was gorgeous. > A friend of mine had one 1:1. It was a show car that was supposed to > be crushed at the end of the season, but was rescued by a GM [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > every option available at that time on it (more things to go wrong) > and a candy red over gold paint job that was gorgeous. Was it Mitchell, the designer? I know he had one that was a show car. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. > > A friend of mine had one 1:1. It was a show car that was supposed to > > be crushed at the end of the season, but was rescued by a GM [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. Sorry Bill, I really don't know. Whichever exec had it, sold it to Clarence Nizley, who sold it to my friend, Billy Grohmann. I have a couple of shapshots that I could scan and send you if you'd recognize the car. > >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > the car. > I'd compare it to the pics in an article in 'Collectible Automobile'. I have every one so far but IIRC, the Riviera article was in an '85 issue. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. |
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