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last few...
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been buzzin' along on the f**d
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tempting....love them big roundy fenders....fords dont fit in my model case though....:lol:
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not all the guys on my model site are 4x4 fans, so i'm throwing out a "suck them in" photo....hope it works
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I think it turned out great! Especially when I remember it was two blazers....Awesome display of your skills..I'm heading north this morning. It's supposed to be raining/snowing by Sunday....WooHoo!!

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hey much thanks OlBlue!
thats good news your finally getting some wet weather! lord knows you need every bit...we got 2 feet of snow on the local mountains last weekend-bummer, here comes winter....

unfortunatley model trucks are on the back burner for now. with our buck in the crapper, it's just not feasable buying parts right now, especially heading into my slow season at work.....
after mucho searching, cheapest tires i can find is $51 (!!) for 2 sets, on top of a $24 t-case....:waah:
pretty hard justifying that much for some plastic toy parts that just sit in my garage doing nothing.....sucks getting priced out of my hobby. so until our buck comes up or the hrs pick up next spring and i can get retarded with my money and pay these prices, i will be on hiatus.
i did do some frame work on the elky, but without axles & t-case, you can only go so far.
to keep myself from climbing the walls this winter, i dragged out a half built model i put away when my son was 2 (he's 11 now)
it's not a chevy, not even a vehicle, America's navy's first ship, USS United States. i have everything for it, wont cost me a dime, & will prob take me another 8 or 9 yrs to finish...:lol: the rigging-woohoo, what a nitemare
literally spent half a day carefully de-dusting it of a 1/2 inch of dust, masts are'nt glued in, just wanted to remember what it looked like. spent the last 3 days just tying the handrail lines on...
yeah, it's not a chevy truck so i will just throw a couple pics out & not clutter up the thread with non-chevys :lol:
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after sitting so long one of the deck seams came apart, will haft to somehow address that
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That ship is going to test your patience. Good luck wth all those tiny knots. My girlfriends dad used to build those...I was amazed when I watched him.

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oh yeah, you bet! biggest prob is my crappy up close eyesight....:lol:
always liked the looks of them, just know nothing about sailing, all my boats have had motors :metal:
with all them spare windows i got from the apartment fire, i'll make a case for it- could'nt imagine trying to dust it again once it's rigged. speaking of rigging....
check out this cluster schmuck of roping this thing up....sheets & clews, leech & bunt lines-huh???:crazy:
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Holy cow!! That's a lot of rigging. You'll be a proud man after its done.

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or old & gray :lol:

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:lol::lol: you're better than that....

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So cool! Each and everyone of them dawg! You certainly have some modeling skills

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thanks DirtyLarry!
belive it or not, after following your polar bear, thats where the white sub inspiration came from :metal:

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well, after listening to me curse, stick myself, & glue myself tying frikkin knots, wifey took some pity on me & ordered me a couple more sets of bfg krawlers for christmas. (yay!!)
how do i know? she had to ask me for my account name at my caster's...:lol:
elco should be back on the bench in a couple weeks....:metal:
also came up with a real groovy idea for a corvair......

dont know if anyone likes ships, but i finally got the masts up, & am threw the inst. book. now comes the fun, standing rigging and sailing rigging.
1600 parts in this kit, 'bout 500 of them are block & tackles...imagine reaming out the holes in every one....lots o fun
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lots o knots...
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and did i mention this thing is huge??....
3 feet long & almost 3 feet to the top of the middle mast....
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also 15 inches wide. i put the studding booms in the inboard position. their the bars on the yard arms, the cross braces the sails tie on to. if you put them in the outboard position & use the studding sails (woo-hoo! listen to me, i'm a sailor! :lol::lol:) this thing grows to 19 inches wide, so i'm not using the studding sails....
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Holy cow! You need to build an addition to the house to display that thing! It's cool looking though. Keep at it.

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mucho thanks Dale!
i will confess, looking forward to getting the bfg's, ship building is TEDIOUS!!
hoping to get the ratlines & standing rigging done before the krawlers get here, then maybe slide the elco back on the bench before doing the sails...

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this is the first big sailing ship i have ever done, and it will be the last big sailing ship i ever do....:lol:
got the ratlines on the ship, am in the middle of tying 56 blocks & bullseyes on the bowsprit. as this thing grows in size, so does the damage (can't even fit it on my bench anymore, on a chunk of wood on my garbage can)....12 yardarms, i have managed to knock 5 of them off now. notice the dolphin striker is now black (the upside down vee on the bowsprit). snapped one side off, made a new side, but could'nt match the brown paint- hence black now.....also snapped the eyebolts off the d. striker when the arm got broke. also did 5 or 6 other minor things to it as well...sure glad i got an awesome wifey. she bought me a articulating lamp (godsend on the ship, bend it wherever you need it) and for my feeble old eyes she got me a lighted magnifying glass (another godsend!)
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and still being super-wifey, lookie what she got me for christmas, a corvair & 8 BFG's.
the corvair, think front engine V8, 4wd, but a pickup, not like the Rampside, but an actual pick-up bed. sounds stupid i know, but i played around on paint with a corvair, and i think it looks not bad.
thinking find somewhere to stuff the ship for awhile & pull the elco & 'vair on the bench for a break from knot tying...clutter up the thread with more chevy's!
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huh, wow...
was just on fleabay and look what i came across, guess i aint the only weirdo out there.
his color combo sucks...:lol:
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I don't know where you're going to put that ship for a while lol. Your wife got some cool gifts. I like the Corvair idea, his corvair isn't great but I like the diarama. I'm enjoying watching it all. On a different note, we actually have snow at the cabin...

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lots 'o' snow?
we had a white christmas....barely, just a couple inches. if i feel the need for more than that, i just head up the mountain :lol: (where it should be!)
and yeah, i also like his little shop set up, but that corvair could use some help, that's the good picture of it....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-25-1965-Ch...UAAOSwlV9WRCYL

just got back from supper at SIL's, she gave me a chevy truck for christmas.
hmm, another tri-5. she was so proud of herself, after getting me a ford last yr.
did'nt have the heart to tell her i been doing 55's all yr....;) well, got a reg cab, a stepper, & a crew, so i'm going to splurge and order a '57 resin panel body for it. i've always wanted to do one, but the prohibitive cost of buying 2 kits for 1 has stopped me, now i only gots to buy one..:metal:
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lots of different kits i would LIKE to build, but with prices getting the way they are, i build what falls into my hands or is reasonably cheap. so that pretty much dictates what i'll be building for at least half of next yr....other than the corvair, my present stash was all trades or freebies or gifts (corvair i dont count as a gift, came out of the our account...:lol:)
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cameo will become a panel, corvair will become a truck, elco is going 4by, '55 is going to be a earlier version of the Rippin' Rooster baja racer, and once i get some more $, remember these?, going to get a set for the stepper
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and it's a car, but i would like to get the T/A done. not with the funky gold stripes or chicken on the hood, but a nice burgandy with goldish snowflakes

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We have a couple of feet of snow, it's not drought breaking but a lot better than the last few years. All the projects sound interesting, I'll be watching!

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still have'nt found anywhere to stuff the ship, so i just been jumping back and forth. took a break from ship wrighting and started chopping up the 'vair.
made much easier & faster again 'cause of super-wife. she got me the micro dremel kit. nice & small and re-chargeable battery-no cord knockin' parts off, and has much better speed control than my 24 yr old corded one.
lots to do, but off i go...and nope, those are'nt the tires & wheels going on it
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this will be a pia, flat int tub floor and chassis pan, will have to hump it for the tranny/t-case. and i have to cut the hood (trunk) open, which takes out the chassis pan locating tabs & the int mounting tabs....:banghead:
and this has got to be the worst kit ever for flash, sanded off a pound of it already, & check out the resin vein on the inside drivers door- screws up the int tub placement....:banghead::banghead:
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oh yeah, lots of slicin' n dicin' to go!
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should have kept my mouth shut, bragging how we only got a dusting....
snowed last nite....
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I think the Corvair gonna be cool. The snow thing you may have jinxed yourself lol

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....yeah....snow....
aint opening no roofs today...but i did get some serious bench time in.
here's that new dremel wife got me. i love this thing. lightweight, no cord, excellent spd control, & for my geezer eyes, a built in light
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spent a few hrs tying knots on the bowsprit....
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...'till i started dropping things.....like my knife.....like real close to my foot....
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so, so much for my hiatus, i need to smell some styrene...
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i only have 1 D60 & 1 205 case. i'll do some more work on the corvair, as i already have a 12b & d44 & order some 1 ton stuff for the elky, panel, & the stepper.
cut the int tub in half, lopped off the rear chassis pan, and i'm glad i dont chuck nothing out, got some wheel tubs left over from a stretch job. all the black will be cut out
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cutting a piece for the cab. notice the top of the 3/4's flare out (for the stock window) did'nt like that, so scabbed in some pieces to straiten it
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saving some time & work, going to cut the tunnel out of this old firebird after it comes out of the DOT 3
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glued a bed floor on the chassis, i'll put another piece on top the other way. will have to finish the edge at the transition
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