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A week ago tonight, my wife (who suffers from Parkinson's) fell down in our living room and couldn't get up. After the fire department took her to the ER, the X-ray showed she had a fractured pelvis and a [...]
I just realized that the face mask I bought for modeling last year is an N95, the only one that will give any protection to the coronavirus. Cost me $12. The cheapest one you can find on Amazon now is $25, and they're out of stock till [...]
I've been a subscriber to AirCorps Library for a few year now. I've been able to get several manuals for the CAF SB2C-5 Helldiver and a few other aircraft. They've had drawings in the past, but this is a WHOLE new chapter in their [...]
Having been privileged to know five of these guys - three pilots, two groundcrewmen - this is a sad day. They were an amazing and inspiring group.
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Quite a week for "lasts"
In addition to the "Korea the Forgotten War" group build that will last during the exact time frame as the war did, (only 70 years later), here's another one I was thinking about.
This Group Build would be called "Wings of [...]
I have several ideas for future group builds. This is one of them. I will post a different article for each one soon.
It will start on June 25th, 2020, and end a little more than 3 years later on July 27th, 2023. This will follow the [...]
Wow! Wow! Wow!
From Hannant's "Future Releases" - ICM release list for 2020:
1/32 CR 42 - several different releases
1/32 Gladiator II and Sea Gladiator (also a "Foreign Services" release)
1/32 PT-13/17 Stearman also [...]
Kitlinx.com has a Black Friday sale from now till midnight Friday (mountain time), and they have some good prices (examples - Pacific Coast Models 1/32 kits for around $45-$50, Eduard 1/48 Profipack kits for $29.99).
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Big announcement: Kitty Hawk is no longer S-h-itty Hawk here at Le Chateau du Chat.
I took the plunge last week and picked up a new FJ-2 kit ($50 included delivery from Shenzen China), since the computer views I had seen looked better than [...]
