(Michael, Davis here. Don’t tell the poor guy, but I have ordered Hooper and Brody...although by all the saints in heaven, I don’t know what it’ll be like when he’s got all three dolls to play with...)

@mrieth

(PS. Any ideas how to make a Bell?)

A consummate scratch builder, Michael. Never in a hundred years would I have though5 of a bird bell. The scale is about the 1:20 mark, so a little idiosyncratic. I’ve certainly taken a leaf from your book and challlenged myself to ‘no store parts’, so make, or make do.

Vacform is something I’ve done with canopies, most notably for a 48 scale B-17. Again, hadn’t thought of that, but a terrific idea.

Thanks, Michael.

@mrieth

For carving your bell master might I suggest using Quint's own machete. (See my avatar. He's ready to loan it to you!) It might be a bit harsh and lacking finesse but sometimes so is Quint! Also, it gets the job done, just like Quint. (Okay... Except for that one time.)

Well, Stephen. It may seem a stretch, but let’s talk about bells...

”No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."

I think my country of origin stands diminished by the possibility of leaving our European brethren - I’m saddened that in 2019 we feel the need to separate rather than build on the European brotherhood that was so costly to forge in the middle of last century. As a keen historian and modeler of many models that represent a European ‘union’ I say this not as a political statement; rather a personal desire to enhance and reinforce my fellow European friendships.

Getting back to point, ‘Amity’ the town where ‘Jaws’ was set, means friendship. As has been evidenced by the amount of posts here about the moon landings of ‘69 - we ought to be taking down barriers, not putting them up.

To all iModelers, I hope for Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.

@stephen-w-towle

Thanks, Matt. Thought you’d appreciate that detail.

@coondog

ups - crossing messages - the above was to your island comment.

Yes, I picked up on that, Erik. Thanks for the comment, we are better together.

@airbum

You're Scottish, not English, David. Let Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland go and stay in the EU, while the group commonly known in the rest of the UK as the "bloody d a m n e d English" (as I learned way back in 1963, the first time I met British folks, all of whom were very certain they were NOT in the "English Navy" as I had termed them - then there were the Australians and Kiwis who hate the Poms even worse) go back to being that collection of descendants of barbarian invaders they always were. Thus sayeth this Scots-Irish/Welsh background person.

They've managed to prove John Stuart Mill was right back in 1866: "I never said the Conservatives are stupid, I said most stupid people are Conservative. It is a fact so evident, no gentleman may demur."