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  1. McGee

    Heaven is Now Richer

    The other project I'm going to tackle which will require much less building skill, but still bring a photo to life and make it pop, is to take the pic of us with the WWII crew, do some photo manipulation, where I isolate each person and rotoscope them out and wherever parts are missing because...
  2. McGee

    Heaven is Now Richer

    and THIS....THIS...these responses and advices and additions to personal anecdotes or modelling questions is eXACTLY why you all are such a HUGE blessing and at the top of the list of coolest people. Thank you so much Rogerio. yes he certainly was. very much. exactly. Is that the movie with...
  3. McGee

    Little Nellie Autogyro

    After doing an internet search for a bit to try and find if there is any paper models of Ken Wallis' autogyro, I wasn't able to find any for the moment. I know there are models of autogyros out there, but I need to see if any are close enough to Ken Wallis' ARMY submission, that I can mod the...
  4. McGee

    Heaven is Now Richer

    Thank you very much Rhaven and all else for your generous support and kind hearts and spirits. Someone once told me that there was a very special place for me in Heaven and I said wow, well thank you... to which they responded "oh...no, see I mean its pretty much a padded room with no sharp...
  5. McGee

    Heaven is Now Richer

    and since the wood finished cove is just an empty plug for the diorama box to be put into place, with the frame finishing off the front, you could still do forced perspective dioramas in its own box and then pup it into place in the cove.
  6. McGee

    Heaven is Now Richer

    Ive been thinking all day about this and while I will be having a few pics of us, put onto those stretched canvas box frames, I want to do something else a bit more special. I'm going to create a 3 dimensional version of the pic of him and me with the Blackhawk. I have one of the old GPM...
  7. McGee

    Heaven is Now Richer

    A very heartfelt thank you to everyone of you. Zathros I am very glad as heck as I know those who are in your life, that you are here to be able to tell us it was a close call, and that we are not all reading a different message. I am thankful to God that you are all here and for your empathy...
  8. McGee

    Heaven is Now Richer

    Today my house is super clean and a ton of laundry done through a butt load of tears and complete heartbreak. My great buddy Troy, the guy in the pic with me in the avatar died today. I went to see him in the hospital last night but he was heavily sedated on a breather and morphined up, so I...
  9. McGee

    Copying model parts from PDF

    HAHAAH. thank you Rogerio. And thank you revell-fan. I really appreciate the both of you and your help.
  10. McGee

    Lunar Rover 1:24 from the movie "Moon"

    I might also add that I really Love your 2001 Space Odyssey "Wheel" station. That is another model that someone could go nuts with stacking plates and details to really give it a whole new level of awesome. Thank you for really great design and artwork style. Love it man.
  11. McGee

    Copying model parts from PDF

    hey thank you sooo much everyone. That is a huge help. very much appreciated. I did try to install both inkscape and gimp a week ago, as I saw that mentioned in a comment to someone in another topic,but when i did, they both loaded my computer with a bunch of extra peripheral add on installs...
  12. McGee

    Copying model parts from PDF

    Okay, so here's a question for anyone. I checked the forums doing a search for this answer, but didn't find any. When you have a page that is a PDF image and you want to replicate a part because maybe you want to stack it as an extra depth relief piece..i.e.,the plating on a millenium falcon...
  13. McGee

    Smack this guy

    HAHAHAHAHAHAA.. I was waiting for that. Man the anticipation is worse than the smack...ya know it's coming, but never when, and it keeps ya sweatin'. Wheew Now I can get back to building. :mrgreen:
  14. McGee

    Smack this guy

    WHeeeew. Thanks. It's good to know I'm in good company and thank you RF...that seemed to help me get my poop in a group. :thumb::mrgreen:
  15. McGee

    Lunar Rover 1:24 from the movie "Moon"

    Martin Martin Martin....WOWee wow WOW (voice of chris walken). Man I love your design style. Thank you soo much for this beauty.
  16. McGee

    Smack this guy

    Okay everyone who took the time to graciously help me with my questions regarding how to build the Clever Santoros Star Trek models. after reading the replies and looking just a bit further at his site and some of the models, I discovered that I am in serious need of a good ol' fashioned...
  17. McGee

    A bit late for Halloween but....

    It's extremely rare on this side of the pond to see houses not made of either brick or stone, in fact when you take out insurance on a house anything not brick or stone is described as 'non-standard' and comes with a hefty uplift in prices. wow.. that is super fascinating. when Im back on my...
  18. McGee

    Star Trek Model instructions.

    That is soo awesome and so appreciated D WHALE.. That is a huge help, and I will definitely be pickin' your mind on a lot of those builds. I super appreciate your help. Thanls again. :grin:
  19. McGee

    A bit late for Halloween but....

    It makes for one really dirty ugly a(&* city, but GREAT for a really visually impacting photo journal
  20. McGee

    A bit late for Halloween but....

    There are a LOT of areas and neighborhoods here in Spokane, that reflect an attitude of " i dont give a crap" and the houses are really aged and beat up and not kept up and just older looking than they are...the bottom mansion looks eerily like some...err..MANY of the houses here. That's not an...