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Very nice model! I grew up near the Missouri river and have always loved to watch tug boats, any tug boats, do their work. Bravo!

This is the MASH unit, with a crawler who donated part of his left arm. I hate to cut up crawlers, they aren’t as common as the dummy with the rifle over his head. But, I needed an open hand, easy arm to test. Now I know how to do this stuff, I can cut up some of the more common, oddities that...

I’m easy to entertain and hard to keep on task. So, after building an artillery piece from an Army Man gun and some Legos… I needed someone to operate the thing. They don’t make cheap Army Men to do tasks I need done. So… I learned radical surgery. One guy lost his forehead during a scalpel...

Very neat build. Please enlighten me… what powers this craft?

This is amazing!

No burns… I turn it off except when cutting, but bumping into it will kill the wire. I haven’t touched it yet while it is on, but I’ve read that a quick touch doesn’t hurt. So, this is FUN. I’ve been working on the doorway in preparation to making the door. I have the doorway brickwork fitted...

I couldn’t resist playing with my hot wire cutter some more. I got this one from Amazon: (I’m just learning to use it) I chose it over the Proxon because of price and the fact that the Proxon is made from plastic. This one is 3/4” plywood. I plan to make a couple of ‘sleds’ that fit in the...

What an honor! Congratulations!

Time for a change of pace. I’m afraid to paint the Bronco, so I will practice on the test piece. In the meantime, I need to work on the house. The plan is to build the front door as a pre-hung unit. Foam cutout for the brick and arch surrounding the door and window and real wood veneer for the...

Thanks! I couldn’t resist doing a little more work on it. Some sanding was done and reinforcements were added to the inside of the body. The camera is a good modeling tool. I see more work is needed to smooth the curves on the inside of the flares. Also, the inner fenders from the donor van...

OK, enough for today. The flares are installed, the frame has been glued to the proper wheelbase and the body mounts raised. I’m letting the glue dry now, before sanding the flares. I saturated them with superglue to harden them.

Yes, now is OK. An email will explain how to redeem any Kudos you get. (Be careful, they have teeth and claws) :noteeth:

The little layout is fun. It is stored in a shipping container in the back yard. There is about 4’ of snow in front of the door. Hopefully by the 4th of July, I’ll be able to open the container and find that layout and a ton of other modeling goodies.

I finally feel well enough to do the fiddly details of this build. Maybe I’ll have it ready for this Christmas. :biggrin: My son understands. It will be finished when it is finished. I have my ‘shop’ (the corner of the living room) complete enough to allow me to work on the model again also. It...

Thanks everyone. Just a note on the construction. I attempted to cut the bottom of the big tub by drilling holes and using a snips. Nope, it wanted to crack. I got out the Harbor Freight ‘dremel’ (which I love by the way) and diamond wheel cutter thing. That wheel will cut ANYTHING. With the...

I’ve been planning an airbrush booth with filter and Brown brought the last piece today, so I built the booth. It is made of a large plastic tub with a smaller one inset into the ‘bottom’ (which isn’t the bottom now). The small one holds the fan and filter. There’s an LED light on top. I took...

Yes, thank you! That is a nice model. Should we keep a copy in the resources?

Wow, this is a fun build. That engine is amazing. Watching… ;)

I’m happy for you, that you have your own home, hobby space and can feel like modeling again. Watching! This is a neat build for sure. I have several of the Orlik and Model IK kits. Must dig them out some day.

My wife is quite an artist. She started painting with oils years ago and a few years ago switched to acrylics. I have acrylics for my model making so the airbrush seemed to be the next toy to buy. I found a nice one with the little box compressor on Amazon. It is VERY nicely made. I haven’t...