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Made the moose bumper. Made it from strip stock (3mm x 6mm) for the uprights, 4mm tube for the round parts and 0.020 sheet and strips for the flat areas. I thought of using 3d printed 1/35 weld decals for the welds but they are pricey and hard to get. I didn't think they would go around the tight curves. So I used stretched sprue and glued it on with liquid cement. After it sat for a day I wetted the stretched sprue with the liquid cement and poked it with the tip of a small rat tail file. The glue softened it up enough. The white plastic was a lot softer than the grey or silver plastic, don't know why. I made up a hinge using the smallest stryene tubing. I was going make a pin to hold the bumper up but that gets complicated. I thought of a magnet but I didn't want to buy a 1000 magnets. My friend had a leather cell phone case with a magnetic flap. It's a bit smaller than a dime and there's two per phone case. Most people just throw these away. On the bumper side I used a small piece of an Olfa knife. After some fine tuning it worked. I cut out the center slot, just partway, I didn't want to expose the knife blade. There is a flap with the license plate that will go on after it's painted. I also marked out where the bumper lights will go. I made two so I have one spare. Also it helped with figuring out all the fine tuning. You can see the backside of the frame mount. I know the actual ones have a less bulky mounting but this works and won't fall off or break.

I bought them through mail order in about '87 I think. These are the short tailed early versions with the early windshield.

Cool, the cold can get you. Somehow keep going on.

I just looked and Hannant's has a few vacforms.

Whichever I could get, I know the resin one is pricey. I have a 1/144 E-2, might use it.

Nice work. I wanted to make one in Greyhound colours and add extra windows, make it a what if.

Looks pretty good for a so so kit. I have one to but I won't take a picture of it.

I wonder how many spent the $100+ dollars on the 1/72 Concordes just to get frustrated with how much rework is needed and threw them in the garbage. Just going from reading the builds on them. I have two 1/100 Testors Concordes which I might redbuild into production versions. Thought of selling them and buying the 1/72 one. I know they are worth nothing. But would need a huge stock of bondo. A new tool would be nice, not just a reboxing for that price.

Hi from over in Peg City. I've been to Nova Scotia and the rest of the Maritmes a bunch of times. Beautiful all over there, people think I'm weird for going out that way. Been to Annapolis Royal a few times and it's lovely, people are very nice to. I was just over there in 2022. I always took in the graveyard tour and the story of moose nose soup.

There's a CC-130E flying around doing circular orbits I guess it's called. Getting a free airshow at work tonight, to bad it's dark out and the plane is camo'd. I found out on flightradar it's this one, 325 https://www.airhistory.net/photo/382570/130325

I'm having a hard time finding the finished thread unless I'm reading with welding goggles on, can someone send the link please.

The PE sure will make a difference. At least you can bend it in places to if you want.

Your health is more important than your model, take care of yourself first.

I used to be part of a fetish group and they have enough self appointed idiots within it already, partly hence why I stopped going, that and working evenings cut my social life. I read the first post here and could not live in a place with busybodies people like this. They are the ones with mental problems. The community has to get together to get rid of them, trying to get that to happen would be difficult as I'm sure word spreads. Good luck.

boxcars have rocket motors

stolen by some army

unless you bribe judge

is so last century

made nice looking trucks (not the new ones)

listening to fuzz rock (it does work, believe me)

where people are round (you'll make friends, you'll fit right in)

where you get stuck

high school in Poland (interesting Polish and polish are spelled the same but completely different)

so are Jeep nuts

don't need ear plugs