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Sandy, I have over 200 old assembled model cars from my younger days. Mostly AMT. As i recall, those models ran about $1.50-$2.00 back in the day.

Bob
 


Good evenin' gents---

I spent a wonderful afternoon getting some more space cleaned up in the basement AND doing my little toes a big favour by KLLLOOOONNKING them into 2 doorframes, a closet door, my basement stairs from the kitchen as well as KIBOSHING them into the basement stairs that lead outside. Now they are changing into BLACK BLUE PURPLE and an amazing GREEN colour. Just wonderful. Lead me into doing the soapbox mode of things and all that----:eek::eek::mad::confused::o:o

Now, I be sitting here with a bag of ICE on me poor foot:eek::cool::cool:

I'm quiet---for now:rolleyes::rolleyes::cool:
 
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The deck I am building for a friend beat me up pretty baddly today. The temp was warm the humididittiy was just awful. Sweat running down my backside made it look like I had peed myself. The heat got to me once so AI went and got a couple of cold drinks and sat in the car for an hour until I cooled off and started to feel a whole lot better. But I did get the steps started around the lower level and Josh ordered the decking today for delivery tomorrow morning after 10AM. If it is not raining I will already be there finishing the steps so they are ready for decking.
On a very serious not my mother in-law had an operation Fri afternoon. When my wife came home Saturday evening she was doing fine. We headed to the west side of Sun morning and were 30 minutes from my youngest daughters and the oldest called and told us they had just taken my MIL to ICU. Seems she started to bleed internally and now we know the cause. She has never drank or smoked but she has psoriasis of the liver and her blood is not clotting. Glendia spent the nite at the hospital as they were changing the dressing every 20 minutes on the incision. The nurse gave her a Vitamin K drip twice after 8PM and she did not have to change the dressing from 10PM to 8AM this morning. She was doing OK when I was up there this morning, I am just waiting for the wife to get home for the latest report. Needless to say Glendia and her dad are very upset. My FIL tried to talk her out of the operation but she had watched her mother suffer from cancer and she wanted it out of her. Well they got all of the cancer now if she can just survive the complications.
 
Larry That does not sound good! Keep good care of yourself in this period---get some walks and that in with her---we'll put your families on our prayer list----Take care--
 
Larry: I know what it's like to have a relative who's bleeding uncontrollably like that. My mother had hepatitis C some years ago and has severe psoriasis of the liver. She has to take medication to help make her blood clot because without it she could bleed to death from just a minor cut. It's nearly happened before.
 
I got the rest of the poster board up. All the walls around the layout are now as blank as the mind of a total amnesiac. The next step will be to go back around and glue the seams down. I couldn't do that while I was putting the pieces up because I may have had to go back and shift one or two slightly. But I won't be doing it tonight. Maybe in a couple of days I'll be able to join the first two scenic panels together.
 


I haven't built a model car, other than those of my grandson's, since I was in high school. A lot of them met with a firecracker. Young and dumb and lovin' to see things blow up. The last model car I bought was a 1971 Camaro Z-28 by AMT, I think. I usually bought three at a time. One for stock, one for the strip and I usually did a custom chop job on the third. Got pretty good at choppin' the top and doing radical customs.

But some cars you just can't make pretty, like the AMC Gremlins and Pacers. Them is some FUGLY vehicles. I'll have to dig some out one of these days and take some pics.

Bob
 
Larry, I'm sorry to hear about your MIL. It sounds like Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis, which just means the liver is failing from some other cause than alcoholic damage. What kind of cancer does she have? Did she have chemo before the surgery? The chemo can both damage the liver and knock down her platelets, since your platelets are produced in the liver. They can give her medication to stimulate the production of platelets or even a platelet transfusion to control the bleeding but, if her liver is failing, that won't work for long. :( I'll be joining the others in praying for a successful outcome to this.

Thanks, Sandy, being seriously ill makes one a little more reflective on what's really important. I'll take those cherries if you don't want them. Nothing better than a good cherry pie. I agree about the strawberry-rhubarb pie though. Yuck!

I think building model cars was the one type of modeling I was never really into. don't know why. Chris, those are some mean looking cars.

BOC, the idea is to only bash your toe once and then be careful. Sounds like you must not have been paying attention. Sorry about your poor toes but that's what you get for stealing our rain. :)

Jeffrey, that new backdrop looks like a good start. Did you see the article in MR about using poly-fill for clouds? I think it was two months ago. It would be perfect for your layout and cheap.

Phillip, that second picture was quite a chop job. Nice work on both.

Claudette turned into the biggest dud of tropical storms ever. Nothing happened, not even a rain shower. I wonder what people will do with all the bread and milk they bought in a panic yesterday? The local rag said Walmart was sold out of batteries. I just don't get it. We all know we live in a place with tornados and hurricanes. I always look for batteries on sale and pick up more when I can. I'll bet I've got over 300 now, along with about 10 flashlights and LED lanterns. Why wait to join a huge panicked mob to buy things the day before a storm when you know you're going to need them at some point anyway. And why milk? The first thing that will fail is the power and your milk is going to last about one day. I've got the RV in the driveway with 100 gallons of water, a 5000 watt generator, a fridge that runs on propane, and enough propane to run the fridge and generator for at least 10 days, since I only need the generator to recharge the batteries or run the A/C or microwave. I guess I spent too many years in emergency services not to be prepared but the last thing I want to do when a storm is coming in is take a quick run over to Walmart. :eek:
 
Man, Larry, tough break for the MIL. I, too am slow to clot, low vitamin K count. I am what is termed a "free bleeder". Before any surgery, I'm on vitamin K for at least a week, sometimes two. Broke out the "heavy prayer rug" again. Moved all of you to the top of the list.

Jim, you are like my better half. We have enough batteries to light a small town. And I have rechargeables for all of my "toys". And I think there are at least 4 flashlights in every room. Plus being campers, we have lanterns galore. We have an extra tank of propane for the grill and also the camp stove. I have a small generator to keep the freezers and refrigerators running. But, here, all we worry about are tornadoes, blizzards and ice storms. And we have a larger generator for the radio shack. We are set to go. For blizzards and cold weather emergencies, we have kerosene and propane heaters.

Jeffrey, there's a guy in Sturgis, Michigan, I believe, that has a 3D backdrop. He uses polyfil and has for some time. A little spray tack and it sticks. He even "weathers" the clouds with a bit of gray paint to look like storm clouds. Quite nice. He is a master with an air brush.

And Jim, the rains are up here. More on the way. They haven't been bad in this area but I understand a few areas got dumped on.

Bob
 
That Polyfil idea sounds like it has merit. I may look into that.


Good morning.

It's 74 and clear. The high will be around 90 and there's a chance of rain.

Got the poster board backing for the backdrop up yesterday, 14 sheets in all. Today I'll be gluing down the seams. That's somewhat slower and requires patience, not exactly something I'm known for. I'll also be looking at the Detail Associates modular scenes and see how I can incorporate them into the main backdrop scene which will trees and woods. The structure scenes in the DA stuff are rural and will fit in with the layout scenery which is small industry in a rural setting but somewhat pushed together due to available space.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 8/18/2009

Heat Index: 79°F
Humidity: 99%
Dew Point: 74°F

So Far Today
High: 76°F
Low: 74°F
Rain: 0.01"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 5mph SE

Tuesday High: 92 with a heat index of 106. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday Night Low: 75 Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening...then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.

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Jim No chemo or radiation she had a sickness as a kid that affects the liver and the Doc's think that is the cause. She was doing much better yesterday, she has gotten some color back in her lips and cheeks and was much more alert.
 
Good morning folks

It was a steamy 74 F this morning. High will be 92 F which makes this first official heat wave since April. Tonight the overnight temperature is supposed to be 82 F. Relief may be coming on Thursday in the form of some showers.

We didn’t do much yesterday. After dinner and once the sun went down I mowed the front yard. We finished up just as it was getting too dark to work. No trains last night since we just sat in the air conditioning watching TV.

Tonight is my daughter’s flute lesson and I should try to mow the back yard.

I hope everybody has a good day.
 
Jim 2 ways for milk that I seen up here---canned evaporated milk and powdered 'skim' milk. As for the other stuff---man, don't these people know the rest? :eek::eek: Sheeesh---all this Panic Buying for Panic Times.

BTW--we're getting rained on again---:eek::rolleyes:

Phil Somewhere in my closet there is a box full of model cars that I've built over the years. I'm thinking about taking them out again and getting some pix made----and for the FUGLY cars---I have a Gremlin that I chopped the roof down on--and made even curiouser:eek::eek::eek:

We're at 25C and humidity at 97%---did I mention rain?---We've seen three days of 90+% days and no rain--they's be giving us 40% chances and we would find the slot between--hence no rain

I'm going to take the blue stuff over to Eric's place today and start to build up the valley so's that bridge has something to sit on---eventually;)

BTW, Jim--inattention and lumpy, bulky things will do that:eek::o:o
 


Jeffe
ry- Your backdrop look great. In addition to the polyfil clouds, you may want to use some stencils.

I have made my own cloud stencils from old manila file folders.
Step outside to use a real cloud for the shape of the cloud bottoms. Pencil in the general shape on the middle of the the opened(lengthways) folder and cut out the shape with sissors.
Keep both halves of the folder as stencils. Make a couple folders with different shapes- flat, rolling shapes or high, fluffy shapes.

Every cloud has a silver lining, so hold the stencil close to the backdrop where you want the bottom of the cloud and spray short, light bursts of silver from about 12" away. Move on to the next cloud location and repeat with the other half of the folder.

Come back with a flat white color next. Hold the stencil about 1/4" away from the backdrop and 3/8" to 3/4" above the lower edge of silver. More short bursts of color at 90 degrees to the stencil. The slight overspray will soften the transition line from silver to white. Spray white lightly to let the silver modify the mixed color areas to a gray shade.

Flip the stencil line over to create the cloud tops, usually, 3 to 5 inches above the bottom cloud line. The stencil should be 1/8"- 1/4" off the backdrop and angle your spray bursts slightly downward.

Jeffery, you probably use this technique already, but maybe it is new to someone else.
As always, spray paint in a well ventilated area and away from any open flames. If things were to go boom, you would hesitate to try our next new suggestion.:eek:
 
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