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Did you tear or twist the parts off of the sprues?

A great read about the career of an attack transport is Away All Boats, by Kenneth Dodson. I just finished a re-read and your model is a fine companion to the story.

I tried Styrene Tack It 2, a Tenax knock off, it smelled right but didn't even mar the surface. 5 minute epoxy seems to be working. The kit has sat somewhere since I was 5 years old, so I'm not rushing the job. The good news is that AV primer sticks, and the paint on to that.

Sometimes I'll pull an ancient kit from the stash and see what I can make of it. I have started a Gowland & Gowland/Revell Highway Pioneers Fiat tourer, date on the instructions is 1953. Someone had started it, but the well dried glue residue peeled off easily. I tried Testors and Tamiya liquid cements, neither would bite into the plastic to make a joint. The instructions said to use "model airplane cement" or acetone. I tried the acetone, which bit into the plastic, but I question the strength of the joint. The plastic seems slicker and different from styrene, so I'll try ABS cement next. Has anyone else ran into such a situation? Any ideas?

'Twas the day after Christmas And out of my room Came aroma of Testors And some rock'n'roll boom The Brits had invaded The Animals and Airfix While Revell and Renwal Also offered great picks The short stack of boxes Gave me good cheer The model kits in them Would begin my new year

Another site had a link to a Leno "presentation" of an interesting car so I took a look. Ten minutes or so of him blathering on while blocking most of the car with his face or bulk. The move he made to block the view of the engine as he lifted the hood looked well rehearsed. One could tell the color of the car, not much else.

This model of a normally shiny car brought home a trophy from Seattle Recon 7 back in the late 80s. Ya never can tell what someone might like.

This is an out of the box build. I like machines that show their machinery. The kit was a collection of nice looking pieces that didn't quite fit together. Most every joint required "adjustment" of pins, pegs, tabs, and their variously shaped holes. One step has the builder trim the track adjusters. I did so, used the specified number of links - fewer would not mate up - and got sag that would look bad on a KV tank. The instructions did offer good illustrations, EXCEPT that the arrowed lines are too faint and hard to see, not eased by the squiggly path some lines take. Rearrange the steps to suit yourself, I think that following them in order would not work so well. But, here is the completed model. It does capture the look of the Caterpillar Sixty.

"the objective is to accumulate as many kits as humanly possible" True words.

A 1/12 scale motorcycle kit builds up as a few plastic sub assemblies which are then assembled with metal screws. While the screws are structural, not detail parts, the little phillips heads are visible when the model is completed. Mixed media?

Model railroaders have standard sized modules which can be connected to form a layout. Maybe a standard oversize base which could accommodate a large aircraft or more than one smaller model and also fit predictably on the tables would work. A very large ship might take a base two modules long, that would fit too.

The decals from these kits would go on my bicycle. The decal locators on the models made pretty good painting guides.

If you are trying to lower the surface tension, a tiny drop of dish detergent in a quantity of water will make the water "wetter".

There are a couple of the old Heller 6:1 scale insects in the stash. Would a really big foot suffice as a figure?

Dreimal hoch!