RGronovius

RMS is still around, although a mere shadow of its former self. I remember if you missed a day of reading, it would take hours to catch up. I visit it semi-regularly, couple time a week or so. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.models.scale/topics?lnk

That shouldn't have stopped them. My 17 yr old daughter had entered several kits back in 2004 at GraniteCon in Nashua, NH when she was 11 yrs old. She won 4 awards that day. My 22 yr old daughter loved to build some Pokemon pre-painted models way back. They used to sell them at Suncoast Movie stores (a video store in the mall). She had at least a dozen.

Thanks, Mark... I sincerely apprecaite your kind words. Those boys have had a rough time of things all their life and I'm just trying to keep them focused on the positive things. Later, Lee When I married my wife 19 years ago this month, she had three young children ages 6, 3 and 2 with no help from their dads. I raised them as my own and gave them a much better life than what they would have had. The three year old is now a 22 yr old Army wife who I walked down the aisle and the 2 year old is now a 21 yr old PFC in Germany. It was quite a culture shock going from a single Army captain to a father of three in one "I do." Sort of like the Major Dad TV series with toddlers and pre-schoolers. It took me a while to convince my Kentucky wife that Cs are not good grades and home work is important for kids to do. While the boys (6 and 2 yr olds) did not get good grades throughout school, the daughter did and eventually went to college before marrying. Fortunately, the three kids we had together have a stronger work ethic with my firstborn (17 yr old) daughter a junior in high school and ranked 4th in her class and my 14 yr old son who is taking high school math classes while in the 8th grade. He will actually complete the mandatory math requirement for KY high school graduation before he gets into high school. I joke that it's the Asian blood in them that makes them so smart. But it has to be something, we've raised all six kids the same but the two Kentucky-blooded boys never did homework or study at all but my two teenagers now do homework that is much tougher than I remember doing even in college and they knock it out before dinner. I'm also back to where I started 19 years ago with a 6 yr old of my own. It is nice that the older children can help him with his homework. I don't remember 1st graders getting daily homework for the previous five kids I raised. Good luck with the boys. I know from experience that you can only give them a good environment, a strong role model and plenty of guidance but it's up to them to take advantage of the opportunities presented to them.

I have them, but mainly for references as opposed to a guide of how to model build. In other words, I'll use it if it shows me how to convert an M4A3 105mm into an M4 105mm (just for example) or how to update a Tamiya T-72 into a more recent vehicle. Not to show me how to bang up a fendor or apply mud in a more realistic fashion.

Sounds like you and I went to the armor school around the same time (AOB July-Nov 87). I doubt that 4th of July display will be quite the same with a large number of museum runners heading south.

I only took a drive around post because I was looking to see what was still in place because I often get asked. I was also driving around because I'm clearing and needed to visit places I often do not go to in the course of my daily activities. When I lived on post, I ran passed most of the displays, but now that I moved off post, I've got a set route I take to work and beyond a few areas I hit for meetings or places like the PX, I don't get around the base much.

I get asked the question every now and then about whether or not the Patton Museum is still open at Fort Knox or did it move to Ft. Benning. The answer is yes and no. The US Army Museum of Cavalry and Armor did move from Ft. Knox to Benning, but the Patton Museum is still at Knox. It is now called the General George Patton Museum of Leadership and will reopen as such on Friday April 1, 2011. Here are its operating hours (effective April 1st): Weekdays Year-Round: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Weekends Year-Round: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CLOSED: Jan. 1, Easter, Thanksgiving, Dec. 24, 25 and 31 The above information is accurate as of 3:00 PM EDT yesterday. The "new" Patton museum is bascially a shadow of its former self. Think gift shop, lobby and that room where Patton's Cadillac, command post truck and other memorabilia was located. As far as display armor, there isn't very much in front of the museum and what is left I do not know if it will remain or just hasn't been moved yet. The display armor around post has virtually vanished. I took a drive around post yesterday (got lots of spare time since I'm clearing) and came up with a list of what's still left. At the new Chaffee Gate (formerly the Bullion Blvd Gate), there is an M24 Chaffee, M3A2 Bradley and M1IP Abrams. The old Chaffee Gate still has the two M48A2 tanks on the brick pedestals. The traffic circle has the M47, M48A2C and M41 Walker Bulldog. The Brandenburg Gate has an M60A1 and M60A3. The Wilson Gate has an M551 Sheridan. The PX still has the M4A3E8 Sherman in Abe's Thunderbolt markings near the bank. There is an M59 APC in front of the Ireland Army Community Hospital. There is an M60A3 in front of the Sadowski Field House across the street from the hospital helipad. All that was left in the Disney Barracks area was an M578 cherry picker in the 15th Cav's area. Although with basic leaving this year, I'm not sure if that'll be there for much longer. Around the Patton Museum, all that's left is the old M4 Sherman with the banana peel barrel near the Keyes Park playground. Here is a list of what's in front of the museum as of yesterday: M60A1 M4A3E8 Sherman M7 Priest M10 tank destroyer M52A1 SP 105mm howitzer M59 APC and a new item I hadn't seen before is a towed 8" gun (like the AFV kit). It sits where the old T28 heavy tank used to be displayed. The T28 is no longer there. Other than the old M60A1 on 31W as you approach the Muldraugh hill and the M103 heavy tank next to the Chamber of Commerce in Radcliff, display armor is virtually gone from in front of buildings around post.

There's a buy/sell forum below you could put this in. Might have better luck there.

I figured as much, it's just that I don't recall seeing them growing up. I remember the US planes, some Soviet and a lot of German, but for some reason, other than the 3(?) Monogram 1930s biplanes, the only ones I remember building in this scale were the Revell ones. I did an eBay search and turned up a whole slew of them. Thanks.

As a kid I remember building the old Revell and Monogram biplanes and my recent topic on Matchbox kits reminds me that they had a few. I do not recall ever seeing any by Airfix. Of course the majority of my Airfix kits were reboxed by MPC or sold as USAirfix and they may have had a smaller line aimed at US kids.

Ron, yes, it is the Airfix kit. I've acquired a newer reissued one to rectify the errors I made in the one above. I built all the Dragon armor when they first came out in 2003-04. Their initial offerings were a mixed bag with a lot of hit and misses. I've not started on the 2nd Airfix kit due to poor eyesight.

Yes, most of my builds used to be Braille scale, but my eyes were bothering me and the eye doctor said I didn't need reading glasses (yet), but it seemed like I had to keep my head tilted back and my arms outstretched in order to see. I eventually convinced him to make me a set of glasses that would help me build, but I find doing 1/35 easier on my eyes. I used to do articles on some Braille kits, like the old Esci Abrams: http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=149 And the old Airfix Sheridan (couldn't find the link offhand).

I think the Dragon kit will give you a much finer model with which to work with. Tamiya's is nice but simpler. Also newer Dragon kits are better than older.

Setting globs of Testors tube glue on fire on the wings and tossing the kit to see if it would fly. The Sears BB gun also took many shots at my kits.

How I sooooo wanted that AMT Enterprise kit as a child. By the time my parents had enough money for me to buy a Star Trek kit, the only one left was the K-7 Spacestation. At least it had a miniature Enterprise with it. I was disappointed, but love the little starship kit. So sad to see the original model maker has passed.

I agree that the Tamiya T-55 kit is the only way to start if you want to build a show stopper, but back in the day when real T-55s were rare to be seen in the US and Western Europe (pre-Wall), it was a joy to have another option besides the Tamiya T-62 or the real rough Lindberg kit. Whatever happened to their Soviet armor molds? Lindberg made that funky T-80, BMP-1 with vacuformed base (still have one) and the T-55/Ti-67 kit then vanished. That's what I was saying, back in the day, it looked close enough for me.

I loved the Esci T-55 when I first built one. Before it came out, the only option was the old Tamiya T-62. I remember building the Lindberg T-55 and thinking it was a rough kit. A few years later, I found a pile of Esci T-55 and M60A1 Blazer kits at a Big Lots store in Huntsville, AL. I bought them all at $4.99 a piece. Yours looks much better than mine did.

Media is the plural of the word medium. Therefore when discussing muliple types of medium (in this case, plastic, resin, metal), multimedia would be the proper word because the prefix multi- implies more than one.

I loved this kit as a kid. It brought me back to the Haunted Tank comics I read as a kid.

Follow up to this OT story, the owner will get some jail time, but overall seems like a light sentence for the amount of money stolen. From this news report, it seems like the famous guy wasn't the only victim, just the one with the largest credit line. http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/26735776/index.html

I'm not an aircraft modeler, but an armor modeler. I tend to place my spares into an empty box of the vehicle type of nation of the donor kit. For example, I have an Abrams box for excess modern US armor, a Sherman box for excess US WW2 armor and a German panzer box (old Hunting Tiger) for any WW2 German armor bits.

Why do you always call me Ron?

Armo makes resin kits, although often times they add resin bits to a Revell kit.

Armo makes one.

I build mainly armor kits and try to stay OOB as much as possible, although many kits are coming with PE frets and aluminum barrels. I use mainly Tamiya extra thin liquid cement because I like how it works. I also have a bottle of the Testors cheap liquid cement for some of the grunt work where it won't be seen or just requires massive amounts of glue.