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RGronovius

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  1. I liked many, but X-Files, Farscape, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica (re-make), Star Trek: TNG, Babylon 5, Enterprise and DS9 were on my "never miss" list when they aired. I grew up watching Batman, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard one), Lost in Space, and Land of the Lost and liked each show, but they may not have been very good or a favorite. Today, I watch "V", Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Walking Dead (if zombies count as sci-fi) as my "never miss" shows.
  2. I agree, most US vehicles gain a lot of variation due to dust, sun and where they are located and how they are operated. I've had training vehicles that sat in my motorpool that never went anywhere that looked like the sides were painted totally different colors from the upper areas just due to fading.
  3. An RPM TKS. A rough, but solid kit. Just a major burn out working on it. I bought an Aber PE set for motivation to complete it, but to no avail.
  4. Quite a few years ago, I ended up with a 1/16th (yes, real big) Tamiya King Tiger kit. It is on my list of "to do" kits.
  5. RGronovius

    Jumbo Rumor!

    ExtraTech put one out several years ago in 1/72 scale #72036. I believe I have a couple of them on hand.
  6. In the recent journal, there was an article about getting kids into modeling. So far, I have introduced six of my six kids into modeling, although only one ever really liked it and she even entered a few kits into a show in Nashua and won a few trophies for her efforts. That was six years ago, she'll be 17 on Monday and is interested in her boyfriend, school work (4.0 GPA) and hanging with friends in the new Corolla I bought her in May. I've started my 6 yr old son but he lacks the finer motor skills and still wants to play with the kits. He is a big Star Wars The Clone Wars fan. We watch the animated show on Fridays and he plays Lego Star Wars on the PS3 and Nintendo DS quite often. He was looking at a Fine Molds Snow Speeder I got from eBay and showed a great interest in the kit. Not wanting to let him loose on an expensive Fine Molds kits, I found a few of the pre-decorated snap tite Revell Star Wars kits at Marshall's for a whopping $4.99 a piece. I bought some of the bigger Revell Star Wars kits at the local hobby shop, eBay and Squadron.com for around $20 a piece. I had to help him, basically had to remove parts and press them together to gain a positive lock. He followed along and we had a bit of fun. These kits are light years beyond the MPC kits from the 1970s and 80s and much better than the AMT/Ertl kits released after Episodes 1, 2 and 3. The level of detail on them are amazing and they are well engineered. Only a few spots required some glue to flow with minor clamping to close wing gaps. Other than that, they fit like a glove. Here's what we knocked out during the weekend and a few evenings after homework was done (yes, 1st graders get homework). There are two bigger kits, the X-Wing and Y-Wing fighters and the TIE Interceptor and Eta-2 Jedi fighter were the $5 bagged kits. I wish we had finished the fleet earlier and I had a chance to take better shots, but here they are:
  7. Doubtful you could replace the rims if they are not interchangeable (I don't know if they are or aren't). What would probably happen if the rims weren't available in the supply chain would be 1) cannibalizing serviceable rims/tires off of a destroyed truck or trucks with a long term mechanical problem (blown engine, tranny, etc.), or 2) having four similar trucks cross level their spare tires to the down vehicle.
  8. The T26E3 was standardized during WW2 and redesignated the M26, therefore both nomenclatures were used during WW2.
  9. Both the Tamiya and Dragon kits build into WW2 T26E3 Pershing tanks. The Tamiya kit is fun to build, but I've got the old Dragon one and it isn't bad at all. Either kit works. I have not inspected the Hobby Boss myself and can offer no opinions on whether it is a true WW2 Pershing or Korean War era Pershing. I'd just go with the one in your stash; it's already paid for and on hand.
  10. While not a cabover, ScanKit does a 1/72 Kenworth.
  11. Thanks, I built it, probably in a weekend back in the early 1990s and hanged it from my new (in 1992) stepsons' bedroom. They loved it and eventually got it down, played with it, broke it and trashed it. I've always like the near-Sci-fi aircraft kits like Testors F-19 and MiG-37 Ferret(?). The best thing about them is that the build is never incorrect or inaccurate. I was wondering if anyone remembers this being a putty monster or a nice build. It's been so long for me that I just remember not painting it and I doubt I added decals.
  12. I bought one a very long time ago, but it never survived my trip out of Texas. I recently bought one on eBay real cheap and was wondering if anyone ever built up this thing.
  13. Let me know if you need anything beyond what Clare sends you. I have just simple MS Word tables with the book number and title. I use them as cover sheets to the binders I store my SS pubs in.
  14. I do of most of the titles up to the past couple years. Lists are not 100% complete, but fairly comprehensive. I'll have to locate it on one of my older computers, hopefully it is on my external hard drive.
  15. I've got one I bought off of eBay years ago. I did a quick check on there, there are two up for auction. One is a factory sealed retail box going for $90 but no bids ($15 shipping). The other one is in the Young Model Builder's Club cardboard mailing box. It is currently going for $26 (free shipping) with a couple of bids. I doubt the $105 one delivered will sell; $20-30 seems about right. Edit: I stand corrected, the unopened one is going for over $105 outright.
  16. In the late 80s-early 90s we got three new and different BMP kits all at the same time! Esci, Dragon and the forgettable Lindberg kit. That's more choices than we ever had for some of the rarer subjects. I like your build, the DML BMP was one of my first Dragon kits way back when.
  17. Definitely not a re-pop; I hve both, although I am waiting to decide whether or not to try to correct errors on the Academy kit or to just live with what had been one of my favorite vehicles from my childhood.
  18. Spare Time Shop in Marlbourogh (Malburo), Massachusetts about an hour or so outside of Boston.
  19. There was an old abandoned one at the old Moore Army Airfield when I ran the maintenance school at Fort Devens a few years back.
  20. Not to change the subject (zimmerit panzers are not my cup of tea), but most of Tamiya's latest kits have been of the non-traditional variety. The Char Bis, UE carrier, JS-II and new Matilda come to mind as well as the inbound BT-7. While they have also updated a few more traditional subjects like the Panzer II & III. Most of their Tiger/Panther line tends to be rehashes of their older kits slightly updated to skim some of the market shares from the newer Dragon kits. I mean, there are still some modelers out there that will buy a 20+ yr old Tamiya kit over a new tooled Dragon kit of the exact same subject and then lament online about getting an old kit. I see that on a monthly basis on various web sites. As for the zimmerit patterns, it appears to be only a fairly recent arrival in 1/35 scale. I know I've been seeing zimmerit molded on surfaces of 1/72 scale tanks for years, almost 10 years going back to the AMC Bergetiger and the Dragon 1/72 scale kits. I think the oldest kit I know of with molded on zimmerit is the ancient retooled 1/48 scale Aurora Panther. There are plenty of subjects I'd be interested in building if I didn't have to deal with adding zimmerit. It's either expensive resin or PE or time consuming do-it-yourself with putty and an instrument. If I did build a vehicle that required zimmerit, I'd probably just build it without adding it and be inaccurate.
  21. I would imagine one of the Army Depots (Anniston, Red River, etc.) created them during a rebuild to extend the life of the tanks.
  22. I found my 1/32 M3 Grant kit, both the Airfix and Lodela (Mexican) boxing. I'll send you those once I locate my personal favorite, the 1/32 Airfix Crusader. It was such a nice kit from 1976, probably as good, if not better than the current Italeri one.
  23. Not experimental, they must have changed it to that configuration for some reason. National Guard depots were pretty good at extending the life of old armor pieces. My guess is that they added this cupola so the .50 mount would be able to rotate with the cupola and have vision blocks since the basic "standard" Sherman included either the split hatch with the .50 mount or the all around vision cupola without a .50 mount.
  24. My guess is that it was a late 50s ARNG tank and the Guard added the cupola later in life. I doubt it was an IDF Sherman. If they owned it, we wouldn't have gotten it back.
  25. I don't see an M4A1 HVSS walkaround listed in the gallery. Edit, found it under new galleries.
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