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Personal issues and a new addition to the ‘family’. I have a new printer to help with the details like greeblies and people for my models. I’m still learning this thing obviously since I’ve only had it for a couple of days. That’s an Anycubic Kobra Neo, with a small war happening. Those...

I am planning on using one of the @ARMORMAN ’s provided models to build a carrier for the WWII German 20mm anti-aircraft gun. This is the model: And I hope to come up with something on this order by mounting the Tamiya gun kit and Tamiya gun crew kit on the back of the truck. Hopefully it...

I have quite a few 1/35 paper models to build and a couple of scratch builds I want to do that need a ‘truck tire’. I bought a German half track kit a while back and the front wheels are perfect for my needs. There are only 2 in the kit. Since I am cheap, I didn’t want to spend a bunch of money...

So, how are ships like TIE fighters, etc… steered? What makes them turn in the vacuum of space? Little thrusters? Other unknown gadgets? I need to know. :biggrin:

Look at this page. LOTS of good textures. https://www.textures.com/search?q=Rivets sign up for free for 15 daily credits. Here’s a sample. I ran out of credits today and have to go back tomorrow for more.

I thought I had a thread for this, but apparently not. I’ll use this one to post ideas and pics of things I make to make the hobby more fun and easier to organize. Yesterday and this morning, some cardboard was saved from the landfill. The flaps off of an Amazon box became two little...

In keeping with my Attention Deficit Disorder, :biggrin: I decided to build a model car kit. My grandson will be 4 this spring. Right after he was born, I bought this model. His first name is Hudson and I’ve always liked the Hudson Hornet, so let’s get this thing going. Here is Hudson doing a...

NOTE: I just edited the title of this thread. I want to post pics of the toys I am playing with and don’t want to clutter the forum with a bunch of little threads about this and that. THIS thread will be about this and that. :biggrin: I told you guys I can’t keep on track. Detours are always...

I’m easy to entertain and hard to keep on task. So, after building an artillery piece from an Army Man gun and some Legos… I needed someone to operate the thing. They don’t make cheap Army Men to do tasks I need done. So… I learned radical surgery. One guy lost his forehead during a scalpel...

I’ve been planning an airbrush booth with filter and Brown brought the last piece today, so I built the booth. It is made of a large plastic tub with a smaller one inset into the ‘bottom’ (which isn’t the bottom now). The small one holds the fan and filter. There’s an LED light on top. I took...

My wife is quite an artist. She started painting with oils years ago and a few years ago switched to acrylics. I have acrylics for my model making so the airbrush seemed to be the next toy to buy. I found a nice one with the little box compressor on Amazon. It is VERY nicely made. I haven’t...

I’ve been playing with cardboard, foam and glue and have my tool station just about done. I need to make drawers under the chop saw and add a few bits yet. My wife is fully onboard with this playing. She ordered me some storage containers today, so the materials station will wait until those...

This is something I could work on without too much effort. My work surface is constantly covered with ‘stuff’ so I decided to build a couple of organizers to help reduce the clutter. First up was the paint and glue station. It is mostly cardboard, has a drawer in the bottom and sits on a lazy...

I still don’t feel well enough to take on much modeling, but… I need to keep busy. Today I realized that the Resource section is not only a fantastic source of kits, but it is an amazing source of grebles. The B17 interior upgrades are an excellent example. I found the radio I need for a model I...

OldMiner submitted a new resource: 1967`s Mini Cooper Monte Carlo Paper Model - by Takayoshi Ichiyama - As linked from Papermau. Includes plans, available instructions and images of original car. Read more about this resource...

I hope I can get it done in time. My son is a disabled Iraq War veteran. He has lived with my wife and I since he came home in 2006. We are full time caregivers for him. So, when he was in high school, his ‘car’ was my Dad’s ‘69 Bronco. He loved it. We still have it, although it isn’t in running...

Big guns, artillery. I was actually in the Army Artillery, so… gotta have big guns. (Even though I was in a missile outfit) I bought a set of ‘army men’ to play with the grandkids (and my grown sons…) so we must have artillery to wipe out the enemy. The guns will shoot… something. The first one...

First the backstory. Back in October I was thinking about neat toys from the past and remembered something called the Big Loader that my kids had, long ago. I now have some little grandkids who would enjoy one of those I bet. It took me a while to remember what it was called and then succeeded...

I would like to start a build thread (architectural model), but am unsure which forum to put it in.

Ok, story first. My wife and I are full time caregivers for our disabled Veteran son. He came home from Iraq 100% disabled in 2006. He was 23 then. I have found a full size figure that I want to build and surprise him on his birthday next July. He has a ‘man cave’ where all his gaming stuff and...