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Model Gift Build update; see you next year!

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This year’s Yuletide runs from 21st December 2023 to 1st January 2024.

Two down and four to go, oh well.

Part-1:

Part-2:

Model Gift Build update: BOUGHT MYSELF A NEW KIT, 1ST TIME SINCE 2019!

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Model Gift Build update, bought myself a new kit, 1st time since 2019!

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While trying to build too many gifts at once, I took a break and bought another model kit!

Part-1, “you better get in there!”:

Part-2, my son sends money, “holy crap!”:

Part-3, “I like bar-b-que.”:

Part -4, the unboxing begins:

Part-5, “oh, they’re wimpy ones!”:

Part-6, “feeling ripped-off…”:

Part-7, decals:

Model Gift Build update: FAIL?

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Model Gift Build update, fail?

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Will any get built in time for Xmas?

Part-1, old Airfix bomber problems:

Part-2, what else is going to go wrong:

Model Gift Build update: WHY MODEL BUILDERS NEED TO BUY THEIR OWN HOUSE!

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Model gift build update, and why model builders need to buy their own house!

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Too many gifts to build in such a short time, why can’t I start them sooner?

Part-1, coffee is too cold, coffee is too hot:

Part-2, why you should buy a house:

Previous episode: STALLED GIFT BUILD HELL, AND A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE?

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Stalled gift build hell, and a trip down memory lane?

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Once again I’ve taken on too many model kit build projects, time to procrastinate with a Dave Deal/Deal’s Wheels mind-trip back to the early 1970s!

Part 1, stalled gift build from last year, and new gift builds:

Part 2, taking a break and wasting your time:

Part 3, Williston, North Dakota, and the Rank Tank:

Part 4, more Williston, more procrastination:

Part 9: ‘TIS DONE, XMAS BEERWAGON!

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Part 7: Almost there, Beer Wagon, Xmas

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Weihnachten Bier Wagon build update;

Part-1, with a look at a homemade tool I made myself back in 1982 and still using it:

Part-2, why using a regular power drill is better (for me) than a Dremel:

Part 6:

BEER WAGON UPDATE & THE SAD DEMISE OF DAPCO HOBBIES

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Part 2: 1970 Chevy Malibu, Revell-Monogram merger, was it worth it?

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I continue my laborious ramblings about why the one time issued Monogram 1/24 scale 1970 Chevy Malibu is so significant to me.

How did I end up in Idaho, and is ‘following the jobs’ worth it?

Part 1: 1970 CHEVY MALIBU, MY OLDEST SURVIVING CAR KIT & WHY IT’S SPECIAL TO ME

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How to build a 1/1 scale Tiger-1 tank

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The Tiger-1 in these pics is not a real Tiger-1 tank (Panzerkampfwagen-6E), it’s a 1:1 scale model weighing 2.7 metric tons.

It was built by Tarnen and Täuschen for the Munster Tank Museum.  The museum was losing the real Tiger tank that had been on temporary loan since 2013, but proved to be such an attraction that museum officials knew they had to have a Tiger on permanent display.

A computer was used to create 800-thousand ‘symbols’ to help create the giant model kit’s instructions for construction.

Main-gun barrel attached to steel frame-work of tank body.

Apparently there are only six real Tiger-1s left in the world.  The 1:1 scale model is made from steel, wood, resin, fiberglass, and of course plastic.  Tarnen and Täuschen’s regular job is making life size models of weapons for use in training of German military personnel.

Mario Gurek prepares the fiberglass mold for the main-gun’s muzzle brake.

Transporting the nearly complete tank to its new home.

REPAIRING 1/1 SCALE T-38 TALON AND A REDUCED SCALE B-2 BOMBER