This year’s Yuletide runs from 21st December 2023 to 1st January 2024.
Two down and four to go, oh well.
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Model Gift Build update: BOUGHT MYSELF A NEW KIT, 1ST TIME SINCE 2019!
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!
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?
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!
Another walk-about on the Arctic cold evening of 15DEC2023, in a Chubbuck, Idaho, neighborhood near the Portneuf District Library, part-1:
Part-2:
A couple of homes in Pocatello, Idaho, 19DEC2023:
More Xmas Lights Walk-Abouts:
CHUBBUCK, IDAHO
Checking out the various neighborhood light shows in Chubbuck, from 01DEC2023 to 11DEC2023.
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Part-3:
Xmas Lights Walk-About: POCATELLO, IDAHO
After two days of Spring-Time weather, the snow returned! This is just a few homes and businesses in Pocatello, during the night of 08DEC2023:
Pocatello SAC show, June 2023: OLD FORDS
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?
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!
Weihnachten Bier Wagon build update;
Part-1, ’tis done:
Part-2, where am I?:
Part 8: XMAS BEER WAGON GETTING CLOSE, KIT-BASH CORVETTES
Weihnachten Bier Wagon build update;
Part-1, fixing the axle, time has been rough on a Corvette kit bash (see below for a link to the original kit-bash build):
Part-2, mystery missing Corvette parts (I forget to point out that the brake master cylinder is also missing), paint etching dust, and Zinger stacks:
Part 7: ALMOST THERE, BEER WAGON, XMAS
2013 Kit Bashing:

An old MPC custom Corvette and an AMT 1995 Corvette, missing parts, broken or unusable parts, combined to make a unique kit.
SALVAGING TWO DIFFERENT JUNK KITS INTO ONE UNIQUE CORVETTE