Jack The Ripper

I just received my new kit today of Jack the ripper. I know its not the usual fare for me. But I found Jack's face to be so overwhelimingly evil I just had to have it. I don't wantr to take pics from someone elses site so I'll pics of my Jack tomorrow or so.

FP & C and D

Sorry to hear that the garage kit co. Fantastic Plastic (FP) got a "cease & desist" from Lucasfilm in regard to their starship models paying homage to the SW movies. Luckily for me, knowing the GK market I bought the ones I really wanted. In the GK world if you hesitate you can definitely lose out.
But FP has a number of other kits based on movies, concept vehicles, or other sci-fi. Check 'em out at www.fantastic-plastic.com .

Random thoughts and a friendly warning.

Hi again, despie me saying that I would post more the fact is that I have not (duh). My latest problem involved the supposedly helpful program Ad-Aware. Fact is that once you run it, it installs a program called aaservice.exe that runs in the background all the time. As it runs it uses between 70 to 99% of the CPU! As you would expect the PC runs super slow and it even crashed my email program multiple times. Thankfully I was able to rid my PC of it. If you have it get rid of it. If you want it - choose something else. My internet security is now with www.CA.com .

Some friends knew that our heating plant died this spring and how we've had to get a new one ($$$), just recently my car started giving up the ghost. And with the Cash for Clunkers program I was finally able to unload it. Even tho I'm happy that the govt is allowing us $$ for our old cars it burns me a little that the $$ are from our taxes.
So they make a big deal about giving me some of my own money back! Anway I did manage $4500 for an $1100 car.

Clone Wars Dreadnaught

Hi all, that is if anyone is still checking in to tiny blog. With my "discovery" of Facebook, most of my chatting have been there. But anyway I'm back with my newest buy. Its the Star Wars Clone Wars Era Dreadnaught Heavy Cruiser in 1:2256 (the "new" scale for large SW ships). It was mastered by Steffan Hacker who uses the name Hackcore in the Starship Modeler Forums.

Happy New Year!

With only a few more hours to go til midnite, I just wanted to wish my readers ;-) the Happiest and Healthiest of New Years!

Pioneer WIP

Work has been slow on my Pioneer in 1:24 scale. I have a bad habit of doing the skin first and then thinking about the foundation. So in trying to backtrack there is quite a bit of Aves Apoxie in there. But it's working and maybe someday I'll learn. ;-)

As of now I added the top to the probe as well as that little engine made from two sizes of styrene rod and some more Aves to create the bell. It's primed to check for gaps and uneven places in the styrene - I used 0.01 styrene for this build so it was pretty flimsy.

Up next will be to saw off the metal tube used for a place for the stand, and to build the little rockets on the bottom. The hole in the side will also be filled with Microscale Kristal Klear to mimic the lens of the camera.

After that will be the hopefully not to difficult job of masking and painiting. (HA) The micrometeorite detector will go on last. Stay tuned...

New In-Box Review: Dunkleosteus

This is a newly released kit from Paleocraft Models. Its the Devonian terror Dunklosteus who swam the prehistoric waters 370-360 million years ago. This placoderm weighed in at a ton, and measured close to 20 ft. long, like a killer whale of his day. They died off at the transition betwen the Devonian and the Carboniferous and left no descendents. Fossils of this monster have been found in North America, Poland, Belgium and Morocco.

The Dunkleosteus kit measures in at 15.5 inches long which works out to about a 1:20th scale. The kit comes in 7 pieces: the body, the lower jaw and four fins. A resin coral reef and wooden bases completes the picture. As typical with any Paleocraft kit it is an excellent work of sculptor Sean Cooper. The model is in a cream color odorless resin, and shows absolutely no bubbles and only the minimum of seams. Cleanup should be completed in no time. The only down side I had to my kit was that despite Sean's excellent job of wrapping and packing the model for shipment the last 5cm of the tail was snapped off. Looking closely there was a huge bubble that formed in the resin in the area and as a matter of fact the whole tip was hollow. But it snapped off cleanly and it should be quick work to fill the bubble and pin the tail back on. Pics show the kit and the snapped off area.