Old Lagosuchus Kit

Hi all. Nah there's no one still here reading. Its been too long between posts.
But I dug out an old kit by David Scott tonite. Its the Lagosuchus kit. Info says it 1:1. Maybe so, but to me it's 1:1 only if it's an older juvenile. It looks like 25% too small.
The kit is very clean. No seam lines and only a little flash around the toes. The only real minus I see is the the dino is covered in pebbly skin; but the tail piece is completely smooth. I would think there would have been a little transition between the two skin types and not directly at the separation of the two parts. But it's nothing that a little Aves and some pebble skin texture pads won't cure.
I'm may start this guy any day now.  Anyway, here's some pics -

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...