That one kit you keep putting back in the stash...?

hill4448 · 2010-09-10T15:04:46+00:00

What is it?What's that one kit that you've got in the stash,you keep pulling it out say, "I'mma be buildingthis one NEXT!" and it's still there the NEXTtime you look at your stash for what to build.Tell us about that one kit? What is it? Why isit STILL in the stash? What keeps pre-emptingits build?I'll start y'all off:At home in MN it's the AMT/ESCI/ERTL XB-70kit. I suck donkey stuff at gloss white paintschemes, and I've also heard that the fit is att-rocious. I want to do it RIGHT the first time asthe replacement is so freaking expensive.Here in Korea, it's the Airfix 40mm Bofors kit.The thing is so horribly bad, and the flash is out-rageous, and it's the only goldurned kit on thefreaking MARKET! There's more parts to thegun aiming system than in the entire AirfixChurchill Mk 7 kit! What the hell!?!?!So, tell me, dudes and dudettes... What's thatone kit you keep pulling out and putting back inthe stash?-andyh[just trying to keep the group in existence at thispoint...]

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Rufus 16 years ago

...I'm about to become a medical experiment...in the past 6-8 weeks I've been back and fourth to UCLA and had MRI of my brain and both ends of my spine, left ankle, a treadmill test, an electromylogram (which is like getting tazered one nerve at a time...), and a spinal tap.

Latest development is that I have some inflammatory arthritis in my sacral joints on top of my Crohn's and iritis - which the docs say is near impossible to have all three in one individual, and my blood is going off to the NIH for some genetic workup. I knew my back was bothering me, now I know why...Monday I have to go get a chest x-ray...

...all in preparation for going on Humira...which I'm really scared of - both the needles and the drug...I HATE NEEDLES, JOCK!!! I HATE 'EM!!!

Other than all that, life is suckin'...I would have settled for a red tube scrip...

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someone 16 years ago

i had one of those nerve tests. they wear you down by going on and on. if you ever need backup on wheels, just yell. sometimes they keep you overnight if you don't have a driver. i understand about needles and spinal taps, too. needles should never hurt. check all the info and holler about that, too. i was having a great summer until the monsoon and hailstorm. i've only ridden once this summer and it is really pissing me off. i can't even go on a good drunk. so i might as well commiserate with a bud. just yell.

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Rufus 16 years ago

Thanks for the backup. I don't think I've ridden out of town in about two years now...I can make the outbound trip, but I don't trust myself to have enough stamina to get home. I haven't even been riding to work as much as I used to.

I stayed overnight after the spinal tap...later that night it felt like I had been burned in the back with a cigarette. That lasted about a day and a half, and then the headaches kicked in...like a low-grade migraine, and it felt like my upper teeth were wrapped in aluminum foil...that lasted about four days. Better now, but really, really tired.

Hasn't helped that I'm also still spending more time tearing down and rebuilding 1:1s than I am building models...if I can get through this next week I may be able to get caught up and recharge. Of course, I'm supposed to start sticking myself on Friday...ouch. A guy I know here that has RA and is on Humira tells me the shots burn...especially if you shoot them anywhere but your belly.

Think I'm gonna draft up a hot chocolate and Kahlua and stay in tonight...I've been doing that of late - staying in - and all the street-creatures are starting to ask and worry about me...I'm ok for the most part...just really, really run down. Been that way all year...I'm supposed to have good days and bad with Crohn's - this has been a bad year...

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Moramarth 16 years ago

All of 'em... :(

Cheers,

Moramarth

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Mad Modeller 16 years ago

Probably my '65 Riviera. It's in the 'Hijack' series and I've had it new since the mid-'70s. I want to do a fabulous job on it and I'm nowhere near fabulous yet. IMHO, that car is a modern classic.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr,

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The Old Man 16 years ago

A friend of mine had one 1:1. It was a show car that was supposed to be crushed at the end of the season, but was rescued by a GM biggachot, who lost it in a divorce to an aquaintance. He got transferred to New York City and sold the car to my friend, who drove it for a couple of years and traded it for a 28' cabin cruiser. It had every option available at that time on it (more things to go wrong) and a candy red over gold paint job that was gorgeous.

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Mad Modeller 15 years ago

Was it Mitchell, the designer? I know he had one that was a show car.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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The Old Man 15 years ago

Sorry Bill, I really don't know. Whichever exec had it, sold it to Clarence Nizley, who sold it to my friend, Billy Grohmann. I have a couple of shapshots that I could scan and send you if you'd recognize the car.

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