waaaaaaay ot

Actually, since I'm just turned 66 I believe she would be nudging 70. I saw her once down in Dallas many years ago, young trooper's fantasy! Candy and Blaze Starr, those were the days!

Bill Shuey

Sure sign of advanced AMS! :-)

Bill Shuey

hmmm, ok.

Yeah...shes Blaze Starr's Grandmother way back in funky 60s Baltimore!! Mike IPMS

Carol Doda!!

Oh pleasew!!! :-(((

Having met her several times and watching her age all I have to say is "Ugh!".

She was just homely when young, now she's downright hideous.

Tom

Tom wrote about Carol Doda

Tom, what is a moral upstanding youth like you used to be doing in that part of town? As far as "Homely", I never saw anything above her neck!

Oxmoron1 MFE

Bill, you left Lancaster too soon. We had one who almost always seemed to be at The Village. She went by the name of Daisy May. And no, I never got to see her act. :(

Bill Banaszak, MFE

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Greetings Jan

i'm going to hit an art supply shop for some of that pinstriping tape they use for lines on stuff. it's very thin and should seat well.

It's fun stuff but mine seperated from the canopies after about a decade. It's designed to stick to paper so canopies must be too non-porous. The idea of sealing them with Future sounds like a solution. hth

The Keeper (of too much crap)

that's what i'll do.

i'll give it a shot.

How long have you been doing this?? I have found that using tape products is time limited. After a few years either the adhesive loses it's grip and the tape begins to curl up or the adhesive starts to bleed through the finish and out from under the tape. This statement is based on long term results with scotch tape and some drafting tapes.

Bill Shuey

any of them coated with future or any other product?

Bill - I've done this several times and I've found that a dose of Testor's ClearCoat Gloss will keep the tape bonded and also keep the adhesive from bleeding. I don't know about Future, because I've never used it, but don't see why it wouldn't work as well.

BTW, on your website you say you're interested in uniforms. I have a WWI era tunic, American that I bought while I was in the Marines in 1967. I don't know much about it except that it's NOT wool, it's a khaki-colored, with a feel similar to the summer-wweight khakis that I wore back then. It had a PFC stripe, OD green bordered by red, and a service chevron (for want of a better term), same color. The buttons have what looks like a standing liberty, standing over afallen foe, with the words "Sic Semper Tyrannis" along the edge. On the standing collar, two badges, left was US in a circle and right was T in a circle. Any ideas as to where it came from? My Sergeant Major at the time thought it might be a National Guard unit from when he was first enlisted (around 1920 or so) but he wasn't sure. Thanks,

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Admittedly, this was a statement based on experiences of some years ago. The overcoat then was Testor's Nitrate Dope, both colored and clear. I had built a couple of 1/48 scale W.W.I bi-planes and used thin strips of scotch tape to simulate the wing ribs. Method was a couple of coats of sanding sealer (these were balsa wood models) to get a smooth surface, then the tape ribs, then the color coat. $ or 5 years later either the tape was curling up leaving a sticky residue on the wing or had simply started to ooze sticky goo out from under the tape., which collected dust and looked like hell. When I went to 1/24 scale scratchbuilts later on I went to strips of draftsmen's linen, adhered with a coat of clear Dope. As far as I know those models are still O.K., 30 years later. Museum I loaned them to "lost the paper work" and I never got them back. There is another lesson I learned back then.

Bill Shuey