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Ah, yes Caberfeidh! I had forgotten about the brand. I have to compare them closely, though. Mine are a little simpler in their detail. Thanks! OK, yeah, the 17th-century chair. The two pieces shaped like an F are the sides, and the turned bar is a stretcher that goes between them in front...

I guess the Puppy Bowl is still on, isn't it? Or the Victoria's Secret Lingerie Bowl? Maybe someone will broadcast an old-school test pattern during halftime. Or it'll be time to load up on seconds from the buffet, or take a long dump till that crap is over and the second half starts. Prost! Brad

This is just saying the obvious, but that's why we were so concerned in previous generations, to ban gambling on professional sports, to keep them as free of gambling as possible. It's more a sign of a decline in our society that we've just accepted sports gambling so readily. We go for the...

David, who made the toy soldiers in your scene? Especially the men doing the sword dance? I picked up a pair of those figures, attached to a single metal plate as a base. I don't generally collect Scots, but the piece caught my eye. But I haven't placed the maker yet. I need to get a picture...

Yeah, pictures will help. Many of the furniture pieces are self-expanatory, because they're so simple. The wing-back chair, for example, is just a left and a right half. Same for the 18th century footstool. The images on S&D's website could help you, too, to show what the buttembled pieces...

I haven't had as much time for reading lately as in the past, but I reread "Jurassic Park" and "A Canticle for Leibowitz" again. Those are two sci-fi novels I enjoy so much that I've read them maybe 20 times each over the years. I also re-read "The Caine Mutiny". It's a good novel, but I...

Also, it's "usage", and "all right". ;)

I wanted to say this, all the way back in 2017, but decided not to. It reminds me of a saying I saw in someone's signature in another forum: "Every time you use bad grammar, I love you fewer." Prost! Brad

This piece, "It's...", was made by Jack Lynch of the MFCA and first shown at our show back in May. He got the Best Civilian "Non-Military" Subject award. It's all scratch-built. Prost! Brad

"Recast" has a negative connotation, as in "unauthorized copy of a copyrighted item." It's synonymous with piracy. Not usually applied in the context of a hobbyist making a copy for himself, though that may violate the original maker's copyright, too. It usually means toy soldiers sold as...

The heads might be from Rose/Russell Gammage. Rose produced figures as kits in 54mm, crisply sculpted and cast, and the parts turn up in a lot of collector & hobbyist conversions. As toy soldiers, those are pretty nicely done. Prost! Brad

Not really a need to remove it. The discussion is still open and their ID unresolved. Someone else might stumble across it and have more info. Prost! Brad

That reminds me of when I was in college, and a Philly radio station had a morning show called the Morning Zoo. Wacky DJ playing comedy bits and telling jokes between songs. I listened and thought it was great, till I went to Tampa on vacation and heard the same thing on a station down there...

New item: I can't stand the voice on the narrator of the Medishare insurance commercials. He's radio host Brant Hansen. He's probably a good host, and a nice guy. And it's not a reflection on the product. It's just his voice. He adopts a tone like he's having a conversation, and that's...

It's been long overdue. He's survived previous situations where his job was in question, but this time, his luck has run out. He did some great things with a program that was still struggling to recover from the Sandusky scandal, but he's failed enough times against the conference. His...

So it's what I suspected, it's a fake term, or one used by such a small segment of the people who live there as to be insignificant, and for MLB's marketing to use it really is pandering to that segment. It's similar to the way the Phillies' broadcasters now refer to their home ballpark. It's...

Do you folks in St. Louis really refer to your city as "The Lou"? The Cardinals use that on their "City Connect" jerseys, and I am skeptical that anyone actually calls St. Louis, "The Lou". If anyone, I suspected that it's a hip-hop thing. Prost! Brad

That came out very nice, Walt! Are you bringing this to Long Island? Prost! Brad

Yes! He's one of my regular dealers. I watched that auction through several re-lists and always wondered if you were watching it, too! I've got a couple of the sedan chair kits from him, too, but only started on one. Prost! Brad

I love watching you build these classic Phoenix carriage kits, Walt! Do you have a particular vignette in mind already for this one, or is that yet to be decided? You've inspired me, too-I picked up the Royal Mail Coach recently off eBay, including 4 horses, the driver and a footman. I'll...