Beer garden in winter (1 Viewer)

[kilted vampire]

the Red Baron was one of my favorites. One of the kids in my neighborhood had that one. Then there was the Tiajuana Taxi,Paddy Wagon, There was a toilet one too. There was some kind of hot rod hearse too.

 

[glossman]

Hi Ray, yes Brad's beer garden is becoming very cosy despite the cold I had a similar ship collection as I built (from memory) Bismark, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Hood, Nelson, Warspite, Hotspur and Ark Royal (carrier). I also built the USN Longbeach and the last model ship I built was the USN Enterprise which was an impressive model.

I guess I built every aircraft model available at the time but my fav was the Tamiya Lancaster with the Monogram (I think) B-29 a close second as it was so freakin huge and shiny.

My wife is doing fine, she is visiting her mother until March leaving me with our two teenage boys who are cooking and cleaning for themselves and also helping around the yard. I can't say they enjoy it much, but they don't get to drive the car if they don't help out

I live in an urban suburb only 5 minutes from the coast so bush fires aren't a problem here.

It must be sheer coincidence that we built almost the same WWII capital ships.

I left out the King George V, Scharnhorst and a couple of others.

Of yes, the Enterprise and Long Beach were the "flagships" of my post WWII USN fleet.

The USAF B17 "Flying Fortress" was my favourite WWII bomber as was the RAF Supermarine Spitfire for the WWII fighters.

I am very happy to hear that things have settled down at home. It is at times like this when family can be a great help.

There have been great advances in Medicine, so be positive as things are looking up.

I saw your thread "Better Days Ahead - I Hope", but did not think it appropriate to post as I was new to the forum and we had not communicated before.

Best Wishes, Raymond.

 

[theBaron]

Yep, we all seem to have built a lot of the same kits.

For me, Revell was the ship model kit of choice, even though everything was to different scales. I built the Yorktown, the Enterprise (CV-6), the Oriskany (my first carrier build), the Arizona and Pennsylvania, the New Jersey, and the Washington, all from Revell. I think I also built an Aurora CV-6, too. I also built Revell's Constitution, Golden Hind and Mayflower.

But I also built a larger Enterprise, CVN-65, by Tamiya, I think. It was huge, maybe 1/350? Also built the LST by Lindberg, with the dozen or so single-piece Higgins boats included.

Monogram was the plane model of choice, in 1/48, and Revell in 1/32, and then, Monogram for armor. I had never even heard of Tamiya or Italeri, until I was in high school and just before I gave up scale modeling for girls, beer, etc.

Also some sci-fi subjects. Another Enterprise, this time, NCC-1701, by AMT. Also, the Millenium Falcon, an X-wing, and Darth Vader's TIE fighter, also by AMT, I think. Those were the first generation of those kits, that came out between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. And the Colonial Viper and Cylon Raider by Monogram, with the "real firing action".

Takes me back...

 

[glossman]

the Red Baron was one of my favorites. One of the kids in my neighborhood had that one. Then there was the Tiajuana Taxi,Paddy Wagon, There was a toilet one too. There was some kind of hot rod hearse too.

Hi KV,

Both the Beer Wagon and the Red Baron are from the same series by Revell/Monogram. There is even one called "Rommel's Rod".

Best, Raymond.

 

[kilted vampire]

I loved Rommels' Rod!. I forgot all about that one! Thanks for reminding me. Do you guys remember the Universal Studios' Monster series? All those great glow in the dark monsters

 

[1879fanatic]

I loved Rommels' Rod!. I forgot all about that one! Thanks for reminding me. Do you guys remember the Universal Studios' Monster series? All those great glow in the dark monsters

KV,
I had the Phantom of the Opera and only half his face glowed in the dark..was that a defect? Seriously, that was 1st grade, I remember my first sleep-over at a friends house and that model, and his Creature from the Black lagoon scared the crap out of us all night.
Mike

 

[theBaron]

I have the Red Baron Hot Wheel car, too, but it's been beat to heck, too many backyard rallies!