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Post by Joel_W on Nov 23, 2019 7:36:03 GMT -8
Working in the Pep Boy's stores at Christmas really ruined it for me, selling, assembling between 500 to 1000 Bicycles, and having them waiting for pick up on Christmas eve, got home on Christmas eve usually at 10pm or so depending on those last couple of idiots who had to have it when little Johnny wakes up but didnt think to pick it up earlier.. what a pain Yup SALARIED TOO!!! to top it off, Getting Home Dog Ass tired , trying to entertain Family, and then finding my EX in bed with an un-named member of the Family... kinda put a damper on Christmas Forever........Chris Chris, The EX really must have ruined your day. I'm sure that you ended up in a much better place. Joel
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Post by mike_t on Nov 23, 2019 11:47:32 GMT -8
Ouch, Chris....I didn't mean to stir up any bad memories, man, but I know where you're coming from. I've been working retail basically all my life and as Joel said as well, it is the worst. It sucks the Christmas spirit right out of ya. With the exception of the period when my kids were small, I haven't really enjoyed Christmas since who knows when. It's just another day off now. I see my kids at some point over the holidays, eat Christmas dinner by myself (deer steak this year, courtesy of my service manager!) and usually spend the day at the model bench. It wasn't Christmas when I found my ex in the company of another guy but it was January...close enough. That part doesn't bother me now, it's been 11 years but at the time, it didn't do much for me.
I guess the good side of this, compared to you and Joel, is I'm hourly paid so as I mentioned, the paychecks are fatter but I really don't want to kill myself earning them...after all, we ain't 18 anymore!
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Post by pnance26 on Nov 30, 2019 10:43:18 GMT -8
I'm in EMS but I have had other lives and I had it easy compared to my mother during her florist career where she would spend hours and hours in the weeks before Christmas and then work until 6pm and come home to prepare her buffet spread for the family on Christmas Eve (we were "Eve-ers" because it was the easiest way to get us into bed at 1730 for a couple of hours so Santa could arrive, and after opening presents, we would all troop off the Midnight Mass where my brother and I were altar boys) and then Christmas Day dinner.
As a first responder, I've had my share of holiday on duty and eating a meal out of a styrofoam container. Birthdays, holidays, parties... missed a lot of them because disease and death don't take a day off. (What a downer of a story...)
Right now, any building is out of the question as we got a foot of snow during the Wednesday/Thursday/Friday of Turkey Day. I found out superglue isn't so super in the cold! So right now, it is Christmas land and doing the husbandy thing of repairing broken ornaments, etc.
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and a very special holiday season!
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Post by Joel_W on Dec 1, 2019 7:39:38 GMT -8
I haven't done much of anything relating to modeling the last few weeks too. We can model anytime throughout the year, but you can only celebrate the holidays when they occur.
Being in EMS is a vital service. Believe me I know as they helped save my life when I had the heart attack in the Ambulance. DOA to the hospital but the shot in the heart and the oxygen kept me technically in the game. 6 weeks later I finally returned home. You guys deserve medals for what you do daily.
Joel
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Post by pnance26 on Dec 2, 2019 8:51:19 GMT -8
I haven't done much of anything relating to modeling the last few weeks too. We can model anytime throughout the year, but you can only celebrate the holidays when they occur. Being in EMS is a vital service. Believe me I know as they helped save my life when I had the heart attack in the Ambulance. DOA to the hospital but the shot in the heart and the oxygen kept me technically in the game. 6 weeks later I finally returned home. You guys deserve medals for what you do daily. Joel Thanks , Joel! Glad to hear you had a positive outcome. Me, personally? I know that back of an ambulance as well as on the day we moved my son into his dorm at Texas State University as a freshman, I decided the day wasn't exciting enough so I had a heart attack. Two complete blockages... it was what we in the business call a "STEMI" which stands for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction... that means the heart "attack" is happening right now. I didn't require defibrillation but we had an interesting ride to the hospital in South Austin, about 20 minutes away. The EMS in that county is pretty agressive and the cardiologist met us at the dock. I had identified myself as a Medic so I kind of got the best treatment. My ER time from "back door to out the door to the cath lab" was a record eight (8) minutes. Rapid intervention bought me two stents and then a big change in my life and lifestyle! So here I am thanks to the guys on duty that day. They were and are my heroes. So thank you to you for your kind words, and then thank you to the San Marcos County Medics that literally save my life!
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Post by mike_t on Dec 2, 2019 14:26:06 GMT -8
Well, gentlemen, count me as a member of this club, as well. I've had 2, actually, so I got you beat , although I wouldn't recommend you try to tie my record! I thought the first one was so much fun I did it again! They were both classed as "minor" but for the amount of pain I was in, I'm rather glad they weren't "major". My first one was while I was at work. The whole time I'm thinking, "Please, if I'm gonna die, don't let it be here...I don't want this as my final memory" The second one was while my 2 daughters were visiting on Boxing Day...Merry Christmas, girls, let's go to the hospital! Got home on New Year's Eve and have been eating pills for breakfast and supper ever since. That was 6 years ago and everything seems fine now...or at least, they tell me it is. On the good side, I haven't had a drink for 6 years and quit smoking 2 years ago...now I've got lots of money to spend on model stuff! Well, not lots, but more than I had. I don't know what prices are like where you guys are but beer is about $25.00 a dozen and the last pack of smokes I bought were about $17.00...that's a lot of glue and brushes!
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Post by pnance26 on Dec 2, 2019 18:10:24 GMT -8
Well, gentlemen, count me as a member of this club, as well. I've had 2, actually, so I got you beat , although I wouldn't recommend you try to tie my record! I thought the first one was so much fun I did it again! They were both classed as "minor" but for the amount of pain I was in, I'm rather glad they weren't "major". My first one was while I was at work. The whole time I'm thinking, "Please, if I'm gonna die, don't let it be here...I don't want this as my final memory" The second one was while my 2 daughters were visiting on Boxing Day...Merry Christmas, girls, let's go to the hospital! Got home on New Year's Eve and have been eating pills for breakfast and supper ever since. That was 6 years ago and everything seems fine now...or at least, they tell me it is. On the good side, I haven't had a drink for 6 years and quit smoking 2 years ago...now I've got lots of money to spend on model stuff! Well, not lots, but more than I had. I don't know what prices are like where you guys are but beer is about $25.00 a dozen and the last pack of smokes I bought were about $17.00...that's a lot of glue and brushes! This has been quite the little sidebar! I never smoked (well unless ganga counted and I quit that 32 years ago) and I quite drinking in 1994... it was all that damned "diet soda" that really just makes you thirstier and craving sugar. Now, I have a new addiction and it is killing me that I got NOTHING accomplished on my last 9 days off! And it looks like the next two weeks are shot as well because my off week we have four days planned and then it's back to work again. I am tempted to bring some bits here to paint etc but the 321B has a ton of parts in each subassembly! There were something like eleven in a single front wheel brake/rotor assembly! I might be able to get all the fuel lines and the spark plug wires done by spring. If I don't report in, send the huskies to the garage workshop! I may be frozen!
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Post by Joel_W on Dec 3, 2019 6:37:03 GMT -8
Guys, I guess we are in our own special nitch here. Really glad that all of us made it through those times and can talk about them so casually here.
Mike-t, actually I have tied your 2 heart attacks, but the 1st one was a minor silent one that I only found out about after the 2nd one. I've been taking 10 pills per day: 4 morning and 6 night for more then 25 years. They gave me 10 years max before I would start to have clogged arteries again. Well, it's been more then 25 years and I passed every stress test they gave me. Only issue is that now my hips and knees can't go the distance they need, so it's chemically induced.
I stopped smoking two weeks before the big one, and stopped my beer drinking after I got home. These days I have maybe 6 beers per year max. this year none.
lets do everything we can to make sure that we can all be here for our 2nd annual meeting next Xmas.
Joel
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Post by pnance26 on Dec 3, 2019 7:15:57 GMT -8
Hi, I'm Patrick... plastiholic and heart attack survivor.
Glad to know I'm not the only pill popper. 9 in the morning and 2 at night! But I still do an echo and a treadmill stress test every two years and my ejection fraction has actually improved!
Are you all able to get any work done? I found out that superglue isn't so super when it's cold! I am not sure of the status of the next week off but if we don't go on our planned trip, at least one day will be devoted to getting all the yard art in place and lighting up the house!
Maybe I can... nah... only one more day at work and it is a pain to make a "go pack". I did one project almost completely here at work and it was amazing how much I could get done but it was also amazing how much stuff I brought from home! When the project was finished, it took half a day to load up all the stuff!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2020 10:11:31 GMT -8
Fantastic work all around. I always have to use real rubber for my tires - I just can't use anything else because of the methods I use to create realism. I built the Tamiya 1/20th Scale version of the model and I got my decals from Museum Decals - the quality of the decals was fantastic. This is not an easy model to build in my opinion, at least it challenged me in several places and required a bit of scratch build here and there. just such a beautiful shape though the 641/2 - I built the Portuguese GP late Season version - pics below with my new camera - was fooling around with it a bit. I saw a photo of this car at the Ferrari Motorsport Museum and tried to create the exact diorama - it was a lot of fun.
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Post by mike_t on Jan 5, 2020 5:48:50 GMT -8
Nice job, Adrian! I've thought about doing that very same display for mine as well...and I agree with you on the real rubber but since these tires are 1/12 scale, there aren't many options, unless you want to pay $100.00 or more for a set! I wasn't going there, so resin it is.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2020 8:19:01 GMT -8
Nice job, Adrian! I've thought about doing that very same display for mine as well...and I agree with you on the real rubber but since these tires are 1/12 scale, there aren't many options, unless you want to pay $100.00 or more for a set! I wasn't going there, so resin it is. Ya I hear you Mike - but I must say for resin you did a fantastic job on them - it's a pity I hadn't met you earlier because when I moved I actually got rid of a bunch of modeling stuff thinking that it would be ages before I started up again and one of the things I got rid of was a set of tamiya 1/12th scale tires from the Williams kit, and they were already weathered and stenciled
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Post by Joel_W on Jan 5, 2020 8:19:45 GMT -8
Adrian, Wow!! what a fantastic build. And it's only 1/20th scale no less. The paint and finish is near on perfect. As for the tires, like you I do prefer rubber whenever possible. Love how you weather the logos and chipped the paint on the wheels, so that one gets the feeling that it's the real race car that has been completed detailed for display.
Joel
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Post by mike_t on Jan 5, 2020 9:42:46 GMT -8
one of the things I got rid of was a set of tamiya 1/12th scale tires from the Williams kit and they were already weathered and stenciled Did you ever hear the expression "a day late and a dollar short"? I think that was invented for me.. And thanks for the compliment. They didn't turn out as good as I had hoped (but not bad for a first effort) but they will do.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2020 9:43:00 GMT -8
Adrian, Wow!! what a fantastic build. And it's only 1/20th scale no less. The paint and finish is near on perfect. As for the tires, like you I do prefer rubber whenever possible. Love how you weather the logos and chipped the paint on the wheels, so that one gets the feeling that it's the real race car that has been completed detailed for display. Joel Hey Joel! Well thank you so much for the kind words - this model was a labour of love because it was my first 1/20th scale Golden Era Ferrari and I wanted to do that 'Scarlet Body' Justice. I tried to replicate the Diorama from the Ferrari Museum so I gathered as many detailed photos of the actual 641/2 in the actual gallery as I could. It was being displayed with the original 'raced tires' so I wanted to replicate as best I could - right down to the molding holes. Weathering the rims and tires on this piece was some of the most fun I have had modeling ever - but very challenging indeed!
Below is the photo that provided me with the best info.
*BTW - this clear coat is laid down - there is NO Buffing whatsoever.
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