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THE RATINENTAL
SOME WOULD ASK...WHAT IS JAKE UP TO?!?
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HELLO WRATTERS!! YA DIDN'T THINK I FORGOT ABOUT THE CONTEST DID YA?!?
SLOW AND STEADY....
TINTED WINDOWS
SPEAKERS AND AMP
INTERIOR DETAILED
WHEELS AIRED UP
TOMORROW ENGINE WORK, EXHAUST AND EXTRAS. GTM!! GET TA MODELING!! PEACE
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Check out this tight little 1:43 scale GT40 by Testor. Metal body. Plastic parts.

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Der Baron un Der Flying Ace

Gave the Flying Ace some power last night.

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Shoot, I just thought of something I could have done for this. Oh well, it's fun just following along.
 
Shoot, I just thought of something I could have done for this. Oh well, it's fun just following along.
@Duchess with the response we got I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't do another one next Fall! Stay posted.
 
Still have 6 dsys.

I'd need more than that, especially where I need to finish some purpleheart earrings I'm making for someone first. If there's another one in the fall, I'll likely do it.
 
Here is an aside bulletin. Yesterday at 4 pm an F-16 fighter jet crashed five miles from our cabin in the Hiawatha National Forest. It’s heavily wooded and remote with a lot of lakes and extensive wooded swamps. I felt the crash but I thought it was a truck or a logging operation falling a tree. I was cutting wood with my chainsaw so I didn’t hear it. They found the jet, but not the pilot who ejected. Jets can be herd constantly as they serch. I can also hear a helicopter. I hope and pray they find the pilot ok. Planes have gone down up here and have never been found. The crash site is at Stevens Lake. The nearest Town with a real name is Stuben, population 25, including the suburbs. The only store in Stuben won’t bother to sell you anything, unless your purchase is $25 or more in cash. I used to be able to get an ice cream cone there, twenty five years ago.
 
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Der Baron und Ze Hound

I made a lot of progress with Ze Hound's HoppedUp Camel (Sopwith Camel).

First I trimmed down some wings and added them to the side of the McDonalds Snoopy toy. I used more parts frame pieces as struts.

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Then I glued the Lil Baron axle and wheels to the front of the doghouse. The Baron model had two machine guns, but I lost one. This turned out to be a good thing, because the single gun in Snoopy's hands is sooooo much better than two on the wings.

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Added the wheels to the axle followed by the right wing. Now it's starting to look like something more than a dog house.

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Der Baron und Ze Hound

I couldn't have Snoopy's ride dragging its butt around like a dawg on a carpet, so I needed to find a way to recreate this rearend from the plane model.

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All I had was the oval vertical stabilizer and the chrome wheelie bar. I needed to make the rear wing from a spare one of the quad-decker plane wings.

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I am pretty pleased with how well I was able to mesh and modify these parts to work together.
Snoppy's HoppedUp Camel is fairly complete assembly wise. Next I can jump back on Der Baron's head and rig.

No fountains available, but here is a KF photo montage.

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Hey KF, considering the size of the model, maybe instead of a fountain, you could 'shoot' Snoopy next to a 'fountain' pen? :wondering::nod::grin:
 

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