Hey! That’s the one I have! 
John - Nice, a Storch!
Cool! I still haven’t gotten a chance to use her yet… [:(]
John, the Academy Storch is not easy to find in the UK either.
Which AB did you have before you bought the Talon?
Found this 737-300 for under $8 + shipping (another $8) on ebay. Sometimes you can find what your looking for. Special plans for this one - Stardust Livery with the hottie on the tail!
I forgot the biggest raffle win to my stash.
John
Im a fan of those vintage ESCI kits!
Well I had a couple of Badgers. Never had much luck with them, I know some people swear by them though. Went to a Paasche Millennium which is a great brush, still use it. Only issue is it’s not the best for detail work and I don’t like the siphon feed. So I bought a Grex, excellent brush, used it for years for detail work. Later bought a second Grex and it worked fine for awhile and then the seals went bad. It wants to leak everywhere. So I figure I’ll try another Paasche now.
There was an estate model sale over the weekend for a deceased club member, and I picked these up:
Among the considerable collection of kits, there were several that looked (and “felt”) familiar. I had been thinning my own stash partly by having a LHS sell them on consignment. I opened a couple, and I noticed my handwriting in the boxes. He had bought the kits from the LHS. No I didn’t buy them back; that would have been weird.
All really good stuff, but I left thinking about my own demise and the stash I leave behind. When we are young, we want to take on the world and don’t think of the inevitable. But as we get along in our years, it starts to creep in. One day we will all put down the Xacto and switch off the compressor.
Sorry for a downer post on a Monday morning, but I had to get it out. But perhaps a “glass half full” approach would be more constructive - let’s all get out and build stuff for the joy of it. Don’t sweat the little stuff. And remember to cherish your loved ones.
RIP Burl, and thanks for the models.
That’s why I told my wife as long as I have kits in the stash I can’t die. I think she almost bought it. [:D]
Going to try to turn this into my schoolbus yellow Boss302 Laguna Seca. Wheels & decals may be challening
And this one just showed up
Hmm. The Talon is my first AB; and I may have lost one of it’s rubber rings. There’s supposed to be one between the nozzle cap and the main body, right? Anyway, I just use plumbers‘ tape in that area to seal it whenever I have an AB session. I could just try to buy some replacement rings and use one of those, but I haven’t done that so far.
This just arrived, and I’m so jazzed I wanted to share it:
It’s a how-to book on making realistic bugs using tissue paper. Not the kind you use to make small flying airplanes, but the Kleenex kind! And pretty much nothing else except glue! For transparent wings, he soaks the tissue in gloss. For the other general use sheets, he soaks them in diluted white glue, hangs them up to dry, then IRONS THEM. [:|] So Japanese!
I had some projects in the back of my mind that could use stuff like this. The techniques can be applied to other organisms like crusteaceans, arachnids… prehistoric invertebrates. It boggles the mind! The author is obviously a craftsman, but I am just a hack - I plan on using any and all materials to make my monsters, er insects.
I have some serious reading to do now (thanks mom and dad for forcing me to go to Japanese school instead of allowing me to watch cartoons). [:P]
EDIT: I had a look thru last night, and it seems this guy is an artist who chooses a “pure” medium, i.e. only tissue paper. I have no such compunction towards such things, so I plan on using everything at my disposal (epoxy putty, sheet plastic, stretched sprue, vac-form, etc.). His take on transparent wings could use a tweak - maybe vellum or onion skin paper instead of Kleenex?
Now to find a suitable “first try”. A fly?
Real G,
That looks cool
You can probably get one, Paasche is really good about replacement parts. Sadly Grex isn’t.
Real G: WOW, that’s awesome!!! I’ve always been fascinated by manufactured monsters like the Jenny Haniver and FeeJee/Fiji mermaid. I really want to see what you end up creating, please post it - I assume scratchbuilding forum?
Yeah, it’s gotta be a scratch. If the guy sold kits with printed paper patterns , I’d be interested. So the first step is something easy - the fly is looking like the most likely candidate.
Now I have to check my light fixtures for some deceased bugs. Gotta gather the reference materials. [:P] I have thought about extensively photographing said expired bugs for shape, proportion, and color, then carefully dimembering them and scanning the parts so that enlarged images can be used to augment the macro observations. I can also make the bugs BIGGER than life-sized! Mwu-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Here’s a bevy of heavies I recently acquired.
Oh my [:O] You got the room to build those?
Of course not! [:D]