Got 1st for my TBD and AH-1W Cobra(that’s all I took), but the best, was the vendor tables, super deals all over the place. And believe it or not (I hardly can, myself), I still came back home with $80 in my pocket.
anyway, this is what I got!!!
1/72:
Special Hobby…Yak-17…$3
Toko…AH-72…$7
Revell…Skycrane…$10
Matchbox…Stranraer…$5 (for nostalgia)
1/48:
Classic Airfrmaes…P-51H…$5
AMTech…Huckebein…$10
Italeri…AR-196…$5 (raffle)
Academy…P-38L…$10
Pro-mod…TA-154…$10
Smer…M.C.72…$1
Smer…G.55…$1
Lindberg…Stearman…$1
Accumini…TBF…$10
Accumini…B-25B…$30 (hoping to trade for a B-25C/D???)
Yup, only 1 P-51, still have a mess of em in the stash!!!
The first salmon trip a couple weeks ago brought only 1 fish and a broken rod, I went up again this Sun & Mon, nothing to show for it except for another broken rod, don’t even know how that happened???
Some of the parts are already painted and assembled…not very well I must add, but should be easy enough to clean up. Looks like acrylic paint, kinda grainy looking, I got another one last spring that dude had started to try to clean up, maybe this winter I’ll knock out one of em.
Last summer / fall during a heat wave in western Alberta, Canada a friend fished while we tubed down the Red deer river. It was discovered to be a excellent way to cover many holes people cannot access any other way. ‘Float fishing’ was the term coined for this endeavor. Passing good places you were lucky to get two casts, some holes none as log jams & sharp bends in the river had attention on maneuvering.
Needless to say there were upsets, lost gear & one of my favorite fishing rods. One of the last trips down as thirst was taking over I found a full beer bobbing in a eddy that had parted ways from me a month earlier.
Full circle indeed!
I had fished that river most of my life and seen more of it in three weeks with better luck fishing than the previous 20 years!
Thanks, as for the rods, well, the first one was the fish (I use very light rods, much more fun when you get a 20 pound salmon), and the second, the tip snapped when I set the hook, good and hard, into the log that had attacked with extreme vigor. I think it was defective or already damaged, it should not have broken like that.
Congrats on the much deserved wins…Sorry ahout the broken rods that sucks I hate when that happens. I also enjoy light tackle much better fight.Good score at the vendor tables. I’m presently working on the Yak-1 (Accurate miniatures) that you sent me.Great kit thanks again.Hoping to shoot some primer on her today. Gonna enter it in our IPMS monthly contest for Nov. (winter warriors) be my 3rd try at a minthly contest and no wins yet… But then mystuff is no where near the quality of yours.
I have the Smer…M.C.72…, it looks nasty in the box, or at least mine did, It will build into a nice looking plane when done, mine had lots of flash, and the fit is well, umm… not… lol… but some patience and sanding… it looks sweet when done… I’ll try to post a pic of mine…
