Nice!

Lucky son

Damn, I think it would be better not knowing that they ripped them out. Reminds me when I redid the flooring and repainting the house. When I finish leveling, I will probably use hardener and LVP and hopefully be done with major improvement for a while.

Do you know of someone who is good at concrete leveling? My return on investment doing this is not like fixing the plumbing, electrical and car work (like saving 1400 for 4 hours of work on the damn audi)

Squaring a very old favor for an old wargaming buddy. He wants a model of a B-36 bomber ("six turning and four burning," the largest combat aircraft ever built) for what-if "WWII extends to '47" scenarios. Guess who's been called in to build the damn thing?

You will be posting pictures. That's not a request.



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I will be installing a 120V low profile LED shower light in the place of a larger diameter POS can light. Previous owners put 75W spot light in there and anything remotely non metallic cracked or melted. BIG Mess and dangerous at some point.

Not plug and play, but taking the whole can out will be a major PITA. Hmmmmm...........need metal fab. Hold my coffee.

Yes, I will... WHEN I figure out how to get the damn thing built. If it was MY table there's only ONE B-36 I'd allow, and the entire forward 20% or so of the XB was different from every other airframe built. That one first flew in August '46; the YB-36 and YB-36A both flew in '47 with the "final" nose and cockpit but the A was meant to be destroyed in ground testing and its sole flight was from Fort Worth to the Wright-Patterson test site. None of these three carried the battery of defensive armament that would make for an interesting game... though there's a sick part of me that wants to commit historical heresy, ask "what if the XF-85 Goblin had worked" and deploy a full bomber-box of Peacemakers each having Goblins in all four bays to sweep the skies clean. WWII version of a SHIELD Project Insight Helicarrier?

"See, Herr Hitler, WE can play the Wunderwaffen game too!"

Complication: There is a company that makes XB-36 conversion kits for the 1/72 Monogram and 1/144 Minicraft/Roden kits, but not for the 1/184 Revell/Atlantis that I'm using to approximate 1/200 Wing of Glory WWII minatures.

Dad’s garage put new brake pads on both axles of my daughter’s Chevy Tahoe, and new calipers on the front, And changed the oil. Dad’s garage is hoping business slows down soon.

Sounds like a money losing situation for Dad's Garage, although pro bono work is good for karma.

For anybody interested in following along, I've started a "Build Along" thread. Be warned, I make "slow burn" look like warp speed; I'm a firm believer that 80 to 90% of a successful project is done in the library before you even go Hands On, so I'm starting with walking everybody through the available references and selecting details to most easily make this kit better than you'd expect for the time it was designed in. I want people to see not just what I'm doing, but how and why, so they can develop their own processes and procedures. :)
https://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?36917-Convair-B-36-Peacemaker-from-Atlantis-(1950s-Revell)-kit

We're planning a forum move to a new platform; I'll update this link after it's done.

Tonight I put a grill on my grill so I can grill from my grill. Scrap metal offset wood fired smoker with a 9-port rocket stove smoke stack. I basically built this thing to smoke 2 full size pork butts at max cappacity. Does not use much wood due to its small size.

That is one badass grill!!!

+1 for the LOVE button.

Early test-fitting and assessing the space I have to work with motorizing the magnesium monster.


At the top we have the #6 (right outboard) nacelle in side view, the wing on the left (left lower, bottom view) has the #1 (left outboard) in place, the one on the right (right lower, top view) has the areas I think i can safely remove blacked out by Sharpie. The slots on the trailing edge are 6mm wide, about 12mm deep. Penny for scale.

I made a leather card holder. I'm thinking this is an advance Christmas present. Two more to make. A lot more work than I anticipated.

Nicely done!