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pm sent. Just so happens that I built one for my brother a couple weeks ago. Have a look.

Just got this in my inbox... A seven-year old boy was at the center of a St Louis County court room drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulation requiring that family unity be maintained to the highest degree possible. The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried and said that they also beat him. After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him. After two court recesses to check legal references and confer with the child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the St Louis Rams football team, whom he firmly believes are not capable of beating anyone. An oldie, but since I live near STL & (unfortunately) have been a Rams fan since they were in L.A., I had to do it!

Don't know if anyone actually goes there, but Fine Scale Modeler is letting non-subscribers have access to the sub-only areas of their site this weekend (10/13-10/14). There's quite a bit there & a lot of it is .pdf format, so you can grab what you want & read later

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Looks great! Gonna do this one, too?

Your CPU likely will be ok, Falcon. Remember AMD gives "performance" ratings on their CPUs. So if it's a 3200+ or something like that, it's supposed to be equal to an Intel 3.2ghz. Yeah, yeah...I know "supposed to be", but you still should be ok. My AMD X2 3600+ runs at 1.9ghz at stock settings. (Dual-core, though. And overclocked to 2.7ghz, it screams!)

Just finished: Mikro72's Yak-1M. c. 1977 from Poland. Not the best kit, the plastic seemed to soak up the glue, it had no real interior, and the clear part wasn't. But it looks like a Yak when it's done! Hell, even the decals worked well. 1/700 Minicraft Japanese WW2 Destroyer Hayanami. 1/48 Monogram P-61. Hard to believe how old this is. Other than a bit (ok, QUITE a bit) of flash, it's just as nice as it was when we were kids. Currently working on the 1/72 AMT/ERTL F-16 Thunderbirds. I used to hate doing white paint, as I've never done it well. Now I REALLY hate it. I tried painting these flat white, (then throw on some Future for gloss later) but they've sucked up every last bit of dust in the house. Makes dusting the rest of the house easy, I guess. Other than that, I have yet to do: 1/72 Italeri F/A-18F Hasegawa Mitsubishi T-2CCV (yep, another white one, ugh) Heller Su-27 Heller Bu 133 "Jungmeister" 1/48 Hobbycraft Hurricane Hobbycraft EF-111 Monogram F-15C Accurate Miniatures IL-2 w/skis (WOW what a kit! I'm getting everything they make.) 1/35 Testors Leopard I (lost a few pieces over the years from sitting around. Gonna write Testors & try for some replacements) 1/144 Minicraft Tu-22M Backfire B 1/600 Airfix HMS Fearless (TINY little helicopters!) 1/130 Heller X-15 (screwy scale. Gotta love old kits.) AHH, unemployment has it's benefits. LOL Only have 2 weeks til I start my new job. Gotta get crackin'!

I'm in. I've got (distant) family in Wales...somewhere. Probably find 'em in a pub, too.

Wow. By that logic, we'd better ban cars. Do you know how many poor squirrels we could save? My dog is scared of the garbage truck. Better get rid of those, too. Does this idiot have any idea how many planes fly over the SF/Oakland area every day? What if one of those fell on Chinatown? Holy crap! Someone call Chicken Little!!!! Yikes! I'm gonna go hide under the bed! I've worked at SFO & OAK quite a lot over the years, and I USED to really like the area. Expensive, but nice (if a little, um..."festive", particularly around Halloween Not that there's anything wrong with that. ) That kind of uber-liberal crap is a bit much, though.

Found these of the "F" for all you modelers And I happen to like the twin. At least the "thicker" one in the painting. The (sort-of) 3 view is too...um...coke-bottle

They're both good. "The Unit" is more mainstream TV. "Over There" was probably too much, too soon for TV. It was rather graphic at times. I really liked it, but a couple of episodes sucked (particularly the blond chick going AWOL one). The 1st & 3rd were my favorites. And the theme song was just plain awful.

Also came across this: the F100-PW-220 version

Found this, too. From the top, it looks kinda wierd...

YEP! That's where it was. Just dug up my copy of Jane's 78-79. If my scanner wasn't being a typical HP product (driver issues?), I'd post it. I'll see what I can do. I think the one w/2 f404s looked better, really. Definitely chunkier, but better... Ha! Found one!

Anyone remember a twin-engine proposal for the A-7? I remember seeing an artist's rendition in Airman magazine (I think), in the 80s...can't seem to find anything via google...