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Post by pje on Jul 29, 2015 0:26:03 GMT -5
Great stuff Paul but my saying to you is "Stay, Paul, Stay"!!! Meaning stay focused to finish her! Don't look anything that will get you mind of this subject/project! Not even your wife! LOL No worries Stu. While I’m in my model room, my wife Suzanne is next door in her sewing room. And while I’m working with a kit, she is scratch building! Here are all her “yoyo’s” that she’s done for the monkey she’s making for a grandkid and a photo of what it will look like.   Meanwhile I’ve just gotten a package from Calvin with my hydraulic reservoirs for the clutch and brakes. I’d been trying to figure out how to replicate them as the Fujimi kit has none. When my McLaren Mp4/2 kit arrived (hmmm, wasn’t that what started all of this?) I found that what Aoshima created was perfect for my Ferrari. Calvin was good enough to cast copies for me, so don’t be giving him too hard a time over not producing certain other things on our wish list.  So I can now start working on the foot box. I finally found that Sprue Brothers had the Evergreen strip that I needed and that’s been shipped. I’m coming close to making some real progress on this project.   Paul Erlendson |
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Post by racerbrown on Jul 29, 2015 6:06:01 GMT -5
coming along nicely paul.  i love the monkey! it looks like she used calvin as a model for it...  duane |
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Post by indy on Jul 29, 2015 7:43:44 GMT -5
You and your wife do great work. Nice to have that creativity in the house and family. You are making some nice progress, keep it up.
Jordan
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Post by harveythedog2 on Jul 29, 2015 8:46:38 GMT -5
coming along nicely paul. i love the monkey! it looks like she used calvin as a model for it... duane I agree Paul. You and your wife are very talented! I have to disagree with Duane though. Calvin's tail is longer! LOL |
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Post by Calvin on Jul 29, 2015 10:50:02 GMT -5
I agree the monkey does look like me! I hope its not a voodoo doll!  So if I start all of a sudden start working on the Lotus 34 - it's because Paul is making me and not myself doing it!  |
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Post by pje on Aug 13, 2015 0:01:07 GMT -5
Finally, a little progress. Our local Hobbytown has closed its doors and I’ll have to mail order almost all my supplies. Hopefully we can talk a local RC shop to at least get a Tamiya paint rack. Anyway, I got the Evergreen strip that I needed and this is what I’ve done with it. I had been scratching my head over this area of the fuel tank trying to figure out what looked wrong with it. After comparing the MFH kit photos to my Fujimi chassis this is what I came up with.   My wife is a lot further along on her project. Here is a partial mockup of little “Calvin”.  Paul Erlendson |
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Post by Calvin on Aug 13, 2015 0:57:53 GMT -5
Our local Hobbytown has closed its doors and I’ll have to mail order almost all my supplies. I'm sorry to hear that!  I would hate to buy supplies over the web. I sure hope my Hobbytown doesn't go away! Besides I have a crush on a hot geeky girl that works in there! She would be the type to build a Marmon Wasp with me! My wife is a lot further along on her project. Here is a partial mockup of little “Calvin”. OMGosh! You win! I can't come up with any good comebacks! LOL! If your Wife keeps on making this cute little "Calvin" doll I might have to surrender and start building the Lotus 34. |
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Post by racerbrown on Aug 13, 2015 7:06:55 GMT -5
if it comes without a head, that would be calvin... don't let calvin distract you paul as it's looking good! duane |
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Post by clm1545 on Aug 13, 2015 9:18:37 GMT -5
Welcome to my world, Paul. The nearest, decent Hobby Shop is one and a half hours drive, for me, and then the selection is quite iffy. I get almost everything by mail. The internet is the best thing that has ever happened for most model builders.
So Calvin, have you made a move on that girl, yet. You never know, until you try.
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Post by Calvin on Aug 13, 2015 12:18:25 GMT -5
So Calvin, have you made a move on that girl, yet. You never know, until you try. No because I cant even support myself! |
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Post by clm1545 on Aug 13, 2015 13:47:05 GMT -5
I did not tell you to propose, Calvin. Just get to know her.
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Post by racerbrown on Aug 13, 2015 20:01:38 GMT -5
be careful craig!
if calvin gets hooked up with a girl we'll never see that lotus 34.
duane
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Post by Calvin on Aug 13, 2015 20:33:25 GMT -5
be careful craig! if calvin gets hooked up with a girl we'll never see that lotus 34. duane Wow! I never thought of that!!!! I know what my priorities are now! Lotus 34 < Girlfriend! |
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Post by clm1545 on Aug 13, 2015 21:42:37 GMT -5
Now you have done it, Duane. You know he was looking for any excuse.
Ok, Calvin, a photo of you and this girl someplace other than the Hobby Shop, and you are off the hook.
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Post by Calvin on Aug 14, 2015 1:00:48 GMT -5
Now you have done it, Duane. You know he was looking for any excuse. Ok, Calvin, a photo of you and this girl someplace other than the Hobby Shop, and you are off the hook. Wow! That sounds like a good deal! But with my luck lately she would want a Lotus 34 kit!  |
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Post by racerbrown on Aug 14, 2015 7:41:48 GMT -5
Now you have done it, Duane. You know he was looking for any excuse. Ok, Calvin, a photo of you and this girl someplace other than the Hobby Shop, and you are off the hook. Wow! That sounds like a good deal! But with my luck lately she would want a Lotus 34 kit! she will after craig calls and talks to her. c'mon paul, save us with some more pictures… duane |
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Post by Calvin on Aug 14, 2015 10:44:52 GMT -5
Yeah! Duane is right! save the day Paul! Get us out of this mess!
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Post by pje on Aug 14, 2015 12:42:21 GMT -5
I vote for a win win situation, or in this particular case, a win, win, win situation. I get my model done, we all get a Lotus 34 and Calvin gets a life more free of the constrains that fate or whatever has given him. And Calvin, next time you’re in Hobbytown……. well, you’ll never know if you don’t try.  Now back to work on a Ferrari.  Paul Erlendson |
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Post by clm1545 on Aug 14, 2015 13:48:00 GMT -5
I think it's great that what you wife is doing for Calvin is made with "yoyo's", Seems very fitting somehow. |
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Post by Calvin on Aug 14, 2015 14:09:04 GMT -5
I wished Michael P. would wake up some day and get the wild idea to start 3D drawing that Lotus 34....that would be the ultimate win for everyone! Then I wouldn't have to worry about getting accuracy abuse. |
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Post by pje on Aug 14, 2015 18:44:55 GMT -5
I wished Michael P. would wake up some day and get the wild idea to start 3D drawing that Lotus 34....that would be the ultimate win for everyone! Then I wouldn't have to worry about getting accuracy abuse. While drinking my Starbucks iced mocha this afternoon reading your post on my phone Calvin I had an epiphany.  Think I have and idea on that Lotus 34 engine cover and can be of help. I'll send you an email later tonight. Paul Erlendson |
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Post by Calvin on Aug 14, 2015 19:53:54 GMT -5
I wished Michael P. would wake up some day and get the wild idea to start 3D drawing that Lotus 34....that would be the ultimate win for everyone! Then I wouldn't have to worry about getting accuracy abuse. While drinking my Starbucks iced mocha this afternoon reading your post on my phone Calvin I had an epiphany. Think I have and idea on that Lotus 34 engine cover and can be of help. I'll send you an email later tonight. Paul Erlendson Nooooo! I keep on trying to steer this project off the road and you keep on grabbing the wheel and keeping it going!  and Dont drink anymore Starbucks iced mocha's - I don't even know what the hell that is? |
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Post by pje on Sept 17, 2015 0:41:12 GMT -5
While drinking my Starbucks hot mocha today I was thinking about my Ferrari 126C2, so I thought I’d update my work in progress by letting everyone know that there is nothing to update.  We’re in the middle of a remodel and our entire upstairs is now in the garage. New carpeting throughout the house and painting upstairs. Front entrance has been redone and also some electronic work has been done in our family room. I’m really happy that we can now stream on our main TV. I hope to be up and running in my model room sometime next month. This also means that my wife’s sewing room is also disassembled, but she’s a little farther along on one of her projects than I am with the Ferrari. Here’s the latest on where she’s at with “little Calvin”. Paul Erlendson  |
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Post by Calvin on Sept 17, 2015 1:05:03 GMT -5
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Post by alterrenner on Sept 17, 2015 4:55:20 GMT -5
She's making a Calvin voo-doo doll?
--Frank
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Post by racerbrown on Sept 17, 2015 6:36:40 GMT -5
it looks just like him too!
duane
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Post by pje on Sept 17, 2015 10:11:50 GMT -5
I don't know what to say..... But I do think it's the nicest looking teddy bear I have ever seen! I'll just let everyone else come up with cute things to say about "Little Calvin"  Calvin, it's a monkey. Paul |
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Post by Calvin on Sept 17, 2015 22:24:11 GMT -5
I don't know what to say..... But I do think it's the nicest looking teddy bear I have ever seen! I'll just let everyone else come up with cute things to say about "Little Calvin" Calvin, it's a monkey. Paul same thing.....monkeys, bears, coots, Ferrari's, Lotus' |
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Post by pje on Aug 31, 2016 0:24:53 GMT -5
Sadly I see that it’s been almost a year since you’ve seen a post on my Ferrari. I don’t have any progress to report on it, but it is sitting next to my model desk and I have pulled it out of its container a couple of times. I have been working on my Eagle drilling holes, but that is kind of dull so I have pulled out a plastic kit that I’m really having fun with. Should I make some real progress on that I’ll report further. That all said, my wife has made progress and finished “Little Calvin”. I need to follow her example. As with many of our models she is not completely happy with the results. Arms too long and head too big, but she has finished it and will now move on to something else. The occasion that she was making it for has long passed so she just has to look for a new home for it. Paul Erlendson  |
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Post by Calvin on Aug 31, 2016 2:20:20 GMT -5
I am so glad my personal friends or family doesn't look at this forum! I hope "little Calvin" finds a good home. I sure hope this isn't some kind of voodoo doll as for some reason I twitched very strangely this evening and picked up that crazy Lotus 34 for some strange reason? I was like "why did I do that? I didn't do that?" BTW I'll be praying for your Ferrari, because its very sad there is more pictures of "little Calvin" on this thread than Ferrari! LOL |
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So I can now start working on the foot box. I finally found that Sprue Brothers had the Evergreen strip that I needed and that’s been shipped. I’m coming close to making some real progress on this project. 
I would hate to buy supplies over the web. I sure hope my Hobbytown doesn't go away! Besides I have a crush on a hot geeky girl that works in there! 
Think I have and idea on that Lotus 34 engine cover and can be of help. I'll send you an email later tonight. 
