Listen to your gut. It knows what you really want. I have said it before but any time I buy something that is "almost" what I want, I rarely bond with that item.
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Listen to your gut. It knows what you really want. I have said it before but any time I buy something that is "almost" what I want, I rarely bond with that item.
I so know, and thanks for the reinforcement.
I just don't want to settle.
I still believe it'll be worth the wait on the vintage pro, I just feel it.
And if that vid that @kat888 posted is any indication of what that bass really is.
I'm there. That's the elusive tone I've been chasing after.
Throaty and guttural - like an angry Noo Yoiker.
That'd be me.
But i'm truly a teddy bear at heart, just riding the subways here makes me a bit crazy.
Especially with this lousy heat and humidity right now, just want to hang myself.
Siting here in Queens
Eating refried beans
We're in all the magazines
Gulpin' down Thorazines
You basically nailed it. English mother and grew up watching lots of British tv comedy shows, the dry sarcasm is entrenched in my being. People often think I'm a dick, but I'm actually quite funny. Just ask me.
Yes, with the trains how much is in the build? And how much in the photography?
Every Sunday night, back in the early '70's, This gang was a ritual for us hoods on the block.
at 4:47 roughly, is where i just lose it.
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I've liked trains since I was very young, my father would take my brother and I to see trains quite often. In ruraul Eastern Washington that was the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. Had trains as a child of course, I really started modeling them seriously around '78 or so, the hobby is much more sophisticated now, the advent of computers has really taken off the shelf models to an impressive level. As an aside I do know of GG1's, they're quite famous but were nothing at all to look at until the Industrial Designer Raymond Lowey had his way with them.
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I've liked trains since I was very young, my father would take my brother and I to see trains quite often. In ruraul Eastern Washington that was the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. Had trains as a child of course, I really started modeling them seriously around '78 or so, the hobby is much more sophisticated now, the advent of computers has really taken off the shelf models to an impressive level. As an aside I do know of GG1's, they're quite famous but were nothing at all to look at until the Industrial Designer Raymond Lowey had his way with them.
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I'm humbled.
I've liked trains since I was very young, my father would take my brother and I to see trains quite often. In ruraul Eastern Washington that was the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. Had trains as a child of course, I really started modeling them seriously around '78 or so, the hobby is much more sophisticated now, the advent of computers has really taken off the shelf models to an impressive level. As an aside I do know of GG1's, they're quite famous but were nothing at all to look at until the Industrial Designer Raymond Lowey had his way with them.
More Imgur........
Good on you. There is so much skill in this.
My son models battle scenes (tanks etc) and I know the effort that goes in.
My brother has had a life long love of trains- all he ever wanted to be from a very little boy was a driver. He is just coming up to retirement- train driver has been the only job he ever had (apart from the railway jobs that lead him there).
I've always been torn on SG style basses. I love the body shape but I'm not sure it works too well with the length of a bass neck.Most of my '60s Gibsons, just because...
'65, '60, '67, '67, '64
I'm also a garbage guitar player so I can't just by an SG guitar
I remember seeing some of this stuff before, some pix of finished pieces you'd done. Yep, really great work man. This is the stuff you see in movies- sure looks the part anyway. Nice.Good exercise uploading these from my phone to Imgur.........................
Car plans taped to a lightbox, note the various sizes of strip stock. There's a finished side and a second one started, using metal straight edges and MEK applied with a small paint brush I built the car side up by adding pieces of dimensionally correct stock along with some small detail parts.
Here it's glued up, I used some cast end pieces, the large piece of square stock was used in pieces to keep the model from bowing inward.
All finished and sitting on a diorama, the photo was taken at the marina in Des Moines, WA. The prototype was constructed in the mid '60s, I have it weathered to it's mid '70s condition, never washed with the once very bright red paint oxidizing to chalky color.
That one's a beaut'. Honestly man, really, really nice. I like just looking at this one. Like being there, only in kind of a dreamy way... just real/not real enough.I've liked trains since I was very young, my father would take my brother and I to see trains quite often. In ruraul Eastern Washington that was the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. Had trains as a child of course, I really started modeling them seriously around '78 or so, the hobby is much more sophisticated now, the advent of computers has really taken off the shelf models to an impressive level. As an aside I do know of GG1's, they're quite famous but were nothing at all to look at until the Industrial Designer Raymond Lowey had his way with them.
More Imgur........
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
30 hours is all?!?Thank you Guys!
I guess that has about 30 hours of construction time in it, I don't build all my rolling stock up that way (I'd never get anything else done) I just really wanted a model of that specific class of boxcar.
Me too, sorta. The TV Silver is same but 1.5" nut, so just make sure.
Also, be aware they use (another) different set of pickups. Which I've heard are pretty good too btw.
If Epiphone pushes the release date back again, I'm going to figure something is up. Might be time to hire private eye Sloved Dovewing to look into it.*
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