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I'm loving it so far!!!

Okay, so here's the pics I have of the Bacqatcha as of packing it up. Scotaidh started out with, IMO, such a great shape, it was hard for me to figure out how to add onto it without totally changing it. To me, when holding it, it still has that heavy underwater attack sub kind of feel. I added a few...

Okay, wait..... I did a bad. I sent it to Lonewolf. I checked my messages & saw he PM'd me his address, so I sent it there. Should be to you by tomorrow, Lonewolf.

Good to hear that Iggy is okay!! Today & tomorrow are my weekend, so I plan on working on it & then sending it on to Lonewolf. I'll snap a few pics & send it along before I head out to work Saturday.

Ready & willing!! Some interesting stuff ya' got there. I'm kinda feeling an underwater craft of some kind, maybe... I like the indented rounded triangle bit- kinda looks like it could be a launch bay or a scuba egress... And I like what you did with your A-hull! LOL (Sorry guys, inside joke.) L...

I'll be waiting! Let me know when you send it out.

Yea, WF is a no go for me this year. Still in the new job with only 2 weeks vacay that I'm saving for trips back home to visit family. Plus I have a new partnership this year with a friend to help her sell stuff at cons, so any extra days I might of had are out the door because of that.

Glad to hear it arrives safely!!Post pics & enjoy the event you were going to bring it to.

Scotaidh- Yea, when you left it kinda dawned on me that I didn't recall ever telling you about the GF. We've been dating for a couple years & she moved in this past fall. Things are good, I can't complain. As for Sam, yea, grown quite the bit, eh?? When did you see her last, in '07? Egads, she's...

Yea, I have Lake Effect!! Had quite the nice visit when Scotaidh came up to my humble abode to drop it off, haven't seen the bloke in years!! Nice to see ya again, buddy! Anywho, to be honest, I didn't touch the thing for a week. Life was just too busy for me. But yesterday & today I had the cha...

Sweet! Nice name, Scotaidh!!!

Yea, once around & two weeks per modeler seems good to me.

I also vote for waiting till after the holiday. January will be here before we know it.

Hey all! Yea, long time, huh?? Life has been madcap the last two years with many changes & I've had to take time for myself, my daughter & all the new things that a new life has brought me. Sorry for going MIA. So Scotaidh alerted me to the thread & I'd love to be counted in again! I'm s...

No, the battery was never hooked up when I was doing any soldering. It is a curious happening with the Cold Heat gun. Somethign to be careful of when I do my Iron Man kit! Right now I'm hot gluing the parts into place then I can put the halves together & take care of the seams. I'll post some pi...

Well, I may have solved my own problem. I went down to Radio Shack & bought an LED just to see if adding one in the last spot would make work. Suprise, it did! But when they all lit, two of them did not. I think that may have been my fault, though. I'm using one of those "Cold Heat" so...

No, I havn't contacted them. Just thought I'd poke my head in here to see what everyone else thought. Here's the wiring diagram: http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff5/Prince_of_Styrene_II/model%20stuff/DSC09591.jpg Here's my board so far. Seems to be in order with fairly clean solder points & n...

Got a question from a lighting newbie. I have the VooDoo FX kit for the Nebulizer. The wiring diagram shows there's 6 LEDs but I recieved 5 in my package. Should there be 6 total?

Yea, my little brother is a Halo freak & he showed me that "extra" you can download with the game. That is a whole lot of time! The thing is huge!!!

Yea, I saw that at WonderFest & it's just awe-inspiring! The explosion, 'Zilla & the White House. Just flabbergasting. I was also told (& saw) that if you look closely, you can see a little W being blown up by the fireball.

Sparky wrote:The moral of the story is that the metal part that the card tabs make & break to form a switching action, is the connection to the battery. And most devices will work this way

Ah, okay. I understand it a bit better now. Thanks!

Sparky, it looks like you gave this problem some serious thought. Thank you! But most of what you said went right over my head! I think I'll just stick with my gas can idea.

Slow. I havn't had a chance to work on him for a couple days, though I did make some shocks for him which are visible because I have his left rear tire raised up a bit on the suspension, mimicking the beauty shot on the Cars website.

What's really cool is that it looks like it fit right in, almost like it was made fot it. Did you have to mod it to fit or did it just fall into place? The sound chip? No mods other than cutting the back of the greeting card down around the chip. The speaker ends up sitting nicely on the inside of ...

DennisH wrote:So simple and so freakin sweet! That'll be an awesome display! Did you give her a hug?

Very cool, indeed .

Thanks! I think it'll be something fun to have on the shelf.

And I gave her much more than a hug last night! There was a kiss, too!

Okay, I've been posting this on other boards because I wanted to get as many minds on this as possible. Turns out that the wife gave me the base idea for the solution! All this time I wanted to make King's gas cap the on/off switch. But then when I actually stuck the switch through the hole, I reali...

I'm no expert on this kind of stuff, but it looks like you disconnected the speaker wire and ran the switch off of that? Yep. I'd reconnect the speaker wire to the spot where it was and then wire the switch to the "spring" and its counterpart connection to complete the on/off curcuit. I t...

z28Barry wrote:

Thomas E. Johnson wrote:Thanks for the above info, but I found a way to do what I had in mind already.

What exactly were you after and how did you do it?
If you don't mind me asking.

Yea, I'm having a problem with a sound chip & would love some alternatives.

jwrjr wrote:EL tape isn't usually very bright.

I ordered some several years ago for my Voyager & it was quite bright, just enough to produce a good in-scale glow for the nacelles.

Okay, so here's where my limit of electronics comes to an end. Actually it ended long ago, but let's not quibble, okay? :P I bought one of those musical Hallmark cards that when you open the card, it plays a song, movie quote or whatever. Since I'm still in the process of building "King" f...