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Digging out from under five kits on the bench that I started back during the summer. Once the bench is clear, it's on to the Lake Effect. Parts are all sketched out and rough-cut.

Glad it's there safely. I gotta finish work on the canopy for Lake Effect after I get home. We're in Orlando for a few more days.

Shipped, and being delivered on Monday.

And I had to put my mom into geriatric psych treatment on Sunday afternoon, so this hasn't been a stellar week. Holy frack, I need a vacation. Which is why, in 36 hours, I'll be in Orlando with my wife and kids for a week. :D Package is shipping today (Friday) when I pick up the mail from our P.O. b...

Sorry. Lots going on with my parents. The box is labeled, and I just need to get it to the post office.

Had a hearing last week, and I'm now officially my dad's legal guardian.

Yeah, I still got her. I just printed off your address, so the box will be shipping when I go to the post office on Thursday. I'm off work tomorrow (non-paid) because I found out on Saturday that my dad has a 3 to 5-hour-long neuropsychological evaluation at 9:30 a.m. My mom is basically incapacitat...

No biggie. And models are helping me to get through this. Dad has been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and Parkinson's Dementia. On Friday, they did a cytoscopy on him and found a calcified tumor "most consistent with cancer" located at the neck of his bladder, right where the bladder a...

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She'll ship either Monday or Tuesday, and I'll send you a PM with the tracking number. I'm finally trying to dig out from under the crap-ton of stuff that's hit me this summer, and I need to get to work on the Lake Effect's cockpit section as well. The paper "mock up" parts for the canopy ...

No, sorry. I've been up to my eyeballs in dealing with the after-effects of my parents' car accident on July 7. Dad is still in sub-acute rehab, and I had to take non-paid time of work this week to be at his appointments with him (neuro-psych and urology). I'm an only child, and my parents are in se...

Send me a PM with your mailing address and I'll get her ready to ship out next week.

I'm still waiting to hear who wants the Bacqatcha. She's still sealed in the box that Gundamhead shipped her in. For the Lake Effect, I'm working on completing a kitbash I've had on the bench since March. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I'm hoping to have the build done by next wee...

They're both at my house, in my hobby room, and I haven't had a chance to work on either of them since receiving them. The Bacqatcha is actually still sealed in its shipping box. I'm gonna work out the layout for the canopy on the Lake Effect. I've got the basic design drawn up and ready to start wo...

Whoever (whomever?) works on it, we probably won't make the deadline for this year. WonderFest is a week from Friday, and mail is gonna be delayed due to the Memorial Day holiday on Monday. Even shipping it Priority Mail means 4-6 days in transit (from you to the "finisher" and from them t...

WonderFest is two weeks from today. Where are we in terms of getting an entry done?

I'm working on the layout for the canopy of the Lake Effect. It's at the "paper template" stage, trying to get the angles and hull curvature right.

I'd honestly go the other way around. Send the Bacqatcha this year and the Lake Effect next year. I'm gonna work on building a canopy for the Lake Effect, but there's really no way I can get all that needs to be done on this project finished and out the door by next week. WonderFest is two weeks fro...

The Bacqatcha is in the hands of the postal gods as of 0832 this morning. Expected arrival at Gundamhead's house is Monday, May 11. I'll take a look at the Lake Effect in the next couple of days (stuff going on with family due to wife's grandmothers' funeral two days ago, lots of relatives are still...

Received the incoming box today (first model) and the outgoing box (second model) ships tomorrow.

He did, and it was on my doorstep when my wife got home from work tonight. I'm going to get the Bacqatcha photographed and boxed up tonight, and she'll ship tomorrow via Priority Mail with tracking. EDIT: Now with photos! :D Box view - starboard side Bow on view Starboard side stern Engine outlet de...

I've finished up my part of the work on the Bacqatcha and I'm going to get her boxed and ready to ship to Gundamhead tomorrow night. With other teams discussing not sending their entries to WonderFest this year, what do we want to do? I'm gonna ship this on Thursday morning via Priority Mail, so Gun...

Work is continuing. I had planned a build session yesterday, but I ended up in the ER in the afternoon and the OR late last night due to complications with my kidney stones. After an overnight stay in the hospital after surgery to put in a stent, I'm home. I'd picked out more pieces-parts to use, an...

I'm working on the Bacqatcha and got some stuff attached last night. Revised wing engine nozzles, some aft pods on the rear spine, and some detail bits. I'm staying home from work tomorrow (post-op) so I'll have time to get more done. I'm not supposed to drive for 24 hours, and I just took two Norco...

Parts selected, placement locations determined, might get some construction done tonight. Lithotripsy tomorrow afternoon, so I won't be at the workbench again until Thursday night or sometime Friday.

I've got my CT scan for kidney stones tomorrow afternoon, so I'm planning on having some "decompression time" tomorrow night. I've got some parts already pulled out and sitting on the workbench. Gotta go through what's in the box and see what else I want to add. The overall design is very ...

Pulled the kit out, made a couple of repairs to parts that had fallen off (one very noticeable on the top), and started going through my parts to figure out what to add. I'm planning on going through the box contents this afternoon to see what else I might want to add. Gundamhead, are you gonna be t...

Will do. I haven't had time to do anything with it yet, other than to look and see that a couple small bits had come off of the top. I spent Saturday out-of-town at the in-laws' with visiting family (my wife's uncle is here from Ireland for a week, and it was the only time we could see him). I was g...

I'm planning on including a return label so whoever I ship the kit to for transport to Kentucky will be able to send the kit back to me after WonderFest. Then our team can decide on the ultimate fate of the kit (ie - whose bookshelf it ends up on).

Model is here, safe and sound. I'll get some work done on it this weekend. How long do I get to have it before I ship it off to Gundamhead for the "final"? Also, will it be coming back here for shipping to Colorado, or should I make arrangements for Gundamhead to ship it to the CoMMiES (ie...

A box has arrived from MA, and it looks like the Bacqatcha is here!

I'll get the box opened tomorrow night. Lots going on tonight.

I'll keep an eye out for it. Should I work on it, and then send it to Gundamhead? Or should I fire it back out the door to Gundamhead and then be the final hands-on before it heads to the CoMMiES for display at WonderFest? I've got a decent airbrush station set up, with a Paasche H for base coating ...