11 Feb - a few days late!

13. February 2008 by Andy.

Would have written earlier, but forgot my password…I guess it goes with old age - LoL!

The month of January was very trying in the Bloom household; drama with son and his friends - experimenting with things they shouldn’t, breaking up and getting back together with girlfriend, trouble with his work.   I do give thanks to the Lord for getting us through it all and back on the right track.

Working with Rockwell Collins is going well - working on new missions for WST.  Apparently the powers-to-be have decided to put Nukes back in the 11th BS syllabus, so I been working on an ALCM mission that allows students to get proper training.  As if that will solve the erosion.  But it’s been fun.

I’m still duck hunting, yea I know the season’s over, but I’ve been having fun shooting them with a camera too!

When I’m not shooting ducks or working on a “honey-do” list, I get time to work on models - this time it was a Junkers Ju-87 Stuka from the Russian front.

James, I know you were wondering about brand names and which are good…well stay away from Revell.  This was a Revell kit and I had problems from the git-go.  The right wing was warped, had to drill out the holes for all the parts hanging under the wings…even had to cut out the holes for the guns in the leading edges.  If I had known the problems, I would have gone with a Monogram kit.  If I had to rank order model kits it would be 1) Monogram, 2) Tamiya 3) Hasagawa.  For dead-last, Revell or AMT/ERTL.  Airfix would be somewhere in the middle.

O’well, a Focke-Wulf Fw-190 is calling my name.  Yea, I know they all have been Germans, but I’m trying to use up the paint instead of waiting a long period between models and the paint goes bad.

Gotta run, early bedtime due to a early WST - testing out Minot Red Flag mission.

Until next time - O yea where’s Vern?

Cheers,

Andy

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