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Paul - nice room - great collection!

My wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I showed her a picture of your room, Paul.

I'll get back to you on that.....

Wow Paul you should be proud.I see you,re retired and enjoying it. Good for you man.

Here's the "other" room in the basement for the other third of my life. (The first third of my life is reserved for my wife!) I've been building model airplanes (the plastic kind) since I was five. I do it professionally now, and am retired Senior Editor of FineScale Modeler magazine. I still build for the magazine, myself, and three or four "sugar daddies" who help finance the bass collection.

Wow! Any P38 Lightnings or Hawker Typhoons in there?

bassduke49 wrote:Here's the "other" room in the basement for the other third of my life. (The first third of my life is reserved for my wife!) I've been building model airplanes (the plastic kind) since I was five. I do it professionally now, and am retired Senior Editor of FineScale Modeler magazine. I still build for the magazine, myself, and three or four "sugar daddies" who help finance the bass collection.

Do you have any models of the SR-71?

Both rooms look great, Paul!

There is an SR-71 in there somewhere. No P-38 at present (sold one away to sugar daddy), but I do have an F-76, the little known, three-engined, two man, long-range escort derived from the P-38:

Paul great room & great collection of basses. Tell me...what is your exact address & what times are you away from the house for an extended period of time? Uh, no reason....just curious.

I kid, I kid. My garage has also been converted & is my music room/man cave, but it doesn't compare to yours on ANY level.

Congrats...enjoy!

loendmaestro wrote:Paul great room & great collection of basses. Tell me...what is your exact address & what times are you away from the house for an extended period of time? Uh, no reason....just curious.

Ha ha, good one. Well, I'm almost always home, and then there are the trip wires. Did I tell you about the gun collection?

Great looking F76. Seems there was a great night-fighter built on the P38 platform as well...

Love the birds of WW2.

loendmaestro wrote:Paul great room & great collection of basses. Tell me...what is your exact address & what times are you away from the house for an extended period of time? Uh, no reason....just curious.

We cloned a few of these for Paul that prowl the house, too.

Noel, I must confess. The F-76 is a product of my imagination. There was a P-38M nightfighter, but the three-engine thing is me having a bit of fun. It's a "what if" the F-82 Twin Mustang didn't happen. Would they have developed a "Twin Lightning"? Probably not, but if they did, it might have looked like this.

bassduke49 wrote: Ha ha, good one. Well, I'm almost always home, and then there are the trip wires. Did I tell you about the gun collection?

Nice! Cheers sir....

bassduke49 wrote:Noel, I must confess. The F-76 is a product of my imagination. There was a P-38M nightfighter, but the three-engine thing is me having a bit of fun. It's a "what if" the F-82 Twin Mustang didn't happen. Would they have developed a "Twin Lightning"? Probably not, but if they did, it might have looked like this.

I was familiar with the F82 (first air kill of the Korean War came from one of those!) but the '76 was something wholly new to my little brain.
And to think I trusted you...

I still wince when I think of all those P38s being dumped into the ocean after the war. Ugh. An air squadron of '38s used to fly over my father's childhood home. They called them 'boxcar planes'.