Good Morning All. A pleasant 78° (yea right!) and mostly cloudy; only reached 98° yesterday. Well at least the pool has warmed up to 83°. In my ongoing efforts to catch back up with overlooked and postponed yardwork for the last fifteen years, I mowed some parts of the neglected yard that haven't seen the tractor since the early 2000's. Nothing major, maybe 500 sq.ft. located about 200' from the house. Sent rabbits, rodents and reptiles scurrying for cover. Needless to say, the pool looked too appetizing for me to try any additional area! That and a cold adult beverage. No grocery/beer trek this week, as I purchased enough supplies in the last two weeks to be able to skip a week.
Out in the train shed, I continued to paint some Preiser figures that were already half completed. One of the issues with their unpainted figure kits, is that there are not only some duplications (easy to deal with by using different colors), but some of the figures just don't belong in rural American flatlands. I need more figures with jeans and tee shirts and a lot less of the European style policemen and mountain climbers. Too many men with hats also. The hats are easy enough to carve off, but it takes about thirty "very careful" minutes of carving to fix some of these other folks. Here's an example (poor picture though) of one that I did yesterday.
The one on the right is the before and the left is after. As you can see, I still have an additional sprue of these guys and I have already painted one sprue "as is". Don't have a good picture of the back. I carved off equipment, pouches, straps (on back), hat, those crazy side bulges in the pants (never knew what they were anyway), jacket and sanded the arms to look like short sleeves. All without inflicting any damage to my digits with the fresh razor blade and Exacto's #11 & #17, phew! Rant over.
Justin - If I was you, I would replace all non-Kadee couplers with Kadee products as soon as funds are available. You will have less issues. I only used a few Bachmann EZ Mates for trials and threw them away soon after. As
Karl posted, the Kadee underset #147 is probably what you need. Check the height on the hoppers first though to be sure that they aren't too high.
Terry -
I wonder if BOB forgot to send in his monthly "protection" money...
You're probably correct, although AVG posted that it removed some malware as well. I got either the Google warning or the AVG warning all morning before I was able to actually log on just before noon. I use Firefox and my ISP intercepts most spam and malware. Re: this morning's log-on, the problem seemed to disappear for everyone late yesterday morning.
Toot -
I got an email from that P/bucket today, asking me to update, should I report that as phishing as well?
No that's ransomware.
Everybody have a great day.
Willie