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We hinted at some format changes.
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I don't know if we did that on air last time or not.
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If this is it, it wasn't planned, but uh could be it.
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I don't know.
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We'll see how this goes.
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Folks, this is not episode 172.
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We got something else for you tonight.
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We have a guest, hopefully, in 172 related to 172nd scale, that is was just more ideal if we postpone that out to the first episode of November.
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So we're gonna push that out.
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But we do have stuff tonight that we want to get out of that episode so it doesn't go too long.
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So you're getting a special bonus feature tonight.
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I don't have a title for it other than stay tuned for the special segment because we've got an announcement for you regarding plastic model mojo.
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That said, Dave, what's up in your model sphere?
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I really hate to complain, but my model sphere, I'm trying to do a whole bunch of model-related stuff.
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And I got this guy who keeps texting me constantly about all his new ideas and all these new plans and all these new guests for plastic model mojo.
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And each time that happens, I have to stop and I have to type out a really long and voluminous reply.
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And that's just getting in the way of my model sphere.
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All right.
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All serious, and I'm poking fun at Mike.
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I know you are, I'm having a little fun.
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Um, my model sphere actually is pretty jazzed.
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In great part, it's due to the fact that lots of things are happening with the podcast, guests, input, changes, etc.
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And my podcasting partner texts me incessantly.
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Well, with all of these things, and they're just great idea after great idea.
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They're great news after great news.
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I gotta tell you, I thought 2026 was go.
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First of all, I thought 2025 went really well, and then we went, we hit 2026, and I'm like, wow, it's getting even better.
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Boy, if it every time I think it's like, oh, this can't get any better, it gets better.
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So I'm chassis.
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Well, good.
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That said, I need to get to the bench more.
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That is a problem.
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And that's really not podcast related, that is life related.
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Choice related.
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Daughter in college, it's fall, that means things with the with the wife, Halloween related, etc., etc.
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I spent Saturday uh in an area of Louisville called Nulu at a Halloween-themed street fair because my lovely spouse, who is extremely tolerant, wanted to go, and Lord knows, given all of the leeway I get from her, I'm not going to turn her down.
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And I got some great pictures of a DeLorean time machine.
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Did they have a beer truck?
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They just had the the time machine, the DeLorean, which funnily enough was the street fair.
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They didn't have somebody serving beer.
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Oh, they had tons of uh booths serving beer and cider.
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In fact, there was a you could pay for an extra ticket.
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There was actually a cider tasting with about six or eight different companies, but we didn't do that.
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Well, hopefully got a beer.
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Well, uh I had a good time, I'll say that.
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Well, good.
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So my model sphere is good.
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I've just got to get to the bench more.
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So, other than that, everything's going great.
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How about your model sphere?
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Well, other than carrying all the water, thinking up things to do with plastic model mojo, it's going pretty good.
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Touche.
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Funny mention, funny you mentioned Halloween.
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Yep.
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You know, everybody in the house rolls their eyes when you're going to their model show or talk about finding a hobby shop on the road on vacation.
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But I tell you what, man, when Halloween rolls around, you got a costume idea.
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Yeah, guess who gets called up for that?
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Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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So Wes has gone out as what's the character's name?
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Aegon from House of the Dragon.
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House of Dragons.
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Okay.
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What to say?
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The rather mediocre spinoff from Game of Thrones.
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Yeah.
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I've never seen it or Game of Thrones, but I know what it is.
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I think you'd like Game of Thrones.
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I don't know if you'd like House of the Dragon or not.
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Anyway, he's going as one of the characters.
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This character has a crown.
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He found the crown 3D print file on Cult's 3D.
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It was too big for my printer, but then I read the text.
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The guy would send it in three parts or seven, so he sent it in seven, and I got it, and I printed it.
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And my printer was acting up, so the first bunch of parts were crap.
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And then I figured out it just needed a little maintenance and I fixed it and it all came out good.
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Then I had to modify it because his noggin's bigger than this thing was, so I had to print duplicate some of the parts and cut one of the tab sections off and graft it into the other one.
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So now I've got one that will fit.
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Last two days was the Ruby in the front, you know, to me a lacquer silver, and then to me a clear red.
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And this thing's gonna get a lacquer gun metal.
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It's gonna look nice.
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You've got to post a picture on the dojo, and that is really model sphere related, because A, I know you've been very busy shooting stuff into space and getting it back and all that stuff.
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And I know you haven't had as much time to do as much bench stuff either.
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That's why I don't need to make a Halloween costume.
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Well, but props.
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But your your 3D printer hasn't had a workout in a while.
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Not in a while.
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And so you you kind of needed that.
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And if you weren't going to print something truly model related, that's still not bad.
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I mean, you're you're doing the 3D print, you're learning, you're doing all that.
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Cleaning it up, filling seams, paint all the time.
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It's all the same.
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I'm a prop maker now.
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Yeah, that that's that's model related.
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I guess it is a model of the prop.
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It is.
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So I'm supporting you there.
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Okay, do I get to count this as a finish?
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No.
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Okay.
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Just checking, man.
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Okay.
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You know, hey, don't ask, don't get.
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It's what my mom always said.
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I know.
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And we both need finishes this year.
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It's worth asking, but I'll grant you the decline.
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No, no problem there.
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In reciprocity, I would not have approved it for you either.
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Gotcha.
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That's my model sphere.
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Okay.
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Well, Halloween costumes, it's modeling related.
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Just goes to show.
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Well, even though this isn't officially episode 172, it's an in-between.
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I still think we need modeling fluid, and I at least have some.
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How about you?
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I do too.
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Am I going first?
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I'll go first.
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Yeah, don't spill it.
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No, I haven't.
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I have a bourbon called Augusta Bourbon from Augusta Brewery in Augusta, Kentucky.
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This is their Cass Strength bourbon.
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It doesn't say on the bottle how old it is, but I think Augusta is a relatively new distillery.
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I've not heard of it.
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I actually got this at a charity event for the Animal Care Society.
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And so, you know, you buy something to support the the prefrazing and all that.
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And so I bought a bottle of bourbon.
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Uh, like I said, cask strength, and I think it's probably a little young.
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So we'll see how it works out by the end of the episode.
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Well, I'm proud of you.
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You got something new.
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That's right.
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How about you?
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It may not be new, but it is a season one if it is not new.
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Okay.
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I'm sipping on a little Willet Pot still bourbon.
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I know I had Willet Pot still one time.
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And I sent some to a friend of mine in France when I found the smaller bottles that I knew I could ship.
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Yeah, the little.
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I couldn't remember if I'd had it or not, but the bottle's a little pot still shaped bottle, kind of look like the iDream of Genie bottle, but with all the cut glass nonsense.
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It's a pretty standard bottle, but it's got a funky shape to it.
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And kind of fragile.
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I don't know if you've had it, but I definitely have had it.
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I haven't had it in a while.
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Well, I mean, on the show, I don't know if it's being a featured modeling fluid.
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So it has for me, but I'll be interested to say well, I know what you're gonna think of it.
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So we'll let folks know at the end.
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We'll get there.
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Well, until then, we don't want to let the listener mail accumulate until the first week of November.
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No.
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We'll have a four-hour episode.
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Right.
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Six-hour episode.
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So we're gonna get into the listener mail with this.
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I I will because I I don't know how long we're gonna go, so I'm reluctant to call it a short.
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Yeah.
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I think once we get through the listener mail, it's gonna pick up pace.
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But um, let's get into it, man.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Well, Dave, the first listener mail we have is from Bob Johnson, and Bob is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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I wonder how long he's been there, and if one if he knows the the uh Bonani.
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Who else is from there?
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Barry Newmerick.
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Barry Numerick's from that area and some of the other guys we see on the regular.
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Yep.
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I don't know.
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Bob, if you're if you are, let us know.
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He wants to throw a potential topic our way, and I'm gonna take it as listener mail and not as a standalone topic, at least at this point, because we where I'm gonna go with my reply.
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We we kind of talk about this semi-regularly.
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It's it comes up from time to time.
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Okay.
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And when I put my take on it, there's a one of our fellow podcasts just very recently, like I think either their last episode or the last episode or the or the current one deals with this.
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He wants to know about palate cleansers and what and do we believe in them?
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Now, Bob has found over the years that he's much more likely to complete one of these kind of builds than his usual 170-second scale aircraft builds.
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He might be disappointed this isn't episode 172.
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Yeah.
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Well, it's coming, Bob.
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Well, he's got some rules for these things.
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One is it has to be a subject he's truly interested in, that he needs to be very excited to have it in his display case.
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And two, it can't be a 170-second scale plastic kit.
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In other words, it has to be outside his normal subjects and I guess normal scale, which is 70 seconds scale, obviously, and uh HO model railroading.
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Ah, he's one of those guys.
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I wonder if he's a good one.
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I don't know if you know Stephen Lee, yeah.
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He may.
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Preferably, it needs to involve unusual materials or techniques that give him a chance to learn.
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And most importantly, the subject it needs to be a subject that he knows very little about, has no references for, and basically gonna hit this thing out of the box.
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He wants to be a relatively quick build that reminds him of the joy of finishing.
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And some of his past palette cleansers have been a wooden boat, paper lighthouse model, one-to-one artillery shells, and currently a 112-scale World War I aircraft engine.
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It's a multimedia kit.
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So what do we think?
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Do I believe in them?
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I I guess I do, but maybe not in the context that you're presenting them in.
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And maybe you might be presenting them in a context other than what you think you are.
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A very wise and influential modeler in my modeling journey, who might be a retired dentist in Fresno really said one time that he doesn't like the term, and I think he said it on there, so hopefully I'm not throwing him under the bus.
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A palate cleanser implies you have a bad taste in your mouth, which implies further that you didn't like what you just did.
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Well, if your primary thing is more involved with 70 second-scale aircraft builds, what about that don't you like?
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I would reframe this entire concept and put this under genre change.
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Yeah.
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And not because you're tired of what you're doing before, but because a genre change affords you an opportunity to do several things.
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One is build something entirely different that's in your normal interest sphere.
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The other is to learn something new technique, a skill, a material, whatever.
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So in in that regard, I do believe in them highly.
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I've mentioned on the show multiple times that these moose root builds we get by and large have been outside anything I would have selected on my own.
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That said, I've learned a lot from all those builds, or I've at least attempted to learn something from all of them to get the get something out of it, even if I didn't like to pick the subject, or I wouldn't even say I didn't like it.
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It's just what in my jam.
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Right.
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And it was not something I would have picked.
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I've not picked a 24-scale Miata roaster ever.
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Ever.
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Well, and and you know, though it's funny you say it.
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That's the I would have reframed it as a a skills exercise.
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You want to learn you want to learn a new skill, and you're stepping out of what you do normally to do something different that involves something you don't normally do in your main area of interest.
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The exercise lets you stretch different muscles, as it were.
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That's yep.
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I I agree with that.
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In that regard, yeah, I'm I'm all for though that sort of thing.
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So I hope that helps or answers the question.
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I really like this topic.
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Yep.
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And I like doing these things.
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And I I've selected subjects even in my own sphere of interest just to try something new.
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So it's not a dig at Bob to not call it this or or or what.
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I just I just see it a little bit differently.
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Yeah.
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Um when I hear palate cleanser, and inclined to agree that that implies you need a break from something.
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Right.
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And and maybe I need a break from 35th skill high detail modeling.
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I don't know.
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I don't think this was driven my other interests.
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So I don't I don't see it that way.
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Honestly, Dave, I can't like the float plane.
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I I don't know I know why I picked the one I did, but I don't know why I picked to build a plane at all.
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Right.
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Other than to do something different.
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And now I've got a stash of flipping 72nd scale airplanes all of a sudden.
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I love it.
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Yeah, I'm trying to get sad about that.
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I'm not not successful.
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It's not happening, is it?
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Yeah.
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So Bob, keep it up.
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Keep keep taking on these other projects as in-betweens, and you're gonna grow as a modeler.
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I think that's the most important thing.
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Yeah.
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And Bob and everybody else, if you're doing something outside your quote-unquote normal area, post it on the dojo.
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I love seeing everybody's latest piece of armor, latest aircraft, latest car, latest figure, whatever.
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But if you're doing something like a 112th scale multimedia world war one engine, post that on the on the dojo because that's that's a nice uh break from the normal.
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And I love seeing odd and unusual, and I will always end up having some question about it.
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Up next, Dave, our Greek friend from the United Kingdom, Giannis Grammatikos.
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Yes.
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We're gonna touch on him again toward the end of the episode, but he sent us a couple of really great topic ideas.
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So these are both going to the suggestion pile.
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Okay.
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But of interesting, he was he mentioned back in April talking about slow builders.
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We don't know anything about that.
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Airfix BF 109E and 48 scale.
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Mm-hmm.
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And he's got some pictures he wants to put on the dojo at some point.
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Uh I don't know that he has yet.
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I don't remember seeing a 109.
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I think I think he did.
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I'll have to go back and look.
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So my apologies there.
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His original plan was to use water-based acrylics only.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then the UK and pretty much most of Central Europe had the hottest summer on record.
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And there was no amount of flow improver or retarder he could put in the mix to get rid of tip dry.
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Yeah.
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It's like trying to airbrush outside in Phoenix.
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So he borrows your line, Life's Too Short, and he just went to Tamiya Acrylics then with MLT, and all his problems went away.
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Yep.
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Yeah, I that's you know, I wish Tomia's range was a little more expansive on the color-wise, but you know, the the Mr.
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Color range is huge and it kind of behaves the same way in my opinion.
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Well, and so do the AK real colors.
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Yeah, so the AK real colors.
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So between those, you can always you can find a color approximating what you want, or you can even mix it, mix what you want.
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You can.
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To get the for perfect 4BO.
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Mark DeRamus, again, and we're gonna get him a little more involved.
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We're trying.
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Mark, check your email.
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I sent you something.
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I hadn't heard back from you.
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Maybe you're traveling to some corner of Asia and you're going to a new hobby shop.
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He met Kevin and Janelle of KitMass at Scale Model Fest in Vancouver a couple three weeks ago.
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He said they had a large display in the vendor room with plenty of products available and they had a nice chat with them.
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Great folks.
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And uh Janelle talked to him a lot, and Kevin helped him wade through the just pile of masks they had brought to find one for his next project.
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So, yes, they are great folks.
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Yes, folks, we can't we can't recommend KitMass enough.
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And if you do, please use the affiliate link on our website or in the show notes of this episode because that's gonna get you a discount on your order and it's gonna help Plastic Model Mojo out as well.
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So, Mark, I'm glad you got to meet them.
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And yes, absolutely.
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If they weren't great people, we wouldn't be partnered with them.
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Yeah.
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Next is Rich Capp from Clovis, California.
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Now, speaking of Fresno, he's from the IPMS Fresno Scale Modelers.
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Mm-hmm.
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They've got a show coming up the first week of February 2027.
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God, can you believe we're already getting info on 2027 shows?
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Well, that's pretty early, and it's that's still that's still a pretty big step.
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Yeah, but where did 2026 go, man?
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You still got two months and two and a two months and two days or something like that.
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Well, he appreciated the episode with Hawaiian Air Depot.
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Um that was a good one, it was.
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Yep.
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His point is that we had mentioned well, Brandon Jacob, special agent 003, had written in about the topic of show stagnation.
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Mm-hmm.
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Remember that?
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Yep.
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And shows stagnating and not looking for ways to improve.
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Right.
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You get comfortable with everything working just the way it always has.
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And Rich says he's guessing, and it's a good guess, and it's probably right that uh change takes a lot of effort and it can be scary.
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Yep.
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Shows are difficult to put on in the best situations.
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Venue costs keep getting higher, there's never enough judges, and all that stuff.
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So we can understand the reluctance of shows just kind of sticking to a formula and phoning it in.
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He thinks that things are starting to change, though, and he's seeing this in the shows in California out there we is where he is, this this kind of new show philosophies and formats like the wine country show.
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Yep.
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And there's some improved judging processes in OrangeCon, things like that.
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But their show, Sprue Bowl Three, hosted by the Fresno IP Mass Modelers Club, has been working the last couple of years to try to incorporate what they feel are the best ideas from all these other shows they attend.
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And well, I hope you're learning when you while you attend those shows, and I hope you and I hope other shows planners and and clubs are are getting that information through model show spotlight.
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That would be a great thing to know.
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Yep.
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Uh, because it's kind of turned into that.
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But he's got a few bullet points here of things that they've got going on.
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One was they moved their show schedule to better spread out the shows in their region.
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And so they're not stepping on some of the other club shows.
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Now that's something we're doing this year.
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Right.
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Mil Military Maulers Club of Louisville.
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Moving our show to spring because the fall's just getting it's like a show every weekend.
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Right.
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And with two giant music festivals, it's becoming the falls becoming very crowded.
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It is.
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Yeah.
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Hotels in Louisville, the weeks we typically have our show are jacked up and hard to find.
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Yep.
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They moved their show to the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California, which obviously has the benefit of having it at an air museum.
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Yep.
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And it's more centrally located to most of their attendees.
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So they've had a a venue change that's going to benefit attendance, and they've had a geography change that will also benefit attendants.
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So that's a good move.
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He's right, is you know, show shows for for clubs can be risks.
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And once you get things working, everybody says, well, let's not change anything.
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Why take a risk?
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But it really does.
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I mean, there are so many great ideas out there that people are coming up with.
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And, you know, don't be afraid to out and out steal ideas from other shows.
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If you see somebody doing something at a show and it works really well, steal it wholesale.
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And there's nothing wrong with that.
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It's it's flattering for the for the club that you're that you saw the thing at that you want to use at your show.
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And the the improvements make everybody's experience better.
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So don't be afraid to out and out steal great ideas.
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Well, it's third and fourth bullet point, and then I'll close with something similar that backs up what you just said.
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He says they're now offering seminars and club tables, which we like both those ideas.
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Amen.
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Yeah, exhibition area for display only.
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Now that's a good move.
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Now we have it on good authority and not just from one person that really that that's a good idea, but a better idea is a different colored entry form and just mingle those things in with the regular categories.
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Yep.
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I agree.
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That's I think that's a better idea.
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Now it's an opinion, and folks can disagree.
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I can understand you may fear the show tables getting too crowded.
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Like the IPMS Nationals, I can see why the tiger meat thing is separate than the than the the other, but I don't know.
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Something to consider.
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I it would be nice not to segregate those if you could, but having display only is a step in the right direction.
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And finally, their show will be a regional contest in region nine this year.
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They've not hosted a regional in a while, so they're stepping up their game and putting on a little bit uh bigger representative show for Region 9.
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So he closes in that he did not invent these ideas.
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And that like you said, he said they are used they're using the finest form of flattery to make them part of their show.
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So imitation that would be.
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Yes, and you should not at all be uh shy about doing that.
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Well, from Cleveland, Ohio, Dave is uh Jeff Adanich, and he's got some comments about why we model, and not just why we model, it's it's got most mostly to do with model show participation.
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He thinks that our motivation, well, identifying our motivations contributes to what direction we take as a modeler.
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Do we model for relaxation, skills development, contests, or a combination of all on various spectrums, whatever?
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What makes the hobby rewarding for us?
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Are there internal or external motivations?
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And he says his are largely internal, and he keeps all his builds, good or bad, and in between.
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It's just a visual representation of the his skills development and kind of a kind of signpost of how far he's come and where which direction he's going as a modeler.
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I can relate to that.
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I've got some really old ones in my display case.
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Yep, me too.
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He says it even sometimes motivates him to bring back a prior technique so he can execute it better on a different kit, different build.
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And like we just talked about earlier, he frequently changes genres to keep his motivation and creativity up while challenging him to develop new skills.
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That is exactly the point right there of doing that.
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And then he didn't participate in contests early on because he didn't think his entries were good enough.
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And then he realized that uh his overall goal was to keep getting better, you know, working in multiple genres.
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His views of contests started to change a little and it became a way to see fresh ideas and get different perspectives on a particular kit he's built before.
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To see new technique that he might want to try on a kit in his stash.
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Well, he goes on to say that participating at his first nationals a few months ago changed his perspective on how models are visually presented, be it height, width, depth, you know, the whole presentation, especially for dioramas and vignettes.
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Yeah.
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If he hadn't seen the work presented by others that way, he would have never picked up on those things or even had any desire to implement them in his own build.
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So he thinks just going and participating in these things raises the bar on himself and challenges him to uh find new things, and it says it naturally flows into a plan for getting better, Dave.
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Not only going to contests, but taking a model, whether you put it in the display area or you put it in the contest itself, no matter what, not talking about awards and all of that, but the active active participation, I think, is once you've done it one time, you know, because everybody's a little hesitant their first time.
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Once you've done it one time, I think that almost everybody who does it will find it motivating.
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I think so.
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So good on you, man.
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Keep uh keep entering contests, shows, whatever you want to call them.
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And I think you got a healthy perspective there.
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And that's you're getting out of them what we think you should get out of them.
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Agreed.
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John McAvoy is next, Dave.
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Okay, how's John?
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He's fine, but he needs to know what uh canopy masks you use on your Platz uh T33.
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The canopy masks on my Platz T33.
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Oh god, whose were those?
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Oh.
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Did they come in the kit?
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Because his did not.
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No, them they did not come in the kit.
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He didn't know if Edward had a set or kitmas had a set.
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I'm sure Kit Mask does.
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You can reach out to Kevin and Janelle.
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I think Edward also has a set, but they do not come in the kit.
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Yeah.
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The Platts T-33 is an older kit.
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My older, older late 90s, early 2000s.
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It's funny that I can say that as older.
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So it was before the companies started putting kit masks in their kits.
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Well, he's billing one from Malmstrom Air Base in the Great Falls, Minnesota from the early 50s.
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I know where it is.
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I don't know if we answered his question, but uh Edward and Kitmask might be the best place to start.
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I always recommend reaching out to the folks at Kit Mask because, again, like we said earlier, Kevin and Janelle are just great people.
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Carl Barrow of Brit Living in California says he couldn't help but notice that the 12-minute model sphere for October was only 11 minutes long, and we owe him a minute.
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Leave it to a Yorkshireman to not want to be cheated out of his extra minute.
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I would have thought I would have thought living in California would have mellowed him.
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But we'll we'll I'll tell you what.
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I think I will email you the extra minute.
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Well, I don't think you have to.
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Oh, okay.
00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:07.119
I think uh if he goes back to September, we were at about 20.
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So if we're if we're one short, I think we're still net plus seven.
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Gotcha.
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So I don't know.
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Does he want them all at once or does he owe us?
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I don't know.
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I don't know how that works.
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Uh no.
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I love our listeners.
00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:30.799
And finally, from the email side of things, Dave, another Dave, Dr.
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Dave Morris, says in his experience, there's a definite connection between screen time and crashing mojo.
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I agree.
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He says it happens to him with any prolonged screen time is particularly bad when's with scrolling.
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Yep.
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Often to the point that after checking socials, he has no energy left for anything else at all.
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Yep.
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And I am and he's a doctor.
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And I'm taking I'm taking steps.
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He's absolutely right.
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The amount of time I waste on Twitter slash X and Facebook that isn't modeling related Facebook.
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Even that is ridiculous.
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He could explain why here in his next paragraph, why even the modeling related stuff is not healthy for your mojo.
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Necessarily.
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It could be.
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It can be.
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It can be in doses.
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Modern media is a flat out designed to constantly trigger dopamine dumps in your brain.
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Yep.
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And repeated dopamine hits over time become addicting.
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When you finally put down the phone or stop scanning for that video to watch, the sudden lack of dopamine both causes its own withdrawal crash and makes other activities look dopamine deprived enough that you can't get off the couch.
00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:53.440
So his big modeling goal now isn't about modeling at all.
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Well, it is, but only tangentially getting rid of that.
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And I'm I'm a holic in in regard to the social media stuff.
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And while I'm not gonna, I don't think I can take the pledge completely.
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One of my goals in expanding the model, my model sphere is cutting back on all that stuff.
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So his goal is limiting time on the screen, so modeling feels as pleasurable as it deserves.
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Yep, I agree with it.
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There you go.
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And take the word of a doctor.
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I would.
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I already have.
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He's been a big help.
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That's it from the email side of things, Kentucky Dave.
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:40.319
What's going on on the direct message line?
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:42.720
Yeah, I've got a number of DMs.
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First, listener, Sebastian Videk or Videk.
00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:51.759
I Sebastian, you're gonna have to tell me from Slovenia.
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I mentioned on the last episode in the shout-out that one of our listeners a long time ago had pointed me to something called a decal moisturizing box by Galaxy Models.
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And I'll be honest with you, when I first saw it, I was a little skeptical, but they were not, it was not expensive.
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So I ordered one.
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I've used it, I used it a lot with the tiny decals on the Hawk 81 interior.
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And this thing is really, really great.
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And I I'm gonna post on the dojo, I'll post a picture and everything.
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But in the last episode, I mentioned a listener told me about it, and I couldn't remember who it was.
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It was Sebastian from Slovenia.
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So I wanted to give him a shout out because I owed him that, because that did turn out to be a really great one.
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Next, I've had several listeners reach out to me to tell me about this, and I'm just gonna mention once.
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Scott Stakawiat reached out, among others, to let me know that there is a new book on Operation Tidal Wave, which was the raid on Ploeste, the low-level B24 raid on Ploesti, one of my favorite subjects.
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And there's a new book coming out this fall, and they're starting to be advertising teasers and everything for it.
00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:40.559
And like I said, a number of listeners have reached out, and Scott was among them.
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And I appreciate you all reaching out to let me know so I don't miss something like that when it comes along.
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Because we got so much stuff coming at us right now.
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You could miss something like that if you're not paying attention.
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Well, that's not all he was in support of.
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Maybe you'll mention it later, but uh, we've had uh more than one people chime in about the Goodreads thing.
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Yes, uh that well, yeah, that you're right.
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And I was going to mention that later, but why don't I mention it now?
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I talked about being on Goodreads and had a listener who reached out, they were on Goodreads, Scott as well, and as a matter of fact, Sebastian and some other people.
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:40.320
And I've been researching setting up a group for plastic model mojo, and I figured it out with the help of AI because believe it or not, you can't do it on their phone app.
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:45.679
You have to do it on a laptop computer.
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It can't be done through their phone app.
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You have to go to their website and do it on a laptop.
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So that's in the process.
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You'll be hearing more about that in the in the near future.
00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:07.679
Next, Mark McGuire, who who, in addition to be a being a fantastic baseball player, is a listener.
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No, it's not the same Mark McGuire.
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Just kidding, guys.
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At least I don't think it is.
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He's the guy who talked about giving me some tips for the model shop reno, and he talked about, you know, having a 360-degree space and and placing things that you use more often closer to you, etc.
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Well, he was kind enough to send me some DMs with some photographs and some suggestions, and a couple of them I I really like, and frankly, I hadn't thought would work in my room, but after seeing the photographs that he sent, I think might actually work.
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So thank you very much.
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And when I get all this done, I will post some pictures, but I'm continuing to get great input from people like Mark and other people.
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Please continue to send that stuff to me.
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The next was Michael Grisabian.
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Got his name right.
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Yeah, and I'm getting there.
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Adventure.
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Unlike Dave Goldfinch, I will eventually get your name right.
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He's a real fan of the of the mosquito aircraft, the Havlin DH98, World War II, Wooden Wonder Mosquito.
00:37:37.519 --> 00:38:12.480
And we were talking in regard to one of the things that I always found deficient in all the mosquito kits is the back half of the canopy, there aren't metal frames like there are in an in what you see in a quote unquote normal World War II cockpit, but there's a tubular frame on the inside that is actually bolted down and then screwed into the perspex canopy.
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And because no kit does that, it never looks right.
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And we were talking about the fact that 3D printing has solved that problem.
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And I know that because our good friend Jim Bates found that somewhere that somebody's doing 3D and pointed it out to me.
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And I think he was actually going to get some.
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I don't know if he has.
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But I told Michael that I would tell Jim to send me that information again.
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So, Jim, if you're listening to this episode, well, I know you will eventually, please send me that info on those mosquito canopy tubular interior frames so that I can pass that on to Michael.
00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:20.880
Finally, at the MMCL show, I had an experience, or we had an experience that I'd never experienced before, which was one of our listeners, Julia Evelseiser, came up and she's a listener.
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And, you know, we have those promotional cards with the caricature of you and me and all of that, and a QR code and all.
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And she asked us to sign one, and she said she was gonna frame it and put it in her hobby room.
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You know, it was like, okay.
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And so you and I both signed it, and she the other day sent to both you and I a photograph of this thing in a in a gold frame.
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Very flattering.
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It is extremely flattering.
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It was very nice, and uh I appreciate her doing that.
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I appreciate her sending us the picture to tell us that she actually did do it and wasn't just talking about doing it.
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It was very nice, very kind of her, and I just wanted to say thank you.
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Well, and fundamentally that she enjoys the show that much that she didn't even think to do that.
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So that's the that's the most important thing.
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That is.
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So I'm just really glad that she's a a stalwart listener and was glad to do it.
00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:32.000
Yeah, it doesn't make us any more famous, Dave.
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:33.119
No, it doesn't.
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Let's not rest on that.
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No.
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Well, is that it?
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You got it?
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That's your last one, right?
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Yeah, I said final.
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You did, and I didn't listen.
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You so now.
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Well, folks, thanks for bearing with us.
00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:55.519
This is gonna get the listener mail caught up, and there won't be a segment in episode 172, but there's gonna be a lot of other great stuff in 172.
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If you'd like to send us emails for episodes after 172, you can do that by emailing us at uh plasticmodelmojo at gmail.com or you can use the Facebook direct messenger system to send us a messenger, send us a message.
00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:10.400
Dave handles those.
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I'll just take the emails most of the time, usually, unless Dave needs to answer it.
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Right.
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We have another avenue coming up, and it's been in the show notes for a while, but you'll hear more about that coming up in our feature segment with our with our announcements.
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So keep up the listener mail, folks.
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It's always a big chunk of the episode, but we really enjoy it, and I think uh we get a lot out of it, and I think the listeners get a lot out of it too.
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So we really enjoy the segment.
00:41:36.079 --> 00:42:01.599
Well, Kentucky Dave, we finally got the web upgrade we've been jawing on.
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We had hoped to get it going in July, but we weren't quite ready for that.
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And our our hired guns got a little busy with their nine to fives and just took a little longer than we thought.
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But you can't rush quality.
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Well, it's they did a good job, and um you know some of the changes are subtle, but we're gonna go through them here, folks.
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So if you go to www.plastic model mojo now, and if you've been there before, you'll notice that the menu selections have changed.
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And not necessarily in this order, we're gonna go through those to tell you what's new at the website.
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The first is I think this used to be join the conversation was the it was the menu tab.
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Uh-huh.
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Now it's community.
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Gotcha.
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:57.840
So if folks go to the community tab on the menu, you're gonna see a straight link to Plastic Model Dojo, our Facebook group, right there on that page.
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That's that's where the that link used to go exclusively.
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That's all it was was a link to the Facebook group.
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:08.079
Now that's but one of three items on there currently.
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The other two, not you don't have to go to the show notes anymore to contact the show through that link.
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There's a contact the show link on there.
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Uh if you click that guy, it'll pop up and you can either leave a text message there, a written message, or you can record a voicemail there too, if you want to.
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So uh we got two things going on there that uh yet another another avenue to get listener mail to us.
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And if you record a voicemail, we may actually just pull it out and play your voice on the show instead of reading what you left.
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On the bench has been doing that to some degree.
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Right.
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And then I think the the real folks to first do it were uh small subjects.
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Yes.
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They've been doing it too.
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But uh the difference here is that it's integrated into the website, so you can get it all there.
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In addition to that, we're always asking folks to rate and review the show, and I know not all the podcast players are.
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Allow you to do that.
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Some of them do.
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Well, there's a new button on the community page as well.
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Rate and review the podcast.
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And you can get up there and it'll give you links to the four big players who will let you if you're using one of those.
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It'd be iTunes, Pod Chaser, Good Pods, and Spotify are the big four that will actually let you within their environment, let you leave a review, rate and review a podcast.
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With this pop-up though, now you can leave it right here with us, right through the website.
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You can put your name in there, your email if you want, a review title.
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You can hopefully give us five stars.
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And I really encourage people if you're gonna leave some stars, leave some review comments as well.
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Because that that really helps us beyond just the the star ratings.
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So hopefully, folks, we'll see a little bit more of that.
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And we really appreciate those ratings and reviews.
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It it uh really helps us uh promote the show to other people.
00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:52.000
So that's the community tab, Dave.
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All right.
00:44:52.960 --> 00:45:01.039
The next tab to change on the menu, Dave, is a new one.
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It's Model Sphere.
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Oh, okay.
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In the menu selection.
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That's gonna get you to the PMM model sphere.
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I don't know if we invented that or we coined it and adapted it, I guess, to our show.
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That's kind of our opening segment.
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At its core, this is a blog, but you're gonna see stuff here from Dave and myself and some guest authors, and then some shared content from other places.
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And this is just to bring you more of the things we like to talk about, some uh enhancements to the the base episodes, some further information there.
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Uh there's gonna be some articles there.
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There's several categories we're we're gonna try to work through.
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And part of part of the goal here is modeling's a visual medium.
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Yeah, we can talk, we can talk about it, and we do, some people might say endlessly, but we talk about it a lot.
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But there's sometimes nothing better than actually seeing what we're talking about.
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So we can we can utilize this space for something that links back to something we discussed, or one of our guests, or talks about either a particular build or a particular technique.
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It's hopefully going to become a storehouse of knowledge, among other things.
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Well, we hope so.
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I've I've populated a little bit to start with, just to just to give this thing a little test drive.
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There's a couple of research and reference articles out there.
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There's a kit announcement, and then Dave, your coverage of the Cincinnati show is on there right now, at least in the photo aspect of it.
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So look for more to come there if you've got any interest in pinning something for us and don't want to run a blog on your own or what have you.
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We'd love to feature something from our listeners as well, as well as our other friends out there in the model sphere.
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Yes.
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Well, Dave, this last change to the website currently is is a big experiment.
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Yep.
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It is.
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The final change to the menu at Plastic Model Mojo is the PMM model review tab.
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This was a great idea that you developed and really ran with.
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And so tell people what the idea is and what what it hopefully will do.
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This idea's been out there for a bit, but it was kind of pushed over the ledge not too unrecently, not that long ago, by listener Steven Reed in a comment on one of the conversations on the I think it was actually the convo that was going on over on the Facebook page, not the group.
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And he made a comment.
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I just wish I could just scan a QR code, leave somebody some feedback.
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Well, that idea had been kicked around by somebody else I've been talking to for a while, and that was the nudge over the edge, shall we say.
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And boy, you took this and you ran with it.
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I tried to, so we'll see how this goes.
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So if you go to the PMM model review page, there's a great big icon in there that says PMM model review in the style of our logo.
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And it's going to take you to an app that we're hosting at PlasticmodelMojo.com.
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Well, not within the website itself, but on our uh domain.
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You can sign up for an account on this with this app, and it will let you generate a QR code for a model you're particularly interested in getting feedback for.
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And that QR code can be printed and placed with an entry or placed on your website, whatever you want to do with it.
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And anyone, whether they're a an account holder or not, can scan that QR code.
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So when follow someone follows this QR code you've you've made public that you're soliciting feedback, it's gonna have you know what model it is.
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What of what information you want to be on that QR code, in addition to the actual QR code, can be selected in the app.
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The person's gonna be who scans that QR code is gonna be able to leave feedback on your model or your entry, whatever, in the categories of commendable attributes, which is kind of positive feedback and praise, that sort of thing.
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And opportunities improvement, which is uh things you might consider to do better or or learn more about or correct or what have you.
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There's also a method to upload an image of some kind of peer appreciation token.
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You know, we're seeing all these poker chips and challenge coins and stuff.
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If you left feedback from these people and you left a challenge coin with that model at the show, you could take a picture of it so they can keep track of what feedback went with who, if you didn't leave your name or if you did leave your name.
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The person who leaves feedback can also request you to contact them and that will let them see an email address or what have you or a phone number to contact you about the entry if they'd like to talk to you about it.
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So we'll see where this goes.
00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:14.719
Now there's some soft safeguards within these these two categories to, you know, to kind of keep a limit on the buttholery that might weed out trolls.
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To some degree, we'll see how it goes.
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And there's, you know, right now there's some anonymity if you want it for for the feedback you leave.
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If the trolling gets to be a problem, that anonymity might go away.
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Yeah.
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Uh but for now, honestly, I I've I think I've even said it on there that I there for for the longest time I kind of felt like this was almost a red herring that before Amps started doing it, nobody was talking about it.
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For me, that kind of changed in the last uh it's been this year because I was explaining these shows and conventions I go to about what goes on there.
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And two people who do not build models as a hobby or even have much understanding about our hobby asked if this was an aspect of entering models into these conventions was some kind of feedback and help getting better and you know, advancing your skills through through comments from other modelers.
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So I'm like, okay, maybe maybe I get this now.
00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:25.840
So I hope folks will take this app and use it for the positive.
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:28.719
And I we'll see where it goes, Dave.
00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:33.360
I I don't know, but it was fun putting this together, and I'm I'm glad to get it out there.
00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:41.119
And again, just folks can go to plasticmodelmojo.com and go to the PMM model review tab on the menu, and it's right there for you to use.
00:51:41.519 --> 00:52:05.199
The part that I'm most excited about is the ability to not only to give the feedback, which I think is great, you're at a big convention, something like HeritageCon, where there's 150 vendors and a thousand plus models in a museum, and the whole thing lasts a day.
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You know, you've got so much you want to do.
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:17.280
Okay, well, I need to record some segments, or I need to find this person, or do this, or I wanted to make sure that I shopped this vendor or whatever.
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If you see a model that you really, it's like, oh God, how did he do that?
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Or what kid is that, or whatever?
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You don't have the time right then and there to track that modeler down, even if there's a method for doing so.
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:46.639
So the thing that excites me the most is the ability to use this QR code to reach out to the person and say, Hey, can you contact me?
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I want to talk to you about your model.
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And almost every modeler wants to talk about their model.
00:52:54.320 --> 00:53:04.320
Because I I look back, I first saw Steve Hewsted's work back in it was 2005, 2006.
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If I had had the ability back then to do something like this and would have been able to reach out and connect up with him and not have not have missed the 20 years until we actually ended up getting connected.
00:53:23.039 --> 00:53:28.559
So to me, that is the most exciting aspect of this whole thing.
00:53:28.960 --> 00:53:32.960
That said, it's still going to require a lot of buy-in and use from folks.
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So um, I encourage folks to go out and give it a try.
00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:43.280
I I look forward to seeing the first one in the wild at the next shows I start going, next shows I make it to.
00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:59.519
And ideally, if you've got a show coming up, I would really like to partner with an upcoming show in the coming months to offer this through your web promotion and see if we can get some buy-in and and see if we can get some more, some more mileage on this thing.
00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:03.360
I really appreciate all the folks who helped me test drive this thing.
00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:09.760
I've gone back and made several revisions based on feedback from those people, weeding out some deficiencies.
00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:13.599
And right now it's kind of a balance between information and usability.
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I don't want to put too many features in it because then it just that just lessens the chance it's gonna get utilized, I think.
00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:26.960
Uh I I made this thing as slick and quick for the user and the reviewer to to utilize.
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And I I don't know.
00:54:28.719 --> 00:54:30.400
I don't know if it's gonna fly or not.
00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:31.760
People want feedback.
00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:38.079
That's been the drum that's being beaten for the last, I don't know, since we've been doing this podcast, really.
00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:38.400
Yeah.
00:54:38.559 --> 00:54:45.760
Uh well, here's one method to do it because honestly, I think still at this point, asking the judges to do it each and every show is a big ask.
00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:50.960
This facilitates a manner for for the modelers themselves to do it on their own.
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:53.039
Well, folks, please check it out.
00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:54.559
Check out the web upgrades.
00:54:54.559 --> 00:55:04.400
Let me know anything you would be interested in helping out with or participating with either regard to the the model sphere section or or this app.
00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:07.679
Really interested to get a lot of people involved using this app.
00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:10.800
So hopefully, hopefully it will uh find good use, Dave.
00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:11.519
Yep.
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This short isn't exactly short, but we are getting to the end of it.
00:56:31.519 --> 00:56:35.920
And I'm getting to the end of my modeling fluid.
00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:37.519
And so how was your willet?
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:38.880
You know, the willet's good.
00:56:38.880 --> 00:56:42.880
It's a wheat forward mash bill, so it's kind of smooth.
00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:43.519
It's a little small.
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:44.639
And I love that.
00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:45.599
It's good.
00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:46.800
It's good stuff.
00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:50.400
It's not one I'm gonna buy a lot, but I do.
00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:51.840
It makes a nice change.
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:52.960
It does make a nice change.
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:53.760
So will it.
00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:57.679
No, they've got some other distills out there, so it's the pot still.
00:56:57.679 --> 00:57:00.000
It's the one in the tall neck, skinny neck.
00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:00.960
The fancy bottle.
00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:02.079
The fancy bottle, yeah.
00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:04.159
That's that's the one we're talking about tonight.
00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:06.079
So uh give it a shot, folks.
00:57:06.079 --> 00:57:06.960
I think you'll like it.
00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:13.920
Well, mine tonight is Augusta Bourbon from Augusta Distillery in Augusta, Kentucky.
00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:16.000
Fairly new distillery.
00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:18.719
This is their cast strength bourbon.
00:57:18.719 --> 00:57:26.320
It's uh 107-proof, about 53% alcohol, so it's a little on the hot side.
00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:32.239
It's also slightly on the young side, but not obnoxiously so.
00:57:32.239 --> 00:57:35.440
It's it doesn't hit the palate like it is.
00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:38.239
It's a it's a very enjoyable bourbon.
00:57:38.239 --> 00:57:44.239
I'm gonna enjoy the final bits of this one, and I'm definitely gonna have more in the future.
00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:47.199
Well, two new bourbons, Dave, two new-ish bourbons.
00:57:47.199 --> 00:57:47.599
Yeah.
00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:48.480
We did good.
00:57:48.480 --> 00:57:49.280
No repeats.
00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:50.079
We did good.
00:57:50.079 --> 00:57:50.800
That's right.
00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:53.920
We're we're showing the bourbon flag in Kentucky.
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We are truly at the end of the episode now, and we can't ever get out of an episode without thanking somebody.
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:32.000
So who do you want to shout out this episode?
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:38.800
Well, I'm gonna do my customary shout out to all the folks who've decided to contribute to Plastic Model Mojo through their generosity.
00:58:38.800 --> 00:58:44.239
Folks like Yanos Grammatikos, our Greek friend from the UK, recently joined up on Patreon.
00:58:44.239 --> 00:58:45.840
So we appreciate that.
00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:48.480
And gave us a couple of good topic suggestions too.
00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:51.039
So Yanos, uh, thank you very much for that.
00:58:51.039 --> 00:59:01.760
If you'd like to be like him, you can visit the support show tab on the menu at www.plasticmodelmojo.com and uh or in the show notes.
00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:02.719
There's links in there too.
00:59:02.719 --> 00:59:10.559
But they'll they'll get you to all the avenues to support the show that we've got currently going on and really appreciate it, especially with this new app thing.
00:59:10.559 --> 00:59:16.239
There's some expense to hosting that as the months roll out, especially depending on how many people use it.
00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:17.519
So thank you for everything.
00:59:17.519 --> 00:59:20.320
It's helped get that going and uh really, really appreciate it.
00:59:20.559 --> 00:59:28.239
I would like to, in addition to thanking all of the folks who have supported us in the past, we really appreciate that.
00:59:28.239 --> 00:59:33.519
Again, none of this would be possible without what you all are doing.
00:59:33.519 --> 00:59:39.679
Like I said at the top of the show, we've got a whole bunch going on right now.
00:59:39.679 --> 00:59:50.400
And a lot of it is due to listener feedback and input and help from many of our close modeling friends.
00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:52.239
I want to shout them all out.
00:59:52.239 --> 01:00:00.320
I want to thank all the listeners out there who've suggested topics or suggested guests.
01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:09.760
Mike and I are struggling to keep track of all of these great ideas, and none of them would be possible without you.
01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:11.760
So thank all of you.
01:00:12.239 --> 01:00:13.599
Well, is that all you got?
01:00:13.599 --> 01:00:15.039
That's it, brother.
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:18.559
Well, this is shorter than a normal feature, but we still went pretty good.
01:00:18.559 --> 01:00:22.079
So hopefully folks won't be too won't feel too shortchanged.
01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:22.960
That's right.
01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:24.159
All right, man.
01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:28.719
Well, as we always say, so many kits, so little time, Dave.
01:00:28.719 --> 01:00:31.599
Let's get the work done for 172.
01:00:32.079 --> 01:00:33.840
That sounds good to me.