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Thanks, No I just do it for my own amusement. The orange truck models are all of the same truck. It was my father's work truck. The ones toward the end of the photobucket album were early attempts when I was a kid. The first ones show two versions of the truck, one as it looked 20+ years ago, and one as it looks today. Those were built between 2003 and 2005.golfmobile wrote:Mike,
Those are all wonderful! Such detail! Wow, you really are a pro!! Do you enter shows/contests?
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I thought I posted this last night, but I can't find it now. It MIGHT have something to do with my access to Google Blogger down here -- which reverts to Spanish because it's running off Google Puerto Rico. If you can't get to the blog with this page, do a Google search wherever you are for "Roaming Magnum, G.I." and it should find the blog.
MGI is MIA.
Check it out on the Roaming Magnum GI site.
If this IS a duplicate, where's the one I posted last night?
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MGI is MIA.
Check it out on the Roaming Magnum GI site.
If this IS a duplicate, where's the one I posted last night?
golf
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Sorry to hear about all of the trouble Golf. Hope you and Larry are able to recover all of your things, including Magnum, G.I. Since Larry works for Delta, was he able to get a Delta employee to confirm that your luggage is where they said it should be? Good luck. Oh yeah, great photos.
The answer is obvious, old man. Logic is irrelevant. It's simply Tropical Madness. (J.Q. Higgins)
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No! MGI! Come back!
On another note, this is a tiny creation of my own. Golf, MGI is tonnes better than mine. Believe me! This, is an action man Magnum! Blu-tack moustache, chest hair and recently removed eyebrows.
magnumam.blogspot.com
Mine is worse than Golf's. Blu-tack moustache!
Please don't hate me for this,
MagnumPI_Cat.
On another note, this is a tiny creation of my own. Golf, MGI is tonnes better than mine. Believe me! This, is an action man Magnum! Blu-tack moustache, chest hair and recently removed eyebrows.
magnumam.blogspot.com
Mine is worse than Golf's. Blu-tack moustache!
Please don't hate me for this,
MagnumPI_Cat.
Out of my way before I run you down and enjoy it! - Thomas Magnum, Tropical Madness, season 2.
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Byline from our formerly on-the-scene Virgin Islands Roaming Reporter, Larry:
DATELINE: St. Croix, U.S.V.I.
Headline in the St. Croix Times:
A STRANGE LITTLE MAN CALLING HIMSELF MAGNUM WAS APPREHENDED ON ST. CROIX BEACH THIS MORNING AFTER ELUDING POLICE FOR 5 DAYS.
In addition to drunk and disorderly, he was charged with lying to customs and smuggling lime juice into the country. He was caught on the local beach, drinking margaritas with some natives and a girl calling herself Barbie.
(What's "criminal" is that I had to Photoshop this picture, when he COULDA BEEN there in "person"!! [so I didn't waste a lot of time trying to get a really good-looking Photoshopped picture)
(Delta from St. Thomas called and said they have the bag, it came from St. Croix. WHY did Delta employees in St. Croix hold on to it for five days? If bags are scanned only AFTER they arrive [what Delta told us repeatedly!!!], why was this never found in St. Croix? This entire story makes NO sense, but I'm so relieved that the bag has been found, at least, that I may stop bitching for a FEW minutes. However, I will not consider MGI "home safe" until we have the bag in hand. The way Delta has handled this, I wouldn't be surprised if the bag got lost again on the way home from St. Thomas -- or even at the airport before we can get there to pick it up.)
So poor Larry, in spite of his clever byline above, hasn't managed to get rid of MGI and has to put up with a wife and her action figure. But poor MGI missed out perhaps on his only chance at being at the beach (why do I have the feeling Larry won't let me take him with us next time. . . . .?)
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DATELINE: St. Croix, U.S.V.I.
Headline in the St. Croix Times:
A STRANGE LITTLE MAN CALLING HIMSELF MAGNUM WAS APPREHENDED ON ST. CROIX BEACH THIS MORNING AFTER ELUDING POLICE FOR 5 DAYS.
In addition to drunk and disorderly, he was charged with lying to customs and smuggling lime juice into the country. He was caught on the local beach, drinking margaritas with some natives and a girl calling herself Barbie.
(What's "criminal" is that I had to Photoshop this picture, when he COULDA BEEN there in "person"!! [so I didn't waste a lot of time trying to get a really good-looking Photoshopped picture)
(Delta from St. Thomas called and said they have the bag, it came from St. Croix. WHY did Delta employees in St. Croix hold on to it for five days? If bags are scanned only AFTER they arrive [what Delta told us repeatedly!!!], why was this never found in St. Croix? This entire story makes NO sense, but I'm so relieved that the bag has been found, at least, that I may stop bitching for a FEW minutes. However, I will not consider MGI "home safe" until we have the bag in hand. The way Delta has handled this, I wouldn't be surprised if the bag got lost again on the way home from St. Thomas -- or even at the airport before we can get there to pick it up.)
So poor Larry, in spite of his clever byline above, hasn't managed to get rid of MGI and has to put up with a wife and her action figure. But poor MGI missed out perhaps on his only chance at being at the beach (why do I have the feeling Larry won't let me take him with us next time. . . . .?)
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I bet it was Linda Barbi Ellison! No wait, maybe it was Madeline Hue! Or perhaps Cynthia (Mattel 1971) Farrell!golfmobile wrote:In addition to drunk and disorderly, he was charged with lying to customs and smuggling lime juice into the country. He was caught on the local beach, drinking margaritas with some natives and a girl calling herself Barbie.
Higgins: It's not a scratch! It's a bloody gouge!
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Mike,
Thanks. Did you click on the picture to go to the blog site to see the pictures of the entire helicopter? Several pictures there of the heli sitting on the landing pad (driveway) and then up in the air (airbrushed out Larry's hands holding it up for me.
Alternatively, here is it, currently sitting on top of our entertainment unit:
Plus, I've gotten a 1:16 one to paint to have the Island Hoppers colors. eBay auction I won:
Hughes 500D on eBay
Odd proportion, the 1:16 instead of the usual 1:18, but I'll see if it'll work. I also have a couple of little ones coming, to repaint:
Matchbox size #1
Another one
both of which aren't to scale and don't have the correct 5 rotor blades (as they appear in the pictures of the auctions NOT to have 5 rotor blades) (though they appear to have the correct T tail assembly . . . . ).
But I think I need to add a new number for SelleckLover's Signs You're Hooked on MPI -- "you find every little toy helicopter you can, paint it to look like Island Hoppers, and display it on your desk at work or on your dashboard."
golf
Thanks. Did you click on the picture to go to the blog site to see the pictures of the entire helicopter? Several pictures there of the heli sitting on the landing pad (driveway) and then up in the air (airbrushed out Larry's hands holding it up for me.
Alternatively, here is it, currently sitting on top of our entertainment unit:
Plus, I've gotten a 1:16 one to paint to have the Island Hoppers colors. eBay auction I won:
Hughes 500D on eBay
Odd proportion, the 1:16 instead of the usual 1:18, but I'll see if it'll work. I also have a couple of little ones coming, to repaint:
Matchbox size #1
Another one
both of which aren't to scale and don't have the correct 5 rotor blades (as they appear in the pictures of the auctions NOT to have 5 rotor blades) (though they appear to have the correct T tail assembly . . . . ).
But I think I need to add a new number for SelleckLover's Signs You're Hooked on MPI -- "you find every little toy helicopter you can, paint it to look like Island Hoppers, and display it on your desk at work or on your dashboard."
golf
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