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Post by RebAl on Apr 29, 2006 11:07:07 GMT -5
Me too!
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Post by RebAl on Mar 13, 2008 13:43:36 GMT -5
Yes I will have to make an effort to get over there sometime.
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Post by RebAl on Mar 11, 2008 2:02:13 GMT -5
Excellent photographs and plenty of historic information.
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Post by RebAl on Feb 1, 2008 11:23:23 GMT -5
The Menger Hotel during the Alamo's Centennial in 1936.
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Post by RebAl on Nov 1, 2007 12:52:30 GMT -5
The Alamo Village should look excellent when all the work gets done.
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Post by RebAl on Apr 9, 2008 10:22:24 GMT -5
Great pictures as usual I like your roses are they the fragrant type?
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Post by RebAl on Feb 1, 2008 11:02:59 GMT -5
Interesting story.
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Post by RebAl on Nov 5, 2007 12:07:27 GMT -5
Looking at all the sausage there alone will raise your cholesterol, then when the smell attacks your nostrils you have to sample the goods! ;D TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded I worry about the cholestrol after I've eaten the sausages! LOL
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Post by RebAl on Oct 30, 2007 14:57:54 GMT -5
Well, as Steve McQueen once said in THE MAGNIFACENT SEVEN, "So far, so good.' I think he played a great part in that film, loved the part with him and Yul Brenner on the hearse going up the street to Boot Hill.
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Post by RebAl on Oct 28, 2007 14:41:10 GMT -5
That's my sort of party!
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Post by RebAl on Aug 1, 2007 17:21:25 GMT -5
Excellent pictures. I hope you have settled in OK.
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Post by RebAl on May 26, 2007 6:48:40 GMT -5
Nef is correct its definitely a time consuming hobby painting minature figures. First off you need to cut the parts off the sprue and file all the edges, checking for any faults in the moulding, then I drill each of the parts and insert brass rod for extra strength before glueing them all together any gaps need to be filled with Milliput putty and then filed smooth once it sets. Then a decent base needs to be made. First off I prime the figure with spray paint normally a couple of coats, once dried the figure is painted with acrylic paint using all the correct colors, then artists oil paint ontop of this which needs to be shaded and blended, this procedure takes the longest as oil paints take a while to dry. If you could do it all in one go it would probably take about 4 days full work. To get an idea of the cost of models check out this site www.histomin.com/linemrl/pgmrlacw.htm the JEB Stuart mounted figure is being sold for $921 and that doesn't include postage. I assembled and painted four of these figures (120mm scale about 8 inches high)three for friends in the States and charged them nothing, the following picture is the one I have here at home.
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Post by RebAl on Apr 9, 2007 8:35:10 GMT -5
Sounds as though you had a fantastic time and all your pictures are excellent.
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Post by RebAl on Mar 12, 2008 13:46:04 GMT -5
You have gotten to meet some really famous Alamo related people.
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Post by RebAl on Apr 1, 2007 2:27:17 GMT -5
I am sure you will have a great visit to San Antonio, so much to see and do, look forward to seeing all your photographs.
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Post by RebAl on Dec 15, 2007 2:24:30 GMT -5
Nef
Over the years we have been getting less and less snow, when I was young it snowed off and on from about the middle of December until the end of January, now we might get a couple of snowfalls and its all melted within a day!
DavyCrockett
We still call it Christmas but the PC brigade is gradually creeping in over here as well for example Festive Tree instead of Christmas tree and in some schools there is talk of doing away with the nativity plays because there is too big a mix of ethnic minority children in the schools!
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Post by RebAl on Dec 14, 2007 13:21:25 GMT -5
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Post by RebAl on Nov 5, 2007 12:02:50 GMT -5
I really don't have anything to be thankful about this year.. When things are looking bad just think you are alive and well, things will get better for you I'm sure. I guess we have all had down times in our lives a few years back my Mother died, I broke up with my partner and a really good friend died of a heart attack all within a month of each other, but I carried on.
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Post by RebAl on Oct 30, 2007 14:47:54 GMT -5
Well, I finally got my Halloween goody stash for all the hobgoblins. If not many show up, come Halloween night, then I will be stuck with a load of Tootsi Pops, mini-Hershey chocolate bars and mini-bags of M & M Peanut. With all those goodies on offer it might be worth travelling over there for a Trick or Treat!
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