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Looks great, brave move, I am absolutely sure you will make it brilliant.

The windows and front all snap/screw on.

Good call Dave. Look forward to seeing what you now do to it.

Congrats on making the move for making that part of the accessible ruins!

You could always just make a completely wrecked building with the pieces left. Cause you know not every building could survive the apocalypse.

I haven't even built one ruin out of it yet, why is everyone worried about the leftover bits? lol

Because that is where the magic will happen. :O

There are never any left-over bits... Just undecided bits...

 dsteingass wrote:
I haven't even built one ruin out of it yet, why is everyone worried about the leftover bits? lol

We are a very worrying bunch of loonies...fancy you not knowing...

 MauS wrote:
There are never any left-over bits... Just undecided bits...

That's VERY true! Haha

My favorite kind of Loonies too!

 dsteingass wrote:
I haven't even built one ruin out of it yet, why is everyone worried about the leftover bits? lol

Because we've seen the glory of what you can build from scraps these being better than scraps we re waiting with growing eagerness.

Oh..I'm saddened to report that Phil Gieseking, owner of Phil's Hobby shop passed away. He made much of my stuff possible.

Oh... Was he a close friend to you?
How old did he get?

Awh I am sorry to hear that, he must've been a great guy :(

76, he wasn't that old really. Mesothelioma from working with asbestos during his Navy years.

And here I am hoping to make it past 60! He must have been tough living that long after the asbestos exposure/cancer. Much respect for him.

It all hit him suddenly actually. He was at the store every day up until about a month or so ago.

 dsteingass wrote:
It all hit him suddenly actually. He was at the store every day up until about a month or so ago.

Most likely, like me, it started and he kept quiet until he could not handle it anymore, old vets tend to do that. I had proto-symptoms of the heart failure in 1985 when they cut me loose for the heart condition from exposure, went many years unaware until 2000, started to the pitting edema, blood sugar was all normal for a man my size, kept working and active until 2004 when I swelled up like a puffer fish, and found out it was indeed CHF and since then on damn pills and having all sorts of fun discovering new limitations to live with. I think he lived his life on his terms as long as he could, and that is a good way to go about it. Live life to the best of one's ability to the end.

Still winning my SSD I may be able to get the VA to finally stop being penny pinchers and declare me a decent degree of disabled, I went in healthy, 2yrs is all they got and I came out a wreck according to my paperwork, and they want to say it ain't service related Dave, BUT I do have discharge papers that show two different health situations from entry to discharge.


On another note, i have some Terran fighters and Yamato to buil;d as well as some heavy weapon teams for the Greatcoats from WGF I am working on, and i added pilots to the AT-43 battestriders

Today I see that Soldier's burial benefits are cut off too because of these so-called Tea Party "patriots" - pathetic. Good luck getting the benefits you earned, this is all madness. I didn't make his funeral..I wonder if the VFW Color Guard was even able to give him 21 blank shells??

 dsteingass wrote:
Today I see that Soldier's burial benefits are cut off too because of these so-called Tea Party "patriots" - pathetic. Good luck getting the benefits you earned, this is all madness. I didn't make his funeral..I wonder if the VFW Color Guard was even able to give him 21 blank shells??

One would hope that some decent formal burial was performed and he got his due with the 7 rifles fired 3 times, or, even 3 rifles shooting 7 times for his 21 gun salute for his service. Tea Party Koch brother puppets need to be voted out of office in 2014.

Yeah..anyone that thinks these ass-clowns are suddenly concerned with "equality" is a fething moron. This transcends politics, this is just disrespectful.

 dsteingass wrote:
Yeah..anyone that thinks these ass-clowns are suddenly concerned with "equality" is a fething moron. This transcends politics, this is just disrespectful.

If not for their connections, they might have been placed in padded cells and pumped full of meds to calm them down and keep them from hurting society.

It is pretty damn disrespectful really, and politics is pretty stupid at it's given moment. I really just hate thinking about it :(

That really sucks, did his funeral go through? Just without the army respects?

Yeah, he was long retired. Funerals like that are private, but the vets usually attend to honor them. I was just curious. I know the Vets around here, they would've taken care of the ceremony anyways, out of their own pocket if necessary. It just came out today too..as if the whole death benefits thing for active duty casualties was an afterthought or something.....

Money for new techno gadgets and toys like tanks and missile systems but old and broken soldiers are something they hate to spend money on.

Well, I always like to TRY to put myself in someone else's shoes before I make a judgement. If I were in Washington, I think it would be very much like a trench war, no one can move, if you go over the top, you get shot in the face, if you run, your own people shoot you in the back. The environment is toxic and the Politicians use campaign money instead of bullets.

 dsteingass wrote:
Well, I always like to TRY to put myself in someone else's shoes before I make a judgement. If I were in Washington, I think it would be very much like a trench war, no one can move, if you go over the top, you get shot in the face, if you run, your own people shoot you in the back. The environment is toxic and the Politicians use campaign money instead of bullets.

Good observation! just5 a nutshell, I went in with a leg and eye issues, 3 in all, easy to work around, came out with 14 new issues added to the list.

Sorry for the loss of a good friend Dave. It's sad to say, but at least he only suffered for a month. My grandparents were it top shape for 70+ years before all the bad stuff began. They even won golds in the senior Olympics. I hope whatever my end is that it happens quick, not some long ordeal.

Don't get me started on the government I think I already discussed my opinion a long time back. Were to a point that it WILL require a new revolution to reinvent Washington.

I agree, I'm just afraid the Corporations and the rich will win that revolution.

 dsteingass wrote:
I agree, I'm just afraid the Corporations and the rich will win that revolution.

Them and all that money they can spend. That and no button marked "Revolution" on the remote controls in America.
Our Leaders ought to be picked from people who do not want power. Civil service ought to be like Military service of old. Name comes up, you go to congress or senate to go do a job for a few years and then go back to normal life/work. Also, the politicians ought to go and also be on ACA instead of the free uber care they get to enjoy at our tax expenses along with their self voted 250k checks