Poor man looks even heavier than he is since I'm sitting and he's standing up. Bonus points to whoever can tell what the poster you only can see a part of is behind Zel's shoulder!
I am happy to say, I would have never identified the poster. I'm glad to see a picture thread re-boot, though. After they get too long, it's hard to follow them. Stay tuned for later this month, when I post some then and now pictures of my wife and I to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. I have a feeling we are going to look quite a bit more than 10 years older in the now shots.
It's my heat-activated light-up rubber duckie for night-time bubble baths! I had fun playing with him last night in my hot chocolate/exotic coconut scented bath. Can't really see me, thankfully, but isn't he adorable?
Something I hope is interesting. During a volunteer mission ferrying P-39s to Russia (Lend Lease) across the Mediterranean, Dad's flight was attacked by an Italian Macchi MC.200 fighter. He shot it down, then when he landed he got a Jeep and found the wreck. He mailed the engine cowling home! it's been in our garage ever since, rusting away. I finally got around to building a model of a Macchi 200 this month. So here's the cowling with it's 1/32-sized copy sitting on it:
[action=phantomofthenet]does some research on Forbin's dad...[/action] 11 kills - a double ace and then some.
[?=3 nights of barely any sleep = I feel like death] I can't wait to go back home and sleep all burrowed up close to my UA. [/?]
Cool story, but what was he planning to do with it? It's not exactly something you can hang from the wall of your office.
Souvenir, confirmation of kill. Hey, he was 22 and full of fighter pilot spunk. It's nothing compared to his first kill - He spent a few weeks in England chasing buzz bombs with a P-47. Got two of them. On one flight, a Focke Wulf attacked him over the channel. Dad shot him down, and the German landed in a field in France. Dad landed next to the guy! The FW was sitting there with the engine running. The pilot had died right after he landed. Dad unbolted the joystick from between the dead guy's legs and removed headphones for souvenirs! When he bought his own Piper Cub in the 50s, he put the FW's joystick in it. Here's the joystick, which now sits on a cabinet in my computer room:
I'm staying at my sister's while her and her husband are in Mexico. Watching the house, feeding/loving the kitties, keeping tabs on my nephew....mostly I think she just wanted him to know someone was staying there so he didn't try to have a party. It's okay there - a nice house, but really lonely and quiet.
am i alone in finding forbin posting his dog taking a dump, then following it up with a image of 2lbs of brown chocolate disturbing? perhaps its a magic chocolate-bunny-pooping dog?