Well, Brad, you sure have gathered some interesting stories on forklifts...

Brother, those dudes are nuts, alcohol is not something to be had when working with those machines... or any other machine, for that matter!
Too much risk for me, i'm glad i'm not too friendly with alcoholic drinks or it could be a problem for sure.
I can say that i've been working there for a few weeks now and already have seen and had a few situations, but let's just leave it at that for now...
I've never driven a forklift but I have put a 12 ton padfoot roller off the side of a 2m embankment while compacting the road along the top.

Ouch!! Must have been quite a situation... hope you didn't get too chewed out for that...
So, back to plastic, it's time for the Blue Thunder!!!

I'm putting everything else on hold cause i'm so excited that i'll finally be building a BT! Already took some parts off the sprues and cleaned them up, mainly the cockpit bits but haven't glued anything together yet...
It's big thing but it is in fact, a slightly longer Gazelle helicopter in 1/32 scale... still, the 1/48 apache is as big or even slightly longer than the 1/32 Gazelle/BT.
I wanted to get the Huey finished before i began the BT so that i could just concentrate on that. Now that it's done, photographed and in the display cabinet, i'm ready for the mean BT.
I have been pondering buying a turned brass aftermarket gatling gun to replace the kit's part but i'm not sure about the size and have had a hard time finding the measures for the parts i've been considering. If i can't be sure, i guess i'll just order the one that seems to me more likely to be around the same size as the BT kit's part for the gun. Don't think i'll be adding any more aftermarket... well, maybe a couple of figure could be cool...

I probably won't start a new topic for the BT but i'll keep you guys updated on this thread.
