Is that a Mauser on the wall? :o

He lives in Canada, guns are basically illegal there.

Then how do you explain www.marstar.ca.com

That's a common misrepresentation, whether deliberate or not, I don't know. Ownership of guns is not illegal in Canada by any means. People with some use for them commonly own them -- farmers, hunters, security personel, etc. But regulation is tighter, you can't walk around with them hanging out of your pocket, and you are rather more apt to get in trouble if you shoot somebody. The real difference between Canada and the US is that fewer Canadians want to own a gun. That's about it.

Uhh, guns are by no means illegal here. In fact, there's a great deal of things that are legal here provided you have the license for them.

Yep! And I'm the one who built the kit!

I remember that one!

If you look closely, you can see the brass hinges I installed...

Yup. I wonder if the dummy bullets I made up are still around.

Good question!

It ended up in my hands when Rich was biking through Toronto. I seem to recall stripping it down and rebuilding it so that the action -- its parts grown loose, it jammed -- worked again. I have a bunch of plastic rounds for it that came with the original LS kit. I did acquire some actual live 9mm. parabellum rounds with a stripper clip, but the clip won't work with the plastic kit. Nor do the actual rounds fit in the magazine. They are about 1 mm. or so too long.

Not surprising; the model is probably chambered for .30 Luger, which is a slightly smaller round.

Actually, IIRC, I originally made them for you. (I was in Virginia already when I first got into reloading).

I see alternator's grimlock!

And I spy two Ford GTs! I've always been impressed by your die-cast car collection, still planning on starting my own sometime.

One of the GTs is the original GT 40. It's significantly smaller than the GT that was marketed to the public around 2004 as a "supercar." The 2004 GT, in fact, was virtually a whole new car from the ground up. That's why the two diecasts don't match exactly.

Of the two, the GT40 was made by a French company whose proper name I forget -- this particular model is stamped Universal Hobbies, but that's a rebranding. Ah, found it ... it was made by Joueff. It's not bad looking, but the paint job makes all the difference. I've seen another like mine that was painted metallic green, like a piece of electrical equipment, and looked awful. The dark colour of mine hides the less conscientious details well, but medium green just seemed to bring it out.

The other is by Greenleaf, a company that didn't usually made this sort of toy. All in all, it was superbly made, and -- while it seemed expensive to me at the time -- actually cost less than half what similarly well detailed and crafted cars would go for within a short period of time.

Almost all collectibles seemed to skyrocket in cost in a very short time. Most things I was into increased in price by half or even jumped to twice the sticker price! Not that you can sell them back to anyone for more than peanuts. I have a lot of 1/24 cars I would gladly sell if I had a buyer, 50 cents on the dollar I paid for them, or less. I need the space.

..is that Robocop's piece on the wall?

Yep. Although all Robo's piece was was a Beretta 92R with custom grips and a heat sink added to the muzzle end. Fundamentally, it's the same automatic pistol carried by the US Army these days. I modified mine by adding a finger brace to the trigger guard, for a firmer two hand grip. I also made a red lense in the heat sink to simulate a laser targeter. The interior was gutten so that it no longer shoots little yellow balls -- instead, you can jack it back and see a brass round supposedly ready to be extracted or loaded into the breech. I also rebuilt the top end of the magazine to show a 9mm, hollow-nose round at the top of the stack.

Very nice. I don't shoot or own guns or anything, but I've had a fascination with them since I was a kid. I've always wanted a replica of his gun (and the gun from Blade Runner).

HIya..
here you go. I found a site where you DL the templates so you can build your own gun out of cardstock, Have Fun.
http://www.mybladerunner.com/paperc.....er/2008/01/29/

Ohhhhh! Nice!! Thank you ^_^

I've seen a resin-cast kit of the gun from Bladerunner, but resin kits take a lot of skill to assemble, finish nicely and paint. And they ain't cheap. You might almost buy a Saturday Night Special cheaper...

The Robocop piece was just something a company in Japan made and was imported into LA. I got it at a comics shop sometime in the 1980s. Odds are that it isn't available anymore ... but try eBay.

I'm jealous of the Adam from Mythbusters (and of anyone that has the skills-and money-to make a decent replica). His is REALLY nice.

I always wondered why a gun to shoot replicants had to look so odd. No matter how tough, I would have thought a hollow-point .44 magnum would do the job just fine.

In fact, ordinary handguns work so well that if there is any reason to carry weapons in space, there's no reason they shouldn't be ordinary revolvers and automatics. Keeping them warm and in air until needed is probably all the special care warranted. They'll work quite well for some time after removed from a protected environment. Eventually, the vacuum may cause parts to stick ... but that might take weeks or months, if not longer. Temperature may not matter much to the percussion caps or gunpowder either. But keeping the gun inside with the astronauts are is probably prudent.

The guns in Blade Runner were originally meant to be 'dark matter' weapons-in fact, if you look closely when the first Blade Runner gets shot, you can just barely see a dark line heading towards Holden, underneath the table. The effect wasn't all that visually impressive so they scrapped the idea. The weapon was meant to be an energy weapon. The chamber would have housed a battery or power source rather than a cylinder.

How about a gun that cancels all your credit cards? That would be a lot scarier than any silly energy weapons that would likely do less damage to a body than a lead slug.

Personally, I'd go for a gun that made people be nice to each other no matter what. How annoying would THAT be? XD

Right now I want an apartment to office missile that would make my cheap server work as it should! I can do most things except mail my lastest fanzine. As soon as there are more than one name in the address line, my server can't deliver it! When will it be fixed? Who knows...

Sounds like how I felt trying to teleport my avatar to a different location in Second Life the other night. Surface-to-Linden lab strike, pls.

Teksavvy seems to be working okay this morning. I finally got the newsletter mailed to everyone on my list.

Grats. My friend Jonny runs our guilds Teamspeak server on his box. He loves fiddling with things like that. I'm clueless about computers. I'm amazed I manage to fix things. Sometimes I get lucky with the google magics lol

Ecto 1 and Slimer!

Not to scale, really. Or ... maybe ...

Unfortunately, the Ecto 1 is an awkward 1/20 scale and thus too small compared to the cars around it, which are 1/18. There was a 1/18 Ecto on the market at the time, but it cost twice as much as this one. The detail on the 1/20 isn't bad, though.

That is one over saturated room good sir

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I approve...

So, How much effort did it take to smuggle this undetected through the entrance of Cash Converter?

Couldn't be done ... the Cash Converter in Parkdale closed its door for some reason. Maybe the neighborhood was actually too poor to exploit?

But, if you read the article, you'd have seen that the set was new, not pawned.

Before CC closed, I used to buy DVDs there -- they were cheaper than anywhere else, and when they shut down they got cheaper still! $2! But the electronics weren't especially cheap. I need a new camera but the digital models they had ran from just under $100 up to $200. TV sets smaller than the one I now have were priced over $400. I've been told that there are some stores that sell new products for little more than that, with a manufacturer's warranty. Not 50"... But CC didn't have anything that big either.

cool

That's alot of clutter. o-o

Whadda ya gonna do? You want stuff, and you don't have a 3,000 square foot home, then you put up with clutter. I don't actually like clutter for its own sake...

My spouse would kill me if I had more than one shelf of that! As it is, I'm whittled down to plush and legos ^-^;

What I was thinking of doing with the TV, though is since it's a big flat (a 42, actually) on a wall, of putting a wooden curtain over it with art on it, so there's not a big blank black square on the wall.

Modern flat screens are made with wall-hanging as one option. But my walls are tissue paper soaked in Elmers glue -- I loathe to trust a framed picture to them, otherwise I would have build shelves on most of the wall space I have.

Some people, I notice, seem to hate clutter. The see you have a comb and a hair brush and demand to know why you need both! But 600 square feet of empty space causes their heart to soar with joy...

Yeah, ours is in a wall made of solid wood paneling.

There's some pretty cool anchoring surfaces you can use to spread the weight out, or reach across the structural elements, assuming you can find them, though. And some stands that look like wall mounts, such as https://www.google.com/shopping/pro.....1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50768961,d.aWc,pv.xjs.s.en_US.E_1kRF_UP4s.O&biw=1085&bih=673&tch=1&ech=1&psi=n70RUsDOI-m9yAGAtoFA.1376894370978.13&sa=X&ei=470RUubTOanViwK8iYHgDA&ved=0CIkBEPICMAY

Although that's just the first thing on google I found that looked like what I was thinking of.

nice techniecs amp

You have a stereo system? Man, your set up my be archaic. I can't even begin to imagine the mess all the wiring in the back creates.

There's a ton of wiring in the back. There was a time when I knew it all, too. But the amount of stuff there is makes it difficult to pull anything out and look at the back, so it's been years since I've refreshed my memory. When it comes to messing with the system, now, I let other people do it, who have had more recent experience.

As for archaic, there are advantages. I can sum it up with a scene from an early episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati." Johnny Fever is to do a "remote" show from a small stereo shop. He brings with him the station engineer to run the mike, amps and all that. The owner of the store is a short, hyper, fast-talking salesman who runs off at the mouth about the virtues of little-known, cheaply made Japanese stereo components. At one point the engineer takes notice of the guy, and speaks for the only time in the episode, "Pal, I've got a stereo system in the van outside that will blow your entire store across the river into Kentucky."

The Man Cave of my dreams.

Ideally, it would go on, cavern after cavern, each more marvelous that the last.

Miracles of Nature never cease.

"These are not holes. This is the great realm and city of the Dwarrowdelf. And of old it was not darksome, but full of light and splendour, as is still remembered in our songs."

Looks cozy, even makes to feel a little jealous n.n And yeah, books..

Nice gun collection.

Got any Walthers up there?

Two, both P.38s.

However, none of the firearms are real -- they're all plastic. Some are merely toys that were good looking and I made better looking. Some are Japanese kits, with working parts. Some have genuine brass shells in the cylinders and magazines ... but no live rounds, of course. I've other toy guns there was no room for on the wall, incluidng two Daisey air rifles -- the type that just make a loud bang, but don't shoot bee-bees.

Awww.

I had a chance to buy a P.38 for about $600.
Shame I didn't have the money, or I would have bought it on the spot.

I guess that would be a good price. I'd sort of like a P.08 Luger myself. Not as good a pistol as the P.38 but certainly a very classy bit of engineering. That's asssuming I needed any sort of gun, or wanted to take up target shooting. A more practical choice might be any short barreled .38 revolver. Less to go wrong, easier to use ... maybe. Cheaper. A Desert Eagle is just for hanging on the wall and looking tough.