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Well, just finished this episode. As always, Dan Carlin did a fantastic job. I found his discussion on how economic concerns played a role in Alexander’s invasion of Asia quite interesting as it’s something I’ve never even considered before.

I have to say though, considering how little Carlin advanced in the story of Alexander the Great, I think this series is going to have at least a dozen episodes or more and take him about 20 years to complete considering how much time usually passes between episodes.

My brother and were I raised by our widowed material grandmother Growing up I thought we were rich. I got pretty much anything I wanted. Christmas morning meant waking up to the living room full of Star Wars toys. We always wore nice clothes, had nice things, and took nice vacations.

As an adult though now I realize all that was because our grandmother, who was retired, received my late grandfather’s pension from US Steel plus social security checks for herself, me, and my bother. Along with this, she didn’t have a mortgage either.

But looking back, even though as a kid it didn’t occur to me at the time, all those Christmas mornings when my bother an I were opening presents, she be sitting in her recliner drinking coffee an watching us. Never once saw her open a present of her own. I remember going clothes shopping all the time. And while we always got whatever clothes we wanted, I never saw her buy a stitch of clothing for herself. The reason I thought we were rich was because she took the money she had and used it all on us kids.

I would be blown away by their tiny battery-powered computer with no external keyboard that doubles as a phone and has this thing called “internet”.

We don’t cuss around our kids. But this thread reminds me of the one and only time in my 28 years of being married to her daughter I heard my MIL drop an f-bomb. We were on our way home from taking her and my now deceased step-FIL to the Ark in Kentucky. I can’t remember what he did exactly, but my step-FIL had pissed her off royally. That’s what made her drop the f-bomb. I wouldn’t have been more shocked if I’d have heard the Pope drop one. Thankfully neither of our kids heard her say it.
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So you’ve been doing these for years, and I’ve loved every one of them. I’m sure you’ve answered this question before, but where are you putting them all?

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I have what I call my “model room” where I both build and display them. Right now thought it’s a bit of a mess because it’s doing double duty as the family Christmas gift wrapping room.

Oh hell yeah. I’m off until Friday of next week so I’ll have plenty of time to listen.
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Man that is awesome! Winter camo? Wasn’t aware the Russians did that. I know the Germans did

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Thanks and yes, it’s the remnants of a field applied winter camouflage scheme. All sides applied winter camouflage, usually at the unit level where crews would take common whitewash and apply it to their vehicles. There really wasn’t any set pattern, just whatever the unit commander, or even individual crews decided to do. These camo jobs though were not permanent and would start wearing off over the winter.

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So friggen cool. Nice work!

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Thanks. I was a bit disappointed when I opened this kit yesterday and saw how rudimentary it is. There wasn’t much to it at all. But it’s a kit originally released in the 1960s so I shouldn’t be surprised.

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The SU-100 is a Soviet tank destroyer armed with the D-10S 100 mm anti-tank gun in a casemate superstructure. It was used extensively during the last year of World War II and saw service for many years afterwards with the armies of Soviet allies around the world.

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Tamiya 1/35 scale SU-100
11th Guards Mechanized Corps
Hungary, 1945

(Yes, this one was done rather fast. I started it yesterday afternoon right after I finished the Do.17. But this was a super simple kit. It’s a re-release of the Tamiya SU-100 kit from the mid 60s. I think total assembly time was less than an hour. I had that done by 5 PM yesterday. All I had to do today was painting and weathering.)

The Germans also used the 88 as a night fighter as well.

That is 100% accurate.