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While at the
Squadron.com Open House this past summer I picked up literally dozens of little
Revell Mini-kits and Easy-kits, the Mini-kits were about a quarter each, and the
Easy-kits under $2. These are all pre-painted, snap-together, box-scale kits.
The Mini-kits are all about 2" long, the Easy-kits (of which I ended up
using only one) is about 5" long, maybe about 1:100 scale.
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They sat in a big box in the
closet until this past weekend when I pulled them out and, in one session, put
together about 40 of the little suckers.
I picked up a $5 plastic tree at
Hobby Lobby (half-off!), a 50 cent string of lights and a couple $$ worth of
tinsel, little ball ornaments etc, and proceeded to hang the models on the tree
as ornaments. Well, the planes weren't very visible just hanging there, so I
almost canned the whole project.  That
night, while at the local brewpub, I looked down at the drink coaster under my
beer and had an idea. I talked the barmaid out of a stack of the coasters, took
them home, and glued the little planes to the coasters. Success!!!
Shortly after this picture I
managed to trip over the power cord for the lights, tipping the tree over and
knocking all the ornaments off the tree and many of the models off their new
display bases. 
Ah well, nothing a little glue and a few more beers won't solve 
Everything is back together now, and the tree strategically placed near a corner
window
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I wanted to put a
(Blue) Angel on top of the tree, but had to settle for this Thunderbird. Well
there it is, "Operation Evergreen" - what do you think?
Greg
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