Weekend Madness GB November 13-15th 2009

sfcmac wrote:

Here is what I am doing !  Yep  Sometimes you must face your demons!  I have always wanted to build a 1/48 Scale Tamiya Landcaster since I was a wee lad!  Never could find or afford one but now I have had a few in my stash for too long and still haven't built one!  The time has come!   Prepare to be built you crazy model!

Aaron-you go guy!  Gonna be a challenge, but I think that you can do it in a weekend.  Of course, I'm going to be buying some coffee bean futures 'cause you're not going to have any time to sleep....

No WAY!! I cant believe your going to do that in a weekend. You realise its 1 weekend? Not 52?

...Guy

 Here is what I am doing !  Yep  Sometimes you must face your demons!  I have always wanted to build a 1/48 Scale Tamiya Landcaster since I was a wee lad!  Never could find or afford one but now I have had a few in my stash for too long and still haven't built one!  The time has come!

  Prepare to be built you crazy model!

sfcmac wrote:

... and a brand new optivisor to scare the kiddies with! and just to jazz it up I am gonna motorize it too!

I'm excited and am starting to line up supplies. I haven't  figured out a schedule yet, but with two kits I'll be busy the whole time.

sfcmac wrote:

Shun the non-believers!!!!! When I get done you will all have to wear a scarlet A  apon your breast!   I have a special shirt to wear for this event and a brand new optivisor to scare the kiddies with! and just to jazz it up I am gonna motorize it too!

Aaron, now what could that be I wonder!!!   Motorized to boot.  This I got to see!

Tom, welcome aboard.  I assume that it is 1/35 scale?

Count me in with a Vision Models M1A1 Pack Howitzer.

Tom

TWO WEEKS TO GO!!!

Okay guys, the countdown is on.  Aaron, Stikpusher, what are you guys building?!?!?  

(Aaron, I put you down for the 1/48 Tamiya Lancaster until you come to your senses)

A belated Happy Birthday Frank!

I could a little guidance from the players gallery (hopefully the two stroke penalty won't be assessed).  One of the options for the AC-130 is an all black bird.  The kit has no pit detail so I was planning on painting the cockpit and other glass black.  If I do the black scheme, I want something to break up the monotony.  What color should I do the glass?  Was thinking silver, but that might be to contrasty.  How bout a silver blue or a light blue like on those overpriced solid wood desktop models?  Any thoughts?  Was planning on using the Tamiya NATO Black spray bomb for the overall color and it is a very, very, very dark gray, so a pure black might work as well.

Bob- I really hope it gets better very soon!  That has to be a very stressful situation.  I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Aaron- Gee Whiz!  Poor Frank now has one foot in the grave.  Wait!  That's me!  

Dave- You're already 40?  You sure don't look it.  Must be that good Canadian beer.

Ahhh,,, those were the days.  I vaguely remember turning 40.  So young, so full of energy.  Life seemed so simple then... the days before colesterol tests, rectal examinations, before the need for reading glasses or 10X optivisors.  Enjoy Frank.  It's all down hill from 40. 

 Bob ! Best wishes to ya!  Been missing you over at the FAA!  I know things will be better soon. Going thru a bit of a rough time myself. Seems to be the season.

  Evry time I feel down though I think. Well at least it isn't my Birthday!

Cuz it's his and he isn't in the 30 something age bracket anymore!

 Frank will be celebrating wildly today fer sure. Word has it Bondo spiked his geritol and ensure. Dave has made room for the partiers o sleep it off to I hear in his own hobby room!  What a guy!

and remember stress is a bad thing! Gotta relax! Be more like this fellow.

Luftwoller wrote:

Good luck with the job searching Bob. It can be real worrying time but im sure a man with your considerable talents will be beating the offers of work off with a sh1tty stick. ...Guy

Hey Bob growing up in California in the 50's, although hey every place had it's car culture then, I loved Rat Fink and Big Daddy models. Nothing like a pair of big lumpy looking chrome plated plastic valve covers. Well yeah, there was the box of Playboys in old man Burkes' unlocked garage...

Used to go out with a buddy and each buy a car model on a rainy day and put it together in an afternoon. There was a great strip in Mad Magazine one time, the two kids with their crew cuts and braces are slapping together a pair of CanAm cars. Hey I'm done! sez one.

Howduduthat?

Didn't use these! (holds up a handful of sprues).

I really DIG as we used to say, weekend GBs because it is like those times. Gotta take a Fanta break, with cookies you know.

Good luck with the job searching Bob. It can be real worrying time but im sure a man with your considerable talents will be beating the offers of work off with a sh1tty stick.

...Guy

osher wrote:

Just compared to Xratcrylix XA1004 RAF Dark Sea Grey BS638.  XF-53 is the right sort of mix, but a bit too light.  XF-24 is too 'green', and too dark, but, I'd say 3/5 XF-53 and 2/5 XF-24 should be about right.

I'll mix some of this up and spray it through the airbrush, see how it looks.

Thanks Dave.  You're right-it's not fun.  All kinds of time, but no desire to work with plastic since mid-July.

I am getting some call backs....finally.  And an interview or two.  I'm hopeful that something will open up soon.

bobbaily wrote:

razordws wrote: Alright Dupes/Browneyes.  Front page has been updated.  That leaves only three people that haven't declared their build yet.  You know who you are.  Get to it!!!  Time is running out!  ...not sure if I'm going to go the 'Rat Rod' route.  I'm waiting to see if I find employment prior to the 13th-if so, I'll probably hit my LHS.  If not, it will be something out of the stash-either a 1968 Mustang Cobra Jet-Tasca Ford drag car, a 1969 Chevy Nova built as a drag car (both kits are Revell 1/25th) or a '49 Mercury done up as a 'Rat Rod'-AMT 1/25th scale.  Hopefully I will decide before the 12th.....

razordws wrote:

Alright Dupes/Browneyes.  Front page has been updated.  That leaves only three people that haven't declared their build yet.  You know who you are.  Get to it!!!  Time is running out!

...not sure if I'm going to go the 'Rat Rod' route.  I'm waiting to see if I find employment prior to the 13th-if so, I'll probably hit my LHS.  If not, it will be something out of the stash-either a 1968 Mustang Cobra Jet-Tasca Ford drag car, a 1969 Chevy Nova built as a drag car (both kits are Revell 1/25th) or a '49 Mercury done up as a 'Rat Rod'-AMT 1/25th scale.  Hopefully I will decide before the 12th.....

razordws wrote:

Karl, what can I say!!!  I've never seen red styrene before.  Cool!

I'll be starting the build wearing shades!

Actually,considering I'm going for the full Red Baron get up, I'll be finishing the build wearing shades too!

Karl

Humbrol 164 if you are so inclined. Dries real fast when cut with lacquer thinner, an important issue in this GB. That makes it flat, though.

Wouldn't you know, I just found out we are going to a dinner dance that Saturday night! Have to schedule the paint drying part 1 for then.