This just in, speaking of crashes:

An ejection seat from a B-52 that went down over Maine in '63:

Nope, that's Insignia Yellow.  I had to do a hand touch up on it, but I think it came out ok.  I just got through putting on the final coat of Flat Gull Gray on one of my Mosquitoes (The Mk. IV)  for the Way Too Many Props Build.  In the process I managed to paint my Tamyia 10mmmasking tape dispenser... lol    I wish I hadn't had to replace that first kit.  It used funds I had earmarked for a C119 I was going to snag.  It was the first one I had seen under $30...  The money Testor's sent would have almost covered it.  But I had to replace the sabre with it. Oh well..

I remember the Great Escape.  One of my favorites.

Bockscar

Hey, wait a minute Batman;

Rich; I swear that looks like Cromate yellow on that bird....lol......

Great building......I''m glad you stuck it out and finished that Esci.

I also hope you have ceiling room to hang it up.

Your experience slamming into a Ford pick-up flying

down a hill at 60MPH reminds me of that old 60's

Steve McQueen movie "Bullit"....lol.....

Steve was the coolest of them all. Remember that scene from

'The Great Escape' where he tried to jump all that barbed wire?

And they say movies don't influence kids.....shish.....lol.....

 

Hey Rich;

i didn't know, or forgot, you were a Mossie fan, looking forward to seeing that!

Hey, wait a minute Batman;

Rich; I swear that looks like Cromate yellow on that bird....lol......

Great building......I''m glad you stuck it out and finished that Esci.

I also hope you have ceiling room to hang it up.

Your experience slamming into a Ford pick-up flying

down a hill at 60MPH reminds me of that old 60's

Steve McQueen movie "Bullit"....lol.....

Steve was the coolest of them all. Remember that scene from

'The Great Escape' where he tried to jump all that barbed wire?

And they say movies don't influence kids.....shish.....lol.....

Rich: Looking good! Glad you got the yellow problem ironed out.

Hi Rich,

Nice work!      Looking forward to seeing it with decals.

SoMM (the other Ken)

LOL.  My old bike was a tough little bugger.  A lot better built than they make them now.

Well, on the Sabre front.  Just a few light touch up spots and she's ready for decaling.  Here's a few images of the final primary paint.  Not my best work, but I'm just happy to have this one over with.

Yeh, I know.  It's a bit rough near the elevators.  Starboard one snapped off and I had to reglue it.  It puckered the paint a bit.

The business end.  No, the nose isn't off center.  There's a slight reflection from something on my bench that makes it look a bit odd.

A few scratches I need to touch up, but she's otherwise done but for decals.

Rich

(Next time I do an academy.....)

Gamera

Dom: Glad you're ok, looking pretty awful though.

Rich and Dom: Wow guys! I wrecked my bike a few times as a kid but nothing, nothing whatsoever near those accidents. Never had even a broken bone, guess I'm lucky...

Dom: Glad you're ok, looking pretty awful though.

Rich and Dom: Wow guys! I wrecked my bike a few times as a kid but nothing, nothing whatsoever near those accidents. Never had even a broken bone, guess I'm lucky...

Rich: That's the spirit!

LOL....yeah, I think you had mentioned a couple of things, but that is a story should be put on film!

Character building experience pal?....lol.....

Well, you are here to talk about it. Incredible, I can feel my guts tighten when I read the part about the Brown Ford looming into your path....lol......no wonder you went HALO pal....lol....

Gamms:

Yeah, only 5%, very reassuring!

No prawlem, i'll shake your hand any day. We grew up in a farming area, you shook a guy's hand, no matter what he smelled like!

As for my showpiece wound, 'cause it was a puncture it makes the heel of my hand ache a bit, but there's good news!.......even though in went in deep It didn't infect. Mold release prawley killed all the germs....lol....now i respect my plastic flip knife......

I think for pure yuck, seeing my right arm bent upwards about 35 degrees snapped off was ugly. I think just seeing it hurt as much as the actual pain. The bone splinters tease the bruised muscles and what, luckily it didn't break through the skin......okay enough Oh that........lol......the B-58 just smacked into it's original bits, it was only tacked anyways so it is good to go....

Mikey: If that was the guy that irked you, it's no wonder. Now he has a permanent reminder of a recreational injury.

What the heck was he cutting with the craft knife, besides the end of his finger?

I think my worst was my high speed bike ride when I was like 13.  I lived on a street that had a very steep hill at one end.  And I wanted to see how fast I could ride my 3spd. 20" Ross Barracuda Bike down it.  So I walked it way up to the top (It was too steep to ride up.), turned around, and gave myself a good kick off.  I tucked in tight to minimize drag, and came barreling down the hill as fast as possible.  The hill took up about a block and a half, and I must have been doing well over 50mph.  I got near the bottom and figured I better apply brakes.  I made an important discovery that day...  The upper limit of speed for any bike with hand brakes should not be over 25mph.  I heard this pop-twang noise and felt my brake levers go slack.  A quick glance down confirmed that the break pads had flown off to parts unknown on their own.  Now there were 4 intersections on the street before I got to my house.  I figured if I got lucky, I could make it through them since it was mid day on a Saturday, and ditch on our lawn.  I made it through the first three intersections without incident.  Then Murphy woke up and his law kicked in.  I was doing close to 60 (guestimate based on how fast I went through the first 3 intersections) when I saw a big brown ford pickup start to cross the intersection.  He didn't hit me bit I hit him a-midships.  I suddenly received my first flying lesson...  I sailed through the air, right over our lawn and ended half way down the block on my friend Bobby's lawn. 

I had a broken arm, three cracked ribs, dislocated right shoulder, ripped tendons in both knees and a cracked right knee-cap, more road rash than Wyle-E-Coyote, and a hum dinger of a concussion...

I was out of school for weeks.  But in a testament to how well they made bikes back then, my Barracuda had a few paint scratches, three bent spokes and needed new brake pads.  That's it...

Luckily the guy in the pickup felt horrible so he didn't sue my parents...

Over the years, plenty of hockey related injuries, another bike related one (not nearly as bad), and too many others to count.

But in all of it, I never had to swim in poo... YYYYuuuuccccckkkkk!!!

Rich

Gamera

 

Bockscar:

 

Gamms:

That's just nasty. I've stepped in it, had a baby spew it on me, and ate at bad restaurants where that was an important ingredient (but not for long). But I never had to swim in it.

 

Shiiiiish...mind you, treading to the loo late at night and stepping in a pet's gift can get complicated....lol....

As for recreational injuries, I suppose crushing my left patella was the worst......who needs exercise if it's gonna do that to ya anyways? I haven't ridden a bike or run for 5 years, so, nothing broken either.....

Rich has had a few bad indents.......worse than mine......I dunno Rich, should that make me feel happy or sad....lol........?

 

 

Well, to be honest it is about 95% water, still the remaining 5% is well yeah poop... I was very careful scrubbing myself off afterward and it was years ago so if we should ever meet you don't have to worry about shaking my hand

Yow, crushing your kneecap sounds pretty dang painful, thankfully other than my appendix and hair I have all my original factory installed equipment...

Bockscar

Gamms:

That's just nasty. I've stepped in it, had a baby spew it on me, and ate at bad restaurants where that was an important ingredient (but not for long). But I never had to swim in it.

 

Shiiiiish...mind you, treading to the loo late at night and stepping in a pet's gift can get complicated....lol....

As for recreational injuries, I suppose crushing my left patella was the worst......who needs exercise if it's gonna do that to ya anyways? I haven't ridden a bike or run for 5 years, so, nothing broken either.....

Rich has had a few bad indents.......worse than mine......I dunno Rich, should that make me feel happy or sad....lol........?

Well, to be honest it is about 95% water, still the remaining 5% is well yeah poop... I was very careful scrubbing myself off afterward and it was years ago so if we should ever meet you don't have to worry about shaking my hand

Yow, crushing your kneecap sounds pretty dang painful, thankfully other than my appendix and hair I have all my original factory installed equipment...

Gamms:

That's just nasty. I've stepped in it, had a baby spew it on me, and ate at bad restaurants where that was an important ingredient (but not for long). But I never had to swim in it.

Shiiiiish...mind you, treading to the loo late at night and stepping in a pet's gift can get complicated....lol....

As for recreational injuries, I suppose crushing my left patella was the worst......who needs exercise if it's gonna do that to ya anyways? I haven't ridden a bike or run for 5 years, so, nothing broken either.....

Rich has had a few bad indents.......worse than mine......I dunno Rich, should that make me feel happy or sad....lol........?

Scorpiomikey

Bet that dip made you feel like crap

LOL. the boss let me go home early so I took a long warm bath.

Ken: Yeah the maintenance guy was there at the time, he told me what I was doing was a really bad idea I think about three times! If there was any danger it was from the water being so cold, I had on a pair of over-alls  and a coat, didn't do much good when I'm wet down the skin other than weighing me down more. Biggest problem I had was the krap got all over my glasses and I couldn't see except out of the sides around my lenses.

Still it was more of an embarrassment than anything though it was almost worth it for the WTF look on my bosses face when I walked in the office.

Rich: Gee! Happy to say I haven't had any real injures with modeling or other hobbies other than I wonder how much paint fumes I've inhaled by now. Most of the accidents I've been in have been work related, mostly just dropping things or getting burned.

Uhhhh....on second thought......I like my ears the way they are....lol.....

Yeah Mike, that's it,

what did you want, a severed hand?

...lol......what's the worst you ever suffered?

Had a radius bone snapped green stick.

Cut my thumb muscle, pollicus major, to the bone.

Broke my right big toe joint.

Tore 2/3 of my bisep femoris on my left leg, permanent wound.

I dunno, maybe cut an ear off to make you happy.....lol....

I think we have all been on the major medical modeling plan at one time or another.  I have been lucky.  Here's a partial list.

Age 8  First kit.  Tried to  use a piun to apply small amounts of that nasty Notox lemon scented glue, and stuck myself at least three times.

Age 12-16.  I managed to get that nasty thin Testors Blue Label liquid glue in my eyes at least thee times on any given kit.  (Hey safety glasses were for wimps at that age...)  It's a wonder I am not completely blind.

Age 15, Sliced my hand open when a hobby knife slipped in my hand...  20 stitches and s stern talking to by my family doctor.  (At this stage, I was a frequent flyer at the local emergency room.

it goes on like this for quite some time.  The most recent being when I stuck an xacto blade a good 3/4" into my hand because I completely Klutzed out on an F4 kit (The one we gave to Berny.)  Amazingly, it didn't bleed.  I am not sure if I should be worried about that.  Of course the shallow slice I gave myself the other day on the F86 bled like I hit an artery for an hour...  Go figure.

This is NOT the hobby that anyone without medical insurance should take up...  lol

Rich

Scorpiomikey

Bet that dip made you feel like crap

Hi Cliff, thanks for the compliment!  Man, that had to be cold when you fell in.  Was there someone to help you?

Bet that dip made you feel like crap

Mike: OUCH!!!

I've done stupid dangerous stuff but thankfully not in modeling. Worst recent was a year or two ago when I tried walking across a frozen tank of sewage to get to some equipment. I made it across but on the way back, yeah I hit a thin spot and BAWOOSH!!! I don't think I was ever in any real danger but still as I went down my life didn't fly past my eyes- nope I was thinking 'Gee, I'm going to end up on one of those Darwin award websites for people who manage to remove themselves from the gene pool in the stupidest ways. '

Thats it? our house guest sliced the end of his finger off with a craft knife the other day (enough to have a flat spot on his finger for the rest of his life) Blood was EVERYWHERE.

Ken: Those look great, I've tried painting them yellow and putting in the stripes with a tiny black marker but what you've got there looks much better.

Dom: Nice work on that B-58. Funny, I've done something sorta like that, was building a model a few years ago and noticed a bit of red paint on the model. 'Where did that come from!?!' I asked myself and when I brushed my finger over it was wet, about that time a big red drip fell on the workbench. Somehow I'd cut myself and didn't even realize it...

Hi Dom,

Thanks for the compliments.

Real sorry to hear about your kit.  With your sculpting skills I am sure you will fix it good as new again.

SoMM (the other Ken)

Ouch man.. I mean ouchie..  Well...  At least it is repairable.  Now you have me wanting to crack mine open and do it.  Maybe next weekend.

Bockscar

So here's the OWY in photographs

WARNING: MAY BE TOO INTENSE FOR CHILDREN!

So I was resculpting the cabin of a vintage Aurora B-58, and it was sitting tacked and dry fitted on top of a stack of kits on my desk. I some how managed to flip the whole kaboodle onto the floor. The cabin of the Aurora kit is almost conopy like, it's just a bump, so i wanted to look more authentic, and I've been applying layers of thin ever-green strip to accomplish that:

So the kit pretty much exploded into individual pieces:

See the pod from a same-scale or there abouts Lindberg kit?

I was going to use it as a replacement for the Aurora supplied pod. The Aurora pod is over twice the diameter of the b-58's fuselage. Not sure why, but seeing as I was correcting the cabin, I bashed a Lindeberg kit for it's pod.........Da Da Da Danna..........

Ahhhh....we meet again........the end of that Lindberg pod was sticking almost straight up out of the box and I didn't see it, it went in deeper than the diameter of that cut mark......see how clean it sliced. My hand hurts more inside than outside if you have had a puncture wound.

Okay enough whining, that is nothing compared to my broken bone injuries, see that scar just a little North and right, the was the head of a finishing nail almost hit my wrist bone when I was a kid.....MOMMY!!!!!!!

....lol......

So here's the OWY in photographs

WARNING: MAY BE TOO INTENSE FOR CHILDREN!

So I was resculpting the cabin of a vintage Aurora B-58, and it was sitting tacked and dry fitted on top of a stack of kits on my desk. I some how managed to flip the whole kaboodle onto the floor. The cabin of the Aurora kit is almost conopy like, it's just a bump, so i wanted to look more authentic, and I've been applying layers of thin ever-green strip to accomplish that:

So the kit pretty much exploded into individual pieces:

See the pod from a same-scale or there abouts Lindberg kit?

I was going to use it as a replacement for the Aurora supplied pod. The Aurora pod is over twice the diameter of the b-58's fuselage. Not sure why, but seeing as I was correcting the cabin, I bashed a Lindeberg kit for it's pod.........Da Da Da Danna..........

Ahhhh....we meet again........the end of that Lindberg pod was sticking almost straight up out of the box and I didn't see it, it went in deeper than the diameter of that cut mark......see how clean it sliced. My hand hurts more inside than outside if you have had a puncture wound.

Okay enough whining, that is nothing compared to my broken bone injuries, see that scar just a little North and right, the was the head of a finishing nail almost hit my wrist bone when I was a kid.....MOMMY!!!!!!!

....lol......

Ken:

You keep this up, the Airforce is going to send in a purchase order for the real deal......

I dunno, you are getting very good at this technology. Run a few yards of that, and have a life-time supply.

Great work and persistence.

Greetings everyone,

Eureka!  I finally got it!  As they say, the third time is the charm.  I started out with a much smaller diameter wire than what I wanted the final product to be and it came out right.  The paint and tape add a lot of thickness, more than I had originally anticipated.  In the following picture you can see starting from the top to the bottom the progress.  The top wire was the first attempt, second from the top the second attempt, and finally the bottom two the ones that are what are very close to 1/48 scale for the ejection handles.

SoMM (the other Ken)

Bockscar

VooDooKen:

thanks for the compliment, it was a dry fit and elastic band pre-build, wings supported by the box edges.

It was an old kit Rich helped, he sniped it out fer me......shisiiish....a man can't even flip a switch summons' gunna' punnisssh himmmm!!!!

Help me out guys, gonna put that stash Onnnna big pile' oh' TNT!

Well 'pologize for the drama,shiish, the gash is 3/16 of hard earned survival......

That complaint and $2 will get most folks a cup of coffee.

...yeah....mom is coming back from the other side to kiss it better.......lol......

Dom, I am really sorry to hear that!  Man, how bad is it?

SOMM (the other Ken)

VooDooKen:

thanks for the compliment, it was a dry fit and elastic band pre-build, wings supported by the box edges.

It was an old kit Rich helped, he sniped it out fer me......shisiiish....a man can't even flip a switch summons' gunna' punnisssh himmmm!!!!

Help me out guys, gonna put that stash Onnnna big pile' oh' TNT!

Well 'pologize for the drama,shiish, the gash is 3/16 of hard earned survival......

That complaint and $2 will get most folks a cup of coffee.

...yeah....mom is coming back from the other side to kiss it better.......lol......

Dom, ouch, sorry to hear that! I've been grousing about being single but I don't really have anything to complain about! The weather was so nice I took the top off the car, had a nice drive, visited one of the modelers in our club, poked around the hobby shop and two used book stores, ate some excellent Chinese food, come home and worked on the Havoc. Only thing I have to complain about is just wasted a pile of money on some rare kits my friend was dumping from his collection including a 1/35th WWII Japanese 90mm artillery gun, tractor, and crew. I should count myself lucky, I hope things get better Dom.

Ken: Thanks, as I said I'd have thrown up some photos but I'm so close to the finish line now I think it's easier just to wait and post the finished photos.

Cliff

Bockscar

Way to go Gamms, I spent my day waiting in clinic lobbies for a realtives' benefit.

I was checking out of my hobby room and clipped an Aurora B-58 build onto the floor!

That is a Rich experience....

holy crap, hope I don't step on one of those J-79 intakes....

When I went to pick up the pile of stuff, the front nose of the big fuel pod drove itself into the heel of my right hand, ,,, nice gouge, blood..........and a new hole......like I needed that.....I smell iron......

MIL is on a slippery slope too.....she lives with us, and now is reduced to about a 10 foot living radius.....

dang.......any one got a violin?

 

Dom, I am so sorry to hear that.   I hope you had some pictures of it before it crashed.

SOMM (the other Ken)