First Annual Berny Memorial Group Build

Sparrowhyperion

Bockscar

Rich:

Wasn't there a show called LEX that dealt with brain transplants?

Uhhhh....Weren't Triffids like that....just wondrin'

No, Lexx was the show about the security guard, the robot head, the dead guy, and the half nympho, half cluster lizard babe, on the giant starship that was also a giant insect that could blow up planets....  Triffids just ate people..

I remember that show.  I watched the first two seasons but never saw the last two.  It was entertaining.

Ken

Bockscar

Rich:

Wasn't there a show called LEX that dealt with brain transplants?

Uhhhh....Weren't Triffids like that....just wondrin'

Rich:

Wasn't there a show called LEX that dealt with brain transplants?

Uhhhh....Weren't Triffids like that....just wondrin'

Son Of Medicine Man

Striker8241

Hey, Guys, I'm back. Had to do a clean install of windows to get everything working again. BTW, I'll be closing my Yahoo email account so if you need my new email addy, PM me.

Mikey, really sorry to hear the bad news about your sister. We'll all be praying for a miracle.

Dom, looks interesing bud. Looking forward to seeing it finished.

Russ

Yeh, I totally agree.  I've been in IT and the computer industry in general for a long long time, and I have yet to see a re-installation go 100% smoothly.  Since I build all my own systems, I don't have as many driver and interop issues, but it's still a pain.  I just rebuilt Deb's machine for her Bday, and amazingly, even installing a new motherboard, CPU and memory, I didn't have to do a reinstall..  A lot of updates after I put her hard drives back in, but that was it.  That has NEVER happened to me before, on a total brain transplant.

Rich

Argh!  Man I hate that.  You don't realize how much work that is until you have to do it.  You forget how many settings you had set, programs that you had installed, etc.  Since I am in that line of work I have it down to a science but still, it is a pain.  Especially if you are not able to recover any of the data before hand.

Ken

LMAO..  At least I know I'm not the only one with kit issues. lol

Ouch Russ...  I hate it when Windows completely pooches up..  I'm praying I don't ever have to do a reinstall here.  When we moved, I lost two of our Windows 7 disks and licenses.  So If i ever have to reinstall on my machine, or Marissa's, I will have to get another license.  I hate Mickeysloth...

Hey Kbuzz (the other Ken),

If you are still monitoring this thread, I got the front page updated with your finished build.  Photobucket was having a problem last night so I couldn't upload your picture.  They are working tonight so it is up.

Ken

Bockscar

Yes Ken,

it is a mission;

this left-in-a-black-car-on-a-hot-summer-day-sun-stroke-warped, mis-designed, massive head ache, beotch-mare,

this is the kit that lead me to Berny, and you guys.

It will be finished. It will be a 'Geasel':

"At George AFB, CA, I was in the 35th TFTW, 20th TFTS.  When talking on the radio to maintenance control I used the term "That Geasel Outfit" referring to the 37th TFS also at George AFB.  That afternoon at the laugh in, the Wing King asked me if it was me that had called them that?  I told him yes it was, thinking I might be in trouble.  He said he liked the term and from then on he and others would call them that." -Berny

Dom

Hi Dom,

I remember Berny telling that story.  Pretty cool.

Ken

Yes Ken,

it is a mission;

this left-in-a-black-car-on-a-hot-summer-day-sun-stroke-warped, mis-designed, massive head ache, beotch-mare,

this is the kit that lead me to Berny, and you guys.

It will be finished. It will be a 'Geasel':

"At George AFB, CA, I was in the 35th TFTW, 20th TFTS.  When talking on the radio to maintenance control I used the term "That Geasel Outfit" referring to the 37th TFS also at George AFB.  That afternoon at the laugh in, the Wing King asked me if it was me that had called them that?  I told him yes it was, thinking I might be in trouble.  He said he liked the term and from then on he and others would call them that." -Berny

Dom

Striker8241

Hey, Guys, I'm back. Had to do a clean install of windows to get everything working again. BTW, I'll be closing my Yahoo email account so if you need my new email addy, PM me.

Mikey, really sorry to hear the bad news about your sister. We'll all be praying for a miracle.

Dom, looks interesing bud. Looking forward to seeing it finished.

Russ

Argh!  Man I hate that.  You don't realize how much work that is until you have to do it.  You forget how many settings you had set, programs that you had installed, etc.  Since I am in that line of work I have it down to a science but still, it is a pain.  Especially if you are not able to recover any of the data before hand.

Ken

Bockscar

So, getting back to the build, here's the problem that somehow

I didn't pay attention to way back when when I started gluing stuff together

in the Phantom GB:

Revell made the port side longer than the starboard side;

The gap goes all the way to the intakes:

Port intake is noticeably longer:

I don't think i am going to adjust it, at this rate I'll never get her finished. Once the wing section is back in place it won't look so bad, the tolerances on this kit are way off no matter where you measure anyways.

Hi Dom,

It seems to me that at this point it has become more of a mission than a project!   

Ken

Yeah Russ, nice to see you back, it's a whole new world since you left...lol

"interesting" describes this project for sure. I can't believe what I thought was a tiny local

tolerance issue extended all the way out to the intakes........

Mike says it is a "mare of a kit", and I can hear Rich already...."beotch"....

so I guess that makes it a "beotch mare".....

Hey, Guys, I'm back. Had to do a clean install of windows to get everything working again. BTW, I'll be closing my Yahoo email account so if you need my new email addy, PM me.

Mikey, really sorry to hear the bad news about your sister. We'll all be praying for a miracle.

Dom, looks interesing bud. Looking forward to seeing it finished.

Russ

Thanks for the support guys.

Damn man, that looked like a real mare of a kit.

So, getting back to the build, here's the problem that somehow

I didn't pay attention to way back when when I started gluing stuff together

in the Phantom GB:

Revell made the port side longer than the starboard side;

The gap goes all the way to the intakes:

Port intake is noticeably longer:

I don't think i am going to adjust it, at this rate I'll never get her finished. Once the wing section is back in place it won't look so bad, the tolerances on this kit are way off no matter where you measure anyways.

I'm sorry to hear that.  I have a cousin with MS.  She lives n CT.  It's never easy seeing someone you love ill.  I wish her all the best.

Rich

Scorpiomikey

Just got a message from my step sister. She has MS (known that for a while) just got the MRI results back, things are not flash.

Mikey:

Dang I hate it when I get all preachy like that, I've been a bit on edge lately.

Okay, like I said,

it's great to get back to the kits....

I'm installing the ducts for the F-4P,

here's hoping the weekend passes with

nothing more than a bit of scratch.....

Mikey:

I'm a little farther down the road than yourself,

so I don't joke about relatives dying, because they do, and often.

If this clarifies things as you brought religion up: hey, this is not about religion,

this is not about politics, it is simply about service to the ones in your family.

But to put us back on your original track, I was only talking about our service to family.

I was talking about the things we do to comfort and help

in very real ways, not just with "kind wishes", but to really aid the people

in our families whom have suffered strife. Mike, as you know by now,

it is not easy. It takes real work, and it deprives us of hobby time, and

all kinds of other time.

These realities can rob us of the time we enjoy building kits, walking in the park, cutting the lawn,

and sharing the fruits of our labours with others.

There was a hobby shop half way between my house and my mom's hospital,

so I gained much of my collection there. The owner became very familiar with

my mom's issues and my collection interests.

I'm talking about taking 36 days off over a period of 2

years to attend a relative for their chemo. 100 hours hobby time lost.

I'm talking about visiting a relative in hospital, driving 3 hours

one way just to be with them for 20 minutes, because they do not

have the strength to see you another 10 minutes. 120 hours hobby time lost.(60 days)

I'm talking about negotiating with health care services to see that

they, the suffering, are getting the right treatment and their doctors

are all on the same page.

Forget metaphysics, I am talking about the personal sacrifice necessary to watch

someone die because they wanted you there. I have a pile of styrene unbuilt

because of the exit throes of others. We do it.

It becomes rather matter-of-fact, this is life, move on.

This is just what happens to guys like me, right about now.

Between funerals, I build kits!

Forget metaphysical issues, we work on hobbies, and share a bit of

life's pain along the way, because we become friends.

If you choose to suffer those self-imposed obligations, and many of us here have done that,

we are here, we all go through that Mike.

Here's hoping she gets past it, all the best with that Mike.

We are here man.

Styrene is my religion.

PS: apologies for any arithmetic errors, I only spend 3 hours a day celebrating styrene.

I haven't been to a funeral in 4 weeks, amazing.

Your sounding very poetic tonight.

I was just havin a wee joke, tryin to raise the spirits.

Alot of you guys talk about prayer, thats something i dont understand. I get that you guys have faith in something bigger, but i dont get how prayer works. Dont get me wrong, i thank you for your thoughts and prayers. I just dont understand it, or religion in general i suppose.

(Forum mods, please dont lock this down cos of me, im just voicing thoughts, not trying to stir or anything)

No Mike!!!(sorry for shouting there....lol)

This thread is just a thread. It has no special powers.

We are the ones cursed, by time, and circumstance.

We, the accursed, merely share this thin thread,

to exchange even more accursed experiences.

But not to celebrate the accursed experiences,

but the experiences that bring us together,

not as the accursed, but as men, as people,

as those drawn together by a common bond.

To share the pain of agony, and the joy

of accomplishment.

Mike, we are not just words on the screen.

We are here.

We are with you man.

Cheers for the well wishes guys.

Im starting to think this thread is cursed.

Mike,

I am really sad to hear the news.  I wish the best for you and your family in this tough time.

Ken

Mike,

all you can do is be there, as often and for as long

as you can.

Oh man, into the warp. "Do your best", we are here.

Praying for her, and you, Mike.

-Dom

Yeah, sorry, kiwi term.

The scans show 2 dozen finger sized lesions on her brain, and another 6 on her spine.

Yeah, recite the litanies, fire up the gellar field. Into the warp we go.

Mike;

"Things are not flash" is bad, right?

Best to her, and you.

When you said "recite the litanies..."

I took you seriously.

We go through these 'storms' lad.

Best is to be as close to her now as you can,

for as long as you can.

-Dom

Just got a message from my step sister. She has MS (known that for a while) just got the MRI results back, things are not flash.

Roger that Striker;

I'm on intermittent wave length myself.

Hi Kbuzz (the other Ken),

Very nice work!  You should enter that in a contest!     

I will post it on the front page.  I hope we have a badge soon for you.

Ken

Guys, I'm going to be offline maybe for a few days. My computer is having problems and I need to take care of it. Catch you all later.

Russ

kbuzz01

Thanks, Russ.  I've tried about four times now to get the pics up and I see them in the preview but they don't show in this post !!??

Kbuzz

EDIT:  Disregard - finally got them to post by moving one pic at a time! 

Ahh yes, very nice work Buzz!