jimbot58

mikeymize

Holy cow Jim, I know you should be thankful to have a job in this jacked-up economy but a day off would be nice I'm sure!

And that's just it! You have to be afraid to say no, and then find yourself overlooked when it comes time for pay increases, or even to just keep your job! You don't want to be the person who was never available when needed, and therefore Joe-Bob gets to keep his job when lay-offs come around, because he went the extra mile.

Employers have have you by the you-know-whats, esp. in this crappy economy. I'm regretting having been given total access to the building-seems like I sometimes have the responsibilities of a management person on associate pay level....

Jim

Wow Jim, that is rough!! I hope it gets better soon!

I am at work right now. Been here since 1:00 PM. I am now waiting for our network guy to finish what he is doing. When he does get done, I will have at least another 2 to 3 hours to go.

Ken

Nope, that didn't quite work the way I wanted.  I will have to get the pics posted again when I get back home.  I'm at work now so they will just have to wait.  Sorry for the mess.

Jim,

The job I just left was exactly like that, but they called it "mandatory overtime", if you didn't work it, it was considered an "unexcused absence". I left it for a new job for more money, better hours and a much more relaxed atmosphere. It did, however, take me 2 years to get it.

Dang JImbot!!  You sound like you are living in a Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," with your own Ebeneezer Scrouge as a boss.....Have they told you yet that you'll be working Christmas too????

MC, I'm not much into Japanese armor but your Chi-Ha looks really cool....I especially like their take on camouflage!!!  Looks really nice!

Dave

mikeymize

Holy cow Jim, I know you should be thankful to have a job in this jacked-up economy but a day off would be nice I'm sure!

And that's just it! You have to be afraid to say no, and then find yourself overlooked when it comes time for pay increases, or even to just keep your job! You don't want to be the person who was never available when needed, and therefore Joe-Bob gets to keep his job when lay-offs come around, because he went the extra mile.

Employers have have you by the you-know-whats, esp. in this crappy economy. I'm regretting having been given total access to the building-seems like I sometimes have the responsibilities of a management person on associate pay level....

Jim

Here's my Chi Ha so far, I'm just waiting for the AM cannon and tow cable to finish and install the tank commander, tracks, weathering and putting it in the diorama.

Holy cow Jim, I know you should be thankful to have a job in this jacked-up economy but a day off would be nice I'm sure!

Gamera

Yeah, just hold in there Jim, hope you at least get a vacation before too much longer.

As to the weather, it rained today, it rained yesterday, it's rained pretty much every day for the last month... This is the most rain I've ever seen, we usually have dry summers here in Virginia. Not really complaining... well ok I AM complaining... just a few sunny days would be nice then the rain can come back.

It's just been wacky weather everywhere it seems! It was a year ago this week that saw all the devastating floods that hit parts of Colorado. These areas are still trying to recover and every time it rains, it makes everyone a little nervous. Not the worst we have had here, but still, 8 people lost their lives.

As to work, now they want me to do Sunday as well!

mikeymize

I know what you mean Steve.  I never had much interest in them as a young modeler either and there weren't many around to build back then even if I had wanted to! I understand the Sherman was thought of in a similar fashion by the US army; more of a support or break-thru type weapon and tank destroyers were supposed to take out enemy tanks. If only they could've sent a memo to all the Tiger, Panther and Pz.Kpfw. IV crews!!!!! LOL

Gamera

TAD: Sure! I'll take a few more photos before I close the thing up. I've been moving kinda slowly here due the large number of total parts, only real issue I have right now!

TAD

Yeah,  the Sherman wasn't exactly a "one size fits all" tank.

I know what you mean Steve.  I never had much interest in them as a young modeler either and there weren't many around to build back then even if I had wanted to! I understand the Sherman was thought of in a similar fashion by the US army; more of a support or break-thru type weapon and tank destroyers were supposed to take out enemy tanks. If only they could've sent a memo to all the Tiger, Panther and Pz.Kpfw. IV crews!!!!! LOL

Yeah, just hold in there Jim, hope you at least get a vacation before too much longer.

As to the weather, it rained today, it rained yesterday, it's rained pretty much every day for the last month... This is the most rain I've ever seen, we usually have dry summers here in Virginia. Not really complaining... well ok I AM complaining... just a few sunny days would be nice then the rain can come back.

You're going to love it when the paycheck arrives! Take care of yourself Jim; I've been there before too, and it ain't fun. Hey, can you send some of that Colorado chill here to Southern California? We're heading into the mid nineties today....

Looking forward to seeing more.

Welcome to Colorado! Even though Summer doesn't end for another week, it is 36 degrees outside, with freeze warnings for some areas in the west part of the state! Brrrrr! It is expected to be back up to 80 by Sunday!

Cliff- that is an impressive kit for the scale and the price! Wish it were in my budget....

Did get my paints today: kind of impressed by how much care SB takes with packing and shipping: they used and empty Mr. Color package and packed in a box with paper

Got my engine nozzles painted:

(WHAT? NO PICTURE?!!!!)

Well, I was going to post some more WIP stuff, but Photobucket is now down for maintenance. Guess this would be a good time to hit the sack and slide into those cold sheets.....

Ken: Yes, more overtime! Wed. I was at work until almost 10 PM! All the work I did really flared up the old arthritis and even with meds, it was hard to sleep. Back in younger days it was muscles that were sore, now it is the joints. This getting old stuff is just, well, getting old!  Today I felt like a zombie, but still had much to do. Now I am foolish enough to agree to another Saturday!

Jim

TAD: Sure! I'll take a few more photos before I close the thing up. I've been moving kinda slowly here due the large number of total parts, only real issue I have right now!

Son Of Medicine Man

Gamera

Modelcrazy: Yeah, the more I've read about Japanese armour, well it's interesting. Their tanks were mechanically very good solid and dependable. Being some distance away from Europe and the arms race between the Soviets and Germans they just didn't keep up. Like the US and UK designing the Sherman and Cromwell to tackle German Panzer IVs and then finding out about Panthers too late the Japanese stuck with smaller tanks and 37, 47, and 57mm main guns most of the war. They did build bigger more powerful tanks near the end but they were assigned to protect the home islands against the projected Allied invasion and due to the atomic bomb never saw any action.

Jim: I added nothing to the model, as I told MC a week or so ago the new Revell kit comes in a big box and it's absolutely packed chock a' block with sprues. I don't even have all the interior detail in there yet- still working on the 10 part (?) ball turret. It even comes with the intake ducting for inside the wings though you really can't see any of it. There are two boxings, the Revell of Germany for about forty bucks and the Revell USA for thirty- as far as I can tell the only difference is the decals. For thirty bucks you get a whopping load of parts, it's one of the best kits I've seen in years. It blows away the older Hasegawa and Academy 1/72nd B-17s and frankly seems to pack even more detail than the 1/48th Monogram.

Wow Cliff, you are really tempting me with that kit!  Sounds like a real gem.  So how is the fit?  Everything going together smoothly?

Ken

TAD

Hey Ken, there are a few rough spots but not very many so far. Course I haven't cemented the fuselage together yet.

jimbot58

Gamera

Murphy's Law indeed! The paint you need is always the one dried up! Plus you always end up shifting though dozens of bottles of paint you don't need to find it.  I have about a dozen bottles of 'Duck Egg Blue' even though I don't remember ever buying more than one or two, I think when you're not looking the paint mutates from a colour you need to one you don't...

Just for something to post lemme throw some of my Revell 1/72nd B-17 photos. Sorry, I'll try to get back to the F4F and F6F when I get more work done on this and the F-86... 

Nice work on the 17! Curious as to how much of that is kit supplied VS aftermarket/scratch-built? I didn't realize just how far up and back the pilots actually sat until I see your model!

Slow night tonight as I did some more seam work on the A-10, spraying on a bit of primer to see where I needed more work. I notice that the kit panel line engraving is a bit deeper on one half than the other and is obvious where they meet. I'll have to even that out (sorry, no photo tonight)

It seems that I made the right move ordering my paints online as I am already being asked to work Saturday again. My order is already on it's way and should be delivered on Thursday.

Oh, and I also have colors on the shelf that I had no reason to buy and have never used. I mentioned one time that I have something like 300+ bottles of paint between scale modeling and an abandoned model railroad layout.

Jim

Wow Jim, more overtime?  That is just crazy!  I hope things slow down soon for you.

Ken

Gamera

Modelcrazy: Yeah, the more I've read about Japanese armour, well it's interesting. Their tanks were mechanically very good solid and dependable. Being some distance away from Europe and the arms race between the Soviets and Germans they just didn't keep up. Like the US and UK designing the Sherman and Cromwell to tackle German Panzer IVs and then finding out about Panthers too late the Japanese stuck with smaller tanks and 37, 47, and 57mm main guns most of the war. They did build bigger more powerful tanks near the end but they were assigned to protect the home islands against the projected Allied invasion and due to the atomic bomb never saw any action.

Jim: I added nothing to the model, as I told MC a week or so ago the new Revell kit comes in a big box and it's absolutely packed chock a' block with sprues. I don't even have all the interior detail in there yet- still working on the 10 part (?) ball turret. It even comes with the intake ducting for inside the wings though you really can't see any of it. There are two boxings, the Revell of Germany for about forty bucks and the Revell USA for thirty- as far as I can tell the only difference is the decals. For thirty bucks you get a whopping load of parts, it's one of the best kits I've seen in years. It blows away the older Hasegawa and Academy 1/72nd B-17s and frankly seems to pack even more detail than the 1/48th Monogram.

Wow Cliff, you are really tempting me with that kit!  Sounds like a real gem.  So how is the fit?  Everything going together smoothly?

Ken

Modelcrazy: Yeah, the more I've read about Japanese armour, well it's interesting. Their tanks were mechanically very good solid and dependable. Being some distance away from Europe and the arms race between the Soviets and Germans they just didn't keep up. Like the US and UK designing the Sherman and Cromwell to tackle German Panzer IVs and then finding out about Panthers too late the Japanese stuck with smaller tanks and 37, 47, and 57mm main guns most of the war. They did build bigger more powerful tanks near the end but they were assigned to protect the home islands against the projected Allied invasion and due to the atomic bomb never saw any action.

Jim: I added nothing to the model, as I told MC a week or so ago the new Revell kit comes in a big box and it's absolutely packed chock a' block with sprues. I don't even have all the interior detail in there yet- still working on the 10 part (?) ball turret. It even comes with the intake ducting for inside the wings though you really can't see any of it. There are two boxings, the Revell of Germany for about forty bucks and the Revell USA for thirty- as far as I can tell the only difference is the decals. For thirty bucks you get a whopping load of parts, it's one of the best kits I've seen in years. It blows away the older Hasegawa and Academy 1/72nd B-17s and frankly seems to pack even more detail than the 1/48th Monogram.

Gamera

Murphy's Law indeed! The paint you need is always the one dried up! Plus you always end up shifting though dozens of bottles of paint you don't need to find it.  I have about a dozen bottles of 'Duck Egg Blue' even though I don't remember ever buying more than one or two, I think when you're not looking the paint mutates from a colour you need to one you don't...

Just for something to post lemme throw some of my Revell 1/72nd B-17 photos. Sorry, I'll try to get back to the F4F and F6F when I get more work done on this and the F-86... 

Looking good Cliff!   

Ken

Gamera

Murphy's Law indeed! The paint you need is always the one dried up! Plus you always end up shifting though dozens of bottles of paint you don't need to find it.  I have about a dozen bottles of 'Duck Egg Blue' even though I don't remember ever buying more than one or two, I think when you're not looking the paint mutates from a colour you need to one you don't...

Just for something to post lemme throw some of my Revell 1/72nd B-17 photos. Sorry, I'll try to get back to the F4F and F6F when I get more work done on this and the F-86... 

Nice work on the 17! Curious as to how much of that is kit supplied VS aftermarket/scratch-built? I didn't realize just how far up and back the pilots actually sat until I see your model!

Slow night tonight as I did some more seam work on the A-10, spraying on a bit of primer to see where I needed more work. I notice that the kit panel line engraving is a bit deeper on one half than the other and is obvious where they meet. I'll have to even that out (sorry, no photo tonight)

It seems that I made the right move ordering my paints online as I am already being asked to work Saturday again. My order is already on it's way and should be delivered on Thursday.

Oh, and I also have colors on the shelf that I had no reason to buy and have never used. I mentioned one time that I have something like 300+ bottles of paint between scale modeling and an abandoned model railroad layout.

Jim

I sure hope so Mike. I'm always a little nervous about the weathering until I'm into it and see that every things turning out fine.

When I was a kid I thought Japanese armor useless and stupid (thinking as a kid does, and comparing them to the Tiger and Panther). But now understanding the theater and the purpose of Japanese armor for infantry support, I really like them. I have ordered a Tamiya 1/35 Japan Self-Propelled Gun Type 1 that's based on the Type 97 chassis. It should be fun.

Steve

Steve, I'm glad to see you're doing the Type 97 tank as I've been wanting to build that one myself someday. I've never done any Japanese armor but like the camouflage on the box art particularly well. I'll be looking forward to watching your progress. I'm sure it'll look great!

Murphy's Law indeed! The paint you need is always the one dried up! Plus you always end up shifting though dozens of bottles of paint you don't need to find it.  I have about a dozen bottles of 'Duck Egg Blue' even though I don't remember ever buying more than one or two, I think when you're not looking the paint mutates from a colour you need to one you don't...

Just for something to post lemme throw some of my Revell 1/72nd B-17 photos. Sorry, I'll try to get back to the F4F and F6F when I get more work done on this and the F-86... 

jimbot58

Tonight was A-10 work. I had assembled the exhaust nozzles last night so I could clean them up and spray the metalizer paint on them. However, as It always happens in the wee hours of the evening, my bottle of Gunmetal was sludge! Now I can't get to the LHS until the weekend, so I figured I would go ahead and order from Sprue Brother, along with a few other misc. items, one of which was another needed bottle of paint for the exterior of the Warthog. I found that paint to be a rubber mass in the bottom of the bottle! Hopefully they will reach me before the weekend, or I will go crazy if I have to wait more!

Why does it seem that only the colors I need go bad? And only after hours! Where is that 24-hour hobby shop when you need them?

Jim

Murphy's Law Jim!  At least I do have a Hobby Lobby close by along with another hobby shop.  But their selection of paint is very limited.  75% of the time I still end up ordering the shade I need.

Ken

Isn't that always the way Jim. That's why I have a paint stash with at least 5 tins/jars of the colours I use most often. I can only get my paint online so it helps to have a stock of them.

Tonight was A-10 work. I had assembled the exhaust nozzles last night so I could clean them up and spray the metalizer paint on them. However, as It always happens in the wee hours of the evening, my bottle of Gunmetal was sludge! Now I can't get to the LHS until the weekend, so I figured I would go ahead and order from Sprue Brother, along with a few other misc. items, one of which was another needed bottle of paint for the exterior of the Warthog. I found that paint to be a rubber mass in the bottom of the bottle! Hopefully they will reach me before the weekend, or I will go crazy if I have to wait more!

Why does it seem that only the colors I need go bad? And only after hours! Where is that 24-hour hobby shop when you need them?

Jim