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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 7:37 PM

know the feeling Mike... on the weekend got connected to my new broadbrand provider and spent some time setting up a new wireless router with encryption and all... played on it a bit and by then it was bedtime... today I got a little painting done on my LA GB P-47 (the right interior green this time... thanks Darren! haha)

Tomorrow maybe a little modeling possible. thurs I am going buy a new car... then the wife has a karate tournament on Sat... almost all day... Sun going set my dad up on wireless...

I am pretty much booked up!!!!

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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madmike

Member since
July 2003
From: Perth, Western Australia

Posted by madmike on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 7:18 PM

intended to get down stairs last night to finish off the tailplane sanding after connecting my daughters new PC to the home wireless network. I got that done at 9.30pm with no enthusiasm left to sand plastic and filler Sad [:(]

cheers

Mike

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 7:10 PM

QUOTE: What I wrote was "Hey guys go easy on the Brewster Buffalo will you. I am building one for the Aussie GB"

Mental note to self - Don't use Babel Fish translator for any of my more "personal" notes to Kremps.

Darren

ok --- most of it I figured pretty much what you wrote to acieve the translation... but the part about easily going in the will of your buffalo kind of had me stimped... actually I am more stumped now how they got "will" out of Brewster... gonna go over there and play with it and see what kind of crazy stuff I can come out with...

hmmm maybe you ought to let me translate your love letters to Kremps... Evil [}:)]

promise I won't tell anyone... ESPECIALLY Sean what they say!!! Honest!!! Wink [;)]

How's about a little love poetry?

Querida Kremps,

Tus ojos son dos luceros, que alumbran los basureros. Tus patas son dos estacas, para amorrar muchas vacas..

(Dear Kremps, your eyes are two lights that illuminate the trash cans...your legs, two stakes that many cows could be tied to.) -- it flows better in spanish I promise!!

Gotta admit it has a certain flair.. she'd be trembling at the knees if you wrote that down to her!

sweet enough for you?

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 5:53 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900

Darren - roughly it translates to: "Hey, the individuals they went easily in the will of your buffalo, I am the one building(as in office building) in the Australian GB."

Sounds kinda creepy Darren... I guess it is kind of prophetic if you think of Kremps as the Buffalo. We all go easliy in her will... but you are strong... like an office building... hmmm

What I wrote was "Hey guys go easy on the Brewster Buffalo will you. I am building one for the Aussie GB"

Mental note to self - Don't use Babel Fish translator for any of my more "personal" notes to Kremps.

Darren

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 5:09 PM

Rick - Jay, just thought about it but the Typhoon (Hasegawa) I just closed has a bit of the same problem, not as bad as the one Rick listed but decent enough to take more work than the Tamiya ones I have been used to lately...

it's a consipiracy!!! Evil [}:)]

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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rjkplasticmod

Member since
February 2003
From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State

Posted by rjkplasticmod on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 3:37 PM

Jay, I posted the interior pics a long time ago. I'll post some more when I get her painted, probably this weekend.

Regards, Rick

RICK

At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...

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jboutin

Member since
December 2004
From: 288921 E, 5659868 N UTMz12, NAD83

Posted by jboutin on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 3:23 PM

Rick, I'm with you on that bottom wing to fueslage join. I also read some other reviews of other hasegawa kits and they mentioned the same problem in the same location, I think It was their a6m2 kit and one other that for some reason escapes me. Are you going to post some progress pics of your hurricane?

JAY - fighting evil since 2:15pm, July 8,1976 -

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rjkplasticmod

Member since
February 2003
From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State

Posted by rjkplasticmod on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 11:59 AM

I liked Tom Cruise in Risky Business & Top Gun. Other than those, Disapprove [V]

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Finally got back to the Hurricane. Gave it another local shot of primer this morning. Still not thrilled with the lower wing to fuselage join, but I'm tired of fighting it so it's officially " Good Enough". Hope to spray the Sky this evening & make more rapid progress after that.

Regards, Rick

RICK

At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...

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madmike

Member since
July 2003
From: Perth, Western Australia

Posted by madmike on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 8:04 AM

that was a most unenlightening trailer!

I will wait for another one...

cheers

Mike

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 6:50 AM

Darren - roughly it translates to: "Hey, the individuals they went easily in the will of your buffalo, I am the one building(as in office building) in the Australian GB."

Sounds kinda creepy Darren... I guess it is kind of prophetic if you think of Kremps as the Buffalo. We all go easliy in her will... but you are strong... like an office building... hmmm Wink [;)]

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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KJ200

Member since
July 2003
From: Bicester, England

Posted by KJ200 on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 6:28 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by darson
[Karl, according to the web site the plot is basically a contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells's seminal classic (oh lord no ), the sci-fi adventure thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it. Oh well maybe Spielberg can turn it to something.

Not Spielberg as well Dead [xx(]

Why can't they just do it like the book in a Merchant Ivory style? Surely the juxtaposition of quaint Victorian values and notions of superiority against the other worldly technology of the Martians would be all the more stark and enthralling?

Steps down from soap box...............sits back down at desk.

Any way, managed to work out that the nav lights on the Hasa Hurricane are handed. Only sussed that after I'd drilled them, and painted the holes in red/green. Obviously I managed to get them the wrong way round!!!! Banged Head [banghead]

Holes re-drilled, and re-painted, the right way around this time.

Karl

Currently on the bench: AZ Models 1/72 Mig 17PF

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 6:07 AM

A quick progress report on the Spit. Well I was happily decaling away when I suddenly realised that I haven't actually masked the canopy yet, Oops [oops]

Oh well that gives me something to do tomorrow night.

Pingy, I was at the F1GP on Thursday and Friday through work and we had a ball. God I love corporate entertainment Cool [8D]

Tom here is what Babel Fish made of my little sentence. What does this translate back to English as?
hey los individuos van fáciles en la voluntad del búfalo de Brewter usted. Soy el edificio uno para el GB australiano

Rick, Tom Cruise huh, great Dead [xx(]

. The only thing I ever saw him in that I liked was Collateral.

Karl, according to the web site the plot is basically a contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells's seminal classic (oh lord no Sad [:(]

), the sci-fi adventure thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it. Oh well maybe Spielberg can turn it to something.

Cheers
Darren

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KJ200

Member since
July 2003
From: Bicester, England

Posted by KJ200 on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 2:08 AM

I'm not sure I can face another Hollywood remake of a classic book.

War of the Worlds has to be my all time favourite sci-fi novel, and the thought of Cruise's cheesy grin in the depths of Victorian Surrey just does not bare contemplation. Or is it going to be contemporary?

It'll be up there with Costner as Robin Hood!!!!!!!!!

Rant over............ I think!

Karl

Currently on the bench: AZ Models 1/72 Mig 17PF

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madmike

Member since
July 2003
From: Perth, Western Australia

Posted by madmike on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 12:49 AM

Will check that out when I get home. Is this a remake of the movie set in the 50's or a movie made form the book set in the orginal 1880's?

cheers

Mike

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

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razordws

Member since
September 2004
From: Vernon, BC, Canada

Posted by razordws on Monday, March 7, 2005 9:32 PM

Hmmm... A Kremps build. It has possibilities but really??!!!

Check out the preview site for War of the Worlds

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/waroftheworlds/

Dave

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Monday, March 7, 2005 9:21 PM

QUOTE: Starring Tom Cruise no less.

Regards, Rick

Say it isnt so!!!!! :::going to poke eyes out with pencils to avoid even a glimpse of that movie::

Sorry... when I was on the USS Guam the CO loved that song "Danger Zone" from Top Gun.. he had it played through the PA night and day, all hours... I came to despise everything associated with that movie... I began plotting revenge against Tom Cruise.. I am over that now, but still can't see a movie with him in it..

---edit---

ok I saw that one with him and Nicole "Eyes wide shut" just for the ....ummm... anatomy lessons..... but that was it!! (honest)

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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rjkplasticmod

Member since
February 2003
From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State

Posted by rjkplasticmod on Monday, March 7, 2005 9:18 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by darson

QUOTE: Originally posted by rjkplasticmod

I really don't see how they can make a movie of Hitch Hiker, but wew,ll see won't we. I'm more interested in the remake of War of the Worlds.

Regards, Rick

They're making a remake of War of the Worlds, I love that movie

Darren

Starring Tom Cruise no less.

Regards, Rick

RICK

At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Monday, March 7, 2005 9:18 PM

Darren - was just thinking what babelfish might translate the Brewster Buffalo as... if not stating it plain English (which would be the appropriate "translation") maybe ... Drunk Large Cow??? or Drunk Hairy Cow???

either one of these describe Kremps to the "T" ... so I propose a Kremps GB starting in 2006.... only blimps, zeppelins, dirigibles, AA balloons, "Elefant" tanks, figures representing cows, bulls, elefants or other fat creatures (manatee come to mind), replenishment U-boats (Milkcows), NASA's "Pregnant Guppy jet, etc...... will be accepted hahahaha...

I am halfway tempted to see if we can rally up a Kremps build...

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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pingtang

Member since
April 2003
From: NSW, Australia

Posted by pingtang on Monday, March 7, 2005 9:17 PM

No build progress for me fellas. The reason is that I've been in Melbourne for the weekend for the Formula 1 GP. Got back yesterday and I might do some more work on my spitfire tonight, once my ears stop ringing that is Smile [:)]

.

-Daniel

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Monday, March 7, 2005 9:12 PM

let me look around some more Jay.. the ones from my Typhoon are also the thin ones... from my decal sheet they show the ones for the Martlet with the thick yellow stripe as 1941 time period... but thin ones for the BoB period... well let me know if you want them later... I have no prob mailing them! (might take a bit as Tanky and Jules can testify) Disapprove [V]

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Monday, March 7, 2005 8:06 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by rjkplasticmod

I really don't see how they can make a movie of Hitch Hiker, but wew,ll see won't we. I'm more interested in the remake of War of the Worlds.

Regards, Rick

They're making a remake of War of the Worlds, I love that movie Tongue [:P]

Darren

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Tankmaster7

Member since
August 2004
From: Nowhere. (Long Island)

Posted by Tankmaster7 on Monday, March 7, 2005 8:00 PM

Hmmm, I love the hitchhikers books. Tehy're rather difficult to read sneakily though because I keep bursting out laughing.

-Tanky

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jboutin

Member since
December 2004
From: 288921 E, 5659868 N UTMz12, NAD83

Posted by jboutin on Monday, March 7, 2005 5:46 PM

Unfortunately I think it is the thicker yellow stripe like on this website, the one that says standard fueslage roundel august 1940.
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/hurricane/markings.jpg
Thanks for looking though, much appreciated

JAY - fighting evil since 2:15pm, July 8,1976 -

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Monday, March 7, 2005 5:37 PM

Jay - this is a 1/48 scale craft? if so I have just what you need, as long it is the one with the thin yellow stripe around the roundel. I need the thick one for my NA Martlet

if it is the one you need send me your address via email... should have them out in a couple of days to ya...

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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jboutin

Member since
December 2004
From: 288921 E, 5659868 N UTMz12, NAD83

Posted by jboutin on Monday, March 7, 2005 5:34 PM

Yes it is the same, I got them on vhs but they are so old now I hope I can still watch it.

JAY - fighting evil since 2:15pm, July 8,1976 -

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bobbaily

Member since
November 2003
From: Nashville, TN area

Posted by bobbaily on Monday, March 7, 2005 2:11 PM

Jay-I watched the PBS Masterpiece series (one and the same?) except for the last couple of episodes-recorded with the intent to watch (time period of getting married). Unfortunatly, never got around to it-still have the tapes-Sony BetaMax-just no tape player now!

Bob

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jboutin

Member since
December 2004
From: 288921 E, 5659868 N UTMz12, NAD83

Posted by jboutin on Monday, March 7, 2005 1:33 PM

bobbaily, you should see the movie peice of cake, not a bad little movie (6hours long!) I still have it on tape, mmm maybe I should watch it again soon!

JAY - fighting evil since 2:15pm, July 8,1976 -

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rjkplasticmod

Member since
February 2003
From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State

Posted by rjkplasticmod on Monday, March 7, 2005 12:34 PM

I really don't see how they can make a movie of Hitch Hiker, but wew,ll see won't we. I'm more interested in the remake of War of the Worlds.

Regards, Rick

RICK

At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...

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bobbaily

Member since
November 2003
From: Nashville, TN area

Posted by bobbaily on Monday, March 7, 2005 9:58 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by darson

Hey Tom and Tanky, I was trying to put something witty in Spanish but the old Babel fish translator on the web just couldn't handle Brewster Buffalo.

Darren

This has nothing to do with this GB, but the Bable fish reference made me think of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, and given the number of Monty Python follower's in this build, I would highly recommend it for light reading. Movie is coming out this fall, but I'll be surprised if it does the books justice. Also started reading Piece of Cake, which is build related. Good reading.

Bob

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jboutin

Member since
December 2004
From: 288921 E, 5659868 N UTMz12, NAD83

Posted by jboutin on Monday, March 7, 2005 9:40 AM

Tom quit talking about mexican food , I'm getting hungry already and I just had breakfast Tongue [:P]

(it's 8:28am here in Calgary). I love mexican food but even though I am a looooong way from the border, Calgary has a few really good mexican restaurants, the kind owned by immigrants, so you know it's real food.

On the modeling front, looks like I'lll have to take a break to finally finish some bathroom renos. Disapprove [V]

Tom and darson, any luck on the roundels, I could send you something in trade. I'll have to look later as I'm at work now.
Oh yeah, I used Gunze Silver. and I was thinking of doing the salt chipping too. Smile [:)]

JAY - fighting evil since 2:15pm, July 8,1976 -

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