Fleet Air Arm Group Build

Lt -Believe it or not I usually do use a method like that to hold paint and glue bottles. But for some reason I felt I needed to pick it up and not place it back in the holder.

I keep trying to train myself but stupidity overrides common sense most of the time.....

Roy -  I have an filtered Airbrush cleaning jar made by Testors that I use and I am Really Impressed at how well it works.  You will like yours once you get into the routine of using it. 

Sean! BTW.....many folks have posted with ingenious (and cheap) methods for making anti-spill systems for jars and bottles!

I have trained myself to get the darned stuff out of arms reach when done!

This method works also!

wyoroy wrote:

My wife got me a Iwata air brush cleaner (desktop type) to go with the spray booth for my birthday yesterday.  Have yet to use it.  Any of you guys use one?

Roy! I use the hi-tech NAMMO laptop brush cleaner!

Hasn't failed me yet!

Sean, wax paper is your hero  She's lookiing great.  I also have used the streched plastic to fill valleys, little glue, and sanding.

My wife got me a Iwata air brush cleaner (desktop type) to go with the spray booth for my birthday yesterday.  Have yet to use it.  Any of you guys use one?

sfcmac wrote:

Daywalker wrote:  sfcmac wrote: Nam!  Your wearing flannel Jammies! Me too, I love my flannel jammies! Sweet looking Avenger Daniel, like the weathering effects on her.  Great idea on the dot filter method, perhaps those treadheads are on to something! Ok there is a flannel jammies conspiracy going on here!  I wouldn't mind flannel short shorts or perhaps a short night dress as a romantic attire for the wife but Now?  How am I ever going to see Dee in flannel Jammies withou seeing Frank or Nam! Talk about a moment killer! I mean I like you fellows just not in that way.....  Next Spike will be wearing them!  What ever happened to a nice teddy and thigh high fishnets? I guess the rocky horror look is yesterdays news.... Lets do the time warp again!

Moving right along Sean ! Looking good too!. Need a few of those snags to slow you up a bit! I got the same issue with my left hand. Can't even hold a cup of coffee in it without spilling it some days.

 Nam! I guess when Spike shows up everyone who doesn't leave is ok?

 Now I am trending more toward a StreetCar Named Desire.... San Francisco an all that jazz!

namrednef wrote:

bondoman wrote:  sfcmac wrote:  Next Spike will be wearing them!  What ever happened to a nice teddy and thigh high fishnets? We call that "Casual Friday" here in the City. How do they tell you apart from the illegals?

Wow, ya leave for a couple of hours......

sfcmac wrote:

Simple Nam! Bondo has that cool hat! You know the one that makes him look like Pip from Great Expectations!

He reminds me more of Puck from "A Midsummer Nights Dream"

Way to go Sean! Looking good!

I know of that gap trouble for a years ago build.....either fill it or give the bird a dumb looking dihedral. Oy!

Just filled a big one on a PBY with stretched sprue.....works nice!

Thank to those who left comments on the first TBD-1 pit post. Roger you are to kind as I can never seem to get the office to look good to my eyes. 

Roy I have not decided on a color, I am thinking it will be light blue /gray as I need the flat to hide damage. Before I started the kit I was thinking of NMF but I fubarred that one already. The TBD-1 has made a few steps forward and about 6 backwords. Yesterday while getting ready to join the fuse halfs I knocked over my bottle of liquid cement.  Arrghh - some days the right hand just does not work as good as it should. Guess I should not complain for what it has endured.  Got cement on the outter starboard  side of the fuse, only had one soft spot that required some putty.

I am happy it was not much worse considering over half the jar spilled out. The wax paper saved my mat Roy !

The wings have been a lot of fun with the flotation bags.

Both side have a nice valley to fill

I belive I could stick a penny in this gap.

Well time to go make some sprue to lay in the valley.Thanks for looking in.

bondoman wrote:

sfcmac wrote:  Next Spike will be wearing them!  What ever happened to a nice teddy and thigh high fishnets? We call that "Casual Friday" here in the City.

How do they tell you apart from the illegals?

sfcmac wrote:

Next Spike will be wearing them!  What ever happened to a nice teddy and thigh high fishnets?

namrednef wrote:

Okay Spike! That was the strip I had in mind! You are branded by Bondoman now!

And did it ever hurt too! That brand was pretty hot!!!!!

I'm home from work how, and I am in the Jammies! Forget flannel- It's all about the fleece!

Daywalker wrote:

sfcmac wrote: Nam!  Your wearing flannel Jammies! Me too, I love my flannel jammies! Sweet looking Avenger Daniel, like the weathering effects on her.  Great idea on the dot filter method, perhaps those treadheads are on to something!

Ok there is a flannel jammies conspiracy going on here!  I wouldn't mind flannel short shorts or perhaps a short night dress as a romantic attire for the wife but Now?  How am I ever going to see Dee in flannel Jammies withou seeing Frank or Nam! Talk about a moment killer! I mean I like you fellows just not in that way.....

 Next Spike will be wearing them!  What ever happened to a nice teddy and thigh high fishnets?

I guess the rocky horror look is yesterdays news....

Lets do the time warp again!

Okay Spike! That was the strip I had in mind!

You are branded by Bondoman now!

bondoman wrote:

DesertRat wrote:  namrednef wrote:   Why is it that I get the impression these days that poor Rog is sitting cross-legged beneath a cactus with a Wi-Fi laptop?   Wow! It's like your standing over my shoulder here..... Here's a glimpse into my daily home life LMFAO!!!!! Used to work summers in Ridgecrest. How'd you find that strip??? From here out you are "Spike"!

The most widely used research tool in the ole reference toolbox-Google!

Signed.........Spike

DesertRat wrote:

namrednef wrote:   Why is it that I get the impression these days that poor Rog is sitting cross-legged beneath a cactus with a Wi-Fi laptop?   Wow! It's like your standing over my shoulder here..... Here's a glimpse into my daily home life

From here out you are "Spike"!

Daywalker wrote:

sfcmac wrote: Nam!  Your wearing flannel Jammies! Me too, I love my flannel jammies! Sweet looking Avenger Daniel, like the weathering effects on her.  Great idea on the dot filter method, perhaps those treadheads are on to something!

Then they cover it up with zimmeritt!

sfcmac wrote:

Nam!  Your wearing flannel Jammies!

Me too, I love my flannel jammies!

Sweet looking Avenger Daniel, like the weathering effects on her.  Great idea on the dot filter method, perhaps those treadheads are on to something!

wyoroy wrote:

DesertRat wrote:  wyoroy wrote: Aaron, Roger got me a gift and I had John.  Rich had gotten me a Gift- The P-40 M/N, which I've got some plans for. A little bird told me that someone was going to be startin something somewhere involving a certain type of something for it's thing. And if that certain someone starts that something, then I've got the perfect something to contribute to that thing. Clear as mud? Another P-40 GB perhaps

I know nothing!

DesertRat wrote:

wyoroy wrote: Aaron, Roger got me a gift and I had John.  Rich had gotten me a Gift- The P-40 M/N, which I've got some plans for. A little bird told me that someone was going to be startin something somewhere involving a certain type of something for it's thing. And if that certain someone starts that something, then I've got the perfect something to contribute to that thing. Clear as mud?

Another P-40 GB perhaps

namrednef wrote:

Why is it that I get the impression these days that poor Rog is sitting cross-legged beneath a cactus with a Wi-Fi laptop?

Wow! It's like your standing over my shoulder here.....

Here's a glimpse into my daily home life

Why is it that I get the impression these days that poor Rog is sitting cross-legged beneath a cactus with a Wi-Fi laptop?

Must be that damned joshua tree in the avatar.

I'd offer ye rum Matey, but I knows ye don't imbibe!

Ya-Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

 Ah yes it was Yugoslavia! 

 Raider! Daniel! That TBF is a dream from the past! Very well done! Indeed a build to be proud of!

wyoroy wrote:

Aaron, Roger got me a gift and I had John.

Rich had gotten me a Gift- The P-40 M/N, which I've got some plans for. A little bird told me that someone was going to be startin something somewhere involving a certain type of something for it's thing. And if that certain someone starts that something, then I've got the perfect something to contribute to that thing.

Clear as mud?

Now that's a dirty bird, Daniel! Very well done!!!

I especially like those grease stais around the black boxes in the rear of the cockpit. It's a very nice touch!

sfcmac wrote:

Bondo I think that was Force 10 from Naverone. A sequal of sorts with Han Solo?  They jump outta a burning something or other I believe into Czechoslovokia and the Partisan war there.