Fleet Air Arm Group Build

Richie, Let me resend that in a different format.  Sorry about that buddy.  The engine looks great 1/72 right?

Darren, looking good there my friend.  I love the F-16, 'How's my driving' just great.

simpilot34 wrote:

Roy all I got on the Christmas card list was Aaron's address. It only popped up when I typed a letter in the box. None of the others would show though.

Evil Laugh........ All presents go to me! All part of the plan for scale world domination! Or is it dominatrix?

Great looking WP Ritchie.

CAG an incredible production line!

Bondo! We will talk later!

I'm getting the feeling that your not getting ye rum rations , but I hope that you getting along  on some fine vino .

 Frank C

Roy all I got on the Christmas card list was Aaron's address. It only popped up when I typed a letter in the box. None of the others would show though.

Darren you've turned that seam from a cliff to a sand dune. Looking good mate! The Viper is looking great as well. Don't think I've ever seen such a dirty F-16.

Well, I have finished wiring my engine for the Corsair. Still have to put the oil sump line from the bottom of the crankcase but that can wait till later today. It's 1:50am here as I write this so I will be sawing logs here shortly. Just wanted to get the wires finished so I could rest. Here's a pic of the mill so far. Enjoy!

Bondo, good to see you made it back

Just checked the weather forcast....snow Friday ans Saturday night is in the forcast.  Any one of you guys have snow in the forcast?

DesertRat wrote:

So, if she wears the pants in that house, who is wearing the cheerleader skirt? On second thought.... nevermind. I don't wanna know

ROTFLMFAO!!!  That is the funniest thing I have read all day.

Roger- I saw a special on the Border Patrol this weekend while I was in Chicago, very interesting show!  Looks like a very dangerous way to make a living.  You be VERY careful out there buddy!

Darren- Excellent progress there mate!  Looks like the F-8 is beginning to succomb, hope things continue to go well with her.  The others kits are shaping up nicely as well.  Just picked up a 50 lb bag o' rawhide bones, and distributed them to the OFTSW team. 

Here is the news from the Secret Workshop.........

F-8 Crusader:

Got the wing to fit! Have reduced the step on the seam considerably.....

The Viper has been weathered................its weapons painted.............

The Seafury..........well, it'll look liike a Seafury when I'm done.

And..........I made a start on another Phantom!!!!

Bondo! Good to see ye are scouting for fine Italian wines for our next voyage!

Thanks for the report, and you keep on having a good time me'lad!

sfcmac wrote:

Oh thank goodness! Seems the puppy scared her away in the nick of time!  I never heard a Lab that had such an accent before? Must be the Union Jack on the collar. Very stylish indeed!. I am guessing I have missed all the other fine fellers cross the pond that talks funny, bedtime ya know as they need their beauty rest, but a fine hardy welcome to Greg !  Greg just to for warn you I am the voice of calm sanity and reason here. Many will vouch for that I am sure. I am also an adept expert at answering any and all questions you may have which you may find useful except they are not the correct answers. It's a tough world indeed!  How does that saying go? Give a man a fish you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he is fed for life! However it says nothing on how to cook the fish and not being a particular fan of sushi I just hit the drive -thru at McDonalds. No charge for that great piece of philisophical wisdom. Now where was I ?

Where are you? I don't know mate but I want some of what ye been drinking!!!!

Thats the funniest thing I've heard all day! Whoo!Hoo!Hoo! Hee! Hee!

Cheerio friends. I'll set to part two on Friday, what be Rome. And now that I'm a first of ye' ta finish, mind ye, I've got my eye on that Sea Vixen! Not Priss, Master Nam tho I'd advise ye te sleep wit' a pistol', not ye Ms. Dee wot I figger would use the sleepin' Aaron as a gun rest, but that lovely CAP bird where the RIO was kept inna tuna can like arrangement.

Gave 'im a button ta push wit' the logo of Martin Baker, or twas' Boulton Paul, on a little plate. Neither ways woudda had ta take the wing wit'!!!

back Bondo my good man!!!!!!!!! I see you had a great time!!!! Looks beautiful there! Glad to see you made it back in one piece!

NEWSFLASH! I have FINALLY received my PE kit from Ukraine for the 'bag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and it's got more stuff then I realized!! When I get my engine for my Corsair wired, work on the 'bag will recommence! OFF TO THE BENCH WITH ME!!

Arrrrrrrrrgh! It be good t'see ya Bill! I wez wonderin if ye be ok, er I should be sending out me raiding party to shanghai ye!

   And Ye brought back pictures! I be a-waitin fer them..... Shur yer shore leave be a bloody fine escape. But I'm glad ye be back aboard!

See?

 Ok time for work for me!. You all don't stay up all night now! I can't believe Bondo hasn't surfaced?  I wanted to hear about Italy and all the wine women and song he pillaged.

Dee go to bed!

Hide the keyboards? The CAG keepsa' playin' that dam Bolero on the old organ e'es got in his cabin ta intertain tha' wenches, wot' keeps me up at nite in th' next cabin wit' ther' catarwallin'.

Bondolog part one of two, cuz y'all dinna got the patience o' whores in Marseilles.

9/25 flew all the way to Rome with Ms. and Miss Bondo, rented a little diesel Focus, good thing th' controls matched the much larger skiff wot I call my Explorer. Drove over to the Adriatic aboot 300 klicks to a town called Acquaviva Collecroce in Campobasso. Seems the grandpa an -ma of Ms. Bondo married, had a kid and emigrated from there in 1904 to Buffalo NY.

Truth to tell, me' hearties, they be descended from Catholic Croatians what fled the Scimitar in Croatia in the 1500's and settled in this litt'l town in Molise, cuz see there weren't no It'ly then, plus two others nearby.

Tough lot they were and are, and still be a'speakin the native tongue, what they be a'callin "Our language" what be medieval Croat. So her Excellent Ms. Bondo rented a big old house fer a week an' there's then 9 (nine!) cousins afrom that Pirate port Buffalo NY wot' come and stay too,  plus minor nishnosh from Sicily (husbands).

An excellent time was had by all, couldna walk the streets, me wit' my pegleg affer all, without meetin' relatives, an I reckon me wife an' daughter truly be relations with at least one watch outa four. See here we meet these folks what feed us, only on account of they live next door to where her Grandma's sister lived.

As I live and die boys, it was wonderful. Reckon I was the only  bloke in this town not a Ital/Croat.

Bonded well wit' the daughter to what's seen her roots now and is shapin' up, shapely too, to be a true Pirate. Swept a local boy, not worth a cannon ball mind ye, off his spindly little feet, too.

Here we're walkin' away from 'is funeral!

Yer drunken correspondent and LtCmr wot keeps that scurvy rat Aaron pukin' in the bilges, Bondoman. AARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

simpilot34 wrote:

Greg!!!!! I think you will fit in just fine here!!! Welcome aboard our lil vessel!!! Grab a piece of deck and a bottle and have fun! If you can't find a piece of deck to lye your carcuss on, shove the drunkards aside and watch where ye sittin'.

Arrrggghhhhhhhh and the ever lurkin' simpilot!

Ye been overlooked by meself!

 Oh My! The weekend has begun already.

Can some of us hide the keyboards? Please!

wyoroy wrote:

LMAO BTW told my wife about the pic of the cherrleader with the kits, Her words, "You that with me and you die"  You know who wears the pants in my house

On second thought.... nevermind. I don't wanna know

Models taking inverted dives off the staircase.............

 Cue music..... GOD FATHER THEME........ dah da dee dah dee dah dee dah!

Where is Bondivous MAXIMUS  Man ! The most feared and yet respected pirate of the Italian coast?

TANGO 1 wrote:

"Woof!" "Gwwwaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" "MMMMMmmmmmmmmGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"   Rough translation: Mmmmm...........Bone!

Oh thank goodness! Seems the puppy scared her away in the nick of time!

 I never heard a Lab that had such an accent before? Must be the Union Jack on the collar. Very stylish indeed!.

I am guessing I have missed all the other fine fellers cross the pond that talks funny, bedtime ya know as they need their beauty rest, but a fine hardy welcome to Greg !

 Greg just to for warn you I am the voice of calm sanity and reason here. Many will vouch for that I am sure. I am also an adept expert at answering any and all questions you may have which you may find useful except they are not the correct answers. It's a tough world indeed!  How does that saying go? Give a man a fish you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he is fed for life! However it says nothing on how to cook the fish and not being a particular fan of sushi I just hit the drive -thru at McDonalds.

No charge for that great piece of philisophical wisdom.

Now where was I ?

raider83 wrote:

TANGO 1 wrote: Greg! its been a while! What are you up to these days?  Hope you have read the rules and regs on page 1. Let us know what you're building and we will add your name to the roll call.     Rules? What rules? Greg, welcome! and Frank glad to see you are back building along with everybody else. Progress for me has been little to none lately-football has kept me busy, but we are doing well, so I don't mind

Seems you are due for a promotion Daniel!

Sorry I left you from the report!

TANGO 1 wrote:

Greg! its been a while! What are you up to these days?  Hope you have read the rules and regs on page 1. Let us know what you're building and we will add your name to the roll call.

Rules? What rules? Greg, welcome! and Frank glad to see you are back building along with everybody else. Progress for me has been little to none lately-football has kept me busy, but we are doing well, so I don't mind

Dee.....pull something out to your liking and box up your work and shove it away somewhere! He'll never miss it! But look out as to how much paint you use! THAT he will miss!

gregers wrote:

OK, you got me hooked. question, are what if's allowed?. am planning on a USN long range fighter using the airframe of the P38, folding wings and arrestor hook will be included. other than that I'll have to do something from the stash. lemmi see now. HMMM will have to go have a looksee. All the best. Greg

I cannot speak to the 'what-if' allowability.....but I'D like to see that!

OK, you got me hooked. question, are what if's allowed?. am planning on a USN long range fighter using the airframe of the P38, folding wings and arrestor hook will be included. other than that I'll have to do something from the stash. lemmi see now. HMMM will have to go have a looksee.

All the best.

Greg

"Woof!" "Gwwwaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" "MMMMMmmmmmmmmGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

Rough translation: Mmmmm...........Bone!  

You mean I am supposed to be building a model?

hmmok.. I gotta go out there in the hallway and find one..There are lots and lots of boxes in SfMacs stash..He is sleeping so he can go to work.. so I will find one and he wouldn't know the difference.

lol

Dee

namrednef wrote:

gregers wrote: OK, you guys are nuts, I officially feel righ at home again LOL  All the best. Greg Strictly as it should be!

"Good morning Commander!"

"!!!!!!!!!!"

Yes those chaps over at FAWHQ are always up to something,  like testing the new rum barrells for build quality...................