Fleet Air Arm Group Build

 Still got Sun shine and Hot hot hot guys! Supposed to start raining tonight and keep raining. Still saying it's not a big thing but you never know. Usually your safe believing the opposite.

 Expecting Gale force winds tonight! Trim the sails and tie down the hatches looks like rough seas ahead!

 Aaarg the Xo is about to hit a post milestone as well Nam! Stock up on the rum barrels and guard the key with yer very life! We need a double celebration! Makes sure ye comb yer hair dogs!

Katie! Yes have a tot with us and be weary of the watch, they be watchin' things 'tother than the waves.

Cheers, Richie

namrednef wrote:

Hoping it gets into double digits there Aaron!

It does get into the double digits here, we just have to wait for the sun to go down.  Just checked with the weather guessers and its a chilly 83 (it only got to 108 today in DFW, good thing I work inside).  Aaron, could you be a good chap and remind the good folk at the Lonestar Flight Museum to batten down the hatches as well.  I'll be down there in a couple of weeks and I don't want any of the birds dinged.  Keep a weather eye out and be safe.

namrednef wrote:

Greetin's to the fair Katie! Thank ye fer the veiled compliments.....(watch the deck scums about here!) I've shaved since the opti pic! I seem to have more time off than the honorable XO! My speech has suffered at the hands of LCdr Bondoman and the scurvy Dog M/A sfc! Priss.....can you believe that name? I saw her license! I can find 'em.....even in a men's room. Oh bruddah............I'm in trouble now! Thanks for the congrats.........now post Finish an effing model!

I did just that on Sat.  Pics are available over at the Aircraft forum on page 2 under Hobby Boss A-7H decals.  I'm tired of Corsair II's at the moment (that Hobby Boss A-7 builds into a nice model, but is no shake and bake) so I think I'll do something different for the moment.  But I'm still prowling below about below decks, keeping a weather eye on you dogs.  Katie, welcome aboard talk about a rose amongst the thorns.

Hoping it gets into double digits there Aaron!

Greetin's to the fair Katie! Thank ye fer the veiled compliments.....(watch the deck scums about here!)

I've shaved since the opti pic!

I seem to have more time off than the honorable XO!

My speech has suffered at the hands of LCdr Bondoman and the scurvy Dog M/A sfc!

Priss.....can you believe that name? I saw her license! I can find 'em.....even in a men's room. Oh bruddah............I'm in trouble now!

Thanks for the congrats.........now post Finish an effing model!

Congrats on 2000 posts Nam!  Sorry I can't write/talk like all you guys here.  Sometimes I can't even understand you.  But I will have a "tot" with you all!  Too Nam!

I have to say it was good to see that pic of you in the opti visor agian  Don't tell the XO!

Katie

I have too much time on my hands!

Ah well, some paint be dryin!......so's I'll wet me livver! Jest writ to the XO in secret, ye should check his airshow tintypes!

Since we hit Singapore, I sees the deck has been abandoned! I been out wit' a comely lass (lass?) on the greensward beatin a ball with stix! A few tots in the rain afterwards.....and I were happy.

Now! Let's get this pukey deck in shape! Every carcass I kicks just moans! HMS Dauntless be in baaaaaaaaaad shapes when all ye got is me stalkin' the decks.......with me patch over me good eye!

YAAAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Many Mate! Many!

Now I just need keeps the local caddyhands off the fair-haired one!

Oops! we're mixing PM's with surreality! 

Thank Ye sfc (Ye dog!) Refer the XO to the fair lass Katie! Hell be better than washin' in that hell-beer Aid-Gator!

Now! Hear This! We be in the lee of the Celebes.....a day out from Singapore.....Jakes and other nasties buzzin' about! Us wit'out mashing guns (what's them?) Gots to get this tub in for repairs!

Have tots an' ye in th' top'sle slash any float that buzzes yer masthead!

Get all the canvass up! Make speed! To Singapore!

AAAArgH! o'2000 post I'll drink to that Been trying to organize me bench and just made a bigger mess!

The Xo is about sent me a message in a bottle. Seems he has come up with a new toxic recipee ivolving hard rum and Gator -Aid. Suggest ye try it LtCdr Nam to cure or numb what ails ye!

 Happy 2000

simpilot34 wrote:

Bondo said: We've a lot o' good California beer atap on the foredeck. Bring yer mugs, ye scurvy Mugs, and when Cp'n Wyr gets back we'll roll 'im for the rum key. I say! You name one GOOD Californie beer and I'll show you 10 Aussie beers to knock you flat!!!!! Californie tain't good for nuthin' but wine!!!! Don't S the Sers!!!! I was hatched in Cal!!!! Yes My weekend has just began and its sunday night here!!!! Long work weekend! Fri 9hrs Sat n Sun 12 hrs, Mon Tue offf.< whisky sorry lol Cheers, Richie

Beer in Cali? Hah! They drinks wine!.................with a pinkie up!

LCdr Bondoman to his dubious credit is a solid drinking bum. Work habits is IFFY.........language is 'windtalker' code.........but a stalwart mate!

Lest ye get to big a head.....where'd anyone be without the sfc?

Whoa! check the post count!  2001 posts and a half-a-model to show for it! It's Yer Faults!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!

 I left the original slide show on the sea bottom of page 242.  I guess trying to squeeze o'er 200 pages of pics into 2 post was not a good idea but I got close to a solution. Apologys if I slowed everyone down.

Beer in California Bondo?  Wouldn't put it past them Hollywood environmentalist to tax it out as a cause for the earth quakes. I do like the Dirty Harry movies though. Most of California I've seen is the Mojave.

Now it's 8 Am to drinking! er I mean building!

Bondo said:

We've a lot o' good California beer atap on the foredeck. Bring yer mugs, ye scurvy Mugs, and when Cp'n Wyr gets back we'll roll 'im for the rum key.

I say! You name one GOOD Californie beer and I'll show you 10 Aussie beers to knock you flat!!!!! Californie tain't good for nuthin' but wine!!!! Don't S the Sers!!!! I was hatched in Cal!!!! Yes My weekend has just began and its sunday night here!!!! Long work weekend! Fri 9hrs Sat n Sun 12 hrs, Mon Tue offf.< whisky sorry lol

Cheers, Richie

'tis prolly what slowed it all down that Gull of yers!

Abouts time ye showed yer noodle head!

Mind yerself LCdr Bondoman! I had the deck all the day watch! Bos'un sfc helped me avert major disaster!

Now! Take the deck and be proud to be here!

namrednef wrote:

sfcmac wrote:  I got rid of the slide shows from the page. Sorry if it slowed you down. sfc! I'm hoping it wasn't just ME......but after replying to your PM....I was alerted to your post here.....and the GB loaded right away. Sorry. I never did get to see the whole rotation of the slides, but I was flattered  that even that dog of a pics was included!

Where's Roger?

  Hmmmmm wonder what adventures await us there?

AAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! I be back! Fresh from the attempts of the signalmen from the foc'sle to stifle our duties!

The crisis is past!

Have tots and the back to the holystones!

Singapore in 4 days! 

sfcmac wrote:

I got rid of the slide shows from the page. Sorry if it slowed you down.

sfc! I'm hoping it wasn't just ME......but after replying to your PM....I was alerted to your post here.....and the GB loaded right away. Sorry. I never did get to see the whole rotation of the slides, but I was flattered  that even that dog of a pics was included!

Someone here with a rotating avatar featuring even MY puh.....puh....puss is causing a great slowdown.....been trying to type this for over 30 min.

everything else is quick....cannot fully load this GB without a nap! All i get is the rotating avatar until page is ready. it's a bummer

going elsewhere for a break......like building

sorry guys 

Beggin yer pardon Good LtCdr Bondoman.... There be no women aboard! LtCdr Nams presence has seen to that! Ask any of the shapely deck hands aboard and the'll tell ya they are models. Just as the forum states and know we are the modelers. Check and ye will find on closer inspection most have plastic and resin parts about them. And very nice photo-etched anchors.......

I am concerned about the absent crew .... could be foul play is in the werks?

".. and the noble Boatswain took the helm because of the desertion of the officers. Through the raging gale his monumental chin could be seen, rain blowing across his handsome brow, while the Hurricane roared. With a quick flick of the wrist he kept the mighty ship safe, while the helpless passengers wailed in grief. Never was a more noble man than he...".

Garf, 'an 'who writes that clap, but I like it an' it's a gonna describe the siteration soonest, me thinks!

WOMEN are NOT allowed aboard, sfamc. And to let them inta the Rum locker is an offense punishible by th' GRATING'S, ye' bastard.

We've a lot o' good California beer atap on the foredeck. Bring yer mugs, ye scurvy Mugs, and when Cp'n Wyr gets back we'll roll 'im for the rum key.

Sfcmac.....ye don't be as dumb as ye sound sometimes! Aye.....let 'er takes me below for some remeditration. I promises to return 'er in 'er original upright position!

Mind the wheel! 

 I am here. I always be here. Duty bound and sitting on poor LtcCDR Nam fer his own saftey. He be mad with fever from the sickness and too drunk to realize it. I'll have the troops escort him below and give him a cool shower and louever massage. Me thinks he will be better then er at least well enough to pop another cork!

 I'll have the new sawbones take ye down below sir, mind ye she takes no lip!