Fleet Air Arm Group Build

namrednef wrote:

Daywalker wrote: Nam- Good luck at the Dr.'s!  I'm heading in this morning too, at 10am CST.  Hopefully in and out quickly!   I will DEFINATELY back on deck before inspection, and ready for some rum! What's the trouble Frank?...........Gold poisoning?......Diamond chip under a fingernail?......#11 lodged in a palm? (OH!, I could go on and on!)

LOL, Yep!  I think I OG'd. (Over Gold)

Nothing a good pickling won't fix!

Daywalker wrote:

Nam- Good luck at the Dr.'s!  I'm heading in this morning too, at 10am CST.  Hopefully in and out quickly!   I will DEFINATELY back on deck before inspection, and ready for some rum!

What's the trouble Frank?...........Gold poisoning?......Diamond chip under a fingernail?......#11 lodged in a palm?

(OH!, I could go on and on!)

Thanks Aaron, I'm really looking forward to it! I hope yours is enjoyable too.  DO you have any big plans for yours?

Nam- Good luck at the Dr.'s!  I'm heading in this morning too, at 10am CST.  Hopefully in and out quickly!   I will DEFINATELY back on deck before inspection, and ready for some rum!

Morning and thanks for the well-wishes! Headed for the West Haven, CT VA Hospital around 8 EDT with me mate Bloody Bruno! Hopefully in-and-out in 3 hours! Then we will try to find a matinee of the new Mummy film!

Turned in last night quite early after just 2 tots! Excess fatigue is another Lyme symptom. It was a draining week though with 90's heat and 90's humidity!

See y'all later! 

 NAM!!!!!! I can't believe your luck! That is absolutely the last thing you needed other than perhaps one of me bad jokes!. Seriously I hope that is the end of your misfortune. Mostly because I want you well enough to pick on but a little more  because I think youv'e paid your dues in the rotten feeling dept.  Get well and recover quickly!  Been making up for the missed work and just got off a 15 hour shift. Really cutting into my build time and sleep time but funny thing is my dog gone kids still want food to eat. The nerve!

 Have a super vacation Frank, mine is just around the corner as well. Looking forward to the pics! Stuka Stuka! Mark and if I missed anyone like Bondo I am sorry but me vision is getting cross eyed and....

That's hard news, friend. You'll tackle it I'm sure, but my prayers are with you, and may laughter be your best medicine.

I'duh wacked thu friggin' thing off at the shoulder a long time a go for yuh, fer all the trouble itsa cazzed ye' but wouldn't wanna deprive ye o' yer best girlfriend, er, pistol mitt, er salutin' wand.

We sail tumurru, and if'n you've 'ad yer tot, i'm a drinkin' wit ye an' I'll 'old yer head over the transom while ye' feed the whales, cuz I'm that fond 'o 'ye.

CAG we've a sick un what needs ta be administered to on the gratin's. May have to bind 'is wrist (s) and legs while Dr. Blood draws a dram, but Navy medicine is good medicine, ev'n if it causes you to wain.

Set the sails, clear the decks.

First mate sfmac I'll kill you with a single shot if you can't have the men on deck, and them wimmen you've got in the Rum locker, present in their glory for inspection by nightfall Friday.

XO is ashore, LtCmr Nam is a lee, and the CAG is politicin' for admiral as usual.

Capn Roy Rogers needs to make a showin', an if none o' them worthies makes a show, it'll be ME, senior officer of the deck, and that'll be fun because they'rl be some GAMES!!

Lt Cmr Bondoman, Officer of the moment.

Where's Roger when we need a gunner?

LOL, glad to see you still have your twisted sense of humor.

Gents- I am officially on vacation for a bit!  Finished up today with a couple of custom made pieces, and I am off until August 4th!  Looking forward to it that's for sure.  I am heading up to Oshkosh next week for a few days for the 2008 AirVenture fly-in, and am really excited about it!  I'll be sure to get lots of pics while I am there.

So, have a tot with me if you would!

Methinks the MM Enamels have begun to heal or kill me! Crazy post that was! 

I seem to have quoted mid-stream!

I'll leave the captions to the Mates! 

Daywalker wrote:

namrednef wrote: LCdr Namrednef has contracted the dread Lyme Disease after all! WHAT!  Oh, man... that's awful!  Hope you feel better soon, and report immediately to Dr. Sawbones and his buxom assistant Suzanne for treatment!  They should be able to fix you right up, or at least try to pickle it outta you with rum!  simpilot34 wrote: The BEST medicine! (LMAO!).........uh what? Nah, I'll be fine.....thanks to the internet.....I looked up the symptoms.....I got 'em....CLASSIC.....then have an email from the Doc I saw the other day......I said, "Yes, I know!" I think Ricketts or Beri-beri is next for me. Well malaria is a choice, I guess. But while's I can swings a cat or a belayin' pin.....I'll be sure that the AWOL Bondoman does his scurvy due! .....now Mates.....affords me a drip of yer tot so that I may set afire LCdr Bondoman's  cot! Yeahhaaaaaaaah! ...me thinks its a ploy to stay wit da nurses! Does that work?  Hmmm... me thinks I have it too! Hope you feel better soon buddy!

namrednef wrote:

LCdr Namrednef has contracted the dread Lyme Disease after all!

WHAT!  Oh, man... that's awful!  Hope you feel better soon, and report immediately to Dr. Sawbones and his buxom assistant Suzanne for treatment!  They should be able to fix you right up, or at least try to pickle it outta you with rum!

simpilot34 wrote:

...me thinks its a ploy to stay wit da nurses!

Does that work?  Hmmm... me thinks I have it too!

Hope you feel better soon buddy!

Thanks simpilot34.......yeah....so strange.

Things come in three's as the saying goes.......they should be done w/ me.

Simply a run of strange luck.

Stupid tick! 

Nam, would you get well already!!!! Hang on, me thinks its a ploy to stay wit da nurses! Seriously mate get well soon and take care!

Cheers, Richie

Aye! Not denyin' other more worthy posts 'ere.........Me weekend has begun! (4 day weeks)

LCdr Bondoman! I shall risk the wrath of Me Gods and Me Shipmates by ordering you to remove the dreaded jg from your sig and draws yers scurvy butt up to levels befittin' yer questionable status....(tho' even the Middies are outbuilding meself!

LCdr Namrednef has contracted the dread Lyme Disease after all! Nasty bizness! Being dropped ashore for a Sawbones remedy at reville........so no rum for this ossifer for a week or more.........After tonight, that is!!!!!!! Yaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

LCdr Bondoman! keep yer charges right and correct! Lest XO have Me head.....or Cag has his! Here's yer chance low-life dog! Make the most of it. I won't be in the sick-bay.....just playing Hearts with the local lovlies!

Get to it kilo!

(Seriously.......I have the stupid thing! Bad rash.....headache.....flu symptoms.....getting it done. Lord! What next?) 

All this progress that people are making, I'd better get my A into G and do some more on the Tomcat this weekend.

Great to see people's work moving forward, well done all.  :) 

Awright!!

Teh heat is off. The work looks easy from here. I've got a few days to be a normal person in the corner office and set things to rights workwise. Travel is over.

"Sip".

The womenfolks in ma' 'ouse hate me. They're a ripe gang and I'll be lucky to survive.

It's a good thing' ave got me rum now.

"Sip".

Blarmey there's a weekend comin".

"Gloog".

Ah, bloody "ell it's a time for me ta' stump up a litt'l and set the men to their inspections.

"glorp".

(putative, apologizin' ta yer Excellencies what ain't handed down ta' me 'is whistle) the First mate Sfmac ain't got a freekin' clew ( an for ye's what ain't sailors, thats a knot) he'll be able to roust the young 'uns what are shippies, and the rest o' the Scurvy lot on deck Friday at high noon.

Red13 be but a boy but he's due for 'is beer.

Th'other one been salted and barreled, reckon as 'e ain't been heard from.

It's a Rum ship, t'is.

I put a coat of silver on the Seagull, needs abt three more. I put out a ? abt tail markings and colors and got a warm response from all round the fleet. Were our CAG and XO able to host such, there'd be a rum party soon betwixt those reprobates among us and the Ship people, of a late night on this deck. Right gennle men they are.

Your quiteness in thought, your friend in murder, LtCmr(jg) Bondoman

Aaron, good work and keep a knee up on those FM devils.

Something abt Lockheed twins. I'm in the middle of a very long build of a Classic Airframes Lodestar. I love it, I hate it. It's a very unforgiving subject, which is a testament I guess to it's clean lines.

Those trailing sponsons are the housings for the flap actuators. They look about right on your model compared to photos. The Hudson/ Lodestar etc had bigger ones.

I think that the upper canopy panels should be green, but at this moment I can't find a color reference. More later.

simpilot34 wrote:

n spite of all the pitfalls and misfortunes of the kit sf, you are doing a fine job so far!!! It's looking great!!!! Cheers, Richie

 Ah it isn't so bad Ritchie. The difference is I knew this kit was a gem before I bought it. I can see someone really getting upset spending the cash then getting a pretty much unbuildable kit.

 Speaking of which did a little more just to show you all what I mean. The word for today is DREMEL! Tools of the trade when dealing with FM kits!.

 In order to get the resin fuselage to fit at all. You can see I first matched it up to the sides especially the window. Trying to fit it in as directed will block the window and look like poo doo!

 You can see the groove I cut completely through the resin and into the fuselage with the dremel. All this and then the sanding drum to completely reshape the walls to the shape of the fuselage and leaving a step to glue the vacuform canopy to in the future. A lot of work to get this fit.

 One side down and extensive test fitting to ensure when I join the fuselage halfs I have no surprizes!

 Been fooling with the other pieces between drying times. Interestingly enough the wing tops and bottoms don't match. Uneven for days and way too thick on the backside. Hmmmmmm Dremel Dremel Dremel. This is just awesome. I haven't paid for anything this aggrivating since my Honeymoon! Opening up the wing vents or flow thingies or whatever those holes are. Had to thin it from the back as there were big lumps there preventing closure of the none fitting wings. I'm sure Bondo or someoneone knows what there for? Maybe Air Brakes? Any body got any pics of a Ventura? May have to invest in a book. Thanks for listening to me gripe!

n spite of all the pitfalls and misfortunes of the kit sf, you are doing a fine job so far!!! It's looking great!!!!

Cheers, Richie

Looking good Aaron!  Man, you really are a glutton for punishment, aren't you?

bondo- Nice avatar!  That is AWESOME!

Sprue Brothers has that new Eduard 1/48 Hellcat Mk.I/II combo listed today:

Hellcat Mk.I/II

$39.99 for two kits with PE is not bad!

bondoman wrote:

Thats coming along nicely, SF. I'm guessing the Waterloo is gonna be the flap actuator housings. Are they cottage cheese or melted beer can?

You talking bout these Bondo? To quote Donald Sutherland , I just ride in them. I don't know what makes them go."

 Actually not a lot of kit parts left.  A double sprue with the props and the tail. Other than that just the vacuorm stuff that are drying from the future treatment.

 Ok I promised some pics so now that I took a little break figured I better get some up to show I'm earning me salt.  Here is what I started with trying to get all the parts needed for the pit. Remember no parts numbers or diagrams. Also just in case you choose to look at the directions they have drawn the parts totally diff as well. Basically there have been a lot of traps set around every turn.....

 The wires I added to make some levers that are not included. I was inspired by Guy from the BOB GB next door. He has added some microscopic P E ones to a He 111. I mean small... Mine kinda remind me of the flood monsters on the HALO games.

 Trim them up and add some glue knobs they aint too shabby. The contol panel is a PE piece that attaches to the resin. In the process of adding dials and glass to the panel instruments, Have to be careful with any sub assembly as you must know in advance that it will not fit! Do not assume that it will even be close or you will fall victim to the FM trap!

 Working with the resin pieces I realize that they look pretty good but when assembled  won't fit. This is not my 1st rodeo with FM and you have to assemble things  leaving margin to cut and grind and sand and sculpt to get it to look right. I had to take about 1mm plastic off both sides to be able to close the fuselage and grind and gut the square peg of a pit to fit in the tight round hole of the fuselage! Just to make things a little more challenging the low pressure plastic tends to crumble rather than sand or cut. (Very considerate of them to design something to save on knife blades.)

 Already I am adding small stuff. A map table for the navigator along with a chart I made from a scrap of used decal paper. Blotted some on for land and made some grid lines by painting my Hobby knife blade and using it like an ink stamp. Added a white l border for the map legend and whoopie glue it to the table.

 Well once I paint the chair arms brown that I seem to have missed Those that have seen me play before can probably guess what's next! Hmmmmmm

 LT Com Nam,

 And they talk about scurvy....

 I got bit by a deer tick once, I just went to the doc & they just gave me an antibiotic.

 Good luck,

 Frank C

Oh geeze I'm sorry fellows. Guess our weekend rum party pushed it back to page 234 I quoted it so you can see it again.  My guess is ye were distracted by the second picture.

sfcmac wrote:

Tied to the yard arm again....... Seems like that's what got me in to trouble in the 1st place. Good CAG sir was refering to the FM kit waiting on yer approval.  I beg ye forgiveness and am truly happy with your return! Here be the Model with a small offering along with a fresh serving wench.

 Been working on the pit today.  Watching the movie, FLASH Gordan. With the Queen music as it is appropriate for the clean up needed on this kit. 

 Thi is one terriffic kit let me tell ya! You don't have to worry about part diagrams or even part numbers cuz there are'nt any! Actually you only have 2 pages of directions with about 4 steps so it should take no time at all really........

 Tis a fitting punishment for my grievous misdeeds to LtcCdr Namrednef!

 Ill try to get a couple pics up as I get a bit father on this evening.