Fleet Air Arm Group Build

TANGO 1 wrote:

OK.....Now I can see it! Nice kit! I have the same one.........I'll enjoy watching your progress on that one. I plan to do mine in Low Vis Grey with some Two Bob;s decals that I got awhile back.

Now that's a coincidence!  I just ordered some lo-vis Grey VMA-214 markings from Two Bobs on Thursday!

Nam,

Ahhh...shucks...

Glad to have you around!  This place really wouldn't be the same without you.  Now, enough public speeches- MORE RUM!!! [toast]

kilo- Glad to have you!  Great pics, she's looking like a plane now!

namrednef wrote:

Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking.........er........"This..........this acknowledgement is most appreciated (choke).....but I must admit.....I did not realize that PM's also factored into the post count......my apologies. I intended this auspicious occasion to herald pics of WIP.....but it was not to be.....turns out my 1,000th post was a PM to Daywalker. But who better to receive it than Frankie, my friend and mentor! For the rest of us worthless plastic loving bahstahd's.....I stand honored But yr shall have to wait a few hours for pics! Ha HAAAAAAAAA

LOL  Lovin this place!

 More WiPs of the Tomcat, there's now something that looks like a piece of aircraft.

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Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking.........er........"This..........this acknowledgement is most appreciated (choke).....but I must admit.....I did not realize that PM's also factored into the post count......my apologies.

I intended this auspicious occasion to herald pics of WIP.....but it was not to be.....turns out my 1,000th post was a PM to Daywalker.

But who better to receive it than Frankie, my friend and mentor!

For the rest of us worthless plastic loving bahstahd's.....I stand honored

But yr shall have to wait a few hours for pics! Ha HAAAAAAAAA

OK.....Now I can see it! Nice kit! I have the same one.........I'll enjoy watching your progress on that one.

I plan to do mine in Low Vis Grey with some Two Bob;s decals that I got awhile back. 

Congrats on the milestone post Nam .

Regards,  Rick

Frank......I'm getting red X's over here, I really want to see this scooter you're working on as I have one of those in my stash as well.

BTW.....How are you going to arm this one? 

This is the A-4M I am working on now for this GB. 

It even comes with a small bonus PE fret!  Today, I started by cleaning up the LG parts- a lotta molding seams but I got them all squared away!  More to come...

TANGO 1 wrote:

Congratulations 'Nam! I think this deserves a naval celebration.....................   CHEERS!

Well done CAG!  A fitting salute indeed.

Congratulations 'Nam!

I think this deserves a naval celebration.....................

CHEERS!

Nam-

CONGRATULATIONS

1001 POSTS!!!

HIP...

HIP...

HOORAY!!!!!

What do we do with a drunken sailor...

OH, whut doo wee doo wiss a drunken saylor...

Whaat doo wee doo wiisth a druunkin sayloor?

Eerly, inn the moornin!

TANGO 1 wrote:

I just had to share this with you......... Here's one of the reasons that I've been so busy lately-my eight week old Labrador Harry. He's a real brute and we are having a great time looking after him!

Darren-

Good to have you aboard!  Glad to see you found a plentiful stash o' rum, I'm afraid we would have a mutiny were we to run out.   And some bench time to boot?  AND a new puppy?  Wow, you've been a busy lad!  Glad to see you're making headway in the Secret Workshop.   I'm hoping to have WIP shots of my Corsair, and possibly the A-4 tomorrow night!

I just had to share this with you.........

Here's one of the reasons that I've been so busy lately-my eight week old Labrador Harry.

He's a real brute and we are having a great time looking after him!

OK, a quick update from me.

Yes! I have actually seen the inside of my workshop today! Work still continues on my FAA Seafire- I have finally managed to fix the paintwork and I will spray a gloss coat on it tonight.

I am also working the last finishing touches to my Hurricane Mk.I for the Hurricane GB.

And.................I have been painting the cockpit and bangseat of my F-8 Crusader!!

Pics will follow sometime over the weekend.

Hello Chaps!

As is the tradition on our merry ship-I will hand out thy weekly rum ration........

Gentlemen, wherever you may be in the world, I wish you all good health and happiness.

CHEERS!

To our absent friends..

"All right-where the hell is Tango1!"

"That Brit just knocked off another bargain booze store!!!"

"Err.......Sir?"

"What!"

"I think he was in the Sea Harrier that just flew over us......"

"GGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...........!!!!!!"

Hey Darson.

Funny that you should mention The Final Countdown, as I watched it about two weeks ago. 

Just so happens that my now ex-brother in law that introduced me to Model kits back when I was a wee fulla (waaay back in the 80's) also introduced me to that movie at about the same time, it made me a huge fan of the Jolly Rogers squadron markings and US Navy aircraft in general, ever since.  Lets face it apart from the multiple 70's/80's famous faces that appear in that movie VF-84 and the F-14 Tomcat are the true stars.  Love the 'splash the Zeroes' scene by the way.

Anyway that little segway over with The Final Countdown was the inspiration (yeah I know not the most accurate or compelling reason, but it gives me a nice nostalgic twinge back to being 7 years old again, which I think is reason enough) for the kit that I'm doing for the group build.  Hence the big wait for a Hi-vis VF-84 marked F-14A to arrive all the way from the UK instead of picking up any old F-14 from one of the LHS's in my area.

Very astute of you to pick that up by the way fulla.   

You might have noticed in the pic of the Tomcat in my stash that there are multiple A6 Intruder kits, one of them just so happens to be a KA-6D Intruder tanker with 'Black Panther' squadron markings like the one that re-fuels the Tomcats before the A6M Zero intercept in the movie, not an intentional purchase but a very nice little accident of fait, so no surprise when I say that when the KA-6D gets built she'll be dressed in 'Black Panther' markings (might as well have a big time Final Countdown motiff going down range on my display shelf eh? - LOL).

I should watch it again and figure out what squadron the SH3s and the A7Es were and see if I can match them as well for a bit of a giggle (I'd imagine, that would prove a little difficult, especially with the dearth of SH3 Seaking kits out there).

*Sigh* makes me wish I was 15 kgs lighter, so I could fit the VF-84 patched MA1 flight jacket I got for my 14th birthday again.  Ahh nostalgia is a wonderful thing at 31 years of age.  LOL

Well anyways, it's late, I should stop rambling and being a big Sci-fi movie geek, will post some more WiP pics tomorrow, the big cat's cockpit is nearly finished.

Hey Aaron (kilo1-1) just as a side not I was searching YouTube the other night and came across these two clips from the movie The Final Countdown.  If you've never seen this flick do yourself a favour and check this out for some awesome F-14 action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GI_Q-HX3f0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gChU-mGeBaM&feature=related 

Cheers

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Hmmm, sounds like 2 girls and a bottle! A threesome!

Cheers

Daywalker wrote:

bondoman- Seeing as how the rest o' the crew is off duty, and I'm stuck on deck manning the bridge, feel free to help yourself to my rum rations.  I'm on duty through tomorrow eve, and then off for a day to drink and be merry! cheers!

mates and may the enemy pass wind to leeward.

Would ye be with a one eyed girl? Wood eye, Wood eye!!

Does that kit have the 'straight' fuel probe.....or the 'bent' one? 

Aye! I relinquish the deck......but we have staved off the heathen.....and avoided Corsair blobs being hureld toward us!.....paint that thing, I say!

namrednef wrote:

Rum rations all about Mates! The bahstad could not deal with our raking broadside and we didn'nt even wake the gentry! Prisoners all aboard........but they be 'darksiders '....so watch ye back!   Yah......Ha....haaaaaa!

Well done!  Take 'em below and give 'em 20 lashes each for attempting to steal our rum!

I also worked on my A-4 Skyhawk today.  Cleaned up the LG, re-fueling probe, and arresting gear.  Really loking forward to this one, haven't built a gas-passer in quite a while!

SH1T.....I have no  key!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Rum rations all about Mates! The bahstad could not deal with our raking broadside and we didn'nt even wake the gentry! Prisoners all aboard........but they be 'darksiders
'....so watch ye back!

Yah......Ha....haaaaaa!

sim- cheers back!

Nam- Good man!  Hopefully you haven't had TOO much rum (is there such a thing?), we don't want you teetering and falling overboard! 

I sprayed my Corsair blue this evening, and she's sitting in the case drying right now.  After a day airdrying, I'll put her in my home-made drying oven for an hour or two to speed up the curing.  My girlfriend is home Sunday night with the camera, so I'll post a pic or two then!  Now, instead of a "Corsair-ish lump of gray styrene, she looks like a Corsair-ish lump of gray sytrene painted blue!   Man, that's a lotta blue on one of these!

Cheers!

Kia Kaha XO! The decks seem quiet......just the normal creaking.....I shall take the deck for you, Sir

.....spotted a prize hunter trying to catch our wind......will keep an eye out.....and give him a bit of what he's got if he try's us!!! You bet!