Fleet Air Arm Group Build

We're getting our backsides kicked again today with snow, only it was freezing rain for about 6 hours first.  Now, we're supposed to get 8-15 inches of snow on top of it then the temp will plummet and the winds are supposed to pick up to 30mph + and create blizzard like conditions.  Think I may have to give up modelling as it interferes with all of the snowblowing!

Darren,

Glad you are able to keep your sense of humor about it.  I was gonna say in my last post, but decided against it as I wasn't sure how you were feeling about it, that with your eye patch you just look more like a .  Glad it is only temporary!

Thanks for your well-wishes lads.

Its good to be able to laugh about it now-but its was a bad day. And Rick.....you are right. Rum really is a wonderful painkiller!

I don't know when I'll be back at the bench.....but I will be back. Right now, I am enjoying my family and looking forward to a nice meal tonight....... and maybe a drink or two after.

Glad you escaped more serious injury Darren.  Heal up soon & get back to the bench.  BTW, Rum in sufficient quantity is an excellent pain killer .

Regards,  Rick

OMG Darren!   You are a very lucky man.  Eye injuries are awful, but I have never had one as bad as yours.  And, I never realized gardening could be so dangerous!

Take care of yourself my friend!

Hey lads,

its great to see the two of you meet up! Glad you had a good day.

My weekend has been eventful too, I had an accident at home and nearly lost my right eye! I was gardening and went to lift a box of bamboo canes and one of them went straight into my right eye when I bent down to pick them up....OUCH!!

It stung a bit and as I made my way into the house my son the state of me and called my wife. Lucky thing for me she is an Emergency Room Nurse! I ended up in E/R and by then I was in a fair bit of pain. The guys there went to work on me straight away and did what they had to do. It was messy and painful, but they saved my eyesight. The bandage came off this morning, and my eye was working just fine. I am so blessed. The doctor who worked on me said that I was incredibly lucky......I could has been blinded if the cut on my eyeball was 2mm lower..........................thank God I've still got my sight.

I don't mind telling you lads I was pretty scared for a while there. Needless to say, I am taking things easy this weekend. The eye hurts when it moves so the bandage stays on for another couple of days. I have to squirt anti-biotic in there 4 times a day and it stings like a but its a small price to pay for my health.

I owe those lads in the E/R more than a drink. 'Nuff said.

Yeah, or like that Sven guy in the bookstore from the movie "Top Secret"!

Hah! That was my thought!!!!!

Like your eyes popping out like the evil whats-his-name in Roger Rabbit when the goo got him! 

namrednef wrote:

That is simply awesome! Good for you guys! Hopefully such meetings become a trend around here. Also, nice of you to offer your jeweler's skills! Almost didn't recognize you w/o the goggles

Thanks Nam, I told him as long as he had driven up I could at least fix up their rings while they were there.  What a wonderful family they are!  His wife was very nice and their son was one of the most well-behaved kids I have ever met.  Truly blessed he is!

As for the goggles, it is probably one of the few of me without them!  Wouldn't it have been hilarious if when taking them off my eyes were still HUGE?

That is simply awesome! Good for you guys!

Hopefully such meetings become a trend around here. Also, nice of you to offer your jeweler's skills!

Almost didn't recognize you w/o the goggles

Great to see you guys hook up.  Always nice to meet internet pals in person.

Regards,  Rick

LOL, sounds good Mike!  How's the weather up there right now?

I tried to get Roy to stick around until tomorrow night so he could help me shovel, but surprisingly he wanted to hit the road!

Hey, THAT'S cool! Way to go, fellas!!

Now, get your passports ready....your gonna need 'em to come up here!!

Well, I got to meet Roy and his wonderful family today for lunch!  They stopped by where I work, and I was able to show them around and also do a little maintenance on their rings and shine them up like new.  What a cheerful fellow!  I really enjoyed meeting them, and his wife Inge and son Alex were very nice.  Just to prove it, here's Roy and I standing inside the store with my workshop behind us:

And yes Nam, I told him you said "hello!"

Frankie! That's cool! Hope it comes off.

Say HI to Roy from Nam

(I'm busy working all weekend also) 

To Roger. Maybe he's bolted into the wing of a Sea Vixen?? Laying on his back, looking up through a piece of glass the size of a coke bottle.

Nice work so far Darren.  Looking real good.

Regards,  Rick

Here is a progress report on my Seafire......

First, let me tell you that this kit is overflowing with flash and nothing fits properly.

Second, I'm really enjoying myself!! This build is just a blast! 

Here is where I'm at. I eventually got the modified 'pit into the fuselage and slapped the wings together.

You have to fit the undercarrigde before you fit the wings.... but this wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but the rudder and elevators are all attached via hinges as the landing gear is.......I have to fill and sand all the hinges in order to try and make this model look more realistic......this is no shake'n bake kit!

Here is how she looks now.... 

Hey everyone-

I forgot to share this with you, these are from the show I went to down south a while back. I picked up some very nice stuff! Amoung which were my 1/72 Mk.8 Lynx(-this one will be done in the HMS Endurance shceme) A 1/48 Fairy Firefly...this box is loaded with plastic, brass and resin!!! I am going to have sooooooo much fun with this kit!!

And I also got the  1/72 new mould Wessex! There are markings included in the box for "Humphrey" The famous Wessex that saw action during the Falklands War. The Wessex has a special place in my heart and I have always wanted to build one, so my mate saw this kit at the show and bought it for me-what a bloody good bloke!! 

Needless to say, I was very pleased with my haul!! 

I'll drink to that .  Have a great weekend evertone.  I hope to get more work done on the Wyvern.  Other projects keep getting in the way.

Regards,  Rick

Hello lads,

its Friday! I have been slaving over my workbench all day-well, someone has to do it!

Wherever you find yourselves, I hope you are happy and well.

CHEERS!

darson wrote:

Frank I can kind of relate to your story as my Mum did a similar thing years ago pulling in to the garage at my parent's house.  It was a case of went for the brake pedal and slammed the accelerator instead and well you know happened next .  Needless to say my Dad was less than impressed. Darren the front office on you Seafire looks fantastic (As your work normally does), I'll be looking forward to more updates on the build. All, I was reading through another webzine yesterday when I spotted a review for the Eduard F6F-3 Hellcat that I have on order at the moment.  All I can say is that after reading through the review I am really looking forward to getting this kit. http://www.hyperscale.com/2008/reviews/kits/eduard8211reviewbg_1.htm Cheers

LOL, I bet your Dad was angry!

I was just looking at Brett's review of the new Hellcat too, looks like an awesome kit!

Dave, Darren,

thanks for your kind words! I am really enjoying this build, can't wait to get back to the bench to do some more.

Hmmmm things seem to be a little quiet around here at the moment.

I've been doing some research on the FJ-4 over the last couple of days and I've found that I'll need to do a small amount of scratch building with my kit as there needs to be some equipment mounted in the back of the canopy that sits flush with the bang seat when the canopy is closed and this is missing from the kit.

The Sea Hawk is coming along nicely again when last night I was able to get some bench time and drill out the canon openings and put some styrene rod in there.

Cheers

Don, that Gannet looks pretty cool especially with the wing all folded up like that!!!

Darren, the Spit is coming along very nicely!!!  That seat is awesome.

Lol Frank!  I know it's not funny when you are cold but it's just one of those things that hopefully you can laugh at after. 

Someone once drove into the transformer in the back lane at my old house and knocked out the power on the whole street in the middle of winter.  I thought no problem, I have a gas fireplace that I can fire up without the elctricity so I fired it up only to relize that one(or more?) of my kids had stuffed plastic toys into the vents.  One toxic cloud of burnt plastic later we went out for the rest of the day until they got the power back on.

Anyway,hope things get better Frank and that floods won't be a problem in the spring!