Fleet Air Arm Group Build

Those were the days.....................

To be young like you guys  Drinking till all hours  Oh wait, I did drink like a fish  then I met the wife 

Roger in my younger days in the service, we would hammer down anything that had alcohol in it (like a true grunt) and do PT in the morning as if we had never had any drink, yea baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roy

Daywalker wrote:

Oh, boy... it's only 6 in the morning here.  Better spike my morning coffee with the rum.

It's noon here, and i'm still draggin. Spiking my coffee with coffee here

Thanks Roy.

Good to know at least one of us is still clear-headed.

I will have the names for our gift echange PM to you by Friday night (Eastern Standard time USA)  If anyone can contact Dave (Aussie Dave) Let him know.  I have PM him but no return to date.

Roy

razordws wrote:

Daywalker wrote:  razordws wrote: Happy belated birthday Roger!!!  (any excuse eh?) Frank, I'll give you a hint, I share my birthday with a famous WWII North African campaign General. Dave- Would it be November 15th, same as Erwin Rommel's? Bingo, give that man anther Rum!!!

Don't tell me we have to wait two whole weeks before the rum flows mid-week again, do we?

Daywalker wrote:

razordws wrote: Happy belated birthday Roger!!!  (any excuse eh?) Frank, I'll give you a hint, I share my birthday with a famous WWII North African campaign General. Dave- Would it be November 15th, same as Erwin Rommel's?

Bingo, give that man anther Rum!!! 

razordws wrote:

Happy belated birthday Roger!!!  (any excuse eh?) Frank, I'll give you a hint, I share my birthday with a famous WWII North African campaign General.

Dave- Would it be November 15th, same as Erwin Rommel's?

Happy belated birthday Roger!!!  (any excuse eh?)

Frank, I'll give you a hint, I share my birthday with a famous WWII North African campaign General.

Well i guess i'm still considered part of the younger crowd here in comparison...

I'm 31

But cheers! Always a good time to have a drink!!!!!!

Alrighty, I put down MY coffee cup for a toast.

Roger!

So, how old are you ol' chap?

Roger,

do you seriously think we are that barking mad that we will use any excuse to have a celebratory drink around here?  

Still..............we should celebrate your birthday and all.............it wouldn't be cricket otherwise...............in the interests of fair play and all that..........

mate! 

CHEERS!

Everyone is having a birthday here, so is it any wonder there is a bottle perpetually flowing here?

Is the celebration retroactive? Cause if so, i celebrated my 31st birthday back on the 28th of august....

Roger- LOL!  Put down that coffee son, there's a party happenin!

Darren- Whew!  Good news on the peepers.  Be sure to take care of yourself, glad to hear the missus has got you under the microscope, so to speak.  And I bet living near the test center makes for some exciting afternoons!

Dave-What day is your birthday?  Just gotta make sure we have enough rum on board when the time comes.

Mike- Good to see you buddy!  Hopefully, the lads here didn't drink ALL the rum so you could have a toast with us.

Been doin' fine, my friend! Finally getting some time in at the bench (currently working on an AFV Club German LeFH18M 10.8 cm field howitzer for another GB). Things are getting quite cool up here in the great white north (we've already had our first snowfall .... only 2" worth, but that's just a taste of what lies ahead).

Hope you and all yours are doing well, buddy!

.... and I got the PM from Roy and responded. Nice to have him around and posting again!

Hey Mike!

Good to see you mate! How's it goin'?

Haven't seen you round here for a bit, hope all is well where you are.

BTW, check your PM's.......Roy's been trying to contact you.

Good lord!! Looks like there's quite the party goin' on here! Frank, Darren....happy birthday young 'ns!!! (my hitting the big 5-0 has officially qualified me to be able to say that ) Looks like you've been both well taken care of .... and 102 pages of posts .... holy cow! That's gotta be some kind of record! Very well done, gents!

Now, take care of them peepers, Darren! Hoping everything turns out A-OK!

TANGO 1 wrote:

Picked my boy up from his halloween party at school and one of his teachers said she loved my zombie make up!!!!! Oh brother............................

How odd is it that people look all over and pay lots of money to find that perfect scary costume, and yours just kinda came to ya?

Seriously though, i sure hope that it doesn't get any worse, especially around the eyes. Hope ya get well soon!

A big thank-you for your well wished lads.

A quick update on me:

went to the doctors office this morning as my missus spotted that the chicken pox have spread to my eye area. Doc said these's no cause to worry at the moment as the infection is outside of my eye socket-if that changes though I will have to go to hospital as my eyesight could be in danger.

Good news:I look really great for Halloween as I resemble something from a resident evil movie!

Picked my boy up from his halloween party at school and one of his teachers said she loved my zombie make up!!!!! Oh brother............................

Anyway, my lad won first prize and we watched a "scary movie" before his bedtime. So at least he's had a fun time. I got a little bit of weathering done to the B-25-thats about all I could manage. Still, every little helps and I will have that build finished soon.

Now.........where's Frank with all that Rum?

Daywalker wrote:

This is RAF stuff, but still VERY cool.  Check it out! http://www.metacafe.com/watch/891310/top_gear_bugatti_veyron_drag_race/

Frank,

I saw this last Sunday. The programme is an British institution called Top Gear. You should see what these guys did with a AH-64D Apache!!!  I live near the RAF Typhoon testing centre and boy can those things move!   F-22's watch out!

If you can get Top Gear on BBC America, I recommend you watch it.

Daywalker wrote:

I'll take my truck down to the store and pick up the weekend rum rations.

{Que the theme song for Sanford & Son here}

Darren, great score

Roy

Good score Darren!  I got the print in my signature as an early B-day present from my girlfriend, and last night she gave me some cool new stuff for my place, a Hasegawa 1/48 Kate (her name is Katie or Kate), a wonderful dinner, and . 

We are lucky men.  Oh, and...

I'll take my truck down to the store and pick up the weekend rum rations. 

Rick-ROTFLMAO!

This is RAF stuff, but still VERY cool.  Check it out!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/891310/top_gear_bugatti_veyron_drag_race/

razordws wrote:

Gees!!! another birthday?!?!?!   I shoulda bought some shares of the Rum distillers (mental note for next year)!!! Darren ,  nice score on the presents! Edit:  Just noticed the nose art on that Huey... !!!! My birthday is only a couple weeks away but I already bought my plastic presents when I was down in Reno.

lol! I know! Still hung over from yesterdays birthday blow out! Well, today i raise my cup of coffee and wish Darren a for today!

Someone needs to go get more rum.....

I don't count Birthdays in years anymore, just decades.  Saves a lot on candles for the cake .

Regards,  Rick

Gees!!! another birthday?!?!?!   I shoulda bought some shares of the Rum distillers (mental note for next year)!!!

Darren ,  nice score on the presents!

Edit:  Just noticed the nose art on that Huey... !!!!

My birthday is only a couple weeks away but I already bought my plastic presents when I was down in Reno.

Great score Darren .  Congrats.

Regards,  Rick