flytilbroke

Boring this is, yet I now see the end of the current decorating spree approaching. A coat of gloss paint now applied with the hope I have done it well, so that only the one coat will be needed. The walls will be much faster to do with emulsion. The big problem is that the new brightness is already indicating further decorating is about to be put to me in a way I will find dificult to argue against. I just gotta be

Childish fun with smillies

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wonwinglo

Hi Char,you have plenty of young company to keep you amused there,when ever you get sad just think of the good times you had,dad would only want you to be happy,have you done any more on that monster Galaxy recently ?

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Bunkerbarge

Well sat in my seat/bed(posh end!) on the Jumbo as we jet our way back to Orlando is as good a time as any to reflect on my last leave and get my head around the requirements of the next contract.

The most significant event for a lot of us must have been the passing away of NigelD which certainly put a halt on the usually upbeat mood of just arriving home. It took the wind out of my sails and affected me more than I would have ever thought possible. Nigel was an integral part of this forum and I still find myself writing notes and postings thinking about what his reaction would be to it when he read it. There always was one, and I was usually not too far off the mark with my expectations. Nigel was a gem and his generosity, enthusiasm, drive and energy will be missed.

I even bought a copy of a magazine by the name of Model Aircraft Monthly which contains a very in depth review of Nigel’s favourite plane, the Sea Fury, including some superb colour drawings of it. Nigel would have loved it.

I also had to finish off this leave with another sad bit of news more personal to me. A friend I have known for nearly fourty years and who has been a part of my life for all that time had a stroke a few weeks ago and I went to see her in hospital the day before yesterday. To see someone who has always been such a lively and energetic character, full of chat, stories and news reduced to a semi paralised helpless person, confined to a hospital bed and not able to even speak leaves such a powerful memory that I now find it hard to shake off. Only last leave she took myself and Annette out to a new local park for a walk around the beautifully manicured beds after a pub lunch and an update on the family gossip. Life goes on but it certainly does not seem to get any easier. Her daughter now spends a lot of her time travelling up and down the M6, in this weather and at this time of year and with the arrorant and aggressive drivers sharing the road with her I find it all to easy to slip into “Why are we here” mode. I am sure there must be a reason but it escapes me at the moment.

On the modelling front the Ben Ain progressed nicely although not a tremendous amount to show for it at the end of the day. I sincerely hope that when I get off the detail work of the bridge area it will actually progress a bit quicker but it seems to be a bit of a slow progress at the moment. I keep telling myself I want to put it on the water again for a run and to generate some enthusiasm but there is rather a lot of bare wood on it at the moment and if it was to get wet and warp I could end up destroying weeks of work. I must be patient. I did try the boiler plant on the bench at one point but the engine was very sticky and uncooperative so that obviously needs a bit of attention before it ventures out into the middle of the pond!

My three yachts proved to be an interesting purchase. One, an Ebay win for £77.00, is huge and won’t see water for a long time. It is basically sound but it does need a lot doing to it before it goes on the water. I don’t want anything else to distract me from the steamer at the moment so it is back of the queue for now. Another Ebay item was a restored Whitby Gaff rigged Sloop. A bit of a struggle on the water as it has been carved from solid pine and the restoration job hasn’t produced the best sail configuration so she needs some attention to get her running well. The final purchase was from a fellow club member and that is a beauty. It is a plank on frame Bermuda rig, just over 29 inches long and sails superbly. It is a perfect boat to learn the intricacies of sailing and has opened my eyes to the differences between sail and motor.

Finally just before I left the cooler climate of Yorkshire I also bought a ready made and RC converted Revel Snowberry Corvette. I will probably do a bit of a paint job on her but not much more and then sail her with the U-boat. They should look good together on the pond but, once again I don’t want to take on another big distracting job.

I actually did get around to doing one job in the house that has caused a certain degree of merriment for the last six and a half years. When we had the house built we asked for all sorts of additional electrical fittings, one of which was two cables on the alcove walls in the lounge to fit wall lights to. Since then ideas have changed and we are now only going to use one as there is a flat TV in the middle of the other wall so that cable will now have to be buried. Doh!! The thing that put me off, of course, was the fact that the cable exited the wall far too low so I had to channel out the wall to relocate it then fill it all in again and smooth the job over. However I finally got around to fitting a picture light to it and we went to a local art shop to sort out a set of three pictures to display below it. Now all I have to do is bury the cable on the other side and bury the cables that feed the flat TV. Now that isn’t going to be quite as easy.

Just an interesting note on ‘Sod’s Law’. We didn’t get the last two pictures until the last day of my leave, Tuesday, and I make a point of never doing any work on the last day. Putting a picture up can’t harm anything though can it? The first went up perfectly but on the last tap of the picture hook nail a spark shot off it and the house went dead. I could have wept!!! What the hell is a cable doing slap bang in the middle of an alcove wall? IEE Regs clearly state that sockets should be fed from below and lighting circuits should be fed from above. There should be no cable running the length of an internal wall. Unfortunately we have a nice neat idea in our house whereby in the lounge and dining room we have a number of sockets which look like the old type of 5 amp round pin plug socket. The idea is that they are to be used to supply light fittings only as they are fed from the light circuit and switched from the door. Consequently the cable for these goes the length of the wall to feed the socket. What is the chance of putting a 0.5mmsquare pin into 100 square feet of bloody wall and going into the cable? Anyway I pulled it out and everything is OK so it can stay like that. I am certainly not pulling the thing out of the wall to repair it!! So that picture got two hooks!!

So back to the ship tomorrow and back to work as though I have never been home. Another leave that passed so quickly I blinked and missed it. At least this time we have Christmas to get our heads around and with Annette and my Mum joining me for the festivities the time should pass reasonably quickly at the beginning of the trip. I guess it’s time for a couple of Christmas quizzes again. It doesn’t seem like two minutes since the last ones though even though they were a year ago.

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Bluewavestudios

Hi Guys

Well as you have probably noticed I haven't been in for a couple of weeks or so, Just had some new music kit in my studios so have been busy with that familiarising myself with it...so much better to have the real kit that just demo stuff.... I have been busy writing/composing & recording new tunes too and some of those will be appearing online shortly. Well Given this weather recently it's nice to have something to do indoors, if it is not model making,then I am doing music...!!

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wonwinglo

These past few weeks have been spent installing miniature systems into some electric models,these are my little fun type aircraft that can be placed into the back of the KA at a moments notice to fly,that is when it has stopped blowing a gale ! the two new bautifully made Outrunners ordered from China have been put to good use,one has been fitted into my old 'Pico Stick',this has been re-named 'Super Stick' and should now climb like a rocket with that power,in fact I was considering adding a small piece of carbon fibre rod to the wing leading edge for the added stress but that would add more weight ? with braced rigged wings it should be an adventure to fly her.
Next out came my old Keil Kraft Ladybird which has been converted to take electric,shoe horning in the bits proved interesting,she is a pretty little model and flew well on the old Mills 75 now sold off as part of my decision to ditch IC has it badly affected my health having used glow and diesel fuel for far too long.
Electric has such a lot to offer these days,clean,quiet and no nasty fuel proofing to contend with,it was the logical way to go to keep flying,and once more I can use the small scale plans that I have to make new models with modern materials.
Currently experimenting with Depron,having ordered a box of sheets and special adhesive called 'Por' made by the UHU people,this does not attack foam,also there are foam friendly cyno adhesives and zappers available now.
So it is plodding on to get the fleet ready for the spring and hopefully calm days with blue skies,something to really look forward to.

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AerynPk

Referring to Barry's question I have not touched the galaxy as i am too upset to do it because it was going to be a project me and dad was going to do. Bunker thanks for that nice paragraph about my dad that was sweet.

I have been focusing on what my dad would want me to do and that was to be successful at college and also at my job which so far i have.

I finally relised where my dad got this title of the thread from and that is from Ingrid's Lush Forum. It made me laugh when i saw Ingrid on her forum and read it.

I can't thank you all enough for the support you have gave me and the family. Ingrid read the condolences and was so happy that even though you had not met him in person that you could say all thoose wonderful things about him.

Gettin to the subject now though lol. I was in college today and found my dads old website which he made in 1996. There was loads of pictures of his models he made. It was good. Im not sure if you have seen it. Tomorrow is another day for me at work. Then i come home to help family friend look after the little ones as Ingrid is visiting her family in Stoke.

On the Dads and daughters i have made a few adjustment which has a video of all the models he has produced through the years. It is a Photo slide show with waiting on a sunny day song by Bruce springsteen who he loved.

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Bunkerbarge

Char, can you post a couple of links to the two sites so that we can all go straight to them.

PS, the best picture in your signature is the one of you!!!

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AerynPk

My dads first ever website is http://website.lineone.net/~nigel-d/
The dads and daughters website is http://www.ourscalemodels.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
It hasnt had the upgrades because i have to do it via the main server and I cannot do it this weekend considering Ingrid is up stoke and i dont know the password to her computer. She put a password on there becasue a certain 11 year old was playing on there and giving her computer spam. so she put a stop to it.

My day has been pretty good. I have been to work and got a few customers annoyed when trying to take items back. I then came home to an empty house. So i am home alone and it is kind of freeky because i expect dad to come home and he wont. Oh well its a sad thing but also a good thing that i have house to self this is because i will have a party and no one will know about it. meh ha ha ha.

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wonwinglo

Thanks for putting up those site links again Char,they really are excellent reminders of what a good modeller Nigel really was,cherish and clean those models,I think we are so fortunate to have these reminders of his workmanship,you keep that tradition alive,he would have wanted you to do just that.
The Arado 234 engine is a work of art,I know that together with the Sea Fury this was one of his all time favourites,did you ever get my drawing framed for this one ?

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AerynPk

I have got the frames being made at this very moment i have to pick them up next week. I will do his best models when im more experienced because i know that he would hate me if i screwed them up.

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