ScottsGT

Yes, my old F-250 is a beauty, isn’t it? 🤪

My oldest took his second test (failed his first test in moms car) in my 1995 Mustang GT convertible. He got in the car, buckled up, started the car and asked the lady which way. “Uh, young man, you gotta put the top down first, then I’ll tell you which way we’re going.” He aced that test.

According to USPS tracking, I should have paint tomorrow. I still cannot figure out how or why the USPS logistics works the way it does. Both my orders shipped at the same time. Gundam Store out of ATL came straight to the Columbia processing center. USA Gundam from FL went to Charleston and then to Columbia processing center. Both arrived in Columbia yesterday. The ATL delivery says tomorrow. FL package says Tuesday. They’re both on the way to my local PO right now. Oh, and the FL delivery originally had Monday delivery. Two best jobs in the world to have would be logistics guy for delivery companies and a weatherman. You can screwup 100% of the time and keep your job. Anyhow, taped up the inside of the windows this morning so I can start blasting paint after delivery. Well, maybe. Unpredictable with the wife’s situation now. I’ll be chauffeuring her around town for a while it looks like.

Yesterday I heard the distinctive growl of a radial overhead. Went and looked and all I could see was a yellow dot in the sky. Nothing on Flightradar. Being yellow, probably a Stearman or a Texan. We do have a guy that lives out here that flies a blue and yellow Stearman low and slow over the lake on occasion. He also has a Gloster Meteor.

I tried to convince her to upgrade her flight home to first class just so she has a little more leg room. Nope. Hard headed, “I’ll be fine.” We do have a 4 day cruise booked for March. This will change the dynamics a little. No pool, no hot tub and since we’ve been to Nassau two or three times already we’ll probably just stay on the boat while in port.

Uh oh. You now have a teen in the house. Drink up buddy! Those hormones are going to start kicking in and life is going to be interesting. Congrats?

That AEG would look awesome!

Funny thing is, I’ve spent my weekend while she’s away finally getting around to building the stairs/platform to enter/exit the hot tub without straddling the edge like you’re climbing on a horse. And now she’s 8-10 weeks out from being able to get back in it. 😢 Pay no attention to the pole heights. Those will be adjusted accordingly.

Really! You get it man!! Carl, after 35 years, she isn’t training this old dog with new tricks.

I edited the title to reflect the latest developments going on. She decided to take our youngest out to Colorado to do some skiing and see our son that’s stationed at Ft. Carson. Can you believe she went as far as breaking her foot on the slopes so she can now stay home from work to monitor the package deliveries?!?! The nerve of her!! Thankfully it was a “slow motion” fall and the ski didn’t release from her boot. Acted as leverage to break her ankle. Apparently broken in three places. Emergency crew had to come get her off the mountain and offered to drop her off at the car or take her in for evaluation. Thankfully hard head chose evaluation. Did the X-ray and was shocked, as was the staff because she’s not in pain unless she puts weight on it. I told her on the bright side the Denver airport will provide her transportation to her gate now instead of the something like 1 mile walk. And she’ll get early boarding.

Now that Carl has reignited my interest to take another swipe at an Me 262B nightfighter, I’m going to have to keep my eyes open for one.

Yea, I can already tell I’m gonna have to pick me one of these kits up to one up my build I did when I was a snot nosed teen. Lookin great Carl.

I’m out working on my hot tub steps and heard an airplane overhead and said “That’s a damned Rolls Royce Merlin V12.”

Well I sure don’t want this milk man’s delivery on my front porch!

Yea, up inside these goobers.

To use a word our friends from across the pond coined…. I’m dealing with these fiddly bits now. Sadly I think once I’m done they will no longer be visible.

One thing I’ve learned on the He 111 project is to look forward in the instructions at the diagrams and parts layouts if anything looks suspect. I got bit with the steering yoke assembly and how it mounts. I put a main (gardan) shaft in upside down because in that step it showed the yoke mount ears were round on top. But if I had looked ahead I would have seen that I was supposed to mount it with the holes up.

Hey Carl, I thought about trying the AK colors. Might give them a shot one day. I’m on day 4 and still no shipping notice from USAGundam. Last night I placed an order with Gundam Place out of Atlanta for a couple bottles of the RLM02 and white primer. Let’s see which shows up first. The 02 is the one color that’s holding me up right now. And considering I have a few German aircraft in the stash, it shouldn’t hurt to have a little inventory in stock. I’ve got a feeling I’m going to need a bigger paint rack.

Power company is finally getting around to swapping out the power pole in front of my home today. Wife was teasing me because no lights to work by. She forgot about the Milwaukee M18 converter she bought me for Christmas’22.

Went to order paint for the newest build on the bench and of course Sprue was completely out of RLM 02. Scratch that…back to USAGundam for the paint. (Slow to ship, but they have it ). RLM 02 is like the primer, base color coat for everything German. Ugh…either Luftwaffe is very popular right now or someone forgot to stock up!

Well, this is the plan at this point at least.

And side two done!

And it works!!! These are the two piece hubs that lock together during construction. Using my painful twist drill I poked a hole through both. I then cut off the ends that go into the end of the brass legs. This is the hubs held in place how they will be glued after painting. The wheels will still roll freely after it’s built so I can practice my touch and go’s! Music wire glued to one end of the cut off axle. Slightly started. Pushed in a little further, but not all the way. Once painted, I’ll assemble and glue on the other cut off axle into the other side.