ScottsGT

Just an update. Went in for my third adjustment yesterday morning. I’m no longer feeling like I was in a bar fight afterwards and each day I have progressively felt better. One of my measuring sticks is feeling the road bumps and how my body was reacting with shooting pains vs. pot hole repair size. Aren’t SC roads great? Idjits fill a pot holes and leave it sticking up like a speed bump or just halfway fill the holes. I’m actually starting to feel my older back pains before the SI flair up. Sleeping all night in the bed has not happened yet. Spend a couple hours in the middle of the night in my recliner.

Thanks! I’m actually putting a lot of thought into my next steps. I’ve got the wings ready to glue on already, even had to correct a mistake I made on the center section joint. But I decided it would be a lot easier to work the fuselage seams now before I’m spinning around a huge bird in my hands. When I walked away from the bench last night, in my head I was planning on wing attachment. Went to bed and started rethinking which would be easier and save time in the long run. I have decided with the complex landing gear attachment points that I’m going to paint the bottom of the airplane first, then install the legs. It’s just going to be too hard to tape that busy area up with the gear in place. I like to think of the instructions as a suggestion. But trying to halfway follow these would has been total chaos.

Ugh….sanded the seams smooth before adding the huge wingspan. Got a flat top fuselage now. Tamiya putty applied. Let’s hope I can work some “roundness” into this like I have with my belly.

Soon to be hidden forever. All those hours spent detailing. See? Gone. A little peaking through the windows. Current status.

Been playing in the bomb factory all day. Already got them in the crates and now about to tackle fitting them into the wing center section.

Awesome! I’m building a new fangled modern upper for my SBR AR right now. 7.5” barrel 300 AAC Blackout. The silencer I built a few years back was built for anything up to 7.63/.30 and it’s as long as the barrel is. And as big and round as the hand guard. Cannot wait to try out some subsonics in it. And we will get to see our son in the next few weeks also. He’s transitioning from Ft. Carson in CO to Virginia to start his Captains Quarters training for 6-9 months. He’s going to swing by here and spend a week with us. He was going to go on a cruise with us, but his CO highly suggested he did not leave the country.

But that’s my excuse! Oops! I guess I had one too many to drink.

That’s pretty cool! But not brave enough to do another! I’m now decaling the bombs before mounting them up inside the milk crates. This is where I get carried off to the funny farm.

As you can see, I pre-painted the black on the rad and inside the scoop and taped it up before installing. This probably saved me an hour + of exerting energy towards new curse words trying to tape up after the fact.

Ok, I feel like I came up with a work around on these “German engineering” cowls and radiator scoops. First, yank this crap out. Not needed and just adds to the confusion. Empty hole after useless crap extraction. Glue part #22 onto the radiator and not the back of the cowl assembly. You can see it locks under a tab on the bottom of the radiator. Align scoops and glue in place. The scoops are a tad bit narrow and will require some filling. I brushed on a bit of sprue goo for added strength. I’ll smooth out and add putty as needed.

Going Netherlands with this one.

Wow, just got finished wrestling with the lower cowl/radiator scoops. These parts just don’t want to fit. Got frustrated, ripped it back off before the glue set and I’m walking away for a few hours. This would be a great part for the AM industry to replace if it ever gets rereleased again. Edit to add, I think I see the problem. The real plane looks like crap in this area too. I might be trying to make it too nice.

Funny thing is, I posted my story after a guy binned a Trumpeter Avenger because his gun turret parts were missing or lost. I told him that was a shame because I have an Avenger kit I’m modifying as the guppy with an enclosed canopy.

Generosity strikes again….. I made a post on LSP about tossing projects in the bin where I have a 1/72 Concorde kit that is missing the windshield off the clear sprue. Heller won’t come through with a replacement after I’ve contacted them twice. I got a PM from a member that he has that extra sprue and is sending it to me.

Well the chiropractors adjustments yesterday worked a small miracle on my back. Although I do feel like I’ve been worked over in a bar brawl, I did manage to make it back to the bench comfortably. I jumped on the convoluted instructions covering the build up of the cowls and wing center section. My goodness, now I know where the Trumpeter B team came from. They got fired from Revell of Germany. Instructions show installing a bulkhead at the marked tabs in the instructions, but nothing on the plastic part to show where it glues in place. Another step shows the lower radiator cowls in place but they haven’t been built yet. Flip the page and they have you build the radiator cowls in the next step. Honestly, if the new Revell were to re-release this kit without a serious sprue numbering and lettering system and rework the instructions it would probably put them out of business again. Even the clear canopy parts are misleading. There’s a sliding window that sits above/forward of the pilot. Instructions show it mounted inside and not on the outside. This thing is a hot mess.

You got the Quinta J interior set for the E?

My stenosis does sometimes bring on weird burning sensations like someone put a lit cigarette in a spot on my lower leg or I get a sensation something is crawling up my leg. That’s the one that freaks me out. Especially when I take the boat out and it’s stored in a covered lift full of spiders.

Worth trying. Drs (surgeons) make money fixing by cutting open people. I will add, my sciatica is greatly reduced (to the point of none) after surgery myself. What I do experience is extreme fatigue and weakness in my legs now from the stenosis. After surgery (1999) I woke up crying tears of joy because for the first time in 2-3 years my leg didn’t feel like it was on fire. Nurse started to freak out thinking I was in pain and about double dosed me with my morphine drip. Told her hell no. I’m enjoying the moment. Don’t you dare take it from me. But I’m still flabbergasted that this entire time I was thinking it was my old back issues and it was lower. I honestly cannot express how much of a mental relief this has been finding out my back wasn’t progressively getting worse.

See, I’m thinking Christine. I know, off by a year, but close enough. I’d love to rock one of these around town.

Carl, Sounds like an SI joint popped out. What you were doing was what the chiropractor described to me causes it to go out. This crap started with me fall of ‘22 when I carried a garden sprayer around slung over one shoulder and walked 2+ miles. Monday before Thanksgiving I drove my old F-250 to the dump and the slipped SI joint was impacting the nerves. It took me 45 minutes to get from the driveway to the bed. Loaded up on pain killers and muscle relaxers. I’m now kicking my butt for not going to see this guy sooner since I got his number shortly after this. Although the pain had gone away, I didn’t realize how it was affecting my body movement until he reset it yesterday. That alone was like a domino effect causing other issues.

Enough was enough. Two weeks of muscle relaxers, Motrin and Tylenol just wasn’t cutting it. I’ve been carrying around the name of a highly recommended chiropractor for over a year now and finally gave in. Called them up and they told me to get down there ASAP. I hobbled into his clinic like a cripple and came out feeling like Fred Astaire ready to dance to my wife waiting out in the car. He did warn me to not get too excited. This will last 24-48 hours and it will start moving out of joint again. Apparently I’ve been living with my right SI joint out of whack for a few years now. He warmed me up, gave me shock therapy to loosen up things and then twisted me up like a pretzel and popped things back into place. Not only the SI joint, but two vertebrae in my mid thoracic were out of place and a spot in my neck. Made an appointment for additional adjustments for Thursday and Saturday morning. As he put it, it’s been out of whack for a while. It wants to stay out until he keeps putting it back in place for a while. This whole time I was thinking it was my spinal stenosis from where I had laminectomies done on L2-3 & L4-5 back in 1999. This guy was good. Just talking to me he knew it was not this area and he did tests proving my stenosis is not really causing me the pain issues I thought they were. Hopefully in the morning I’ll know if I can spend time back at the bench.

Ok, gonna have to smack you down for that one. KR was ‘68. But since you mentioned ‘69 GT500…. I thought I broke the speedometer in this one back when I was young and foolish. Back around 1982. It was my brothers car (him in the photo) I had just gotten new tires installed and I was driving home and I suddenly noticed the road in front of me was all mine. I pegged the 140 speedometer and held my foot on the go pedal. When I let off, it stayed on 140. All I could think was “Oh crap! I broke the speedO and now my brother will know I maxed it out.” After 10-15 seconds (yea, ok. Maybe not that long, but it sure felt like it) of my foot off the pedal the needle finally started dropping. I’d love to know just how fast I was going that day. But I will say, the lane lines become a solid line at that speed. I missed out on Mopars growing up. Like Ernie, I was a Ford guy (almost) all my life. I did shortly own a hot Rodded ‘73 Z-28. When I was kid back in 1970 there was two cars that sparked my love affair with cars. One was a brand new dealers demo car from a Ford dealership nearby. It was a ‘70 Boss 302. Gold with black stripes, window slats and that beautiful shaker hood scoop. The other was a guy in the Navy down the street that bought a brand new Vitamin C Orange 1970 Roadrunner with the air grabber hood. He installed Craiger SS wheels. If I win the lottery, I will own those two cars.

Ok, this is way beyond cool! Syfi meets reality. I’ve often thought about doing a modern aircraft refitted with old Merlin’s, radials or just automotive V8 engines or vintage aircraft with modern jet engines and making it a cross between steampunk meets Max Max apoplectic world.

Impressive! I’ve yet to build one Corsair. Wait, does the A-7 Corsair count?