ScottsGT

At least for us down south. Springs here and the wife feels that she needs to generate another “to-do” list to keep me busy. Of course pollen is in full bloom and everything is a haze looking through it. Wearing a mask this time of the year is one thing the covid days taught me. Me: Find project, figure it out in my head, run to Slow’s, Home Depression or local hardware store. Grab what I need and get home to knock out project. Or even faster, sit down in the evening and order online and knock out that project when it arrives. Wife: “Oh, I want to put pavers down where the grandkids sandbox is at. I want to go with you to Home Depot. She looks at pavers, trying to find the cheapest way of getting it done and she’s guesstimating on sq ft of the area. Has no idea she’s looking at a $1000 project until I do the math for her. This alone took about an hour trying to convince her she actually needed two pallets of pavers. We leave with her brain cooking that one for a few days. ”Oh, swing into the grocery store. I need a few things.” ”Oh, let’s grab lunch since we’re out.” “I bought flowers for the neighbor that just has surgery. Let’s take them to her.” So a “quick” trip to grab something I ordered started when we left home just after 9am and ended when we got home after 3 pm. 🤪. And she wonders why I “never get anything done.” Something told me to make the run to Home Depot on Tuesday while she was at work. Oh, and here’s the good part. HD told me my order was two boxes. It was a 12’ X 10’ awning system. Got home and box #2 was someone else’s order. Now this afternoon I have to drive the 25 miles back to HD and return someone’s closet door system.

LOL! I think that’s my problem. I’m trying to run a museum. 🤪

Nice! Looks like everything I would have grabbed. I’ve built the U boat but still have the Gato in the stash. I’m actually contemplating putting it up for sale if I can get a box big enough to ship it in.

It should be an entertaining follow up.

I went by my local PO and was told there is nothing they can do once it’s in the hands of customs.

5 weeks later, still no movement.

Actor/Director/Producer Tyler Perry is into the big jets as well. He owns a huge hanger in Atlanta GA that’s on his “compound” where his mansion is. He has a C-17 about the same size as the 777 in the video.

Damn, Gary’s had it pretty bad. He also lost his daughter to Covid as well.

Been away from the bench for a while traveling to see our daughter. Got back to it this morning. Did some touch ups on the camo where I mis-masked and had primer edges showing. this is right after hosing it down with leveling thinner to blend in the touch ups. And my new squirrel (distraction)…. This thing is light years away from when I was flying back in 1999. It’s a damned computer now.

One leg? Gary lose a leg? I met him at the Nats when they were in Columbia.

Looks great John! I just got back into town after visiting our daughter in VA for a few days. I’ve got quite a bit of touch ups to do on my camo edges. But tomorrow…..

I went digging through old posts he made the other day. My favorite was him holding his new Daisy Red Ryder BB gun he got for Christmas. I couldn’t find it. ☹️

Well that will let me sleep sound. LOL! I am glad to say we finally went to an artificial Christmas tree. Backs just too ganked up to be hauling around a live 12’ tree anymore.

On a side note, have y’all read or watched the tv show on the development of the coupe? The roof design was an aero dynamic design over the Cobra convertible that allowed it to go into turns at a higher rate of speed. There was something about the first body built didn’t have this correct airfoil shape and it was like hitting a brick wall in the turns. If memory serves me correctly, body was built in Europe and was returned for the roofline changes. Now talk about a long warranty service.

Yea, saw that this am on TOS. I’m about to start pulling kits I know I’ll never get to and have a fire sale to justify this. I’m getting the launch rail as well. So far I’ve got about a half dozen kits in mind to finally let go. Most are 1/48, but really big 1/48. Also have a few helicopters since I was on a helicopter kick years back. Funny how I never finished one. But I’ll be listing them as I acquire shipping boxes for each. Not gonna be that guy that sells something online then tells the buyer I’ll ship it when I can find a box. EDIT: Forgot to mention. This IS my grail kit.

@DocRob The tape just arrived via Amazon. You were right. This stuff is nice and thin, feels just like Tamiya tape too. The sensitive is the same way but less “stick” to the adhesive. Just a little more sticky than a post-it note.

Does Canada law require an archeologist to be on site for the big dig of your bench? 😇 Tim, you are so right! But I’m going to lay blame on autocorrect 🤡 I got a very pleasant surprise yesterday with the insulation guys. Our home has one main large area with a cathedral ceiling in the middle. Kitchen and foyer is in this area as well. Bedrooms are “wings” on either side of the main area. Not including making access (I have no attic access in this house) it’s only $1400 to insulate over the bedrooms. Now the cathedral ceiling area is a different story. One of the guys thinks they attached the Sheetrock directly to the roof rafters. He doesn’t think it has a truss system with space above. They’re going to return with an infrared camera to look for hot spots to see of any insulation was packed between the joists. If not, they will go up on the roof, remove the two top rows of shingles and cut off the wood and blow it down inside the channels and then button it all back up. This might get a little costly. Access to the ceiling area over the bedrooms looks possible by removing the vinyl siding on the front of the house and going through the knee wall above the ceiling. The walls are 2 foot higher than the inside walls. Other option was cutting access into a ceiling and patching it up after. It was nice not having a contractor come out and give me a quote based on the view. I swear even the simplest things I keep getting $10,000 and up quotes. Contractors must think we got here by being stupid.

So sad. You’ll be missed dearly Harv. Every time I come to this site I wonder how Harv was doing.

Chris, I get it! But if you’re wanting a T-6, T-28, F-86D or Kingfisher or……, they’re the only game in town. The only kit of theirs I’ve built so far is the T-6. Has a few minor issues that can easily be corrected with some Evergreen stock as shims. The cowl is a booger to assemble in four pieces. It doesn’t help when you transpose the parts arrangement and glue it together all wrong either. 🤪

Oh, and no modeling this morning. I forgot I have a contractor coming by to recheck all the window measurements we’re getting replaced. Between old double pain glass with the UV breaking down inside and my discovery of zero insulation in my attic, we’re about to spend a hell of a lot of money on this place.

Thanks Rob. You just cost me $25. 🤣 Amazon has this brand and I ordered a roll of the professional and a roll of sensitive. Not sure if those are meant for the surface they’re going on or the end user. But I qualify for both. 🤪

Done for the day. I’ll let the lacquer dry overnight and come back in the morning to tape off for the green.

Finally… Off to find lunch and then to the booth!

Some of the frustrations. Looking at the rudder and vertical stabilizer the green goes down into the horizontal stabilizer. But the art drawings don’t match. Times like this is when I get frustrated and go kick my cat. I kid! I kid! I smack the dog instead. 🤣

I often wonder if I do everything the hard way. Spent yesterday’s bench time and probably half of today’s just taping up for the camo paint job. I took the decal sheet and blew up to pics 200% and 300% to cut out templates. laid out Tamiya 40mm tape and traced it. cut it out placed it on the model. Of course not all lines line up, so some fudge factor corrections are made. once I spray the brown, I’ll line them with ticky tack and cover with tape and spray the OD green. Im eating through my Tamiya 40mm tape like candy. Sprue has been out of stock for a while now. Amazon to the rescue. Three rolls are supposed to be here tomorrow, which means Saturday at the earliest or Monday.