ScottsGT

Ok, not gonna lie. I’ve been home alone all day and never got out of my pajamas. 🤡 Got a good bit accomplished with the office. Lots of mods to the plastic and lots of mods to the Quinta details made for the Trumpeter kit.

A little before and after action.

Mark, I’m a little late to this thread, but I have one of the old 8” round fluorescent tube lights with the magnifier in the center. My tube died and I bought an LED upgrade off Amazon for it. So much brighter now! Highly recommend this conversion to anyone that has one of these.

With my kit I bought Jerry included a lot of Tamiya sprues with the landing gear. Among those sprues were the ejection seats I’m going to try to use and the closed exhaust nozzles. I’ve already worked those out and I’ll be using them with the build. I think trimming a little off the bottom of the seats and I’ll be GTG.

Quinta interior for the Trumpeter kit arrived. I’ve been prepping the cockpit by smoothing down the details provided by Revell. So far everything for the Trumpeter panels looks like it walk all fit with a few mods to parts and 3D decals. So close.

Post office just dropped these off.

Years back I pulled up into a parking spot at Pet Smart. In the empty spot next to me was a throw rug someone tossed out of their car because they were too lazy to dispose of it properly. I sent a pic of it to my family with “Look, flying carpet parking at Pet Smart”

Progress! Sprayed some white primer this evening on intake areas, landing gear and the reskit wheels. Wow, detail is amazing on these. Even has the valve stem on them.

Another “proverbial bench” project…. Or how I spent my day yesterday and later today. Duke Energy has lowered our lake about 4’ under normal, so getting down to our floating dock is kind of dangerous trying to balance on an 8’ A frame ladder while stepping on a dock that moves under your weight. So for this summers activities, the wife had tasked me to build a set of stairs so the grand kids can safely access the lower dock. Now I just have to figure out how to get these heavy things down to the lower dock. Going to take 4 or 5 people to lower them into place. steps have not been attached yet, probably saves 60-70 lbs, but I have to finish the hand rails today. Funny thing is, I paid a guy $1600 + materials last weekend to replace the front steps on my house. After this set of tiny stairs, that was money well spent.

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Does Jennings own Fundekals or just do some contracting work for them? Their website has nothing about the owners, location, etc.. As caustic as he comes off as, he really does seem know his stuff. Well, to a point. Then there’s just his opinion becoming absolutes. His main profession is a CRNA like my wife. I fully understand his personality. It seems that the “passing gas” profession requires a very knowledgeable personality and they are the one person that can and will shut down a surgeon right there and then on the spot in an OR. It takes a strong person to tell a surgeon “No, this ain’t happening today.”

Chris, do they know why your plumbing stopped working? Was it a bladder stone blocking things up? You know what’s worse? Being married to a CRNA. First, their personality types are basically narcissistic’s. She’s always right. Second, medical personnel tend to downplay any symptom. Third, she always finds a way to blame it on me not getting enough exercise. I’m eat up with arthritis in my back, neck, knees and left hand. I also have severe spinal stenosis. If a weather front is coming, I can feel it. I have good days, but more often bad days with pain I can work through with enough Motrin and Tylenol on board. And a hot tub. Yes, best damned money we’ve ever spent on a frivolous toy that wound up being very therapeutic for myself. “Well if you would just walk 5 miles a day…” 15 years ago our son was having some “indigestion” and bad stomach cramping issues. Wife kept blowing it off. I finally did some reading after remembering his symptoms were like my dads when he was having gall bladder issues. Sure enough, boy had to have his removed at 16. She’s the epitome of “Rub some dirt on it and walk it off.”

Man, I’ve been at this bench all day and all I have to show for it is this big mess.

Sad to say it, but parts of Texas are going the same way.

Yea, the world got to see what the “Good ol’ Boy” system in the deep south is really like. A couple counties over there was a Sheriff that held the record for being the youngest ever elected to that position and had something like 40 years in service. His greed finally caught up with him for making deals with criminal types that benefited him financially. Went from top cop to inmate overnight.

Same here in the states Maru. I guess even criminals have a code of conduct. The well publicized Murdaugh murderer (Dad) got put in protective custody because they know gen pop would be a death sentence. Not saying that’s a bad thing….. https://www.wistv.com/2023/03/31/murdaugh-moved-protective-custody-maximum-security-sc-prison/

Not sure how many here keep up on LSP, but Harold announced earlier today that due to his health issues he’s calling it quits and retiring. He trying to find someone to take over his line of products so they can continue on.

I can hear it now…”Honey, we have to add on a gymnasium to the house to fit my new diorama.”

Now you need a 1/48 Enterprise refit to go with it.

Nose gear was a little different. Tamiya gear was just too long. So I simply shortened it. I also used a brass tube insert but this time I had to hollow out the top of the Revell parts to accept the rod. glued together with brass tube. finished! Of course all the details need to be added now.

Here I used a section of brass tube in place of the metal inserts Tamiya calls for. I also cut off the part of the top of the gear that slides down into it to stabilize and center the brass rod. These were CA glued in place. you can see the top of the Revell gear next to it. This is glued together separately from the Tamiya parts. Once dry, I filled it with 5 min epoxy and slid the two parts together and carefully positioned it as the epoxy cured. The support arm will not fit in the same location as the Revell part did. It is a bit too long. But simply drilling a new hole for the locating pin in the correct location works fine.

Here’s the two set laid out side by side. I simply didn’t use the top section of the Tamiya legs. Well, almost. At the 36 line is where I needed to cut off the Revell top to reuse. Of course you’ll need both halves.

Ok, I took the original gear and cleaned them up a little first. Tamiya sprue comes with a new hydraulic cylinder so I needed to cut this blob off the part I will need. and after it is cleaned up.

Not going to throw this one up in the wet build since A. Carl is doing one. And B. Tis’ the season for yard work, home maintenance and getting summer toys ready for the water. I highly doubt I’ll have this one done by the deadline. I wanted to start out with the cockpit, but knowing there are 3D printed interior decal sheets, I pulled the kit out of the box and pulled up cockpit pics online of the Tamiya and the Trumpeter kits to see which was the closest to the old Revell kit. Trumpeter won out and now I’m waiting my order from Hobby Nut Models so I can morph that old Revell cockpit into something. Reading up on the kit online, one suggestion mentioned over and over was to swap out the landing gear with a set of the Tamiya legs. Well, low and behold, the used kit I got from a fellow member here included the sprues from Tamiya with all these parts. But yea, not as easy as it looks. As you can see, top mounting points are completely different. More to come…..