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Latest Acquisitions (2023)
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A original airfix motor to fit my Bentley and some mask for my Wessex
I’ve heard some of these have a short shot part, might worth checking your kit mate.
Why is the dude driving it wearing furry ear muffs?
With the doors just being a plastic sheet, it may be cold in there. Or it's just a perm.
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So the other day SWMBO announced that we were getting a new fridge/freezer as she was tired of fighting off the dogs every time she had to go into the fridge (all under the counter jobs). So she showed me where it was going to live in the kitchen, which meant removing a 24 inch length of the worktop. So this was all measured out and out came the jig saw and the dust cloud commenced along with the moaning.... "This needs all cleaning up" said she - "Me technician - you labourer" said I and went away to put my tools away.
So 7-30am today the new fridge/freezer arrived, and after unpacking and checking for scrapes and dents I set to work levelling it. Not a problem there, the spirit level helped greatly.
"I need the doors changed from this side to that side" came the command. Had a look at the destruction booklet and sure enough it showed the hinges etc.... WHY :tired: do they insist on using three different bolts/screws with three different heads. Four trips up to the shed later to get various tools and it was mutter, mutter under my breath. Then of course I had to undo the bottom hinge bracket - not a problem if you remove the interfering pup out of the way who wanted to play pull your hair....
So to cut a long story short - why do manufacturers insist on using so many different items to do one job, and what could have been a simple cross head screw driver job turned out to be a socket, hammer, screw driver and various bits, stillsons, knife for removing the little caps and a total time of one and a half hours to do the job even without the dogs wanting to play lets drag daddy around the floor..... :sad:
So 7-30am today the new fridge/freezer arrived, and after unpacking and checking for scrapes and dents I set to work levelling it. Not a problem there, the spirit level helped greatly.
"I need the doors changed from this side to that side" came the command. Had a look at the destruction booklet and sure enough it showed the hinges etc.... WHY :tired: do they insist on using three different bolts/screws with three different heads. Four trips up to the shed later to get various tools and it was mutter, mutter under my breath. Then of course I had to undo the bottom hinge bracket - not a problem if you remove the interfering pup out of the way who wanted to play pull your hair....
So to cut a long story short - why do manufacturers insist on using so many different items to do one job, and what could have been a simple cross head screw driver job turned out to be a socket, hammer, screw driver and various bits, stillsons, knife for removing the little caps and a total time of one and a half hours to do the job even without the dogs wanting to play lets drag daddy around the floor..... :sad:
Had exactly the same moving a bed frame from one room to another. Philips, hex, flat head and allen key all on a single piece of furniture.
And madam helping by carting various things around the house
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Jack, you have my sympathy LOL, and women think it is so easy, just make the suggestion and it is done..... Look at the love in that face....
SWIMBO. 1 job = 10 minutes!!!
Then we spend 30 minutes trying to understand what exactly she wants doing!
Another 15 to 30 minutes assembling all the necessary tools we have to do the job.
Allow 1 to 3 hours visiting B&Q/Toolstation/Screwfix to get the bibs and bobs needed that we don’t have!
Plus obligatory brew stops!!
Then the rollicking because we haven’t even started yet!!!!
Total time taken to do the actual work - 30 minutes!!
SWIMBO -‘you don’t half drag a ten minute job out’!!!!!
Insert own expletives.
:thumb2: :smiling3: :upside: :rolling:
Then we spend 30 minutes trying to understand what exactly she wants doing!
Another 15 to 30 minutes assembling all the necessary tools we have to do the job.
Allow 1 to 3 hours visiting B&Q/Toolstation/Screwfix to get the bibs and bobs needed that we don’t have!
Plus obligatory brew stops!!
Then the rollicking because we haven’t even started yet!!!!
Total time taken to do the actual work - 30 minutes!!
SWIMBO -‘you don’t half drag a ten minute job out’!!!!!
Insert own expletives.
:thumb2: :smiling3: :upside: :rolling:
G
I’ve wanted to buy that Lysander kit for 40 years or so, now I came across it and decided to go for it. Chances are I’ll never build it because I don’t like building old and rare kits, so maybe I’ll eventually buy the Revell reissue to build, if I come across that at some point :smiling3:
The railway crossing is intended as a base for photographing models on, simply because I like the way it makes a more interesting groundwork than just a road. The T1E3 mine roller is for sometime after I finish the M32B1 with T1E1 roller (if I ever will …
) so I can have its companion sitting next to it :smiling3: And finally, browsing the site where I bought this, I also came across the Zwillingsockel 36, and bought it because of this photo:This is a picture from sometime in the Second World War, I assume from before when the beaches were made off-limits to the local population, taken on Boulevard Evertsen¹ in Vlissingen. At a quick guess, it’s approximately where I placed the marker if you follow this link. The empty plot on the map, to the northwest of the marker, is the site of the elaborate building in the right background of the photo. (That building is the Grand Hotel Britannia, known locally as the “Brit”, which burned down in November 1944 due to heavy fighting inside of it. A replacement was built in the 1950s, but torn down in 2010 to leave the empty plot; a third incarnation is currently under construction.)
¹ In Dutch, boulevard refers to a seaside promenade rather than a grand avenue. It’s named after this man, his father, and/or his brothers (not sure which of them exactly
).
Building up my Churchill stash to do a few in coming months.Hoping to do Canadian one at Dieppe,Postwar Irish army one,Iraqi one from 1950s and a couple of U.K ones training in 1942.Got this one from Modelsforsale.No doubt at Billericay show this Sunday another might come home with me.
Richard
Richard
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Nice, a Mk. III AVRE rather than the Mk. IVs I’ve been building. I want to do a Mk. VII myself one of these days, but I have so much else to do that I’ll instead keep an eye out for your Churchill models
Im hoping i can use the AVRE bits for my postwar irish one c1950s.The base tank im going to use for my Canadian Churchill 1 or 2 at Dieppe.Ive managed to get a Resicast earlier wading stack set to use.The international asia sets are on the way to me im informed.So i will have a spare mark 3 AVRE turret.Plus ive got a second hand AFV Dieppe mark 3 ive stripped paint off which means ive got another to use.Im thinking of an iraqi one of 1950s next to do.
These are Iraqi Churchill mark v11s.Was told Jordan never had any.
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You forgot to add in the time she takes to put on the lipstick because she cannot go out with none on, and how long does it take to get through the front door to the car, that has been sitting idling for ten minutes..... And what is exactly in that handbag she carries????SWIMBO. 1 job = 10 minutes!!!
Then we spend 30 minutes trying to understand what exactly she wants doing!
Another 15 to 30 minutes assembling all the necessary tools we have to do the job.
Allow 1 to 3 hours visiting B&Q/Toolstation/Screwfix to get the bibs and bobs needed that we don’t have!
Plus obligatory brew stops!!
Then the rollicking because we haven’t even started yet!!!!
Total time taken to do the actual work - 30 minutes!!
SWIMBO -‘you don’t half drag a ten minute job out’!!!!!
Insert own expletives.
Have you not come to terms with the fact that it's not just a handbag - it's a reconfigured Tardis :smiling: !
Steve
Pandora's Box.......................
Dave
It's all that, the National Archives and a cudgel too. :tongue-out3:
I didn't go in for this but I certainly came out with it. 
Afternoon
When using especially Eduard PE frets I have always tried to put them back into the original packet to protect them but the packaging is always a bit tight and have damaged a few fragile bits in the past sliding them back into the packet.
So been watching a guy on YouTube, he uses a folder/book with A5 plastic pockets, so £2 from evilbay later, hey presto
More space in the folder and frets stored in order, will also use labels to label what fret is inside, very pleased. Please note the Xmas slippers, just had to knock me out to get the old ones off my feet!
He also uses pink Mr surfacer 1500, no idea they did it in pink, the same guy uses it for easy identification for seam checking. To be fair he happily shares his techniques, thank god lol!
Last, never used superglue with a brush, feedback is good so will try
After my last post young Mr Smith made a jokey comment that I should finish a kit first, although totally meant as banter. It did upset me.
The last year has been horrendous for my family, as many know Julie had cancer of the womb last year, had a emergency hysterectomy followed by radiotherapy, we are both scared that it will come back although the first 6 month check over was thankfully clear.
Now almost exactly a year later my beautiful mum has had a terminal cancer diagnosis. It's truly terrible visiting every day knowing what's coming. So making and finishing kits is the last priority I have, I often sit at the bench but my mind thinks of my mum and I cannot go on.
Sorry for the ramble, but needed to get this off my mind.
Not having a go at Andy by the way, I mean that.
When using especially Eduard PE frets I have always tried to put them back into the original packet to protect them but the packaging is always a bit tight and have damaged a few fragile bits in the past sliding them back into the packet.
So been watching a guy on YouTube, he uses a folder/book with A5 plastic pockets, so £2 from evilbay later, hey presto
More space in the folder and frets stored in order, will also use labels to label what fret is inside, very pleased. Please note the Xmas slippers, just had to knock me out to get the old ones off my feet!
He also uses pink Mr surfacer 1500, no idea they did it in pink, the same guy uses it for easy identification for seam checking. To be fair he happily shares his techniques, thank god lol!
Last, never used superglue with a brush, feedback is good so will try
After my last post young Mr Smith made a jokey comment that I should finish a kit first, although totally meant as banter. It did upset me.
The last year has been horrendous for my family, as many know Julie had cancer of the womb last year, had a emergency hysterectomy followed by radiotherapy, we are both scared that it will come back although the first 6 month check over was thankfully clear.
Now almost exactly a year later my beautiful mum has had a terminal cancer diagnosis. It's truly terrible visiting every day knowing what's coming. So making and finishing kits is the last priority I have, I often sit at the bench but my mind thinks of my mum and I cannot go on.
Sorry for the ramble, but needed to get this off my mind.
Not having a go at Andy by the way, I mean that.
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