Quote from: zenrat on January 05, 2024, 02:39:02 AMStock up now for next year and then forget where you stashed it...

Happens all too often in our house...

Quote from: zenrat on January 05, 2024, 02:18:13 AMHot cross buns went on sale December 27th in my local stupid market.

Here in the UK (my part of it anyway) you can no longer buy plain old current buns in the supermarket, they sell hot cross buns all year round. I did ask the manager once and he admitted he hadn't noticed and then muttered something about "not seeing the relevance" 

What? 

Where was he from, Ethiopia?

Quote from: Rick Lowe on January 05, 2024, 02:42:25 AM

Quote from: zenrat on January 05, 2024, 02:39:02 AMStock up now for next year and then forget where you stashed it...

Happens all too often in our house...

Perhaps you would not be surprised at the quantity of "strayed and mislaid"   items that showed up when we moved house nearly 10 years ago.   When every room, cupboard and the garage were emptied and swept out  we had three big boxes of " I'd wondered where that had gone" items.

Quote from: Rheged on January 05, 2024, 07:22:43 AMPerhaps you would not be surprised at the quantity of "strayed and mislaid"   items that showed up when we moved house nearly 10 years ago.   When every room, cupboard and the garage were emptied and swept out  we had three big boxes of " I'd wondered where that had gone" items.

That happens when I clean my model bench 

Gondor

Quote from: Gondor on January 05, 2024, 07:38:15 AM

Quote from: Rheged on January 05, 2024, 07:22:43 AMPerhaps you would not be surprised at the quantity of "strayed and mislaid"  items that showed up when we moved house nearly 10 years ago.  When every room, cupboard and the garage were emptied and swept out  we had three big boxes of " I'd wondered where that had gone" items.

That happens when I clean my model bench 

Gondor

Same... and when I go through the stash looking for something and find all the things I'd put in with something I was going to use it with, changed my mind in the meantime (or forgot...) and then wondered where in the world it had gotten to.

I have sorted out the bits for a project, gone to put them somewhere and found the other bits I'd previously sorted out for the same project... which also shows my glacial build pace.

And yes, that's another reason I'm not planning to move. Ever.

Quote from: Rick Lowe on January 05, 2024, 05:29:44 PMSame... and when I go through the stash looking for something and find all the things I'd put in with something I was going to use it with, changed my mind in the meantime (or forgot...) and then wondered where in the world it had gotten to.

My one is when I find a kit in the stash and then discover there are 2, sometimes 3 iterations of it in the one box. Just after I've bought another usually  

Quote from: NARSES2 on January 06, 2024, 02:02:38 AM

Quote from: Rick Lowe on January 05, 2024, 05:29:44 PMSame... and when I go through the stash looking for something and find all the things I'd put in with something I was going to use it with, changed my mind in the meantime (or forgot...) and then wondered where in the world it had gotten to.

My one is when I find a kit in the stash and then discover there are 2, sometimes 3 iterations of it in the one box. Just after I've bought another usually  

   I feel your pain.

Well that's my first week at work completed for this year. Back to not haveing much time to do much modelling as I am spending roughly ten hours for for days away from home and a Friday, although finishing work earlier, is spent trying to catch up on a lot of the things I wasn't able to do during the week. Oh well 

The New Airfix releases have not exactly excited me. The only things that I am probably interested in are the Chinnock and the B-24, but only if it is released as an RAF machine which if it is done as that will probably be a 100 Group machine although a Costal Command version would not be off the cards as an option.

Gondor

A Coastal Command B-24 sounds interesting... with the fuselage-mounted rocket rails... 

Was there a version with a Big Gun in the nose, or 4X 20mm? Or was that only in a comic I read once?

*edit* yup, 4X 20mms looks to have been a RW mod.

Which B-24 weapon could be fired from the farthest away? A B-24 would not be very maneuverable in the face of AA fire from a surface ship or a surfaced sub.

Quote from: Rick Lowe on January 12, 2024, 02:29:43 PMA Coastal Command B-24 sounds interesting... with the fuselage-mounted rocket rails... 

Was there a version with a Big Gun in the nose, or 4X 20mm? Or was that only in a comic I read once?

*edit* yup, 4X 20mms looks to have been a RW mod.

You may be thinking of Johnny Red from the Battle comics - he flew a B-25 with 8 guns in the nose and 2 more on each side.

Quote from: Nick on January 12, 2024, 06:09:03 PM

Quote from: Rick Lowe on January 12, 2024, 02:29:43 PMA Coastal Command B-24 sounds interesting... with the fuselage-mounted rocket rails... 

Was there a version with a Big Gun in the nose, or 4X 20mm? Or was that only in a comic I read once?

*edit* yup, 4X 20mms looks to have been a RW mod.

You may be thinking of Johnny Red from the Battle comics - he flew a B-25 with 8 guns in the nose and 2 more on each side.

I remember that one; I was thinking more of a random Commando comic or something in Warlord, where someone modded one with 4X 20mm like the RW Pappy Gun fit-outs, to suppress the AA fire.

Quote from: Gondor on January 12, 2024, 01:45:58 PMThe only things that I am probably interested in are the Chinook and the B-24, but only if it is released as an RAF machine which if it is done as that will probably be a 100 Group machine although a Costal Command version would not be off the cards as an option.

The final (red box) rerelease of the old Airfix B-24 included markings for a SEAC Liberator.

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I'd like to see that (or similar) in the inevitable RAF repop.

I am writing this with thoughts that I have very little to say. Work is, well work, not much change there. The actual amount of work I can do is fluctuating between next to nothing and nothing at all, the good thing is that it's definitely not my fault. It was said by several people over a year ago that there were problems with the sub assembly that is the hold up, people were also asking for a second test unit for them as well as it was not only a bottle nect time wise but a single point of failure to the whole production process if the test device failed catastrophically! Sill, not my problem untill they get everything working, then I will be busy, very likely very busy.
One thing that happened just befor the Christmas break was that the laptop I use for controlling both my alignment and testing as well as record keeping died on me. Something in the power side as nothing could get it going again. So shortly after I got back to work I was given a new laptop. Very nice looking machine, runs Windows Eleven and needed everything set up on it. Finally just about there, it does ask for some games thing to be added when I switch it on and it was only yesterday that I got a propper power supply for it, which uses a USB C connector    There is also a chargeing port next to the power socket which is also USB C. I asked nicly and will be getting a USB C to USB C male to male cable as I sometimes need to record problems by takeing pictures and then emailing them onwards to others so haveing a cable provided by the company is helpfull, it also will alow me to charge my phone 
Modelling wise I am planning on continuing work on The Mule by painting a blue band in the middle of the band around the rear fuselage of the aircraft, free hand. Other touching up will also be carried out to repair where the masking tape lifted some of the decals. I don't expect to get as far as adding decals this weekend. I am also thinking of starting yet another two builds. Another TSR.2 which I have been itching to do ever since I got the latest two TSR.2 sets from Colin Freightdog. This will be an RAE aircraft with the radar from his interceptor set underneath it, all very plausible if the aircraft got into service. The second is a real world build using the old Airfix Canberra B.(I)6 as either a B.15 or B.16 using the old Freightdog decal set FSD72019 and using a correction set from the "Airfix kit enhancements" group on Facebook where Tony Little produces some 3D printed upgrades/correction sets for some Airfix kits as well as a few other things too. He is whome I have my Canberra PR 3 and 7 conversion sets for the Frog Canberra and the correction set for the Airfix kit as well. I have also today placed an order with him for a set of Javelin upgrade's.
I am also going to be hacking peices of tile off the bathroom wall. There are some edgeing strips that need to be removed so that some tile matting I bought today from B&Q can fit into a gap I have. 10cm by 66cm. The, what I am calling a mat is a set of smaller tiles glued to a very open weave that comes in a sheet 30cm by 30cm, this one has 5cm square patterned tiles on it which if I am carefull will streach that little bit width ways to take up that extra little bit. That reminds me, I need to order some car trim to fill another gap which is roughly 5mm wide. The silver like trim should fit the gap and will partly be hidden by a glass shelf which I am mounting in front of it. The shelf is held in place by two silver clamps, so it all ties in nicely. Pictures will be posted once it's all in place. So a busy weekend for me, once I get some shopping done tomorrow morning.

Gondor