The "Under the Influence" GB

Brian da Basher · October 25, 2008, 09:47:23 AM

Quote from: gooberliberation on October 25, 2008, 04:38:48 AM
Quote from: Ed S on October 23, 2008, 01:00:37 PM
Sounds like a real trip. But I wonder whose going to pay for all those hospital and ER visits to sew up the cuts from X-acto knives?

Ed

Yeah uh, seeing how I saw into my palms often enough while sober.... I'd participate with nothing sharper than some old nailclippers to get the sprues off.

I added a caveat regarding this which should help ease some concerns.

Brian da Basher

Weaver · October 25, 2008, 03:02:35 PM

Hmmm - now my favorite beverage is Robinson's Old Tom ale. Robbie's brewery have a pretty keen unicorn-on-a-shield crest, and the logo for the beer is a winking tomcat, so I'm thinking, sponsored F-14 warbird, anyone?

The trouble is that, with Old Tom being 8%, I'm even more likely to fall asleep and do nothing "under the influence" than I am anyway.....

Might look something like this...........

Taiidantomcat · November 08, 2008, 11:21:05 AM

Daryl J. · December 12, 2008, 04:52:48 PM

Just arrived at the office: 2 Hobbycraft SPAD XIII kits (1/32) with the intent of continuing this retrotech idea which is a cheap excuse to get me out of most WW-1 rigging. Converted to a pair of monoplanes, one parasol, the other lower winged, machine guns removed but redeemed by being the cargo carrier of this product in full company colors:

Smaller volumes make the SPAD a reasonable (at least in this fiction) air transporter. The usual glass cockpit, carbon fibre wings, linen aft fuselage, etc. apply.

Tentatively named the SPAD Spirits.

Yes, I know, the SPAD is not from the UK. There is just not a RR Eagle powered DH.4 in 1/32 available, which is the machine I'd have preferred. Since there is to be some ground crew and support vehicles, 1/48 is largely out as a working scale for the project.

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Daryl J.

Dork the kit slayer · December 13, 2008, 08:43:05 AM

Please see all my models in the archives........under the influance...infueiance...inflinance....influiance...every one.

HOG · February 07, 2009, 09:57:05 AM

Hi Bri,
I have so many tablets, liquids, inhalers etc that the cab driver often stops the car to see whats rattl`in. Can I do a slightly less under the inflooense build?.

Cheers

G

gunfighter · March 01, 2009, 05:35:26 AM

Does "under the influence of Mrs. Gunfighter" count? that means No budget for kits, No room for workbench, No time for modelling...so the predictable result is a looooooong build

anyway, she´s pretty...

Daryl J. · March 01, 2009, 10:28:00 PM

There have been a few online purchases while under the influence that likely would have never occurred elsewise.

Do they count?

In all actuality, the HC Cutlass/SAC metal gear purchase qualifies as such (either Laphroaig 10 year or Johnny Walker Black Label) and is on deck for conversion into the appropriate AU-2 Cutlass subtype.

Daryl J.

Weaver · June 19, 2009, 06:53:27 PM

Resurrecting this one, 'cos I've had a brainwave: would being under the influence of a philosophy be elegible?

Brian da Basher · June 20, 2009, 04:51:46 AM

Quote from: Weaver on June 19, 2009, 06:53:27 PM
Resurrecting this one, 'cos I've had a brainwave: would being under the influence of a philosophy be elegible?

Only if you can post a picture of it.

Brian da Basher

Weaver · June 20, 2009, 09:42:21 AM

Quote from: Brian da Basher on June 20, 2009, 04:51:46 AM
Quote from: Weaver on June 19, 2009, 06:53:27 PM
Resurrecting this one, 'cos I've had a brainwave: would being under the influence of a philosophy be elegible?

Only if you can post a picture of it.

Brian da Basher

Can do better than that - I'll post you a link to it's website:

http://www.forteantimes.com/front_website/themag/about.php

Yep, some poor, unsuspecting B-17 might become The Flying Fortean.......