Gondor's Grumblings

[kerick]

Yes, you could say that. But should you?

Too late, I already did     

Gondor

Yes. *sigh* Yes you did.

And he'll do it again........

[Gondor]

Yes, you could say that. But should you?

Too late, I already did     

Gondor

Yes. *sigh* Yes you did.

And he'll do it again........

Thats Fairey obvious     

Gondor

[scooter]

Yes, you could say that. But should you?

Too late, I already did     

Gondor

Yes. *sigh* Yes you did.

And he'll do it again........

Thats Fairey obvious     

Gondor

I know its your blog thread, but

[Gondor]

Talking about Fairey yet again, yeah I know, some are getting tired of that company name    but it is needed to describe the model I am about to talk about. The Fairey Project 75 to GOR.339. It would fit into the 1960's Group Build very nicely yet I am itching to build it anyway so I have a vauge chance of getting it if not finished for the Scottish Nationals, then it would at least be in a reasonable condition to be on the table. I can't make up my mind but I am heavily leaning towards strting it now 

Gondor

[Gondor]

Made my decision, see here.

Gondor

[Gondor]

Progress is good with Project 75, which could be the number of part-completed kits I have

Had the day off work today as I had the car in the garage for an MOT and service. Apparently, the guy at the desk can't read what is written, or he just scans part of what is written on the reports. He told me that the rear brakes would need to be looked at in a couple of months as there were signs of rust on them, he never said that the front brakes were getting low. I think I will find out from the local dealer roughly how long the brakes should last as I think the garage might be having a go.

Also trying out Gramerly. It's taking a bit of getting used to, the computer used to give me some predictive text in a different location to Gramerly's placement of possible corrections. A bit confused with their pricing for the premium version. £10 a month, billed annually, or £25 if monthly    That's 150% more for monthly billing which looks like extortion to me!

Gondor

[Pellson]

Progress is good with Project 75, which could be the number of part-completed kits I have

I'm relating! 

[Rick Lowe]

Apparently, the guy at the desk can't read what is written, or he just scans part of what is written on the reports. He told me that the rear brakes would need to be looked at in a couple of months as there were signs of rust on them, he never said that the front brakes were getting low. I think I will find out from the local dealer roughly how long the brakes should last as I think the garage might be having a go.

Or they're leaving it to you to read the instructions properly - and it all means more work for them... the worse the parts get, the more new ones they will have to install.
Cynical for a Saturday am, but oh well. Life has taught me this.

[Gondor]

Apparently, the guy at the desk can't read what is written, or he just scans part of what is written on the reports. He told me that the rear brakes would need to be looked at in a couple of months as there were signs of rust on them, he never said that the front brakes were getting low. I think I will find out from the local dealer roughly how long the brakes should last as I think the garage might be having a go.

Or they're leaving it to you to read the instructions properly - and it all means more work for them... the worse the parts get, the more new ones they will have to install.
Cynical for a Saturday am, but oh well. Life has taught me this.

Well, last year I was told that the brakes would need to be checked in about six months. Turned out that the front ones were ok, the back ones were almost shot! They have previous if you know what I mean. I might try the place I bought it from next year, although I would have to book early as they don't work weekends. At least I can get a courtesy car that way.

Gondor

[Gondor]

I have just watched a video by Jago Hazzard,

Apparently, Weaver now has a London Overground line named after him 

https://youtu.be/KD0kq77xiPE?si=MKqJjJm1SzRFWo2o

Gondor

[Rick Lowe]

Yeah, I used to watch a few UK cop dramas so I am conversant with the term 'Having Previous'...

[Gondor]

I saw a reference to A.I. in another blog which prompted this post. Two reasons, one, I am using Grammarly now as a spell checker, the free version because you should see the price structure  , second, at work, the management is using a computer system to say what we need to build against the orders. As most people here will have experienced with similar situations they can understand when I say that this bears only a superficial, if that, resemblance to the actual requirements of the section I work in. 
For those who have no idea about what I do, I align the optics in single-colour spectrographic instruments. These come in two basic types, Excitation and Emission. The Excitation type has light sources fitted to them which are shot at a grating which has groves in the hundreds per millimetre and then fed onto a sample in a sample chamber. Orijonal eh?    The Emission type of unit works in reverse to the Excitation unit as the light from the sample is shone onto a different grating and then onto a detector which when its signal is processed shows what frequencies of light have been emitted by the sample. So far we have quite a few of the Emission types of unit, but far fewer Excitation types of unit, because the program says we need more of the Emission types. The section was given more components to build more units today, and I have been told that I am to build them because the other team members who usually do that part of the production line are busy building sub-assemblies to go into them. It makes a change for me to do this, and it's been a year since I last did so, but that was because the previous person who did the assembly of the units took a huff to the fact he was being pulled up on his timekeeping. He no longer works for the company having been off sick nearly all the time since then. No loss.
Anyway, that means I have work for a few days, and even if I build the units we are short of one vital subassembly so I can't align them. 

Gondor

[Rick Lowe]

Having work is better than Not - Voice of Experience...

Good you were able to pick up a few days, anyway. 

[Gondor]

So, late Sunday evening. Not been up to much recently. Had a few messages back and forth with TSRJoe about the Fairey GOR.339 as he now has one of the kits as well as myself. I don't need to worry about work tomorrow as I have the day off. I have a few things to get sorted out which having a day off work helps a lot. I also now have to take my mum's old kettle back to her after checking and changing the fuse in the plug. She had phoned me around noon saying that she had lost power to some parts of the flat and it happened as the kettle went off. She now has a new kettle so the old one will be a spare.
Not much on the modelling front other than thinking about getting a few signwriters paintbrushes so that it will be easier to paint the edges of camouflage and such things as cheat lines such as the one I will need to apply to my Rotadyne CC.Mk1 in the reasonable future for the 60's Group Build.

Gondor

[Gondor]

One of the things I have been pottering around with this weekend has been an old Tamiya British Army Chieftain Mk.5. These days it's not the only game in town, years ago when I started this it was unfortunately. I saw an article in the July 1987 edition of Military Modelling on upgrading the kit to a Mk.5/12. Quite a simple conversion which mainly involved adding a different radio, a new NBC pack and different mesh covers for the engine.
The radio was quite satisfying to do, I'm quite chuffed with it, the engine covers I'm not so bothered about as unless you know what to look for you probably won't know the difference. The main stumbling block was the NBC pack. I had intended to buy a new one from Accurate Armour, but the production of them is not a given so I thought I would scratch build one. I got so far then stalled.
Recently I was following a build on another site. The build involved a kit from a company called Newland Models who I had never heard of. A quick look at their website and I found that they had the NBC pack I needed. So at the start of the month, I ordered one.



The bottom item is the plate at the rear of the turret and goes into this hole



This was a pain as I had very securely attached a piece of plastic card to the opening and it was rather reluctant to come off 
As you can see it has though. Later the resin plate will be fitted.
I had added trunking for various lights and other equipment to the outside of the turret, some of them had gone into the rear of the turret through the blanking plate. I am no longer sure about the exact point of entry for them but as I have a Tankograd book, RAC Germany - Armoured Vehicles of Royal Armoured Corps 1950-90 I should get plenty of reference in that.
And for my shame, here is a pic of the resin NBC pack and how far I had got with building mine.



Gondor