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Gondor's Grumblings

Started by Gondor, April 08, 2013, 11:07:47 AM

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Captain Canada

Congrats on the new family addition and the job prospects ! Exciting times for sure eh !  :drink: Hopefully you can pull off the road somewhere and get some pics of the carriers being built as well.

:thumbsup:
CANADA KICKS arse !!!!

Long Live the Commonwealth !!!
Vive les Canadiens !
Where's my beer ?

Gondor

Quote from: Captain Canada on August 11, 2015, 06:06:40 AM
Congrats on the new family addition and the job prospects ! Exciting times for sure eh !  :drink: Hopefully you can pull off the road somewhere and get some pics of the carriers being built as well.

:thumbsup:

Unfortunately not, the only one I saw going over the bridge has a dam big tent over nearly all the deck. Could not see the other one partly as the railing for the bridge are just that certain hight to not let you see anything  :banghead:

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

PR19_Kit

Quote from: Gondor on August 11, 2015, 07:04:33 AM
Could not see the other one partly as the railing for the bridge are just that certain hight to not let you see anything  :banghead:

Gondor

'They' probably had the railing moved precisely to prevent such viewing.  :banghead:

Me, a cynic? Naaaaaah......
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Gondor

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 11, 2015, 10:00:15 AM
Quote from: Gondor on August 11, 2015, 07:04:33 AM
Could not see the other one partly as the railing for the bridge are just that certain hight to not let you see anything  :banghead:

Gondor

'They' probably had the railing moved precisely to prevent such viewing.  :banghead:

Me, a cynic? Naaaaaah......

It would be silly to assume that someone had planed the hight to stop people looking at the nice boats , ships and whatever in the Naval dockyard a bit off to one side of the bridge that they were driving over

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

PR19_Kit

Quote from: Gondor on August 11, 2015, 11:10:54 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 11, 2015, 10:00:15 AM
Quote from: Gondor on August 11, 2015, 07:04:33 AM
Could not see the other one partly as the railing for the bridge are just that certain hight to not let you see anything  :banghead:

Gondor

'They' probably had the railing moved precisely to prevent such viewing.  :banghead:

Me, a cynic? Naaaaaah......

It would be silly to assume that someone had planed the hight to stop people looking at the nice boats , ships and whatever in the Naval dockyard a bit off to one side of the bridge that they were driving over

Gondor

Oh no it wouldn't...............  ;D

[Pantomime mode off]
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Gondor

Decided to bite the bullet and buy the Kerbal Space Program for my PC. Far better to have all the bells and whistles than the half of them when using the demo version, be that via Steam or from the KSP site.

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

Thorvic

Quote from: Gondor on August 11, 2015, 03:13:55 PM
Decided to bite the bullet and buy the Kerbal Space Program for my PC. Far better to have all the bells and whistles than the half of them when using the demo version, be that via Steam or from the KSP site.

Gondor

Oh Heck Gondor's likely to look like a Kerbal next time we see him  ;D
Project Cancelled SIG Secretary, specialising in post war British RN warships, RN and RAF aircraft projects. Also USN and Russian warships

Rheged

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 11, 2015, 11:53:01 AM
Quote from: Gondor on August 11, 2015, 11:10:54 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 11, 2015, 10:00:15 AM
Quote from: Gondor on August 11, 2015, 07:04:33 AM
Could not see the other one partly as the railing for the bridge are just that certain hight to not let you see anything  :banghead:

Gondor

'They' probably had the railing moved precisely to prevent such viewing.  :banghead:

Me, a cynic? Naaaaaah......

It would be silly to assume that someone had planned the height to stop people looking at the nice boats , ships and whatever in the Naval dockyard a bit off to one side of the bridge that they were driving over

Gondor

Oh no it wouldn't...............  ;D

[Pantomime mode off]

Oh yes they would!!   Or at least they would have done if they had thought about it.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

Gondor

Quote from: Thorvic on August 12, 2015, 12:10:33 AM
Quote from: Gondor on August 11, 2015, 03:13:55 PM
Decided to bite the bullet and buy the Kerbal Space Program for my PC. Far better to have all the bells and whistles than the half of them when using the demo version, be that via Steam or from the KSP site.

Gondor

Oh Heck Gondor's likely to look like a Kerbal next time we see him  ;D

Sounds like you know quite a bit about KSP Geoff?

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

DogfighterZen

Well, i don't know a thing about it, so i'm downloading the demo.  :thumbsup:
"Sticks and stones may break some bones but a 3.57's gonna blow your damn head off!!"

Gondor

Quote from: DogfighterZen on August 12, 2015, 04:37:49 PM
Well, i don't know a thing about it, so i'm downloading the demo.  :thumbsup:

Your better off with the Steam demo for mucking around although the demo from the KSP site has more features and I think is much nicer. So far in the full version playing in Science mode I have only killed One Kerbal due to the rocket burning up on re-entry. I never manage to carry enough fuel to form a circular orbit or to deliberately perform re-entry and have to use aero-breaking.  :banghead:

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

DogfighterZen

I've only tested building a craft in training mode... :banghead: but i'm liking it! :thumbsup:
"Sticks and stones may break some bones but a 3.57's gonna blow your damn head off!!"

Gondor

1:1 modelling today. Girlfriend's son has a new bed so the old one needed dismantling and taken to the local dump as the council have changed their free pick up to a £25 charge so far cheaper to get me over. Then I put the new bed together while she helped out. Only a few changes to the room now, different colour bed the floor has been hovered and the rubbish got rid of. Hope to stick a cockpit onto a phantom later, but don't hold me to it.

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

Captain Canada

Wow that is a rather steep fee ! Crazy how fees keep going through the roof whilst services are already past bottom.....crazy world we live in. But that's another story !

:thumbsup:
CANADA KICKS arse !!!!

Long Live the Commonwealth !!!
Vive les Canadiens !
Where's my beer ?

Gondor

Actually been doing some modelling today despite watching the Belgian Grand Prix and chasing Kerbals around Kerbin while they float helpless in their tin cans called space craft!

Note to self, Ignore the Engineers report in the VAB about nothing for the solar panels or other power generation to be used by. Reaction Wheels use energy! That's why I have a rescue craft fitted with Mechanical Jeb and a probe body playing catch up with one craft I put in orbit to practice docking with a previously launched craft of the same design. Both are now floating around waiting for rescue because the solar panels I fitted were from a mod for circular solar panels which didn't open  :banghead: hence why both craft are helpless in space  :banghead:

Mechanical Jeb might be termed as cheating by some but in this day and age there are space craft being launched and automatically rendezvousing with the space station regularly so why not do something similar if your having difficulty doing such things as circularising your orbits like I do. I still design my own craft and come up with the tasks that each craft is to do and I also plan to do the fine control stuff myself but why screw things up when the computer can do that for you?

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....