Steel Penguins braying

Captain Canada · September 05, 2016, 11:03:15 AM

Does that ever suck ! People suck sometimes.

Steel Penguin · September 05, 2016, 12:21:27 PM

in the end, its ho hum, cavet impitor, byer beware etc etc. ill have to get something else out and start that instead.

Captain Canada · September 06, 2016, 04:48:42 AM

True that. Of all the things that can and will go South in the course of a lifetime, I guess a few missing sprues is chump change ! As you said earlier, I guess it's just spare parts ! The sunny side of life

Steel Penguin · September 06, 2016, 12:30:36 PM

worked out what im doing next,

pulled my "classic" Tamiya Chieftain MK5 from the pile, im certain id started it, apparently not. and its being built to replace the casualty that was modded to get my Twilight war franken TAM. so fairly out of the box, in BOAR green / black. but ( horrors) it may well get the crew done ( normally I don't do them).

I think its probably old enough for the classic kit GB, but if I decide to join that ive a hankering to do a airfix Vulcan, so ive no worry's re this build

Captain Canada · September 06, 2016, 06:21:51 PM

Sweet. I'd love to see either ! The Chieftan is my second favourite, after the Centurion. And it's a close cal re: favourite aeroplanes between the Vulcan and the Voodoo !

Steel Penguin · September 07, 2016, 11:05:53 AM

well after a further check, the not painted crew from the old mk5 is in the box in addition to photocopy of the stowage diagram, now im utterly certain id started the kit ( it still in the original polybags) and I cant remember the photocopy, and as I mentioned this to mrs SP last night I got a gentle ribbing vis " are you certain that you haven't got another that you have started, hidden away somewhere?" fortunealy she didn't mention my utter memory fail with the Chinook kits.
but im still certain id started it, this may be a "Schrodinger box" in that its both started and pristine at the same time till I open the box and collapse the waveform.

as a side note I did see a wonderful meme yesterday
" if I got any more forgetful, I could organise my own surprise party! "
id say its a hit, especially as a badge,

zenrat · September 08, 2016, 04:15:48 AM

What work do you think you remember doing?

NARSES2 · September 08, 2016, 06:58:24 AM

Quote from: Steel Penguin on September 07, 2016, 11:05:53 AM

as a side note I did see a wonderful meme yesterday
" if I got any more forgetful, I could organise my own surprise party! "
id say its a hit, especially as a badge,

Second the badge idea

Steel Penguin · September 08, 2016, 11:17:50 AM

Zenrat, im certain it had been opened, washed, and the road wheels started, a similar state to the airfix chally 2 I have.
well its been opened and washed now at least.

zenrat · September 09, 2016, 02:50:58 AM

Hmmmm. Could Mrs Penguin be having a laugh?

I don't think i've ever imagined starting a kit but I do forget doing so. I also forget buying them and lose the ones I remember getting. I'm currently searching for an almost complete original sixties release 1941 Willys I know is somewhere in my shed.

Steel Penguin · September 09, 2016, 10:17:34 AM

unlikely, it was "jengaed" into the pile beside my desk, which is very carefully balanced with piles of wargames clamshell and blister packs, atop it all a 1:35 Tamiya brachiosaur, I am amazed that I got the chieftain out without a massive lead slide to be honest.

its getting undercoated tomorrow, then I can start building.

Captain Canada · September 10, 2016, 07:32:08 AM

Funny stuff. Strange but true. It's a weird phenomena when there's somat you know you know, that turns out otherwise. ?

I had made a list of all of my started projects on here. Took days sorting through all of the pages, and now I have lost said list.

zenrat · September 11, 2016, 04:04:10 AM

Are you sure you actually made the list?

NARSES2 · September 11, 2016, 06:25:57 AM

I'm convinced that the reason that we are sometimes convinced we have done something and we haven't or vice versa is that because very rarely (although the frequency increases with age) we slip into an alternate universe (or go up the other trouser leg if you are into Pratchett) and temporarily swap places with our other self. In that universes we have done the thing that we have not done in our universe.

Think that might have got me a First in Quantum Studies at some of our universities over here - read Polytechnics

Steel Penguin · September 11, 2016, 07:26:29 AM

Narses, that sound plausible to me,

Quantum again, always flaming quantum. Its either that or were characters in a RPG, and my player forgot to make notes on the " make kit" skill increase they were going for. the XP have gone but theres no sign of the level up.

I have to say for the age of the moulds, the wheels and subassembly's are going together very well, and a quick visual compare shows not much difference between the parts on the ones on the new takom Mk 10? 11? in common parts, the biggest thing is do I replace the gun crutch, with the more modern twin arm clamp ? which would mean I need to find a suitable donor for the parts....
Hang on! I got a dirt cheap Tamiya knock off at a show years ago to strip for wheels and stuff to put on my Rhino CARRV ! to the cupboard.....
yup the HYPA kit 305 chally 1 pts B 79, 89, 95,96, 81 and 97 BINGO
and its still got the motor in the box as well