Zenrat's Flying Circus

[zenrat]

Decals on both the Wampyre and the Wowhawk today.
Dragon East German ones on the De Havilland and MPM RAF ones on the Westland.
I put some Micro Sol on the MPM decals to get them to snuggle properly and when I left the shed they had wrinkled badly.  I'm hoping they will have sorted themselves out when I return.

[zenrat]

Touched up the decals on the Italian rally car,  Managed to match 2 of the blues but the third is evading me.

Heres some slightly blurry pice of the Wampyre and Wowhawk with decals on.

[NARSES2]

Looking good. I like these 3 colour upper camouflage colour schemes

[zenrat]

Thanks Chris.  It probably would be better described as 3 1/2 due to the two very small areas of "light sand".

Today I satin cleared the Wowhawk and the Wampyre and then made a stand for the Wowhawk so I can display it diving (swooping on its prey?).  After I took the picture I filled the base with lead and epoxy to make it a bit more stable.

[NARSES2]

Thanks Chris.  It probably would be better described as 3 1/2 due to the two very small areas of "light sand".

Ooops I didn't spot that at first  Still my excuse was that I was at the eye doc today 

[zenrat]

You do have a lot of medical appointments Chris.

I have just finished putting all the decals on the body shell of the Italian rally car.
This was hard for me to do because I was following the instructions.
<shudder>
I did this in the kitchen a) because I could (decaling is a non stinky modelling process which is therefore allowed in the house) and b) because i've been making a DVD bookcase in the shed today and the air in there is full of sawdust.
The DVD bookcase is coming along nicely although due to a navigational error in hyperspace it is 19mm narrower than originally planned.

I have also cleared the body of the Italian van ready to decal it tomorrow.

East German Wampyre now has main legs, nose leg with wheel and rocket rails (airfix old mould Beaufighter) but still tail sits despite having the main gear legs glued on at a very rearwards angle to shift the pivot point as far back as possible.  If the rockets, canopy & nose gear doors and flat spots on the main gear tyres don't tip the balance then its either a white metal pilot (which may not fit) or a sneaky extra weight stuffed in the nose gear bay, painted pink and with a somebody else's problem field around it.

Wowhawk on the other hand is finished.

Zlin v1.2 is finished also

Bird Dog has been decaled and glazed and next is to glue the wings on.  Then its all the fiddley bits like undercarriage, nose, prop and scratch up some funky exhausts.  This shouldn't be long so I may hold off photographing the Wowhawk and the Zlin v1.2 until I finish it and do all 3 at once.

[NARSES2]

You do have a lot of medical appointments Chris.

Unfortunately it's called age young man  Good thing is I seem to be able to get them sorted so that they only disrupt one week rather than a couple, touching wood anyway

I did this in the kitchen a) because I could (decaling is a non stinky modelling process which is therefore allowed in the house) and b) because i've been making a DVD bookcase in the shed today and the air in there is full of sawdust.
The DVD bookcase is coming along nicely although due to a navigational error in hyperspace it is 19mm narrower than originally planned.

DVD bookcase ? Shouldn't that just be a DVD case or is that by definition portable ? I'm confused  English Language was so simple when I took my "O" Level 50 years ago this year  Took it in the 3rd Year and that was the last formal English I ever did

[zenrat]

I'm finding out all about age, don't worry.

"Shelves wot DVDs will go on" he said in his best Sarf Larndn grammer.
I suppose DVD shelving would be more correct but i'd put bookcase and just added DVD as thats what will go on them.

[NARSES2]

Oops should of said re the "O" Level, we took them early if we were considered suitable in order that we could do more subjects in the final two years. Had a very competitive head who was determined to beat the grammar schools around and usually did  Never did any of us any harm and we all enjoyed every day at school.

[Gondor]

Perhaps it should be that the case for a DVD is called a Book due to its appearance being similar to a small book. 

Gondor

[Rick Lowe]

Perhaps it should be that the case for a DVD is called a Book due to its appearance being similar to a small book. 

Gondor

You're all making my brain bleed, and continuing to confuse me, which isn't hard at the best of times... 
I'd ask for a return to Normal Programming, but experience has shown me this is normal around here. 

Still, it's nice and warm and friendly here in Left Field, so I'll stick around and keep adding my two Pacific Pesos... 

[NARSES2]

I'd ask for a return to Normal Programming, but experience has shown me this is normal around here. 

Define "normal" ? I was once tasked with leading a team doing that on a management course and it's very, very difficult  We ended up coming to our conclusions in the bar  I think we came to the conclusion that its whatever the group of people involved is comfortable with.

[zenrat]

...Define "normal" ?...

normal
[nawr-muh l]

adjective
1.
conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
2.
serving to establish a standard.
3.
Psychology.
approximately average in any psychological trait, as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment.
free from any mental disorder; sane.
4.
Biology, Medicine/Medical.
free from any infection or other form of disease or malformation, or from experimental therapy or manipulation.
of natural occurrence.
5.
Mathematics.
being at right angles, as a line; perpendicular.
of the nature of or pertaining to a mathematical normal.
(of an orthogonal system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the square of the absolute value of any function is 1.
(of a topological space) having the property that corresponding to every pair of disjoint closed sets are two disjoint open sets, each containing one of the closed sets.
(of a subgroup) having the property that the same set of elements results when all the elements of the subgroup are operated on consistently on the left and consistently on the right by any element of the group; invariant.
6.
Chemistry.
(of a solution) containing one equivalent weight of the constituent in question in one liter of solution.
pertaining to an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a straight unbranched carbon chain, each carbon atom of which is joined to no more than two other carbon atoms.
of or relating to a neutral salt in which any replaceable hydroxyl groups or hydrogen atoms have been replaced by other groups or atoms, as sodium sulfate, Na 2 SO 4 .

noun
7.
the average or mean:
Production may fall below normal.
8.
the standard or type.
9.
Mathematics.
a perpendicular line or plane, especially one perpendicular to a tangent line of a curve, or a tangent plane of a surface, at the point of contact.
the portion of this perpendicular line included between its point of contact with the curve and the x- axis
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/normal

IMO definition 5 (and 9) is the apposite one as much of what we do here is at right angles to reality.

[NARSES2]

 

Must admit I'd forgotten a lot of those. Strange that after all these years the one that really rang a bell was the chemical one for some reason ?

1.
conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.

Oh the joy of the English language  One of my old English masters (Duffy Clayton, who was a lovely man  ) would have just loved getting into that conversation of defining a word by saying what it isn't. We would then have had half an hour discussing if that was appropriate and he would then have forgotten to give us homework 

[zenrat]

This "3. Psychology.  approximately average in any psychological trait, as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment." shows what an exact science psychology is.  NOT.

Anyway, enough of that.

Not much done over the weekend as I was on Uncle duty with The Boy here.  Did manage to decal the Italian van and then touch up some of the paintwork on it plus some of the gaps in the decals on the rally car.