Zenrat's Flying Circus

[Rick Lowe]

Bit off topic but does anyone remember a cartoon from around the late 80s/early 90s...been driving me crazy. Had a cow/bull as the lead character and he would say things like "What a revolting development". If a joke was cracked there was a sequence of some animal mad-laughing. That's all I can remember but I used to watch it during stints on night-security work.

This one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414853/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Though as this is listed as 2006, probably not.
Maybe this?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377143/?ref_=nv_sr_5

[DogfighterZen]

Bit off topic but does anyone remember a cartoon from around the late 80s/early 90s...been driving me crazy. Had a cow/bull as the lead character and he would say things like "What a revolting development". If a joke was cracked there was a sequence of some animal mad-laughing. That's all I can remember but I used to watch it during stints on night-security work.

Cow and chicken? Or maybe Ox tales? 

[Librarian]

OX TALES!!!! Thank you...been driving me nuts. OCD can be a nightmare.

Apologies...back to the Flying Circus

[DogfighterZen]

I also watched it sometimes, must've been around 10 or 12 years old at the time, hilarious stuff.

[zenrat]

No need to apologise Max.  Think of it as payback.



So today I got artistic on the background for the airfield base, decaled the Jet Mosquito, painted some canopies and started work on the body of the lil Hot Rod.
Ki-46iii by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Jet Mosquito WIP 9-7-17 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[zenrat]

Kraz Tank Transporter update.
The float is nearly complete.  It's a fair size.  Thats an A3 cutting mat its sitting on.
Kraz WIP 12-7-17 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Old Wombat]

Soze tha doza!

[NARSES2]

Soze tha doza!

That was my first thought. Didn't realise it was that big

[zenrat]

Yep, a D9 is a big beast.  Operating weight of 49 Tons.
Here's one with a human bean for scale.


Jet Mosquito is nearly finished.
2017-07-19_06-24-59 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[DogfighterZen]

Jet Mosquito's looking gorgeous!

[zenrat]

Thanks DFZ.
She got her teeth today.  4 x 50s and a 37mm.
The 60lb rockets are painted but need a coat of clear.

[zenrat]

Jet Mosquito is done apart from the UC doors which need a whiff of satin clear and the attaching, a second coat of paint on the radio antenna and then a length of ezy line to rig the thing.

I've pulled a 1/72 Special Hobby CAC Wirraway out of the stash to do as a RW build and it's fighting me.  The interior is a very detailed multipart item but the instructions are very vague and some of the more fragile framework parts were broken on the sprues.  Still, its sort of coming together and will in the end be mostly hidden.

The "Landscape Painting" background for the diorama photo base is now complete (other than a coat of flat varnish) but being painted in oils it is still drying.  It's come out better than I thought it would.

[zenrat]

Jet Mosquito finished today.  Pics tomorrow or Monday.

Fought a bit more with the Wirraway interior.  Broke some parts and found it then fitted better.  Came to the conclusion I had glued them in the wrong place due to the vaguely vague instructions.  Gave up looking at the instructions and used intuition instead.

Decided to also build something simpler so I pulled down this marvellous example of early 80's Hasegawa graphic design.
Kittyhawk Box Art by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[NARSES2]

I remember that boxing well 

I have a whole trove of Hasegawa kits of that generation for when I need a nice break or as an accompaniment for a more time consuming model, good choice.

[zenrat]

I love the cartoonish look the shark/tiger mouth gives the picture.  I'm trying to figure out how to make it look like a carton in 3d.