Chronic's Research and Aeronautics Project (C.R.A.P.)

Tophe · June 12, 2020, 11:04:38 AM

Nice rare airplane! A canard with high wing and spats is not common...

TheChronicOne · June 12, 2020, 10:25:38 PM

I like it, too! It's an interesting plane. It's pretty cool.

That said, I'm throwing this idea out. I've looked at the kit and it has a very surprising amount of individual parts and I see flash in the windows and such so I will save this for a future project.

Not only that, but I'm once again under "mood assault" which I guess is just a fancy term for being depressed. I basically am finding it more and more difficult each day to give a poo-poo about just about anything to be honest. I might have a go at my stash again though to see if anything strikes my fancy but it's looking doubtful.

Just some of the weird stuff going on lately.... a violent family member shows up at my house and I had to leave... I was un prepared and had no water or anything but just went off to work and got overheated and wasn't thinking straight. I went to leave a job and forgot to put the tailgate up on my truck and my brand new mower I just bought to replace the one that was stolen flew out the back and slammed into the street and is now just a pile of junk. Hell, it tried to work for awhile but cut crooked and the blades smash into the housing and eventually it just stopped running period. I have just enough money to replace it after raiding every last rainy day fund, piggy, bank, both bank accounts, and wallet to get another, lesser model, and have about $14 left over. If anything else goes wrong, I'm just done.

This is just the tip of the iceberg... I could go on at lenght of all the bullshit things that have happened recently and this is on top of all the "weirdness" that is 2020. Up until this evening I was trying to not mention any of it and just trudge through but I'm just so tired now. Maybe it will help to blog about it, who knows? Running out of options here.

Tophe · June 12, 2020, 11:27:00 PM

Quote from: TheChronicOne on June 12, 2020, 10:25:38 PM
I'm once again under "mood assault" which I guess is just a fancy term for being depressed.
all the bullshit things that have happened recently

I know that psychiatrist pretend to tell the Truth when they claim that depression is an illness that comes from Inside the brain, but I think this is wrong in the majority of people: if things happening to you are bad, you are feeling bad, this is just normal.
Building models may cure by focusing on something else, rather pleasant, but it is not 100% guaranteed... $:-\$

TheChronicOne · June 12, 2020, 11:48:48 PM

Agreed. That's part of the problem, however. Doing something we enjoy usually works to improve happiness but being depressed makes us not even want to try. A vicious cycle. It's like the whole , "I need a job in order to afford a vehicle but I need a vehicle in order to have a job" conundrum.

And yes, it's not always about a neurological malfunction. The majority of my depression stems from outside influences. People, mainly. Right now it's a violent physically abusive person that there's nothing I can do about. Not wanting to be beat up any more, I leave. This causes problems like the chain reaction that lead to the destruction of my new mower which in turns makes me even more sad. You're right and there's no pill or procedure that can cure that.

EDIT: But anyway... I'm going to find me a new kit for this GB and if I don't get it built, at least I gave it a shot!

PR19_Kit · June 12, 2020, 11:56:42 PM

Quote from: TheChronicOne on June 12, 2020, 11:48:48 PM

EDIT: But anyway... I'm going to find me a new kit for this GB and if I don't get it built, at least I gave it a shot!

POSITIVE thinking there Brad.

We're with you for sure.

NARSES2 · June 13, 2020, 12:01:02 AM

Talking about things does help, believe me. Been there myself a long, long time ago.

That Mig 8 was a new tool back in 2014, so is probably very much limited run. They have got better since.

Strange because I could have sworn it was originally an A Model tooling, probably the A Model'ish box art ?

TheChronicOne · June 13, 2020, 12:02:31 AM

Thank you!! This place has been a place of respite and support. You friends here have helped me have fun times in the midst of all this garbage. I will try to have more of this positivity.

DogfighterZen · June 13, 2020, 04:51:33 AM

Keep your chin up and concentrate on doing your stuff. Sending positive vibes from over the pond.

TheChronicOne · June 13, 2020, 10:11:06 AM

Thanks bud! God damn I hope today goes better. I need to get the busted mower running so it can serve as a back up and can be used to mow my yard and I need to go buy a new mower both. One I'm feeling up for, the other I'm not. It's so hot outside and I don't want to even look at that mower. Shopping for a new one is a pain, too.... probably take a couple hours of just driving from place to place looking at them then what if it's just in a box? I have to assemble the damn thing... I'd rather find one already put together. Etc. Looking at my tasks... I gotta get my lawn finished which will take two days and by then one or two people will be hollering for theirs cut but if they DON'T then I might finally have a bit of time (that also has energy with it) around Wednesday to attempt my one WEEK GB but that's not much time. I' might try this evening but so help me after I do all the stupid stuff I have today I might not be up to it. What the hell? How did I wind up in this infinite work schedule? 7 days a week right now with no end in sight and it's been about a month since I last was able to just sit around and do nothing. I remember it because it raid all day long.

TheChronicOne · June 13, 2020, 10:15:59 AM

Oh god. Nevermind. I just checked my bank account and there's not as much in it as I thought? I guess I read it wrong yesterday... a bunch of stuff came off and now I can't get a new mower. Well! Something every day.

TheChronicOne · June 13, 2020, 01:38:01 PM

Well, I give up on all that mess. I'm just going to shut down the mowing side of my business for about 3 weeks. About that time I'll get a check in for the garbage picking up stuff I do and then I'll get a mower and get back to it. Well, unless I can figure out something in the meantime. For right now, I'm tired of squeezing blood from stones.

What if the Indian Air Force used the F-86 instead of the MiG-21?

This SHOULD be an easy building kit.

Paint scheme? Something like this.

Antonis Karadis

zenrat · June 13, 2020, 06:31:56 PM

I've long wanted to have a go at something similar to that Indian scheme. By hand.

TheChronicOne · June 13, 2020, 09:55:00 PM

The only way to fly. Definitely will be a hairy stick affair for the squiggles & stripes. The brush selection will play a role! Gotta have the right shape I guess. There for a minute I toyed with the idea of using permanent marker, though.

DogfighterZen · June 14, 2020, 04:22:46 AM

Definitely a cool looking scheme.

Got one of those Hase F-86 kits in the stash, exact same box, although it lost it's canopy to my recent F4D-3 build so i have no idea of how it builds up but i'm sure you'll manage to do a good job of it.

Sucks that you can't get a mower to keep working... if you could get the engine running again, couldn't you get the blade casing(no idea of what you call it?) back into shape so the blade doesn't hit it? Or did the blade's clutch/gears get messed up too?

TheChronicOne · June 14, 2020, 11:01:56 AM

If I can get the thing running again I'm just going to let the blade hit the housing until it grinds it away and no longer hits. I just want to get it running long enough to make it to July then I'll "retire" the brand new thing (GRRRRRR) to lawn duty only here at my house and as a back up for the new mower I'm going to buy to use commercially. I'm just so damn worn down by all this I can't seem to get anything done. I tried to work on it yesterday and got nowhere and gave up. None of the usual suspects are in play... oil is good, gas is good, air filter is good, gas cap is good, fuel filter in the tank looks good. I'm going to unplug the fuel line today and see what's going on in there though but there's no way for anything to get into it unless it was an engine component that broke off when it slammed into the street.

I think I'm going to take it to where I bought it and see if I can get them to tinker on it under the warranty but I've voided the warranty like three times over because it was busted due to improper storage (left the tail gate down on the truck) and I'm using it commercially. Also, the warranty states that it doesn't cover engine problems. Sooo... I could just be screwed but I'm not going to mention anything. I'm just going to say, "Well, it won't run any more.. just bought it 3 months ago."