Pellsons Perceivings

NARSES2 · September 28, 2023, 05:56:06 AM

Autumn can been gorgeous as far as colours are concerned, but as you say it's the harbinger of things to come.

Rick Lowe · September 28, 2023, 09:57:25 PM

'This, too, Shall Pass...'

Pellson · September 28, 2023, 11:32:12 PM

Quote from: Rick Lowe on September 28, 2023, 09:57:25 PM'This, too, Shall Pass...'

I deserved that..

Pellson · September 29, 2023, 02:27:00 PM

At the cottage in the archipelago again. Lovely as usual. Did some prep works for building tomorrow but took a reasonably early evening together with Ahsoka and have to conclude it's improving. Or I'm just easy.

During watching, a pretty solid shower went by, and as the roof is in corrugated steel, you can really hear it raining! But it's nice at the same time. A fire going in the stove and some rain in the dark outside. The cosiness factor goes through the roof.

Crash time now. The beardrat is already snoring majestically. There's got to be something wrong with his nose, I tell ya..

NARSES2 · September 30, 2023, 05:51:37 AM

Quote from: Pellson on September 29, 2023, 02:27:00 PMDuring watching, a pretty solid shower went by, and as the roof is in corrugated steel, you can really hear it raining! But it's nice at the same time. A fire going in the stove and some rain in the dark outside. The cosiness factor goes through the roof.

Certainly does

Quote from: Pellson on September 29, 2023, 02:27:00 PMCrash time now.

As long as it's not the corrugated roof

Pellson · October 01, 2023, 12:10:17 AM

Magnificent morning in the archipelago, but it will not last. For some reason, the quacks elected to shift a scheduled x-ray appointment from Wednesday morning to Sunday lunch. Accordingly, we'll have to pack up early and go home in order for me to make that appointment. Severely annoying as it looks to be an absolutely lovely day, and we're at the end of the season. The very end, in fact, as today is the first of October.

Also in a more general perspective, I find weekends too short. With increasing age and maturity, I find less and less reason to spend time doing things I don't really enjoy. Unfortunately, as the population in general is living longer, the pension system isn't quite coping with the longer pay-out periods and hence, the political answer is to raise the retirement age. Right now, about as fast as I age, meaning I haven't gotten any closer to retirement during the last few years.
Well - given my diagnosis, it was always unlikely that I would ever see any of the money I've poured into the pension system, so the difference in reality is most probably rather small. I'll die before payout anyway.

Which makes it even more annoying not to be able to freely spend my time while living. There's so many models to build. So many miles to drive in the Landy and so many mornings to spend in bed with my love, watching the sun rise between the islands.

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PR19_Kit · October 01, 2023, 12:14:16 AM

That's splendid!

The sunrise I mean, not your having to to give up a chunk of your hard earned weekend.

kitbasher · October 01, 2023, 12:27:50 AM

Beautiful photo, Mr P, thanks for sharing.

NARSES2 · October 01, 2023, 05:40:22 AM

Quote from: kitbasher on October 01, 2023, 12:27:50 AMBeautiful photo, Mr P, thanks for sharing.

Glorious photograph

TomZ · October 01, 2023, 08:53:10 AM

Quote from: kitbasher on October 01, 2023, 12:27:50 AMBeautiful photo, Mr P, thanks for sharing.

Beautiful!

TomZ

Rick Lowe · October 01, 2023, 09:07:12 PM

As everyone has said - stunning.

Pellson · October 02, 2023, 10:36:01 AM

Today, the latest Stash^TM additions were delivered, among them that painfully expensive Modelsvit Tu-144. As earlier described, I did have some second thoughts about the wisdom of acquiring it among other things due to storage space constraints, and by Jove, were those fears well founded! It's huge. Ginormous, even. It's by far and away the largest 1/72 kit box I've seen. It absolutely dwarfs the old, but in its own right pretty substantial AMT B-52H box.

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Inside, there are actually parts enough to fill the big box reasonably well. One could, theoretically, have made a more efficient packing of the many sprues, but the huge one-piece main fuselage and wing parts do make a serious demand for volume, and I have to admit that despite my initial doubts about the box size vs it's content, I probably wouldn't have been able to make a better match myself.

The construction as such looks reasonably straightforward. There's a nose section and two big twin engine boxes, all in styrene, but then those two huge parts are made of something else. Resin or glass fibre. I'm not sure. They can be dryfitted against each other, and that fit seem at best doubtful, so I foresee a certain amount of putty to be used. Or car filler, most likely, considering the sheer amount such a large model will require.

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Anyway - I think I'll start with something else to get the feel for big model construction again. This one is a mouthful for sure.

Rick Lowe · October 02, 2023, 09:10:07 PM

Sounds like the ESCI Blinder is going to get it's 'Time in the Sun'...

That's huge!
How many Auckland ethnic workers you could use that box to house?
(not an anti-ethnic worker snark, just referencing a couple of recent news items here...)

You could make a Barbie Mansion/Condominium for your Daughters from it maybe?
Or should I not have said that, if they read this blog over Dad's shoulder...

Pellson · October 03, 2023, 12:59:24 AM

Quote from: Rick Lowe on October 02, 2023, 09:10:07 PM(not an anti-ethnic worker snark, just referencing a couple of recent news items here...)

Do you have a link? You've raised my curiosity..

QuoteYou could make a Barbie Mansion/Condominium for your Daughters from it maybe?
Or should I not have said that, if they read this blog over Dad's shoulder...

Don't worry - they're both passed that age by now. In fact, most of their Barbie stuff has been passed on to younger relatives, as they in turn received some of theirs from their older relatives.

QuoteSounds like the ESCI Blinder is going to get it's 'Time in the Sun'...

Possibly. Or maybe I should actually complete something already started for a change..

Rheged · October 03, 2023, 07:31:05 AM

Quote from: Pellson on October 03, 2023, 12:59:24 AM
QuoteYou could make a Barbie Mansion/Condominium for your Daughters from it maybe?
Or should I not have said that, if they read this blog over Dad's shoulder...
Don't worry - they're both passed that age by now. In fact, most of their Barbie stuff has been passed on to younger relatives, as they in turn received some of theirs from their older relatives.

A sound ecological policy! I had clothes and toys passed to me by my older cousin, which were then passed on to my younger cousins................and things moved from my elder son to younger son...........................and now my 4 year old grand daughter is using her dad's old Lego (as well as casting an eye on Meccano of my father's , mine and my sons. Re-use, recycle, repurpose etc.