BlueNosers352nd

Since they built that 3 ring circus museum and mothballed or sold their flying collection they haven't done an airshow. It's been a long long long time. We use to run our yearly club model shows out of there, but stopped that quite a few years ago as well.

Holy smokes, another member from Kalamazoo. How be darned! Well hello! I'm out towards DNR Sports. Know about the model club in town? Haven't been in a while but be in the club for a long time.

Well I had pictures of the walls painted, but who knows where they went. Guess I deleted them off my phone by accident. But the update, walls were painted a couple weeks ago and then I started working on the shiplap ceiling and ran into a wiring issue that I have yet to sort out. Think we forgot to run one wire, but I gotta get back down there and wrap my head around it a second. Everything got interrupted at that point with a giant ice storm last week, so didn't have power from last Wednesday at 8pm until Sunday at 3:30pm. House was down to 44° ( 6.6C ). Limbs were snapping left and right all night long, sounded like WWII outside. So the model room is kinda stalled at the moment. The electrical stoppage and storm cleanup has killed my motivation.

Small update, this was actually done a week and a half ago, just keep forgetting to post it. 1/2" ply installed and ready for finish work. Next step (currently working on) is filling screw holes and seams getting it ready for paint. Plan is to have it painted by the end of the weekend and hopefully sooner.

Have not seen it yet, I'll wait till I can watch it at home. BUT.......the book was a great read and a quick read to boot.

Just a small update, nothing major. Spray foam guys finally showed up. Since they were doing a bunch of other stuff in other areas of the house I had them spray the exterior wall ( including the joist bays) instead on doing foam board. Bulkhead built to hide the duct work and pipes. Next step will be to install some 1/2 ply to the walls.

Oh yeah............typo. 🤣 What a gomer I am. Corrected.

Single guy, so it's really just 1 room of the man cave.

Let's begin..... Bought my childhood home from my dad in 2007 after my divorce. Dad built this house in the summer of 1973 on his summer break from teaching. Back then things didn't have to be finished to move in. Sink and stove were still on saw horses when they moved in. Next to my old bedroom was a "kitchen" area that never was finished. Was meant to be a granny flat with a bath, bedroom and small kitchen. That became my model room while growing up and the same after I bought the house. Room finished size will be roughly be 122" (309cm) long by 79" (200cm) wide. I didn't take any old pics but it was just unfinished drywall with a dark wood grain formica counter top on one side and some cheap shelving. Old spray booth was one built outta 3/8" (or maybe 1/2") plywood with a big 330 cfm pc style axial fan vented outside. Phase 1 - Main floor remodel (minus one bedroom to live in) Phase 2 - Last bedroom, basement remodel/finish, large sun porch (more like a room) refinish. The plan........I figured I'd be building cabinets for the room (hobbyist woodworker with a large woodshop). But during the kitchen renovation in phase 1 of the large house remodel, the cabinet maker screwed up so bad they replaced 9 of the 15 cabinets, a couple of them they replaced twice. Lot of this was dings or cracks or just poor finish. They never wanted them back nor picked them up so they are being used to build out the model room. Some modifications will be have to made to reconfigure drawers/doors. Other than figuring out the cabinet layout based on what I already have this is kinda a shoot from the hip build. Figure it out as we go. Wall will be 3/4 sanded plywood to make hanging stuff easier, rather than messing with drywall. The blank canvas with electrical work done. The flex duct hanging down is for the spray booth and vents outside. Looking in from the spare bedroom at the whole room. Left side (storage and future display case) Right side (work bench area) The plan.....the right two cabinets may get switched around, I am not sure yet. Layout isn't 100% right as I was using a online tool and just got it close based on the prefabbed units they had. On the left above the shallow short cabinets I am thinking I will build a lighted display case to match the cabinets. Cabinets are cherry with a dark stain on them (sample pic farther down) This picture is only to show you what the color of the cabinets will look like. (kitchen not fully finished at the time of photo) Spray foam guys are here as we speak. In both phases, walls were stripped down to studs, rewired and spray foamed. Next step will be a little bulk head to hide the duct work followed by plywood installation.

Now that scheme is right up my alley. Something different that you don't see very often. Nicely done! Seeing a few of these so far makes me want to build one and it's a plane I never would of chosen.

Not sure if this would be of interest...........a WIP of my hobby room renovation? Barely touched a model since early 2021. Last post of a model to my Flickr page was Dec 7, 2020. That is because in the Spring of 2021 I started the final big remodel of the whole house (2x bathrooms already done prior to major reno). Phase 2 is finally in full swing and the Hobby Room is part of that reno. Maybe someone would find it interesting. I always like to see other people's workbench. Anywho, if people are interested let me know. I can post stuff as I go........since I don't have the time to work on models right now. If so, in the Chat or different section of the forum?

Well great...........with a Tamiya conversion to C already started. Granted I haven't touched it since Dec 2020. Silly me deciding to remodel my house........alll of it.

Very nicely done! Like I said in the build thread..............makes me wish I had my model room done.

Makes me want to finish my model room remodel (among the rest of the house) and get back at some building. And seeing my username, obviously a P-51 doesn't help that urge.

Welcome! Where abouts in AZ? Some of my family moved back home to Michigan from AZ. They were in Apache Junction and Mesa. Loved visiting and hiking in the Superstitions. Display them of course! But as Faraway said as well, it's about the building for me. Seeing what I can create out of some plastic bits and some paint.

2 new garage doors with new openers. Bunches of wire and boxes to rewire the house. New dishwasher Sadly no modeling stuff as of late.....unless you consider some of the wire and boxes that are for the modeling space. All modeling stuff is packed away during phase 2 of the house remodel.

I've used Iwatas for many many years. I used one that basically looks like the HP-BCS Eclipse with cups from the Paasche VL I had (which I hated). Still have it, but I think the port where the cup slides in is worn out as the cup will no longer stay in. After that I switched to an H&S Evolution 2 in 1. Didn't take long and I sold it as I could never make it work like my Iwata. Then I purchased a HP-C+ and never regretted it. Ran circles around the H&S right outta the box. But I guess it is a case of what you are use to. Many people use H&S on here and that's why I tried it. For me it never worked as well as my Iwatas. I would get another Iwata in a heartbeat if needed. I did pick up GSI Creos PS 771 0.18mm, but I have since started another phase of the house remodel which includes the model room. Crossing fingers on that one. The GSI Creos line seems to be well liked and at a cheaper cost.

No that hasn't been too bad. Some of the changes that I have to make to the databases I wrote seem silly (to me), but other than that......

Feel the deadwood pain but in a different sense. Super small company, like 15+/- people between the two sister companies. Been at the max level for a long time, only step above me is owner. Every day is a lot of thumb twiddling. Small business, so my IT knowledge is way behind and lacking. Pay is decent (still waiting for that last promised raise), I can basically do what I want, no set schedule, etc. I probably got 20 yrs (be 70) then before I can think about retiring. What's a 50 yr old behind the times IT guy gonna do if he left here...........and I have no desire to go back to the big corporate world. Hoping you have something work to do to make your days go by faster. I'm guessing a lot of the older crowd faces this in some sense as time goes on. Sigh!

Recently been taking short breaks from my American Revolution reads (dang us yanks) to read other history type stuff. In September I read Devotion about the Korean War Corsair pilots because I saw the trailer for the movie soon to come. A good quick read.........and a quick read is saying something for me. Then I read "The Whites of their eyes" and I just started A Higher Call by Adam Makos. The way it is reading I should be done within a week. What is happening to me? I use to hate reading, but A Higher Call will be my 7th finish for the year ( granted one was a roller over from last year) and Jan-Mar were slow months. A Higher Call should be 3 in 2 months. The question becomes what is next? Quick access choices (others packed away for a remodel) are Day of Infamy by Walter Lord, Unbroken or The Swamp Fox (another American Revolution book 😬).

A little hole in the wall small town bar about 2 hrs north which also means some kayaking on one of the most scenic rivers (if not the most) in Michigan. I could do that every weekend in the summer.............and I've come close. Also big snow storms, like an inch or two an hour. Then it's time to go driving and not slowly. Sadly we don't get those to often anymore in SW Michigan. Winters have kinda become lame here. Sipping a good old wheated bourbon. But the next day doesn't usually make me happy. 🤣 Game nights when my kids (both adults now) are involved, which is tougher now that one has moved many many hours away. Anytime between 4pm on Friday and 8am on Monday. Means I'm not at the office............Come on Fridays!

If my model room is back in working order when this GB pops off, I'll jump in. Right in the middle of starting phase 2 of the house remodel which includes the model room.

Welcome.........from the neighboring state of Michigan!

Holy dang man! Superb work, both model wise and photo wise. You'd think these were real aircraft.

Well that's something you don't see everyday. Very nicely done!