Uncle Uncool

Neighbour next door (the one on the right) is yelling "turn it down...!!!", but I turn it up everytime It's 16:35 down here; nap time is over. Well, had it been the neighbour on the left, I'd have turned it down.

Agreed. So, are we still mates, then?

Oh, lockdown has nothing to do with places starting to wear thin, John. Neither did I say that using white cards was wrong, it's just a matter of preferences on my part; or even that a crammed up bench doesn't affect me either. On the contrary. At least, there's no rule that I know of with regard to taking piccies over a crammed up bench WIP. You should check piccies of my sheila while she's cooking her pastry over on Facebook Incidentally; most of the builders I follow on Youtube use to record their builds over a tormented background. Will Pattison's bench is like watching Chernobyl! Yeh, it is... Cheers, Unc2

I think a crammed up bench is quite nice in order to find out what kind of tools, paints and other hobby-related materials the builder is using, yeh. I've found out about incredible stuff that way. Sometimes is even interesting to see what kind of brews the OP likes to guzzle down. I personally believe a white card board-backed background is not what our hobby usually reflects; and in any case, you might as well have a white card board when displaying the kit on the RFI section. If you suffer the disorder while the build is going on, then I guess you're in the wrong place or hobby. After all, disorder is normally allowed whenever something is being built, ain't it? I could always direct the PM to you so that you'd check that the examples of quotes for which I got the PM were all edited by me in order to ask questions or to focus on something the OP had written down on it. It was NOT the whole text/the whole piccies. That's the reason why I demand an explanation for. Otherwise, the PM would have perfectly made sense to me, don't you think?

Yeh, Tony; yeh! For me it'd have been easier to quote the whole post + piccies to just enquire or focus on a little bit of it, but I've always took the time to edit that which just interest me. This PM is confusing as, it's not clear what the admin is trying to say to me that I did wrong; is it that I'm not allowed to quote the very same text someone has quoted before in the thread, or is it the same piccies someone has quoted before? I'm scared to quote ever again, and I'm starting to hyperventilate Oughtn't Iron Maiden have some lyrics regarding this subject? Afraid To Quote Strangers

A little bit of a temper tantrum regarding this. Someone has recently PMd me about the subject of this thread (you know who you are ). It bothers me that much to have to re-read all the very same lines by the OP over and over when someone quotes their posts, and also to have to scroll down the whole pictures on it that I always edit both the text and the piccies that I quote. I think I'm pretty much sure I was already doing all this edit of quotes much before this thread was created. A whole lot much before that, yeh. I just quote the text I want to either focus on or enquire about it, same as with the piccies, that the PM came as very odd to me. This PM feels as though someone in the Water Dept would call to reprimand me for not turning the water faucet off while brushing my teeth, when I only turn the faucet on when I need to rinse. Why, admin; why? Explanation demanded, please. Yeh, it is... Cheers, Unc2

Hola, Werner. Don't get me wrong; a Nesher build is almost mandatory for just any Mirage fan. It's just that, anyone who's gotten a Mirage 5 kit by Wingman Models was provided with so many markings for the Israeli aircraft one life is not going to be enough to build 'em all! I still have got three 1/48 Nesher/Dagger resin noses by Ricardo Dacoba to graft onto yet another three Heller Mirage IIIC/B kits sitting in my stash, I really don't quite see the need to get a similar kit, not even the South American boxing. Kinetic miss not releasing the 1/48th scale kit of the Pucará. Hola, Fran. Nooooooooooooooo...!!! Think I would have offered to leave a kidney, a lung, an eye and an ear instead of those kits. But yeh; ya'll just need to source a couple of larger VHF antennas to replace the smaller one which the Nesher has under the nose, and add the other one on the spine that the Dagger has past the canopy. Yeh, ya will... Cheers, Unc2

I just had this brawl with a couple skaters banging their Powell Peralta Rat-Bones 90A wheels on the polished concrete of my driveway. Leaned out of the window to kindly tell them to get lost, but they just didn’t comply. I saw that these were no kids precisely, they must have been in the range of 20-25, so I went out to have a word with them when I checked the concrete was all cracked in the spot where they had been banging. Mood suddenly shifted, but not hormonal …and I kicked them both out. Here's to them: Incidentally; I was always of the idea that Bob Mould's vocals might as well easily pass as Paul Stanley's. Don't you think? Yeh, me does... Cheers, Unc2 PS: Been a skater myself back in "they're" day.

Well, as for the single-seat Nesher, I think it ought to be the previous release. I don't see what the point is with this, when they could have been releasing the 1/48 IA-58 Pucará kit by now... And as for the two-seat version, they've released the IIIB/D kit and I've got a whole plethora of resin conversion noses for it. I don't quite get it. Yeh, me don't... Cheers, Unc2

I think the lower shape of the radome looks odd... Yeh, me does... Cheers, Unc2

Thanks, Werner, ¡mi hermano! The more, the merrier. How about Hannants in the UK or Aviation MegaStore in "they're" Netherlands? Sweet! Ever since September the 16th last year, I've been harassing one sheila going by the name of Charlene Norman on SprueBrothers on a monthly basis so that she would tell me when they were going to restock the 1/48 F-105D brass legs for the Monogram kit. I never got a reply ever again. Yeh, me didn't... Cheers, Unc2

Brought Sqd. Leader John Reeve's band to you

Oh-la-la...! She's got the proper sit! Still on campaign with G-Factor so that they consider releasing a set for this kit - not for Hobby Boss' Campaign comprises modellers in Argieland, Brazil, Uruguay, Perú, Colombia and Chile. Ecuador and Venezuela won't cooperate. I still didn't have time to arrange with IPMSs in North America, Europe and Asia, but I started conversations with members in Aussieland and Kiwiland. If you and/or Jean-Michel are in, the e-mail to which you can address petitions regarding to this subject is: [email protected] I've been dealing with different solutions in order to suppress the wobbliness of legs on mate Mirto's build. Something which worked the best was flattening the tyres on the main landing gear legs so that there's a level surface for the kit to rest on. To keep the proper sit I had to slightly flatten the nose landing gear tyre as well, but very lightly. Stability is highly increased that way until there's a brass solution. Yeh, it is... Cheers, Unc2

That's "them" beauty... Unfortunately, shipping price is almost the same as the cost of "they're" kit... Yeh, it is... Cheers, Unc2

Steve! Thanks a lot, my mate. There's not a single song in that album that I dislike. My ex-sheila would use to listen to Marian (Version) as though it was the only track in that album.

It was awful that our countries had stopped doing business owing to that conflict. An instant memoir still comes to mind back in 1986, when my father would use to take me to the city domestic airport here in Capital Federal to watch the airliners take off and land on weekends. I'd love the thundering roar BAC-111s made when taking off, and how few of them remained airworthy. My father suddenly pointed his finger to a spot where at least three BAC-111s rested, grounded for lack of spare parts. And when he explained to me what the reason for that was. Not a good memory at all. Nay, it's not... Cheers, Unc2

Mark, Just a couple interesting anecdotes concerning Aircraft Carrier ARA 25 de Mayo during the war. There's one about this single day very early in the war, when all of the A-4Qs aboard the air wing were armed with four 500-lb Snakeyes under the central pylon and the usual pair of Aero 1D 300-gal. gas jugs under the wings + full cannon ammo load to attack HMS Hermes which was within range. When the vessel was steered against the wind to lauch there was no wind at all... I was barely a three-year-old toddler when the war broke out; it's a war I don't support at all because, clearly enough, the decision to go to war was made on reasons other but true sovereignty. That's an alibi I always refused to buy because, if anything - and just like today - the economic situation down here was so awful that the least my country needed in that moment was the annexation of yet another territory. There were issues a lot more urgent than lavishing funds in a war, that's for sure. It was all just a silly move by the Military Junta - the very same as with Maggie Thatcher over there, if I may say - made in order to strive for popularity, as if something like that could have ever been possible. Let's say I'm still terribly embarrased to see TV footages of all that people rooting for Brig. Gen. Galtieri in Plaza de Mayo on April the 2nd, 1982 after Operación Rosario was carried out successfully, when these same jacknuts were exactly the ones who disowned our men when returning defeated. That being said, I'm terribly proud of the countrymen who fought that war, and thankful enough that all my relatives participating in that conflict came out alive; father, uncle and cousin. Each one of them related what the war was like in the field, the sea and the air. The way my cousin was treated like in the field by his own countrymen is something I will neither forgive nor forget. It did a thing on his psyche, poor Rodrigo. Oh, only one more excellent anecdote; after the war, I won a meet & greet backstage pass with the Iron Maiden assembly. Speaking about the war with Bruce Dickinson he told me that after the combined attacks by the Air Force and the Armada cost you the sinking of RFA Sir Tristram and RFA Sir Galahad in June the 8th, the Task Force had been one week away from having to regroup back to Portsmouth, and said him that, had that happened, England was going to come back with nukes instead Then I asked him about what his thoughts were regarding the attack on HMS Invincible, on May the 30th, and he just dismissed it with a hug. Top-bloke he is. Yeh, he is... Cheers, Unc2

Aaaww... such a proud papa... Patting yer kid in the tummy, Tom? Look the size of that critter... Cheers, Unc2

Nay a good day for me today, everyone. I've got my hemlock and this tune before turning in.

Yeh, Mark; yeh! That's the way I got it. This part was a valve which couldn't be found anywhere, until someone spotted it by chance. The first of the Black Buck missions was such a great feat, bigger than the Linebacker missions or the B-29 bombing flights out of Tinian AB. Tried to buy the 40 Degrees South the Equator poster of the in-flight refuel in the thunderstorm over the South Atlantic which is on the book, but the price was so steep I real couldn't afford it. Yeh, me couldn't... Cheers, Unc2

And a spare part which was key for the in-flight refuelling system to work was found by sheer chance being used as an ashtray by the crews in their ready room! That book is just awesome. Yeh, it is... Cheers, Unc2

Last one for the day 'cause tomorrow reveille is played at 05:00. Lotta Höglin and her band

Yeh, Mark; yeh! The anecdote which relates the training flights at night over Scotland, wearing the night-vision goggles and the sheep... It cracks me up everytime.

Vulcan 607 by Rowland White, for the fifth time.

Fancied some Classical music today, so... I'm listening to the Viking guitar player.