snapper_city Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 These are going well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 Erm, I don't suppose anyone has any 1/72 CBU-87s and associated stencils, do they? I don't have Weapons Set 5 after all. Cookenbacher is my hero, you saw it here first. Masked the canopies today, mostly, and fiddled around. I have to do the ejector seats, which I hate, and then close up the cockpits, which I love, and then it's basecoat time, baby! I'm moving at a still-glacial pace on these for a variety of reasons: World of Tanks, depression, the weather, my job, which is pretty demanding for a workplace where my raises don't keep up with inflation, and the apparently ceaseless supply of yardwork that can be discovered by a woman who doesn't have to teach during the summer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Bit ungrateful to spell your hero's name wrong PC However, your perfectly good excuses notwithstanding I would quite like to see some fresh photographs of your progress so if you find the time to extract the relevant digits I am sure we would all be most appreciative Cheers, Stew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 I was blinded by my tears of gratitude. I'll try and get some photos "tomorrow", when I tell myself I'll do most things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Ah, the famous Spanish 'manana' then? I will look forward to it mate. Cheers, Stew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 1, 2014 Author Share Posted July 1, 2014 Stew, I'm garbage! I didn't even go into my workroom last night or this morning before leaving for work! I really need to unbutt and get moving, but we're going on an impromptu vacation to Michigan this weekend so that we can feel suitably dolorous during the terrible traffic that surrounds the absolute worst holiday in the country. As a consolation prize, here is a current photo of my cubicle: Yes, really. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 1, 2014 Author Share Posted July 1, 2014 If you're wondering about the weird-looking "Revlon" add, BTW, this should explain all: http://www.theonion.com/articles/brutally-honest-new-revlon-ad-campaign-reminds-cus,35968/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Hi PC, Crikey mate, that's a bit unpatriotic, you've got a Swiss flag on your rucksack However aside from that I think your workplace decor is quite fetching I trust that your colleagues feel the same Hope you have a good holiday - I got back from mine last night and am not really looking forward to returning to my cell tomorrow Cheers, Stew p.s. ha, that Onion article is class; have you ever seen the Daily Mash stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 2, 2014 Author Share Posted July 2, 2014 Okay, tomorrow I'm off to see my in-laws in northern Michigan, 300 miles away, so my holiday weekend will be spent travelling or among the barbarous subhumans that dwell up there. But first: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Looking good PC almost ready for paint by the look of things Hope you have a good weekend that's what you get for declaring independence. Cheers, Stew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 I'm back! Michigan -- northern Michigan, anyway -- is a lovely place, though crammed full of allergens and wealthy vacationers, a group I definitely though reluctantly cannot associate myself with. Here's a candid shot of my lovely wife and myself, showing a perfectly normal American couple: Perfectly. Normal. In weirder news, we saw this couple feeding their parrots(!!!) at an outdoor restaurant in Glen Arbor, MI, reputed to be one of the loveliest small towns in America, and good luck finding a cabin for less than a million dollars there, too: They were feeding the parrots with the same silverware they were eating off of themselves. Anyway, the Harriers. After a nine hour drive home on Sunday (it's normally six, but we were caught in a hundred-mile long, no foolin', traffic jam outside of Chicago, we were in no shape to do anything, anything at all, but yesterday, which I took off to get housework done, I also managed to do a tiny bit more work on the Harriers: I gave the ejector seat bits a blast of primer before painting them, and glued the joysticks into the cockpits. Hold me back, right? I also, perhaps inappropriately, given the holiday, read up more on postwar Britain, which just cemented my immense fondness for your peculiar, wonderful little island. "God-damned Europeans, take me back to beautiful England..." 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 12, 2014 Author Share Posted July 12, 2014 Modelling! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Welcome back PC Nice modelling too. You were making jet noises when you took that first picture, weren't you? Weren't you? Cheers, Stew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 12, 2014 Author Share Posted July 12, 2014 I'll never tell! It's classified! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moggy Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Hard to get much work done, as the heat and humidity here is terrible...frankly, most of the United States is wholly unsuited to human habitation, and that goes double for Chicago, which is unbearable for about 48 weeks out of the year. Also, my mojo remains in deadly abeyance. Still, I polished out that nasty seam along the tops of the two canopies. This lead to the following little vignette: [My wife walks into the bathroom to find me polishing a model airplane canopy using toothpaste and a toothbrush. There is a long pause as she asseses the situation.] Me: I imagine you have a lot of questions right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 13, 2014 Author Share Posted July 13, 2014 p.s. ha, that Onion article is class; have you ever seen the Daily Mash stuff? I missed this first go-round! I have indeed, although it's more difficult for me, as The Onion is free, and the Daily Mash is, to paraphrase Evelyn Waugh in Scoop, free "to a point". Here, incidentally, is where I am right now: Will I actually manage to prime these fine fat STOL-capable pheasants today? Stay tuned, gentle readers! I'm on a roll. I ran eight miles, ate a hearty breakfast made by my lovely wife, walked for two hours along the lake, and inched slightly closer to the mighty Centurion in World of Tanks. Today I am a force of nature! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 13, 2014 Author Share Posted July 13, 2014 Oh yeah, baby. They're primed. With my precious can of Mr. Surfacer 1000, even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 Holy carp! [Not a typo] I actually got some more done! I sprayed Gunze Light Aircraft Grey on the WARDEN GR7, and Gunze Dark Sea Grey on the upper parts of the TELIC GR7. I'll let them dry overnight at the least before masking off/sealing, as Gunze acrylics can be very finicky. I'm excited! I feel my mojo stirring. (Not a euphemism, although Mrs. Procopius walked by a little while ago in her underoos and my mojo stirred [definitely a euphemism] with such ferocity that my voice cracked.) In fact, I actually just ordered some stuff from Freightdog, always a good sign, mojowise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintsPhil Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Looking good! I was looking back through your thread to to bit about polishing the canopy seam, Mrs Saint usually wafts her finger nails in my direction when ever I've got the sanding and polishing gear out, I'm cheaper than a nail bar apparently.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Nice paintwork on those Harriers PC, very nice Glad to hear that your modelling mojo might be resurgent Bit too much info about your euphemistic mojo though, thanks all the same Cheers, Stew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 Sorry for oversharing, gentlemen, I seem to have done something to my back while out walking (walking almost always leaves me in agony, while running almost never does, oddly enough), and consequently my already weak judgment, not enhanced by prolonged exposure to lacquer-based primer in close, unventilated quarters, was brought low. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 I'm still trying to work out what "ordered something from Freightdog" is a euphemism for... Perhaps I oughtn't ask. Have you had your back looked at? That doesn't sound right, walking is supposed to be gentle exercise, unless you were walking on your hands for two hours. Anyway modelling is supposed to have therapeutic qualities. Not trying to gee you up or anything, just saying Cheers, Stew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 It's a euphemism for Hawker Hunter bits! No wait, that sounds wrong. Well, we were walking here: So the ground was a trifle irregular. Mrs. Procopius has a love of anything that looks post-apocalyptic, so we also had to trudge through a thicket for a while. No, I don't really get it either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 15, 2014 Author Share Posted July 15, 2014 Amazingly, actually got some more work done on them tonight. Cleaned up the WARDEN GR7's intake demarcations: And painted the Dark Camo Grey on the TELIC GR7, using thoroughly hateful Xtracrylics: Still need to tidy up the latter aircraft's intake demarcations. I'm living in fear that it was too soon, and the Xtracrylic will crack over the Gunze, and I'll have to throw the Harrier into a wall, but that, as they say, is life in the big city. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Hey, looking good PC What's hateful about the Xtracrylics? I've never used them but I like the Xtracolor enamels, always got a nice finish with them. Soon you will be able to start adding all the stencilling Your picture looks like a lovely place to have a walk, I'm with Mrs PC on this, I would happily walk for miles in that sort of environment. Can see why it might have left you with backache, however. Cheers, Stew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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