Pete in Lincs Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 2 minutes ago, TheBaron said: Or indeed a beer wagon... Wait a minute: are you actually accusing bus drivers of deliberately targetting loon afficionados Pete? In those days the draymen got a pint at the pubs they went to. It made the draywagons slower and easier to avoid. Nowadays, we're lucky to get tea or coffee. There were less people about back then and Loon pants were mad colours, hence easy tartgets. Bus crews wore heavy, sweaty uniforms and were jealous of the 'trendies'. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted November 25, 2019 Author Share Posted November 25, 2019 32 minutes ago, Pete in Lincs said: In those days the draymen got a pint at the pubs they went to. It made the draywagons slower and easier to avoid. Nowadays, we're lucky to get tea or coffee. That seems most uncivil Pete: what accounts for that change? Is it a different breed of publican these days or just that you're under the cosh timewise to get the round done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 8 hours ago, TheBaron said: Is it possible a few spores travelled? The Traveling Spores? wasn't that a band? superb brasswork there Tony. Very impressive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Nowt wrong with Loons, I had a bright Purple pair when I was a lad. Nice work on those window frames. The Brass master at work. Simon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 21 hours ago, TheBaron said: Is it a different breed of publican these days Yes I think so. The days of every Publican living above the pub are numbered. Few do nowadays. So we have to negotiate a delivery time when they're free and not elsewhere. Some just treat us as delivery people or just want the drop over so they can do other things. Then there are community pubs or pop up bars & other places where we already have a key and just dump the stuff as it's been paid for on line already. We also have Trade team/ex Carlsberg delivering. Some are ex draymen but others are just deliverymen, They'll just dump it and go whereas we will/can sort out the cellar placements etc. We get by and don't expect stuff, so it's nice when it happens, we always have time for a natter. Pete 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Fantastic work Tony: fin flash adjustment, canopy frame and beef bourguignon. Reference the matured Egyptian food sources, apparently Egyptologists discovered 3000 yr old honey in some tombs that was still edible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 12 hours ago, Spookytooth said: I had a bright Purple pair when I was a lad. Mine were Sky Blue in sumptuous brushed cotton denim...!! Groovy canopy framing Tony, looks fab man.... (er, sorry, must have been a flashback due to the loons...) K 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted November 30, 2019 Author Share Posted November 30, 2019 On 11/25/2019 at 11:41 PM, hendie said: The Traveling Spores? wasn't that a band? Everything was a band in the 60s & 70s.... On 11/26/2019 at 9:43 AM, Spookytooth said: Nowt wrong with Loons, I had a bright Purple pair when I was a lad. I daren't ask about the shirt I guess Simon... On 11/26/2019 at 5:56 PM, Pete in Lincs said: We get by and don't expect stuff, so it's nice when it happens, we always have time for a natter. Pete Interesting bit of social history Pete: thanks. It's not media headlines but these shifting patterns of social detail that affect the lives of so many of us. On 11/26/2019 at 9:11 PM, Tomoshenko said: Fantastic work Tony: fin flash adjustment, canopy frame and beef bourguignon. Reference the matured Egyptian food sources, apparently Egyptologists discovered 3000 yr old honey in some tombs that was still edible. Kind of you Tomo. Ancient Egyptian bread & honey must be the headiest of high teas I reckon. Wonder do you become a god afterwards? On 11/26/2019 at 9:49 PM, keefr22 said: Mine were Sky Blue in sumptuous brushed cotton denim...!! I'm seeing somebody leaning against a Ford Anglia with a can of Watneys and tabbing away on a Player's No.6 Keith. 😁 Am I right? Yeesh. Another week of busyness. Would rather have been sipping nectar with Neferti on a perfumed Nile barge but there you go - only another decade until retirement. Little time on Annie until midweek when I thinned down the depth top and bottom of the runners for the window frames, which were then epoxied into place and left to cure on the stove for 24hrs: It was quite a tricky job due to the thinness of the pieces and trying not to mangle them out of shape whilst simultaneously running a file across them but eventually, proved worth the effort though in that theyno longer look as clunky as their raw state. This has unfortunately proven a more time consuming stage than I'd hoped it to be; knowing what I know now it would have been much easier to perhaps to Photoetch these and several other parts that I've had to make by hand. Oh well. Price of Experience, as Bill Blake once said (either to his Missus, or an angel on the staircase). Taking all those bindings off this morning revealed a nasty dribble of epoxy had gotten onto the starboard window: Too thin a piece of transparency and too big a surface area of glue to be able to sand and polish successfully. Thankfully there are channels in those frames like on the real thing so I was just able to trim out a replacement and by bowing it out, pop it back into place. I wouldn't use anything else except smartphone screen protector for such work these days: fiddly to work with but at 1/72 a good compromise between strength and scale. The AW turret. was also unearthed from the parts collection and impaled upon the Raving Droid: Before getting down to painting the turret and cockpit framing there was a small masking job needed doing to spray the lip along the front of the windshield, which is a noticeable bit of visual on the real thing: Then two liberal coats of the brown and green brushed on roughly around the framing and left to dry: Easier to ensure getting paint into all the nooks and crannies this way and then take the excess off with a toothpick and sewing machine needle afterwards. Scrape, scrape. Scrape, scrape. Scrape, scrape. An obsessive hour later and the main outlines restored: Been busting to take the nose masking off for ages now so couldn't wait any longer. The front window turned out a nice smooth job in the end. Painted, the new side window frames blend back in to the main structure less alarming than the raw metal looked: Visuals of the turret actually exceeded my expectations to be quite honest: (It's just tucked in here for a dry fit so don't be alarmed that it's positioned up too high in the photograph.) I'd spent so long looking at the rather ugly bare foil on that bulb but actually rubbing all over with the cocktail stick (not just in the parts where the excess paint was) polished it up very nicely indeed! I read somewhere that you can polish Cordoban leather shoes to a mirror finish with a piece of antler, so an analogue here perhaps. Either way must remember these results for future use. Those few hours of concentration have depleted the mental faculties now I'm afraid so after a bacon butty and pint of strong tea I'm off for an afternoon kip; hopefully this will prove restorative enough for me to stick some more bits on to cure overnight. Before going I may as well admit to having bought a 3D printer during the week- having seen @hendies divine rotor hub thingy that he produced for the Wessex I realized that there was an Elegoo shaped void in my life that no amount of prayer and contemplation could ever fill. I spent some time last night fiddling around with Fusion to come up with a test part that would be complicated enough to act as gauge as to how fine a detail it would let me produce at 1/72, so all being well, will have a first go and try and print out a family of these tomorrow at varying sizes: That's not intended to be an actual part from anything: just me fannying around experimenting with the various modelling routines in Fusion (which I like more at each sitting). The idea with those blades and cone is simply to test how thin a cross section it'll print and how smooth it will treat variously curved surfaces. Theory anyway. Hope your weekends are off to a good start at whatever pace is appropriate. 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Spookytooth Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 15 minutes ago, TheBaron said: I daren't ask about the shirt I guess Simon... Loud!! to say the least Tony, very loud. I have got to say that the "Annie" looks splendid sir. Simon. Having a coffee right now, the traffic was horrendous in town. Two hours to do a 40 minute journey. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 49 minutes ago, TheBaron said: so all being well, will have a first go and try and print out a family of these tomorrow at varying sizes: ooohhhhhhhh, can't wait. Should be very interesting to see those results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 Tony, whatever that is, I need two Or four Excellent blending in of the brass framing, BTW Ciao 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 Blimey Just blimey... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 Lovely glazing Tony, really smart So, you have a MARS eh? Great stuff... I’m still trying to justify buying one but no luck so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 @CedB, you are me. Annie is indeed a Dreamboat (just to get all 70s Hair Rock on y’all) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJP Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 The Annie looks great! - cant wait for work to start on the Sea Vixens CJP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 8 hours ago, TheBaron said: I'm seeing somebody leaning against a Ford Anglia with a can of Watneys and tabbing away on a Player's No.6 Keith. 😁 Am I right? Oh so close! Change Anglia to Escort and your dead on....!! Nobody will ever believe that Anson morphed out of an Airfix kit! K 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Sooooo does this mean you will be 3D printing parts?? As in you will be able to print anything (we) you want? annie is looking superb, now it’s all coming together it kind of staggering how much work has gone into it. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Annie looks really stunning with her war paint on and the masking off! Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 18 hours ago, TheBaron said: Before going I may as well admit to having bought a 3D printer during the week- One down, how many to go.......and who’s next? Ced? Crisp? One who’s as yet playing their cards closer to their chest? 10 hours ago, CedB said: Lovely glazing Tony, really smart It’s my day for copying Ced’s comments of approval in lieu of thinking of mine own......I am no less sincere - just more lazy 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Fritag said: One down, how many to go.......and who’s next? Ced? Crisp? One who’s as yet playing their cards closer to their chest? One wonders..... Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Fritag said: One down, how many to go.......and who’s next? Ced? Crisp? One who’s as yet playing their cards closer to their chest? It’s my day for copying Ced’s comments of approval in lieu of thinking of mine own......I am no less sincere - just more lazy Which one of us will it be Stuart @Courageous? I think I'll prioritise it above the dental vac forming machine now! Terry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 20 minutes ago, Terry1954 said: Which one of us will it be I don't need one, my eldest has two. He has printed a few 1/100 3D tanks for my wargaming (free designs). They were great for table when viewed from 3' away but not suitable for our line of work, doesn't have the resolution. I found that out when I got those Bendix tip tanks done for my FJ-1, took a lot of work to design because of all the curves and he''s not a CAD person. And it took a lot of work to get rid of the ridges caused by the printing process. Stuart 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Hi Tony Great metalworking fella and the glazing and the turret looks fantastic. Brilliant work. All the best Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 I am declaring Streetly a No 3D zone I am not clever enough to tackle the software, let alone a spouse who say "What? Why? No way!" Leaving clever stuff to youse geniiii. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbudde Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Very splendid Tony; very! Oh and a new tool. Hopefully with a tutorial for us how to make nice 3d models. Cheers Benedikt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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