Burn Down Their Hanging Trees (1/72 Airfix Lancaster B.III)

[bigbadbadge]

The Lancaster is coming on well, and looks good, nice interior too. 

Happy belated birthday and what a cracking Birthday haul.

Keep up the good work

All the best

Chris

[dogsbody]

10 hours ago, Procopius said:

What ships?

My Dad was on the destroyer HMCS St. Laurent, doing convoy escort, then the minesweeper HMCS Cowichan. It was the 3rd ship to near Omaha Beach on D-Day, to clear any sea mines for the landing ships.

 

My brother was on the HMCS Cap de la Madeleine, then the HMCS St. Laurent. Not the same ship as Dad's, just the same name.

 

8 hours ago, AliGauld said:

 I think that Wood's Old Navy is still proper strength and it certainly gives you some nice central heating.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Alistair

How I hate that rum! To me, it's too harsh and cheap paint thinner tasting.

 

 

 

Chris

10 hours ago, Procopius said:

What ships?

My Dad was on the destroyer HMCS St. Laurent, doing convoy escort, then the minesweeper HMCS Cowichan. It was the 3rd ship to near Omaha Beach on D-Day, to clear any sea mines for the landing ships.

 

My brother was on the HMCS Cap de la Madeleine, then the HMCS St. Laurent. Not the same ship as Dad's, just the same name.

 

8 hours ago, AliGauld said:

 I think that Wood's Old Navy is still proper strength and it certainly gives you some nice central heating.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Alistair

How I hate that rum! To me, it's too harsh and cheap paint thinner tasting.

 

 

 

Chris

[dogsbody]

I don't know what's happening to the forum. For some reason it doubled my comments in the above posting and now it won't let me edit it.

 

I'm mumbling nasty, un-postable words right now!

 

 

Chris

[AliGauld]

20 minutes ago, dogsbody said:

 

How I hate that rum! To me, it's too harsh

and cheap paint thinner tasting.

 

 

 

I was brought up in the Highlands on Cooking Whisky so my taste buds may well be completely shot. 😉

 

Cheers,

Alistair

 

 

[dogsbody]

I well imaging there are a few of us here who have burned off a taste bud or two, due to various liquors. I think I may have scorched a tonsil once with some moonshine.

 

 

Chris

 

 

Sorry Edward, for distracting the viewers with all this hooch talk.

[Procopius]

Sorry for the radio silence, general sinus infection/birthday recovery and getting ready to see the family off on Thursday for Mrs P's spring break at her parents' house. I've done a little more work on the Lanc, mostly relating to the bomb bay doors, which are pretty frustrating. I almost wonder if they should've been attached to the fuselage halves before closing them up, or if that would exacerbate the problems caused by their collective warpage.

[corsaircorp]

On 3/16/2019 at 6:16 AM, Procopius said:

My great-grandfather on my father's side was from Swinford in Mayo (and I still have  relatives there today, though the spelling of our shared last name has diverged), and my maternal something-or-other originated from Fermanagh. I can't say it's a heritage I've ever felt much connection to, aside from generally considering the sound of bagpipes to be music rather than confusing noises.

 

 

I made it downstairs tonight and got a tiny bit of work done. Some sanding:

 

 

 

And the addition of one of the bomb bay doors, which was badly warped:

 

 

 

 

A tot has been issued to the men.

 

 

Strewth this stuff is strong!

One more to proove your great taste !!

Happy Birthday Mr PC !! With some Pusser's it will be good !!

However I prefer the Lamb's I did'nt turn my back to a shot of Pusser's !!

Sincerely.

CC

[perdu]

2 hours ago, Procopius said:

Sorry for the radio silence, general sinus infection/birthday recovery and getting ready to see the family off on Thursday for Mrs P's spring break at her parents' house. I've done a little more work on the Lanc, mostly relating to the bomb bay doors, which are pretty frustrating. I almost wonder if they should've been attached to the fuselage halves before closing them up, or if that would exacerbate the problems caused by their collective warpage.

This does sound as if you will need modelling to provide a distraction until she returns, happy and refreshed

Still presumably you and the boys will be happy together 'til she returns...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks as if you should have copied Tomo and built a Dam Buster, no bomb bay doors to fret over PC

Its a shame that you have had such a hard time with that part of the build

[Procopius]

Just now, perdu said:

This does sound as if you will need modelling to provide a distraction until she returns, happy and refreshed

Still presumably you and the boys will be happy together 'til she returns...

Oh no, they're going with. Winston calls her mother "the better grammy who isn't hurt". (My mom has a lot of health problems.)

 

1 minute ago, perdu said:

Looks as if you should have copied Tomo and built a Dam Buster, no bomb bay doors to fret over PC

Its a shame that you have had such a hard time with that part of the build

Honestly, that might be even worse! The closed bomb bay hides a multitude of sins.

[perdu]

So sad times ahead then

 

No kids to enjoy whilst you sip sundowners waiting for paint to dry, I feel for you

 

 

 

Or do I?

 

 

[Procopius]

5 minutes ago, perdu said:

So sad times ahead then

 

No kids to enjoy whilst you sip sundowners waiting for paint to dry, I feel for you

 

It's gonna be rough, Perds. All those empty hours, sleeping in a bed without an eighteen-month-old bicycle kicking my head at two in the morning, eating whatever I want when I want it, no macaroni or watermelon to clean up off the kitchen floor...Terrible.

[Brandy]

I feel for you, even though I'm single and never have to put up with that!

 

You're going to be having so much fun we won't see you at all! Enjoy! (As they say Stateside, though I always thought that sounded like an order!)

 

Ian

[perdu]

As Ian says, I also feel bad for you

 

How long will you have to suffer for?

Will there be cakes or long running sessions pounding pavements in order to get thin enough for aircraft seats?

 

So many questions, may I suggest you allow a few minutes a day just to sit, relax and make models

Extreme therapy but it works for me during hours of loss

[CedB]

Ooh, ‘me time’... envious!

Catch up on your sleep, get dressed when you feel like it and model anytime you want. 

Enjoy PC!

[azureglo]

On 3/20/2019 at 2:17 PM, Procopius said:

It's gonna be rough, Perds. All those empty hours, sleeping in a bed without an eighteen-month-old bicycle kicking my head at two in the morning, eating whatever I want when I want it, no macaroni or watermelon to clean up off the kitchen floor...Terrible.

Yup pretty much every day for me. For those reading  who are not yet married with children, STAY SINGLE!!!😭

[Procopius]

5 hours ago, azureglo said:

Yup pretty much every day for me. For those reading  who are not yet married with children, STAY SINGLE!!!😭

True, although my window for snagging someone as good-looking as Mrs P was very small, so I had to act fast, and good that I did, because her appearance has only improved with age. Mine...has not.

 

On 3/20/2019 at 10:15 AM, perdu said:

How long will you have to suffer for?

Will there be cakes or long running sessions pounding pavements in order to get thin enough for aircraft seats?

I do need to run, I still need to lose 18 more pounds to get to my goal weight, but I do plan on having at least one day where I eat an entire pie, pie type TBD. Pizza pie? Chocolate creme? Coconut creme? Key Lime? A universe of possibilities.

 

Today I worked from home (but midway through the day I began playing Il-2: Battle for Stalingrad and testing out the Spitfire Vb, which is appropriately dangerous to the foul forces of the Axis powers) and tomorrow I took off, since next week is going to be very busy as I hopefully ensure that everyone in our 900 person organization is complying with our new social media policy (written by yours truly), which they aren't. We're also in the midst of another re-org, our second in six months, and potentially the third new person for my boss to report to (one of them twice!) in the past twelve months, and if anything signifies a successful organization, it's constant re-orgs. As part of this I may be traded away like cigarettes in prison to another department, one that uses an open plan seating arrangement, so that probably won't be at all stressful and devoid of joy.

 

Mrs P and the boys left a little before 11 AM today, and poor Winston had a colossal meltdown, confirming what I'd always feared might happen, that he'd inherit my hideous temper, one of what I hope is among my less obvious character flaws to readers on this forum (another being my propensity to casually lob F-bombs unthinkingly, though not, mercifully in the presence of my children). The poor little guy got so worked up over some scrambled eggs which he threw on the floor and then wanted retrieved from the garbage that he became impervious to reason and reduced to a screaming, howling mess. I ended up having to walk around holding him until he calmed down. He's already gotten in trouble for hitting other children at school (he takes steroids for his pretty bad asthma, which certainly doesn't help, speaking from my own experiences around his age), so it might fairly be said he has a little bit of a rage issue. I'm sure some of the people down in Chat might think all of this is just because we've grown too soft as a species and are now appalled by such bagatelles as slavery, mass murder, and thumping the living poop out of someone who still sleeps in diapers and with a doll to teach them that hitting is wrong, but nobody ever quite figured out how to solve this puzzler in the Good Old Days either, so here we are. I just have to hope that I can help him and that the punishments I do implement aren't slowly cooking up a future disemboweler of prostitutes. A free and easy life, being a dad. Anil may be on to something.

 

Anyhow, some progress on the Lanc:

 

 

Turtledeck painted.

 

Wheelbays as well:

 

 

 

You can see some of the filling and sanding I had to do with the bomb bay doors. I recall doing this the last time as well. There must be a better way of getting them together.

 

Anyway, as I tipped the model to show you all that, guess where I put an errant finger?

 

 

FFFFFF-ine. I can fix it.

 

 

Sigh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[CedB]

Nice progress on the Lanc PC - you'll soon get that fingerprint out  

 

Reorganisations? Hmmm. A friend of mine once explained 'Aviary Reorganisations', like what happens when you bang on the side of an aviary. The birds flap around in a panic and chaos for a while but quickly settle down again to their old habits. Punchline? Same birds, different perches.

 

Parenting? Who knows. Parameters, discipline and affection they say, but where do you draw the lines?

[stevehnz]

1 hour ago, CedB said:

where do you draw the lines?

I think think it matters too much as long as they know they're LOVED.

Steve.

[perdu]

Not too sure about that entirely Steve

 

I think they know better that they are loved if they get clear lines drawn, otherwise is it love or disinterest?

I think there is waaaayyyy too much of that in parenting these days

 

Anil may be on to something. is very true one feels...

[Troy Smith]

12 hours ago, Procopius said:

 

Turtledeck painted.

AFAIK, this should be Dark Green

 

Lancaster service by Etienne du Plessis, on Flickr

 

Avro Lancaster     1942. by Etienne du Plessis, on Flickr

 

Lancaster at Warboys,1944. by Etienne du Plessis, on Flickr

 

more period colour here

https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=8270787@N07&q=lancaster

 

but the above only ones showing turtledeck.

 

9 hours ago, CedB said:

 

Parenting? Who knows. Parameters, discipline and affection they say, but where do you draw the lines?

 

hopefully you know what works for your own children, but it's not an exact science....

[Procopius]

3 minutes ago, Troy Smith said:

AFAIK, this should be Dark Greenn exact science....

Ffffffff...teach me to rely on the Airfix instructions. Okay, easy enough to respray.

[Tomoshenko]

On 3/22/2019 at 4:07 AM, Procopius said:

On 3/20/2019 at 3:15 PM, perdu said:

How long will you have to suffer for?

Will there be cakes or long running sessions pounding pavements in order to get thin enough for aircraft seats?

I do need to run, I still need to lose 18 more pounds to get to my goal weight, but I do plan on having at least one day where I eat an entire pie, pie type TBD. Pizza pie? Chocolate creme? Coconut creme? Key Lime? A universe of possibilities.

You can reward yourself with a deep fried pizza when you get to the UK. Eat enough of them and you'll be too fat to leave...

 

 

[Riksbar]

Re the deep fried pizza

[AdrianMF]

I suspect that, to a man from the Chicago area, the deep fried pizza looks like a weird health food slimming snack. A small Chicago deep pan pizza is like a week's worth of calories in a single serving!

 

I'm struck by how many different brown and green tones show up in the photos in Troy's link, from very dark to looking like desert camouflage. I guess there's a fair bit of variation caused by camera/film stock but even after that there's a wide range.

 

And now you have an excuse to paint over the fingerprint!

 

Regards,

Adrian

[Procopius]

3 hours ago, Tomoshenko said:

You can reward yourself with a deep fried pizza when you get to the UK. Eat enough of them and you'll be too fat to leave...

CHRIST JESUS

 

2 hours ago, AdrianMF said:

I suspect that, to a man from the Chicago area, the deep fried pizza looks like a weird health food slimming snack. A small Chicago deep pan pizza is like a week's worth of calories in a single serving!

Rather more than a day's, but yes. But so, so so worth it. I won't defend much about the city, but I do love its junk food. Except Italian beef. Ugh. Why?

 

2 hours ago, AdrianMF said:

I'm struck by how many different brown and green tones show up in the photos in Troy's link, from very dark to looking like desert camouflage. I guess there's a fair bit of variation caused by camera/film stock but even after that there's a wide range.

Yes, I was thinking about that myself. Really quite a lot of weathering for aircraft that (sadly) often had very short service lives. Also, green interiors on the nose turret.