Brandy Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 Good job you didn't have to CA those windows in! Enjoy the cruise, Merry Christmas to you and yours, and all the best for 2023! Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 I didn't notice the omissions when I viewed them at SMW, shows how observant I am. Well, they're finished now, time to move on. Not going to ask about 'that'. Enjoy your holiday up north, ahve a good one. Stuart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Just adding my good wishes for Christmas and your cruise. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted December 16, 2022 Author Share Posted December 16, 2022 On 12/12/2022 at 8:03 PM, Fritag said: Sounds delightful. I’ve been to Bergen; very nice, very expensive. Taking your dinner suit for a nice slow foxtrot on christmas day? And maybe quickstep some of the christmas calories away? And we are hoping it will be delightful. Karen is half Norwegian, so has already warned me of local prices. Yep, dinner suit and posh frocks will be packed, and we both plan much dancing to help with calorie management 🤸♂️ On 12/13/2022 at 3:46 PM, Brandy said: Good job you didn't have to CA those windows in! Enjoy the cruise, Merry Christmas to you and yours, and all the best for 2023! Ian Yes, CA not the best idea in my hands, on delicate matters, without optivors, in a built up area.......🙄 We will try and enjoy the cruise, and all the best Crimble and New Year wishes to you too Ian. On 12/13/2022 at 9:41 PM, Courageous said: Well, they're finished now, time to move on. Not going to ask about 'that'. Thanks for not asking about 'that'. I peeked through 'that' doorway a few days back and it would appear that Ian @Brandy has already recently snuck in there .............. I may have to post an update there very soon as there has actually been some review work (trying to work out where on earth I was at), including a small repair. New year may well see full resumption of work ......... 🤫 On 12/14/2022 at 6:51 AM, Biggles87 said: Just adding my good wishes for Christmas and your cruise. John Thank you John. This will likely be the last update on this particular WIP for 2022 (no modelling on the ship), so Happy Christmas and Happy New year to everyone following this thread! T. 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 21 minutes ago, Terry1954 said: Karen is half Norwegian, so has already warned me of local prices Have a great time, Terry! My only experience on Norway was a trip to the Sola air show. We stayed in a hotel on the beach and could see across the airfield to the entrance. A £40 taxi ride later got us there ! Having said that, it is a great place! All my best, Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 Apropos of nothing, my maternal great-grandfather was Norwegian.... Have a great holibobs Terry, and a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours. Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted December 23, 2022 Author Share Posted December 23, 2022 No glider progress to report but a quick update from Bergen in Norway! Ship's wifi pretty crummy, so this feels like coming up for air after 2 nights at sea. Bergen is delightful, and Steve @Fritag you are spot on re how expensive things are. A couple of bowls of fish soup for lunch a mere £60 and now tea and cake in a cafe at around £40! Back on the ship tonight when we hit the sea for two days to the extreme north and Christmas day at sea! missing y'all Merry Christmas! 🥳 T 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Crikey expensive Soup Terry, hope you enjoy Christmas at Sea. Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted December 23, 2022 Author Share Posted December 23, 2022 22 minutes ago, bigbadbadge said: Crikey expensive Soup Terry, hope you enjoy Christmas at Sea. Chris Thanks Chris. Prices seem nuts but all food on the ship is pretty good and inclusive, so we treated ourselves in Bergen. Won't be doing much of that! T. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Told ya Enjoy Christmas at sea; and the extreme North 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 24 minutes ago, Fritag said: Told ya Enjoy Christmas at sea; and the extreme North I think he sent some of that extreme North my way. Temp is down to -13 C and the trend is down with wind gusts to 60 mph. Merry Christmas! Cheers, Bill 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted December 24, 2022 Author Share Posted December 24, 2022 15 hours ago, Navy Bird said: I think he sent some of that extreme North my way. Temp is down to -13 C and the trend is down with wind gusts to 60 mph. Merry Christmas! Cheers, Bill Well in the middle of the Norwegian sea here at 63 degrees north its + 2 C, so I think you have all of the extreme North! T. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 4 hours ago, Terry1954 said: Well in the middle of the Norwegian sea here at 63 degrees north its + 2 C, so I think you have all of the extreme North! Thanks a lot. We bottomed out at -17 C last night but didn't lose power. Most of the snow missed us and the wind has died down. Little favours I guess! Have a great Christmas sailing in Hyperborea. Cheers, Bill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 Hope you all had a great Christmas. Another quick update from Norway, no modelling of course! Bodo was a blast (especially the aviation museum), Trondheim extremely picturesque and here in Alesund today we did much exploring. The ship stays here till 1am and we are promised a mega New Years Eve party, for which Mrs T and I are now preparing. A few of pictures to set the atmosphere..... Bodo around 11am a few days ago Trondheim yesterday.... Alesund this afternoon. Our Ship with the twin funnels is on the left ..... Happy New Year to everyone from Norway!! T. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Looking forward to the Bodo museum pics. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Don't forget, we all expect to see a picture of Slartibartfast's autograph on that glacier! And no Photoshopping either! Reasonable of Mars 👽 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Looks and sounds lovely Terry, hope you enjoy the party and have a Happy New Year. Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted January 16, 2023 Author Share Posted January 16, 2023 Well, although we got back from Norway on 3rd January, modelling took a big hit due to a chest infection which I came down with shortly after returning, which knocked me for six for a week or so. All good now though........... On 12/31/2022 at 5:41 PM, Paul J said: Looking forward to the Bodo museum pics. No pics of the museum to show just yet. I took a lot but need to get them sorted and up on Flickr. Although the museum is brilliant, some areas are quite dimly lit (deliberately I assume) so photography even with modern fancy kit, was not easy. I can say it is one of the best museums I have seen. On 12/31/2022 at 6:35 PM, Martian said: Don't forget, we all expect to see a picture of Slartibartfast's autograph on that glacier! And no Photoshopping either! We got halfway up the glacier, to find the inscription "Slartibartfast was here" just at the moment my camera batteries failed ............. 😜 On 12/31/2022 at 8:12 PM, bigbadbadge said: Looks and sounds lovely Terry, hope you enjoy the party and have a Happy New Year. Chris Thanks Chris. It was awesome. Apart from the stunning scenery and incredible atmosphere in the Arctic circle, one of the main aims was to see the Northern lights, and we were tremendously fortunate in seeing them on a total of four nights (and days!) in a row. The best show was around noon in Alta, right in the middle of a brightly lit town centre, light pollution everywhere, but that made little difference. We were treated to a show for close to 30 minutes right above our heads. We were sitting outside on the veranda of a local bar (of course), and just watched in amazement. I spoke to a local man who had lived there for 25 years and he told me these were by far the best he had seen! I took many many pictures, these two give a taste of what we saw........ Ironically the best pictures we took were on hand held phones. The posh cameras we had were little use without tripods! These two were taken coming into Alta, whilst running up the Fjord (for a couple of hours). Light conditions varied minute by minute. At those latitudes we only had twilight for a couple of hours from around 9am! The contrast to earlier that week, down south, coming into Bergen........ And just before new year, in Trondheim there were no postal strikes! And for me the most bizarre experience of the whole trip was the contrast of life in a very cold and spectacularly beautiful Norway ............... and life on the rather nice cruise ship during the evenings..... Yours truly and the ever patient Mrs T on New years eve. That was quite a party in the end! But there is modelling to be done! As promised the next up in this brief series of "Air Cadet" gliders, is the Scale Resin Slingsby T.53. The kit is very nicely moulded in very fine resin. Obligatory parts picture...... And Instructions where you can see there are no less than five options to choose from........ Option 1. Privately owned, but emulating the colours used (sort of) when this aircraft served with the RAF Air Cadets Option 2. Privately owned, but emulating the colours used when this aircraft served with RCAF Air Cadets. 3. An in service RAF Air Cadet aircraft as used by 615 VGS at RAF Kenley in 1971. 4. Civilian example, with modified canopy. 5. Civilian example. It's interesting for me that the 615 VGS example dated 1971, was at Kenley shortly after I qualified in January 1971. I don't recall these being there when I did my course in the T31, so I assume they must have been delivered sometime later that year. Indeed I do recall seeing them a little later (a year or two) up at Kenley and wishing I'd done my course a bit later! The fuselage has some nice internal detail, so the dremel may not be needed ..........! The wings are cast on a massive resin "sprue", giving a complete pair of wings, with dihedral already set in, but with a pretty fragile (nevertheless helpful) centre join. Working out the best way to remove the wing piece from it's "sprue" without breaking the centre join, led me to conclude that cutting the sprue part in half first, might reduce the stress on that centre part, enabling me to remove each with leading edge separately. So a deep breath and .......... And it worked............! Some cleaning up to do, but happy at this stage. The fuselage underside showed slight misalignment where the lower fuselage was joined to its sprue Measuring each side, from the cockpit lip, to the lower edge of the fuselage, showed them to be different measurements (slightly), which in a way was good news, as all I need to do is increase the depth on one side, or reduce it on the other. Cockpit lip to lip on each side appeared parallel. The winner in that decision was to increase the depth, probably using plastic card shims, given that should be the easiest medium to re-scribe the underside detail lost. The reason that method won is easy to work out when you see the thickness (or lack of it) of the bottom of the fuselage, one half is much thinner, and heavy filing away at the bottom, could end in disaster! So, lots of cleaning up of wing and fuselage, and some lower fuselage build up to do. More soon. T 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Glad you had a great time sorry to hear about the chest infection and glad you're feeling better. The photos are lovely and the Northern lights look amazing. Nice choice of Glider kit, that joint looks delicate though, phew, glad that came out well. Great start Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Wow, Norway looks spectacular Terry! Looking forward to more glider goodness. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 (edited) Lovely pics of the Norwegian tour. Moving on to the gliders, when I started my ATC gliding course it was at RAF Swanton Morley,Norfolk, November1969. We only got a couple launches in due to the weather not wanting us to progress. So the course was abandoned and while we kicked our heels, we were entertained by a couple films at the station Astra cinema and the highlight was a bus trip to Coltishall. Re the gliders there was one of the very first T.53 in the hangar. I think it was being evaluated at Swanton as it was the base for the Central Gliding School. I and my buddy were allowed a week off from the school to attend the course as the headmaster was keen for us to go. My buddy ended up in the RAF on Jaguars I think. Don't know what he's doing now. As for the gliding course, we were able to start afresh at Tangmere, January 1970. Much nearer yo home for me. Edited January 17, 2023 by Paul J 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Nice looking pictures of Norway you have there Terry. An interesting glider you have on the bench there, looking forward to watching it progress to the finish line. Stay safe Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Some lovely pics from your trip to Norway, Terry! I love the one with the two of you, looks like you were really having a great time! Interesting start on this resin kit - or should I say scary? Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 Ditto on the Norway tour and the chest infection. This looks like another smooth machine, seems like my involvement with ATC gliding was about 40-50 years too early. Happy New Year ( it’s OK to say it in these parts ‘til the end of Jan. ) John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 On 12/31/2022 at 5:38 PM, Terry1954 said: Bodo was a blast Hi Terry! I went up there (not the museum) in 1978. It was a jump seat ride on one of our Comets. Don Warburton was our Captain (146 types in his logbook inc Mustangs while he was stationed in the Shetlands!) We had four flights to pick up and return cruise passengers to and from the UK. I was really interested to see it but when I got to the airport - it was just a turnaround - there was nothing other than three Wideroe Twin Otters . And I got stopped by the Norwegian Rozzers for taking photos! They were good about it. They processed my film and a few weeks later I received my photos minus those taken at Bodo! A friend of mine has promised a trip to the museum sometime but its a long way to go! Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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