Pfalz friends - finished

[Hamden]

 

Sorry to hear your not well, hope you recover quickly with no after affects.

 

           Roger

[AdrianMF]

1 hour ago, Brandy said:

What's the beer like in hospital?

I hate to break this to you, but….  

 

Regards,

Adrian

[Marklo]

4 hours ago, AdrianMF said:

I assume I’m not allowed sharp tools in a hospital (“no fighting - this is the War Room”) so I shall restrict myself to reading other threads and making far too many comments

Sorry to hear you’re ill, hope it gets sorted fast and painlessly.
 

I was in hospital a few years ago for my ME and I packed a little tool kit and built several Airfix classic AFVs and worked on my Sopwith Snark as well, now I was in a private room,  didn’t use any string solvents and made sure everything was packed away when not in use. But nobody minded.

Edited June 12, 2022 by Marklo

[Dave Slowbuild]

Hi Adrian,

Hope it’s just a Pfalz alarm and you’ll be sent straight home.

If not get well soon!  
Looking forward to more of your modelling wizardry, shall mis it in the meantime 

[AdrianMF]

1 minute ago, Dave Slowbuild said:

Pfalz alarm

Top comment

 

Regards,

Adrian

[AdrianMF]

37 minutes ago, Marklo said:

now I was in a private room

Sharing a room - I think I would be lynched and then escorted off the premises in about five seconds here! I have got (a lot of) work documentation to write so I can knock that off instead*. The NHS generally gives top notch care for things they prioritise, but I’m not going to be comparing the accommodation to the Ritz any time soon. Luckily I am pretty immune to mayhem…

 

Regards,**

Adrian
 

* Short answer: yes I’m too cheap to spring the money for technical authors. Long answer: even with a good one (I’ve had a couple, alas no longer available), you spend so long explaining what your product does (ours is pretty niche, arcane, and getting on for legacy in computer lifespans) and marking up the content that in the end the added value is all in the fancy presentation in this year’s favoured style, which is never appreciated by the recipients of rather advanced years who learned how it all works fifteen years ago and never bother to read the manual because it’s quicker to ask our support team. However, before handing over dosh, The Managers always ask for documentation and open a couple of pages at random after printing it out and weighing it (it’s online ffs). I am nearly close enough to retirement to consider replacing one of the more obscure chapters with a few pages of non-modelling content from one of @Martian’s threads to see if anyone notices…

 

TL;DR: you can either submit to your OCD, or you can delegate. It’s a free choice!
 

** sorry, this thread is turning into Chat: “Modelling in hospital” or “Does anyone else hate writing documentation”. I should get out more…

[TheBaron]

Bloody superb work on those decals Adrian - a righteous riot of pattern and colour that had me grinning in appreciation at the quality. Most sorry to hear that you're unwell but best wishes that all heals soon.

1 hour ago, AdrianMF said:

I am nearly close enough to retirement to consider replacing one of the more obscure chapters with a few pages of non-modelling content from one of @Martian’s threads to see if anyone notices…

 

Pretty sure that's how the Book of Revelation ended up in the Bible...

 

 

[Martian]

2 hours ago, AdrianMF said:

Sharing a room - I think I would be lynched and then escorted off the premises in about five seconds here! I have got (a lot of) work documentation to write so I can knock that off instead*. The NHS generally gives top notch care for things they prioritise, but I’m not going to be comparing the accommodation to the Ritz any time soon. Luckily I am pretty immune to mayhem…

 

Regards,**

Adrian
 

* Short answer: yes I’m too cheap to spring the money for technical authors. Long answer: even with a good one (I’ve had a couple, alas no longer available), you spend so long explaining what your product does (ours is pretty niche, arcane, and getting on for legacy in computer lifespans) and marking up the content that in the end the added value is all in the fancy presentation in this year’s favoured style, which is never appreciated by the recipients of rather advanced years who learned how it all works fifteen years ago and never bother to read the manual because it’s quicker to ask our support team. However, before handing over dosh, The Managers always ask for documentation and open a couple of pages at random after printing it out and weighing it (it’s online ffs). I am nearly close enough to retirement to consider replacing one of the more obscure chapters with a few pages of non-modelling content from one of @Martian’s threads to see if anyone notices…

 

TL;DR: you can either submit to your OCD, or you can delegate. It’s a free choice!
 

** sorry, this thread is turning into Chat: “Modelling in hospital” or “Does anyone else hate writing documentation”. I should get out more…

Mention a blurglecruncheon or two; that will keep said managers trying to find out what one is for weeks.

 

31 minutes ago, TheBaron said:

Pretty sure that's how the Book of Revelation ended up in the Bible...

That would seem more logical, although it has to be said that I have understood more about how you have been creating your Sea Vixen than I understood about the Book of Revelation. 

 

Get well soon Adrian.

 

Martian 👽

[bigbadbadge]

Oh crikey, sorry to hear of your hospital stay Adrian,  hope you recover swiftly and get back to the bench and normality.  That's a great job on thsse decals, I have been thinking about printing some decals lately, but need to gen up, got the clear paper, just need to have time to sit down and figure it out.

Chris

 

[AdrianMF]

1 hour ago, bigbadbadge said:

just need to have time to sit down and figure it out.

The thing that has recently been a revelation to me is that if you start from scratch or scan something in, it seems to default to printing at 300 dpi, which seems to be the native resolution of printers these days, and everybody’s happy.

 

However, if you download something from the web it may be set to to 96 dpi “dots per inch”, even though it looks exactly the same on screen, but prints out visibly pixelated, as amply demonstrated above. Given a decent graphics program you can change the setting from 96dpi to 300 pix per inch and just like magic it changes over. So the graphics resolution is there but it just won’t print nicely, even if you have edited it, until you wave the magic wand. 
 

Maybe people do that to stop you using their profiles as a basis for decals. Tricky moral/legal point…

 

Regards,

Adrian

[bigbadbadge]

Thanks Adrian,  will look at that.

Hope you're getting on okay.

Chris

[AdrianMF]

Well, I’m out of hospital after four and a half weeks, neither killed nor cured. I have been diagnosed with LETM and they have given me all the treatment that there is for it. Now I have to wait and see how it goes. I’m walking and independent and back at work (I never really stopped, beats doing crosswords) so I’m just getting on with life and hoping for the best. 
 

When I got home I found this room full of half-completed models! Top of the pile is my Pfalz friend the D.IIIa.

 

When I was last building this I was worried that I might be violating copyright by using graphics from the internet to produce my decals. I had some time to think about this in hospital and so I emailed Pheon Decals (whose excellent artwork I am copying) and offered to pay them for a set of their 1/32 decals to in recompense for my use of their artwork. I also offered to take down any pictures that they thought were violating their rights. Unfortunately I received no answer, so I made a donation to Britmodeller instead, and would just like to state clearly:

 

Copying artwork and other material from the web may infringe copyright and deprive hard working talented enthusiasts of their rightful livelihood, so do not do it!

 

If Pheon Decals are reading this, please do contact me because I would love to pay you something!

 

Anyway, the decals were trimmed and applied this afternoon, and I’m waiting for the Revell Decalsoft to do its magic before trimming the fin and smoothing the edges:

 

When that’s all done I will remember to mask the white band and paint the airframe in a black(ish) paint mix. I’ve also got a little list with things to fit, radiators to make and struts to add before rigging and wrapping up.

 

Good to be back at the bench!

Adrian

[Heather Kay]

2 minutes ago, AdrianMF said:

I have been diagnosed with LETM and they have given me all the treatment that there is for it. Now I have to wait and see how it goes.

Eep. Having just had a quick consultation with Dr Google to find out what it is, that doesn’t sound much fun. 
 

Well done in trying to do the right thing with the transfers. While you are technically infringing copyright, there’s usually a fair use arrangement where you can use your copies for your own uses as long as you don’t try to sell them or whatever. Hopefully Phoenix will wake up at some point and accept your offer.

[AdrianMF]

Masking the white:

 

Black on, masking removed:

 

I will be doing a lot of touching up in daylight tomorrow. I will need to touch up the white stripe; some of the black will sand off, some I’ll have to overpaint. And I’ll see how much of the printed “black” I need to overpaint so you can’t see the dots in the printing. Looking like an aeroplane now, or is that a Pfalz impression? (Sorry)

 

 

[TheBaron]

Firstly I'm sorry to hear of the health issues Adrian: from a quick bit of research it sounds a most painful condition but good news that body and mind are back in circulation.

 

This:

6 minutes ago, AdrianMF said:

Black on, masking removed:

 

- magnificent flourish of Art Deco takes us back to a time when aircraft were not afraid to express the more flamboyant side of their nature. That has to be one of the most ravishing schemes I've seen portrayed on an aircraft and quite superbly executed.

 

No Pfalz economies here when it comes to the use of colour....

[AdrianMF]

2 minutes ago, TheBaron said:

one of the most ravishing schemes

I’ve yet to see a photo of it on the Pfalz D.IIIa but there are photos of the scheme on an Albatros and a Roland also flown by Otto Kissberth. It’s such a lovely scheme that I’m happy to do it speculatively.

 

Thanks,

Adrian

[bigbadbadge]

Glad to hear you're out and back at the bench.

Hope you're able to manage the condition okay too.

Nice progress Adrian. 

Great work 

Chris

 

[Hamden]

7 hours ago, bigbadbadge said:

Glad to hear you're out and back at the bench.

Hope you're able to manage the condition okay too.

Nice progress Adrian. 

Great work 

Chris

 

 

Seconded - it's great to see you back

 

  Stay safe          Roger

[Fritag]

Incredibly impressive work Adrian.  Not sure how I managed to miss most of this so far - but it made for an inspiring catch-up.

[AliGauld]

Sorry to hear about the health issues Adrian,

It sounds extremely unpleasant.

Nice to see you back on these and doing such a splendid job.

 

Cheers,

Alistair

[Dave Slowbuild]

Very welcome news to hear you are back at the bench!
I’d like to join everyone in wishing you the very best in your recovery.  The good news is that you have a great hobby at which you excel, I hope it helps see you through any bad days.

(I had to look up the acronym, and then I had to look up the words that make up the acronym.  So much for a university education.)

 

Dave

[Galligraphics]

On 7/13/2022 at 10:33 PM, AdrianMF said:

I’ve yet to see a photo of it on the Pfalz D.IIIa but there are photos of the scheme on an Albatros and a Roland also flown by Otto Kissberth. It’s such a lovely scheme that I’m happy to do it speculatively.

I very much doubt that anyone can definitively prove that no Pfalz D.IIIa ever carried the scheme . And it certainly looks pretty...

[AdrianMF]

Thank you all for the good wishes! I’ve found this forum and the folks on it a great help while sitting in hospital wondering what’s going on.

 

Just to reassure everyone - after a rough first week in hospital (lots of intravenous steroids, hospital resident infections and heatstroke/dehydration because the aircon didn’t work), I’ve improved in terms of function and strength. Nothing above the waist is affected, and I’m walking and independent and making progress. LETM is a somewhat blanket diagnosis handed out to a variety of conditions, and my understanding is that I’m at the milder end. So I will be modelling on!

 

Thanks,

Adrian

[stevehnz]

I've been AWOL from this thread for better than a month, to my shame, not sure if 'twas the squeamish side of me or the poorly organised side of me to fault, so sorry Adrian, nice to see you back on the boards your last month doesn't sound like it was great fun, fingers crossed for better to come. The Pfalz is looking superb.

Steve.

[John Laidlaw]

On 6/12/2022 at 6:12 PM, AdrianMF said:

However, if you download something from the web it may be set to to 96 dpi “dots per inch”, even though it looks exactly the same on screen, but prints out visibly pixelated, as amply demonstrated above. Given a decent graphics program you can change the setting from 96dpi to 300 pix per inch and just like magic it changes over. So the graphics resolution is there but it just won’t print nicely, even if you have edited it, until you wave the magic wand. 

96 dpi is standard screen resolution, whereas 300 dpi is becoming the default print resolution. Graphics for display on the web will be at screen res as it will display nicely on your monitor, but will be a much smaller file size (very nearly 1/10th assuming same colour depth). Saves a lot in bandwidth.

 

Glad you're out of the body shop - had to look up the condition, and have to say you have my sympathies. I do hope the long term treatment is manageable and that the overall prognosis is good.

 

The Pfalz is looking lovely!