1:72 AZ Model Nakajima Kikka

[Martian]

12 hours ago, Navy Bird said:

 

She actually likes Ian Dury, but I don't think she really listens to the words. We were both pretty big into Punk and New Wave in the 70s, but now we're just old fogies.  

 

Cheers,

Bill

Apparently, by Earth standards I qualify for the status of "Old Fogy" as well but am an unreformed punk rocker as well. However, seeing as I intend to grow old as disgracefully and outrageously as possible, I don't care! Growing older is compulsory, growing up is not. 

 

🎶 I am a Martian, I am an anarchist🎶. 👽

[81-er]

12 hours ago, Navy Bird said:

She actually likes Ian Dury, but I don't think she really listens to the words. We were both pretty big into Punk and New Wave in the 70s, but now we're just old fogies.  

As are most of the people who made that music, at least as far as the "yoof" would think  I fully agree with our extra-terrestial friend regarding aging. When/if I grow up, I want to be a train driver 

 

James

[LorenSharp]

4 hours ago, 81-er said:

As are most of the people who made that music, at least as far as the "yoof" would think  I fully agree with our extra-terrestial friend regarding aging. When/if I grow up, I want to be a train driver 

 

James

Thats today James. But what do you want to be tomorrow? 

[LorenSharp]

5 hours ago, Martian said:

Apparently, by Earth standards I qualify for the status of "Old Fogy" as well but am an unreformed punk rocker as well. However, seeing as I intend to grow old as disgracefully and outrageously as possible, I don't care! Growing older is compulsory, growing up is not. 

 

🎶 I am a Martian, I am an anarchist🎶. 👽

That's like waking up in the morning Martian. I may rise, but by God I absolutely refuse to shine! At least until the 2nd or 3rd pot of coffee. then I'll consider it. Maybe. 

[81-er]

1 hour ago, LorenSharp said:

Thats today James. But what do you want to be tomorrow? 

James Bond, obviously

 

James

[LorenSharp]

Shaken, not stirred I hope.

[Navy Bird]

8 hours ago, Martian said:

...an unreformed punk rocker...

 

For a few minutes I was the singer in band called The Dithering Servos. We had a great toe-tapper called Subscript Out of Range. Ah, the good old days. Would have been big if we had only figured out how to get out of the garage.

 

Cheers,

Bill

 

PS. Oh, modelling, right. I painted the girl with IJN Dark Green. It's a gloss colour so I'll let that dry for a few days, and then go back and touch up the camouflage demarcation between the green and grey. I'm happy with the canopy, so the bin will have to go hungry for a few more days. The only stickers on the prototype are the meatballs as far as I can tell.

[LorenSharp]

47 minutes ago, Navy Bird said:

 

For a few minutes I was the singer in band called The Dithering Servos. We had a great toe-tapper called Subscript Out of Range. Ah, the good old days. Would have been big if we had only figured out how to get out of the garage.

 

Hit the Garage door opener button?

[corsaircorp]

23 hours ago, Martian said:

Apparently, by Earth standards I qualify for the status of "Old Fogy" as well but am an unreformed punk rocker as well. However, seeing as I intend to grow old as disgracefully and outrageously as possible, I don't care! Growing older is compulsory, growing up is not. 

 

🎶 I am a Martian, I am an anarchist🎶. 👽

And Still I stay....

An anarchist....

To the bones....

Growing up ??? What does it mean ??? 

Now, we will have a square named AC DC square in Namur....

And a statue of Brian Johnson erected up there at the right place where he performed his first show as the AC DC singer....

Not too bad for such an old and very historic city like Namur....

My fav version of "My way" is the one of Sid Vicious....

But it irritate Mrs CC when I listen to it....

Ah back to the bench today.....

CC

[giemme]

You punk!

 

I do love AC/DC BTW

 

Ciao

[Martian]

On 06/04/2023 at 18:29, LorenSharp said:

Hit the Garage door opener button?

Sometimes Bill, you really do walk into it!

 

Martian 👽

[Fukuryu]

Embarrassingly late to the party (in my defense, I was without a personal computer for the best part of two months...) but I can't miss a build that has a lot of my favourite things:

• Navy Bird
• Japanese aircraft
• 1/72
• Punk Rock!!! 

My younger self used to play bass mostly in Dark bands, but on occasions I played guitar with a friend's heavily punk influenced band; I even broke strings on stage, so I think that qualifies me as a rocker! (I even managed to break the E string on a bass!)

 

The Kikka looks splendid, Bill. I must confess I never thought much of that kit, but you have brought the faith back to me. Of course, in the remote case I were able to match your skills...

 

Edited April 12, 2023 by Fukuryu
Too punk with the grammar...

[Learstang]

'...I am an anarchist, don't know what I want, but I know how to get it, I want to destroy model kits!'. Well, no I don't, I want to build them, not destroy them, not intentionally at least. I have to admit I'm not much of an anarchist these days, more of an ageing Marxist revisionist. I don't know what any of this has to do with the price of tea in China, but cracking job on the Kikka, Bill! Limited-run kit builders rock!!!

 

Best Regards,

 

Jason (Never Mind the Bolllocks, Here's Me!)

 

P.S. Oh come on, now! The automatic naughty word-checker changed 'Bo**ocks' to 'man-vegetables'! That really is too much! 'Never Mind the Man-vegetables, Here's the Sex Pistols', indeed. I can see the original cover from where I'm sitting and changing it to 'Man-vegetables' is just sacrilege. I think I'm going to lead a hunger strike, just after I've had me afters.

Edited April 12, 2023 by Learstang
Old man rant.

[Troy Smith]

On 05/04/2023 at 20:33, Navy Bird said:

We were both pretty big into Punk and New Wave in the 70s,

Since we are on a Japanese subject...  these might amuse.

 

Bet you didn't run across these.....

Anarchy - early commercial Japanese punk... this is Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device, with new Japanese lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEuDA_t2y28&list=OLAK5uy_mH9lJ6ZWWtVc-JyQmjvhoxHfXTh2sjXRY&index=4

and Clash - Safe European Home again wJapaneselyrics...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-pkbLfCuiE&list=OLAK5uy_mH9lJ6ZWWtVc-JyQmjvhoxHfXTh2sjXRY&index=13

 

The whole album is decent for what it is..... I really like their version of Safe European Home

 

The first really infamous Japanese punk band were The Stalin,  which is bit like calling your band Hitler for context,  this is one of the singles from their 2nd LP Stop Jap! , probably their best IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3OMoHX7qzA

 

a hilarious clip from some Japanese TV show. check out the audience at 1.11..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itx1tpKkTFs&list=RDr3OMoHX7qzA&index=20

 

their singer, Michirou Endo was genuinely pretty far out...

 

For those who can take it, Burst City, in which they appear

"Burst City is an explosive Molotov cocktail of dystopian sci-fi, Mad Max-style biker wars against yakuza gangsters and the police, and riotous performances from members of the real-life Japanese punk bands The Stalin, The Roosters, The Rockers and INU. In a derelict industrial wasteland somewhere on the outskirts of Tokyo, two rival punk bands and their unruly mobs of fans gather for a Battle of the Bands-style protest against the construction of a nuclear powerplant, bringing them head to head with the yakuza industrialists behind the development of their turf. This extraordinary celebration of Japan's punk music scene of the early 1980s thrust Sōgo Ishii (now known by the name of Gakuryū Ishii), the underground filmmaking wunderkind behind such works as Half Human: Einstürzende Neubauten (1986), Angel Dust (1994) and Electric Dragon 80,000V (2001), to the next level and is regularly cited as an early landmark in Japanese cyberpunk cinema.

is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv0KqyOUHpg

 

 hope of some amusement...? 

[81-er]

Thanks for those, Troy. I'm really liking The Stalin

 

James

[Fukuryu]

Wow, @Troy Smith, my respect for you have reached new levels! You opened a whole new universe to me and I thank you for that.

 

BTW, I bet for most people punk rock in Japanese is as amusing as punk rock in Spanish...

 

 

 

 

Look at this! Thread totally derailed and we cant' blame @Martian this time...

Edited April 12, 2023 by Fukuryu

[Martian]

12 minutes ago, Fukuryu said:

 

 

 

Look at this! Thread totally derailed and we cant' blame @Martian this time...

As I am always having to tell you Earthlings, "I wasn't there and I didn't doit!"

 

Vindicated of Mars 👽

[Troy Smith]

7 hours ago, Fukuryu said:

punk rock in Spanish...

I used to correspond the Spanish collector who put this LP together

https://www.discogs.com/release/1596564-Various-Bloodstains-Across-Spain-Homeland-Of-The-Inquisition

 

One track on it that a catchy sub Ramones is Codigo Neurotico

https://youtu.be/XuWMGqvkrtk

Now I have seen the lyrics, and translation.... Which might amuse?   amazing what's online...

 

Munster records about 20 years ago did make reissues of many of the singles on this LP,  which I have. and I picked up various CDs about 20 years ago as they were cheap as well as a few vinyls, look at Discogs reminded me I have some Eskorbuto Lps.   

 

I even have a boot reissue of the Los Violodores LP.  who were an early Argentine band,   

https://www.discogs.com/master/368099-Los-Violadores-Los-Violadores

 

There was a big hardcore scene in Brazil, one of the first Brazilian bands were Lixomania

https://www.discogs.com/master/434409-Lixomania-Violência-Sobrevivência

There was a Japanese label reissuing some rare Brazilian bands on CD 20 + years back,  neatly done, I also picked up bunch of reissue on CD of other early Brazilian HC, I have a couple of  orginal vinyls I picked up as well.

 

My pick for a killer Spanish punk track is La Broma De Ssatán - Ahogate en el Water

https://youtu.be/iOvO1oCVSi4

 

 

One Spanish record that really really has to be heard to believed,

Los Punk Rockers

https://www.discogs.com/master/448562-Los-Punk-Rockers-Los-Exitos-De-Sex-Pistols

 

A cash in "K-Tel" type track for track cover of Sex Pistols Never mind the bolllocks,  to be sold in Spanish supermarkets,  with incredible 'best guess' lyrics...

I think most of it's up on youtube

Here's Anarchy....

https://youtu.be/K-8BWBMyXkM

 

 I'd forgotten about this....   I did get told who was the band, they were from mid 70's Spanish bands.    @Martian  this one is for you.  

 

@Navy Bird  apologies for the thread drift, but perhaps might amuse....   

 

I won't go further into the odd realms of "punk as an international outsider aesthetic"  ..... oh, who am I kidding.... This one for the bizarre value

Pekinška Patka - Live @ Nork, Novi Sad 1979,  Yugoslav punk playing in a shop window, from Yugoslav TV....

https://youtu.be/HZ0dTYAVMkQ

 

Yugoslavia had some good early punk bands, Pankrti, Paraf , Pakinska Patka.....   IIRC Pankrti formed late 76 for example....   

 

PS 

Most of the Dutch bands sang in English, and there are some great Dutch punk records,  here's one I know off a comp

Frites Modern - Bionic Adventure

https://youtu.be/Gb_CGPAuD84

 

Frites Modern = Modern Chips, I have no idea what it's about,  but it's great high energy buzzsaw sound, and the vocals really work ... maybe google will provide the answer 

 

[Learstang]

Well, I've listened to the B-hole Surfers, and GG Allin (not at the same time of course), so nothing much fazes me anymore, but Los Punk Rockers is... unusual. I listened to their interpretation of 'Anarchy in the UK'. It's almost as if someone tried to do a parody of Spinal Tap doing a parody of the song, which I think is a great song in the original. Troy, your knowledge of Rock esoterica amazes even this old Rock n' Roller. I bow to your superior knowledge, sir.

 

Best Regards,

 

Jason

[Navy Bird]

On 11/04/2023 at 20:06, Fukuryu said:

...I must confess I never thought much of that kit, but you have brought the faith back to me.

 

I've reached my final opinion on this kit - it stinks. But in this case, you have to work with what you have. In the end, it will look something like a Kikka. I just discovered a glaring mistake in the moulding of the wings, but it's too late to do anything about it now.

 

On 11/04/2023 at 21:02, Learstang said:

Limited-run kit builders rock!!!

 

Perhaps. I just think they are masochists.

 

*****

 

So, I take a few weeks off to enjoy pneumonia for the third time in the last year, and I come back to some very interesting thread drifts. Thanks mates! I've never heard some of those bands - always great to discover such stuff.    

 

Just to show that I'm not entirely wacko in my musical tastes, I'm currently enjoying the new Temples CD Exotico. Lots of talent in that band, and having Sean Ono Lennon onboard to produce is a great match.

 

Anyway, the Kikka. Stickers should go on today, and then a matte varnish. If I get a chance, I'll post a photo of the model prior to stickering. First, though, wifey says mulch the flower gardens you lazy git.    🥀

 

Cheers,

Bill

[Learstang]

Bill, see what happens when you let the inmates take over the asylum! I do hope you're feeling better! And hey, what's this about 'they' regarding limited-run kit builders? I thought you were one of the few, the proud, the brave (or stupid).

 

Best Regards,

 

Jason

[Navy Bird]

1 hour ago, Learstang said:

Bill, see what happens when you let the inmates take over the asylum! I do hope you're feeling better! And hey, what's this about 'they' regarding limited-run kit builders? I thought you were one of the few, the proud, the brave (or stupid).

 

Thanks Jason. I'm feeling a bit better, but I still have chest and sinus congestion. But at least the chest x-ray shows no more fluid in my ancient lungs. I love it when Doc asks for samples for testing - "Here, cough up some phlegm into this container and while you're at it, blow your nose into this one." Can you imagine being a lab technician?    🤢

 

Being immunodeficient from all the chemo I've received over the years means I catch everything that's making the rounds. Sometimes I feel like a walking petri dish. Many moons ago I had Graves disease (hyperthyroidism - overactive) and had my thyroid nuked with radioactive iodine. Haven't had any issues as long as I took my Synthroid pill everyday. However, the routine blood work I get prior to my monthly infusions showed my TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) way off the high side of the chart - which means hypothyroidism - under active. This is most likely why I'm so fatigued all the time. We've adjusted the Synthroid dose and we'll see how that goes - fingers crossed because I could use some more energy. I don't know what to think of this getting older nonsense. However, I found a positive correlation between my age and the size of my stash. They're both getting bigger.

 

You're right about the short run kit builders of course. I've built more short run kits than mainstream, at least lately. Mostly because I like the subjects, I think. My next build will be mainstream - and out of the box! Ha, I'm so funny.    

 

*****

 

Here's Kikka-san prior to stickeration:

 

 

Monotone paint jobs are so...singular. Ha! Get it? Never mind - I did some modulation but it seems to have mostly disappeared under the gloss coat. It should come back somewhat when the matte varnish goes on. I added the tail bumper and antenna from photoetch (as are all the gear doors and actuators). I will also add the venturi tube that's on the starboard side after the stickers go on. I figured if I added it now I would just knock it off.

 

So there she is at the moment. Not much to look at, sorry.    

 

Cheers,

Bill

[giemme]

Glad to hear you're on the mend, Bill

 

Kikka looking typically NBS

 

Ciao 

[Learstang]

Not much to look at? On the contrary, Bill - she looks quite fetching! Frankly I like monocolour and two-colour schemes - less masking!

 

Best Regards,

 

Jason

[Dave Slowbuild]

Well I like it too, a pretty cool looking machine!
More importantly, glad to read that your feeling a bit better.  (Entirely selfish of me, I really miss your modelling wizardry when you are not at the bench….)