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POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Friday, January 24, 2014 05:05
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 10:40 PM

CHRISISALL


Here is a tool of the West, an oppressive instrument of the FIRM, and a reason why you should not fear Gaddafi.

Oh. But he's gone now...

In any case:


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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 10:45 PM

MAL4PREZ


Chris! Where you been? We really need your sanity around here. And your airborne crafts of destruction, of course.


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STORYMARK: And not even cleverly.
RAPPY: [My trolling] did its job, did it not? Easiest marks in the 'verse.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 10:54 PM

CHRISISALL


"Sanity"? In an insane world? You give me too much credit here I think.
Bring a bullpup on the line.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:47 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


Cool.

You ever do balsa and paper models?

I got myself a F6F Hellcat kit for Christmas, and have been mucking around with it since then. Got the paper glued to the fuselage, and have to do the wings next, then spray with water to shrink the paper, and assemble fuselage, wings and empennage, and then paint.

I've been finding out what I'm doing wrong by what won't fit properly ten steps later in the process. I have a feeling it's not going to be a beautiful finished product.

I'm thinking I should have started with something simpler, as I tend to crack the 1/16" spars when trying to fit sub-assemblies together, and poke holes in the paper when trying to trim it.

It is a nice test of patience, though, as you have to glue up maybe 30 pieces to make the fuselage, 20 to make the wing, and 20 for the tail surfaces, and each one pretty much has to dry before you can do the next one. Then there's 24 separate pieces of paper to cover the fuselage, and a bunch for the wing and tail.


"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:49 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



Nice snap-together model. Must have taken all of 20-30 minutes to go from box to mounted finish, huh?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:36 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Hey Chris! I've been thinking of you and missing you muchly too...lovely to know you're not completely "gone", and happy to know you've been doing "sane" things rather than hanging around here (much as I miss you).

Don't mind Rap, he's gone so far off the deep end now that he just goes after everyone and everything reflexively, so we just



Neat model...I know nothing about such things, but I can appreciate it nonetheless.


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Thursday, January 23, 2014 3:58 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



Ignore me more, Niki. Please.



Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:51 PM

STORYMARK


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
Here is a tool of the West, an oppressive instrument of the FIRM, and a reason why you should not fear Gaddafi.

Oh. But he's gone now...

In any case:




Cool!

I did an Airwolf model when I was a kid (same kit, looks like). Still in a box out in the garage, I think (though I believe the rear rotor is long gone...).


And yes, ignore the asshole troll. It's getting desperate for attention.



"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:55 PM

STORYMARK


Quote:

Originally posted by Geezer:
Cool.

You ever do balsa and paper models?

I got myself a F6F Hellcat kit for Christmas, and have been mucking around with it since then. Got the paper glued to the fuselage, and have to do the wings next, then spray with water to shrink the paper, and assemble fuselage, wings and empennage, and then paint.

I've been finding out what I'm doing wrong by what won't fit properly ten steps later in the process. I have a feeling it's not going to be a beautiful finished product.

I'm thinking I should have started with something simpler, as I tend to crack the 1/16" spars when trying to fit sub-assemblies together, and poke holes in the paper when trying to trim it.

It is a nice test of patience, though, as you have to glue up maybe 30 pieces to make the fuselage, 20 to make the wing, and 20 for the tail surfaces, and each one pretty much has to dry before you can do the next one. Then there's 24 separate pieces of paper to cover the fuselage, and a bunch for the wing and tail.


"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."



Did a balsa-and-paper airplane fopr a school project long ago - and yeah, a serious strain on one's patience. At 14(ish) - it was really, really hard to wait for everything to dry before moving on to the next step - particularly with the bent wood.

It actually came out pretty well - then I botched it by spray-painting it (the paint made it too heavy to actually glide).




"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:50 PM

WHOZIT







Come in tower, do I have the OK to take out the Elmers Glue? Over.

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Friday, January 24, 2014 5:05 AM

FREMDFIRMA



Hrmmm..

Yanno this makes me wonder if perhaps we couldn't get some mad science collaboration going on, Chris - cause I wonder if we couldn't make a smaller "Airwolf" on a Syma107 frame, or perhaps use a larger drone engine and control set to make one actually flight capable ?

Cause hilariously that was my first thought, wondering if it was flight capable, heh.

-F

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