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Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / July 2009Bitch bitch bitch
So, here I am, working hard on some difficult algorithm development for a customer, and when my poor overworked brain is absolutely flattened from thinking, I go work on models. Except the model is this @#$% Top-Fright Nobler! Which is of a type that I've never built before, and half the pieces are _wrong_! Wrong, wrong wrong! The landing gear doesn't fit. Grr. So now I have to bend up some nice landing gear out of 1/8" music wire, which is kind of beyond my current wire bending capacity (I _gotta_ buy a Biso Bender). The only saving grace is that the existing wire sat in the kit box in my basement long enough to corrode, so at least I don't have to worry about how to fix that. But all this aggravation sure takes the sense out of "work 'till your brain hurts then relax by building models".  Signaturewww.wescottdesign.com > So, here I am, working hard on some difficult algorithm development for > a customer, and when my poor overworked brain is absolutely flattened [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > But all this aggravation sure takes the sense out of "work 'till your > brain hurts then relax by building models". Oh damn oh damn oh damn -- and then I go and lay the project aside for a few days, forget what I'm doing, and put on half of the bottom planking, which is supposed to go on _after_ the landing gear is done (I have _never_ built a plane that mounts the landing gear permanently until the Very Last Step -- oy vey!). Aw crap. Oh well, at least I didn't put _all_ the bottom planking on, which leaves me room to (maybe) finesse the thing together. Once I bend up the new landing gear. Once I make up a landing gear bender, since I've blown my modeling budget for the month. Signaturehttp://www.wescottdesign.com >> So, here I am, working hard on some difficult algorithm development for >> a customer, and when my poor overworked brain is absolutely flattened [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > Once I make up a landing gear bender, since I've blown my modeling budget > for the month. My Jr Nobler used J-bolts to install LG. That was the first time I ever saw J bolts and the last. mk >>> So, here I am, working hard on some difficult algorithm development >>> for a customer, and when my poor overworked brain is absolutely [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > saw J bolts and the last. > mk This also uses J bolts, and it's the first time I've seen one outside of a catalog. C/L folks just have a different way of doing stuff... Signaturewww.wescottdesign.com I gotta say, these posts are not what I would call good advertising for this kit...' Dan >> So, here I am, working hard on some difficult algorithm development for >> a customer, and when my poor overworked brain is absolutely flattened [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > Once I make up a landing gear bender, since I've blown my modeling budget > for the month. (top posting fixed) >>> So, here I am, working hard on some difficult algorithm development >>> for a customer, and when my poor overworked brain is absolutely [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > I gotta say, these posts are not what I would call good advertising for > this kit...' It's from the 'old' Top-Flight, before they went bankrupt back in the '90s. I think I know why it happened... The plane seems to be designed very well, and if the kit pieces were executed correctly (and if I didn't lose my place in the built process) it would be going together just fine. It's just that the model suffers numerous quality problems. It's just proof that when someone says "they don't make 'em like they used to" they mean "those bits that no one has sh**-canned over the years sure are higher quality than what you can buy at K-mart today!". Signaturehttp://www.wescottdesign.com > So, here I am, working hard on some difficult algorithm development for > a customer, and when my poor overworked brain is absolutely flattened [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > But all this aggravation sure takes the sense out of "work 'till your > brain hurts then relax by building models". It's bent! I have a new tool (I built a bender)! It's bolted on with 'J' bolts and epoxied in! Now I'm ready to do my first crash repair* on this model and replace the lower fuselage planking that I absent-mindedly glued in place before getting the landing gear done (damn damn damn). * Since getting back into modeling after the kids were born, I think I've only managed to build one plane that didn't have at least one spot that I had to rip up and rework as a consequence of a brain fart. Oh well -- so far they've all flown. Signaturewww.wescottdesign.com > * Since getting back into modeling after the kids were born, I think I've > only managed to build one plane that didn't have at least one spot that I > had to rip up and rework as a consequence of a brain fart. Oh well -- so > far they've all flown. The story *I* have heard is that kids suck all your smarts. Don't know if it true or not. >> * Since getting back into modeling after the kids were born, I think I've >> only managed to build one plane that didn't have at least one spot that I [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The story *I* have heard is that kids suck all your smarts. Don't know if > it true or not. It wits...they suck your wits. Can can get to your wits end because of them. I thought it would get better when he left home............he went to Iraq. mk 1st CAV!! >> * Since getting back into modeling after the kids were born, I think >> I've only managed to build one plane that didn't have at least one spot [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > The story *I* have heard is that kids suck all your smarts. Don't know > if it true or not. Of course. Didn't you notice that your mom and dad just got dumber and dumber, starting when you were about 13? Then when you moved out of the house and started supporting yourself, they were suddenly a lot smarter? Signaturewww.wescottdesign.com Well, I don't have kids so I cant blame it on that.. Dan >> * Since getting back into modeling after the kids were born, I think I've >> only managed to build one plane that didn't have at least one spot that I [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The story *I* have heard is that kids suck all your smarts. Don't know if > it true or not. |
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