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Published: 2008-11-30 10:37:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 1288; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 18
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3 vital commodities no serious modeller,s workshop should be without.........! The Insanity Continues......just a little gag-shot taken a while ago following the Great Deluge/Perfect Storm in April,2007 before i totally reorganized and rebuilt Thy Dungeon after my basement was flooded! never again,at least i hope not,after over $25,000.00 in waterproofing work........my Da friend Serrishi followed the sturm-und-drang saga of the rebuilding process like a soap-opera devotee,and gave me a healthy measure of much needed encouragement and morale boosting at a time when it really counted.Related content
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XD! plenty of good online hobby places,and they ship anywhere.
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Hum... now I just needs lots of money...
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Yeah... lookin' on that perspective...
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never seem to have enough,no matter how much we make.....
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I really need money because I am poor (I win U$ 5,00 per day) and I want some expensive, but not really "useless capitalist" stuff... I need money to fulfill my desires and ambitions...
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Any option... the easier is better (when I not got screwed at the end, of course).
I am finally goin' to leave alone, so, I need money, like I said.
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could you qualify to join your country,s Air Force? good training,and all paid for.
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I can join all the three branches of Brazilian Armed Forces, but I am a bit pissed with our FAB (because of their stupid, corrupt commanders), our navy sucks (little equipment and the one we have are very weak) and our army doesn't pay well and doesn't use our own (good) stuff, buyin' old stuff from other countries instead...
I will join the police: At least, I will use an russian weapon (If I get to ROTA, a SWAT-like team, I will choose between train with an AK-103, FN-FAL and M-16, witch I will take the first to train, since I have some pratice with my uncle's Krinkov) and the right to choice any sidearm that my money can buy (thinkin' on a Nagant Revolver chambered with its original ammo).
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What was damaged in the flooding?
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no models lost or destroyed,thankfully,but we needed to have most of the drywall and studs removed and replaced after the actual waterproofing{French Drain and power-sump} was completed. but it was a hard fight on my part using a small electric pump and a wet/dry shop-vac to hold my own against the incoming water. and what a disaster if it had reached the furnace or electrics! all fixed for good now,and guaranteed for life against any future incidents.
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Sure makes you distrut basesments. (I'm a veteran of 2 such flood incidents)
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it shouldn,t happen again here. we have had a few heavy rains since the work was done,and no problems. i,d better not see a drop,after what i paid!
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so far,so good. and it will add lots of value to the property too.
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Wow.... I'll just leave it at that....
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and to think most of the kits in those boxes are built already.......
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Were do you put them all?? i mean when they are built??
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i have a small room i built in the house with glass shelves,but it,s starting to get a bit crowded too! might be time to move to a bigger place,with an outbuilding just for me and my planes! i had wanted to put up one here but our wonderful Town Council refused a permit.
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That kinda sucks. I like model building, but i'm not any good at it and my patience is well... not great. But i do have a few i would like to get finished. I'm really big into WWII planes.
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How do you paint your models? Do you use spray or brush??
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airbrush,and some details handbrushed.
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So airbrush the big parts, detail the little ones??
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the biggest secret to airbrushing is just having one....and once a modeller gets used to it,they become spoilt and can never go back to handbrushing again. besides,real planes are sprayed anyway. can you imagine brush-marks on a model magnified 48,72 or 144 times? they,d look like trenches!
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i've seen someone touch up a real plane with a brush... Not one that would be to scale as a model...
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but small touch-ups only,not the entire airframe......! another way to touch-up on planes is a Preval spray unit.
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yeah, don't know anyone wo is willing to paint an entire airframe with a brush.
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it,s been done. sometimes even with rags and/or sponges under wartime conditions in the field.
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no... at war we just let them get ragady till they come home, there just isn't enough time...
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time,or proper facilities.
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same aboard a carrier. plus we Swabbos had to deal with salty-air corrosion,and fresh water was strictly rationed.
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yeah that would suck... but didn't te carrier's have an on board water purifier. A Desalinatio plant i think is what they are called??
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yes,but even the latest reverse-osmosis desal equipment can only produce just so much to go around for 6000+ pepole,as well as other needs,and warships are not built for Pleasure Cruises! bang,bang on the metal wall of a shower-stall followed by a snarl from a shipmate/fellow officer..."hey,Axxhole,take a Navy Shower in there!!!!" only use your fair share or else.....
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I've had a few days like that in the desert... except they just shut the water off completely.
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they secured fresh water on the ship sometimes too,and right when some guys were right in the middle of a shower and all lathered up! i learned to keep a bit of water stashed away in a plastic jug to sponge off the soapsuds with,in case of a situation like that!
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good thinking. It's a good thing the provide us with and endless supply of bottled water.
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as long as you,ve got a safe place to store it! shipboard space was,and still is,a bit limited!
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yeah, we aren't that limited on space
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whatever space was originally designed into that ship was all we was,a,gonna get! a very hard and rigid frame,and everything had to take place inside of that frame.
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I am officially VERY jealous! how many models do you have there anyways?
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i lost count a long time ago....altogether,at least 20,000-ish,mostly still unbuilt and still in boxes.
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O///O i m p r e s s i v e
btw Hi!! ^^
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it was a bit of a mess when this pic was taken,but all reorganized since. meow.
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Excellent, another pic of the handsome cat
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i had intended to make some improvements/upgrades eventually anyway,that storm just simply accelerated the process! but i do have a lifetime guarantee{$25,000 worth!} for a dry-as-a-bone basement....and i did put a copy of it in my bank safe-deposit box too!
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