popeye the sailor

looking good Chris! I'm looking forward to the day I can populate my decks

I'm sure you are as well

I agree whole heartedly Mike! working on some progress as we speak!.........gotta let things dry for the moment. another thing is browsing through your favorite modeling site

nice work on the launcher assembly.....primered up, they look great. what is this going to do for the window dilemma?

good yo see your getting back to the table Vivian

I have one picture of me building the Revell United States.......I think I was around 35 in the photo. I never took any photos of the models I built before then.....some I wish I had.... time it twas... and what a time it twas..... ....it twas.... a time if innocence, a time of confidences. long ago it must be, I have a photograph. preserve your memories, their all that's left you........ {bookends by Simon & Garfunkel}

thanks Kevin........got a rainy day ahead of me here. should be able to make some progress today as for the job thing......I'll just keep looking, that's all

glad your not using the metal carriages. as long as you can file the breech area down, so the cannon can sit at the proper level, the thicker cannons will fill the carriages better {and look better too}. good thought going on here

looks awesome Michael 'exposed' window is a neat idea.......fitting the deck out looks good too.

awesome progress Chris........got some really nice detail going on! stairways look really well done...as well with how you did the paddle wheel. really great job!

we have a thing called FMLA {family medical leave..not sure what A means} ........you have {I think} 21 weeks of leave......paid or not, I'm not sure {never done it}. we get 192 sick days...we pay ourselves through our PTO accruements. it used to be nice.......if you didn't use any, any additional time accrued, would turn into personal time, which could be used anytime. Wally has gone through so many changes these past couple of months....the sick time {we will never get to use}, no more personal time, and the PTO accruement program is prone to bugs and not very accurate. it used to be good......now feel like we've been cheated out

well...yes, that more of the hull is now covered gonna be sweet to see it completely covered!

hope you heal up quick PE work looks good so far!

thanks OC and piet for the kind comments and thanks to all for the likes. I haven't gotten much further......but I did do a little trimming. one more day at work......then it will be play time

.......now you have an idea of what it's like when I browse craft stores now now SHE'S the the one who plays the impatient one

thanks for the suggestion Pat.......yes,,,,exactly! I need to lose the stiffness......when laying on the deck, it needs to fall into a pile on the deck, and not look poofy.....it a bit hard to describe. it can't be too perfect. lets put on our imagination glasses for a moment, I have this to show you. I brought home the hair net I got off the trailer floor. now....this thing has been walked on.....rolled over......and probably exposed to the weather, so it's pretty beat up. but it is still intact for the most part. there is no shine to this netting........it looks worn.......there are some small holes {nothing major}, and it is not stiff. think of how this would look lying on the deck. these holes are much smaller, than the ones I bought. I even like the head band that goes around the edge. I imagined it also attached to a boom, with something inside to balloon it out. how limp it is and how it bunches.......imagine.......a grown man daydreaming over this. I am certifiable '''''oh, I gotta go! the nurse is calling me

thanks gents .......I gave it a shot. it was suggested to me, to sit down with a model and lose myself in it. instead I replaced the radiator in our car. I yam undaunted. something else will come along.......you betcha! Friday........I did some of the structure planking for the second and third levels. if I could multitask.......I'da given the second level deck a lacquer coat. before I could do the planking, I needed to cement in place, the opposite end panel. I still need to cut out the windows on the other end. I soaked this one for a short time...didn't break like the other one. after sanding it to a rounded appearance, the planking started. note the plank on the far left.......the first one. it's lifting....something I dreaded. I will do something to hold the edge down, but I think I'll resort to using narrower planking on the ends. it will navigate the curvature much better. the third level was an after thought.......it's the same shape....why not! I started just shy of the turn....that way I could start the narrower planking without too much of a bump. I was also mindful of the tabs too....not leaving as much to trim away after. so I cut the two wood piles... changing over to the narrower planking, I continued with the third level. we had run an errand, which gave this time to dry. lengths were cut in half to go around the windows. ....and finding a good place to return to the regular planking, I kept going around the other side. trimming these structures is going to be a nightmare.....I can feel it. it will get even more interesting when I begin on the windows and doors I should finish off the coral gates......

holy cow Mike.....your moving right along! the rigging looks super...stabilizer and rudder looks sweet! your making me want to bring my Fokker out again.it's in the closet at the moment.......lot of sanding and shaping the leading and trailing surfaces of the wings, as well as the fuselage. it's nothing like what your doing though.......really nice work there!

thanks for the good word folks.....and those that hit the like button. figured that since tomorrow, I'll be back to work again....I'll bring home the net for you all to see. I also really should soak these nets to see if they will limber up...haven't done it yet. I hope to have an update on this tomorrow thanks again everyone!

thanks for the good luck wishes.......I wish I had good news to report. I got the results back the same day...I failed to pass the test. I had problems with a couple parts of the test, which I'm sure affected the overall score. I guess I've been out of the loop too long,,,that and the industry has changed so much. I quit the garage back in 2000, to work in a warehouse. then in 2004, went to work for Wal Mart transportation, where I've spent most of my 13 years, working on trailers. oh well.....the hunt continues.......or I could try for getting into another facet of the post office. thanks for the thoughts and wishes I've been planking the structures...second and third level. they are both the same, so it makes sense to do one, and then the other, for the first to dry. it will keep the conga line going. I'll have some sort of update for you soon

awesome job Piet........she looks sweet!

looks great Mario.......interesting way to achieve it as well

awwwww........that's just new project jitters once you start........ don't mind me....I'm to the point where I don't think about it.......I just start chuck'in wood together I let the admiral yell at me afterwards you've put so much into shadow........imagine what you could do with this new project.

yup........this is about as bad, as when I thought the wind would clean the dust from my first build of the Revell U.S.S. United States. I left it on the porch and the wind blew it from the porch, to the driveway below. it wasn't salvageable. so sorry to hear

catching up Russ......a good bit of progress I've had the same problem with tape.......I use two different types myself. she looks very nice though.....the colors work very well together. if your ship has it, you could do a waterline stripe, and make short work of it. even though all it boils down to really, is just some minor touch ups. the hatch looks great! another problem I run into, is when I leave the tape on too long, the paint will create a raised line that I have to lightly sand off, or hand rub, using a soft cotton cloth. wonderful progress.......well done