After a 20+hour modeling session repairing broken models from the recent move, with no breaks (except for Nature’s calls and the occasional cup of coffee) and no meals (outsde of a bag of Twizzler’s), I hereby create and award myself the following:
Requirements for membership of the order are measured on a case-by-case basis, but the Honor System is in effect… If you think you’re qualified, then tell the story, in 100 words or less, why…
hmmmmm - didn’t Mussolini create awards to present to himself?? [whstl]
Man, I can’t sit still that long, let alone make a gap in the schedule to even think about sitting that long! I bet fermis is in line for one of these…
Yeah, and Goering created his own Luftwaffe rank of Reichsmarschall…
I had new meds and was really in the grove though… Only time I ever came that close to getting a red azz before was sitting my computer and flying a MS CFS2 P-51 from England to Berlin (in real time) on-line… No auto-pilot either… Just well-trimmed so I could fly hands & feet-off for a little stretch at a time… That was eight and a half hours…
Damned Forts are SLOWWWWWW… Shoulda flown one of the bombers so I coulda got up and walked around, lol…
Reminds me of a story…
A KC-135 was just finished with a pair of F-4s. The lead F-4 pulled up alongside the tanker’s left side, waggled it’s wings, and the Phantom’s pilot said to the tanker pilot, “Watch this”… The fighter pulled up ahead a bit, then did a big barrel roll around the K-bird, with the fighter settling back alongside the KC-135…
The KC-135 pilot says, “On yeah, Nice… Now watch THIS…”. The tanker continues on, straight and level for about 5 minutes, nothing’s happening… Then the headset crackles in the Phantom pilot’s helmet and the tanker pilot says, “How 'bout THAT?”
The Phantom pilot says, “I didn’t see nothing… What’d ya do?”
The '135 pilot said, “I got outta my seat, stretched a bit, went back to the bathroom, took a leak, ate a roast-beef sandwich, and grabbed a cuppa coffee…”
Display it, proudly Herr Oberst!!
[:D[[snWow]
Change the little bird to an F16 and it ends something like this:
The '135 pilot said, "I got outta my seat, stretched a bit, went back to the bathroom, took a leak, ate a roast-beef sandwich, and grabbed a cuppa coffee, and shut down one of my engines [:D]
I’m married, and have a two year old and a five year old. I’m lucky to get half an hour at the bench. In a week. [:(]
“Present Arms”, “Order Arms”
A big salute for your Red Ass certificate.
Try putting ten hours a day in on a 30 year old Yamaha Special. That’ll give ya the red azz.
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Coulda said two and still kept the Phantom…
Anyway, Membership in the ORA is open to all, kinda goes along with the Artistic License Certification…
Need some ideas for a medal/certificate for modeling wounds too… Since I was able to stab m’self in the azz with my X-Acto, I figure there’s gotta be some kind of recognition for that too…
Herr Oberst, you are a talented man. [;)]
Thankee, Herr Major… I also managed to set an entire diorama on fire with resin once too… Added too much catalyst to the resin, and it generated so much heat that the Kingfisher sitting in it caught fire!
I think I might be worthy at the moment, just spent 6 hours working on nothing but monogram B-17 engines, 24 of them!
About to do a long session to make PE fire hose heels for a CVN-65 Enterprise. My best guess at least 5 hrs.
I call for a clarification of the rules here.
Are “meds”, for this particular award qualification, considered “performance enhancing”?
WOW… 20+hour modeling session… Ooooo, my asssss would be sssso ssssore. [:|]
I dunno… While they DID enhance the level the detail I got into, the side-effect of that was constantly forgetting what I was doing to it and for which plane… I worked on scratch-building a the 'pit for the Monogram Zeke for about 3 hours, and then glued the floor into the Wildcat’s fusealage…
Also spent no small amount of time picking up a piece, applying glue, then forgetting where it went… In fact, I thnk I stared at the kit-parts a LOT…
Definitely a case of red-azz wawiting you…
That’s just wrong, and on SO many levels… But I’ll trade ya that one for sitting in the back of a B-29 for 11 hours (AFTER a 4-hour cross-country hop) and the inside air temp running close to 120F… Answering the same questions from Superfort fans over & over & over…
I finally quit doing that for ever’body, and just concentrated on being nice to the girls with great big ol’…
Hair…
Their was ONE chick that, man… Let’s just say I was prayin’ she’d wanna take the tunnel from the waist to the flight-deck insteada going out from the bombbay… She was like a cross ‘tween Peg Bundy and Elvira… And she was at at least 4 different shows we flew to… Ain’t kidding, a real, live B-29 groupie… Man, that jus’ don’t happen…
Hey… I’m in for the Medical badge… if we get one…lol… ! scanning the brain for a Red azz story, [:(]
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