LOL Dom, I’ll keep that in mind!
Hey,
Re-read those posts and think about it Cliff,
you are a very funny guy,
and that is a talent not to be wasted…
Dom
What Dom said, Ken!! That is fantastic work! I’ve never been able to get a cockpit looking like that. I’ll definitely be asking for some guidance when I go back to working on my F-111! Can’t wait to see how this all comes together!
Russ
Thank you Russ! I appreciate it.
Ken
Well, I am making a bit of progress on a couple of kits from the partially built pile. Sorry, still no pics. I hinted to the Mrs. that I needed a new camera for Xmas but no luck, lol. I’ll send up some pics when I can get her to let me get a new one, probably around next Xmas… lol
For those who are complaining that i spent xmass alone. Dont worry, it was voluntary. I had 4 or 5 invites to different christmas parties, but at this time of the year i turn into a real grinch and avoid people like the plague.
Hi Everyone,
Here is today’s progress.
In this first picture I have the front ejection seat epoxied into place:
This next picture shows the rear ejection seat epoxied into place:
Here is a close up of the rear control stick epoxied into place. It was a real bear since I had to hold it in position waiting for the 5 minute epoxy to setup:
Here is an overhead shot of the cockpit so far:
And finally a view from the starboard side:
Ken
Any particular reason for the Grinch syndrome?
Ken
3 Christmas’ working at EB Games (Gamestop) in a very busy mall. Need i say more?
Mike, I don’t blame you. When I worked retail all I wanted to do on getting home was to eat something and take a nap.
Ditto guys,
When I worked the seafood counter at a big-box super market,
I could hardly get to my home-work I was so wiped after work.
It helped put me through university,
but I injured my right knee, and my back.
I still live with those legacies…
Good news is I don’t have to work retail anymore,
but I know there may be a job at Wally-World when
I retire, I’ll be a greeter this time.
Dom
Yeah it pretty much sucked the life out of me. People think its stressful trying to shop last minute christmas eve. Try being on the other side of the counter. Regular people get to leave.Most retail assistants dont get home till after midnight. They also have to put up with all the abuse of last minute stressed out customers.
Well that is why I stopped buying Christmas presents many years ago. I told all of my friends and family to not buy for me and I was not going to buy for them. We still get together for Christmas and enjoy each other’s company, but do not exchange gifts. Presents are for children, not for adults. That is where the commercialization has taken over. I do not miss it one bit!
Ken
Good reasons Ken:
I always make sure they get what they want.
I believe in presents, I don’t believe in “surprises.”
Mikey, the abuse part is incredible.
People have this idea that just because
you are serving them, you are a public t****t.
Really, I had to say, and maybe you could not do this,
"I’ll escort you to the door, or wait a minute and the security
will do it. If you make any more of a Public Disturbance,
I will call 911."
“Yes sir/ma’am, you are being invited to leave, NOW”
That’s when I would pick up the telephone and make a call
to security anyways. They always sent the guys’gals around.
“Hello sir/ma’am, may I escort you to your car?”
We did kick people out. Given our ‘shrink’, we had to discourage
people like that…most are repeaters.
Any how, I hope the bastiches don’t get you down. They are
just statistics, waiting for an accountant to happen.
Dom
our old boss was…rather vocal lol. We had one customer who was a suspected game pirater (hed buy a game, copy it, return it for a full refund) boss pulled him up on it one day, he started getting beligerant so the boss just yells at him at the top of his lungs “GET THE F*** OUT OF MY SHOP, IF I EVER SEE YOU IN HERE AGAIN I WILL HAVE YOU ARRESTED” he just went clean off his nut. It was kinda funny.
But when i say abuse im talking about the general “Im better than you because i dont work in the public eye” kind of abuse. You see it every day and dont recognise it as abuse untill its aimed at you.
Really nice work, Ken! Those ejection seat handles really look good! I hope you’re gonna have the canopies open to show off all this detail. [Y] [Y]
Russ
That’s it Mikey,
That’s what I mean’t when I said that just because you are serving them,
they treat you like a public washroom. It is abuse, and they really do think they are
“better than you.”
Ton’s of that to go around in retail. People get so angry or haughty because something
doesn’t please them, and they dump on the nearest server.
After I replied to your email, i actually had to go and dig myself out of nasty feelings
it brought back…lol[:@]…[8o|]…[B]…[A]…[:D]
I’m glad your old boss had the coconuts to stand up to guys like that.
Well a new year is coming, and i have no idea what to do with a Hind attack chopper.
Maybe an Afghanistan diorama as it dodges Stingers…LOL…
Dom
Ken:
You’ll have to tell us agian, maybe for the third time, how you highlight your dial, buttons, and instruments…
they look great!
Also, I love all of the avionics harnesses coming out the back
of the the WISO’s panels:
Great build Ken.
Dom
Retail is bad, I grant you that, but it is nothing compared to working tech support for an ISP. My first ISP job was back in 1993. An Internet provider in the NE U.S. called TIAC (The Internet Access Company). I loved the job, great co workers, challenging ( did tier II and III support), and the pay was great. BUT… some of the calls we got had to be heard to be believed. Like the time some guy called up and didn’t even have a modem. He thought his surge protector was a modem because it had a phone line pass through. There was an old radio comedy bit about the Internet Help Desk, and I am here to tell you that everything said in that skit was 100% accurate… We had threats, people hurling insults, profanities etc. We even had a couple turn up at the building and yell at all of us. They seemed to think that that $10.95 a month they spent, gave them the right to treat all of the techs like dirt, when 99.9% of the time, they had no one to blame but themselves and their ignorance and unwillingness to learn not to do certain things. And Yes, we did have a few coffee cup in the CD ROM tray incidents. It would blow your mind. And when Windows 95 came out, and we had to switch over something like 124,000 users… Luckily they didn’t upgrade all at once., But man, was I glad to see Trumpet Winsock go… Doing hardware support isn’t much better either.
Thank you Russ! Yes the canopies are definitely going to be open on this one!
Ken