I used my template for the first time to fill in the centre of my Scammell wheel, getting to grips in a manner of speaking with a gentle touch on my airbrush rather than hand brushing. Very pleased with the result, would never thought of another use.
Capn, that takes me back to archaeology digs if it wasn’t for preparing the way for by-passes a lot of this information wouldn’t see the light of day. [B]
Wow! I go away for a few days and all these posts!!!
Bakster: Good thinking there on the hatches, I love those circle templates! Good thinking there 1961- in fact I’ve gotten to painting the road wheels of tanks with the black grey I’m using for rubber and then use the template for painting the interior metal section that is the actual wheel. No muss, no fuss.
Timmy: You could do a drinking game with that game. Everytime you get captured take a drink. Winner is the last guy to pass out.
Looks like you did well.
I can share your enthusiam as I am going through a learning process trying to ease up on my heavy-handed airbrush techique too.
Solution? Don’t go away. [:|]
Thank you sir.
Looks good!
So if I go back to see dinosaurs and the time machine puts me in my ancestor instead of a shrew it would be a telephone sanitizer on Golgafringian Ark B???
Thanks Greg, Gamera and Baxter, good results are confidence building and little tricks that work are all the more welcome.
Yeah Gam they were on Ark B there were also hairdressers and some others.
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Your wisdom could be great fodder for a T-shirt slogan. I’ll start, all feel free to add… If you are a Cro-Magnon, you are too close City of Cro-Magnon, population too many Golgafringia, home of the original Cro-Magnon Don’t be a Cro-Magnon [/quote
Great idea, thinking about this while I was at work,
Slogan,
I have a little bit of the neanderthal in me.
Top tip; don’t let your telephone sanitisers go.
Say no to bypasses.
Well I was supposed to be working.
Best answered by the originator. I defer to the Capn. [;)]
I like.
Well, leaving aside relativity issues, and decidedly not being the brilliant, if late, Douglas Adams, I’d say it was possible.
Quantum probabliity (currently) holds that, if you found a way to create a time-space bubble, the interior of that bubble would tend to operate at your previous, ‘native’ time (the premise operates similarly to conservation of mass and energy). So, the you of the “now” would still be you in the “then.” No regressing into protoplasm or dust or the like.
Now, sadly, current quantum theory posits that, if you went back in time, the “reality” you would experiece would not necessarily be the one in your own past. It would be the one where the quatum states resolved to where the coin toss comes up that your trip was successful (and not any of the times the coin toss was “tails” instead).
Next tricky part is that on your return trip to your previous “present,” it, too has to be the one where all the coin flips equal your success. But, that might not (and probably wouldn’t ) be the “present” you left to go to the past.
And, this stuff gets complicated, quick. A quantum decision tree always has three branches, decision made, positive; decision made, negative; and no decision.
Quantum states will admit to any possible combination of reality, and they resolve only in observation. So, in a given instant, there is a non-zero probability that you are a Llama. When you look in the mirror and you are not a 120kg 2m tall quadraped, then, either a quantum dcision occured, or inertia mooted the decision, and you did not transmogrify.
Now, the probablities of being a Golgafringian are significantly higher than a bowl of petunias, but either are non-zero, especially with quantum probabilities.
Then, it gets really deep [:)]
Why does my head hurt now ???
But wait,… I will just go back in time to when my head didn’t hurt… and then return to the present !
BAAAA … BAAAA …
( uh-oh …)
Maybe we should just get a Delorean. Or maybe I should finish my LamboDelore. That will have time travel capability.
So, a sad tale for you. I tested the paint that I was so impatiently waiting for, and it was a total bust.
I tried using AK interactive acrylic, 3rd generation. I did so because they had the color I was looking for, and the hobby store that had it was only across the lake from me. I had not tried that paint yet, and reviews seemed decent. How bad could it be?
Well, here is the kick in the pants. The hobby store had the paint, but they were out of stock on the thinner, and they made it sound like it would be weeks to wait on. Being impatient, I said ship the paint. Afterall, I was hearing the paint was cuttable using water. One yahoo even said lacquer was ok. Oh, and the promo for their paint touts it as airbrushable straight from the bottle.
Um, no. My paint was far too thick. So, I tried water. Horrid result. It was like oil and water. The paint separated and blotted. For grins, I tried IPA, X20, lacquer thinner, all bad. Lacquer was the worst. The paint congealed. I also found a complaint that the paint dries up in the bottle. Perhaps why mine came so thick.
Now, I am back to square one. I have some AK Real Color Acrylic Lacquer that I could make work. I have a tan, and white. I could mix the shade I want. Two issues with that though.
I’d need to mix a large enough batch so that I have enough to paint the entire interior, when ready to. That could be a few months down the road yet. Will the paint keep? Forget trying to match a new batch later.
More importantly. Though in testing the paint sticks well when yanked on with tape, it does not do well when flexed. From my experience, the paint is very rigid and it literally flakes off when flexed. In those cases I did not prime first, didn’t think I’d need to. But with that said, it’s no guarantee it would change a darn thing. The structure of my interior is delicate, and there is gonna be flexing while handling. Hence my concern.
Btw. Tonights test was on spoons, not on my model. No concern there.
So, it’s one of those one step forward, two steps back moments.
THE END
THAT is a hoot.
It’s worse than that Timmy, from what the Capn said you could find when you go back your head is aching more than when you left; I think, I dun know, what with cavemen stooges I’m getting a headache might leave time travelling for another time.
Edit.
Bakster: I’ve been using AK Interactive acrylic olive drab primer for US Second World War vehicles for some time and never had any problems with it. In fact I used some last night. I thin it with a smidgeon of windshield washer fluid (water with a little alcolhol added to keep it from freezing).
I haven’t used the actual paint yet, only the primer but still the issues you’re having make me scratch my head.
Exactly!!! [;)]
I’ve read a little on the subject but like 1961 it just gives me a headache. I like the idea that if I change the past it creates another timeline that spins off from the original. So if I should kill my own grandpa it just makes a new timeline without us and doesn’t alter the one I came from. Or at least it makes my head hurt less.
But, but…
Bakster and I only wanted to go back to a Steak and Ale for prime rib. Just a quick trip. Then we’ll come right back, ok?