You know you're losing the plot when...

[Melonfish]

Its twenty past one in the morning and you're shopping online for the correct shade of grey-green to paint the inside of a Handley Page Halifax bomber...

seriously, i've been searching and there's forums arguing over colour palettes... its an odd light green with a grey mixed in, its annoying, and i can't start my build without it... Hmph.

anything annoying you lot tonight

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Branch out from the norm and paint it blue, i am sure the original flight crew didnt take much notice of the colour scheme

 

[vernon]

The Sottish squadrons used tartan paint.

 

[Red Light]

Branch out from the norm and paint it blue, i am sure the original flight crew didnt tale much notice of the colour scheme

Especially as it mostly flew at night.

 

[biggs682]

it amazes me what passes through ones mind whilst awake at night !

 

[DCLane]

Yes - trying to find a wireless doorbell exactly the same size as the current (broken) one so I don't have to repaint the hallway through buying a smaller one.

Oh - and I'd think the inside of the bomber's irrelevant. If I'd one on my garden the neighbours would be worried

 

[Red Light]

Yes - trying to find a wireless doorbell exactly the same size as the current (broken) one so I don't have to repaint the hallway through buying a smaller one.

You can get one that is bigger you know

Oh - and I'd think the inside of the bomber's irrelevant. If I'd one on my garden the neighbours would be worried

I still can't work out whether we are talking restoration or anal Airfix-ing.

 

[Night Train]

I was awake the other night working out that a Land Rover tyre is 0.65 the diameter of an AEC Matador tyre and that if I narrowed a Land Rover Salisbury axle to using standard short half shafts each side the track width of the axle would also be 0.65 of that of the AEC Matador!
Cue a process of working out all the other Matador dimensions down to 0.65 scale to see if I could build a scale model....

Scale model meaning that it would still be the size of a long wheel base Land Rover but very narrow!

 

[Melonfish]

You can get one that is bigger you know



I still can't work out whether we are talking restoration or anal Airfix-ing.

I WISH it was restoration but sadly its anal modelling, if we want to get more anal i can point out i've had to order parts to get the engine nacelle intakes right and replace the gods awful props the revell kit gives you?
hehe
i'm also turning a hurricane mk ii C into a ii D which again required after market kits, basically replacing the 4 20mm guns for 2 40mm vickers S guns, used to be known as 'Flying Tin Openers'
oh and i found the right colour in the end, just waiting for it to arrive in the post.

 

[Red Light]

I WISH it was restoration but sadly its anal modelling, if we want to get more anal i can point out i've had to order parts to get the engine nacelle intakes right and replace the gods awful props the revell kit gives you?
hehe
i'm also turning a hurricane mk ii C into a ii D which again required after market kits, basically replacing the 4 20mm guns for 2 40mm vickers S guns, used to be known as 'Flying Tin Openers'
oh and i found the right colour in the end, just waiting for it to arrive in the post.

So Evil Genius in Training, once you have assembled a fleet of perfect Halifax models are you going to fill them with little people and launch your evil world domination plot bwahahahahaha?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I remember painting the inside of the engines/wings etc black. nobody would ever see it, but that didn't matter.

Except for painting the pilot and cockpit i.e the bits that could be seen, I think I left the rest of the actual interior the colour it was though unless I knew better (which I didn't).

 

[Norm]

....sadly its anal modelling...

I saw a TV programme about that once, you have to get it bleached and everything, it didn't look much fun.

 

[smokeysmoo]

That grey is a bugger, I've heard there are at least 50 shades of the stuff.

 

[NotthatJasonKenny]

Its twenty past one in the morning and you're shopping online for the correct shade of grey-green to paint the inside of a Handley Page Halifax bomber...

seriously, i've been searching and there's forums arguing over colour palettes... its an odd light green with a grey mixed in, its annoying, and i can't start my build without it... Hmph.

anything annoying you lot tonight

My grandad was a tail gunner in the Halifax in WW2 (obviously) went with my dad to view the one near Leeds earlier this year, very emotional!

 

[Red Light]

I was awake the other night working out that a Land Rover tyre is 0.65 the diameter of an AEC Matador tyre and that if I narrowed a Land Rover Salisbury axle to using standard short half shafts each side the track width of the axle would also be 0.65 of that of the AEC Matador!
Cue a process of working out all the other Matador dimensions down to 0.65 scale to see if I could build a scale model....

Scale model meaning that it would still be the size of a long wheel base Land Rover but very narrow!

Have I woken up in the middle of Scrapheap Challenge but without the gorgeous Lisa?