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

[TheDoctor]

And I thought plotting the route for a ride I *might* do this time next year was sad.
I looked up hotels, train times and everything...

 

[classic33]

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... Slate Grey(31), dries more green than grey.

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

http://www.network54.com/Forum/261665/thread/1078696274/last-1102417198/Halifax interior colours-

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

Got everyone of them released to date, by Humbrol. More on the way though.

 

[classic33]

I've counted sixty Greys, of varying shades, from the same manufacturer. The tricky part is what black does he use? they have nine listed!

 

[Red Light]

I've counted sixty Greys, of varying shades, from the same manufacturer. The tricky part is what black does he use? they have nine listed!

I thought it was Fifty Shades of Grey

 

[classic33]

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!

Wrong end of the plane.

 

[classic33]

I thought it was Fifty Shades of Grey

Missed that.
Don't mention the greens.

 

[Melonfish]

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!

The tail turret was the most important defensive platform on a bomber of that era!
You must be very proud of him, the air gunners really are some of the more forgotten vets of ww2, turrets were cramped and for the most part un-armoured, sometimes you couldn't wear a parachute whilst in one or leaving one whilst the plane was in trouble could be difficult especially if the hydrolic-electro assist has gone.
brave men all.

@classic33 - i'll take a good look at that slate grey m8 looks promising
@Red Light - actually i'm still in the plotting stages, eventually i hope to have larger R/C halifaxes crewed by semi-sapient voles (genetic experiment) that will allow me to drop eggs on david cameron whilst looking like a rather spectacular BBMF troup.
Pete

 

[ufkacbln]

Surely the colour is a small issue compared as to where you are going to park it!

 

[perplexed]

At 0300, I was trying to calculate how many trips it would take with gorrilla tubs full of topsoil, to move 3 tonnes of it round the back. 50 yards in total, plus down about 10 steps...

 

[classic33]

The tail turret was the most important defensive platform on a bomber of that era!
You must be very proud of him, the air gunners really are some of the more forgotten vets of ww2, turrets were cramped and for the most part un-armoured, sometimes you couldn't wear a parachute whilst in one or leaving one whilst the plane was in trouble could be difficult especially if the hydrolic-electro assist has gone.
brave men all.

@Classic33 - i'll take a good look at that slate grey m8 looks promising
@red light - actually i'm still in the plotting stages, eventually i hope to have larger R/C halifaxes crewed by semi-sapient voles (genetic experiment) that will allow me to drop eggs on david cameron whilst looking like a rather spectacular BBMF troup.
Pete

Not saying that their job was any less important, just that cockpit colour was required, hence me saying the wrong end of the plane.

Any of these yours!!
http://www.aviationtrivia.info/Handley-Page-Halifax.php

 

[Arch]

Returning to the OP...

I went out for some shopping earlier, and made a list. One item I jotted down was 'flower'

Plain, not self raising.....

 

[Melonfish]

Not saying that their job was any less important, just that cockpit colour was required, hence me saying the wrong end of the plane.

Any of these yours!!
http://www.aviationtrivia.info/Handley-Page-Halifax.php

Sorry i was being exclamatory not defamatory but yeah, tailgunner, very very important defensive role (and iron maiden made a song about it too)
Pete

 

[Salad Dodger]

You know you're losing the plot when....
you can't find the on/off switch on your brand new, supersized telly.
20 minutes and a couple of bouts of Tourettes later, we found it. On the back.