Gondor's Grumblings

[Gondor]

Yippee, I found the parts in a T-45 box that was hiding behind another box!

Gondor

EDIT: But not the parts I was looking for       

Tomorrow I will have to go into the loft and search all the Hawk kits I have to find the parts if I can't find them hiding in the model room.

Modelling and organised are two words that do not appear to go together very often, if ever.

EDIT EDIT: One last look at a couple of old margarine tubs hiding at the back of the bench and I find the missing wings!   

[NARSES2]

EDIT EDIT: One last look at a couple of old margarine tubs hiding at the back of the bench and I find the missing wings!   

Result, and just think of all that "other" stuff you found to stimulate the modelling sensors in the brain ? 

[Gondor]

EDIT EDIT: One last look at a couple of old margarine tubs hiding at the back of the bench and I find the missing wings!   

Result, and just think of all that "other" stuff you found to stimulate the modelling sensors in the brain ? 

Nope, that was all just "bits" that have accumulated over the years.

Gondor

[Gondor]

I am now on holiday for a week as preparation for the Scottish Nationals this coming weekend. I don't think I will get anything new finished in time for the show so I am not going to push myself to finish anything, although I will spend a fair amount of my time off modelling. If nothing else, it helps get a few projects moving for Telford later this year.

I made a mistake at the end of yesterday. I follow several build threads on Britmodeller, and I had mistakenly selected "spam" instead of "delete" on my web-based email. The two options are right next to each other, and I am surprised I haven't done this before. I had been looking at my email on my phone as I leisurely got up this morning and had been trying to figure out why I wasn't getting the individual notifications of postings that I normally get. The spam folder held the answer. 

Gondor

[Gondor]

Feeling exhausted after the two days of the Scottish Nationals. I was quite restrained with the number of kits that I bought, four in total, with one being the new Airfix Jaguar in 1/48. I am looking out for all the accessories that will inevitably come out so that I can use a few to whiff one of the old kits I have in the stash.
I have a few new ideas for something to build, thank you, Campbell, at least I think it was, might have been someone else, as the chat happened yesterday after Joe bought a built Shackleton so he could get the figures from the base 
The show was much tighter this year as we are now restricted to one hall; the other hall is now a gym, so that can't be used anymore. The competition was in part of the cafeteria, so less room to eat in. A good thing was that there was a small drinks and snack outlet opened by the cafeteria in a back corner of the hall, which saved a lot of trouble.
So that's that for another year. Highlights for me were getting to the show on Friday to help with the set-up. Having a good chat with all the familiar faces from previous shows, finding out information about products that exist and some that don't, and having a long chat with 'el Presidante' of the IPMS about various things. Not forgetting the burchases today from the kit swap 

Gondor

[Gondor]

Packing things away yesterday evening, and could I find in my Stash List where my Israeli F-16 kits were. Of course not. I did eventually remember, just as I was about to have my evening meal where the kits were, in fact, the whole stash of Israeli kits were together! So I now have a few F-16's to sort out what I am going to do with them, a Kinetic F-16I with the spine fitted to the upper fuselage, an F-16D with resin detail parts, a Hasegawa F-16I with it's spine and other lumps as a seperate spure, favourite to go on the F-16XL, and a couple of boxes by Isracast with parts for an F-16I in them. So I think I see some Israeli kits in my near future.

Gondor

[Gondor]

Normally, I grumble about delivery companies other than Royal Mail, today is not the case. I managed to pick up a package from Hannants today from my local post office. Now, anyone here who shops with Hannants knows they are excellent with the information they give out. All parcels are tracked, and you are sent the tracking number in a separate email from the one they sent detailing what they are sending you. You then get an email from the courier, usually Royal Mail for me, saying they have the package and a rough delivery time, along with which day the delivery will be on. In this case, so far so good. Now is where things start going a little bit wrong. I get the email from Royal Mail, I will be at work when they intend to deliver so I alter the delivery instructions to my local Post Office and I get a confirmatory reply of the change. Two days ago I get an email saying that they were unable to deliver the parcel to my address, and they would try the following day. No card through the letter box or anything like that, just an email.
Often, if I change the delivery information, the parcel gets delivered two days later as it takes couriers a day or so to reorganise the parcel. Today is two days later, no information or cards through the door. Not impressed. I decided to check the tracking. It's been delivered to the local Post Office!
No notification about that happening at all! It's also the second time I asked them to deliver it there! Not impressed!!

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

Yes, that's happened to me before now too. One half of the Post Office doesn't talk to the other half, or maybe don't even know that it exists!   

[Gondor]

Yes, that's happened to me before now too. One half of the Post Office doesn't talk to the other half, or maybe don't even know that it exists!   

It's the first time that it has happened. Why all of a sudden does the service decide to fall down? Is it a new person doing the email sending and a bad postie not putting the card through the door, or not even bothering to find the door on the same day as not having a message to go to the Post Office instead? Another possibility is that they are not putting cards through the door.

Gondor

[scooter]

Yes, that's happened to me before now too. One half of the Post Office doesn't talk to the other half, or maybe don't even know that it exists!   

It's the first time that it has happened. Why all of a sudden does the service decide to fall down? Is it a new person doing the email sending and a bad postie not putting the card through the door, or not even bothering to find the door on the same day as not having a message to go to the Post Office instead? Another possibility is that they are not putting cards through the door.

Gondor

Yes.  My local US Post Office has like three different carriers for our route.  We have, who I like to term, our 'regular guy'.  When we have (Sc)Amazon package coming, regardless of size of box, all our mail is on the side porch.  Then we have the guys who'll shove boxes about the size of a US home delivery boxes and smaller into the box; larger packages usually on the front porch that we never use with the envelope mail in the mailbox.  UPS is just as bad, if it's SWMBO's order.  I opted for a their free delivery account and have my permanent delivery instructions "Side Porch".  And FedEx (for the cats' food) can be all over the place - front porch, side porch, or end of the driveway.

[PR19_Kit]

It's the first time that it has happened. Why all of a sudden does the service decide to fall down? Is it a new person doing the email sending and a bad postie not putting the card through the door, or not even bothering to find the door on the same day as not having a message to go to the Post Office instead? Another possibility is that they are not putting cards through the door.

Didn't some foreign billionaire just buy OUR Post Office, or something similar?