Gondor's Grumblings

[DogfighterZen]

I was forgetting that the GE nozzle and big mouth intake are included in the Hase SUFA kit.  Then you just have to scratchbuild the inlet and vent for the spine. And i was also forgetting the fact that the E/F have recently been fitted with the AN/AAQ-33 Sniper XR pod to replace the original targeting pods that were not upgraded and deemed obsolete so, if you have the Hasegawa weapons set IX (JDAMs and TGPs), the pod and pylon for the F-16's intake is in there.
Be aware that the Kinetic 1/72 F-16I SUFA doesn't have the extra bits for the F like the Hasegawa kit, you can only build the SUFA from it and their other 1/72 F-16D is the Polish/Greek Block 52+, which is the same kit with different weapons and decals.

[Gondor]

I was forgetting that the GE nozzle and big mouth intake are included in the Hase SUFA kit.  Then you just have to scratchbuild the inlet and vent for the spine. And i was also forgetting the fact that the E/F have recently been fitted with the AN/AAQ-33 Sniper XR pod to replace the original targeting pods that were not upgraded and deemed obsolete so, if you have the Hasegawa weapons set IX (JDAMs and TGPs), the pod and pylon for the F-16's intake is in there.
Be aware that the Kinetic 1/72 F-16I SUFA doesn't have the extra bits for the F like the Hasegawa kit, you can only build the SUFA from it and their other 1/72 F-16D is the Polish/Greek Block 52+, which is the same kit with different weapons and decals.

Oh I certainly do have weapons set IX, along with the other eight generic ones, plus the Russian, Japanese and European sets 

I made an order with the BIG yellow H yesterday, bought the Kinetic 1/48 E/F dual boxing to use as a guide for the E fin base. It should be possible to scale from 1/48 to 1/72, so I can scratch what I need. I also ordered a few other bits, mainly Lightning parts to replace the parts I am "borrowing" for the P.8 build.

Gondor

[Gondor]

I was forgetting that the GE nozzle and big mouth intake are included in the Hase SUFA kit.  Then you just have to scratchbuild the inlet and vent for the spine. And i was also forgetting the fact that the E/F have recently been fitted with the AN/AAQ-33 Sniper XR pod to replace the original targeting pods that were not upgraded and deemed obsolete so, if you have the Hasegawa weapons set IX (JDAMs and TGPs), the pod and pylon for the F-16's intake is in there.
Be aware that the Kinetic 1/72 F-16I SUFA doesn't have the extra bits for the F like the Hasegawa kit, you can only build the SUFA from it and their other 1/72 F-16D is the Polish/Greek Block 52+, which is the same kit with different weapons and decals.

Oh I certainly do have weapons set IX, along with the other eight generic ones, plus the Russian, Japanese and European sets 

I made an order with the BIG yellow H yesterday, bought the Kinetic 1/48 E/F dual boxing to use as a guide for the E fin base. It should be possible to scale from 1/48 to 1/72, so I can scratch what I need. I also ordered a few other bits, mainly Lightning parts to replace the parts I am "borrowing" for the P.8 build.

Gondor

I thought the Kinetic E/F kit was a one-and-a-half kit, it's actually one kit with options for either, so I would require almost a complete kit to build the second version. Then I remembered that I have a Tamyia 1/48 kit! I was a little crestfallen when I found out that it had an Isracast conversion to make it an Israeli Block 40 aircraft. So, back on the interweb this morning, and an order for a Kinetic Israeli Block 40 kit was placed. You might think, why that version when you are converting another kit to become that? Two reasons: it was one of the cheapest kits available, it was the right block number, and the parts from the E/F kit will fit better on it than on the Tamiya kit. The fourth reason is that I don't have decals for the Tamiya kit as the Israeli aircraft, so the decals and anything else it needs may simply move from one kit to the other. I now have to work out what I am going to do with the Hasegawa F-16F I have, a change of decals to a different operator is the most likely.

Gondor

[Gondor]

Well, that's another week finished. Getting to the point at work where I may need to take a second book other than the one I read during my lunch breaks, just in case I finish that one, there is so little work to do.

scautomoton, or Stuart, is doing his best to impoverish me with his CAD work and 3D printing, saying that the quality of his work is outstanding, so much so that I have bought a second P.8 conversion set from him. This one will be West German and in the NORM71 scheme. I am also going to fettle a few bits from an old Airfix kit, as I still have a few parts I can use from other kits I have started, where I have replaced parts. I don't like wasting a whole kit for just a few parts, unless it's a really old and poor quality kit, such as the old Airfix ones. So, robbing an F.1 kit, I found it had a resin F3/6 fin, not any more, and I took out the tail planes and airbrakes as well. I think I have everything else that I need, well, mostly on reflection. I am sure I will come up with the rest one way or another when I need the parts.

Gondor

[Gondor]

So it's been a week since I last posted anything here. Work has been slow, oh so slow. So slow in fact that I took Friday off work. The work day is only five and a half hours rather than a usual eight hours for Monday to Thursday inclusive, so less hours to take off my holiday entitlement. Blood pressure is still high, so I have a doctor's appointment on Wednesday about that, I will probably be prescribed more tablets. I was on a trial prescription for a while, so I will probably be on them for good. Modelling-wise, things are going reasonably well, as you can see from my current build thread. I made up the new storage I recently bought from EBMA, so now all my paint has storage.
On the home front, I managed to get rid of some older things that I had lying around the flat; the bedding went to the skip as that was stained. Not surprisingly, as I had owned it for about thirty years, it was well past its best, which was partially why I changed my bedding. Now I need to reorganise some of the models in the modelling room so I can store them better. That or take another trip to IKEA to buy more storage boxes for the loft and then wonder where up there I will put the full boxes. 
Going to a niece's wedding at the end of the month, up in Inverness. Not sure I will enjoy it, it's formal socialising which I don't do well, and I don't know her other half or her family, so that won't help.

Gondor

[NARSES2]

Going to a niece's wedding at the end of the month, up in Inverness. Not sure I will enjoy it, it's formal socialising which I don't do well, and I don't know her other half or her family, so that won't help.

Gondor

My advice, for what it's worth ? Just go, try and relax and at minimus, show your face and then make an excuse for an early night. Us oldies can get away with that    Helps maintain contact, which is a good thing in my opinion.

As for the BP. I've been on meds for over 30 years, and luckily I've had no side effects (touch wood), no increase in prescription and they do their job   

[scooter]

Going to a niece's wedding at the end of the month, up in Inverness. Not sure I will enjoy it, it's formal socialising which I don't do well, and I don't know her other half or her family, so that won't help.

Gondor

My advice, for what it's worth ? Just go, try and relax and at minimus, show your face and then make an excuse for an early night. Us oldies can get away with that    Helps maintain contact, which is a good thing in my opinion.

I've got the second wedding of one of SWMBO's first cousins in a few hours.  We're already planning on an Irish goodbye sometime during the reception when we're done with the socializing.

[Gondor]

I don't know what's been going on in Scotland recently, but each day this week, there has been a road accident that has caused some fairly big headaches for some people, including myself.
Late on Monday night, 11:50 pm, there was an accident on the Boghead roundabout near Bathgate, involving a VW Polo and an HGV. The police closed off a lot of roads until six or seven in the evening of Tuesday. This was a problem as that roundabout is a major intersection of several roads. On my way to work on Tuesday, Google Maps informed me, I use it for traffic updates rather than which road to take; that the road I usually take was closed, so it was working out an alternative route. It was exactly the alternative I was thinking about until I got to Bathgate. Unfortunately, on my way home, my phone and car were not talking to each other, so I had no traffic updates, or music  I do like a nice tune.
Today, I found out that there had been an accident near to my work on an alternative route. Four vehicles which blocked the road. No problem to me as I was going in the opposite direction at that point and ended up having to go completely around a roundabout because of the road closure I mentioned earlier. No navigation information, have to drive extra distances 
Today, other haveing an articulated lorry on a small road at the front of several cars, there was an accident on the M786 southbound. Now I don't actually go onto the M876; however, it does run next to the M9, which I do use, so that traffic can change from one to the other by changing lanes. Two lanes of M876 into one as it abuts the M9, which keeps two lanes, with the inner lane getting lots of traffic. I stick to the outer lane and let everyone else to it. At one point, my navigation was telling me an increase in travel time of twelve minutes, not good when I had a doctor's appointment to make.
I now have a second blood pressure tablet to take each day, and in three weeks' time, take blood pressure readings in the morning and at night. Once I hand in the results, I have to book an appointment to see the same doctor. That should all be after my trip to Inverness for the wedding, which is not too bad.
Modelling-wise, I was going to do some painting tonight, but I have been running around as if I were a headless chicken. I forgot initially to hand in the prescription when I was in my local supermarket, I also forgot to fill up the car with petrol, and then I got a notification to pick up a parcel. So I combined all three, drop off the prescription, fill up the car, then pick up the carcel. Still ages to go before the prescription was to be ready, so back home and unwrap the parcel before going to pick up the prescription.
Oh yeah, the oil change light came on in the car on the way home on Tuesday, so that was a divert to the garage to book it in for a service. That will be done the week before I travel to Inverness, which is useful.

Gondor

[kerick]

A day like that would make me want to go to my imaginary cabin so far back in the woods the squirrels couldn't find me.

https://www.nps.gov/lacl/planyourvisit/visit-proenneke-cabin.htm

[PR19_Kit]

A day like that would make me want to go to my imaginary cabin so far back in the woods the squirrels couldn't find me.

https://www.nps.gov/lacl/planyourvisit/visit-proenneke-cabin.htm

But it'd be the HELL of a long way to the LHS. 

[kerick]

I bet Amazon would still deliver!

[PR19_Kit]

        

[NARSES2]

A day like that would make me want to go to my imaginary cabin so far back in the woods the squirrels couldn't find me.

https://www.nps.gov/lacl/planyourvisit/visit-proenneke-cabin.htm

But it'd be the HELL of a long way to the LHS. 

Probably no farther than my current one 

[NARSES2]

I now have a second blood pressure tablet to take each day, and in three weeks' time, take blood pressure readings in the morning and at night. Once I hand in the results, I have to book an appointment to see the same doctor.

I once had to wear a blood pressure monitor for 24 hours, and was told to have a "normal" day. Every hour on the hour the pressure cuff on my arm would inflate and my right arm would rise in a salute. Raised a few eyebrows on the train jouney ito and from work I can tell you.

As for the results, absolutely pointless, even the specialist said he thought it would be a waste of time, but it was something his boss was keen on