today's work

[rwtdiver]

Thank you very much David! Your advice is always the final word, and it is most appreciated!!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat."

[redboat219]

What purpose does the brass tube serve anyway?

"Firemen can stand the heat."

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[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

David,

I am sorry for jumping your build blog! But I do need your advice on my 2.4 MHZ receiver.



Do I need to install a 3/16"X 1" brass tube on coaxial cable install? Or can I eliminate it and just follow your photo that is listed below. None of my receivers have the button clip, so I need to solder my coaxial cable to the receiver as the photo above shows. Curiosity! What purpose does the brass tube serve anyway?



Thanks for your help and advice on this David.

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat."

I know not the function of the brass tube. I've operated systems without it, and the radio link works.

Proceed as I've instructed.

David

[rwtdiver]

David,

I am sorry for jumping your build blog! But I do need your advice on my 2.4 MHZ receiver.



Do I need to install a 3/16"X 1" brass tube on coaxial cable install? Or can I eliminate it and just follow your photo that is listed below. None of my receivers have the button clip, so I need to solder my coaxial cable to the receiver as the photo above shows. Curiosity! What purpose does the brass tube serve anyway?



Thanks for your help and advice on this David.

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat."

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

LOL. FINALLY!... I beat you into submission, Steve. Took long enough.

(For everyone looking over our shoulders: Steve Neill is very much an 'artist', in every complementary meaning of the word. Look up his **** -- decades of amazing stuff. R/c aircraft, submarines; flying rockets; public domain; commercial; and motion picture-TV work).

OK, Steve, I'll relate the entire, lurid story tonight. Should be good for a few LOL's.

David
Illustrator Wanna-Be

OK, Steve. Sorry for the delay. Here's the story:

From age ten I knew I was going to build models professionally for the movies; just about every free moment of my life -- through school and a career in the Navy -- was spent studying and practicing the Craft.

One vital aspect of the discipline is learning how to draw, both technical and sketch type work; stuff you can work from and stuff to tickle the creative juices of you and the client alike.

One such exercise was to draft a very famous SF movie spacecraft, 'The Ark of Space', and make the presentation in an ersatz 'general arrangement', three-view, orthographic format. Complete title-block, technical authentication blocks and listing of associated drawing numbers. Very official looking. That project done during off-hours aboard the USS YOSEMITE on a Mediterranean half-year deployment -- something to add to my ever-expanding resume; my door-opener for the day Ellie and I would march into Burbank and demand a high-paying model-builder's job.

Later, I added axillary views to illustrate suggested model building techniques -- all that condensed into an article for one of the many model magazines I was contributing to at the time.

Professionals either publish, or they perish! Mom taught me that. And she was right.



Much to my surprise, that drawing recently found its way into the pages of Bill Warren's magnum opus of SF movies, KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES. I don't know if he's aware that the drawing is merely a work of fan-art and not from the Parmount files. Well... cat's out of the bag now!



And in time we did get some movie and TV work -- and that portfolio, featuring sketch, conceptual, orthographic, and story-board work got us the jobs. A life well planned.

[redboat219]

Airbrush Speckle Technique

[redboat219]

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A much better way than flicking the spatter via toothbrush!

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[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

So today in Merriman's shop while looking for that one and only screwdriver that fits a 6-32 phillips head screw...okay, I didn't find it because somebody reorganized...but, I found THIS behind his crayon/ toothpaste/ paint collection. Had a note on it, 'Install in Moebius Seaview'...? Wonder how it's going to go 88mph and juice up 1.21 gigawatts?

**** you, Jake! And stop snooping around my shop when I'm napping!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

O.K., so a slightly different way you taught me with toothpaste which was just dab it on directly with a course brush.......Are you just trying to be fancy and spray it on? I'll be your pain in the a$$ anytime wink wink LOL

That's right, Tom. Just a different application means of toothpaste masking. That and the fact that instead of sloppy brush strokes, the masking goes down as randomly sized small dots of chaotic pattern -- which was the ideal objective. The speed and ease of application is significantly better than hand-dabbing an application tool.

Now that I'm finished with this tool and have successfully practiced on the test-article, I'll start below waterline weathering on my long suffering 1/96 SKIPJACK (must be at least the 50'th I've put together over the decades)









David

[Davjacva]

So today in Merriman's shop while looking for that one and only screwdriver that fits a 6-32 phillips head screw...okay, I didn't find it because somebody reorganized...but, I found THIS behind his crayon/ toothpaste/ paint collection. Had a note on it, 'Install in Moebius Seaview'...? Wonder how it's going to go 88mph and juice up 1.21 gigawatts?

[trout]

O.K., so a slightly different way you taught me with toothpaste which was just dab it on directly with a course brush.......Are you just trying to be fancy and spray it on? I'll be your pain in the a$$ anytime wink wink LOL

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

So, the toothpaste gets washed away? or is it just a thickener? More words, I need more words to understand your greatness and to interpret the meaning of these revelations.

Tom! You intolerable pain in the ass!

I needed a method of spraying a random spackling of a water-soluble masking agent against a surface to be spray painted. Once the spackling was laid down and dry, a mist coat of 'weathering' paint was sprayed on and dried (only seconds with a heat-gun). A wet sponge or cloth is used to scrub away the water-soluble toothpaste mask spots under the 'weathering' paint. Thus, revealing the undercoat color as small splotches disturbing the uniformly of the just applied overcoat.

A much better way than flicking the spatter via toothbrush!



I'll also use this gun to apply un-cut gelcoat to the LOTUS tools when the time comes to lay up GRP hull parts for Darrin, Bob, and myself.

Something a bit like this, but with ... ah... a bit more fines!



Film at Eleven!

David

[trout]

So, the toothpaste gets washed away? or is it just a thickener? More words, I need more words to understand your greatness and to interpret the meaning of these revelations.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[wlambing]

you're safe, David! Those were the one's we gave back to the IC men and QMs! ;)