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MODELER'S ALLIANCE Round Table

Modelers Alliance Monthly Meeting
Saturday, April 4 · 9:00am – 12:00pm
Time zone: America/New_York
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/wed-dfgf-fyz

Calendar invite

Modelers Alliance Monthly Meeting — Invitation via Google Calendar

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[Duke Maddog]

Fantastic meet! It's great putting faces to names and I thoroughly enjoyed the stories!

 

[Steve Ski]

@Steve Ski please post that link to the figure you shared. I only got a glimpse on my phone.

Here ya go, Bob. https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/mikes-28th-maori-bn-sgt-finished.55883/
After you take a serious look at Mike's work and you pull your jaw off the floor you realize this guy's got talent. Now, would I ever expect to reach that level? Only God knows, but I ain't gonna give up trying! I really don't care whether that happens, the journey is the fun part for me. If you ever think you've arrived, that's when you fall short, IMHO.

@Steve Ski
Posted a couple of the figures I've dabbled in below. It is an area I've wanted to play around in a bit more, but haven't found the time. The gal on the right is eventually going to be set on a base with the RX-7 I did a while back. Still needs to be finished (handbag & shading).

Excellent work, Chris, she's looking good and so is the lil feller. I've always said, it's just a matter of time and effort, crash and burn, start over, Ruck On!

Was a fun meet this morning .Enjoyed it.
James

I second, third, fourth, it,....... Great to meet the mob, good times!

What fun that was! James and Rich are treasure troves of RCAF anecdotes! I hope Ski wasn't too shocked by the faces of his M/A mates. Thanks guys for taking the time to connect.

No shock, yall are just as ugly as me, so I'm in good company, HA! Funny, my wife and I not long ago were looking over 40yr class reunion pics and wondering, "Dang, do we really look that old?" YUP!

 

[jknaus]

I'm bad at names , so apologies. Yes we could carry napalm, BLU-1, BLU-27. My bad, I just dont remember ever seeing it. Then again I dont remember a lot of things now adays.
James

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Sorry you all had to see my usual grungy Saturday morning look! While there is a local club here in Memphis, MA is the group I have always enjoyed being around. I especially enjoy working on a model while visiting. Saúl was a little on the quiet side this morning compared to last month, but it is good to have everyone show up.

Bob I went and bought a decent Logitec camera for doing these video calls a couple of years ago and it was well worth it. My notebook has a camera in it, but it is fixed and a lot less flexible for doing these meets than the Logitec cam I have. That can was nothing to install and set up.
Plug in the USB, select the hardware and BINGO, it works just fine.

 

[moon puppy]

I'm bad at names , so apologies. Yes we could carry napalm, BLU-1, BLU-27. My bad, I just dont remember ever seeing it. Then again I dont remember a lot of things now adays.
James

@helios That would have been Chris building the CF-104 in a CAS role (which boggles my mind to think of it).

 

[moon puppy]

Sorry you all had to see my usual grungy Saturday morning look! While there is a local club here in Memphis, MA is the group I have always enjoyed being around. I especially enjoy working on a model while visiting. Saúl was a little on the quiet side this morning compared to last month, but it is good to have everyone show up.

Bob I went and bought a decent Logitec camera for doing these video calls a couple of years ago and it was well worth it. My notebook has a camera in it, but it is fixed and a lot less flexible for doing these meets than the Logitec cam I have. That can was nothing to install and set up.
Plug in the USB, select the hardware and BINGO, it works just fine.

Thanks Paul, yeah I got several camera options. This seems to be more Win11 vers permissions and Chrome issue. I suspect it's Win11 being the little bitch that it is.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Thanks Paul, yeah I got several camera options. This seems to be more Win11 vers permissions and Chrome issue. I suspect it's Win11 being the little bitch that it is.

Yeah, I have kind of read some things that really made me hold off on Win11. I turned off the hardware on my desk machine that Win11 needed on the motherboard to be able to load so that issue isn't coming up until I let it happen. Had to do other things to my notebook to prevent Win11 loading and it is solid and stable with Win10.

 

[Brokeneagle]

Hey everyone, great to catch-up again even though I was an hour late. I really enjoy these meetings and hope they continue.

 

[Rhino]

In the interest of our devoted Australian brother, I'm considering scheduling the next meeting later in the day. 7:00-10:00 PM CST maybe.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

 

[Sharkmouth]

In the interest of our devoted Australian brother, I'm considering scheduling the next meeting later in the day. 7:00-10:00 PM CST maybe.

Nice! What time would that be for @Duke Maddog?

Paul a coffee that day won't kill you!

I will try to find an ancient webcam at the hospital or, simply buy one at a thrift shop with the last resort being Amazon. No more nude modelling I guess!

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Tim A and I had a long phone visit this morning about his Panzer III and a bunch of other things. Enjoyed that greatly. Enjoy visiting while building and end up sharing all kinds of tid bit build stuff in the process.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Nice! What time would that be for @Duke Maddog?

Paul a coffee that day won't kill you!

I will try to find an ancient webcam at the hospital or, simply buy one at a thrift shop with the last resort being Amazon. No more nude modelling I guess!

I do tea and just realized Chris said PM not AM. I get that he has been trying to make it feasible for the Euro guys, but they are not participating so ....

 

[Brokeneagle]

In the interest of our devoted Australian brother, I'm considering scheduling the next meeting later in the day. 7:00-10:00 PM CST maybe.

Hey Chris, the start time has been 11.00pm for me, which is fine. Currently, with daylight savings started here it will change to 12.00am - I can live with that-the majority are North American time, so I should fit with you guys. 1am is starting to push it but I can cope with 12am start.

 

[Rhino]

Hey Chris, the start time has been 11.00pm for me, which is fine. Currently, with daylight savings started here it will change to 12.00am - I can live with that-the majority are North American time, so I should fit with you guys. 1am is starting to push it but I can cope with 12am start.

I bumped the time forward 11 hours. Are you quite sure?

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Which means that for now it would be 8am central time and 12 midnight for Ian with him on DST. When we go off DST here in the US, our time would go from 8 to 7 am and Ian would be at 12 midnight. I can live with that though West coast folks would be 5am and east coast folks would be 8am. Europe (I think) would be 1pm in the afternoon. The UK would be 12 noon.
Daylight savings time turning on and off changes stuff and as I have no idea when that happens in Europe or other places it is a guess at this point. I think changing it to evening or a completely different time or day will be less optimal. Remember, Ian is a day ahead, so he is 12 midnight of Sunday morning while Europe is Saturday afternoon and we would be Saturday morning.

 

[moon puppy]

Y'all figure it out. Let us know.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

I found a couple of sites that give all the answers and have them bookmarked. Europe goes off DST on Oct 26th. We go off DST on Nov 2nd.

 

[Steve Ski]

I'm ok with 5am, no biggy for me. If it makes it better for Ian, we can hang.

 

[moon puppy]

@Rhino
do we need to refresh the meeting invite?
Next Sat is the 1st. What time did we figure?