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[paddy]

I have the Revell 1/32 FW-190 A8 but i have been holding back on it because i have got into a state of mind where i bang these models out at about 50% of the effort i should put in and at about 200% of the speed. I need to get back to grass roots and do them properly. 3 good reasons
They are not cheap anymore....
I am never happy with what i have done...
And if a jobs worth doing

 

[moon puppy]

I have the Revell 1/32 FW-190 A8 but i have been holding back on it because i have got into a state of mind where i bang these models out at about 50% of the effort i should put in and at about 200% of the speed. I need to get back to grass roots and do them properly. 3 good reasons
They are not cheap anymore....
I am never happy with what i have done...
And if a jobs worth doing

I'm in the same boat Paddy, This is one reason I keep going back and working on the DH88s. I've built the new props for the red one but realized today that they are big glue blobs and I didn't notice till I put alclad on them. Stripping them down, sanding them up and trying again.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

@paddy I also have the Fw-190 A8 kit with ALL the Eduard bells and whistles as well as the newer Quinta stuff. I have so many irons in the fire that build time is slow at the moment. The other night I went in and routed the wires on the front of the Ju88 instrument panel and have realized that I need to scratch build a frame that goes there as well. I am super pleased with how the Quinta stuff turned out and there is a fair bit more that goes up there too.
Been doing an upgrade on my desktop this week. Migrated the Raid 0 two drive OS to a single drive (I know Bob will know what that is) In the process the "new drive" was converted to a dynamic drive. (found out this is a FUBAR waiting to happen and shouldn't have done it) Oh well learned that and in the process of trying to undo the dynamic drive I did FUBAR Windows 8.
Ended up buying Windows 10 and installed it on another drive (this Win 10 upgrade was the whole point of the exercise). The old "new" drive was then accessible and all my stuff was there just had to manually migrate files after fresh installs so have not lost anything important except time.
Now while it is a bit cooler out (1:30AM) I am going to go out and start removing and installing motor mounts on my Corolla. That's going to be a chore, but has to be done. Wish me an easy task of it.
As this is a vacation week "maybe" I will get to do some constructive work on the Ju88.

 

[moon puppy]

So you upgraded from an obsolete OS to another OS that's teetering on obsolete. Kudos to you Paul for having win8 to start with and keeping it running all this time!

 

[Heavens Eagle]

@moon puppy Yeah the desktop won't do 11 due to their special hardware chip requirement. It is running 10 just fine. Not bothered with it as I learned about 10 in 22 when I got my notebook and had to deal with a software fubar there. Hard to believe I have had that notebook for 2 years. Seems like only a year.

 

[Sharkmouth]

Click cover to see inside:

 

[moon puppy]

Wonder when the books are going to start offering cad files.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

That is what scanners are for Bob.

 

[Duke Maddog]

Excellent scores guys! I only have two to show. One is from the Distressed Kit Auction my club does every June and December. It's a 1/25 scale Lindbergh Lincoln Continental:

The other was gifted to me by a friend in my St. Crispin's Irregulars group. It's a Zvezda 1/350 scale HMS Revenge snap kit:

I also recently got a lot of glue, Tamiya tape and some lacquer thinner to replenish my supplies., but didn't shoot pics of any of it.

That's all for now.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Well, last night I was playing a computer game when suddenly there was a loud snap, the monitor flashed blue for part of a second and went completely black. I looked over at the case and the "Reset" "Power" buttons were flickering weird. Yeah! Something really BAD happened.

I shut the power supply switch on the back off and was met with that wonderful smell you get when electronics die. So tear down time.

As I didn't "see" where the odor was coming from, I had to do it by sniff test. At this point it is faint, but should still be strongest where the fault happened. The odor seemed strongest on the video card so I started looking in around the edges and this is what I found.

After reading online about popped video cards and how they crapped out the mother boards, I am just going to salvage what I can. Usually it pops something in the northbridge controller and stops there. I believe the memory, CPU, and hard drives are probably OK, but with some things I briefly noticed before shutting the power off the motherboard is toast as well.

While my notebook is a decent one it is a pain in the can to work on. Too tiny a screen and the keyboard is uncomfortable. Oh well at least I am not completely dead in the water. Also could be a LOT worse as just a couple of weeks ago my system was a Raid 0 setup and if that had still been the case all my data would have been GONE. I did away with that just because this sort of crap can happen and so glad I did now.

So you now know what I will be getting real soon. Damn!

 

[moon puppy]

I've read that it's the RoHS standards that everyone has to abide by. Low heat solder and what not.
I had a customer once who ran his cat5 cable out his window on the ground floor up to the second floor. I warned him...he was a college professor so what could I tell him right? Sure nuff, lightning strike took out both his computers, I could even see the scorch mark running across one of the nic cards into the system board.

 

[paddy]

All video cards are full of smoke which is fine but if it escapes thats them done.

The old ones are the best .

I bought one of those all singing and dancing screens with everything built in, so far its been ok but i wouldn't buy another unless they sort out the scaling. The screen is 4k and its basic resolution renders some programs like Google earth almost unusable because even with retro scaling on and things like icons and text are too small to see. The std windows 11 adjustments for text size mean windows is fine and some programs auto adjust but google earth is hopeless. This is going to be a problem as screen resolutions rise and and become the norm.

 

[jeaton01]

Paddy, my screens are both 3840 X 2160 and Google Earth Pro works fine. The only program I have small icons on is a older version of Corel, X6.

 

[moon puppy]

This is going to be a problem as screen resolutions rise and

AND our eyes get older.

 

[Rhino]

An old engineer told me once, that it is called "Magic Smoke". Nothing electrical/electronic works anymore if you let the magic smoke out.

 

[Jeeves]

Been working on the Rye Field Models Sherman interior kit which has me hooked on them again so I picked this up...

And I saw Andy's video on this Spit kit and thought I'd try building a plane again. It has inaccuracies but I'm just looking to try something non-armor for once...

 

[Heavens Eagle]

All video cards are full of smoke which is fine but if it escapes thats them done.

The old ones are the best .

I bought one of those all singing and dancing screens with everything built in, so far its been ok but i wouldn't buy another unless they sort out the scaling. The screen is 4k and its basic resolution renders some programs like Google earth almost unusable because even with retro scaling on and things like icons and text are too small to see. The std windows 11 adjustments for text size mean windows is fine and some programs auto adjust but google earth is hopeless. This is going to be a problem as screen resolutions rise and and become the norm.

As I read some horror stories about the card also damaging the motherboard which then damaged the new video card, I opted to replace the motherboard, processor, and video card. I am 99.9% sure the memory is ok and so bought a motherboard that could still use my 32 gigs of memory. Processor was probably still ok , but is old enough that motherboards are no longer made to work with it. The memory took me back a couple generations from the current top stuff, but it is still double or triple the specs of what is being replaced. What I had was running to the walls and was working wonderfully so a 2x or 3x improvement probably won't be noticeable, same with the video card. The new card is double the memory, and much faster yet isn't even close to top end. Should be all fine by me. Still was pricy, but won't be replacing anything but the 3 items.

 

[paddy]

Fabric detail for ailerons and rudder etc for Revell 190. 1/32 just arrived

 

[paddy]

Paul steer clear of Windows 11 for as long as you can, it needs a ton of memory and power. You need a top model to run it. i have 32g memory, 13 gen i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 and its just about ok

 

[Barney]

Computers? Ugh... Can't live with'em and can't live without'em.

When I worked for the Navy they upgraded the OS and we almost lost everything. No one bothered to see if the new system was cross compatible with the programs we were using (our office of 20 people were th only ones to use these particular programs) and they shut us down for two weeks while the figured out that we had to go back to the old system.