Well guys I have my hands full! I am working on another HMS Indefatigable for Joe Maxwell who has a newbie up in Erie Pa. and then I am also working on a USS Rochester for another gentleman in big gun and then I am working on a set off ribs for USS Alaska ! This one is going for another gentleman who is going treaty! I could almost use some help! And thank god we have slowed down some at work to give me some time to do this. I have also been working with local members to get useage of a 2 acre pond from the local Coon Hunters club for year around use!
i've been patiently waiting for articles for the newsletter, researching internships for this summer, and constantly hitting the refresh button in my email in hopes of procrastinating on my essays due the next morning.
unsteady non linear shock physics linear transforms eigenvalue/vector problems watching the daily show/colbert report getting ready to do it all again tomorrow staring longingly at the set of VDT plans I have and will be building a new hull from over the winter. to many fun things to do, to little time, same old same old
Working on buying a house working on packing up molds to ship to tugboat dreaming about how to do a sub (and what to do to my tirpitz this winter) trying to figure out how to make a canister cannon like the ones in my tirpitz affordable Teaching Heat Transfer to Sr. ME students Trying to figure out what else to make for folks to help the hobby along (once I get into a house)
Touring some millionaire's gigantic (full size, really working) tank collection, starting classes, lots and lots of club politicking (rules changes and new officers, gotta make sure the ignorants don't elect the monsters and break the rulebook even more), waiting for the shopmaster to finish his bathroom remodel so I can resume work on the transports, planning an advanced computer fire-control system for the upcoming Viribus Unitis, and I think that's about it.
Starting a new life --------- Got my stuff yesterday, I finally have a bed!! AND an alarm clock!!!! YEAH!!!! Getting to work on time... Getting to work on time... YEEEEHAAAA!
Just looked up that jacques collection! OMG, he has a G-D SCUD missile launcher. Robbers beware! You will be blown up. ---> This is the kind of guy you only see in movies. The kind that says, "You need a sherman tank? No problem". oi.
I learned of Jacques thru the Military Channel show "Tank Overhaul"... he bought a battle-damaged Panther that had been laying on the bottom of a Polish river since WW2. His 5-man fulltime tank restoration team spent loads of time and money to fully restore it. What's this rich guy with a french name (gotta admit, I was slightly biased for a bit) do with his priceless, one of 4 or 5 in the world fully restored Panther? He takes it mud-bogging! My faith in humanity was restored, and I have taken the lesson to heart not to judge a man by his name I wonder if we can convince him to buy the Graf Spee?
Forget the Spee...save the Cerberus. http://www.cerberus.com.au/ N.B. Still in a bit of a monitor rut.
Yes, Carl and I visited Jacques Littlefield's collection. We saw the Panther (its still in pieces) and a jumbo Sherman that are being worked on. I felt the zimmerit on the armor, examined the tracks, and looked down the barrel of the gun. I wrote up a bit about the event here (there was also a Tamiya tank battle that day): http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_6402672/tm.htm He also has a large scale train track around a small pond. A couple members of the WWCC have talked with him, and apparently he has offered to let us use his pond. I have not had a chance to check the depth or bottom conditions (10+ feet with rocks and tree roots would be very bad for ships and wreck divers), but otherwise it looks good. If the club ever loses our permit with the water company, we have a possible backup less than 20 minutes from my house.
