24 Dec 2022, 3:42 pm
After some nasty muscle spasms last night & their lingering effects is there any point in even trying to paint the tinted glass portion of these little astronauts’ visors today (or any day) so that it looks like a silver frame around the tinted glass?
(or any point in even attempting to do anything to any model?)
Building models, painting the figures, and painting miniatures game figures, have long been enjoyable in and of them selves & have also been emotional and psychological coping mechanisms.
But now, that is interfered with by incurable disease and a declining body.
For anyone who doesn’t have an incurable disease, don’t get one, they suck. Massively suck.
(and absolutely don't get THREE! 
)
24 Dec 2022, 11:12 pm
24 Dec 2022, 11:19 pm
25 Dec 2022, 12:25 am
25 Dec 2022, 12:34 am
25 Dec 2022, 12:40 am
There is an uplifting success to report -- Did give it a go and get one guy's visor painted. 
But man that was a stressful 2 minutes! 
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25 Dec 2022, 5:58 am
25 Dec 2022, 6:35 am
25 Dec 2022, 6:59 am
25 Dec 2022, 7:03 am
Thanks.
I see it as a case of, I would not be me if I did not do this.
And it really bugs me when messy health gets in the way of creating.
If I do not create then who am I?
25 Dec 2022, 10:42 am
25 Dec 2022, 11:55 am
Your miniatures are awesome, so much more detailed than my old D&D figurines.
Aww, thanks!
Way back in 1990s I sold enough D&D minis, including a dozen dragons, the color dragon series by Grenadier, to 1/2 pay for a set of wedding rings.
Should have kept the minis and avoided the rings.
Yeah, the spasms are seriously Un-Fun.
The spasms are the kind which can sometimes start small, go whole body, send you to the ER,
and the ER doctor lifts your shirt, there's a moment of silence, then, "Oh My!" because
they can SEE the spasms.
Friday night was the kind where ALL the leg and foot muscles were trying to contract at the same time and working against each other to the point where they all stang and burned like a mofo.
And then after that there was a string of fist-sized 'spasm lumps', all up the inside of each leg.
And then my body was trying to do situps against my will.
Managed to not have to go to ER - after local rural hospital closure January 2019, all ERs are in the city over 30 miles away.
Have been having PT, again, directed at chronic spasms in spine and legs since October.
It is helping.
Several times through the couple decades this has been going on, the Doctors have said they only way they can be sure of the cause is to have me hooked up to sensors while the spasm are happening.
And unless the spasm submit an advance schedule, that's not likely to happen.
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25 Dec 2022, 12:19 pm
25 Dec 2022, 1:22 pm
Aww, thanks!
These guys are going to be the cargo bay crew in a freelance, scratcubuilt & kitbashed, model inspired by an illustration in a 1970s sci-fi art book with its setting called the Terran Trade Authority, TTA, plus real-life 1940s, 1950s, lifting body designs by a guy from New Jersey named Vincent Burnelli,
I'm blending:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vinc ... _circa.jpg
and
https://www.burnelliaircraft.com/wp/wp- ... 88_chr.jpg
and
http://www.bisbos.com/sf_tta_cutlass.html
Model was begun several years ago by sticking some model airplane parts together donated by assorted kits which had been bought over the years as kitbash fodder.
Then a few sketches were made.
Then it was all put in a box for a few years.
Wings are from a Lindberg 1/48 scale F7U Cutlass
Fuselage sides are pod tops from 2 of Lindberg's 1/64 B-58 Hustler
Landing gear from same.
Canards are 1/200 scale Minicraft B-52 vertical stabilizers
Cockpit and center fuselage ridge as in that first pic are from, http://www.roden.eu/HTML/336.html
Which was bought on-sale, 1/3 off, from Squadron specifically for this project.
Not even 20 minutes after it being delivered and opened I was slicing the fuselage side parts apart along a horizontal line fore to aft so as to make top and bottom halves instead of side to side halves.
And ... I have an idea for something based on its wings ...
C-133 cockpit is colorful, https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/06/2 ... 08-018.JPG
And yes, model kit has cockpit & it is done & populated with 4 Space Shuttle astronauts from another 3D printer.
Model is now further along, but only a little bit further, than these 2 photos from last month.
It is being designed as I go.
It is pretty fair sized, with a 14 inch, 37 cm, wingspan.
Model will have an underslung cargo pod inspired by,
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freig ... f-its-time
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25 Dec 2022, 1:29 pm
^^^wow 
that would be some kinda aircraft 
25 Dec 2022, 1:35 pm
that would be some kinda aircraft There won't be either a full size mockup or a functional test prototype!
But ...
It will make a couple appearances in text in a sci-fi story I play at writing.
Dad and his dad, Grandad W, were each pilots for a season of their lives way back in the previous century. And even Mom took flying lessons.
So, there is at least a little bit of aviation in my blood.
And I've also been interested in spaceflight as far back as can be remembered.
I'd like if my home looked a bit museum and a bit library.
But it looks mostly like a disabled poor person's clutter.
Oh well, I do what I can when I can.
