atcttge wrote:NICE!!!!!!! I wanna see mine painted but... well.... I'M LAZY! bwuhahahahahahahahahaha!
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Thanks ATC
ALPHA
PS. Camo got outvoted ....so it's Saunders Green overall
Too bad you weren't closer in location...I don't really mind painting...think it's the easiest part of a build lol...except for the bogies that is ...not sure if it would be up to snuff...but hey ...if that close...you grumble ..I change it ....OH...THE TRAD OPTION IS ALWAYS THERE LOL...I SEND YOU MY TANK AFTER PAINT...AND YOU SEND ME YOURS
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greengiant wrote:The on and off humidity is the real bugger here. I have a huge tree in my backyard that keeps everything shaded so it can be 90 out and it only feels like a warm damp basement. Go to the front of the house and in full sunlight you soak though standing still. Good thing rain has been sparse so the lawn is not growing very much in the rear and has almost gone dormant in the front.
Have a good time doing the lower hull. I'm still waiting to see what you used as grills.
Humidity is killer here now...like a monsoon is coming...we never had it this bad before...tree shade is no protection from the reflected UV rays...I was working on one of my bikes in the afternoon when that half of my house is in the shade...I still got a mild burn....I wondered how...figured out it was the reflected rays from the neighbors house
The grills will go in almost last....plan to paint the baffles when I do the hull...then pre paint the grills before I install them...then do a final coat to blend everything in...hope it goes as easy as it sounds....you know that Murphy and his Law
Luckily I'm right by Lake Michigan where even on a hot week we usually get at lest 3 days with humidity lower. The sun and I don't go well together, My eyes start to feel like I looked into an arc weld without eye protection, kind of like they are full of grit. Even bought one of those tinted clip on visor thingies to use when driving long distances in full sunlight. they work quite well.
I have had plenty of experience with Mr. Murphy and the fact that he usually bares his head after you think you've avoided him.
greengiant wrote:Luckily I'm right by Lake Michigan where even on a hot week we usually get at lest 3 days with humidity lower. The sun and I don't go well together, My eyes start to feel like I looked into an arc weld without eye protection, kind of like they are full of grit. Even bought one of those tinted clip on visor thingies to use when driving long distances in full sunlight. they work quite well.
I have had plenty of experience with Mr. Murphy and the fact that he usually bares his head after you think you've avoided him.
I'm surrounded by ocean ...damn global warming...when I first heard the term el nino thought it was a one time deal...now it's a normal happening..almost like a season....it sucks all the tradewinds away from the islands....and just changes the weather as whole...think no matter where you are ...it's just hot
Murphy...if I croak anytime soon..I'm gonna hunt him down
greengiant wrote:Sounds like the way Okinawa was for a large part of every year when I was stationed there.
Oh yeah...thing is ..that area has been like that for centuries...the weather change here less than about ten years....Okinawa must be more unstable now...didn't they just get hit by a tornado or something
It was pretty normal to have one typhoon a year get close enough to effect the weather (made really weird looking circular cloud banks). My second year there one actually passed over more to the lightly inhabited north end of the island doing some destruction (an armed forces R+R center got ripped up pretty good). We had to sting ropes between building to hold onto to get between buildings on the south end of the Island the winds were so strong for about 2 days as it approached and pasted over and then departed back into the sea rather quickly.
greengiant wrote:It was pretty normal to have one typhoon a year get close enough to effect the weather (made really weird looking circular cloud banks). My second year there one actually passed over more to the lightly inhabited north end of the island doing some destruction (an armed forces R+R center got ripped up pretty good). We had to sting ropes between building to hold onto to get between buildings on the south end of the Island the winds were so strong for about 2 days as it approached and pasted over and then departed back into the sea rather quickly.
Again...I am charmed in comparison...never really got mixed up in any major storms like you just described...Luck of the draw maybe...what I didn't like were spiders and snakes lol....glad Hawaii is free of at least one of those
You sure are. Although I live in a part of my state that has no natural poisonous snake population( still to cool for most of the year for the rattle snake to move here although they are along the Mississippi side) We do have small spiders. all of which are poisonous to some extent. Don't like them at all. Got bit by one on the job one day when I was kneeling on some metal fire escapes while installing storm doors on some apartments. Didn't even know it until a little red welt in the skin of my left knee that turned to dead gooey mush and I had to take a daily trip to a hospital for a week to get a liter of antibiotics pumped in before it would heal.
On Okinawa we had the Habu, kind of like the 2 step snake you hear about. We were warned that they were in the jungles and not to get bit. Also the sea snake, which I guess is a relative of cobra lives in the sea bit has no fangs, its teeth must puncture the skin to deliver venom. Also never swam in the ocean myself after looking down from the Marines pier at their Buckner bay base and seeing sharks, barracuda and sea sakes in the water were big crowds of people were fishing.
greengiant wrote:You sure are. Although I live in a part of my state that has no natural poisonous snake population( still to cool for most of the year for the rattle snake to move here although they are along the Mississippi side) We do have small spiders. all of which are poisonous to some extent. Don't like them at all. Got bit by one on the job one day when I was kneeling on some metal fire escapes while installing storm doors on some apartments. Didn't even know it until a little red welt in the skin of my left knee that turned to dead gooey mush and I had to take a daily trip to a hospital for a week to get a liter of antibiotics pumped in before it would heal.
On Okinawa we had the Habu, kind of like the 2 step snake you hear about. We were warned that they were in the jungles and not to get bit. Also the sea snake, which I guess is a relative of cobra lives in the sea bit has no fangs, its teeth must puncture the skin to deliver venom. Also never swam in the ocean myself after looking down from the Marines pier at their Buckner bay base and seeing sharks, barracuda and sea sakes in the water were big crowds of people were fishing.
OH yeah that black Habu is nasty....few seconds and you're finished....no anti venom either...What I didn't like about the beaches there was the sand...dang...those things look like sea urchins ...I remember sitting down on the sand...didn't know anything about the grain on them...to say the least ...I stood right up...grabbed a handful...long story short...if I sat on any beach...I would look for a solid rock or bring something thick to sit on
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...not sure if it would be up to snuff...but hey ...if that close...you grumble ..I change it 
