Conspicuous by Their Absence

[smilo]

don't know about the ar196
as a ad2k build demo.
there is a lot of pain at the moment.

i am on pin and needles!!!
for some reason, the program
likes to wipe out all my work,
including the backups i put in a separate folder.
now, how the hell does that work?
it's done it a couple, three times, already.

i have taken to making a backup,
then moving it to a separate computer.
what a pain the kiester!
the program hasn't crashed since
i've started this new method,
so i don't know if it will work.
we shall see.

just for grins, i'll start an ar196 thread.

[Ivan]

Hi Smilo,

I am hoping the Ar 196 Thread will be added incentive to complete the aeroplane. Y'know, I believe the National Air and Space Museum has an Arado 196 that was taken off the Prinz Eugen before it was sent to Bikini. What a sad end for a lovely ship.

BTW, For those who don't already know, Test Able was sposta put a nuke right over the Nagato which was the surviving flagship from the Pearl Harbor attack as a symbolic gesture. Problem was that it was a couple hundred yards off target and Nagato suffered only minimal damage.....

So much for symbolic gestures.

- Ivan.

[smilo]

as we are all to well aware,
just because a project is mentioned,
or even has it's own thread,
it does not,
by any stretch of the imagination,
mean it will be completed.
sad, but true.

i would go so far as to say,
...ah, heck, i don't even want to go there.
it's such a waste of time and energy.
let's just muddle along
and see what happens.
hopefully, the ar196 thread
will not be just another symbolic gesture.

[Ivan]

Hi Smilo,

I guess *I* would definitely have to agree with you. I start zillions of projects. I guess it is because 3D Design is fun and things like texturing, flight models and testing are just tedious.

- Ivan.

[No Dice]

Well aaahhhh, I don't mind texturing is anyone requires a sidekick.

Dave

[Ivan]

Hi No Dice,

Do you remember the Stuka AFX that you, Smilo and I were looking at a while back? The main fault of that AFX was that it was not textured. If you want, I can clean up that plane a bit and you test out what you can do with it. I can tell you that it is fairly labour intensive and probably not what you are thinking. My version of the Stuka is MUCH harder because it has a lot more pieces.

- Ivan.

[No Dice]

Quite Frankly,
I would rather do your 205! But right now I just finished Sicily, Malta and Pantelleria for Corsica and Italy 1941
release this weekend and I am working on a panel for Smilo's Ar196...so I need a few weeks to catch up.

Dave

[smilo]

no rush on that panel.
the 196 is a looong way out.

[Ivan]

Hi Smilo,

Perhaps this message should be a PM, but have you thought about translating FSDS projects to AD2000? The biggest issue with FSDS stuff besides resource count for AF99 is that they don't do Viewing Planes, but since you need to put those in anyway, it would not be a great loss to convert to AD2000.

BTW, do you need some reference dimensional drawings? I found a few, but the quality is really poor. Almost readable. I also found some fairly good images in a Russian book about the Arado 196.

- Ivan.

[Ivan]

http://www.freeflightdesign.org/military/sbdsrc.zip

The above is a good example of a plane that probably started off life as a FS98 plane. I bet it could be rebuilt into a AF99 or AD2000 project without a whole lot of effort. I may do that anyway as a test even though I built what I believe to be a much better SBD model a few years back.

- Ivan.

[No Dice]

Not a problem Smilo, I will wait forever to see this baby done the right way, It will be the only one for CFS1,
Afterall; we do get used to waiting ...don't we "Ivan". LOL

Luv you both

Dave,

P.S. where is Hubba ? He normally adds to our additions to the forum.


Dave

[Ivan]

I was gonna make an offer, but that would mess with Smilo's plan on using AD2000. Besides, I hardly need more on my plate right now.
The Stuka hit a pretty hard glitch. Those Dive Brakes are a real killer.

I am a bit curious though, why are our subjects of interest so different? I woulda thunk Japanese types that are so under represented would be of greater interest. The first plane I ever wanted to build (Kawanishi N1K2-J) still hasn't ever had good treatment and still has not had much attention from me.

Regarding waiting, I just had something similar with my 9 year old son. I want him to do stuff but can't make him execute. The only real difference is that the task MUST be done by him whereas here, there are any number of people who can build something. As for staying on task, I guess I do have attention deficit disorder as some people have suggested.

- Ivan.

[No Dice]

Ivan,
When your son turns 18 years old, the remaining of "us" will ask him to complete your work. LOL
We luv you dude. You are the best.

Dave

[Ivan]

My wonderful son does not have the inclination for this kind of work. Neither did I at age 18 though, but at least I had the interest in the subject. One of my goals is to at least teach him enough to be a good rifleman before he (hopefully) goes off to college. These days, I am still trying to just get him to do his school work and finish his meals. He gets distracted easily.... I wonder where he got THAT from???

Then again, he HAS asked me to repaint my FW 190A to be all gray like my Spitfire IX. I should do that sometime or at least teach him how to do it.

- Ivan.

[hubbabubba]

Just to ease No Dice anxiety; I'm OK.

Since my diabetes' clinic three weeks ago, I've been more preoccupied by trying to stabilize my blood sugar level than anything else. At least I'm still off insulin injections! I'm also running from one medical test to another. Last week, it was a MIBI-Persantine session, a nuclear injection of technicium followed by two series of pictures, one before and one after being injected with Persantine, a stuff that gets your hearth pumping as if you had run 10 miles. Tomorrow, it's the usual blood and urine tests. What a lovely life!

Apart from playing yo-yo with my blood sugar (each test is preceded by a fast), it does nothing to my creative juices! So I keep quiet. Between my hyper (which get me drowsy) and my hypo episodes (which let me near-comatose), I read, watch a movie, and write some post like this one.