Aye Aye all,
Whisky your the divil, story time............
....... the story goes one night not so long ago one had a FEW drams of what I now call the 'truth whisky' BUNNAHABHAIN is its name - 12 year old single malt whisky - very nice...... Truth whisky because I was sitting glass in one hand, and a photograph of a certain Fairmile B which had been captured by the Gerries during the raid of St Nazaire and me thinks - by these Germans were awfully tall gents during the 2nd world war - about 7 foot tall.....judging by two of them standing by the funnel - because they were the same height as the funnel. Ah, says me, its the whisky and the angle the photograph has been taken
. So, gets the magnifying glass out and goes over the photograph compairing various heights of the crew against various objects on the boat. Ah, they are the right height for the guns, they look about average height round about 5'6". So, I get a 1/24 figure from another model, measured it 2 3/4" - about 5'6" stands it by the funnel on a certain Fairmile....blinking heck the funnel is about an inch bigger.....a few words that are not allowed
(put that in for Martin) out with all the drawings, realised I had built the funnel from the wrong scale drawing. Another drink of whisky, maybe it will look right....nothing for it 1.30 in the morning...out with the deadly craft knife, screwdriver, well I had to prise the funnel off, thought I would have to make a new superstructure (as luck had it - the funnel came off). Out with the junior hacksaw - drew a line, dont know what state it was in and attacked it with the junior hacksaw - at that time I came to me senses - got wrong for making noise...left until the morning.
Morning...big hangover, lasted a long time...not as long as it took to rectify my mistakes with the hacksaw blade.
Moral of the story is....if you are going to have a drink of whisky look at somebugger elses model
Time for a wee dram before the forum police arrive.
Aye
John E
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