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[Backerther]

Hi all;
It's a happy and sunny day today partly because my Snowberry 1/72 was already complete and I will get into my Naval holiday for a while.

[Backerther]

Hi all;


It's a "One Happy Day" today with our grandkids and my favorite RC boating by which they looked so impressed.!!
And it's also "The children's day"here in Japan, which is one of our national holidays.

[SteamboatPhil]

Brilliant 

[Martin (Admin)]

Excellent!       

[JoJoElbe]

 

[Backerther]

Hi Steamboat Phil, Martin, JoJoElbe;


A great thanks for my posting.!!


"One happy day" for today is as in the pics below.
Time has passed so slowly today and calmly not only on the water,but also in my mind peacefully...


Kiyo

[Backerther]

Hi all;
One happy day this time is an appreciation of various kinds of roses in a park,gathered from many foreign countries.
There were ,of course,many English roses planted in the park 90km away north from my home.
1;Oh No, not in Swiss in Japan
2;This rose is entitled by the English author "Liverpool remembers".
3/4/5;one happy time for today
6;A honeybee was taking a breakfast on the rose seriously at around 10;30AM.

[JoJoElbe]

Hi Kiyo,
that reminds me on my trip for some experiments at KEK in Tsukuba, 28yrs ago. A bit earlier in the year when many strees where full of cherry blossoms. Leaving the institute via the 'back-entrance' one was on a countryside similar to what you show. Quiet, calmly, nice, impressive, quite different to europe, very nice people (on the countryside not so many as in tokyo  ) and good food. It where 3 weeks full of happy days! (2 weeks work and one week travel)
Having fun with your granchildreen will be always a happy day! And including a selfbuilt boat is even more happiness.
Best regards from hamburg (germany),Joerg

[Backerther]

Hi JoJoElbe;
It's so nice to have your impressive comment on my One Happy Day.
At the same time I'm greatly surprised to know that you have ever worked at KEK in Tsukuba for some experiment. The institute is very distinguished and one of the most advanced facilities in Japan in this field which you might specialise in. In this sense, I understand you may be one of the high level of scientists and engineers in this special technology.


By the way,the place I visited yesterday was sooooo close to the Tsukuba, and located at the foot of Mt. Tsukuba in Ibaraki prefecture,formally designated" Ibaraki flower garden" where you might perhaps have been there already....???


Kiyo

[Peter Fitness]

Hello Kiyo, greetings from Australia. Excellent photos of the beautiful roses in a lovely park, and a very nice model boat. Thank you for sharing.


Best wishes,


Peter.

[Backerther]

Hi Peter;


Thanks a lot for your warm comment.!!
I have come up to be a flower lover affected by my wife who has long been a flower arrangement enthusiast since before marriage.


1;Please don't say, Beauty and the beast !!??
Anyhow,the beautiful in any kinds is always splendid and joyful to see and appreciate for me.!


Kiyo

[Backerther]

Hi all;
One happy day for me today is a boating of Revell 1/72 Snowberry.
It was 33 degrees C outdoor temperature and very fine weather with actually no wind on our local lake,that means I have to go to the lake for RC boating.
And I obeyed the self-determining "doctrine".
Anyhow VERY HAPPY DAY with my favorite RC ship sailing well.

[Peter Fitness]

Hi Kiyo,


A beautiful day, a beautiful lake, and a beautiful RC model, what more could you want?


Peter.

[Backerther]

Hi Peter;
I'm so glad to have your beautiful comment this time too.!!
Frankly speaking,I wish I were a little bit younger to do lots more in my RC life...such as to build more RC scale ships rather than RC boats.....However,it takes normally some years to complete such RC scale ships just like the real ones..
I've gotten too old to challenge the splendid RC ships as others in the forum are doing...  


Kiyo

[JoJoElbe]

Hi Kiyo,don't worry about other ships, the love and enthusiasm + work you put in your ships is far better than anything someone else has.
I felt (meanwhile only seldom 'feel') similar about many projects I could reed about in various forums. I don't have the space, the machines, the skills (at least no professional ones) and for some examples not the money but I LOVE MY SHIPS!!!!  (as you do !!!)
I know so many people who build ships and after a while sell them because they have no space or need money. Everyone is different.Be proud of your ships and as you obviously enjoy your happy live there's always time for a new ship, just choose one you will love and manage in reasonable time.
Best, Joerg
Ps: I'm not even 60 and after the RNLI Lifeboat + boathouse and slipway I'm done with the big projects (as I think now  ) just will do a few smaller additional ideas which fit into my both concepts, the german Seenotretter pontoon an the RNLI slipway.  I will more try to enjoy the existing projects then.

[Backerther]

Hi JoJoElbe;
 Thanks a lot for your kind comment.!!
This 1/96 Fencer took me 12 years to complete including 5 looong interval periods that will possibly reach 8 years...???
Originally I started building at the age of 58....  
Net building period might be perhaps around 4 years+or more????


Kiyo

[Backerther]

Hi all;
It's a very very fine day here in H.C.Andersen park in Odense, Danmark, though just for only one day....
I could come to feel very happy to have known much about famous Andersen here,because I had already forgotten many
of the famous works by him of which I might have heard of the tales in my childhood...


To tell the truth,as you may have possibly,already imagined,the park is in Chiba prefecture in Japan.!!
Lots of flower and gardens as well as forests...One very happy day for me was here.!!!!


See again,all !!

[JoJoElbe]

Hi,nice, looks like 'de gamle by'  (the old town).  I remember back in 1994 the shopping mall in Tsukuba City had a 'german' restaurant named ELBE (the river up here in Hamburg, northern germany) unfortunately the beer and most of the food was all bavarian style (south germany). Didn't matter much because we were in a quite different (to us) country (most of us for the first time) and there we usually tried the local food and beer. Fortunately with "Kirin" or "Asahi" (easy for a Pentax camera owner) we didn't need any japanese or the waiter didn't need to understand our japanese.
Also the food was shown either as models or in a photo map. Only once there was none of them. So the bet was that the one who got the ugliest (for our taste!) food had to pay the bill. But overall it was fantastic food.
Best regards and have more nice trips!Joerg

[Backerther]

Hi JoJoElbe；
I'm so glad to have your kind and impressive comment on my trip to the Andersen park in Japan.
With this experience of visiting the park,I have come to know much of the geography of Europe,especially around Danmark.
And I was so much impressed and surprised to know again that many countries are located in this area on the same continent, though I had known and studied the situations from the younger age and recalled the knowledge to life this time
concretely....
One more impressed is that Odense in Danmark is comparatively close to Hamburg,some 200km away ? in direct distance.!!
In this sense,I felt it might be so convenient to enjoy sightings in the EU area.
My wife has been expecting to visit the Christmas season in Germany,especially the night scenes like in Stuttgart,Dresden along the river Elbe.!!


Kiyo

[Martin (Admin)]

 

[JoJoElbe]

Hi Kyio,yes Denmark is not so far. And a few generations before (until 1864 i think) it was even around the corner, big parts of Schleswig-Holstein (between Hamburg and Denmark) and even Altona (a part of Hamburg now) were danish. My Grandparents had danish ancestors so I'm also kind of a quarter danish, I guess. But I don't speek a word... except: 'mange tak' = many thanks  ...  and for holidays, not yet, it's full of germans then.  Best,Joerg

[Backerther]

Hi all;
One happy day for the month for me is as follows.
Yes,I went to a certain mountain about 80 miles north of Tokyo to see and feel Nature in the mid-summer under the temperature 36 degrees C. But I did not feel too hot since mostly walking in the forest.
My wife is an ardent flower lover and the mountain has been famous for many kinds of plants among such flower lovers.
The followings are just some of pics taken at my favorite taste on the day except last one.

[Backerther]

Hi all;
One happy day this time is assembling a Marui electric cordless drill that I bought about 8.5USD in a kit form.
This pla-mo kit of tool was first put into market about 4 decades ago and once I had one long time ago and nice impression
on that in those days.
This one is powerful for its image though powered with 4 AA batteries. At least it's enough for model ship building and other
Rc models generally.
It took about 3 hours to complete.
By the way, I am just waiting for good days to paint my 1/32 MTB PT-109, however a giant and powerful typhoon is gradually approaching mainland Japan, by which influence it's been cloudy and rainy in these days continuously.
"A watched pot never boils" is indeeeeed understandable, isn't it ...!!!??

[ScottW]

That is interesting: as far as I know, tools which come in kit form are not a thing here in the US.
May that typhoon cause only minimal inconvenience for people.

[Backerther]

Hi ScottW ;


A great thanks for your kind comment.
By the way, I still have a Sterling models USS Missouri in serviceable conditions and I ever visited real vessel at Hawaii.   I built this USS Missouri over 3 decades ago.
This 55 inch long hull model used to run very fast on the lake even at minimal level throttle at 6 volts due to her slender
contour of hull like the real one. L by D of the ship seems that of heavy cruiser of the days...


Kiyo