02-19-2014, 02:07 PM
An awful road bump
All of this snow has caused the building my family business was in to collapse. It was a surplus WW2 quonset hut, and the weight of the snow brought it down after standing since the early 1950s. I'm still trying to find a laboratory job, so it looks like for now I'm out of a job.
The scary part was that I was in there all day Saturday, and kept hearing crazy noises. The building fell not long after we closed up Saturday night. Even scarier, it seems like the building came down quickly. I worry that if I had been there, would I even have been able to react in time? Fortunately, you could still stand up in most of the areas we work in, and the endless crates of WW2 Surplus parts that appeared to be wasting space probably would have saved the lives of anyone in the building, since they held the roof up once it fell.
JWB Arrow I cloning Project
The good news today is that I got JWB's arrow I kit molded. I was able to demold it yesterday. I still need to clean some of the clay off the body shell, but the mold came out PERFECTLY with no bubbles or imperfections!
Of course, the next challenge will be making a good cast, but I just bought a whole new set of resin, so I should be clear on that one. I'm just glad that after having JWB's model for almost two years, I can send it back (having other people's things for to long gives me a lot anxiety).
I haven't forgotten my part of the deal either, gotta put some pantographs together. The other alternative is to pick up some Metroliner pantographs as spare parts. I'm leaning in that direction, since at least these are done right. No pantograph I could make will ever be as good as something Walthers mass-produces.
All of this snow has caused the building my family business was in to collapse. It was a surplus WW2 quonset hut, and the weight of the snow brought it down after standing since the early 1950s. I'm still trying to find a laboratory job, so it looks like for now I'm out of a job.
The scary part was that I was in there all day Saturday, and kept hearing crazy noises. The building fell not long after we closed up Saturday night. Even scarier, it seems like the building came down quickly. I worry that if I had been there, would I even have been able to react in time? Fortunately, you could still stand up in most of the areas we work in, and the endless crates of WW2 Surplus parts that appeared to be wasting space probably would have saved the lives of anyone in the building, since they held the roof up once it fell.
JWB Arrow I cloning Project
The good news today is that I got JWB's arrow I kit molded. I was able to demold it yesterday. I still need to clean some of the clay off the body shell, but the mold came out PERFECTLY with no bubbles or imperfections!
Of course, the next challenge will be making a good cast, but I just bought a whole new set of resin, so I should be clear on that one. I'm just glad that after having JWB's model for almost two years, I can send it back (having other people's things for to long gives me a lot anxiety).
I haven't forgotten my part of the deal either, gotta put some pantographs together. The other alternative is to pick up some Metroliner pantographs as spare parts. I'm leaning in that direction, since at least these are done right. No pantograph I could make will ever be as good as something Walthers mass-produces.
Modeling New Jersey Under the Wire 1978-1979.
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