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Python created its own world: Its own installers, directory structures, identification, bug tracking and reporting... I guess this was deliberate. They wanted to close everything else out of their world, to be in control. Not cooperating with anyone (except to a very limited degree having others be their servants, delivering interfaces to the functions hard to get at in pure Python).
This power strategy succeeded. They managed to create an almost entirely closed ecosystem that was good enough for an increasing number of developers to move into. And the developers found it cosy and warm and all threats from competing ideas were closed out.
I don't mind Python as a language (except that I dislike all interpreted, non-compiled languages in general). But that power strategy goes on my nerves, trying to make things work in a mixed-language environment. Those Python guys refuse to relate to anything but Python at all. Whatever is used in other activities / projects is bluntly rejected, unless there is a Python interface so that they can pretend that the world is all Python...
There is so much about the Python "society" that reminds me of the worst stories about MS strategy, even those with no truth to them. It seems like if you have a non-commercial (hah!) ideology, then those detestable methods are fully acceptable and even loveable!
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Where exactly he kept the cigarettes and the match?
Probably still drunk at that point...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Ha yeah! 
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"... in a drunken fight".
Drunks feel no pain, they have no working brain cells. And the call of nicotine can be very powerful in them. Go out for the night in Newcastle, and you'll see similar thought processes going on. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Interesting story, but jeez, couldn't Daily Mail fit in a little more ads on their site to make it even more difficult to read it???? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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It is free news, got to pay for it somehow!
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Yeah, well. It's a question of balance. Once users find that they get more ads than news, they will look for different sources of information... And then it won't matter any more how many ads Daily Mail have! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Or use a hosts file.
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I don't like it. It's too simple, too clear cut.[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Makes you feel kinda' proud - that's one hell of a product the American Indians unleashed upon the white man - excellent revenge for the abuse and genocide they suffered.
Think how many "war movies" had the soldier, with his dying breath, ask for and/or suck on a cigarette! Made it kind of an expected normal.
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Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Good god what are the Russians made of!
Vodka...Vodka...
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Do with one in a bit of a check (6)
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Oh, very good! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OK, no one else seems interested, so I'll take one for the team: PARITY
Do PAR TY
with one in I a bit of a check
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: no one else seems interested
Twas far too hard for me, no way I was getting "party" from "do" (although I get it now you have said it)
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I got "PARTY" for "DO" after I got "PARITY" for "bit check" and took an "I" out ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, thanks - have fun tomorrow!
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I have been working on this model of a Vietnam Huey for quite a long time now, partially because I faced several steep learning curves and also because I kept hesitating the more I accomplished. I did not want to mess everything up after coming so far.
Now I have finally come around to putting some paint on the model, starting with the tail. The tail is remarkably colorful for a military aircraft. That's why I chose this particular original in the first place. It's not only a good eyecatcher in an otherwise green aircraft. It also will help me not to lose eye contact with it when it's in the air. Olive drab has a strange habit of disappearing when there are only a few trees in the background.
Here is a picture of my paint job so far:
The valkyrie, not yet ready to ride again[^]
Sorry for the bad quality, but it's getting late and I have no time for a better shooting sessions now. Here is the problem I need help with:
If you look closely, you will see some spots where black paint has run under the masking tape or found its way through the folds of the plastic foil I had wrapped around the parts. Simply painting them over will not work. The red and yellow paints probably can't cover up black.
So what would be the best way to get rid of these black spots? My best guess is to carefully sand the surface with finest sandpaper, and then touching up that spot with a fine brush and unthinned paint.
I am still satisfied with what I got. It only has taken me four weeks, but masking off these stripes was incredibly hard and I don't know how often I tore off everything because it was not good enough. Now the rest will be relatively easy. At least until I start with the weathering...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I would carefully scrape it away with an X-acto blade, then sand with fine grit paper. then repaint.
I do scale modeling as well, so I am interested to see your finished product.
You may be able to skip the scraping if you make good progress with the sanding. Scraping can sometimes speed up the process a bit.
You may get a sheen difference with the brushing as the rest is airbrushed. If the change is small enough, you may actually want to thin your paint and do this in layers, have the last layer be dry brushed.
Edit: after looking at your picture again, I would do the entire helicopter is the green base paint and leave the tail till last.
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Thanks. That really helps.
This[^] is a review of what you get when you buy this model 'ready to use'. Just note the almost complete lack of details and many inaccuracies that are only there to make that thing cheaper. The landing skids, for example, belong to a totally different model and don't look like those of a Huey at all. Or look at the nose and the front windows! Side windows were not included at all.
This kit from Revell[^] did not help at all. It's really supposed to be the same helicopter, down to the serial number. While they got the paint scheme right, judging by that single original photo that I found, the kit itself can't decide if it's a UH-1B or a UH-1C and mixes features from both, while passing itself off as a UH-1E. About the underside of a UH-1E obviously less is known than about the dark side of the moon. The kit simply has no details there whatsoever, not even the large 'hell hole' for the cargo hook that all Hueys have.
So I started researching and modifying that boring detailless thing. This is a picture I posted here some time last year, when the underside was still mostly unknown territory but the rest was slowly taking shape:
Prototypes for the weapons[^]
Weapons mounted[^]
And now the underside is also done at last, after finding a detailed plan from some other modeller who claims to actually have seen the underside of a UH1-E.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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For the future, there's the trick of smearing a masking fluid on the edge of the tape and wiping it off. That fills in the little voids at the edge of the tape and you get a clean line.
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I actually did something like that, but with the same yellow paint as the layer I was painting on. That went well mostly. The black paint ran under the masking tape where it crossed a row of rivets. These or other details are not so tiny at the scale 1:16.
When I had the decals made, someone already had a set made at glorious 1:6 scale. I looked up the model that he must have used. Really a beauty, but it will cost you at least 5000 bucks to get it into the air. My modest 1:16 version will cost less than 1/10 of that.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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