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Quote: How would you paint this thing?
Badly.
CodeWraith wrote: what techniques would you use to apply them?
My secret techniques: shaky hands and poor eyesight.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Believe me, everything is an improvement when it's printed in light turd brown[^].
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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Jet turbine != helicopter turbine. Similar, but not the same. Bad things would happen to a helicopter's rotor blades if a jet engine started to push the helicopter forward. Sorry, no Airwolf.
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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Easy - just point it down instead. Won't even need a rotor then.  
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Yes. What an accurate model of a Vietnam Huey that has no rotor and buzzes around on a single jet engine like a drunken fly. All that while the glass fiber body is slowly consumed by the heat from that engine. 
Why don't we just keep the rotor and the motor it already has? It already got off the ground with these before I ever wanted to make it look like a Huey.
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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Yes, but you see, I have a very supercilious attitude towards model helicopters. Once, some time ago I had to make an extended business trip to Pakistan, where I got seriously ill. The corporate health insurance took care of all the expenses, but I had a long period of convalescence.
What to do? Why, build model helicopters, of course! Physical and mental exertion were banned under pain of wife.
I built two, one a trainer, of robust and matronly appearance, and the other a scale model. Now, as a kid I had built lots of RC model 'planes, even building my own transmitter and receiver duos. Flew them all, after a few unintentional but non-fatal prangs.
Both helicopters? Sixty seconds max. All fatal - back to the drawing board jobs.
Thus I have immense respect for anybody who can fly the bloody things - but just don't ask me about my piloting skills.
Me? The following year I bought a boat and went sailing. Never pranged that.
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Don't give up. That's the normal story for every beginner. Exactly that happened to me and about everyone else I know. No matter what you know about flying airplanes, helicopters are totally different beasts in every respect.
Try it this way:
1) Get the right helicopter. Not a scale model. It's too expensive to repair and offers no advantages for a beginner except looking good. Get a trainer. At first glance you would probably take the smallest one you can find because it's cheaper and easier to repair. WRONG! Bad choice. The little guys have no mass and are very nervous. You have to be very quick and precise, exactly what a beginner has yet to learn. Better would be something like a T-Rex 550[^]. Yes, I know the price tag. I have one. It's really as nice and stable as a helicopter can get and has a lot to offer once you are ready for more advanced things.
2) Find an online course. They usually are organized into lessons which explain what you should do and exercises to practice. You have to learn how to stand before you can try to walk and to walk before you can run. That means mastering hovering before you can fly around and mastering flying around before you can try any stunts. That costs a lot of patience, but you must take one step after another or you are always in danger of losing control. It's like learning to play an instrument. You can't really play it until you don't have to think about how to play the next note anymore. With enough practice your fingers just do what you want.
3) Now, how will you get over the steep learning curve at the beginning without smashing a few helicopters? Get yourself a simulator. You can plug your remote control into the PC and use it to control a simulated helicopter. There you can fail as often as you like and it costs nothing. Just keep on practicing and one day it will suddently work. The simulators are a little sterile, but they are close enough to the real thing to really let you learn something.
Good luck. There really is no such thing as a born helicopter pilot.
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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In consultation with this guy[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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X? Not so, my little insect - back up her topper! (6)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Bonnet ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Well done, you are up tomorrow. 
X TEN
Not so NO
my little insect B
back up (reverse)
BONNET
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's how I got it  but wasn't 100% sure it was right
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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No idea as yet but "MY Little Insect" sounds like a wonderful toy franchise!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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"Wasps'R'Us"!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well if I didn't, it'd be an onnet, and nobody wants that!
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: an onnet, and nobody wants that!
My boss keeps telling me to 'get onnet!' I think he wants me to have one.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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You gotta love Garfield
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Today is reckoned as 24/7.
In case you have promised something to someone 24/7, then today is that day
modified 24-Jul-19 2:20am.
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Black queen and French crown (5)
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EBONY?
E = queen (Elizabeth)
BONY (Bonaparte) French emperor
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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