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November 21 2021
Hawker Typhoon The Typhoon is finished. It took three tries to achieve the desired final "shine". The plane was the personal aircraft of...
Nov 21, 20211 min read
November 14 2021
Lots to talk about this week. Grab a coffee as this will be a long post. Hawker Typhoon The Typhoon has now progressed thru initial...
Nov 14, 20216 min read
November 6 2021
Switched back to mountain standard time last night. A wonderful weekend that lets you have some extra sleep while still getting...
Nov 7, 20211 min read
Halloween 2021
It is Halloween! I can remember some absolutely brutal cold Halloweens. Today is a relatively nice day. Sunny, just above freezing,...
Oct 31, 20214 min read
End of October
It has been almost a month since the last post. Progress has been slow, as work and life have been demanding attention. Time to play a...
Oct 24, 20214 min read
End of September
Coming up to the end of September. Weather has been nice but it is now almost dark when I walk the dogs after supper. No frost yet but...
Sep 26, 20213 min read
September 19 2021
We have reached that time of year when it is dark when I get up, and the sun hasn’t risen as I pull into work. A depressing sign of...
Sep 19, 20214 min read
Third times a charm
A longer update today to catch up on some things. CL-44 Third time? Well, perhaps it is the fourth time. That is how many times I...
Sep 6, 20217 min read
Almost done August 15 2021
The Olympics are done for another year. I always say I won’t spend hours watching. But every time they come around, I get into the...
Aug 15, 20216 min read
July 21 2021
CL-44 I was happy with the natural metal finish but not the colour. It seemed too dark and too yellow. I had used Alclad Airframe...
Jul 25, 20214 min read
July 11 2021
CL-44 nearing completion; starting the Northstar CL-44 I continue to make slow progress on the CL-44. It feels like 2 steps forward and...
Jul 11, 20215 min read
July 1 - 4, 2021
It’s Canada Day. I am taking Friday off as well, so it is a 4 day weekend. It was 23C this morning at 5 am. It is currently 10:30 am,...
Jul 4, 20214 min read
April 17, 2021
It’s already the middle of April. We are three weeks into turnaround, and it hasn’t really left much time for modelling. It’s been...
Apr 18, 20213 min read
End of March brings more snow
I am noticing a disconcerting trend. Each weekly(ish) blog has started with a weather related comment, noting more snow on the weekend...
Mar 28, 20214 min read
End of March
These posts seem to start with a comment on weather, so let’s continue the trend. After several wonderful spring like days, we got rain...
Mar 21, 20211 min read
It’s March already!
The weather was really nice this weekend, reaching +5C or so both Saturday and Sunday. I got a little time in at the bench thru the...
Mar 7, 20212 min read
End of February
We had a few days of nice weather at the start of the week, and then boom! Winter came back with a vengeance. We had 5cm of snow Friday,...
Feb 28, 20214 min read
End of February
A220 After almost three months, my decal order finally arrived. It included photo real windows for the 737 - too late to be used - but...
Feb 21, 20215 min read
Mid-February
It’s the middle of February. Still cold but there is warmer weather next week. I have been forcing 20 minutes at the workbench each...
Feb 14, 20214 min read
It’s Cold!
We set a new low temperature record on the house thermometer last night, February 6. The sensor on the tool shed had a previous low of...
Feb 7, 20213 min read
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