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i am here lurking in off topic dakka threads and keeping the creative flame on a smouldering level ...but i promise by the end of the week i will show the world, well the part that counts (namely dakka^^) the raw base and a done hull...after that who knows^^

vik

I recuscitated him! There is life!

where there is hope there is life...

man i had to search yet again for a good translation site to understand "recuscitated "...

got a thesaurus from santa or what? blime me ol bugger, cor, fis no ma mumtongue yu´ve uses...

try this:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilivolcanoconiosis.
longest word in the english language. A lung disease caused by inhaling ash and sand dust. I am this cool- I learnt it out of boredom when I was 8.

ähem, as i recall from my time at school those that learned out of boredom seldom were amog those who we the mere schoolmates deemed them to be cool...
that said and me being an old fart from before timecounting was invented i think now it could be seen from a very lopsided agle to be an act of coolness...

googled the word and it is in every website mentioned as the longest word in the english language, you do realise that your on nerd terrain here don´t you?

and you know some of the things i had to learn, worked as a retailer for meat and sausages in a shop once and i still have some of the numbers of the sausages in my head... once learnt cant be unlearnt...see thats why i am such a crappy fella when it comes to learning 40k rules...darn you hungarian salami.....

"see thats why i am such a crappy fella when it comes to learning 40k rules...darn you hungarian salami....."
I'm gonna sig that...
I am not one of those deemed to be "cool" at school- the people who are "cool" only act like that to be popular. If you have to change your personality for the sake of poplarity...that's just depressing. My brother is "kinda cool"- He can be, but he ruins it at times by acting like a total "special needs" person. I am in a nice social group, where we do weekly swimming trips and just be ourselves. It's very comforting to be able to do that around people.
I am deemed to be "nerdy" at times, but really, I have an associate (not really friend) who knows every score in every liverpool game since the new millenium. Now that's sad/nerdy. But because it's mainstream and lots of people like football, it somehow isn't. Now, playing board games isn't sad/nerdy. Playing board games and blowing all your time and money on it, and always thinking about it, that's sad/nerdy. Sad/nerdy isn't a measure of how much an activity sucks, it's more a measure of how un-mainstream an activity is.

the thing is i really suspect you having a splitt persona.... the things you have pm-ed me and then that mature talk here picture either someone thats using your acount together with you...someone around fourty years old or that you have as said above to mind in one body...

*carefully grabs away xacto knife from shrikes workplace, hides it by throwing it out of the window, than carfully steps backwards out of the room...*
ups i´m still on the interwebs...

heh heh heh, nah, I said- I act immature to off my brother. I'm not really like that. I like to think of myself as a 40-year-old teen. My 3 favorite comedies are from the 30's, the 60's and the 90's. My favorite songs are from the 70's and 80's, and I love the old TV shows like spitting image, blackadder and fawlty towers. I am also (If I do say so myself) a bright one for my age. And I get most of the jokes in old films.

when i see my kids doing or saying something clever, i say to the grown up person i am holding a conversation :
clever kids are gods punishments for parents...
if you want a nice little stearable kid, go for the dumb one. even my two year old son can sometimes outsmart me...isn´t that cruel?
and the four year old one is so damn good with repartees...
here is one of my favorites...

me: go home and polish the sun...son

felix (aged 3 at that time): but papa, we´re already at home...


see what can one man say against these kiddies these days. i blame it all on the nourishing food these days...when i was young...




that had to be added

vik

shrike wrote:try this:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilivolcanoconiosis.

If you say it loud enough it makes you sound precocious!

doh say:
califragilisticexplialigoric? (sorry for evnetual typos...)

and at shrike now i see you quoted me indeed...omg i am defensles if he does that...

vik

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
antidisestablishmantarianisms.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilivolcanoconiosis.
easily the biggest.

i humbly bow before your typing or is it copy and paste skills ?

evil grinning vik

Is there such thing as pneumonoultramarinopicsilivolcanoconiosis?

I cut and paste tbh, it's late and am too tired to attempt that Vik!

nope^^ done the copy and paste and to no avail^^

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:i humbly bow before your typing or is it copy and paste skills ?

evil grinning vik

Actually, it's my mad typing skills. I rarely make spelling errors, and if I do it's 99% a typo.
the other 1% is if it's either:
a monday
a morning
a monday morning
or if I'm tired.

I din;t hsve any typps in my tupinh lol.

i´ve got my wife for correcting my typos and shame is when i´m mostly on dakka she´s either not at home or she´s sleeping... so please send me xyz €s and i can buy me a correction prog for my pc...

^^vik^^

Donate £3 a month to the vik preservation society. There are only 4 viks left in the wild. You'll receive a cuddly toy, a poster and an adoption pack. Together we can help save the vik. ^^

What I've noticed about you, vik, is that you are somewhat of a MOD repellant. My army thread, this thread, and pretty much every one that I've seen where you've posted a lot at, no matter how OT the thread gets, no MODs post in it to get back on topic. We've talked about:
How (un)cool I am
Spelling and typo's
your family
the weather (snow)
Britishness
Longest words
monty python

and no-one says a thing!

Shhh! Don't tempt providence
touchwood and your rabbit's foot

LOL... see my secret power...behold...


you seem to loose the point here though...
i work with crap i talk crap and i produce crap, so no mods are intersted to see brown stuff any more it seems^^

cool huh? this post covers really neat the above posts aginst any inquiring spies here on dakka^^

vik

Any more news?

lol i screwed a bit with a drill around to make the holes wider so that the clear plasticglass stick can be sticked inside the base...now i have to find the second stick again and then i can drill two morew holes into the underside of the airship to mount it...

more i have not done that day...

So after it is mounted on the base and the rear propeller and rudder is glued on, what else is left to do before the paint?
I think we're reaching the end of the road...

not by far mate...sadly i have to plate the whole hull, i guess i will do that tomorrow well at least a bit so to show waht i have in mind, then i have to mount the upper deco^^ and get pipes to transfer power to engines, then engines for VTOL i have to model, and i want also a bit of weaponry on the upper deck...maybe not i dont know for sure...

then the whole gondola issue... i am currently working on a first one here... the things shown here in early pics... the black things under the blimp...

and if that wasn´t all i have to do the pipe for deplayment and after that still the skiffs...

so pretty much on my hands...and believe me i dream at night about painting that one, then i get up in the morn and its still not done yet for painting...

arghhh

vik

So how long is it away from being built?
and what have ou done since we last had pics?

Hello Dakka,

a long time since a true update on my airship.

today i will show you, the still hopefully interested followers of this thread the mounted and based airship...
well it is only a very crude base and not fleshed out but that will follow...for now it is mounted by two ca. 40-50 cm long clear plexiglas rods. for now i am not sure if the overall height is to much to be of use in a game...your thoughts aer apreciated on that too^^

also a little further down the post you can see the first hullplating on the deck. i used playcards from my kids. in germany we use to hang a special kind of calender to the wall where some small gifts of toys and sweets sweeten the days wait till christmas. this year, well actually last year we opted for a more mature thing and baught a calendar ready made from a well known toymaker company... let me just say now that i have that overall crap of lil games and stuff in my hands for scratchbuilding i can put our money still to good use...next year we make again one out on our own...


so i used these playcards, they are half the size of a normal pker card and thus i pictured them ever since i saw them as steelplates to be used for the hull of my deck... after the deck is completly plated i will then undergo the process of riveting each plate... ten years later i expect to have after priming a nice looking roughplated deck...

don´t get funny with me as i fully well know how ridiculus it now looks with the carddesign all childish...^^

here it is to you all....more pics in my gallery of course...




a small evertrusting cadian as a size reference so to get a grasp on how far up in the sky this monster will soar...



first and second row of plating undergone, more to come too as i intend to do at least four rows...this will look when done almost like fishscales...


pleased to read all your comments and critics...
cheers and thanks for looking, vik

Halleluja!!!
Nice job! Pics with the back propeller, boiler and bridge?

well these pics are a bit old now^^ as i was too lazy to post...was too lazy to do a text wall myself^^ instead i rather had only fun in reading yours^^ so i will hopfully get a chance on that tomorrow?...we get a visit of our landlord... he wants to sell our apartment... and we are now a bit afraid that we might get expelled in the process... so i have to clean up the house and stuff and start practising to be really friendly and stuff....like doooohhhhh.... but i have to let him in that (&&)/=&%§ of a (&)&)...




so i will in short try to put something up tomorrow^^

thanks shrike...for the praise to god... you do know the meaning of hallelujah?

vik

that was your 1888th post.
Yes. And praise the lord cheesus* that you're not dead or locked in a GW cupboard. It happens.

*I actually have a homemade T-shirt with a picture of a stickman on it, with a slice of swiss cheese for a head. Emblazoned upon it are the words "Praise cheesus." I am also using a mousemat right now with the same thing on it.