Tips and helpful suggestions - Page 3

MAGNA · #21 (**permalink**) February 29th, 2008, 03:19 AM

I haven't tried a pic till now so I hope it comes up.

ost2.JPG

Sorry about the paint job. Another experiment gone wrong.

The track pins are done for you on some of the Hasegawa models. This is the Ostwind showing the pins - see the white arrow.

The best part is how the instructions are trying to say don't worry, it will all be good when you get the hull on.

Unfortunately the translation isn't good. It goes like this;

"Actual feelings increase when it is made to become loose and installed".

Sounds like something out of a porn movie.

Geek44 · #22 (**permalink**) February 29th, 2008, 03:36 AM

I LOVE those unusual translations from Japanese instruction manuals. I remember being told to 'Do your best and get a fun' and a friend once showed me the manual from his car. It was so funny I remembered it word for word. 'If brake should fail, turn hard to left and shout Oi, Oi.'
No kidding.
The pic is pretty small mate. I'll need to work out how to post pics like that.

MAGNA · #23 (**permalink**) February 29th, 2008, 04:02 AM

Nice how you can put your mouse over it and it enlarges too.

Pity the tracks were snapped though

lufttiger · #24 (**permalink**) February 29th, 2008, 10:23 AM

Thanks Lemm and Geek, you guys make this hobby fun.

What is wrong with your model Magna? it looks fine to me, although the pic
is pretty small.

MAGNA · #25 (**permalink**) February 29th, 2008, 10:30 AM

Yeah, it's 582 by something pixels so I thought it would be bigger. Still, hold the mouse over it and you get a bigger view. I've been playing with that all day.

Oh, thanks for the the compliment. I'm a bit fussy with models, they never seem to be right. Everyone else always seems to do theirs so much better. Maybe the smaller scale doesn't photograph as well.

Jim O · #26 (**permalink**) February 29th, 2008, 11:13 AM

Inline attachments are set to display as thumbnails only. If you hover your mouse over, or click on the thumbnail, the full size photo will show.

For any of you techie-types out there, the technology used in the mouse-over technique is called AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML).

lufttiger · #27 (**permalink**) February 29th, 2008, 07:45 PM

Hey Magna, what kind of paint are you using?

Lemm · #28 (**permalink**) March 1st, 2008, 05:52 AM

Hey magna I did what you said and enlarged the pic...I think your Ostwind looks great. Faded paint was all part of the deal especially near the end when paint was thinned down with whatever was available and often didnt last anymore than a week or so. Come to think of it neither did the vehicle by that stage.

G44 I just read your comments on translations....mate that is damn funny I am still giggling about it. You crack me up fairdinkum.

Lemm · #29 (**permalink**) March 1st, 2008, 05:58 AM

Ten minutes have passed and I am still laughing.......

Geek44 · #30 (**permalink**) March 1st, 2008, 06:15 AM

Jeez, you reckon I didn't have a laugh when the guy told me the story...he STILL had the old Subaru too. It was even funnier if you knew the guy. I used to work as a storeman for Billy Hydes music...for those unfamiliar, it's THE music store in town...five shops there's nothing they don't sell or won't get. Guitar plectrums to $40,000 flutes...the works. The guy in question was in his fifties, had been an ACTUAL rock star in his day and still lived with his Mum. Ever hear of the band 'Kush'? Big in the '70s...he reckoned Molly Meldrum was a pretty good bloke. Totally down to earth too...as opposed to many of the wannabes who were annoyed I'd never heard of them.
Glad to provide a laugh Phil.