Starting the week right

Umm... I think somebody's gonna get so pissed today...

Boring day in Tuguegarao

Got dragged to Tuguegarao/Ballesteros in my last provincial assignment. Found it as one of the most dull and boring deployments I had in years... Needed to find something (anything) to keep my sanity.

Can you guess how may students this the-hell-with-safety-just-pack-them-all-in trike?

sixteen.

Boring still.. let's play spelling game

Can you spell your store's address correctly?

No.

Can you spell what you're delivering correctly?

No.

Have you ever heard of the word "hilod"?

Maybe.. hahahaha.

Oh... I just remembered, my camera starts up in like 20 secs so I missed another good one but would you believe there is a place called "Maestrang Kikay"?

Tamiya 1/48 F-15c

My first project for the year.

Opened the box about 3 months ago. Target completion is mid-july (hoping to finish 2 planes this year). I started with smaller planes at 1/72 scale. This is my first 1/48 and hope my "training" in the 72nds pay off.

Cockpit

I was able to get the control panel done. Not much work actually since it only involves decal application.

Electronics Bay

Painted Electronics bay. Decided not to modify the boxes, a little too much hassle to overhaul the entire bay to get it to look close to the actual thing.

sidewall painted metallic blue green, pipes in silver, some black smudge to make bay look a little untidy.

bay 5 with front office.

did not install ejection seats yet.

Intake fan

painted the intake fans in preparation to sticking the upper and lower fuselage together.

Alclad II chrome with a little wash

Intake lips

closed the fuselage, masked the cockpit to protect it from sanding, took a long break, now off to the intake lips

just need to fill up the gaps with putty. one of the parts i hate most.

...putty, sand, prime, check for flaws, putty, sand, prime, check for flaws.... finish when satisfied...

I tried to dry fit the wings and the stabs to see pretty much how it would look. Up to now, i'm still amazed how big this model is.

Nose Cone

now off to the nose. I decided not to put the radar panel since i would be having the plane in its pre-flight mode.

Still aint done with the intake lip putty.

I'll send this post up now and will just send updates as it is quite annoying to upload, tag, comment on too many pics. This will now be officially a multi-part post.

ciao for now..

Express ticket

It all started with a dare as to who can join the "merienda ng mga matatapang" then... tadah! we found ourselves digging on some fingerfood.

no wonder we have high insurance premiums.

Patching up

I think there are better ways of keeping the brand name up.

Faulty lock or malicious entity?

Got this video from the security personnel of Ballesteros Landing Station. Apparently, footage was taken from surveillance camera inside a secured room.

The staff of the station and most of the locals believe that the station is haunted because rumors has it that when the station was just being built, the remains of a girl wearing school uniform was excavated.

I dont know if I am to believe the stories but the site does have this creepy atmosphere. It feels like someone is standing close by trying to watch what you are doing.

you judge..

Wonder how they'd get the fire trucks up there

view from office window...

i think it's somewhere around 25 to 28 floors up