Well done, Dave :thumbsup: I like the way you build it and even details like RAF clock ;)
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Well done, Dave :thumbsup: I like the way you build it and even details like RAF clock ;)
I just saw this and have to say that is a great HOW TO with step by step photos. Outstanding job.
That looks really great, Dave!
Ambition isn't necessarily a bad thing...
Brilliant work! Looks like a great place to play.
job well done:salute:
Wonderful Job there Dave. What a cracking Orderly Room you have built. Must be immensely satisfying knowing you and your great team have built it all yourselves. I seriously doubt I'd have either the skill or the energy to do anything like that in well over ten times the amount of time it took you. Building a plastic garden shed for Yon's allotment was about enough for me - especially as it was a bit like a large oblong Airfix Kit. But your "Shed" - well that's special. Congratulations buddy :)
Thanks chaps, looking forward to putting it to use.
Energy is definitely a requirement Mike, we (older ones) were exhausted either by heat, exertion, or, both most days and you have to have a bit of determination to get it all finished. I had to seal around some holes where the cables run in and out, and on the doors where rain could gather, yesterday.
Pretty sure that's it now though ! :cheezy:
Hopefully when the craziness has settled down you'll be able to visit it in person.
This is incredible Dave. I like the happy paint on it, and the sector clock reminds me i still have it on my shopping list. This helps to understand the pyramids in Giza could have been man made after all.
Thanks Jan, the clock came out of my office - I like it so much I've just bought another to replace it ! Thought about it but couldn't have a Jg52 clock on the wall..
I was trying to contact this company - https://www.ellisclocks.com/ - 10 years ago, when they would make them in wooden frame. They never responded. They still make nice clock i mean ...
EDIT: just found out, some of the the original pieces would come in Bakelite frames as well ....
Love the finished Orderly Room, Dave.
Very well done, Sah! :sAprvd:
Thanks mate :cheezy:
Your orderly room is worth a visit, esp. with a game with you included ;)
Karl
Just a guess...
but the next step, now that the she itself is finished, is to install internet cables and a camera system so you can host play-by-video ?
Bad guess Pete. I don't have time to play it let alone host it !
really looking the part dave! did you remember an air raid siren?
D'oh ! Misidentified in my haste
https://www.sail-world.com/photos/sa...MeShirley1.jpg ;)
So, roll on the first official ‘FLASHFEST’, Just need to get rid of pesky Covid first....
The OR has been christened today with it's first games by a visit from Andy (Sauerkraut). We played co-op games using my D8 AI charts.
The first was a pair of Bristol scouts coming to rescue a brace of BE2c on photo recon sortie from the attentions of a pair of Fokker Eindeckers. We lost a scout and a tandem but managed to knock both Eindeckers down.
The second game we flew Aviatik D.I's against a pair of Caproni Ca3's - we got one but the second knocked us both out and bombed the city, though it missed his target by a long way.
The final game was a dogfight - we flew Camels v the Aviatiks...
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That didn't end well either ! This is me - showing cards of the last two phases :eek:
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Safe to say the room has been blooded !
:eek:
Those look like my recent card draws, Dave.
:takecover:
Congrats on the 'blooding' of the hangar game space.
:thumbsup:
Eeek! Blooded for sure. At least that's out of the way Now its on to "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women".
Did you know that there is such a thing as the 'Shed of the Year' competition?
All the effort pays off. Great stuff Dave. Look forward to hours of endless gaming
Not even for "Shed of the Year 1917?"
;)
Excellent, Dave. Hope there will be many more games to come.
wow, amazing.. well done