August 2013 Ping

[lastvautour]

Sorry for being a few days late. I picked up my new Sonata and forgot about everything else. So let us move on. The gallery is gathering some impressive number of views as we continue to climb beyond the 1.5 million mark.

6,893 files in 315 albums and 17 categories with 732 comments viewed 1,633,690 times

The Forum shows an increase of new post over July 2012 and total number of post passing the 10K mark which is a good sign. We have also surpassed the 2 million view mark as well so good numbers all around. July and August are traditionally slow months due to fine weather and big "honey to do lists". Let us make an effort to visit and comment this August.


Data is as follows.


Total Members:                 299
Total Posts:                   10099
Total Topics:                     955
Total Categories:                  9
Total page views:       2115481
 
Average posts per day: 5.21
Total Boards: 58
Latest Member: rbeach84
Average online per day: 17.44
Average page views per day: 1026.93

Top 10 Posters

lastvautour           3222
Balsabasher          1286
Oceaneer99            769
cliff strachan           648
R.F.Bennett            441
Mark Braunlich       438
Ken Pugh               398
buccfan                 342
Peter                    305
K_mars                138
 
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General Discussion              1639
Lou's Projects                     1582
Monthly PING!                      855
BalsaBasher's Board              599
Mark Braunlich's Board          328
Ken's Projects                       294
Model Of the Year                 218
What The. . . ?                     195
Officer's Lounge                   193

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Air-Toons                                                                224
HMCS Bonaventure 1/144 Scale Started 1 April 2008  133
Continuation of the P-40 Group Build                         116
WWII ID Models                                                       107
Where should I start - A Spitfire ID Model                   107
Long Distance Flights Cook-Up                                     91
Skybirds Models                                                         89
Century jets cookup                                                    85
Air-Toons                                                                   84
"Flower Class Corvette"                                               82
 
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The Box Project                                                         6668
Flying Boat Cook Up                                                   6592
Air-Toons                                                                  6441
A beginner's guide to solid models - Convair Charger    6131
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An International Build                                                5194
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Balsabasher      89
R.F.Bennett      72
cliff strachan     29
gera                 28
Ken Pugh          22
Mark Braunlich  21
Will                  20
Fingers             19
 
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lastvautour          15d 17h 47m
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Balsabasher          6d 18h 28m
Peter                    6d 2h 8m
K_mars                6d 1h 29m
Oceaneer99          4d 19h 39m
Boomerang           4d 6h 26m
Ken Pugh              3d 12h 18m

Lou

[lastvautour]

Currently under construction on my bench:

Solid Wood Projects
1/350 Scale Prestonian Class Frigate X 2 (HMCS Lanark)
1/350 Scale River Class Frigate
1/144 Scale HMCS Bonaventure
1/144 Scale Orca Class Training Vessel (None commission hence no HMCS)
1/72 Scale Lockheed 10A (Drawings only. P.S. may switch to 1/48 before construction begins)
1/48 Scale CF-5B
1/48 Scale DH-100 Vampire Mk III
1/??  Andre's Jet

Plastic/Other Project
1/144 Revell B-52H
Light House (2 on the Bench - sold 4 @ $20.00 ea. makes for more building supplies)

Pipe Dream Projects
1/48 Scale New photo op hanger replacing the flooded one
1/?? Scale GSSS (Garet Spaceline Star Ship)

Lou

[cliff strachan]

I guess that all this does is show that I'm still alive.

At the painting stage of my two Lockheed 10s and the L14.
Painting will have to wait. Still trying to move - many, many, books - after living in the same apartment for thirty years.

Cliff.

[Boomerang]

   Greetings All,

   Managed to get a small amount of work done on the Beaufort. Cockpit, Nose and Turret. I'll stick some pics up on my board.

   Time has been a bit tight lately with work and travel to and from  home taking up most of it.

   What was left has been devoted to a bit of physical training as I'm going to "walk" the Kokoda Track with my daughter.

   Basically it runs from Port Moresby ( New Guinea) to the village of Kokoda . It's 60 Kilometres as the crow flies but 96 on the ground.

  [urlhttp://www.kokodaspirit.com.au/][/url]

   All being well I should be having my 60th birthday 2 days march from Kokoda Village.

   Cheers

   Gordon

   

[lastvautour]

Happy 60th Birthday Gordon. I hope your "walk" turns out well. For a youngster like yourself it should not pose much of a problem. Let us know how things worked out.

Lou

[cliff strachan]

Good Luck on that Walk, Gordon. Don't delay while you're still young. I've wanted to walk the Camino de Santiago - which is about 700 km from just inside France to Santiago de Compostelo - for many years now. But alas now I'm too old (81) and primarily for the last two years arthritic to boot. So don't delay for any reason.

Cliff.

[Boomerang]

  Thanks Lou and Cliff.
   Will update when I get back.    Enjoy your vacation Lou .

   Cheers

   Gordon
 

[Balsabasher]

Well the good news is that I have ordered my 12x8 shed for delivery in the next 21 days,meanwhile I have prepared a flat base for it and currently in the process of dismantling my old fire station workshop,its a massive task and already I have filled a monster skip with rubbish ! lots of things have had to go including several thousand aviation books that have found new homes,books with plans in naturally go into my library,I have had to be quite brutal as to what to keep as there is just not enough room now to store things and I have to be practical,solid models will continue as soon as I have set up my workbench and installed my tools and equipment,at the moment I am shuttling boxes of bits back here and storing them into Keter outside storage units which are cheap and cheerful and do the job,put 'Keter' into Google and you will see what these are.
The fire station served its purpose with the rebuild of the Tawney Owl G-APWU which will be moving on also soon to pastures new,the station has become very damp in recent months with standing water due to flash flooding and an invasion of mice,dead mice were found in boxes and other places having eaten poison and met their timely end,half of my balsa stock was wrecked because it had soaked up the water and had to be thrown away,probably about £2,000 worth of balsa purchased over the years rendered useless,my offcuts boxes I decided had seen better days and these fed a fire for a few days.
Its time to move onwards and upwards now and to make a new life for myself and put things behind me,nothing will change the past and this fresh modelling start will mean a new era for me,wonder what my first new solid model subject will be ? really looking forward to sharpening up the knives and chisels and getting down to business again !
Barry aka Balsabasher.

[cliff strachan]

Good luck with all the moving, Barry. You've had some difficult decisions to make when deciding what to keep and what to toss. As I'm also in the process of moving I can appreciate your concerns. But I must marvel at your very calm attitude to it all.

Cliff.

[R.F.Bennett]

Welcome to our 300th member, Rastarn!   

[R.F.Bennett]

There's a Build Contest coming next month, With a BIG PRIZE!. . .  

[Ken Pugh]

Will there be a model of the year for 2012?

[R.F.Bennett]

Up in the Air right now, This is a different type of competition. Rules will be announced when we say GO! at the end of the month.
Good to hear from you. . .

[cliff strachan]

Welcome to SMM Rastarn. As member #300 you will always be unique with our/your Group.

Cliff.