Mundane News

[biggs682]

Neighbours story Iines gets worse

 

[PeteXXX]

I don't know what a buzz bar is either..

Anyway, bees shouldn't drink in public!

 

[Reynard]

Sunny, chilly and blowing a stiff northerly here chez Casa Reynard.

I have had a bit of a kitchen morning, prepping potatoes and veg for tonight's supper, and I have also done some writing - or rather, some re-writing. I am attempting to untangle a bit I did last week that doesn't work as it should.

Later this afternoon I will have to go to Littleport to run a couple of errands for the parental unit. I may stop by the Co-op on the way home to recycle all my soft plastics.

Anyways, it is almost time for luncheon.

 

[Reynard]

No. I have just got some brief dimensions like length, width , height and wheel diameter. I have had to use the wheel diameter as a base unit to work from on the photographs. I have managed to make a general shape which I am slowly whittling away at . The fact that the car is black as detail is lost in shadows. Some of the contours that I have put into the model can determine how the shape follows on from there. Reflections can assist in confirming how the shapes flow. It is a bit frustrating not being able to see certain areas. The car is certainly humpy bumpy!
I have been doing a bit of whittling over the past couple of days . I took some balsa off the front horizontal section . I was wondering how a driver would see out with it being that high . I might have forgotten that I had put some extra on to join the front slopy bit. A bit of a rest and going back to it with fresh eyes does help . It is progressing slowly .

Mmmm, that's where I started with the drawings for the Higman - I knew the wheel diameter and the external width of the chassis rails, and that was it. I spent about a week scaling all the photos to be able to turn out the drawings I needed.

What might work is if you run the photos through an image editor - turn them into a negative and then greyscale them.

Oh, and the relevant articles in the FIA technical regs should be available on the 'net. That'll give you the heights for the roll bar, the cockpit dimensions plus some other fairly useful data, which should help with some of the guesstimates.

 

[DCLane]

SWMBO's not shifting from her office, which I've been using the back corner of as my teaching space for the past 18 months, as she's still on leave.

That should make life interesting for the next hour or so whilst I deliver my lecture this afternoon ...

 

[PeteXXX]

15 miles to Screwfix and back this morning via Workbridge café to meet a mate, and his kiddies, to eat cheese scones & drink coffee.
On the way back, another friend hailed me from his electric bike as he caught me up on the incline towards my house. He did throttle back a bit (or whatever you do to slow down) as I wheezed along beside him...

 

[biggs682]

Booster jab booked for next month

 

[Reynard]

Lovely lunch. One slice of bread & butter with my home cured salmon, one slice of bread & butter with apple & date chutney and a cracking 18 month matured Cornish cheddar, plus a minneola, half an avocado and two

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I do love these trees at this time of year. Outside Scaffolders Mansions.

 

[Reynard]

I have just hand washed some face masks.

 

[Andy in Germany]

What is your buzz bar?

I only pretended to understand but it doesn't seem to be long enough to accommodate the cooker fuse which should be there.

I assumed it was the new word for a trendy and popular establishment serving beverages.

 

[carpiste]

25 miles done earlier in bright sunshine but OMG! I had a short distance to ride on a downhill stretch of road and as I hit 20 mph I could feel the icy cold blast of Autumnal weather. Once I got onto the tracks I usually use the mitts were sufficient but from today I`ll be wearing the winter gloves!
Still lots of walkers and cyclists about on both the Bridgewater canal and the transpennine way.

 

[Illaveago]

I've been doing a bit of playing. I haven't glued the bits on yet. The halo is going to be made up of several layers of ply wood.

 

[carpiste]

What is your buzz bar?

In the fishing World these are buzz bars

They are used to sit Carp rods on. Bite alarms at the front and rod rests at the back

 

[mybike]

We have wall to wall blue here in Stafford

It's blue here too.