Losing grip – Dusk or daybreak? Hot or chilly? Cat or canine?
Check it out! My trx-4 Simba has lastly gotten a brother in my SCX10 Akela. Which do you like? Cat or canine? Hot or chilly. Dusk or daybreak? Red or blue? We all have a choice, don’t we? The Lion King or The Jungle Book? So that you just don’t must google it: Akela is the chief of the wolf pack that adopts Mowgli within the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. An ideal title and theme for a paint job when you ask me. Quite the problem it was, however properly value it in the long run.
If you might be studying this and are a very long time fan of BigSquid, additionally, you will have seen that I’m nonetheless alive. Nothing new there actually, has occurred earlier than. Three months with out columns, for which I’m sorry. Maybe you’re not, but when so: in your face, I’m right here once more! BigSquid needed one of the best, however he didn’t make it, so that is what you get: Losing grip! Me, that’s.
Me, not too long ago having misplaced grip of my house nation, in favour of Down Under. Moving sucks, there’s no two methods about it. Not least after we’re speaking shifting between continents. Back house it’s daybreak, right here it’s nightfall. Hot at house, chilly right here. See, they’ll’t construct correct homes in Queensland. If it’s 57 levels exterior, it’s additionally 57 levels inside. Which is the case proper now. I’m sporting lengthy johns, trousers, and 5 layers of clothes (together with a down vest and plenty of merino wool) on my higher physique. Still chilly. Toes barely numb.
Well, as I used to be saying, shifting sucks. No pastime time by any means up to now couple of months, no time for my beloved column. Luckily, I’m beginning to discover my ft now, and spare time will quickly enter my life once more. A little bit bit has trickled down already, sufficient for a brief column.
So, what is going to the longer term maintain? That relies upon so much on native headquarters. I’m attempting to get permission to purchase a VS4-10, or perhaps one thing RC4WD, however what with cash being thrown in all places proper now (automotive, bikes, cutlery, faculty charges, uniforms, the checklist goes on…) she is a bit reluctant to say the least. I’ll get there. In the meantime, I’ll pester Brian till he sends me the Redcat RDS I do know he has laying round.
More on Akela subsequent week, or take a look at some pics here within the meantime. See ya!
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