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On BlueSky and software developer for the glory 🥱 of the empire 🦁😳, Qapla’! 🙋‍♂️😎

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Seems we had something similar back then in the Netherlands. It looked just like those local '90s house parties and early Dutch raves hosted at the local venue. The tune we heard all evening: Speedy J - Pull Over 🎧😎🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHsN...

If you see this post something blue. (I went to the shop today for one bottle of blue paint and came back with four, meaning I now have seven bottles in total including the ones I already had.).

Went to the shop to buy one bottle of blue paint. Came back with four 🙄, making me the proud owner of seven bottles of blue paint: "Blue Is the Warmest Color" (IMO a great movie, with Adèle Exarchopoulos 🤩, won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival).

Microsoft no longer supports my Office 2021 Home Edition and wants me to buy M$ 365, which comes with cloud storage 🕵️☁️🕵️ and an ongoing subscription 💸 It's time to look for a non-US tech alternative 🤔

Vallejo 71.004 Blue mixed with a bit of 71.057 Black doesn’t work well 😭 Not sure why, but the mixture hardly shows up against the black primer base coat. Vallejo 71.266 Dark Blue seems to have better coverage, so I’ll try that instead 🤔

Applied Ocean Gray (AV 71.273). Raw plastic straight out of the box is almost the same colour 🤔 Green camo next 😎

The ESM (Euro Scale Modelling) model-making competition info - zero points are awarded for: - visible seams and gaps 🔎 - silvering decals 🤩 - streaky brush marks 🔬 - poor paint coverage 🔭 - unrealistic weathering 🌦️ That way my models and 98% of the models out there don't stand a chance 😅

Applied a new acrylic base coat by brush 🖌️ Some sanding to follow. Applying enamel paint went better than I remembered from when I was a kid. But AV Model Air acrylics are intended for an airbrush, not a paintbrush 🤔

Is this a pre-shading effect? 🤔 Left (1) had a slightly white background from overspray during a previous paint job. Middle (2) is black primer, and the right (3) is yellow masking tape. Can’t imagine I missed the middle area. Different base coats, and the blue paint looks completely different.

Age yourself with a childhood crush.

Share a fictional character you wouldn't want to fuck with... (in a way she is cute but very toxic and lethal as well)

How I arrived on Bluesky. (leaving that other social media platform)

White stripe sorted, next challenge: the blue stripe. The model kit did include decals for the blue stripe but I am not going to use them. Put together several images and also an image of the real thing to find out what to do for the next paint job 🖌️

It seems I'm enjoying soothing music more the older ⏳ I get. My taste in music from the '80s to now (2026) 🎶 However, it's very unlikely Frédéric Chopin will get into #my9albums soon. I'am not that old yet 😅

Software developer: always learning because things keep changing. Sometimes I wish things were less erratic so I could do more on autopilot. 1989: Cobol 🙄 > VB / VBA 😎 > VbScript> JavaScript > jQuery > TypeScript > AngularJS > Angular 😵‍💫 > MVC 🥱 > 2026:Blazor 😳

The Vallejo white colour does not cover very well. A black primer base coat does not help either, as the base coat keeps showing through. So, applied paint with a brush again, removed the paint streaks using sandpaper and sprayed white again. That is how it turned out, will leave it as it is. 🤔

"Assumption is the MOTHER of all f*ck ups!"

Another icon has passed away: Cronos (Conrad Lant), the founder, vocalist, and bassist of the heavy metal band Venom. I have two of the band’s albums, with “Black Metal” being my favourite.

Never watched MTV TBH. On the other hand I still remember TMF from the 90's. Guess it had to do with VJ Bridget Maasland who was in her early twenties 🤩 at that time 😅 Also remembered that Laser PC. Had one and its Power Supply Unit blew up 🔥🤬 Had to do some soldering for installing a new PSU 😳

Some steps to go before doing the panel lines for my WIPs. I did not (over) accentuate the panel lines in my previous builds. Have to admit the model looks better with panel lines popping out. However, that's often not the case on looking at the planes irl. What do you do with your panel lines?

First computer growing up was the Exidy Sorcerer, mid eighties.

Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe. Is this a good bribe? 🤔 The Swedish Air Force donated this Saab 37 Viggen to the Aviodrome aviation museum (NL) in 2006. Exposed to the elements ever since the plane starts to decay and looks more and more weathered by the day 😳

De "Zeven Provinciën" (1665) was a flagship of Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. The Batavia shipyard started building the replica in 1995. The project was put on hold indefinitely 19 years later. Pictures are from 2017. Hope Association Tourville do better in building their Jean Bart.

35 years ago by now 🎧😎🎧 Founded in 1990 - from the Rotterdam area where I studied & lived in the '90s ⏳

Have to admit I really do enjoy some of those Bollywood movies. Although on singing and dancing 🕺💃🎶 it's fast forward to me ➡️ www.youtube.com/shorts/9o6mU...

Hope this will protect my clothes somewhat against paint specks / drips 🎨🖌️

Was treating my DC-10 with medium gray and decided to spray the Mustang medium gray as well. It might not do justice to the RAF 268th squadron's historical accuracy but I decided to give the underside a white-gray colour 😎 anyway. Like Italeri's RAF colour scheme that looks more whitish 🤔

The programming languages I earn a living are within the top 10 according to the TIOBE programming Community Index. That’s why I like building my scale models. It makes me forget programming languages and statistics like that for a while.

Guess those will be Skynet's first words on becoming self aware 🙄

Interesting: modelkitworld49141446.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/i... I agree it's highly unlikely the hobby will disappear. Prejudice: building plastic model kits is mostly done by OFGS (Old Fat Guys). Can't prevent getting old but I try not to get fat by going to the gym & doing some jogging 🏃‍♂️🐖🐢 😅

Some dry fitting of what i made of the DC-10 wings so far. The Tamiya masking tape did well, no bleeding. And the AV Model Air paints behaved as well. Now on to the upper sides of the wings.

Passed the test. Went to the shop for flow improver and I left the shop with... just flow improver 😎 Although that Tamiya model kit was very tempting but I could resist the temptation 💪 #buildthestash

The P-51A Mustang had its primer. Now on to the next paint layers. Unfortunately it's always AFTER cleaning the airbrush and throwing away the paint that I found out I had forgotten parts that could be sprayed in that spray session as well 😳

It's not the "Artesanía Latina" with its 10.000+ parts 😳 what I am having, It's 'only' the Airfix one what is in my stash. Looking at pictures of the real thing, how many ropes does that thing have? 🙀 Is there some kind a wiring diagram whenever in the future my HMS Victory is ready to be rigged 🤔

Spent some time on the hobby this weekend. Will do some extra sessions next week. Content with the AV Model Air Silver and the AV black primer but several paint sessions need to be done to get satisfying results 🤔

"I hope so, Commander, for your sake. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am." - such a pleasant working environment 😅 -

On our way, 10 years ago (2016) - la Route Nationale, somewhere between Bourges and Troyes. For a tourist most French villages look similar, hardly changing over the years. Really did enjoy my holidays in France.

Could have saved the effort painting the wheel wells. Unlike a Spitfire nothing of it is visible once the landing gear is retracted. Seems the Italeri P51-A model kit is focused on an extended landing gear. The parts in question don’t have the best fit if you want to have a retracted landing gear.

What a great song 😎🎧 Reading the lyrics it seems it has has to with an unpleasant toxic relation? 🤔 Still a great song 🎧😎🎧 youtu.be/9TgUraGg07Q?...

Wasn’t satisfied with the sprayed paint layer so i decided to do some sanding as a preparation for the next layer to come. Just a little bit of sanding giving it an appearance of being in decay on a scrapyard 😅interesting 🤔

Travelling & marriage endurance: mrs driving 🚗 and me doing the navigation 🧭 using a map 😳 - all went well, we reached our destination and we are still married 😅

A medieval gate, built between 1380 and 1425 and given this current appearance after the 1885/1886 restoration. As a resident of the city in question, I almost see it daily without giving it a second thought. However as a tourist, I might have taken countless pictures 📸