Timbo

Thought you'd opened a massage parlour Iain!

Several years ago I had to update just about all of our equipment. Everything from computers to cameras. While I was looking into the potential risks of financing all of this our friendly bank manager assigned me an 'advisor'. I thought 'this numpty is going to be about as much use as a chocolate fireguard'. After the initial meeting with our advisor I didn't hear from the 'prat' for two weeks. 'That's the last I'll ever hear from that burk!' I thought. How wrong could I have possibly been? On all counts. I received a detailed and comprehensive report from him along with three appointments he had made for me to visit 'Blackmagic', 'Nikon' and Atomos. I detailed the work we were doing to these companies and the work we could possibly be doing in the future. Quite quickly we had a package put together for us that came in a round a tenth of the budget I had originally been looking at. First to go were the piles of junk from Apple...consigned to the trash where they belonged and replaced with custom PC's. Cameras next, two Blackmagic Design Cinema Cameras with F Mounts. In addition to this we obtained three Nikon D3200's later upgraded to D3300's and although they have cropped sensors they work out just fine for stills, texture and storyboarding tasks. Just as with digital stills you shoot RAW and don't touch JPEG, in film we needed uncompressed footage so we bypassed the cameras and invested in three Atomos field recorder/monitors allowing us to record uncompressed footage at 4K. For personal use I'm shooting with the Nikon D3300 with three prime lenses and recording to the Atomos Shogun. Microphones are K&F Concept shotgun mic, my old trusty Zoom and my even older superb quality Shure Studio mic. Old habits die hard and I decided to not shoot at 4K. I just don't like it. Instead I've gone for HD at 24fps with a shutter speed of 1/50. Lighting comes from a couple of old softboxes I picked up at a carboot for a fiver each.

Oh...no big story there Vaughan, Old Judd bought the contents of the Vicarage at Sprotborough at auction amongst the furniture etc were some personal items and documents of Bader. The desk and book were kept but Judd returned the documents via the bank.

As most of you will know Douglas Bader was a Donny lad. Until this year my desk I used had belonged to Bader, which I kept with a copy of the bill of sale and a copy of Reach for The Sky all purchased by my Grandfather. I say until recently as the desk gave up the ghost resulting in me having to quiz Uncle Albert as to where the oak had gone from the 'oak desk' it turned out Uncle Albert when he had the desk stripped out the oak to make bird boxes. Another entry on the list of 'Things Uncle Albert Has To Answer For'. Number one on this list is occupied by 'Turning down a well known Broadland Pub in the early 1970's when it was offered to him as a gift'. At number two is 'Smashing Up Seven Year Old Timbo's Piano' because 'He's on the thing all the time and who's ever heard of this Chopping bloke, he plays something we know the words to or he doesn't play at all!" I'm not bitter. Did I say I was bitter? Me? No!

I don't know the reasons why it was removed, just that it's no longer there. Could be something as innocuous as being in the wrong place. A local historical society has stopped marking 'ancient' sites as although well intentioned they were often just plain wrong, and there are a lot of folks out there well 'up' on their knowledge of Wartime RAF activities.

Food shopping always done at a combination of Roy's and local butchers/bakers and grocers in Stalham, horning and Wroxham.Occasionally I've been dragged kicking and screaming into Tesco but I refuse to buy anything from them on principal.It may be my mixed Yorkshire/Jewish ancestry but I refuse to pay the often 10p-30p sometimes up to £2 more they charge at Stalham Tesco for an item identical to one in their Lincoln branch simply because its a Tesco...in Stalham. Some long trips I do make, by boat,by car but quite often on foot. I don't mind paying a few pennies and travelling that bit extra to get good quality local produce from a local supplier.

Every week for the past four years I've driven down TillBridge Lane from Gainsborough to Lincoln. On the side of a barn by the road has been a blue plaque commemorating said woofer. I noticed the other day is was missing.

ILM now that screams one luxurious commodity in the animation/3D world...job security! The one effects outfit the studios don't play silly b's with! Some of the out of the way places you end up having to commute to...Canada, India...Iowa...London, as the studios chase tax incentives, are somewhat remote. I would say 'one horse' towns but if they ever saw a horse they would eat it...or make it the mayor. But your son-in-law is at the top of his game as ILM only employ the very best, not only technicians but 'thinkers' or problem solvers. Well the first of my purchases to make life easier arrived...a new 50mm lens. I'm liking the foreshortening I can get with this lens and it is much easier to get shots into focus...although Dylan the Boat's Beagle is not impressed with being a model. I've also ordered a new onboard monitor with really long cables for the camera in the hopes of 'letting the dog see the rabbit'. Although I'm an old fossil Jonzo I started in the digital age so the only tapes I've spliced are C60's and C90's to remove the talking from the music on the Sunday Chart Show on Radio 1 in the late 1970's early 1980's!

...is harder than it looks! Having spent the latter part of my career working with film...everything from animation to digital effects, colour grading, editing and directing...it is with much chagrin that when I get behind the camera on a home movie project I realise I'm clueless. It's not as though I've not been behind a lens before. I've spent hours filming green screen tracking shots.When I'm animating I'm quite happy designing shots and playing with camera angles. I can't even blame 'lack of equipment' as an excuse as I'm sat looking at a pair of cameras capable of shooting at 4k and enough sound and lighting equipment to cobble dogs with! Seriously hats off to those Youtube guys. Especially the guys that make instructional videos. Back to basics for me...right, marker pen...now then this is my elbow and this other bit is my a

Grendel if you need some hardwoods...oak, walnut,black walnut meranti, iroko, beech, maple and mahogany I have a shed full of of off cuts that I dip into for box making. I save any sliver of hardwood no matter how small...just in case. Give me a yell and I'm sure we can get some to you. They are in thicknesses from 5mm upwards and lengths and widths anything from a couple of cm's to feet and inches. You can tell wooden boaters from the amount of timber around the house. My hallway is my timber store...the only place I have large enough and dry enough to store everything.

Thoroughly enjoyed that! Especially the 'tips' and guidance for 'ladies passing yachts'. There you go Gracie...next time just strip down to your underwear and cruise calmly by!

Fortunately I'm well ahead on this game as when I made the original investment I decided against the Beta and went VHS.

Royal Tudor is on her second engine I believe. Currently a BMC 1.5 for most of her lifetime. Now this is only conjecture, perhaps someone could help here, but I think when she was built in 1960 she had a petrol engine. I'm basing this on what people have said when they notice than she still has operational electric 'bilge blowers' fans and ventilation? I'm also basing it on the fact that the engine sits just proud of the cockpit floor with the bay covers having had modifications to accommodate the cap on top of the engine.

Welcome to the forum Paws from a fellow Yellowbelly. Speedtriple it's your lucky day...take advantage of this special once in a lifetime offer...a weekend in Timbo's retreat in deepest darkest Lincolnshire. Plenty of room...Uncle Albert won't mind topping and tailing, should you choose the luxury break we'll even shower him before you arrive. Plain Jane can accommodate with a Taxi,well...not so much a taxi as a croggy on the back of her pushbike, but we offer more than just Jane...there's Sandra an' all.Send a signed blank cheque to Timbo's boat fund to guarantee your booking. Terms and conditions apply.

I beg to differ...a bloke in Zambia keeps emailing me telling me how the bottom has not fallen out of the thrutchasauraus industry and would I like to send him £3000 so he can send me £500000000000000 in gold bullion? Mind I do have to say the last couple of times we hired from Herbert Woods the cleanliness of the interior of the boat left a lot to be desired. Bits of old soap, long hairs stuck in the sinks...and the sheet that had been darned so often...it was all darn and no sheet.

That would be ...£2.80

Well now, the suspenders will be kept on...for just a little while longer...

Ego melior calceamenta!

Nipper was/is/will be again a stunning boat. Doug kindly gave Arbi (my assistant) and I a trip to Barton on Nipper a couple of weeks ago. Made Arbi's day he had a grin like a pedal bin for the rest of the trip...kept asking questions on how I was going to get Royal Tudor to the same standard.

From the day Ben Gunn, future father in law, realised that some of the models I was making in 3Ds Max for film were being 3D printed for promotion purposes...he's started a small collection of broken plastic pieces from various lawn mowers, strimmers, car, pens and furniture. He regularly tracks the price of 3D printers for when the price of them drops to what he would consider affordable. I get the feeling that on the day he discovers a sub £500 3D printer I will receive an envelope filled with his collection of broken plastic junk. I of course will be posting said envelope to Grendel!

Eee tha waint get a ride on a donphant at Brid let alone buy an 'oss for twentyfive quid!

The days of me managing a thin strip jig are well behind me...but the beer belly two step...

Thin planks on the table saw Grendel...I made one of these today and managed to get some 5mm veneers cut really easy and of consistent thickness.

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