Unidentified Flying Object

Sorry haven’t had a chance to pick it up for ages. Was hoping for a bit of time on my week off this week, but I’ve been found other things to do around the house. Including installing a new cooker and finding out the hob I fitted in a few years ago has had an electrical fault and nearly burnt out the neutral wire. No idea when that happened, but now have to get a new one and fit it. Not a single second to get any modelling done.

I might have to admit defeat with this little project.

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As I continue to learn on harsh terms, no one escapes real life. Definitely get that electrical stuff fixed.

I will let the campaign run for the full extension, just in case.

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Thanks.

Real life really has found a way of getting in the way of a lot of projects the last year or so.

This one though is strange. I don’t remember hearing anything pop or noticing a burning smell, so I have no idea when it happened. Until I flipped it up to put the oven in and checked the terminal under the hob, I had no idea and had been using it. I’m not going to use it again just to be on the safe side. I dread to think what could have happened had I not checked. Doing a bit of googling, loose wires arcing seems to be the most likely cause. So it’s possible the screw could have loosened. I don’t know. I think a new hob and new wires are the way to go.

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I am currently replacing a lot of old light switches and power power receptacle in my own house. It is clear that in many cases, the plastic deteriorated with age, causing a few failures. In my kitchen, a few of the end connectors for florescent lights were ready to fall apart. I will rewire that for LED bulbs.

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Wow! I don’t envy you that task. If I had to do that, I would be calling in the professionals. Sounds like you caught that just in time before something more serious happened.

But yeah, electricity is not something to be taken lightly. I can manage simple connections and changing plug sockets, but anything major I’ll get more qualified people. Gas, that I won’t touch!

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Unidentified Flying Object is now concluded!

Congratulations to @justsendit, @KoSprueone, and @Trisaw for your successful entries!

Campaign information was submitted for campaign medal awards. If your campaign medal does not show up in a week or two, please let me know.

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Thanks for the fun campaign. I already have kits for another one if it happens.

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Thanks for the great campaign and the unique campaign ribbon. When I saw the campaign ribbon of the UFO over the road, I really wanted it, hence I entered. :grinning_face:

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Thanks for running the campaign. It was fun seeing the builds come together.

Disappointed in myself that I never finished that little F-19. A very frustrating little model, probably should’ve chosen something better in hindsight. I’ll post some images when I do get around to it again.

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How would all of you feel about an Alien Technology campaign? Build a model of a piece of alien technology, an alien wearing some form of alien technology, an alien craft, a human using some form of alien technology, and/or or a human craft augmented with alien technology. The alien technology should be an obvious focal point of the subject.

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I’m for it. I can reenter my 2025 Sci-Fi Campaign Japanese garage kit resin mech as “Alien technology.” I barely started that kit last year. :grinning_face:

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It’s almost two weeks and I haven’t received my badge, but no real rush. :grinning_face: @Damraska

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I bumped the submission message.

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Sounds good to me. Just the reason I need to finally build that Romulan Warbird I’ve had for years. Or that Cardassian Galor.

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Sounds good, I am on for that one. Maybe with a Predator from the predator Alien universe.

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The site manager just rejected the campaign medal for UFO. I will need to come up with something else.

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Oh? I thought the campaign medal looked great. Any reason why?

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It is not an, “award style badge”. In the campaigns area, there is a article explaining how to make a campaign. Linked to that article is an instruction page for making extremely primitive campaign medals. The further away from those primitive designs a campaign medal gets, the more likely the administrator is to reject it. I regularly test the bounds of “award style badge” and sometimes go too far. Like now. When time allows I will try again.

Also, the administrator is upset with small campaigns with few participants so I am probably getting out of the campaign business. Science Fiction stuff does not get a lot of interest.

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@ Doug (Damraska)
Good effort, Doug. Thank you!
If you don’t mind, I’ll download the original image for a personal souvenir…

—mike :backhand_index_pointing_right: CLICK … …:flying_saucer:

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All right. Let’s try this again.

First…

@justsendit I found an error in the original medal. Here are the corrected versions in small and large size.

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@justsendit, @KoSprueone, @Trisaw This is Version 2. I tried to preserve most of the original. Is this acceptable?

Here is version 2 at a bigger size.

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