All righty then . . .Michael @justsendit truly is the Golden Nugget here at KM 
Cajun 
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I can’t take any credit. I’m merely paying the intel forward. 
Now remember kiddies… 
NO ALL CAPS FLAMING!!! 
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Haven’t heard carriage return since I had to take a summer school typing class taught by a retired Marine Corp typist… Just saying. Thanks for the flashback 
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Check your margins… oy vey
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So my job in West Germany involved typing on an electro-mechanical monstrosity called a KSR. It sat on a rack with a box of multi-part NCR paper on the floor behind it and receivers and reel to reel tape recorders to either side. We would spend 8 or 12 hours just typing away on them. One day, an E6 in my section became frustrated with his KSR, and proceeded to lift his legs up in a sitting position and boot the KSR right off the back of the rack. This guy with the monitor and keyboard reminds me of him!
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As was also the case for manual (and electric typewriters:
One physically had to return the carriage to a start position for a new line, using the carriage return lever.
Electric versions did it automatically.
Trust me folks - I know.
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I really like the look of your build, that camo is excellent 
Watto.
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0D0A for us computer nerds 
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Build the Crusader ET Models movable track links in less then 2 hours together.
I didn’t had the ***** the fill over 400 sinkholes in the tracks which came with the kit (Border)
Border
ET Models
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I’ve begun to to test how I might photograph my sci-fi speedster:
As these are only tests, well some changes have and will happen. I’ve since changed some colors on the vehicle, and have a couple of other figures that will make it to the round of final pictures, hopefully to happen this weekend - in the mean time, well a guy is pleased with the progress -
Cheers
Nick
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The hangar inside was nice,
I liked the “desert” feeling of the photo by the Standard filling station,
maybe an even purer desert or dried out praire background.
The speedster has a Tatooine feeling about it …
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The photo editing here on those hangers is super!
We all love this guy, don’t we? 
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Got base coats down on all projects today. I was running low on Dunkelgelb as my LHS has none in stock nor did my online source, so I have done them in all 3 shades AK offers in their Real Color line (I had a bit left in each bottle) plus Tamiya Dark Yellow. Not sure how I feel about the color on the 38(t).
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Looking very nice Mike … planking turned out really nice … great build buddy.
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That what you used on your weapon handling test ?
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Said it before, but will continue to say it … your photo finishing and set up is superb … every one could easily be real … I really like the internal and external hanger views.
And Erik @Erik67 that stowage makes the build … its so very well done, the cam covers and the cam net look brilliant
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As it happened John, in a way, “Yes”. Standby for eye-glazing!
To aspire to be upgraded from a B3 Staff Clerk (which is what one came out from the training depot with), one simply had to pass a typing test conducted at unit level, so a Chief Clerk could just let you sit the test somewhere away from the mad throng of clerical mayhem in the main office and that was that. I can’t remember the criteria but it was relatively straightforward, one just had to get a move on as the speed required (from the B3 version) was greater. So, say 6 months after arrival at one’s posting, if you passed it, upgraded to B2 - with I think, a small pay rise. You also couldn’t be considered for Lance Corporal until you had it under your belt.
Obtaining the B1 standard was a little more complex in that a 2 week course awaited you; in the UK you had to return to the Corps depot at Blackdown/Deepcut. If in Germany, you had to trek to a massive logistic base at Duelmen, where there was an RAOC training wing. You couldn’t get promoted to Sergeant without it, and one normally had to wait until a few more years of experience were garnered, so all attendees on the course would be Full Screw.
I wasn’t particularly keen to attend the course but in the end | had no choice; at the time I was employed in a NATO Army Group HQ, actually in a bloody typing pool which really pi**ed me off, anyway, I duly reported after flogging up the autobahn in my tax-free Mini 1275GT. I know, I know, of all the cars unsuitable for continental motoring, the type probably takes the biscuit.
Anyway, day one of the course started with a typing test; 300 words in 10 minutes with only 3 mistakes permitted. If you failed, you were Returned To Unit (RTU). Honestly - tougher than SAS selection! No prisoners - binned off the course! So a few, very few, did indeed get RTU’d, where doubtless they had to face the wrath of their respective Chief/Superintending Clerks.
As I’d been languishing in the aforementioned typing pool (which I shared with a Belgian Para Commando) my typing wasn’t a problem and I rinsed it; by then I could probably hammer out something approaching 50 words per minute which wasn’t bad going by any standard.
So “Yes” - I was tested on such a machine!
For info, the rest of the course was pretty dire; lot of emphasis on manuals - fair enough - but us switched-on Full Screws, most working at Formation HQ level, not Ordnance Corps Orderly Rooms, knew more than the instructors, who to be honest, were mostly from an ordnance unit background. It was a little embarrassing at times; we were the Ninjas and we were coming through - and we did(!)
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