Luft46's Blog

Evidently in the coming year Thailands government intends to install thousands of routers for tourists and locals. I am not surprised by this at all.

After nearly three weeks in Thailand  the workbench is back in action. Project of the moment is the Okha floatplane. This is a supposed Okha mounted on a set of A13E1 “Jake” floats according to a book by Justo Miranda. Not really sure how realistic this is but am doing my best guess. The Okha is from the Hase Betty and Okha kit I bought back in 2011ish off eBay ™ ( on my lawyers advice I must include this 🙂  ), great to pay 40 odd bucks and discard 90% of the kit contents as there are no other plastic Okha’s out there. AV did do one in resin but that is harder to find than even the Hase version which is as rare as rocking horse shit.

The Betty went elsewhere for someone intending to mount other engines on it but I think that project is as dormant as this one was till yesterday. The rocket engines are from the MAC V-1 kits and three are needed. These were about the only rockets I could find in my stash that vaguely suit though they appear slightly small compared to the plans but I am not going to sweat over that one.

Due to mounting the dirty great big floats on such as small plane the rear supports have to be bent at about 45 degrees and my first earlier attempt at this was a failure causing the rear strut to break. This was actually why this project was stopped. On further consideration bending was never going to work so the other strut will be chopped of and remounted. Making this vaguely symmetrical on both sides looks like being a bitch but first I need to get the canopy test fitted.

Wifi – in Thailand this was available freely in more places than I could believe, to the point that one hotel we stayed at which was barely 3 star didnt even have a password as protection and many places had almost joke passwords such as the shop name 1234.
Many shops offered free wifi as an inducement to shop there obviously targeted at foreigners or farung. The only time we almost paid was at our last hotel in Bangkok which had obviously not caught up with the times and wanted 20 times what a local internet cafe was charging which we passed on.