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I absolutely love my coffee (as any good programmer should). But when I had heart problems and diagnosed with 2 separate types of palpitations, large doses of caffeine are a no go anymore.
Decaf has been a blessing as I can continue to enjoy a cup of coffee with colleagues but not affect my condition.
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Me too. I was already drinking decaf (caffeine starting to give me headaches) but when the heart problems showed up there was a distinct correlation to caffeine. I can still tolerate a couple of non-decafs a day (so long as I keep taking the tablets!). But alcohol.... never a heavy drinker, even half a glass of lowish-alcohol wine not only gives me a migraine but causes severe heart flutter etc. So teetotal now 
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I dare to say decaf coffee, any sort of it, is just as "good" as alcohol-free beer. A buddy of mine says it's like licking one's sister. Doesn't taste differently, but feels so incredibly wrong.
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Coffee has 95 mg/8 oz of caffeine. Espresso has 64 mg/1 oz.
So in principle you get more caffeine from regular coffee than espresso.
But your real question is why decaf.
Some people like the taste of coffee but not the side effects from the caffeine.
Some people have regular coffee in the morning and decaf in the afternoon.
Some people add cream and/or sugar so even a cu of decaf is still a sweet creamy treat.
Then there was my Dad who when asked, "Regular of decaf?" He would respond, "Either."
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The question about "why decaf?" comes up all the time at my work. The answer is simple: we like drinking coffee and it has health benefits (only without milk or sugar according to the science--see nutritionfacts.org). You can get the same amount of caffeine with a pill that costs a penny, so why drink espresso at all if not for the pleasure and health benefits? Decaf makes as much sense as regular, seems to me.
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If you had to paint a 1/16 scale plastic version of the following object, what colors would you use and what techniques would you use to apply them?
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/detail-turbine-helicopter-bell-uh-h-iriquois-close-view-63462664.jpg[^]
Aircraft in Detail - UH-1 Iroquois Walkaround Gallery[^]
My best guess right now:
The turbines inside get a base code of a medium metallic color and a wash of flat black to make them dirty.
The inside of the exhaust pipe gets a dull medium gray and the spiraling kerosene residue is drybrushed with flat black or very dark gray.
The outside of the pipe gets a similar treatment, but with more black drybrushed on everywhere. Some traces of rust and again some medium metallic color are drybrushed onto the end and the edges for detailing.
Does that sound like a plan. At the moment these parts are still in the color of the filament I used to print them. In my personal color reference chart that color is known as 'light turd brown'.
(Yes, Glenn, I'm finally working un the Huey again)
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Hmmm, I would use a mix of metallic & copper paints with black!, I did that on a EE Lightning (non of this F35 malaky!) and it looked good!
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I'm very sure that this is just a better steel stovepipe, which is perhaps coated to prevent heat and corrosion to eat it up in no time. So you suggest to mix in some copper to make it look more like metal discolored by the heat of the turbine?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yup, the shiny copper I used (Revell I think) had little flecks that would have made a solid copper look odd, but great as a sort of high light.
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Black. Mat, gloss - whatever's handy.
Big brush; maybe a 6 incher. I'd break out the fence sprayer, but that's a lot of faff to clean for a little bit of spraying.
Now you know why I don't do model making. 
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Then please tell me what you would do with the red anticollision light right above the turbine. 
(I use a LED with a built in oscillator)
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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SFW[^]
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That should be ok for a Vietnam Huey.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It would work for "Good morning Vietnam", but you'd need Ride of the Valkyries[^] for most of 'em.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yep. Four lasers and two launchers with seven proton torpedos each. Enough to kill the Death star.
Wait. That was the X-Wing. These Huey gunships have four M60C machineguns and two rocket launchers (7 rockets each). I designed and 3D printed them, but took them off again so that they don't get into the way when I paint the model. I also tried printed surfboards, but if you look at your movie clip, you will see that the gunships don't have the surfboards with them. There is too little room between the weapons and the landing skids.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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2 or 5 mm LED, 2 for small scale, 5 for bigger. Not really messed with anything radio controlled so am not too familiar with the scales...
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That cheap glass fiber body from Asia was not made to any specific scale. Partially because they simply could not care less, partially because they simply got some things wrong and partially for real technical reasons. The length of the tail is determined by the diameters of the main rotor and the tail rotor, not really true to any scale. The mechanical parts have to fit in, after all.
Overall, I go by a scale of 1/16. The side doors are more like 1/18, but that seems to be an accident. For normal plastic models that is quite large, but it's actually the smallest RC helicopter I would like to fly. Size does matter here, because they fly better and more stable.
And then there is the price tag. This Huey is really a cheap thing from Asia. You would not believe how ugly and inaccurate it looks off the shelf: Look here[^]
I actually found the decals for exactly the helicopter I also wanted to have. Someone had them made is 1/6 scale for a far more expensive model. I took a look at it on their website. Very nice, but it would cost me at least 4000 - 5000 bucks to get it into the air. And it does not even have guns.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Waiting for a Jenkins build too finish, so wasting time I clicked on the link again and was looking at it the tail seems at angle which the real Huey/UH1/Bell 411 wasn't, it appears too short! Have they altered that for aerodynamic reasons or is another detail they have been creative about?
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It's a 'short' Huey, a Bell 204. Much earlier than a Bell 411. The model is a very early Huey, like a UH_1A or a UH-1B. I'm trying to pass it off as a UH-1E (which looks very similar to a UH-1C), which already had a longer tail and a narrower tail fin. They did that because they built in stronger turbines. With more engine power, you need longer main rotor blades to get that power 'on the road' and then the tail must be longer so that the main rotor and the tail rotor can't collide.
Later Hueys (UH-1D and later) had a longer cabin for more seats and even stronger turbines or twin turbines, so the rotor blades and the tails also kept getting longer.
The narrower tail fins have only one reason: To obstruct the air flow of the tail rotor a little less to make it more effective.
I have only one picture of the original Marine UH-1E where you get to see a gread side profile. It is a later UH-1E, which should look more like a UH-1C and have a longer tail and the stronger turbine. Still, the tail looks like that of a UH-1B with a broader tail fin. It's very confusing, but actually these helicopters were repaired, refitted and upgraded all the time. Sometimes even repaired with whatever parts were at hand. Some even so much that you can't tell anymore which version it originally was.
Stop crying, pilot. Your tail was shot off and we got you a perfectly good one from another Huey that was out of action. Or would you like a little vacation until they ship us the correct parts?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'd paint it the same way I painted models as a kid: get my mate Dave to do it in exchange for a week's worth of maths homework answers. Never failed.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Yeah that all sounds good. I was going to suggest a goldish color for fins and edge, but eyes are really bad this morning and can't tell if it's goldish or not!
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Quote: How would you paint this thing?
Badly.
CodeWraith wrote: what techniques would you use to apply them?
My secret techniques: shaky hands and poor eyesight.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Believe me, everything is an improvement when it's printed in light turd brown[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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