You know what really grinds my gears? The Gears Strike Back

Weathers due to be pants this weekend

Omg don’t joke…Well then…

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I’m happy that the RAD I’m attending on Saturdays drill comp is in doors otherwise I will be very wet

Where is RAD this year?

Persec, but it’s at a location in HIOW

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Depends on your region

For example, our RAD is in the past!

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Fun day that was, standing in a hallway for five hours.

Such is the woe of modeling.

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Ah modelling… where of course in 100% of cases it’s always the cadets who do the modelling. Never just the staff and never ever a professional 3rd party model bought in!

Give me strength.
What’s wrong with a timed assault course instead.

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I actually do mine at home, because I’m an enormous dweeb.

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You mean you order it from home, right?

Remind me to show you all my pile of uncompleted models sometime.

And the pile of things I ran off on the 3D printer and haven’t assembled yet.

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No offence, but I won’t be doing that…

:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I don’t know where half of it’s gone anyway.

Which is why our comp has been changed to getting the cadets in a room and giving them 6 hours to build a kit from scratch that they’re provided with on the day.

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Mate. Everyone knows you never collect the uncompleted models in one place! The other half might see for a start!

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Hardly a proper test of modelling skills, is it?

But at least it’s not a test of which squadron has the better adults… It’s not perfect, no.

I take it you do the same with your photographic competition and any postal shoots?

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No clue about the postal shoots, 99% of the shooting in the wing is done centrally anyway so I don’t think that’s much of an issue.

And yes, that’s a point of debate. Last WTD they said any that were ā€œobviously not done by cadetsā€ would be dq’d…

They give with one, and take with another :roll_eyes: