message to Surfduke

[Billy Leliveld]

I'm also very curious what happened to Carl, this guy could design models at the same speed somebody could build them..This tread was never ended;
M2-F2 Design Thread
So Carl, just drop in , when you are in the neighbourhood
cheers, Billy

[Mechanic]

I don't know if I can explain easily, but it is an easy method. I assembled the top cone, then assembled the heatshield pieces from the center out.

As Carl has drawn the the heatshield, I just used a single flat piece in the center rather than trying to make that very shallow cone, and the final band that separates the top from the bottom, I couldn't glue all those wedges together so I made a simple band in it's place.

I used glued on tabs so I could butt the seams. The final seam between the upper cone and the lower band (w/tabs on lower), glue the tabs and push both halves together until the glue sets.

It occured to me, when I was building Delta 7's Mercury, that the reason Dan put a hatch on there was so you could get your fingers inside to the tabs. The second Mercury I built I did that way and it worked well, but I had a few reasons not to do it that way with this model.

[Waeschens]

Hello Carl,
please come back.

Regards

Michael

[Cut 'n' Paste]

Originally Posted by paulhbell

I don't think there is anything wrong here. Members are looking in the thread, because one of our family is missing. Because people don't post, don't mean people don't care.

That's right. I have downloaded lots of Sufduke's stuff but not built any yet. Nevertheless, I appreciate what he has done and wholeheartedly add my thanks.

Graham

[The Hermit]

who ever borrowed carl need to put him back!!! or else

[aphelion16]

Surfduke, we all miss you as you can see. For those of us of a certain age, for whom Apollo is not just a Wikipedia entry, I thank you.
The launch of ASTP was my first opportunity to see a launch from the Cape. We got to see most of the old Apollo equipment before it was modified or scrapped. Best of all we even got to go inside the VAB, as Roy Rodgers said upon seeing it, "it shore would hold a lot of hay".
So I thank you for your work, and hope to build your designs in the future.
You know a models good when it makes you giggle out of sheer joy as you try to put it together.

[Hans Christian]

sir carl, we sure hope your'e doing all right!!!

Take care always!!!

[MOS95B]

I will continue to host his models until I can no longer afford my site.

I hope he at least sticks his head in and says "Hi" sometime....

[jparenti]

You are good to do this, MOS95B. I know that I am personally grateful to you that your site is there when we need it. I hope Carl will return to us as well, just so we can show him that we're catching up on our builds. He was cranking them out faster than I could print them.

[Hans Christian]

sir MOS', if ever the site closes down (I sure hope not), we sure hope you'll upload the models in the downloads section, or pass them to our good guys with their own sites...

sir Carl's models are too good to be lost...

[fructose]

MOS, you're a good man. If you can't host your site anymore I can host it on mine. Drop me a line if you want to set something up.

[dhanners]

Ya know, it started bugging me over the weekend that we haven't heard from Surfduke for such a long time, so this morning, I Googled his real name to check to see if he'd croaked (working as a reporter, I also have ready access to various other public records) and I couldn't find an obituary or a newspaper mention in the town where I know he once lived, Fitzgerald, GA. Also, the feds haven't gone after him, so it appears he's not sitting in jail somewhere. At least not a federal one.

I'm sure he's off doing something constructive, and maybe taking a respite from the hobby. Heaven knows he contributed a lot to it in a very short time, so maybe he got burned out. Whatever it is, I hope he's doing ok and wish him the best, as do we all.

Watching "When We Left the Earth" last night made me want to tackle his Skylab, although I myself have a move coming up in a month and most of my hobby stuff is already packed....

[timhinds1@cox.net]

Originally Posted by dhanners

to see if he'd croaked ....

Thanks for the update we appreciate your reaearch but I do think you might have put it a little more reverently.

[Niels]

Hi

Carl do not answer my mails either. Like most of you I have been concerned. But as a librarian - I know a trick or two. In fact Carl posted on a computer messageboard for less than two days ago. (There is no doubt it is him). As David says, It seems, that he wants to take a break from paper modelling.

I miss Carl just as much, as you do. But I respect, if he want to be left alone. Therefore I have not tried to contact him - and will not post any links to the site here. In fact I only post this message to tell you not to worry.

MOS95 can contact me off list on nielspapermodels@yahoo.com

[Mechanic]

Originally Posted by Niels

Hi

Carl do not answer my mails either. Like most of you I have been concerned. But as a librarian - I know a trick or two. In fact Carl posted on a computer messageboard for less than two days ago. (There is no doubt it is him). As David says, It seems, that he wants to take a break from paper modelling.

I miss Carl just as much, as you do. But I respect, if he want to be left alone. Therefore I have not tried to contact him - and will not post any links to the site here. In fact I only post this message to tell you not to worry.

MOS95 can contact me off list on nielspapermodels@yahoo.com

Please don't take offense, but are you SURE it was Surfduke? I find it hard to believe that someone who wrote: "I will be back to the fun this week. I missed this little slice of the human pie very much!", just two days before he fell off the face of the Earth would just "take a break" from here and not reply to any personal emails.

I miss him, and if he has not passed, I don't see him NOT contacting someone, somehow, unless he is literally physically unable.

Is there not anyone here who personally, physically, knows Carl that can let us know what has happened to him?