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I watched a documentary on his death. It concluded from the angle of the wound and that the plane that was chasing him was too far away to hit him, it was indeed ground fire which killed him. In fact they narrowed it down to three specific gunners, then to the most likely one of them. The interesting thing is that they found the full military info on the other two, including ID? photos, but there were no photos in the info for the one who most likely got him.
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When I built my MS Smoothbore Cannon, I used a Sharpie "Permanent" marker for the caulking. Big mistake! After I glued the decking to the ply subdeck, the marker ink ran al over the place while the glue dried ovenight. Had to remove the planks and start again. MS sent me a new set of deck planks free.
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I'm going to have to wait for the DVD, my tv does not support the Apple TV app.
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You have to expect a little "Movie Magic". I'll watch this, probably Thursday.
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Converting a Backyard Shed into a Model Workshop
thibaultron replied to Hank's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Mother nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as a cat does! -
Macton locomotive works III
thibaultron replied to michael mott's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Michael, Look up "Fast Tracks" They sell all types and scales of templates for hand building track and turnouts (switches to some). You don't have to buy one but the picture of one of the dual gauge templates would answer your questions. https://www.handlaidtrack.com/ -
Converting a Backyard Shed into a Model Workshop
thibaultron replied to Hank's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Buy 4X8 sheets and have them cut them down to 2x4 or 2x8 for you, much cheaper. -
Converting a Backyard Shed into a Model Workshop
thibaultron replied to Hank's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Yes, do stagger the rows! -
Converting a Backyard Shed into a Model Workshop
thibaultron replied to Hank's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
I would second the Wefalck's cautions on individual tiles. I've never had anything but trouble with them. I'd recommend vinyl sheet flooring. Glued down, not taped. I taped the vinyl flooring down in some areas of my house, and it is coming apart, where furniture sits on it. It gets pulled back and forth as you sit and get up and thins out in those areas. The areas I did do a full surface glue do not have this problem. A cheap non-foam backed vinyl is more durable, and cheaper, than the foamed backed ones, but getting harder to find. -
Converting a Backyard Shed into a Model Workshop
thibaultron replied to Hank's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Does anyone make a LED replacement lamp for the circular fluorecent bulbs in the lamps with the center magniifer lens? I live by my magnifier lamp, it is much needed now that I am older. -
Dan, sorry to hear that this is your last model. Best wishes.
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Converting a Backyard Shed into a Model Workshop
thibaultron replied to Hank's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
If those are particle/waferboard side pieces on the cabinets, you might want to run a 1X4 along the inside where the bolts are holding the center framework. This will help insure that the bolt heads don't pull through. Don't ask me how I know. 😞 -
Even in the commercial world, gray is difficult between batches. About 40 years ago, there was an interesting joke going around about military radar installations. The US Military has standard colors, with associated color chip sets. In this case a General got it in his head to compare the interiors of the radar installations, with the associated gray chip. Of course the facilities all had slight variations, and he went ballistic! He ordered all of them repainted to the correct color, leaving them a standard chip to use as reference. After the specified time he reinspected, and once again all failed, but for one. The others got in trouble, but the one that passed was commended. After ward the other facilities asked the sergeant in charge, how he got the color right. He replied, I repainted the chip, when I repainted the equipment!
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Converting a Backyard Shed into a Model Workshop
thibaultron replied to Hank's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
I would use at least semi-gloss for the walls, flat will be very difficult to clean, if anything gets splashed on it. -
"Canada's Stalingrad", Ortona, Italy, Dec., 1943.
thibaultron replied to uss frolick's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Great work, it took me a second to realize the first picture was a model! great face painting! -
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That's all well and good, until that 1/48th British destroyer shows up! Then they'll be cursing you for slacking on the sonar bulb! 🙂
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Fantastic work! You might want to put a crewman with a mop and bucket in there, in case they decide to launch her!:-)
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