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  1. thibaultron
    Welcome!
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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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    For planking help, do a search on this site for "planking tutorials". Chuck has a series of videos on planking.
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    AS a note; Do not buy tortoise shell, if you live in the USA. It is illegal to import.
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    The other problem with the nitrocellulose, is that it deteriates over time. The movie storage mentioned above has the added problem that the film disolves into a gel over time, a quit flamable one. I learned this from a film collector about 40 years ago, who described the condition of some of the films he had bought, and the care he needed to use, whenever he opened a "new" old film he had purchased, for the first time.
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    The best way I've seen to remove the char, is to scrape it off with the edge of a razor blade held 90 degres to the surface.
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    Thank You!
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    Welcome!
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    The cast metal parts should be Britannia metal not aluminum. This is a type of pewter.
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    Just a note: You might want to move the lower pulley over to the side opposite the door you always seem to go in.
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    I'm in! Great looking subject.
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    On my ships I was soldering sliding fit brass tubing, so some bridging capabilities.
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    I agree, just try the Stay Brite on some scrap, it is not much harder than regular soldering. I used it all the time on my RC Combat Warships.
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    I'm following. Maybe the carpenter built it, after comsuming the contents!
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    Glad to hear it was not 19! Best wishes for a fast and complete recovery. You probably already know this, but I found sleeping in my recliner, helped to keep the lungs clearer, when I had the big P.
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    Thanks for the review! I just ordered a copy from Amazon for ~$19 US.
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    Received mine yesterday, have not had a chance to look through it yet.
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    Stunning!
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    Here we have plenty of TP, but all the Lysol, hand sanitizer, rubbing alcohal, masks, and cleaning wipes are long gone.
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    Get one like one of these: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Air-Tank-Tattoo-Nail-Tool-TC20T-Set-1-5-HP-Airbrush-Compressor-Air-Demand/323506475598?epid=19032708877&hash=item4b527d124e:g:lrYAAOSwnbZYHsfY https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-6-HP-Airbrush-Compressor-Kit-W-23L-Air-Tank-For-Tattoo-Nail-Painting-Tool/173917474491?hash=item287e4a0ebb:g:lrAAAOSwKmtc7qkZ They have a nice regulator, and are fairly quiet. The owner of Badger Airbrushes, says that they are the same as the ones he and others sell, built in the same factory, just without the added cost of buying a name brand label. The small block type compressors have poor pressure regulation.
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    My copy, is also on the way! Thanks for the review!
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    The point of sailing is to go, it is the journey, not the destination, that is important.
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    There were several different clubs, there may have been a 1/96. Yes a 9 foot or so Iowa would be imense! Our club was the original, and others started from our example. Other than the BB(ours) or 1/4" ball bearing, the biggest difference was most of the other clubs went with scale X actual ships speed/X for model. Ours was the square root of the speed, ie. 1/12th of actual ships speed. This is the formula that the US Naval Design group uses when studying a model in their water tank. This gives the same wave dynamics as the real ship will. Water does not scale. The other clubs run into the problem, that any sort of wind will blow all the models to the downwind shore, as they can't go fast enough to counteract it. Unfortunately, with the reccession, and time my old club has shrunk to be mostly bases in the NE, and my limited budget does not allow for much travel. I also found that after my sons grew up, and dropped out of the hobby, my interest also diminised. Now all my batteries are dead and the RC equipment out dated, so a large amount of funds would be needed to restart. I still have all my, and my sons' ships though, I did sell my first one to fund the USS Arizona I scratch built for the 1991 season.
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    One of my former hobbies, was indeed RC Warship Combat, hence the origin of the offered gun. Our ships were 1/144th scale. Built several over the years, both kits(2), one from a stripped hull, one scratch from plans, and one I did the drafting for myself from Naval Archive plans. The guns were either 50 or 75 shot semi-auto, the number allowed varied by ship size and class. I can supply plans for a bilge pump also.

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