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If you want, I can give you a design for a RC BB gun, to protect your duck from attack. 🙂

I have not forgotten this build. I was hoping to find my stash of silkspan, while I was moving stuff around, after finishing the back section of the shop, but failed to find it. today I ordered some new silkspan, and will continue the build in the next couple of weeks, when it arrives. I just could not force myself to use the vacuum formed ones supplied with the kit.

I was asked if I could make the files for the Skipjack Hand Dredge Winches available to my fellow modelers. I have decided to do so. Here are the SketchUp files for both the 1/32nd and 1/64th versions. They are to be printed in Shapeways "Fine Detail Plastic", the "Smoothest" option. Here are views of the CAD drawings, for reference. The dimensions shown on these CAD views may not be accurate, as I refined the design when I went to SketchUp, and never went back to correct them. The parts I had printed looked good, but I never actually completely assembled them, so some fitting may be needed. For both models the winch shaft and the support rods are to be fabricated by the modeler. The square nuts go on both the inside and outside surfaces of the legs to lock the support rods in place. The small nuts are for the top of the bearing covers, and were used to hold the bearing covers in place. These are not shown in the CAD drawings, but you can see them in the photos. The 1/32nd drawing meets Shapeways standards, at least as far as a couple years ago. Here is a shot of the layout. Note that all the parts must be sprued for them to print it. When I had my copies printed, this was not required. This is a shot of the 1/64th file as it is now. To be printed, you will have to add sprues, as for the 1/32nd ones. Note that you will have to cut the clutch housing off and attach it to the disk, with the two lands that mate with it. On the 1/32nd file the housing is printed in place, engaged. The winch shaft on this scale is part of the printed parts, but must be trimmed to length. The file for this size only has one winch, so you will have to copy a second winch assembly in and sprue them together. I'm not sure why I have an extra set of feet in the sprue, I'm sure there was some reason, I've since forgotten. Hand Dredge 32 New Layout For Spec Changes_21 Two Winches.skp Hand Dredge New SketchUp 64thFor New Specs_05.skp

I read a book by one of the crew of a B-24 that flew 25 missions over Italy. They were assigned to train flight crews when they returned to the US. After a couple months they decided that the raw recruits flying abilities were more dangerous than their missions, and signed up for and completed another 25 missions!

If I remember correctly, it was Admiral Vincent who was know as a bully and sadist at sea. Doing such things as calling Captains to his ship in strong winds, then refusing to allow his ship's captain to shorten sail, which was the normal procedure. He would gleefully watch them and their crew for hours trying to row to catch his ship.

Building a Zero, there's nothing to it! 🙂

One suggestion. If you are going to spend all that money to do a CNC conversion, why not get a larger mill to do it on. You may find other interesting projects, that a larger mill would be nice for.

Nice.

Nice work! I'm here in SC also, and also a transplant.

Your going to need to display this on a mirror, so that all the bomb bay detail can be seen!

Here is my standard recomendation to new airbrushers.

I have a friend, who used to do a lot of sailboarding on the Chesapeake Bay. That is until he looked down one day, and saw two 5 foot bull sharks swimming one on each side of him! Fresh water only now.

That depends on the scale you are thinking of. Thought, in general, you would need to 3D print in plastic, and that brings in issues of failure of the plastic, over time due to the tension from the rigging. The fine detail plastics are brittle and quite weak, in thin sections.

Denis: Download all the info from that thumb drive, now! Soak it as recomended, above. However, never trust it again. The Pepsi will have already started to damage the circuit board. 34 years of experience as a digital engineer speaking. Thumb drives are cheap, lost data is not.

I'm the one who responded. The mini lathe has been buried behind stuff, as I have been renovating the shop. In the near future however, a change from being a 7X10 (actually 7X8 (Harbor Freight lies)) to a true 7X16, is in the offing. I bought an extended bed kit from the Little Machine Shop, and now that the lathe has been moved to where I can get to it, I will be changing it over in the next couple months. For now I have been concentrating time and funds to my HO train stuff. (I managed to burnout part of my digital control system, and had to buy new parts), and invested in two Santa Fe prototype brass steam locos.

I have not had a chance to use it yet, unfortunatly. Been busy renovating the shop, with what little spare time I have.

Try adding a resistor to the cabin lights, this would make the console lights more noticible.

Pilot Truck

Maybe they are planning to add curved track sections, in the future, and the slop is to allow the wheels to move to follow it.

As bad as Bligh's reputation was, the captain of the ship that was sent to round up the muteniers was far worse. He, accidentily, ran the ship aground after catching the ones who stayed on the original island, and left them locked in the brig as the ship sank! One of the crew released them, against orders, as she went down! He then left them expossed without shelter, until the crew was rescued. I think only one was not hung, after all the rest testified that he had not been one of them, but was left, as the boat Bligh was set adrift on was too small to hold him, as well as the others. Bligh sailed the boat to a settlement, while accurately mapping the areas he sailed through. I believe the ship, sent to get them, was the "Pandora". The crewman who was spared, eventually returned to the island, to find that his native wife and children had died from one of the diseases brought by the other ships that had come later.

Looks good!

Good save!

Been busy at work, and I'm rearranging the shop, now that the back section is "finished". I also was concentrating on getting the scroll saw setup, and I have been working on designing some 3D printed parts for my HO trains. I'll be continuing with the Dremel in a couple weeks. Yes, the thread will continue.

You might look at venier strips at your local hardware store.

Welcome aboard!