Jack12477
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I though pilots had to have 20/20 uncorrected vision to fly ! What happened ? Old age ? -
Being cursed with four eyes, aka nearsightedness, since the 3rd grade, as presbyopia set in with advancing age, I find I can cheat by either removing my glasses completely or just pull them down my nose a bit and look over the rims while bringing the book a liitle closer to my face. I do have so called reading glasses and I did try bifocals but cheating is far simpler. And I don't have to play trombone either !
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Mark, I use the MicroScale brand of products, Sol, Set, Flat and Gloss. If the surface is not glossy I brush on the Gloss first, let dry, apply decal using Set or Sol, let dry, then either brush on the Flat over the decal or use rattle can Testors Dullcote and spray entire surface. If you want the decal glossy brush the Gloss on instead. I think MicroMark carries the MicroScale products. I've used them for years with good results with airbrushed paint as well as hand brushed paint. Sol can be used to rescue an old decal that has dried out and is peeling off. Just brush on decal, use brush to press decal back down, then cover with Gloss or Flat when dry. The Flat and Gloss look milky in jar but dry clear.
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I have several completed kits from Hubley, Gabriel, et al, which I built 40 to 50 years ago. They are stored in storage containers because they have started to show their age. The rubber tires dried out and split apart. I may try to restore them some day.
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I also have these two kits in my stash Mike. Both are all metal with only a few plastic parts. Someday I will build them. Okay, guys You can stop drooling now !
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Thanks, Carl, I thought so too
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All I have to do to drive in total darkness is drive to the end of my street and head south on the main road, in less than a mile it is pitch black. Or even take a ride out toward Woodstock, complete darkness.
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My neighborhood was build in 1955 to 1960 when IBM opened their big plant in Kingston. When we moved here in 1972 they still did not have street lights at all, finally got them in the mid 1980s and then only on every 6th or 7th telephone pole. We have those sodium vapor lights.
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Yea, matching that chocalote brown is going to be fun. I have a coffee bean brown by Americana brand paint which might work. Or I may have to visit Michaels and what they have. Have to consult with my artist son, he had a tube of acrylic yellow that exactly matched the plastic yellow, in fact I think the yellow in the Mercedes kit is the same yellow as the Rolls Royce kit. Italeri made both kits so it would make sense to do both kits with the same color batch of plastic. I definitely do not like the molded black tho, okay for engine and undercarriage but not upper body. BTW both of these kits are available from Hobbylinc for $29.79 each.
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Thanks, Lou Even the cities were pretty dark back. Gaslites did not illuminate well. I left a couple lights off the model.
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Thanks, Denis
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For my encore performance I am going to build the 2nd Italeri car kit of the 1936-1939 Mercedes Benz 540K in 1:24 scale. The Mercedes Benz 540 was built between 1936 and 1939. It had an 8 cylinder, 5.4 liter engine, vehicle weight was not less than 2300 kg (5070 lbs) , max speed was 170 km/h (105.6 mph) and fuel consumption was 28 to 30 liters per 100 km or 8.4 to 7.8 mpg (US). The box art show a paint scheme of cream with brown fenders but the kit sprues are yellow with black fenders; I will be changing that to something closer to the box art representation. Looked on the Internet forc pictures of this car in different paint schemes and there are not many to be found. Found more photos of the 1934 Rolls Royce Phantom I just completed than of this Mercedes. The obligatory box contents photos follow: And of course the instructions are again in the picture book form: Stay tuned !
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Finally all the remaining fiddly bits have been attached. A final brush coat of Pledge floor wax applied and a matt varnish applied to the rag top. Been a fun kit even if the instructions were a tad vague. Compared to today's car these old cars certainly had enough head lamps. Course the bulbs were not as bright back then but yikes !
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Bell UH-1H Huey By lmagna - Dragon - 1/35 - PLASTIC
Jack12477 replied to lmagna's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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I read someplace that the original company got sold off to another company then maybe sold again ?????
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Well, the weather storm turned out to be another ho hum event. For about an hour out in Woostock, it snowed large big flakes heavily for about an hour then turned to a light rain. By the time I drove 6 miles home, the snow had turned to slush............. But my daughter in Buffalo reported they got a foot and a half last night . Oh well !!!! Tomorrow it will be frigid cold but on Friday we will be breaking out the shorts and tank tops
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Yea, I checked their website, all they list were 1:8`scale Lamborghini race car style cars. Not a big fan of that genre . And at 500+ English pounds plus International shipping costs makes them even less desirable. I have a couple of metal Gabriel / Hubley kits in my stash. But thanks ! Nice model you built.
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Well, spent some time staining the new wood we applied to the ice yacht's backbone, and some of the plugs covering the recessed screws. Reattached all the tongue and groove slats comprising the stern basket. The main mast was stripped of varnish and sanded. Since it developed some serious checking over the last century we installed splines glued in with epoxy into the worst of the checks, and then planed/sanded flush. Applied some Tung Oil to the runner plank (on the sawhorse behind the guy at the far end of room who is working on mast) Backbone is the large rectangular beam next to guy closest to camera. Here's a photo of the workshop. Note the backbone is 38 feet long.
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Actually, Lou, the yellow is the way the plastic parts were molded. I could not match it with paint so I coated it in Pledge floor wax. For the frame, running board, wheel rims and fenders I used Tamiya rattle can gloss aluminum. For the rest I used Vallejo flat black and leather, artists acrylic tube type paint for the burnt umber, raw Siena. I also coated the "glass" with Pledge. I have another Italeri kit of a Mercedes Benz 540K which is also pre-molded in color, yellow and black or dark dark brown fenders, cannot tell for sure. I will change this one too when I get to it. Well, I am off to the real shipyard today, working on restoring a 110 year old ice yacht. Been working on it for a couple years now with a group of ice boaters from our Club. We are working in the workshop of another club member. The backbone aka keel is 38 ft in length; we completely disassembled it to reglue it add some additional blocking and replace the screws, it is now reassembled. We are working on the "basket" now. Been removing a lot of rotted wood and scarphing in new wood. The Weather-guessers have been warning us of a "major winter storm" coming cross country, hitting us this morning with snow; radar says it is snowing here right now, but my eyes say no snow or rain or anything. Just gloomy looking skies. So much for technology.
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Some updates. I decided not to paint the yellow plastic side panels and boot but instead to brush on some Pledge floor wax to give it a glossy shine. The rest of the parts, excluding the Chrome pieces, were painted. The seats and canvas tops shown in the earlier photos match the color of Raw Siena. I decided to paiint the seats and trim in a more leather and wood scheme. Radiator Windscreen and hood cover Interior door panels. I installed 3 windows in the down position and the front passenger window in the up position - no particular reason. Seats installed Body panels dry fitted for size and position Need to touch up a few shiny spots where the glue overflowed a little.
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Not equinox, but Physics. "The broom can stand by itself because the center of gravity is directly above the edge on which it balances. And the bristles are soft enough to spread out a bit at the contact point with the floor and provide a stable base to support the handle and allow the broom to balance."
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Oh it is definitely not a Tamiya kit. Completed the assembly of the engine and chassis After struggling to interpret the picture instruction on assembling the front steering and rear wheel assembly - more the sequence than what goes where. I got the undercarriage completed. The picture book instructions - be nice if they showed what sequence things are attached Front steering assembly Rear axle assembly Completed assembly Attached the body to chassis Fire wall and steering Painting the floor mat
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Bell UH-1H Huey By lmagna - Dragon - 1/35 - PLASTIC
Jack12477 replied to lmagna's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
You don't know how true that is, Mark.
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