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  • Birthday 10/18/1948

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    Napoleonic Age of Sail, ACW

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  21. Canute
    The action photo could be Coral Sea, the color one looks like Pearl Harbor.
  22. Canute
    Yep, he looks a real terror there.
  23. Canute
    Denis, make sure all 4 wheels in each truck touch the workbench/track evenly. These multipart trucks can be finicky to make square. Good for display models, but tough to operate if one wheel is up in the air. The tender body and headlight look very good. The reflector in the headlight turned out well. Are you lighting it? If so, remember these were kerosene lamps, so they should have an old time yellow orange glow. Just a thought. Do you know anybody with a garden railroad? These garden layouts can be a multitude of scales, from 1/32 to 1/16, but all use the same gauge track. Try and get some pictures of the General on a garden railroad. Hopefully the kit gauge will work with the garden railway gauge. The distance between their rails should be 1.772 inches or 45 mm. That's also the distance from inside one wheel flange to the inside of the opposite flange.
  24. Canute
    Yeah, the model airplane guys dip their canopies into that stuff and they come out nice and clear.
  25. Canute
    Take a look at this model railroad car/parts site. There is a .010 wire next to the photoetched eyebolts for comparison: http://www.yarmouthmodelworks.com/index.php/ModelDetailParts/Miscellaneous Eyebolts with and without collars, about halfway down the page.
  26. Canute
    Glad you got your dilemma cleared up, OC. I've used the toothpaste to clean up watch glass in the past. Our "family" always manages to come up with workable solutions. They're the best.👍
  27. Canute
    Wow, another build to follow. I'm in.
  28. Canute
    Thank God for Optivisors. I'll tag along on this one, too.
  29. Canute
    Mark, I'm in, also. Looks like a pretty barky.
  30. Canute
    Put the Pledge/Future/Kleer on first, then decal. You want a smoooth surface for the decals.
  31. Canute
    If you're gonna poke holes in thin sheet wood, put some tape behind/over the openings to prevent tear out. And a dab of sanding sealer, too. Yep, you're all hot to trot to get going on this little jewel, but....that basswood will soak up paint. And paint both sides or it'll look like the pleats on an accordion, if you use acrylics. Yeah, I did a similar thing. I have a model railroad stock car I started, but I have to regroup on the build, since it got a tad warped. So used to Floquil and Scalecoat, (solvent based paints) and forgot the basics.
  32. Canute
    I'll follow along too, Dave. Front row seat.
  33. Canute
    Sounds about right for me too. Although it's model railroad stuff. Would anyone be interested? Don't want to hijack Craig's thread.
  34. Canute
    When I look at aircraft models, especially ones I was familiar with, the weathering seems very heavy handed, in my opinion also. Ships and trains, not so much. That being said, that guy's work is outstanding.
  35. Canute
    That would be me with the horn in my ear. 😁

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