Canute

Congratulations on a job well done, Phil. Looking forward to your next one.

The Eduard sets may have some stainless steel PE. Pre-plan your bends, the stainless may only allow 1 bend. 

I like your build. HMS Hood is one of my favorite ships.

Good planning, Eric. The railroad owned structures would all share the same palette. Private structures here were mostly brick, showing some prosperity. We had a number of camps around the area for the Low County area around Charleston, SC to leave the mosquito ridden, hot and humid dwellings for the cooler, drier mountain air in the area. Some hotels were quite posh. Most are gone, but some camps still operate over the summer.

How did the prototype do them? You would need a color photo of the car in San Francisco versus what the model company put on the box. It's your railroad, so do what floats your boat.

This scene looks great, Eric. I like your adding the tavern interior. Will you do up figures? The differing sizes and colors looks spot on. Love your work.

Very impressive, Alan. The yellow looks great. And the lions do, too. I get a kick out of the war hammer he's carrying. Looks a lot like the Halligan tool firefighters use to pry open doors in a hurry.

Here's a site for paper models of all the shuttles and their cargoes/payloads: https://axm61.wordpress.com/

We need a space pickup truck like the shuttles to haul the follow-on space station. I think "Alpha", the current facility, will get decommissioned in 2030. Of course, that could slip.

My flight of aviators had just sat down for lunch in front of a big screen TV when the news came over the news feed. We were stunned. Crikey, that was a long time ago.

The fuselage looks good. The carb and machine gun attachments will be an interesting modeling step. 👍

I suspect it's insurance to prevent a car using that space for wheel flanges if it rides up on an object in the flangeway. Railroads/railways were notorious belt and suspenders folks. 😄

Nicely done, Rob. 👍

The driver's "office" was so much simpler back then.

Maybe it was an elevated viewing station/crow's nest. The mast wasn't usable, but elevation was needed to see over whatever was being barged around. Railroad tugs had higher wheelhouses to see over the multiple floats they moved around various harbors.

My gosh, a fire breathing penguin. St Elmo, protect this poor navigator!

I learned the term from railroaders explaining the once widespread heaps in the Scranton-Wilkes Barre area. The heaps are gone now, as is the haze from the heavy industries of that area.

Nice match, John.

Yes, yellows are a pain to paint. Your multiple coats is the best route. The lion  as a decal  should work.

I salute your machining and soldering skills. Well done.

Those coal spoils look good. Don't know if that stuff could be culm. That was the rock and stone remains around the breakers, after the mine run chunks were broken into commercial sizes and loaded into twin bay open hoppers. There were culm hills in the Scranton area with all the leftovers. Locals mined these hills to extract any remaining hard coal. I had friends who still heated their homes with this anthracite.

She looks good. She worked NY harbor for years.

Those are some beautiful street lamps. 👍

I can hear "Proud Mary", the old Creedence Clearwater tune made famous by Tina Turner, playing in the background. Your paddle wheel is coming along nicely.

I really like how your barge is progressing. Waiting to see how your load turns out. 👍

Interesting model, Alan. Your choices will look good. Heraldry at these scales will challenge a saint. Lead us on.

Just trying to keep the part intact and clean as you remove it from the sprues, let alone cleaning up the remaining nibs on the part. Must be very careful.

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Nicely done. Quite the formidable knight.

We did that to the Cape May, NJ to Lewes, Del ferry with our F-4s. The ferries were visual reconnaissance targets and not to be overflown.   Well, most of the time.  That's why lieutenants fly with adult supervision.