Canute
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Does the kit come with a weight or give you an idea of how much you will need to prevent this becoming a tail-sitter. It's too nice to need a prop of some kind in the tail area. Some of the newer kits come with a weight for the cockpit area.
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Canute replied to H March's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
H, that should be a good glue. You'll find you may at times also use white glue. And sometimes super glue/CA. They all have their uses in wooden models. Read the various logs and see what others are using for a given situation. Ask them why they do what they do in a given situation. We all learn a lot by participation in these logs. -
EG, nice parts. Another tool for releasing the 3D parts from their matrices is this saw: http://umm-usa.com/onlinestore/product_info.php?cPath=21_28&products_id=35 Very fine teeth. And proceed slowly with cutting.
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Bob, wasn't sure of the model. Thanks for the update. I was in the Air National Guard at McGuire flying F-4s and later KC-135s. About 18 years. Moved to western NC back in 2009.
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Very cool aircraft. They flew a donated J model to McGuire back in the 80s. It's in NMF and stored flyable. It comes off the pedestal every few years to get a cleaning and have the engines run. It's painted up as Pudgy ?, McGuire's mount when he was shot down.
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Nice looking red seats, OC. Do you have lap belts for those seats. They're usually strewn all over the seat bottoms. The pax just up and leave them wherever and the crews in the cabin have enough other duties to worry about neatness. You're doing great work on this beast, sir.
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Yeppers, lots of light and magnification. And some fine tweezers, etc for manipulating said PE. Your fingers are too big for some of that stuff
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Yes, the adds make it pop. Well done.
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Nice save, LT. Intricate parts must have lead to some very creative language and body-english. 😉
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Glad to read y'all and or your spouses have made good recoveries. Family and health are serious matters. All we need is Lou piping in with his tales. 😁
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EG, that's what I get for pulling data out of my "trunk" instead of looking it up in a book. So much stuff to remember and too few functional brain cells.😉 Carry on.
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EG, nice recap of 2nd Guadalcanal. That radar gizmo was in it's teething stage and a lot of the task force/group commanders didn't fully understand the ranging and tracking capabilities. We lost a number of fighting admirals, like Dan Callahan, because of this lack of understanding of radar's capabilities. Willis Lee had a good understanding of radar. He led the force that engaged the South attacking force in Surigao Strait in 1944. His defense in depth put paid for the old Pearl Harbor battleships.
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HMAS Australia and Canberra were at Savo. Canberra was sunk there. No mention of any other Allied ships in any later actions in that theater. Tassafaronga is the last engagement covered in Neptune's Inferno. The book covers Savo the night of August 9 thru Tassafaronga on November 30. Both sides lost 24 ships each over the time period covered. Now I'm going to have to re-read that book. So much interesting stuff.
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EG, I'm in. For some background, the naval battles around Guadalcanal were nicely covered by James Hornfischer in "Neptune's Inferno. I will describe that whole series as a knife fight inside a telephone booth.
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I can second that Roger. My older cousins looked with disdain at my Monogram and Aurora plastic airplanes. They built the wood and tissue kinds. I built one and decided the caved in look of the tissue over frames wasn't prototypical. As molding technology has improved, our expectations grow immensely.
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Roger, you are correct about that movie. I was lucky enough to get a surplus 3 band Enfield rifle musket after that movie was made. Along with a bayonet. It's long and heavy. Percussion cap lock.
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Gotta leave the tailgate down and keep an LED flashlight/torch handy to peek in, then.
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Mmm, the smell of tobacco smoke, hydraulic fluid and who knows what else in that waffle batting. And what looks like the circuit breakers on those 2 lower panels. You're capturing the colors nicely.
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Lou, there weren't enough Herks, Starlifters and C-17s to haul all the troops & equipment needing hauling. Uncle Sugar couldn't hire contract airliners, too pricey. So, the KC-135 and KC-10 hauled some missions. Most units liked us hauling them, since we flew twice as fast as the Herks. Yeah, those red seats left a lot to be desired. Mine had way better padding, too. More like your easy chair. And it swiveled, too.
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Even us AF types called 'em that. The Hook seems to be the Herky of the helo world. Oh, boy, good old red troop seats. Red nylon webbing stretched between 3 aluminum poles into a chair shape. And then lap belts to strap in with. In the Stratobladder (KC-135) in passenger hauling mode, we scrounged airliner seats for the self loading baggage from old airliners parked out in the Boneyard in Tucson, AZ. This passenger role was not one the old Strategic Air Command boss, Curtis LeMay wanted to do, so all the 135s came with plywood floors. When SAC disappeared in 1991 and the 135s went into Air Mobility Command, that leadership went ballistic when they found out that the 400 or so a/c they inherited could not haul cargo due to the light flooring. They eventually had clip on roller tracks for about 25% of the 135s.
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That's a big bird, OC. I'm in.
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