Canute
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Nice job on the cockpit rework. Just kill the white Evergreen styrene. It washes out the two shots fitting the cockpit to the fuselage. 👍 -
Do the tests, Denis. The alternatives are painful and final. That plane looks like a flying corrugated fence. I suspect the thing was just grossly under-powered; the P-38 had counter rotating props and it didn't crash with losing 1 engine. Probably took a lot of rudder to counteract the dead engine/side.
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Yes, Denis, the fit of those panels is off. Hope you can patch them.
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You mean the "murder holes" for the boiling oil and large rocks? Inside the portcullis /gate. Our barbaric ancestors.
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Believe me, it ain't no cushion. It;s a thin piece of cloth, usually nomex these days, over a fiberglass seat bottom. Sit on 1 for 8-10 hours and you're a cripple. Much better seats in the Boeing tanker. Real cushions.
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MRAP ATV by CDW - FINISHED - Rye Field - 1:35 Scale
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
You bet. It's critical to get the best use of these new paints. Your box lid for the set was absolutely no help. -
MRAP ATV by CDW - FINISHED - Rye Field - 1:35 Scale
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Might try Sprue Brothers.https://store.spruebrothers.com/category_s/2737.htm They carry the line, but I'm not sure about them carrying these paint sets. Here's the Gunze lines with the page covering the sets. http://www.mr-hobby.com/en/itemList.php?cId=7 The applicable sets are about mid page. Here's their English instructions for the Dark Yellow set Craig is using.: http://www.mr-hobby.com/en/itemDetail.php?iId=1917 here's te English instructions for the OD set: http://www.mr-hobby.com/en/itemDetail.php?iId=1916 They cleverly used the same instructions for both. -
What I called the seat kit is the part you sit on in an ejection seat bird; you called it the cushion, with 2 options. Nomenclature. The seat kit is the survival gear storage. That real "cushion" is about a foot deep with a 1 man raft and a bag holding all the rest of the gear. All tied to the pilot's harness via a big clasp. You look like you have a jigsaw puzzle going on there, rearranging parts to build the cockpit. Ain't it fun.
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They include 2 seat kits for the 1 seat? I'm assuming the dark grey widget is the seat rail or some other cockpit details.
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Pulling up a seat. This is a very different build, Denis. This kit was made in Czechoslovakia, before the breakup of the Iron Curtain. Fit doesn't seem too bad. Very blocky appearance (very bad pun intended).
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Looking good, Denis. You'd think they had a good marking guide for this a/c, since it survived and came back to the States for bond tour, with all the photos those usually entailed. Oh, well.
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Well done and appropriately tricked out. The depth of your research is outstanding. What's next in your armor builds?
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MRAP ATV by CDW - FINISHED - Rye Field - 1:35 Scale
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Must have been fun, putting in those springs. I'll be following the use of that Mr Color paint kit. Interesting concept with the different shades. And it's lacquer, isn't it? -
Be careful bending the stainless parts. Make sure of every bend before you make them. Study the drawings included with the parts. I've busted a few parts, either overbending or bending the wrong way.
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These were jump over the side bailouts, with a seat pack parachute. Needed the space. Ejection seat aircraft had pretty hard seat ki (fiberglass box top with a nomex cloth cover), with either backpack or built in parachutes. F-4 and A-7 onwards had built in parachutes. We just wore a harness to clip all the rest of the gear to, along with a personal lowering device built into the back of the harness. Needed that if you got hung up at 100' in the triple canopy jungles in South East Asia.
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MRAP ATV by CDW - FINISHED - Rye Field - 1:35 Scale
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Don't look now, but the 3D printed parts are looking very good. I just got replacement doors, ends and roof to turn a 40s era refrigerator car into a late 60s era flour loading boxcar. There are also templates to drill holes in the ends for appropriate details. All based on some real good CAD work. The printing sprues are heavy, but cut off easily. The parts do have striations, but sand up fairly easily. -
MRAP ATV by CDW - FINISHED - Rye Field - 1:35 Scale
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Craig, I figured it out pretty quick. I like the Engineer vehicles and decided to go with the big EOD vehicle to start, since the task is ubiquitous to the Army, Marines and AF. And the UK also uses it. Couldn't find too many builds, just unboxing reviews. I pulled the plug on the build, but may get back to it in the Fall. Got some higher priority builds of refrigerator cars used up and down the US East Coast. They've been on the back burner for a while, collecting parts (sounds familiar, eh?). It's a group build, mostly kit bashing. The cars are Fruit Growers Express line, a consortium of some 23 major railroads and their subsidiaries. Gotta get those Florida oranges up north so the big cities have their orange juice. They hauled a lot of other fresh fruits and vegetables, too. Think they were the 3rd largest fresh produce hauler, behind Pacific Fruit Express and Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch. -
Outstanding job on the gate complex.
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Had a CO in Thailand that expected us to be in our 1505s if not on the flying schedule. And he didn't do much flying himself. He didn't last long as squadron CO; got booted to a "training" position to get his ticket punched for a remote combat tour. Another REMF.
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MRAP ATV by CDW - FINISHED - Rye Field - 1:35 Scale
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Craig, I'm in, brother. I just picked up a Panda Cougar 6x6 Joint EOD Rapid Response Vehicle (JERRV). Looks good but very heavy casting sprues holding parts. Instructions have 1 paint call out for Mr Color C-19. And the slots and tabs need work, sometimes. Meaning one side might fit fine and the other one needs refining to fit properly. Lots of extra time tuning up the fit. I started a Stryker from AFV and if the parts don't fit, it's usually the builder's fault. -
Yeah, it's for the birds. Well, usually goodies from the UK seem to get here via SR-71. Stateside mail has been pretty fast from the usual mail order outlets we use. It's getting into our mail system that's the issue. I've seen it before, getting wood from Toronto to Chicago to here. Chicago customs just took forever.
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Well done, OC. Turned out well.
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I always liked the Renwal kits. Thought the details were much sharper than Revell or Aurora. Their ships looked sharp.
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Hey, the USPS still has a shot to screw that timetable up. I ordered parts from Hannant's, in the UK. It was out there door and shipped out of the UK in 3 days. It ended up in LA ten days later and then took (Slow) Pony Express back to the East Coast. Took 2.5 weeks. Ordered parts (CBU cans primarily) from the 48ers, on Malta. Took 10 days.
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