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Aston Martin DB5 by Fnick - Revell 1:32 (Finished)
Canute replied to fnick's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Some model RR passenger car builders use Alclad for the stainless look of "lightweight" cars. They put down a gloss dark gray primer, let it dry, then shoot their stainless, chrome, what ever color metallic. It's a lacquer system. And some aircraft modelers use it, too, for replicating the panels on early jets. Just sayin'. -
Had a few friends in the Big Red 1, down 4 Corps way, near Tay Ninh and that big hill Northwest of Saigon, Nui Ba Den. We flew a few missions around there and turning the jets in Bien Hoa
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Nice stash there, Ernie. What dies your Admiral think of all those? Got a few in there I'd like to have gotten when they were new. Resin fanatic, huh? A lot of my freight cars are in resin. I've got a few very old Funaro kits cast in a yellow resin; very brittle stuff. I destroyed a car floor, trying to drill locating holes. Replaced it with styrene sheet and strip stick.
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A late model Stuka will be different. I'd like to see it, too.
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OC, P or PD.? Radar and weapons differences as I recall. Gotta dig up references and then acquire the appropriate paint colors. Soviet paints are rare. It's easier with the older jets, silver normally.
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May have to ditch this Amodel kit for that, although it's the wrong scale for the rest of my Soviet era jets. I have some ICMs and a Kondor of Foxbats and Foxhounds.
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Paint job looks good, Andy. Yep, Scalecoat in either formulation will dry to a gloss. Great for decalling.
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Yeah, some of these limited production run kits can give you the fits. Minimal or no locating pins, flash up the kazoo, warped parts. I've got an Amodel YAK-28P "Firebar" interceptor, with decent looking missiles and separate flying surfaces. Nary a locating pin in anything but the axle holes in the wheels. It went back in the box until I really feel like scratchbuilding the pins and such to get the kit parts to fit.
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Ernie, none taken, crew dog. I did a penance tour in KC-135s after my Air Guard unit transitioned from F-4s to that jet, after Desert Storm. Not a particularly demanding mission, but the temp duty locations were fun. Trips to Germany, Spain, Scotland, Italy. Stateside, the trips to Edwards were the best for an airplane nut like me. I was an F-4 WSO in the USAF & Air National Guard and a Weapons School grad. Best flying job ever, being a Weapons Officer. Keep up the good work.
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Ernie, if I tell you, I'll have to kill you. And they weren't the only planes so fitted. 😬
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Bentley 4.5 litre supercharged by kpnuts airfix 1/12
Canute replied to kpnuts's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Nice dio with the Guards types. -
American wrecker truck by kpnuts italari 1/24
Canute replied to kpnuts's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Nice dirtying up the engine, KP. -
Nice work. Worked with some Laotian T-28s, once upon a time.
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Ernie, nice pictures. I think the Red Arrows (UK) put on a good precision flying show with more than 5 jets. Don't knock the Aggressors as being only for fighter wannabes. The only way to get good at flying air-to-air missions is 1. do a lot of flying, 2. fly against different aircraft. I got to help train new Aggressors, flying F-5s, back in the 70s down at Eglin in F-4Es. Fighting other combat a/c (F-15/16/14/100, A-7) was less often, due to their availability. Any dissimilar air combat is better than just flying against your squadron mates. Just my nickel in the grass. 👌
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brake systems1.bmp I'm not sure this will open. First file is 7Meg, this one is about a Meg. Three older brake systems.
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brake1.bmp
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One of the railroad websites just had a series of blog entries on the retainer valves and their use. A couple of former and current railroaders were involved. They were set for descending grades to keep the cars from accelerating too fast and over-speeding the braking capability of the loco. There were older passenger car braking systems, prior to the UC system, but I'm still looking for actual diagrams for you.
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I think they are not as obvious in the steel heavyweights and lightweight, because they are mounted inside the vestibules. Air brake systems were most likely add-ons to these wooden cars, not built into them, like the steel cars. I'd bet the conductors would squawk if they had to hang outside adjusting the retainers, going down a grade. I live not far from Saluda, NC The Southern Railway had a 5% grade on their mainline between Asheville, NC and Spartanburg, SC. This was a line from Charleston, SC to Cincinnati, OH. There were special procedures the train crews had to do in Saluda proper to set retainers to go down the grade, not to exceed 8 MPH. There was a timing section of track they went through. If too fast, they went into a divert section of track that ran up a steeper grade to stop or go off the rails into the woods beyond the track. And that did happen a time or two.
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FINISHED - M-50 Israeli Sherman - MP Models - 1:35 Scale
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Oh, yeah! Played that one when I was doing air defense alert at Eglin AFB in FLA. Only 4 guys in a single wide for 24 hours. Only TV was over the air, antenna was on a rotor. We had 2 stations from Pensacola, FLA, 1 in Dothan, Alabama. Pulled alert with squadron mate who was heavily into super-detailing a Revell 1/32 F-4E. We'd go out and sit under the jet, tracing the assorted lines of hydraulics and other plumbing in the wheel wells. He'd call a line and I'd trace it from here to there in the wells. Reinforced a lot of the systems I learned in my initial F-4 training. -
Andy, I think it is what you think, a retainer valve. I blew the picture up as far as I could and it looks like one. Looked just like a freight car valve; you can see the retainer line running down the central door. Your interpretation looks good.
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FINISHED - M-50 Israeli Sherman - MP Models - 1:35 Scale
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
We had a long running series of American Civil War games at our alert facility in Germany. Some magazine published a new game every few months and it kept us occupied. Beat the alternatives. -
F-16c 35th FW Misawa "803" by Javlin-Tamya 1/48
Canute replied to Javlin's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Check on Scalemates.com for what may be out there. You never know what could be out there. I was looking at a Mudhen aka F-15E. This Great Wall kit has so much stuff included, but a lot of the ordnance is way newer than my era of knowledge. The accessories will blow your mind. Incredible. -
Hey, there's Popeye on the cowling. Nice.
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Yes, the stucco in Bitburg was a salmon color. I think my dad had pictures of the town square in Jan-Feb 45, after 3rd Army helped pinch off the Bulge. Looked better in 1975.
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Only certain ones, Carl. It was a very specific and demanding combat mission. Not everybody did it. My base had the job and only 1 squadron did the lion's share of the job. I was in a separate squadron that flew as air escorts for the primary Weasels. We carried ordnance to neutralize the surface to air missile sites. The job was not for the faint of heart. The stucco in Edward's photo is spot on for what I remember as the color in France. Where I lived in Germany, the stucco was more of a red, but it was fairly new, having been redone in the late 40's/early 50s.
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