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DD-245 was the first US ship lost in the Battle of the Atlantic, torpedoed in October 1941. -
Very pretty lake. I cruised in my flight of Phantoms over that lake once upon a time. No summertime traffic, although we had to evade a seaplane. Well, it was see and avoid.
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Northwest Shortline catered to the model railroaders quite a bit. They turned out better wheels, replacement gears, drive train components and their tool line. They were primarily a machine tool line, but did have this hobby side. The owners had been in the market to sell out and retire. So far only their machine tool line has sold. The hobby side is still available, for a price. MicroMark got into the NWSL action with their cutting/sanding tools.
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Nice views up in the mountains. And even better with the clarity. We get morning fogs in the Smokies, hence that name. The mist hanging in the trees looks like smoke. Track gauge(space between the rails) looks to be standard spacing of 4'8". Most logging roads tended to build at 3 foot gauge, quicker to lay that track and cheaper to build. They'd use tree trunks for ties, since they didn't expect them to last more than the time it took to harvest the wood. Like Mark said, it's a yard engine or "goat". Not big/heavy enough to haul more than a small handful of cars on flat track.
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Some of the German bombers were used over water. See the FW200 Condor and JU188 paint schemes. True most fighters didn't spend much time over water.
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White is translucent, so you need multiple coats. Like painting anything yellow or red. Using a light gray primer would help some, but translucent colors like those are a bear to do well. Looking good, Denis. I remember building this eons ago and mixing up a gray blue deck color. I thought it was wrong, but what did we know back then.
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Well done, Denis. 👍 And yeah, we tend to add a little DNA to our builds.
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Denis, the wood load is turning out great. Superb job!
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I think they will be ME 109Ts. Surprised at the low elevation of the island.
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Denis, if you have azaleas, the cut off branches make good "logs" for the tender. Let them dry out if they're recently cut. Guys use them in HO scale pulpwood cars; in that scale they are about 4-5 feet. In this scale, they'd be good for the fuel wood.
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Yes, Carl, they are rangefinders. Most German heavy cruiser and bigger had them. And they do look like teed up golf balls.
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Denis, they should connect some outlets on the bottom of the water cistern of the tender and some water injectors on the engine. One injector on each side. Both engineer and fireman had control of the injector on their side. The fireman's job was to keep his fire hot and the water level set correctly. In hilly terrain, an engineer might get worried about water levels and pump more water into the engine. Steam was made in the space above the firebox. The problem with that was the fresh water was colder than what was already there, so the steam pressure could drop and the engine would slow down.
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Glen, I'm going to follow along, too. ACW ironclads have been of interest to me for a while.
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US and Japanese carriers used wood decking. RN went armored pretty early. The kamikaze attacks off Okinawa disabused the USN of wood decks.
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Denis, nice work getting the fenders, wheels and drive rods on. That's can be a hassle. The positioning of the side rods shouldn't match. This is called quartering. Can you get a shot of your engineer's side? The fireman's side is looking good. Engineer's side should be 90 degrees out of phase with the fireman's side. Engines and most things mechanical were treated like works of art back then. Look at the boiler and piston work on the USN Picket Boat #1. Painting gear up in flashy colors was the norm. And lots of gold pin-striping, if they could swing it. Keep up the good work.
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The Okha or Baka bomb was piloted by a Kamikaze pilot. Scary idea.
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Denis, nice job with the rails and the foliage on the ballast. The rails down by our depot in town look like that. You going to put the coupler mount on the plow blade? If not, you need to point the plow into that siding. That's a big Ridgeway single track push plow, so no drive mechanism inside. Nothing but a stove to keep the operators warm. The train crew needs a coupler to hook up to, to pull and push the plow.
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Ed and others, check out UMM-USA. Their prices are good and the quality of tools very good. Here is the same rolling tool: http://umm-usa.com/onlinestore/index.php?cPath=21_225 I like your approach for this build. Shows off you work with PE.
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Shhh, I'm off working through some personal issues. Hopefully I can get back in gear later this month.
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Those "gratings" may have actually been some manner of webbing to snare aircraft or just demarcate the landing zone from the parking area.. The aft deck had to be kept clear to recover aircraft. The elevators in the landing zone couldn't be used to strike aircraft below.
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Newbie paint questions...
Canute replied to CPDDET's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
Consistency of skim milk. Denatured alcohol or distilled water to thin. Your tap water may have minerals and other additives that will mess up your paints. A gallon of distilled water is a dollar or two in the US. -
I believe the weights were the same color. They were on newer engines. May have been pin striped around the edges when new, although not kept up during the war. I was just in Chattanooga, TN this past weekend. The dirt color was an orangey brown. I suspect the line out of Chattanooga towards Atlanta, GA was similar. Red clay, like Bruce said.
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Looking good, Denis. Nice treatment on the bell rope. Keep up the good work. If you want to creosote the ties, do a gray dry brush. Might show a little black wash on the tie plates (rectangles on the tie tops). Rails were spiked to the ties thru them with the spikes in the holes in the plates. Normally only 2 spikes, one on each side of the rails. If you ballast the ties, almost any gray/tan shade of gravel will do. Although I suspect in the time frame of our Civil War, the spaces around the ties were just dirt.
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