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  1. Canute
    Nice job on the Mercedes Jack. I do like that paint scheme. Well done. Clams get steamed or used in clam chowders of both varieties I know of (New England, a white chowder and Manhattan, a red chowder). Both are good, but I lean to New England style. Oysters can eaten raw, but I've only done that in places along the US Gulf Coast. The stuff better be fresh, newly harvested from the sea.
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    Denis, thanks for sharing your handiwork on this piece of history. Well done.👍 Guys, look up Operation Paperclip. That was when the UK/US took many German planes back to their respective countries to study. Many of our early jet designs took great chunks of the German technology for use. I know the Smithsonian Museum in the US has a number of their aircraft in storage. I assume the the British museums have other stashed also. And they did it with ships, too. The German designs were dispersed to the victors. The USN got a German Destroyer (Z-39 ). We studied it and eventually passed it to the French, who used it to keep their war reparations operational. There were other ships, too, such as the Prinz Eugen. The US nuked it, along with a lot of surplus USN ships, to study blast effects on these ships.
  3. Canute
    Next time (if you do this again, Lou), get a very large, clear plastic bag and cut your PE and small plastic parts off inside the bag. I heard the tip at some modelers gathering. I decided that launching brake gear and grab irons into Never-Never Land had to cease forthwith. I got tired of buying those little bags of aftermarket detail parts to replace the MIA (Missing in action) kit parts. Now I need to perfect attaching said parts to the main model with my fine tip tweezers.I can still launch kit parts into Low earth Orbit. Ain't kit building fun?
  4. Canute
    Nice work, as usual, Greg. Nicely done. Hmm, Voltaire looks intriguing.
  5. Canute
    OC, good pictures and that chart. Nice. Do you remember if your Dad supported the Amiens raid. The Mosis attacked a prison where French Resistance folks were held. They blew holes in the walls and a number of the French escaped. I could really appreciate the low level flying they did across a part of France that is relatively flat. Wonder what the returning Mosis looked like after that raid.
  6. Canute
    Make a very dilute black or dark brown ink or paint wash with a little pigment in some denatured alcohol. Spritz the model and the wash settles into the seams and dirties up the model.
  7. Canute
    All your colors look good Jack. Like Lou said.
  8. Canute
    Colourcoats make an enamel Buff color for your stacks.
  9. Canute
    Your Mosi is coming along nicely, OC. More sanding to sweeten the gaps or some putty?
  10. Canute
    Sounds like a great library. I think the pipe could work. The brandy snifter is a real need, too. Maybe a little Drambuie or a Couvoisier.
  11. Canute
    You need good vision to get into training and get your wings. Once that's accomplished, as long as you can be corrected to 20/20, they keep you. Only if something really bad, like you go blind in one eye (both eyes and you're out of there permanently, no questions asked, sportsfans) and then they can look at waivers to the rules. When times are peaceable, most likely you get grounded and turned into a ground-pounder. Which, for an aviator, is a slow death. I was 20/20 until about age 44, then a slow decline started. I still correct to 20/20,😁
  12. Canute
    OC, looking good. It pays to fine tune that floor to get your build fitting like it should. 👍 I sometimes wonder if the kit makers actually build up their kits, with the cockeyed fit at times.
  13. Canute
    I got distance glasses from the doc and readers for the modeling/computer/reading stuff. Plus an Optivisor and some intense lighting for modeling. More light is key for me.
  14. Canute
    Craig has the process. 👍 The relative humidity can affect the MM clear flat. Higher humidity may cause the milkiness. A second application should fix it.
  15. Canute
    Those are some top line airbrushes, Tom. Congrats. Here's an interesting website for airbrushing: https://modelpaintsol.com/ This has tutorials, maintenance issues. And this guy is in the Seattle area for personal instruction for folks in that area.
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    I had the Admiral whispering into my ear about going off on a few errands. One of which was getting my new eyeglasses. A big deal for this particularly voracious reader. Interesting history of Daimler-Benz. Look up BMW's involvement for additional WW II aviation history.
  17. Canute
    Nice work, Mark. Keep on truckin'. So many topics to study. Most USAF fighters used 4 colors in Viet Nam; the 2 you mention, a dark tan and a dark green. Grey belly and the other 3 colors on top. The grey went away in the late 70s, I think. That's a whole other rabbit hole of study
  18. Canute
    Stop it; I fell into that rabbit hole and spent a half hour following interesting stories.
  19. Canute
    Bulls eye, OC. Have fun, Lou. You're building one of your memories. That's good for you, mate.
  20. Canute
    Classy looking car, Jack. Well done.
  21. Canute
    Lou, you gotta build up confidence. You start small and simple. Do those a few times and confidence grows. Move up a step and repeat. It's like public speaking or learning to drive. The more you do it, the better you feel. 👍
  22. Canute
    Lou, nice work on those cabin supports. Welcome to the Kitbashers Klub. Manufacturers pick and choose their projects. Guess the good old Huey wasn't sexy enough for them.
  23. Canute
    Same here. My old man, who toured across France, thru Germany to Czechoslovakia with 3rd Army, said Combat was a heck of a lot more authentic for his money. He liked the movie Patton, but said the General spoke with a high squeaky voice.
  24. Canute
    Oh, yeah, duct tape. We called it speed tape, because some of it was slapped on a jet that could get almost supersonic, on the deck. One story: Maintainers put down a bed of epoxy to fix ab F-4 windscreen after a Canada goose went thru it at 420kts/480 MPH. The epoxy was still drying but the fixers said we could fly it home at 300kts/350 MPH or slower. Yours truly and a frontseater strap in and off we go. That's when frontseater tells me he's got a lunch date and we go home at about 500 MPH. After we land he disappears and leaves me with his gear and all the paperwork. Show up for maintenance post flight debrief and Super Sarge (an old buddy of mine) asks where the pilot was. I just told them who he was and he had a lunch date. We all laughed, cause this guy had a history of stunts like that.
  25. Canute
    Lou, it's obviously a labor of love for you to spend the time correcting a kit. OC's strip styrene fix was a good idea, occasionally resorted to by yours truly to fix RR cars. Your door fit is fine. Stop berating yourself and press on with the build. Most of us aren't as intimately familiar with the Huey as you are.

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