Canute
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The Okha or Baka bomb was piloted by a Kamikaze pilot. Scary idea.- 345 replies
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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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Paul, my condolences, too. My little friends send theirs, too. You'll see him over the Rainbow Bridge. 😢
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Ala-Kart by CDW - FINISHED - AMT - 1:25 Scale - PLASTIC
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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New pupser, eh? Gonna be fun for the whole family.
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That little guy the mechanic or the instructor, Jack?
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Looking good, Jack. And I like the way the decal fit on the prop. 👍👍
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I'd second that idea with a low stone wall in front of the cannon. Think Cushing at the Copse of Trees at Gettysburg, Day 3.
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Gotta tag along on this one, too. Another interesting aircraft.
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Nice precision work, Danny. Well done.
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Your painting of that Buccaneer brought back a memory of that first Red Flag for the RAF. My squadron hosted the Buc crews for those 2 weeks. We flew cover/escort for them up to a range in Utah one afternoon. We started down a canyon thru a range of hills and followed them until the canyon got so narrow we were spending all our time avoiding rocks and not providing much cover for the Bucs. They both looked like they were flying on their shadows. We climbed a couple hundred feet and stayed below the peaks of that range, while following. Gained much respect for their skills that afternoon. 👍
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Sopwith Camel F.1 - Model Airways - 1/16 Scale (3/4" = 1')
Canute replied to DocBlake's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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Denis, some nice fixes to the parts fit. Those older kits had issues there. The left cab seat would probably not get much use by the fireman. He'd be on the deck plates, tossing fuel into the firebox and watching the water level gauges. The fireman was usually the most fit guy on the crew because of all the work he did. Once you get the wheels on, the end caps on the pilot truck, the front set of wheels, would usually show some grease and oil ooze. Just dribble some black/brown around the caps, along with the faces of the wheels.
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Like Jack said, Denis. It's never dull here.
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Denis, the build in looking very good. I like your grime and such on the running gear. I think it was full length movie, Mark. Two holer? Oy. Not that version. No way, Jose.
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Nicely done, Denis. I'll be following also. The wheels do look good.
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Brian, you could look for 1/48 scale model railroad parts. Steam locomotives needed steam whistles. Not being a modeler in that scale, I can't steer you to a specific brand. I can give you a few sites to check out. Klein's up in Baltimore: https://www.modeltrainstuff.com/ English/Bowser's shop in central PA: http://www.toytrainheaven.com/ Wiseman's in Kentucky: http://wisemanmodelservices.com/ Or you could just paint them with gold paint. As we say, it's your model.
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