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Canute
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The interior green you started with looks good Denis. Like Lou called it, a chromate green. The fuselage looks almost too apple green for the outside OD green. Waiting to see what your latest mix looks like. As to the scale, the plane is what the railroaders call S scale. It's a good scale due to it's size. Some of you of a certain age may well remember American Flyer trains. Smaller than Lionel, more prototypical in appearance. Nowadays, it is a very small, minority scale, maybe 2% of the US model train market. HO scale is about 75%, N scale is about 15-20%. -
When I got back from Nam in 1973, we were told at Travis AFB to get into civvies before we left the base, enroute to San Francisco International and home. I had cousins in the Bay Area who picked me up there for a brief visit. Short-haired young man was a rarity. I got yelled and spit at, but considering the time frame, just rolled with the punches. My cousins were my parents age, so they weren't able to help much. We hit Fisherman's Wharf, had a good Italian meal and headed across the Bay, where they lived. Finally got welcomed home (outside my family) sometime in the late 90s. It was a divisive time back then. Sorry about the mini-rant, but it helps the catharsis. Probably why I stayed in for all those years. The GIs were more family than the average civilian back then.
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That's an interesting configuration, Danny. I need to do some research on that loco. Thanks.
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Building an articulated loco? I'm in. Fire up the popcorn machine.
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Oh, there were occasions where you wouldn't want to be doing this kind of flying. Be that as it may, it was a mostly fun career. Visited a lot of countries, been on 4 continents. Met many good folks.
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Jim, I flew F-4Es from Eglin AFB, 58 TFS Gorillas. Flying air-superiority missions of Combat Air Patrol and Escort. Fun couple of years there.
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Jim, I escorted pairs of the RAF Bucs (208 Sqdn) at a Red Flag in 1977 or 78. Thought they flew right on top of their shadows. Great sport and great guys to fly with. 👍
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The B-36 was the Peacemaker. The Stratofortress is the B-52 aka to us fighter types as the BUFF. This is a family site, so I will use that style nickname "Big Ugly Fat Fellow". Boeing bomber products from the B-17 onward were usually some kind of Fortress, although the B-47 was the Stratojet.
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Denis, "12 O'clock High" featured B-17s out of England. An excellent study of the pressures of flying and fighting in that period. The USAF used it as a lesson for their Air Command and Staff training given to mid level officers for a number of years. Yes, the B-17s were pretty sturdy. And Monogram had a kit out years ago in 1:48 scale. Big beast.
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We have an outdoor railway at my train club. They have one set of tracks, but run equipment in scales from 1/20.3 scale to 1/32 scale. The garden folks don't get too wrapped around an axle about fidelity to prototype. They're outside running trains and they're good with that. And they have lots of space to install big speaker systems in their engines, generating all appropriate steam or diesel sounds. Darn things sound like the real thing.
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Danny, nicely done. Very credible garden railway scale logging car. We've got a few at my rail club's outdoor railway. And an often used trick with the short logs. Looking good. 👍
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That Walthers decal setting solution is Solvaset. It's pretty strong, since it was developed for laying down some older, thicker decals. Check out GatorMask.com. Here's his aircraft carrier (CV) page: http://www.gatorsmask.com/cv.html I think the Gambier Bay one is hull masks, but Bogue has deck number masks.
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Hydraulic Dredge by Steve Harvath
Canute replied to Steve Harvath's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Wefalck, have you seen the Alaskan gold dredges? I attended a model railroad convention, back in June and this was one of the structure entries.
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Flak Bait is a B-26, preserved in the Smithsonian. It's undergoing a renovation.
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Hornfischer's book was a good read. Those were some very brave men. Nice to see a build of a "jeep" carrier. Alex, I'm in.
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Denis, the green wire is probably floral wire, a soft wire(not sure what it is made from) that florists use with their flower arrangements. A lot of older train kits (cars and structures) used to use it because it's pretty easy to work with. It's still good to use, but there are better wire materials available, such as phosphor bronze wire. It's a harder material and holds it's shape when bent. Light house is looking good.
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Nicely done trucks, Danny.
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Or maybe a helper engine pushing heavy trains up hills. Hope it had a stoker appliance to push fuel into the firebox, too.
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Old Floquil paints?
Canute replied to MEDDO's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
Not sure about the bright oil, although it may be a glossy brownish-black paint, to simulate an oil puddle. The Glaze was an additive for making the Floquil paints dry to a gloss finish. Normally, the Floquil were matte or flat finishes. If you wanted to apply water slide decal to a flat painted surface, the decals could dry with a lot of silvering, caused by air trapped under the decal. You would mix a little Glaze into the paint to make it glossy. I don't remember the ratio you'd need to use the glaze. I would paint the surface with the Floquil, then gloss it with Pledge/Future/Kleer. That's an acrylic floor treatment, but works a charm on models, too. -
Like what all your others buddies said, OC. Friends are folks you can open up to. Don't need to apologize.
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OC, hang in there, buddy. You and the admiral are in my thoughts and prayers. Keep the good attitude.
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Loctite make a glue titled Power Flex. Has a black label (because of the rubber?) Per my source, it's a gel. So you'll get a little working time. I myself will be looking for some of this stuff after my current supply gets used up or solidifies.
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Sorry to read that, Mark, but you know your heart. We'll be here for you when you feel the need👍.
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Denis, that turned out very well. Locos back then were real beauties; the builders and owners were proud of their creations. This one fits in well with those old engines.
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