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  1. Canute
    Wow, nicely done Falcon. 👍 I gave a Lego version to my nephew, once upon a time, for Christmas. We spent the morning putting it together, ignoring all the rest of the goodies he received. And this was 20 years after the original movie.
  2. Canute
    Looks like an interesting build, especially as it's short run characteristics. I think your superior skill and cunning will let you turn out an excellent model. 😉
  3. Canute
    True, Jack, but both (D&S, C&TS) of these now tourist lines were part of a narrow gauge division of the Rio Grande, until the 60s. I have a few videos of these rotaries in action as tourist action. Impressive tossing of snow.
  4. Canute
    Another section of the rabbit hole: D&RGW had 2 rotaries in snow trains of 7 cars. They were based in Chama and Alamosa. Lots of snow in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.
  5. Canute
    Jolle, your details are outstanding and your weathering is superb. I can see why Model Warships and ION gave you the medal. Well done.
  6. Canute
    You can use an external DVD player, connected by a USB cable. But yes, a printed booklet is always welcome.
  7. Canute
    Shame about the decals, but your plow and tender look good. The coal pile looks very good.
  8. Canute
    I'll tag along too. Looks like an interesting build.
  9. Canute
    Fantastic build, so far, Jolle.
  10. Canute
    You've turned out another fine piece,
  11. Canute
    Nicely done. 👍
  12. Canute
    I'm in, too. My F-4 squadron in Germany had a visit with the Italian AF squadron of the same number, the 22nd. Great deployment, excellent home cooked pasta and an Italian white wine. Tragedy struck the next day when their squadron commander decided to do a departure flyby under the low hanging clouds and took all 4 jets into an Eifel hillside. We were all destroyed by this disaster. A very bad day. R.I.P.
  13. Canute
    Sounds like it was more that a basic cataract remove and replace. Good luck with your recovery. Now take two tots of rum and call us in the morning. 👍
  14. Canute
    Good move, OC. Paints do go "off" after a while.
  15. Canute
    Nicely done on that oily floor. Great effect.
  16. Canute
    Great save by you and Jeroen.
  17. Canute
    yep, boxtop/instruction sheet colors should be taken with a grain of salt. Good references are the stop for that. I accumulated a decent library of RAF and Luftwaffe a/c, but now many are out of date, thanks to a lot of good research. Your paint job looks good.
  18. Canute
    Very good to know about the color matching, Kurt. Thanks.
  19. Canute
    Nice crisp side wall. Very nice build.
  20. Canute
    brushing the varnish leaves an uneven coat, compared to more complete airbrush spray. Painting a second coat should fix it right up. Good luck with the water testing, OC.
  21. Canute
    That side looks very good, Yves. This was state of the art for the 60-70s. Lasers were just entering the workplace back then. Hospitals and the military were early users. We needed smaller, faster computers to effectively control laser cutters. If you can draw up something in STL format, a laser cutter can use it to cut your patterns.
  22. Canute
    Good lock with the eye surgery, Alan. The castle is looking good.
  23. Canute
    There are vendors selling Floquil paint. Google is your assistant for them. Although I suspect the Marine colors are even more scarce than the railroad colors. You could also look at Tru Color Paint, an acetone based paint. It has some marine colors at: https://trucolorpaint.com/military-ships/ They're mostly for airbrush, but they do make brushable formulations.
  24. Canute
    All too true, OC. At one time I had 39 first cousins; now I have 18 and a few of them I'm not too sure about. Travel for many of them is a thing of the past. C'est la vie.
  25. Canute
    Progressing nicely, Yves. 👍 Back in the day, the Rio Grande plow trains could get up to 7 cars with 2 extra water cars, a cook's car and a couple of bunk cars for the crews.

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