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Canute

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  1. Canute
    Excellent techniques, Alan. 👍 The only thing I could add is to make sure there is no white showing after the grass and weeds are down. Our scenery gurus down at the club use these same techniques for the scenery.
  2. Canute
    Darn Internet bullies. very juvenile.
  3. Canute
    Nicely done, Kevin. Like Andy I'm interested in how these carriages turn out.
  4. Canute
    Superb work, Nils. This build tells a great story. 👍
  5. Canute
    Yeah, we have precip forecast here for Monday. Snow in the higher elevations of the Smokies, rain around here in Hooterville. We can us the rain, but too much just runs off and only makes a partial dent in the drought.
  6. Canute
    I'm in. Is there any aftermarket for a kit this old?
  7. Canute
    Wow, they're about perfect tires. Very nice, especially for their kits.
  8. Canute
    Sorry, Eric. I was just replying to KeithAug's comment. This was a Railroad Prototype Modelers gathering in Cocoa Beach, FL.Annual get-together, so it was like old home week, seeing buddies you only see once a year, along with guys seen more frequently. And having several good seafood restaurants doesn't hurt for this seafood fan.
  9. Canute
    Nicely done track-work, Kevin. 👍
  10. Canute
    It was a real barn burner, gents.😉😄
  11. Canute
    I'm in, Craig. The Riviera was a beast. It looked fast.😄
  12. Canute
    Scenery is definitely an art. We have a few guys here who can dazzle with it. Our ice storm never happened, but we did get 4 inches of rain yesterday. And some passing thunderstorms. The pasture across the road from me was a lake and washed out some of the farm driveway that cuts thru it. The French Beoad by me is usally75-100' wide. Today it's a half a mile wide.😨 Luckily not a lot of wind damage; the wind can blow the pine-trees over and spray stray branches around.
  13. Canute
    Turned out nicely, Craig. 👍
  14. Canute
    We'll be here, brother. 😉😁
  15. Canute
    Your superstructure will be looking sharp, Brian. 👍 I think many of the international modeling organizations consider these laser cut parts as scratch built if you design the files for the laser cutter, such as what Brian did. Having machine cut pieces isn't an issue; who designed the parts is the key. I attended a convention over the weekend for model railroaders and they had a session on these laser cutters. Safety was stressed about fumes, ventilation and what not to cut, like the acrylics wefalck mentions.
  16. Canute
    Tamiya primers come in 2 "grits", one is the fine primer, many of us use: the other is a leveling primer, which will fill details as Dan says.
  17. Canute
    Bryan, I'm too young (Baby Boomer), but I had family involved. Pretty hard to capture the emotional stories of air combat on film. A few good ones like Battle of Britain, Dunkirk, 12 o'clock High, Tora Tora Tora. I hope this new streaming video on USAAF daylight bombing gets done right. I did similar stuff, at night, in North Viet Nam, supporting the B-52s over Hanoi.
  18. Canute
    Interesting build. Appears to be "Memphis Belle", first US bomber crew to complete 25 combat missions. My hat's off to the bomber crews of both the RAF and USAAF for flying those missions in pretty tough conditions. Oh, and the "gunner" in the nose is actually the bombardier for these missions. 😉😄
  19. Canute
    A stair stepping would look better, like your last picture. You're looking for a nice waterfall in a stream, not Niagara Falls. 😄
  20. Canute
    The brass banding on the green barrel looks spot on. The early loco designs for valve gearing are fascinating. Very nice work, Kev.
  21. Canute
    Spiffy little flivver.
  22. Canute
    Very well done, Andy. That name board is the frosting on the cake. 👍And Happy New Year.
  23. Canute
    Hat's off to you, my friend. The dazzle is dazzling. 😄
  24. Canute
    Well done Chris. Very nice build.
  25. Canute
    Nice work. 👍 I had a '68 Dodge Charger that I said very similar things about. Had a large hole in the gas tank, draining into the engine.😉

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