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Canute

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  1. Canute
    Yves, excellent work building up those white metal trucks. Using hot glue? I'll file that away in my tool bag, thank you. You might try a yardstick to spike down the first rail of your test/display track. Keep it straight. Adding the second track the same way you've already demonstrated. Thankfully you aren't doing a curved section. A bit harder to get a totally smooth curve.
  2. Canute
    That's a "cozy" crew compartment. Your work is excellent. 👍
  3. Canute
    I'll be tagging along, too. We had a French unit at Bitburg, Germany, that provided some anti aircraft protection. They augmented a US Army HAWK missile unit there. Saturday nights got multi lingual in downtown Bitburg.
  4. Canute
    I'm following, too, Yves. I have an HO version, but the tender wrapper in in cardstock, where yours is brass.
  5. Canute
    Chris, I'm in, too. The radial was favored because if it took hits, they lost cylinders, but could still keep running and flying. Look at the Grummans, Corsairs and Zeros in the Pacific. In line engines are liquid cooled, so a hit meant lost coolant and dead engine.
  6. Canute
    Your fans are waiting with bated breath, Chris. 😁
  7. Canute
    Different mix of the plastic used. Was the kit a later reissue? Their later plastic blend may have been different than the original Revell plastic. That rubbery plastic seems to me that you should use substitutes for those parts.
  8. Canute
    Good stuff, EG. Curtiss was a busy man. He worked with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell up in Baddeck, NS on some of the Doctor's forays in aviation. Baddeck is akin to Kitty Hawk for our Canadian folks.
  9. Canute
    Obviously not a good candidate for a busy diorama. The model includes everything, including a kitchen sink. It's very busy. 👍😄
  10. Canute
    Was it Chanute who turned a houseboat into a catapult launch rail for hos powered effort?
  11. Canute
    Nicely done, Chris. A great example of how good card modeling is. 👍
  12. Canute
    This is a master build, Chris. Hard to believe it's card. 👍
  13. Canute
    I'd just respray with dull red paint.
  14. Canute
    The molds for the injection molding machine were newer and fit better. Worn molds can lead to excess flash on the parts.
  15. Canute
    Happy Birthday, Denis. The trailer is looking great. I've taken an interest in intermodal railroading, moving trailers on flatcars. Although mine is more 50s-60s. And its in HO, not your large scale build.
  16. Canute
    Beautiful finish on this bird. 👍
  17. Canute
    Bob, Floquil did have a marine line of paints, but they disappeared eons ago, maybe when I/R took over. They also had a line of stains, too. Anyway, Testors bought them out and Floquil was dropped. Nobody builds models any more they said. Marketeers at their finest. Happily Badger has a useful acrylic line and Tru-Color (lacquer based) is making some ship colors, the usual WW II stuff. The Japanese have some good acrylic and lacquer paints. It pays to experiment with them. I would say if you're thinning/conditioning a paint, use the thinner from that company. Going off brand could turn your beautifully blended paint mix into a glob of ,,,
  18. Canute
    Have fun down the shore, Chuck.
  19. Canute
    Did they have anti-glare panels on the engine sides facing the cockpit? I used to know, but haven't been in those books in eons.
  20. Canute
    That point on the coast has had few hurricane landfalls, but....
  21. Canute
    Glen, you've got a future in adding scenery to model railroads. 😄 Those cattle turned out well. You keep parading them around and somebody will think you were from Fort Worth. MMM, nice juicy burger. 😁
  22. Canute
    All too true Craig. We had barrier islands and pre-Labor Day crowds. Local EM wouldn't move their populations early until after that holiday. Skating on thin ice, they were.
  23. Canute
    Hopefully, y'all are outside the inundation zones. When I worked emergency management, there were many who encroached these zones and took damage from the storms. They'd come to us looking for the "FEMA insurance" because they didn't want to use their homeowner policies. That might have been true40 years ago, but laws changed and FEMA could only pay your deductible after that. I think that may be the nub of the problems in Hawaii, unfortunately.
  24. Canute
    Nicely done, OC. A short primer on figure painting.👍
  25. Canute
    I believe it was off the west coast of Sicily

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