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Photos like these show the relationship of the terrain with the structures and vegetation. Maps included in the various histories are good, but being able to see the entire picture really helps to understand a battle. I've been fortunate to be able to walk a number of ACW battles, such as Gettysburg, Antietam and Richmond/Petersburg. These gave me a much better appreciation of events like Pickett's Charge, the Sunken Road and the Crater. Thanks for showing these, OC.

A Flying Tigers P-40 kit was my first kit build. Raised lines to mark panels and markings. Rivets the size of oranges. I must have looked like Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons) assembling that beauty.

I am most definitely in. Special Hobby has really upped their game with these improvements.

EG, it looks like the car frame. Tweaking the "small" changes is part of the engineering process. I like it.

Hope your health holds. Your entries in any log are always worth reading, even if only for the giggles.

Nicely done. The stacks turned out great.

Well done, Gary. 👍

I'm in, James. This is going to be one, big beast.

Great shot, OC.👍

Your little add-on looks very good, OC. Nice addition.

It'll be interesting to follow along.

Very impressive, Rob. That's one massive plane. 👍

There was a dirt track in New Egypt, NJ, where I used to live. Friday and Saturday nights. And bring your goggles, because the clay was spread around, especially thru the corners. That was some pretty exciting racing. Wrecks could be spectacular. I'm sure you old gearheads remember jalopy races. 😄

Very cool, Craig. Interesting "airboat". Any plans?

Wall Stadium in NJ was a hot spot. Now it's a housing development with McMansions. 😝

Trenton, Flemington and Langhorn Racetracks from NJ and PA are memorialized by the big NASCAR track in Mt Pocono, PA. The old tracks became shopping centers and condominiums. 😖

Craig, that's a real puzzlement. I like your solution. Do you really want to chase down a set of wheels for this beauty?🙄

Frank, I would suspect the wood deck goes over the plastic for support. You will probably have to remove any plastic deck fittings, too. Can you get a copy of the veneer instructions to see what may be required?

Another putty material is Durham's Water putty.  I also use Spot Putty from Bondo. It had an odor, so use outdoors or with adequate ventilation. It sticks nicely to the plastic. You should prime it for painting.

Thin sheets of styrene from Evergreen Scale Models. They sell a combo package with a number of thicknesses; the sheets are 4" x 6", I think. Evergreen makes loads of styrene strips and shapes , along with the sheet products. Most is white styrene, but they do make sheets in black. Here's a link: https://evergreenscalemodels.com/

Saw the glacier outside Anchorage, Alaska and it was as Thukydides describes. Never did see the ones on Denali; always wrapped in clouds.

Great start, Dan. Love those Mossies.😄

Gary, I suspect the molds for your castings are the oldest parts, being used as part of the original kits. The company upgraded the wood with laser cutting technology, the metal castings are yet to be upgraded. The molds get worn out and you get misaligned parts and flash on the edges. You sometimes see it in plastic kits, if the manufacturer keeps on using his original molds.  The cure is designing 3D printed parts. Sometimes the printed parts are included in the kit, sometimes they are assembled to make larger molds for casting. I use a manufacturer up in Canada who produces one piece resin casting freight car bodies. He even does oil canning effects where appropriate.

Your Camel is progressing nicely. 👍

The railroads that serviced facilities on the Harlem River, the waterway between Manhattan and the Bronx, had tugboats with lowered stacks and the carfloats were shorter. The wheelhouses had to be high enough for the captain and helmsman to see over a loaded car float secured to each side of the tug. There is a good website here http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/IndustrialLocos.html

A belated Happy Birthday, brother. I suspect some of us are already suffering from TMB, Too Many Birthdays, with it's affects on memory. Did I wish you Happy Birthday?

Car is coming along beautifully; you've got that painting knack. Thanks for showing that. 👍

OC, maybe cut up a cereal box and build up a slope. Cover with your ground material/putty and then blend into the original dio.

That muddy rut turned out well, OC.

Frank, you may want to look into getting a brass bristle brush to clear the debris from the files. Clean files work better.

The photographer in the Steamtown pictures was one of the 2 company photographers for the Lackawanna Railroad. There are several thousand glass plate negatives digitally scanned by the park rangers at Steamtown. Some of the plates were de-laminating, the silver was chipping away from the glass plate. Mt Barry etched his initials, WBB, into the pictures.

These old plates can be enlarged on a computer screen to show some interesting detail.