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  1. Canute
    Tamiya rattle can primers, the fine variety works for me. I miss Floquil, but I also learned to mask up for all types of paint. Most definitely use the manufacturer's thinner for mixing up your colors. Cleanup on the other hand can be almost anything. Although I've read reports of Windex taking the chrome off the airbrush nozzle. Haven't tried that yet. And use distilled water if you decal. Most water from our taps have varying mineral content, so the cleanest stuff is distilled H2O. Most supermarkets stock it.
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    All us Yanks eating the traditional Thanksgiving turkey will be assuming the sword swallower position on the couch in front of the boob tube/telly/TV immediately after dinner, as Denis alluded to. The turkey induces sleep and the usual feast we consume for the holiday just speeds the coma onset. My Asmiral loves this holiday because she can show her cooking skills to great effect. I am restricted to a minor sous-chef role pre-meal (can opener, sommelier) and then get KP duties for cleanup. It's a great holiday. 😄
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    Welcome home, brother. Flew out of Thailand, but did a number of refuel & re-arm turns in Bien Hoa and Da Nang by the sea. I tend to the PVA for ropes. CA usually dries shiny.
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    I've seen old model railroader pictures of a gentleman working on a drill press in a business suit, minus his jacket. The jacket is off to one side and he is wearing arm bands to keep his shirt cuffs clear of his work. And he does have on his tie. 😲
  5. Canute
    Congrats to your daughter for graduating and being debt free. Very well done. 👍
  6. Canute
    You might try to find I think it's Solvaset. It was developed for a line of very thick model railroad decals.
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    I'm in, Edward. Did you lay the decals on a glossy surface? Were the decals thick? Or old? Our current model paints are great, but matte when dry. A gloss coating (Future/Pledge/Klear or whatever they call it nowadays) will help prevent silvering (air trapped under the decal) Repeat applications of your decal setting solution should help.
  8. Canute
    Your Corsair has turned out very well. Looks great. 👍
  9. Canute
    Well done on your flag. And nicely weathered.
  10. Canute
    Best of luck with your recovery. May it be as speedy as can be.🤞
  11. Canute
    She's really coming along, Kev. Fine job. 👍 Having the pooch in the picture is OK. I like doggies. 😁
  12. Canute
    Very interesting build, Dennis. Good idea backing up the balsa parts with basswood. Stuff is just too fragile.
  13. Canute
    Well done. I really like the weathering.
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    Sadly, too true, Ian.
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    The resellers are the ones who will jack up the prices. Hopefully, many modelers got what they were looking for. This could keep happening until they start molding new kits, if ever, vice selling off hidden stockpiles.
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    That's true of any aircraft you see in public areas. Even the F-4 we have next to our squadron back at McGuire has been stripped. Engines were removed and a sheet metal plug and a ring of sheet metal tail feathers applied. Have to keep it looking good, so they take it to the paint barn and redo the paint job every once in a while..
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    Looks great, Grant. Nice crisp shingling. 👍 Clever idea, making the subroof with the glue and laying your shingle lines against them. Most kits make the shingle stock with glue on them or omit it entirely and have you use double sticky tape. The better kits print shingle lines on the subroof, too.
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    I'm in, too. Interesting skins.
  19. Canute
    Nice work with your crossbow. Well done on your work area.
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    If I hit the PowerBall, maybe. Just keeping it in fuel and oil is costly. Have to be Elon Musk to keep that going. 😊
  21. Canute
    Another superb build, Craig. Very nice display on some cow pasture in NE France.
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    I'm in, too, Craig. Interesting paint schemes.
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    Andy, yes that's what they used back then for inflight calculations. A circular sliderule with some aviation specific items in the face. In the tanker, my boom operator was responsible for the sextant. I just had to supply him with the settings to put in for him to take his sightings. He read me his results, I plugged them into my calculation sheet and plotted the results. Of course, I cross checked it with my dead reckoning poition, my inertial nav system and later on the GPS. A nice tight grouping, normally. 😁
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    The Nav should have some kind of hand held calculator to do his multiplying and dividing on one side and figure winds on the other. I think they were called EA-6s or some such. We called 'em the whiz wheel.. And a sheet of paper to write up his log, about the size of your chart. Maps are what grunts use to drive on the ground. 😉 Where is his sextant? That astrodome wasn't just a place to hang out and dazzle the pilot with the names of the constellations and stars. 😁 Normally, it lived in a box near the astrodome. It was about the size of a box your sneakers/athletic shoes come in.
  25. Canute
    Nicely done with your detailing, Andy. Give the aircraft personality. 👍 In the big airplane I flew, that was called a honey bucket, although my unit converted them to the chemical toilets used in RV campers and boars. We only used the honey bucket when the jet went back to the Air Force maintenance depot. Same thing for our digital radar sets going back to the old crt set. If we forgot and sent the good stuff, it disappeared into the labyrinth at the depot, never to be seen again. That thing above the stretcher. No idea.

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