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Canute

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  1. And you have good examples in your neighborhood for inspiration. Take a wander and bring along your phone for sample pictures.
  2. No problem, mate. The icon was just the X. Mark passed on the complete link. Looks good. Thanks for posting.
  3. Took me to the end of your collection of photos for the build.
  4. EG has drawn up the first two parts of a turbojet engine, Intake, then Compress, Next he'll burn the compressed air/fuel mixture in his combustor cans then expell it out the end, generating thrust. Or more succinctly - suck, squeeze, bang, blow. Afterburners or reheat, using the correct terminology, adds more fuel and burns the mixture (again), generating more thrust. This version of F-86 didn't have this, but his F-104 does.
  5. I suspect some of the bleed air will be used for cockpit heating, too, like most jets. Easy way to keep those tootsies warm at the altitudes they cruised at in the high twenties or so. Design is looking good, mate.
  6. How about the 4 guys in the trunk, along with a case or two? And I'm not talking the bodies Uncle Vinnie mighta put there with a bag or two of ceement. 😄
  7. Little Rascals for me. Red is very tough to get good coverage, as is yellow. They are translucent, so primers are important. I have a number of refrigerator cars to paint and they are yellow. Luckily the base plastic is an ivory tending to yellow, so I think I may skip priming, but I may test it anyway. I had good luck spraying yellow over medium gray.
  8. Nicely done layering of the colors, OC. Good looking walls. We'll need a delivery drone to distribute the goodies if any more of you take to the hammocks in the rafters. 😁
  9. Well, now. If that's the case, I'll bring the adult beverages. We'll promise to not get very rowdy.
  10. OC, glad you're keeping at it. The oopsies will pass and you'll be back better than ever, mate.
  11. The connection boats look like liberty boats for the crewmen to get back and forth. Pack 'em in like sardines?
  12. I think after 40 years or so, she's used to my eccentricities. I tell her it's from the hypoxic events in my flying career. And the Darlin buys that. 😁
  13. Might try putting it inside your freezer (with the Admiral's permission, of course). The cold stresses the plastic glue and CA joints. I've done this to a few model freight cars I needed to disassemble. The mods I needed to make required the partial tear-down.
  14. We only used them for maintenance engine runs, but our intakes sat much higher. But FOD was always a concern. Nice job on the inlet vanes in 3D.
  15. Coulda been, Denis. I haven't watched in eons, so I sure don't remember. Yeah, the color on this is up in the air and the red plastic sure doesn't help. Well, Badger makes a pink primer coat in their Stynylrez line.
  16. That was the 25th anniversary 'Vette. A local Chevy dealer got one of the Specials from the factory, so a group of us wandered over to gaze at the Special. The 'glass job was awful; the weave of the fabric was quite visible in the paint. Must have been built on a Monday or Friday. Turned a lot of us off to the Corvette mystique.
  17. Denis, Pinky Tuscadero was in Happy Days (I think). All that pink....😁
  18. Another brand is the plastic cement from Deluxe. Doesn't evaporate on the brush as fast as the Tamiya extra thin I've used. I tend to use Testors for joins I need to be strong and the Deluxe for quicker gluing of trim parts.
  19. Great idea for making your structures portable. I've seen many a layout with structures looking like your last picture. The owners are more into operating the trains than worrying about the authenticity of each structure. 😉
  20. EG, how about using Gunship Gray or NATO Black. They are more of a charcoal gray and less of a light sump that flat black becomes.
  21. 440 air, Lou? 4 doors open, 40 MPH?😉 Like in the old family sedan.
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