Canute
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Nice work, EG. And Klear is/was the name for Future on the other side of the Pond.
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Denis, you're doing a bang-up job fixing this ancient kit. Has to be old, original run since there is box art on the lid, rather than the now required photo. I'm always interested in how modelers have to re-engineer one of these oldies. Keep on truckin' with this one. 👍
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Guys painting bare metal finishes from Alclad favor a dark gloss gray rather than gloss black. But definitely a smooth gloss finish under your selected metal finishes.
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I'm in, too. Got an hour or 2 in some B models. Flight examiner prerogative, ya know. 😉😁
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Stagecoach looking good, Kevin And the dollhouses look good, too, What scale are they? I have a buddy here who used to build upscale furniture for these houses in I think 1/12 scale. He used the furniture catalogs from a home named Winterthur, outside Philadelphia, PA. Built clocks, dining room sets; he's was prolific with the furniture.
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Finnish T26 tank by Baker - Mirage - 1/72 Finished
Canute replied to Baker's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Nicely done camo. -
Dennis, here's a site for some nice decals: https://fineartofdecals.com/goodiess/
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Do you mean cutting donuts in the seat cover, Lou? And yes, speed is life, at least in flying combat aircraft. We sat on a piece of cloth on top of the ejection seat kit. No padding because the little amount of padded space would allow the seat to accelerate beyond what a human tailbone could withstand. Broken hips anyone?
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Another issue with thin styrene and solvent cements is too much cement can dimple the thin styrene. Tack it in place, then cement it with brushed on cement. Good technique there, Patrick.👍
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Lou, I was in a Hunter-Killer team during Linebacker II. Mostly carried CBUs, 2 Sparrow air to air missiles, 2 jammer pods and a fully loaded gun. The Shrike antiradar missile (ARM) was to make the North Vietnamese (and their Russian SAM trainers) think a Weasel had expended one of his rounds. I think we may have done it twice? The crazier idea was dropping flares over Hanoi at night to see the SAM sites.That place was so lit up from their air defenses that the flares were redundant. I don't think the proposer ever flew up North, so had no clue as to what he was doing. I remember the team leads telling him we would need 8 extra jets to do it and that was enough to convince them not to do it. We were pretty maxed out with maintaining 2 sets of crews for both day and night ops over the North. And the USN was faced with similar issues, so we couldn't beg for their help.They were hitting targets an hour or two either side of our strike packages going in. That's when the NVA finally relented. That was cathartic. 😃
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Ah, but did your landings match your takeoffs? Luckily for me, mine did. We figured it was small price to pay, doing all the egress/life support training. Uncle Sam was paying us to fly the top of the line fighter in air to air training. We rarely fired missiles (6 deployments for weapons system evaluations), although we shot both radar and infrared when we dieployed, And I did shoot an anti-radar missile in SEA, during Linebacker II. Whoopity doo.😉
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Interesting tool. You have been doing some beautiful work. Nice job.
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It's heck, getting old. Definitely not for sissies!
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Your bridge sure got busy, Chris. Cutting, fitting and edge coloring parts the size of a dust speck. You are a master.
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As one of the guys actually driving a jet around, we got a shot on every conceivable way to get out of a plane and then what to do as we made our "silk" descent. Seat trainer was an old T-33 seat rigged on rails and fired with a 37mm cartridge (some boot in the butt). Parasailing on land and sea. Water survival in Biscayne Bay, near Miami. Jungle survival in the Philippines, being chased by some local folks. They got 50 pounds of rice for every Gringo they caught. I think they smelled us, cause I got into a good hide under a log. Still nabbed by my pursuer. Quarterly egress training, getting out of the cockpit with the lid down in a pitch black room. Suspended agony outside, hanging in our harnesses and manipulating the personal lowering device to get out of the trees and onto terra firma. Boy, I don't miss that stuff.
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Pulling up a chair, too.
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EG, I got a package of boxcar parts from Ontario to western NC last week. 5 days from order to package in my mailbox. In state mail is about 3 days.
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Glad you liked it Dennis. There are some good sites around for getting ideas.
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Colors look good, EG. Like the combuster section, suitably burned. 👍 The afterburner (AB) section (reheat for some of us) had what looks like a spider web in it It was inset several feet in from the eyelids. Spray mechanism for the extra fuel for the AB. Our fuel flow in AB jumped 4 times over the normal numbers. We didn't stay in AB any longer than we needed to. The newer jets are higher fuel consumption ratios, but the cruise flows were better with the turbofans they used in the F-15, 16, 18. And they didn't need the thrust of ABs to do air combat maneuvering flight.
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There is a longish article on builds of assembly ships over on Hyperscale: https://www.hyperscale.com/2022/features/assemblyships48jm_1.htm
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Yep, you are. The AB eyelids almost look like the ones on an E model, but ours were J79-GE-17 models. Keep on digging up this stuff.
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