Canute
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Nice work on the stack. Looking good. 👍 Like EG said, need more soot around the top of the stack. My Case tractor was like that. And we kept a bucket over top of the exhaust unless we were running it. -
F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
The checkerboard looks like it was painted on. Too bad that one decal disintegrated on you. And it's a major part of your scheme. -
Pardon my miserable French spelling, but head to the coast around Arromanche, for what remains of a Mulberry used as a temporary port until facilities in Cherbourg were liberated. St Lo was another town that was battled over. On a lighter note, Villedieu le Poele was a town in western Normandy, famous for it's copper cookware. And if you get the chance, go to Mont St Micheal. Sits a little ways off the coast in a tidal mud flat. I think it's an island at high tide. And no vehicles inside the gates. Very medieval.
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F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I fell into the camp of "Speed is life". Most VC couldn't lead far enough to hit a fighter with rifle fire, unless it was the "golden BB". But they had bigger stuff that was a threat. The helo guys were the gutsiest, low and slow with maybe the aluminum foil between them and the unfriendly fire. Did you sit on your flak jacket? The F-4 had armor plate on the belly, over some important gear, such as generators and hydraulic pumps. Unfortunately, our maintainers took them off because they interfered with their work? The doors were heavier and the bolt heads recessed in the armor. Plates disappeared, never to be seen. -
Looks like it had a dirt bath. Long drying time - are they some kind of oils?
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F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Get your eyes checked regularly. You may have cataracts. -
F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Or you can work under a lit magnifying lens. Works a treat for those teeny details and PE parts. leaves both hands free to do your modeling tasks. -
F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Shading turned out well. The gun panels didn't quite stand out as much as pictures show, but you did capture the differences. -
Well done. And I'm partial to airplanes with red paint.
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My Admiral is pretty good with aircraft; she was a flight engineer on C-141s once upon a time. Beyond that it;s boat (Staten Island ferry or Hobie cat), or train(box car or the 20th Century Limited). She does tolerate my model building, too. 😄
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She's a keeper.
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EG, that data point is long gone from my memory banks. We dropped a nominal 45 degrees, but sometimes got steeper. What's a few degrees among friends. 😉 Release was supposed to be 7K, but sometimes the nose gunner pressed the altitude. I'd give him a 1 potato, 2 potato and then start squawking about altitudes. With precision guided weapons,the art of dive bombing may be going away. That being said, the weapons release computers can turn darn near anyone into a sharpshooter.
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Nicely done, Dan. Great looking build.
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You're right. All those springs and such just covered.Just so much plastic ballast, eh? Nice stash. Got a few Sukhois in there amid the armor models.
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Don't worry; he's listening. And follow your doctor's orders; he's been practicing a while. You're a rookie in the medicine game in that area. 😁
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Looks like the fuselage closed up nicely, Denis. Well done. Surprised the cockpit paint was so dark. They liked RLM02, a gray shade. New research showed otherwise? Coming along nicely; a variant rarely seen. 👍 I think the Stuka was a near vertical dive bomber, so pulling out of a dive like that required a certain minimum turn radius. And with unboosted flight surfaces, probably a two fisted grab on the control stick. Our high angle dive was 45 degrees and I can say that that was a red ticket tide.We rolled in from 14-15 thousand feet, released around 7K feet. But some of that was to stay above small arms envelopes. I forget where we bottomed out, because I'd be looking over my right or left shoulder to see where the bombs went and look for bandits trying to shoot at us.
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USS Samuel B. Roberts found. Sunk during the Battle of Samar
Canute replied to mtaylor's topic in Nautical/Naval History
I'll second that for Hornfischer's work. -
Nice presentation display, Chris.
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There would blood-letting, if I tried that. I went to the ER once upon a time, when I slipped removing the casting sprue on the bottom of a boxcar. Had to come off or the car's underframe could not sit straight. I wear a Kevlar glove now, when I have to do this kind of surgery.
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The molds used are awesome with all the raised lettering. I have to look into this line. Limited run or not. Guess their finer castings are pretty delicate. Is the plastic brittle? May be why those connecting rods broke.
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I really like my micro-saw. I got it thru UMM. Fits in some tight spots, sometime better than my sprue nipper or the Tamiya nippers. Unfortunately, with these limited run kits, the sprues are thick and inconveniently located in the joint area. Wonder what the designers were thinking, doing that. Handy for removing resin plugs, too. Blue air is sometimes the only "lubricant" to get parts to slip into place.Works better that throwing it at the wall. 😉 Your Cat is coming along nicely.
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Yep, the choices are out there. Now for beginning a search. May even try Shapeways.
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F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Yeah, the outage was a PITA, but survivable (barely😁) -
Details in the kit are super. Good magnification and lighting are a must here. I take it by reduction you are adding a thinning agent to the primer? Consistency of skim milk? Crawlers for the circus seemed to be generic Cats, without attachments.. Although I need to dig into more circus equipment diagrams. For such a wide spread activity, there isn't much pictorial history.
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