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Canute

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  1. Canute
    Keep up the good work, brother. Like the guys said, it's a learning process. I keep telling myself I want to be able to use a computer based drafting program, but it'll have to be self taught. Local schools aren't offering adult education classes for these. Mostly very basic courses.
  2. Canute
    OC, like the way your hedge turned out. The tree may add interest, too; maybe as a corner marker?. Hope you're blending of the sections works out. Looking across the road by me at the farm fields, the only contrasting area is a plot they plowed up, likely to raise some veggies. Most of the farm is green pastures, since they have 10 horses wandering about.
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    The rework station, OCAMA, is the Oklahoma City Air Material Area, aka Ok City Depot. They do all the engines for the Air Force. Once out of the AF inventory, these good folks pick up the ongoing overhauls and rebuilding.
  4. Canute
    You go to steeple chase races? They have some in Camden, SC over here. Probably a few more, in other places. I went to a couple years back. Biggest open air cocktail party in the state of South Carolina.
  5. Canute
    And you have good examples in your neighborhood for inspiration. Take a wander and bring along your phone for sample pictures.
  6. Canute
    No problem, mate. The icon was just the X. Mark passed on the complete link. Looks good. Thanks for posting.
  7. Canute
    Took me to the end of your collection of photos for the build.
  8. Canute
    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.
  9. Canute
    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.
  10. Canute
    Looking very good, OC. Maybe some puddling in the road from all the rains?
  11. Canute
    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. 😄
  12. Canute
    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.
  13. Canute
    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. 😁
  14. Canute
    Well, now. If that's the case, I'll bring the adult beverages. We'll promise to not get very rowdy.
  15. Canute
    OC, glad you're keeping at it. The oopsies will pass and you'll be back better than ever, mate.
  16. Canute
    The connection boats look like liberty boats for the crewmen to get back and forth. Pack 'em in like sardines?
  17. Canute
    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. 😁
  18. Canute
    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.
  19. Canute
    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.
  20. Canute
    Handsome hound you have there. We can wait for additional work.😁
  21. Canute
    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.
  22. Canute
    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.
  23. Canute
    Denis, Pinky Tuscadero was in Happy Days (I think). All that pink....😁
  24. Canute
    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.
  25. Canute
    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. 😉

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