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  1. Canute
    Interesting design. Openings look significant, but it would take the "golden BB' for an effective strike on the hull Never was much of a tread head, so this is extremely informative. Thanks.
  2. Canute
    Beautiful prints. Very sharp looking. The blast bags look like canvas.
  3. Canute
    That's the break in the fuselage for removing the engine, isn't it.? Many older jets worked that way. I remember seeing F-105s opened up that way. That shrinkage was huge. Luckily it was only one direction. This plastic glues up normally with the usual Tamiya and Testors glues? Understand the GatorGrip for the strong joint without letting the plastic sag. I sometimes use a gel CA to glue styrene, especially gluing very thin stock. The solvents turn thin strips into bacon strips.😉 Should be a simple fix, but preserving any detail will be fun.
  4. Canute
    Nice job setting the dihedral. Be interesting how that affects the fit in the wing roots, if any. Are the tailplanes OK? Many manufacturers miss the subtle bends and twists in the airframes.
  5. Canute
    The American component of the Lafayette Escadrille still exists at Seymour Johnson AFB, flying F-15Es. The 335 Fighter Squadron, the Chiefs, claims descent from the Escadrille.
  6. Canute
    Another Stuka, Dennis? Those Special Hobbies kits look interesting. If you want a big challenge, size and otherwise, this is a new release of a Stuka in 1/35 scale: https://www.hyperscale.com/2022/reviews/kits/borderbf002reviewbg_1.html Has it's pro's and con's, per the reviewer, but overall, he thinks it's a good one. Not cheap, but he sees a lot of aftermarket goodies to fix the more egregious errors.
  7. Canute
    Quite nicely done, Chris. More food for thought. I can be distracted too easily. Looking forward to your next build.
  8. Canute
    Battering ram? That's intriguing.
  9. Canute
    Good job finessing the back end of the Nose wheel well and the ammo bins. Some injection mold makers make some thick castings. May have to resort to CA to tack that seam. I tend to lay on some spot putty, very roughly smooth it out and leave it over night to set up. Of course, I do the initial patchwork out in the garage and wear a mask, since the Bondo has toluene and who knows what else in it. The chemicals etch into the plastic.
  10. Canute
    If I can dig up some concepts I learned in power plant designs, we'd take the hot gases to heat the feedwater, since it was more efficient to raise the pre-heated water just a few degrees, rather than the cold water from the cistern/tank and dumping it into the boiler. This is what the more modern steam locomotives do, warm up the feed water going into the boiler. That was the fireman's job in the engine, tending the water level in the loco. Sometimes you got a nervous engineer who was paranoid about letting the water level in the boiler sight glass drop too low, permitting exposure of the crown sheet and resulting explosion as water is dumped into the boiler. This was usually in hilly country. The fireman ran the injector from the feedwater heater; the engineer had an injector fed directly from the loco tender (colder water). This colder water would drop the pressure and the engine would slow down. Safe, but showing a lack of faith in the fireman and possibly late arrival.
  11. Canute
    According to Wiki, it was designed for carrying a 1,000 kilo (2,200 lb) bomb or the twin cannons. The couple of operational pix I've seen only show the Kanonevogel version. According to William Green's Warplanes of the Third Reich, it was an either or; primarily the cannons for tank busting, bomb racks in place of the cannons when there were no tanks in the area. No mention of the weight of bombs fir a G without cannon. Bottom line is don't sweat the expendables. It's a Kanonevogel. 😉😄
  12. Canute
    All the end grain makes it difficult to cover. And sanding sealers aren't much help for that either. Overall, though, a nice job building that rig.
  13. Canute
    Coming along nicely. The interior of the stack question got me thinking it may be due to the fuel burned, anthracite or hard coal. Had different characteristics from the soft coal used. The Lackawanna used hard coal from the NE PA area. They used Miss Phoebe Snow, a lady dressed in white, to advertise traveling on the railroad. If you've ever rode behind a steam engine with car windows open, you'll get dusted with ash from the burned coal. This didn't happen on the Lackawanna until WW I, when the Navy requested as much hard coal as was available to use in their ships, since another characteristic of hard coal was much less smoke. I suspect less residue in the flue gases, so less buildup. I'm a little out of practice with this info, since it's been over 50 years from my engineering college studies.
  14. Canute
    It does seem to take multiple coats to build up. It dries, but it's soft. Then again, most of these putties are like that.
  15. Canute
    Nice mod. And the gun panels look close to boresighted.
  16. Canute
    Yeah, the Bondo gets applied outdoors. I've tried the Vallejo putty; I'm not convinced yet.
  17. Canute
    Bondo spot putty and masking tape can be a friend.😄
  18. Canute
    ZZ Top, a little ol' Texas band.
  19. Canute
    Agree on the replacements. The kit ones look like they're firing off to the sides, vice being bore-sighted to the flight-path. And like Dan said, they're a noticeably different shade from the fuselage sides.
  20. Canute
    That would do nicely.😄
  21. Canute
    Yuengling for me. Or some Bitburger Pils.
  22. Canute
    Cavalry musicians looked like butterflys with their gaudy uniforms.
  23. Canute
    Your rig looks good, Kevin. What will you have inside the trailer, if anything?
  24. Canute
    As others have said, the wood must adjust to ambient conditions. Give it a few days and see if the wrinkle came out.
  25. Canute
    Same for me with drawing. I can give a sketch to a friend of mine with a laser cutter for special pieces/ parts. And that's a rubber room for that straitjacket, Carl. White room is a super clean space, which ain't gonna happen either. It's a basement. Floor is dark, hides dirt. Also hides anything dark, like many model parts.

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