Canute
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They did that with steam locomotive drivers, too. Heat the tire rim in a furnaces so that it expands, move it quickly to the actual driver wheel and place it. Then cool it into place. Since the driver was two parts, occasionally the rim would separate from the wheel, with catastrophic results. The dynamic forces on the drivers were significant with the spinning wheels and the drivers and connecting rods moving along.
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Oh, nice a Prinz Eugen. Another gem. I'm in Brother.
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Beautiful work, Craig. She was a gorgeous ship. Thanks for sharing your work.
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Looks like a good time/spot to build the dio. The KGL rallying to repulse the French units. Waterloo was such a wide spread battle, one needs to focus on just one unit's actions.
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Definitely a happy accident, OC. I like the brownish staining. It looks very good for the stable area.
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You may want to try Excel brand blades. A better grade of steel.
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I'll tag along, too. A different take on Ericsson's monitor design.
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Some model RR buddies use a gloss dark gray primer for stainless steels in the Alclad line. Gives some depth to the stain steel skins of passenger cars. And some others have tried the Stynylrez yellow primer under their reds, although this is usually undercoating red oxide freight cars.
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Very nice work, Chris. They are little jewels.
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Yep, quite the jet. You notice the only way to make the smoke disappear was to select afterburner/reheat.
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Even if the speed/Mach meter said we were subsonic, parts of the jet were already supersonic. If you ever had a Phantom show up over a crowd and it's quiet until it's not, that's the effect. I think the military demo teams (T birds, Blues) made use of that with one of their solos, back when they were flying the F-4. Main team out front, dazzled everybody with their precision formations and that pesky solo (old 5 or 6) would come over the crowd from behind the viewing stand and rock your socks off. We couldn't go supersonic over the North American landmass except for designated training areas like the Nellis or Hill AFB ranges in Nevada and Utah. Big reason why the SST was a flop for Braniff, since they were restricted to sub sonic use over the US. Who'd pay premium fares for a cramped ride at the same speeds as a DC-10. Ever since that time, the experimenters have been working on getting supersonic speeds without propagating the shock wave to the ground and irritating the citizenry.
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The farm will look great, OC. Very nice build. The KGL will keep the grognards at bay.😉
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A-10A by modeller_masa - Academy - 1/72 FINISHED
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Nice job with the grain legs. Those things must have been a sight getting moved around the harbor. Well done.
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Gee whiz Gary. I never heard a non-Phantom Phlyer (I'm presuming 😉) wax poetic over the Rhino, our nickname for Mr McDonnell's creation. I'm gonna blush. (I have about 4,000 hours in the old girl) Years ago, while checking out in the Phantom, one of my instructors opined on the fact that Mr McDonnell could take a commercial freezer, strap 2 General Electric J-79s to it and make a supersonic, fighter-bomber, interceptor. capable of Mach 2 flight. Ours (USAF) never got those spiffy paint jobs. More like that old Ford pickup, hauling what needs hauling. I miss the myriad jobs we did; every mission/flight was different. But I especially the guys I flew with. The folks here on this site approach that camaraderie, but the worst thing would be somebody slicing up themselves and leaving their DNA on a model.. 😊
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The F-4E was 64 feet long with a 38 foot wingspan. As I remember, the other versions were 6 feet shorter. The E needed the extra space to stuff a 20mm Gatling gun with 640 round magazine into the nose. That was 10 seconds worth of firing time or 5 2 second bursts. Any long and the gun-barrels melted/twisted. Weapons Officer flashback.😁
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Some straw clipping strewn about will look good, too. Maybe a bucket of feed or water, too. Our stable doors were too narrow to run a front end loader into the stall. Best we could do was throw it thru the doorway into the bucket.
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A-10A by modeller_masa - Academy - 1/72 FINISHED
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Nice work on that stable floor, mate.👍 Really looks like it should be in one's foyer, instead of the stable. My old barn stalls were mostly bare dirt with straw and other detritus scattered about, needing frequent cleaning. 😉
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I kitbashed some gas stations for a display my train club built. Had to do it in N scale, about half the size of Gary's beautiful work. It was fun doing the old style pumps with the glass bowl on the top of the pump. We didn't get into the interior details, although both stations did have work bays and offices. One was Sinclair, the one with the green dinosaur in more modern times. The other was Pure Oil, a common brand down South in the USA. Anyway, this service bay is outstanding. Gary is working on a best in show here. 😉
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A-10A by modeller_masa - Academy - 1/72 FINISHED
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Nice build, Egilman. Had a buddy build that same scale E model while we sat air defense alert in the Florida panhandle. He was tracing all the little hydraulic and pneumatic lines, along with the wiring harnesses, in the wheel wells. Yeah, Mike had that prototype appearance bug. 🙄
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Sure, but you can prime all those little soldiers in one fell swoop. After you practice a bit with the airbrush, though. 😁
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I use the thinner for the brand I'm using for thinning/conditioning the paint. Some paints curdle with generic thinners. Additional ingredients in the proprietary thinner? Cleanup is a different matter. The branded thinners aren't cheap, but you can use some homemade cleaning thinners. Here's one take on a homemade thinner for acrylics: https://www.cybermodeler.com/tips/thinner.shtml My blogpost here has a link to a model RR site with another brew for homemade thinners. It's in post #1
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