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Canute

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  1. 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.
  2. Canute
    Looking very good, OC. Maybe some puddling in the road from all the rains?
  3. 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. 😄
  4. 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.
  5. 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. 😁
  6. Canute
    Well, now. If that's the case, I'll bring the adult beverages. We'll promise to not get very rowdy.
  7. Canute
    OC, glad you're keeping at it. The oopsies will pass and you'll be back better than ever, mate.
  8. Canute
    The connection boats look like liberty boats for the crewmen to get back and forth. Pack 'em in like sardines?
  9. 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. 😁
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Canute
    Handsome hound you have there. We can wait for additional work.😁
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Canute
    Denis, Pinky Tuscadero was in Happy Days (I think). All that pink....😁
  16. 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.
  17. 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. 😉
  18. Canute
    Well done. Nice even lighting for this sleeper.
  19. Canute
    Get me a dozen! The hull is looking good, Greg. Suitably grungy.
  20. Canute
    EG, how about using Gunship Gray or NATO Black. They are more of a charcoal gray and less of a light sump that flat black becomes.
  21. Canute
    440 air, Lou? 4 doors open, 40 MPH?😉 Like in the old family sedan.
  22. Canute
    PE details look great for the hangar's workshop area. Like Carl says, is this your slap-dash paining?
  23. Canute
    Interesting ship/boat. Especially in a prior job. I'll be tagging along, Yves.
  24. Canute
    Well I can, EG. Did some fast FAC missions in Laos/Cambodia. We'd take off with 2 frozen water bottles and by the 3rd refueling, about 3 hours, they were gone. Got somewhat parched in the last hour or so. Cheap drunk that night. Good thing we had multiple flight suits, too. The salt stains were pretty bad, too. The hootch lady we had , scrubbed the suits with a tough bristle brush and after a few months, you could almost read thru the Nomex. What a way to fight a war.
  25. Canute
    Looking good. I'm with you on the efforts on unseeable AM details. Most everything in the cockpit was that gray. Bezels were black, as were the canopy frames/rails. At our Southwestern bases, such as Nellis and Luke, the rails got hot as heck in the sun, so we needed to keep sleeves down and don flight gloves. Touching could lead to burns. Nowadays, they have shelters to protect the newer jets from the Sun. And good cockpit air conditioning. The F-4 had a good heater, but cooling was a joke. The Eagle A/C was vastly better.

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