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  1. Canute
    Turned out well, OC. Nice and easy does it. 😁
  2. Canute
    Oh yeah. Cut, bend,fit, rebend, refit. Reset the tweezers to get some glue and.... ? Happens too often for me, but luckily, I can still get down and back up off the floor. Just a few snap, crackle. pop moments.
  3. Canute
    Nice looking parts; very crisp. Flyhawk has really figured out how to get the most accurate scale parts yet.
  4. Canute
    Good save on the tubes, Kevin. Very nice details on the loading ends of those tubes, too. All coming along nicely.👍
  5. Canute
    Wow, your post person seems to have it in for you. "The Mangler." Good repairs. 😃
  6. Canute
    Generic masts and the builder adds the yards. Good idea and your inner craftsman gets some needed work.
  7. Canute
    I use a setup similar to Tim's with white LED lighting and a magnifier on the swing arm. The magnifier has a lid, too. That plus the cataract surgeries earlier this year allow me to work with just a pair of reading glasses. My far vision is back to what I was seeing when I was flying. The near is OK, but I use the readers for the fine print and my modeling work. You can't have too much light for your modeling work. Just go with the LEDs, since most everything else generates heat.
  8. Canute
    Kev, I'm in, too. 😉
  9. Canute
    Nice. I can tell you that was one system that gave the Western air forces sleepless nights. Pretty detailed TEL (transporter-erector-launcher).
  10. Canute
    Interesting design, Mike. I'm in.
  11. Canute
    Alan, that's a quantum leap in the appearance of your parts. Well done.
  12. Canute
    Oh come on, they do look like a nice short flight of stairs. 😉😃
  13. Canute
    I'm good with that. I vote yes.
  14. Canute
    I'm with the guys. Tuck the Wokka in the back of a hangar bay with pieces removed. Most places in SEA had hangar queens, which were cannibalized for keeping the other jets flying. One of ours was named Marcia, after our maintenance officer. Even think she named it. 😃 Did not realize you'd applied your decals over flat paint. Big oops. mate. This hangar queen dio will make up for it.
  15. Canute
    Denis, I'd go with the German gray over the flat black. The flat black sucks in too much light. A weathered black is what you want, I suspect. That German gray is the color a number of model railroaders are favoring for the undersides of equipment. Keep the efforts to have a working carriage. 👍
  16. Canute
    Like the fellas said, follow the doctor's orders for a successful recovery. I have a friend who felt he could recover by doing his own thing. Didn't work and he needed a second operation to repair his shoulder.
  17. Canute
    Some kits have something they call laser board. It's pretty thin; parts cut by laser are pretty delicate until properly assembled into its final configuration. It's pretty thin. I've used it as support structures for storage bins. I just bought a kit from Interactions Hobbies https://www.interactionhobbies.com/, the Pork Store, and he calls it resin impregnated board in his instructions. By the way, it's Satriale's Pork Store from the Sopranos series. And the owner is building a small boat of his own development in the Present Day Ships in kits forum. He utilizes basswood and polybak in the kit.
  18. Canute
    Of note, that last picture is the USS Onondaga, a twin turret monitor, launched in 1863. She supported Union forces along the James River till the end of the war. She was sold to France in 1867.
  19. Canute
    No aftermarket interior with this one. Very detailed "office". Nice start.
  20. Canute
    That patina matches the look of the station lighting in the interior of the train station my club lives in, in Hendersonville, NC. The building is 119 years old. The club has been in there since 1992. Really like your work, Gary. 👍
  21. Canute
    You did some nice work in that "office". Show it to everyone.😁
  22. Canute
    Nicely done there, OC. Looks very good.
  23. Canute
    Alan, I had a tough time figuring out what those tube things were supposed to represent. I like your idea of mounting the bases and adding some brass tubes for the Lewis guns. That's what the box art looks like to me.
  24. Canute
    Beautiful biplane. I'm in, too.
  25. Canute
    Kevin, looks good. I'm in.

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