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Coming along nicely, Craig. The stainless PE must have been fun, although I suspect pre-etched fold lines? Try cutting the PE inside a large clear plastic bag. helps keep those teeny parts on top of the work bench. The tape may help picking up the parts to attach to the model. Well aligned jaws are a must. My cheap tweezers are getting replaced over time with better ones.- 225 replies
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Interesting kit. I'll follow along. Is there a jig for those wheels?
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Yeah, needs a watch dog. 😉 These details are really making the garage pop. Super work.👍
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Careful; you are in danger of falling into a rather complex rabbit hole and losing yourself in adding more gingerbread.😉 I love it your plan, mate. Just take it a little at a time.
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Nicely done on the bricks, OC. It can be a bear to do the mortar lines, but you carried it off nicely. Looks very good.
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OC, if you have a brass bristle brush, you could distress the boards with a few light passes. Protect the stucco areas with some tape. Then, gouge the edges of the individual boards with your knife. Not too heavy though. All you are trying to show is it's wood door in a stucco wall, not something derelict.
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That will look good, OC.
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Try an off white for the mortar lines. The mortar was usually mixed with local sand, so the mix would take that shade. Paint it on and wipe it off the brick faces quickly, so the paint settles into the mortar lines. And be careful around the shutters with your stucco paint. Gonna be a beauty, OC.
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I remember getting any Eastern Bloc info on their a/c was very tough. Why the French and Italian equipment was so rare, I wish we knew.
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You may want to look at the work done by RGL (Greg). He's a master of this kind of work. CDW is another gentleman to review his work. Have fun and welcome to MSW.
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I'm with you about steak over snails/escargot/scungilli, Pat. May want to read the labels on your blackening product. Some need dilution, others maybe a warmed solution.
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Super, another "Mighty 'ood", as Haliburton said. Is this a Flyhawk or some other brand?
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They used to ship autos inside railroad boxcars. Four or so at a time, with the cars chained up like those pictures. Sometimes loaded thru end doors, sometimes loaded thru double side doors.
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OC, did you try isopropal alcohol to remove the old paint. I've used the higher strength with good effect. Might need to scrub with some small brushes in the nooks and crannies. Looking forward to this redo. 😄
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It's just a nit noi. We all get moments like that. I attribute it to too many birthdays or TMB.
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Nice cleanup, Denis. That vertical stab looks like it was a short shot when molded. Guess Atlantis couldn't do much with 50+ year old molds. Good old Revell box scale kit. Almost HO (1/87).
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(Ahem) Jackson taught at Virginia Military Institute pre Civil War. He was a very rigid instructor, memorizing his lectures. When he'd get off track, he'd restart his whole lecture from the beginning. Put him on an active battlefield and he became a tactical tiger. The Rebs had so-so leadership of the Army of Northern Virginia until Jackson and Lee percolated up to the top spots, then they became a juggernaut. The North was saddled with any number of political hacks in upper leadership, until Meade. But Meade was a very reluctant commander and got lucky at Gettysburg. His pursuit of Lee retreating south was miserable, although the worn out Army of the Potomac and some execrable weather didn't help. His reliance on Kilpatrick aka "Kil-cavalry" was totally misplaced. When Grant came east, he put some backbone into Meade, but there was too much politics in the leadership.
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Use a hardened cutter on piano wire. It will curl the edges of the cutters we use for brass and copper wire, making them useless afterwards.
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Napoleon must have been channeling some early Roman. The Romans marked units with eagles, so the Napoleonic units carried eagles, too. They were sacred emblems for these units, so losing one was disastrous, due to lost honor. It was a rallying point for a unit, since all comms were either visual (flags) or audio(horns/trumpets). An eagle/nation or unit flag was vital for keeping unit adhesion. Very important in the days of massed muskets at under 100 yards for effectiveness. The various British Rifle units were the beginnings of dispersed firepower, but they still relied on whistles for communications.
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You might try ModelWarships.com site. Here's IJN Kongo.: http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=30051
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