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Sitting up on Castle Point bluff in Hoboken, in the 60s was interesting to see all the harbor traffic. The last passenger ferry shut down towards the end of my freshman year at Stevens Tech. The car floats and other traffic were busy, but film I've seen from the 20s thru 40s made the 60s look slow motion. Still had the big ocean liners coming into the North River (aka Hudson) every so often.
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Has Anyone Used Surgical Binocular Loupes
Canute replied to rraisley's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
I've used them over my readers and they increase magnification, but you end up working closer to your model. Depth of field gets unwieldy, attempting to insert pins into other parts, etc. Takes some practice. -
Has Anyone Used Surgical Binocular Loupes
Canute replied to rraisley's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
I'm recovering from cataract surgery, 3 and 1 week ago. I have one normal lens in my right eye and a special one for astigmatism in the left. Medicare covered the normal lens, I paid extra out of pocket for the astigmatism fix. I need nothing for distance and +2.5 pair of readers for some closer/finer print. I can sit at my computer without glasses. I use the readers for my smartphone. Outdoors in bright sun, I use plain sunglasses. Like Gaetan said, good LED lights will help across the board for your modeling. And an Optivisor or similar for fine detailing. -
Very nice progress on the Isis. Glad you found that copy of Transfer. Do you have copies of Tom Flagg's books on the NY Harbor. Not sure if he found any grain elevator pix. But, they have a lot of good color pictures of harbor craft.
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Fokker Dr.I triplane by cog - multiple - 1:72 - PLASTIC
Canute replied to cog's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Those Triplanes are little gems, Carl. -
EG, family first, man. Take care of your lady. We'll be rooting around here, thrashing thru our various builds. Be well, my friend.
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A wide old modeler told me, many moons ago, to take some time to kick back a while, then just build something for yourself, without trying to to build the world's best "whatchamacallit". Gotta recharge the modeler's batteries, mate.
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Glad you're here, Ron. That shot shouldn't do much. I got a wee headache.
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Hands down the F4E. I flew C/D/RF models, too. Actually preferred the pre-slat version, since they added drag and weight in order to get one decent turn. I like the way you've cut up the aftermarket deck to fit in so well. Nicely done. Will you tone it down with washes/pigments/color pencils?
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