Canute
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Sounds like the criteria we used out on our flight line, back in the day. Snow was a nuisance, not a reason to cancel ops. Guess nowadays, we can't hazard the little blighters. Do they have seatbelts in the bench seats for them yet? -
Hardy folk up there, ya know.
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Just because the USN or other navies put out standards and directions, the yards where work was done varied even in the shades of the tinting colors that got mixed into the base paints. You're lucky you found a ship of the same class in a similar scheme. Sort of like what was the color of the Arizona as sunk? Gray or blue? It's a never -ending discussion on most steel ship modeling boards. Pictures are good, to get the shapes of the camo designs. As far as colors are concerned, who can really say? The color pix we have now, could be subject to the film colors deteriorating. Is WW 2 era Kodachrome still accurate years later? Asking eye witnesses is hard to do, due to their passing. And who's to say how sharp their memories of colors are. I feel we should make honest attempts to get close, as you and most here are doing. I think the hardest part of that is scaling colors. A dark blue in 1/200 scale should be darker than the same shade at 1/700 scale. I read the tread-heads and aircraft folks discussing this topic from time to time. Pardon me for taking up space in your log, EG. The spirit moved me to veer off into this.
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Understand. Re-creation versus fantasy.
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Nicely done with the wooden walkway.
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Here's the gen on gunship history: https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0499gunships/ Spectre was the callsign in Nam. Currently they are Ghostriders, with numerous weapons improvements The Dollar 19(C-119) was using the Stinger callsign, I believe, but may have had others. Folks in the Sandbox appreciate having a Ghostrider hanging up over top of their locations, for obvious reasons. Very effective weapons system.
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You thought Napoleon was having a bad day with his intestinal issues! One of those popping over the crest of the ridge would have sent his infantry columns running for Paris.
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A gem. And that color is gorgeous.👍
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I think when the Herkys got into their gunship role , their callsign was Spectre. The USAF started with Puff the Magic Dragon aka Spooky AC-47s, then went into AC-119s, which I forgot their callsign. Pretty impressive when they were firing their 20s and 40s. Lots of tracer rounds. And then they'd unlimber their 105s, off the tail ramp. 😲
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Love those old wide white wall tires. Had a neighbor who owned a 53-54 Cadillac with those white walls. Quite the looker, it was.
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Tim, you may have to incise the panel outlines in that beautiful skinning job.
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Cripes ,Jack. An Aluminum Overcast?
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Very nice, OC. I'm in on this one too. Model on!
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Looking good, Denis. Like EG said, gloss under the decal and OC's setting solutions are the best for making decals stay where ya placed 'em.
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Mike, that's what I thought you meant on the cutting surface. I'm looking for mine. I saw the box, but now it's missing in action. Along with my sprue cutting pliers and a scale ruler. I put them away some place safe and now....
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Mike, Are you cutting the frets on your cutting mat or something less likely to give. I've been working on a brass flatcar and cut the big pieces out on one of my cutting mats. Now, I have to cut out finer details, like brake levers. I've bent some of the large pieces in places as I've cut them out, but they're not too obvious and easily fixable. I'm dealing with HO (1/87) scale parts, so it's probably not as intense as dealing in 1/700 scale. Plenty of light and an Optivisor are definitely needed.
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Well done Jack. Yellow schemes are always a lot of work.
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Man, that's one deep shine. Gorgeous work, Craig.
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Those gear wells almost look like they aren't deep enough to hold the landing gear. Be careful flipping that beast around, it's a big honkin mutha. Good job, Denis.
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The National Model Railroad Association, which has been around for over 80 years, says a model is scratch built if 90% or more of the parts are from common building materials, not commercial/kit parts. Some parts (wheels and trucks) are exempt, due to the requirement of a model being able to operate on track. They don't define kit bashing, but having been a judge for a number of contests, that's about any kit built with added detailing parts. The parts could be commercial purchases or items made by the model maker from basic commercial shapes (strip, shapes, rivets, etc). So, in our situation, if you do any modifying of your kit, it's kit bashing. You're progressing beyond being a pure kit assembler.
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Ron, definitely apply a gloss coat before decaling, otherwise they will "silver" around the edges, This is the best solution. No amount of setting solutions will settle the decals.
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1/48 Italeri Hawk T.1A (On Hold)
Canute replied to Old Collingwood's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Impressive, that one coaster ride got to a skosh over 6 G. I've been on a few of those rides, too. Fun stuff. As aviators, we had to do centrifuge rides (aka spin-dry). And they were intense; some of us "took naps" as Lou called it. I didn't, but came pretty close. If you did conk out, the recovery period was a few seconds and could be critical. At that point, the jet was not under control. -
1/48 Italeri Hawk T.1A (On Hold)
Canute replied to Old Collingwood's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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Roight, Sar'n Major! You're one tough cookie, OC. Regular slave driver.
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