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  1. Canute
    I've been able eat most of those same beasts. In Thailand, the on-base restaurant used to tell us they were serving Kobe beef steaks, a real delicacy. My frontseater and I figured it was really water buffalo, since the price was pretty reasonable. And the water buffaloes were all over the place.
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    Titebond III is waterproof.
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    OC, I never had to use a "silk let down". Had some close calls, but all my landings matched my takeoffs. Got towed back to parking in a dead state, but that was due to icy taxiways. The runway was "acceptable" (I don't know who made that call, but the pilot and I both questioned his evaluation skill), although very sporty.
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    We're sinking deep. Lou, that concoction of yours is called a turducken. I think it was dreamed up by some Cajun chef, but I could be all wet on the origins.
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    We had some Canadian geese from some Pennsy marshes. Been too many years to remember what it tasted like. I don't think it was as greasy as duck, tho.
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    Yeah, I did. It wasn't a bird strike down the intake. We broke an oil line and shut the engine down.We went home and just had to land a little faster than usual. Good triple redundant hydraulics helped.
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    Pretty sharp, Tom. But don't tell the Es any more of our secrets. We'll have to actually work. What am I talking about, I am/was an aircrew and never worked for 20 years, just flew my jet around the friendly skies. Back in the early 80s i spent time with my Uncle Mike. He was always asking me when I was going to get a real job. Didn't think flying a Phantom defending the Free World was a "real" job.
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    Guys, look up Hunterline weathering mixes; that's what they call stains. They are up in Canada and super to deal with. Here's a link to one of the 2 stain pages: https://hunterline.com/t/weathering-mix They're alcohol based.
  9. Canute
    Mike's use of the Dust Deputy cyclone canister will probably fill the bill for the hobby scale saw set. If you're working with full size tools, you need full size dust collection.
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    Ooh, you've discovered a deep dark secret of us Os. Skulker.
  11. Canute
    Nicely done screens, mate. Unfortunately, can't do that on bigger jets, too much of an airflow reduction. We did have screens the engine mechs put on for some ground runs. Sucking birds down intakes is hazardous to engine longevity. I've had a couple of bird strikes, but wings and canopies don't make you stop flying. The Big Wokka is looking good, OC.
  12. Canute
    Lou, you'd think you'd get a little leeway, since you're in a rehab mode. What a task master your Admiral is. Gotta get your modeling gene spooled up, Kimosabe. Old Lone Ranger reference for all you kiddies out there in MSW-land. Duck versus chicken? No way. Now, how about some nice goose! Just be careful for the birdshot.
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    Guess I was hidin out on active duty all that time and never realized it. Returning to the World was a tad traumatic, back in '73, but I only passed thru home and then over to West Germany, ensconced on a little base hidden in the Eifel. For the historians, it was a staging ground for the Wehrmacht and the Battle of the Bulge's southern side of the salient. Never did get a welcome home, thank-you until I don't even remember. Think it was in the late 80s, another vet I met wearing a POW hat. Been welcoming home every vet I meet nowadays. Lou's blade stories strike a cord.
  14. Canute
    That also includes tools, like scale rulers and sprue cutters.
  15. Canute
    Those are relatively clean, compared to some. They spend enough time at sea to make the routine maintenance hard to accomplish. I'll be following along on this one. Another of Greg's beauties.
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    Lou, it was a tennis ball and it did raise some welt. And the room was about 20 feet long. Must have hurt like heck, too. Hence the rat race around the hooches. We ducked out the storeroom door and ran snickering around back. He followed and we all ended up out on the grassy area in front of the bar, laughing at the faux pas. The CO was a good guy, who we'd fly thru heck for. We were in our squadron area, nowhere near the O Club. We could only eat there; the bar was off limits for my squadron at various times.
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    Ever build a potato/tennis ball cannon? My nosegunner and I built one in Thailand and we'd shoot tennis balls at the dart board in our hooch bar. We were a touch too rowdy for the O Club, if you can imagine that. Shot our squadron commander in the chest when he entered the bar as he jinked into our line of fire. Chased us around the outside of the hooch bar for a few laps and we all went back in for beers. We had a bell hanging in front of the door under a 4-5 foot Phantom. Intended to Remind people to remove their hats as they entered the bar. Guys could jink left or right , but that night was a big poker game so jinking left was not an option. He popped into our line of fire as I put the match to the firing hole. Too late, frontseater was dead on the center of the dart board and the CO's chest. It wasn't much of a welt.
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    Folks are always asking for an Addams Family type crash, with the DCC setups. All very sophisticated in the equipment, but operations is a snap. You can have a lot of fun with a small layout with the kids.
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    Superb work, Ekis.
  20. Canute
    The new high end stuff uses digital command control with small digital boards in every loco and a small control center. It is slick, with all the bells and whistles(literally) in the engines. Ours has programmed signals ( more computer programming) on the layout You can still do the direct current stuff too. My club maintains a Thomas the Tank Engine layout for the little ones to run their individual trains. Its always fun watching them break into big grins as their train starts up. Of course, they only use two speeds, off and warp factor 6. We replace the locos every 6 months.😁 Foam insulation boards make up most of the hills and such on my club layout. The hydrolcal, chicken wire, screen mesh terrain is still around, but the foam is somewhat easier, like building a layer cake. We still use a plaster mix to fill the gaps and the foliage is ground foam instead of sawdust and lichen.
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    Don't let him see any layouts from over here. Guys end up building "empires" in basements or spare rooms. Poor kid will go ga-ga. I'm a little familiar with the gorgeous layouts built in the UK and they are exquisite (two fellows in my train club model British railroads on HO gauge track). I'm always impressed with how they fit so much operation in fairly small (by US standards) layouts. You two will have a lot of fun with a train layout.
  22. Canute
    Interesting study of the cap rail colors. May be stretching my skill base using these artist tube paints.
  23. Canute
    Are those water slide decals or are they glued on? Fascinating look, Craig.
  24. Canute
    Great way to get a kid interested in our hobbies. And having his grandpa helping. Good move.
  25. Canute
    Patrick, thanks. Always learning new info on this site.

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