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1/48 Italeri CH47 (Chinook) "Big Wokka" RAF
Canute replied to Old Collingwood's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Sorry to read that, OC. Stuffing 10 pounds of stuff into a 5 pound sack. 😞 -
OC, while I like the alliteration you used, Ekis is correct. My given name has no Latin language equivalent. In my high school Spanish class, I used my middle name, James or Jaime in Spanish. Kenneth is pretty pure Celtic Irish or Scottish. The Scots had a King or two by that name. The Irish version, Kainnet or Canice, was supposedly an Irish member of St Columba's disciples on Iona. Alexandre or Denis would be a better name for M. Cuirasier. 😁
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Nails and Glue
Canute replied to Neil10's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
I'd like to read some ideas on what grade of CA to use on wood. My past experience makes me not want to use it as a glue. The black monofilament fishing line is a technique Chuck Passaro used in his 1/24 scale longboat, here on the site. His kit include 10 pound and 25 pound line for simulating bolts. The light line simulates bolts thru hull planking; the heavier line is used for the bolts in the boat's keel. I think it all comes down to the scale you are working in and how visible nail heads are in the scale. And too much of a color difference could make it look like a case of the measles. -
Delahaye 135 by CDW - FINISHED - Heller - 1:24 - PLASTIC
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Great looking car and an outstanding finish. Too bad the manufacturer didn't build a test model before the kit was released to see the discrepancy. -
Preformed sizing for dead eye installation
Canute replied to Runnymede's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
I'm not a fan of paid sites for info I may not access on more than an occasional basis. Thanks for the efforts for digging the info up. -
Preformed sizing for dead eye installation
Canute replied to Runnymede's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Moab, it's now a drug pedaling site now. The site was saved on a Pintrest site now, which I'm not a follower. -
Preformed sizing for dead eye installation
Canute replied to Runnymede's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Do you have a link for Hubert's seizing? -
Your work with the kit PE is nicely done. Looking forward to seeing some more of your work.
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Delahaye 135 by CDW - FINISHED - Heller - 1:24 - PLASTIC
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Thank you, sir. Looks like a good color for some stainless passenger cars, too. -
Delahaye 135 by CDW - FINISHED - Heller - 1:24 - PLASTIC
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Coming along nicely, Craig. Is that paint an acrylic or lacquer? -
Welcome home, Bud. 👍 And get hopping there, Lou. You've been slacking, man. Silly excuse, you've been in the hospital.
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You all know the old saying"The only difference between men and boys is the price of the toys". Describes us quite nicely thank you. Lou, sounds like the alert barn when I was in Germany. We had a bunch of us playing board war games from Avalon Hill and others.
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Build to suit yourself, but don't have it consume you. Your best is your current best. Resolve to do it better next time. Don't worry about speed. For our art, nice is better than fast. Yeah, I still get razzed for playing with "electric trains". It's water off the duck's back. We all get this malaise from time to time. This too will pass, said somebody famous once.
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1/48 Italeri CH47 (Chinook) "Big Wokka" RAF
Canute replied to Old Collingwood's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Yep, a dot of the clear over each of the gauges works really nice, but the trade-off is will it be visible to the casual observer. -
Your FM-1 is progressing nicely, Mike. Love the details. As an old Weapons Officer, I wonder how they bore-sighted or synchronized the guns. The USAAF/USAF used firing in butts to take an a/c to and live fire to make sure all guns were shooting at the same piece of sky. How and where did they do that on carriers? As we transitioned to Vulcan 20mm Gatling guns, we used a bore-sight board, parked 1,000 inches from the muzzle of the rotating set of barrels. No live fire required. We usually fired at targets between 1 and 2 thousand feet away, using a lead computing optical sight using radar ranging when we could get a radar track of said target. Firing inside of a thousand feet could lead to coming back home with souvenirs from the target.Do not ask how I know that.
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