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Canute

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  1. Yeah, probably not, Mike. I keep forgetting this is in 1/700. I looked for bow shots of DDs, but most were too far away, with fuzzy details. A dot of gold paint would probably suffice.
  2. Have you got a chrysanthemum for the tip of the bow? IJN ships had them for the Emperor.
  3. Fit doesn't look too bad, Denis. Kits of that vintage require a lot of cleanup and engineering to build up so nicely. You have a great start with this old girl.👍
  4. Great presentation, with the a/c zipping along in a cloud-top. Very menacing looking
  5. Folks in some parts of South Carolina put mustard on their barbecue. In eastern North Carolina, we have fans of a vinegar/tomato sauce. Tangier than the sauce we use out here in western NC. Cole slaw and french fries/pomme frites for me, sir.
  6. Maybe those magazines are archived online somewhere? A research project.
  7. I'll be waiting to hear your reasoning, EG. Our eyes sense colors a little differently. It's your model concept of those colors, so run with it.
  8. 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?
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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. 😲
  13. 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.
  14. Tim, you may have to incise the panel outlines in that beautiful skinning job.
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