Canute
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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. -
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.
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Dust extractor - compact and quiet?
Canute replied to Rik Thistle's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
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. -
Ooh, you've discovered a deep dark secret of us Os. Skulker.
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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.
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Enzo Ferrari by CDW - FINISHED - Tamiya 1:24 Scale
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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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.
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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.
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Interesting study of the cap rail colors. May be stretching my skill base using these artist tube paints.
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Enzo Ferrari by CDW - FINISHED - Tamiya 1:24 Scale
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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Great way to get a kid interested in our hobbies. And having his grandpa helping. Good move.
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Patrick, thanks. Always learning new info on this site.
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Isn't that similar to the chassis for a Universal or Bren Gun Carrier? It was also a light tank for the British? Interesting.
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Silly hover lover.😁
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A lot of stuff they do to our pets knocks them down for a day, OC. She'll be her usual in a day or so. Just give her some TLC.
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I'll ease on in to the front row for this one.
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Not a fun thing there, OC. But, she's part of your family, so handle the poochie first. You can still peruse the fora and add comments as it moves you.
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Pretty cool, airlifting that elephant. Mega tranquilizers there. We shipped an F-4D from McGuire to a State Guard facility on the coast of New Jersey. My maintenance guys had to strip out almost everything to get it light enough to airlift. Basic empty weight was about 30K pounds. Engines were the big weight. From somewhere, they got a CH-54 Tarhe or Flying Crane to haul it over there. The Phantom was in a sling setup and the Tarhe took off to begin the hoist. They got hooked up and the lift began. The Phantom was wobbling around and some thought we'd lose it. As the Tarhe got forward speed, the Phantom "weather-vaned" and flew fine all the way to the Shore.
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Had buddy in Herks in SVN. He picked up a bunch of Hmong one day and they decided to build a fire in the cargo bay to make lunch. Needless to say, our guys got a little tense.
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Ah yes, just add water to reconstitute. Tough to stuff the horses in with the guys.
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