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  1. CDW
    Not that I am aware of.
  2. CDW
    Battle of Dryfe Sands, Lockerbie Scotland, 1593. Clan Caruthers and Clan Pollock (Polk) joined opposing forces of Clan Johnstone and Clan Maxwell in a deadly battle. John Pollock was killed in this battle. John Pollock was my 10th great grandfather. My grandmother Julia Polk is a direct descendant of John Pollock. My grandfather Percy Caruthers is a direct descendant of the Caruthers Clan. What are the odds that a young pair of farmer's children from these warring clans in Scotland would meet each other in a little town called Newberry Florida hundreds of years later, fall in love and marry? Whatever the odds, it happened.
  3. CDW
    Glad to hear you got one Roger! Welcome. I am enjoying my kit.
  4. CDW
    Great model, love the progress. Do you have any info on the pilot of the plane that carried these markings? They had some very good pilots from what I have read with victory counts that rivaled the German aces in many cases.
  5. CDW
    For whatever it's worth, the kit color guide calls for Medium Gunship Gray for the sides above the waterline; Mr Color H305, Vallejo 868, Tamiya XF-58. Superstructure pieces Gray; Mr Color H308, Vallejo 990, Tamiya XF-19 They call for Cocoa Brown below the waterline, so their whole color callout may be "off" for all I know. I am going to do a shade of gray darker than Gunship Gray below the waterline in keeping with what OC said.
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    Oh, I forgot to say: the storm named Ella passed by last night without hardly a wimper. I fell asleep around midnight and never woke up until 7 AM. Got up and looked around in the yard, found hardly a branch out of place so I guess we never got a whole lot of wind at all from it. Very thankful we were spared yet again.
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    Despite all the dialogue that could go back and forth over a correct color of gray, I am going to take the easy way out and use a Mr Color gray modulation set to paint my Hood. It will allow me to start with a dark shade of gray then modulate to lighter shades of gray as I see fit to add depth and shading to my model. The gray modulation set consists of four shades of gray, from dark to light. Technically, it's labeled for German tanks. It might be a shade or hue off here and there but I am not enough of a purist to pursue a gray color down to the inth degree.
  8. CDW
    In this case the photo etch is way too fragile for double sided tape. It breaks it when you try and pull it off something it’s attached to. Yes there are sometimes pre etched fold lines but in this case no. You get a very small straight section of rail that must be bent to a radius that fits the searchlight platform. It was completely bent to a round shape when I was adjusting the size of the radius to fit the platform. While doing that, it sprung away from the tweezers and was gone. Unfortunately, a plastic bag distorts the view of a small part like this to an extent that blurs vision of it.
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    Another superstructure assembly, this one with the searchlight platforms. I dropped one of the top searchlight railing pieces and it must have went into the black hole of Calcutta. Will find a replacement piece from another photo etch sheet. starting to hear some gusts of wind now from Ella. It will increase through the night.
  10. CDW
    Alan looks like one or both of us are getting some wind and rain in the next few days. It’s Already been like a monsoon here last week.
  11. CDW
    Beautiful paint work OC. Love that brick work, looks very authentic.
  12. CDW
    Photo etch pieces are folded into ammo boxes. The ammo boxes are mounted to the quad .5 inch AA gun platforms.
  13. CDW
    My internet has been down since Wednesday. Technician not due until tomorrow. Learned to use my cell phone which is okay except fat fingers. Cell phone eliminates a step or two as I have been using my cell phone for pics and only since internet malfunction learned to edit my photos using my phone. A silver lining I guess.
  14. CDW
    I bought some laser cut paint rack kits that had that smell. It goes away in a few days, or at least mine did. If the laser charred the edges, the smell may be more pronounced.
  15. CDW
    That’s going to look awesome! Seems like the perfect venue for it but will defer to the Mods.
  16. CDW
    I have some clear, stackable containers I keep them in and set them off to the side.
  17. CDW
    The second of the two assembled funnels.
  18. CDW
    If I did not know it’s 1:72 scale, would think it’s 1:35 for sure. Excellent!
  19. CDW
    Maybe 😁
  20. CDW
    Stainless steel
  21. CDW
    She is a beauty Alan. Excellent model.
  22. CDW
    Here is one of the funnels after assembly of the constituent parts.
  23. CDW
    Yes, I do believe it will be perfect. I think the I Love Kit version is the old Merit version which went out of production. I see that I love Kit also picked up the Merit USS Hornet as well. That was another Merit kit.
  24. CDW
    And Pontos brass barrels, masts, too.
  25. CDW
    Our 16 year old grand daughter did those hand prints when she was 2. My wife paints around them and will not cover them up. I am not familiar with the I Love Kit Mikasa. Will look to see if I can tell. I think it should work.

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