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For the life of me, I could not remember the name of the tobacco I used to buy so frequently many years ago, but you just jogged my memory. It was Captain Black! I don't remember the "Black Sea" part of the name, but Captain Black was my favorite pipe tobacco. Every now and then, I would try some various blends from the tobacco shops. They were often good as well, but Captain Black was my favorite.
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What kind of tobacco will you use to break it in?
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Hey, that's coming along real nice. Good job!
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The length is over 40 inches, as the box measures 43 inches in length and the one-piece hull takes up practically the entire length of the box, maybe a half inch cushion on each end. I'm not sure how well some of the delicate photo etch work would hold up in day-to-day use down at the local pond, but you are right, this thing will build into a stunning model of the Yamato. By the way, the model is for sale on Ebay now (as of yesterday, Sunday). -
She's a beautiful ship. Those 12" guns would have been devastating against enemy cruisers.
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You are doing a beautiful job on your whaleboat. As a kid and even now, the thoughts of hunting huge whales out on a vast ocean in a little boat using a harpoon, these so much stoked the fires of imagination. What a fearless (it seems) life those sailors led. My imagination tells me a sailor's chances of survival back then were not very high. Either a whale, the ocean, cold, or disease were all likely to take his life.
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If you were at the top level of superstructure of Fuso, or Nagato, or any of their capital ships with those tower-like SS, it must have been quite a wild ride in rough seas.
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The colors look great, I like it. Not sure what it is, but something about Japanese warships are more aesthetically pleasing to my eyes. This destroyer is no exception. I think the lines of the hull are what stand out about it.
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For sale is my 1:250 Arii IJN Yamato with VeryFire Update Set - Huge Detail Set In addition to this set, I own the 1:250 Woody Joe (DeAgostini) IJN Yamato kit which I intend to build. It's unrealistic for me to assume I will build both models, so the Arii with Very Fire update set is up for grabs. The set is scheduled to go up on Ebay this coming Sunday (July 7) as an auction item. It will have a starting auction price of $275. If you want to buy it here before it hits the auction, you can save the 10% it will cost for me to sell it on Ebay. So that would make the price $247.50 plus postage. A big heavy box...43" x 10.5" x 8"; 8 lbs. Check out the pictures, this is a gigantic and detailed rendition of the Yamato. The detail update set makes it incredible. When I spread all the photo etch sheets on top of the 43" kit box, it takes two photos just to capture all the sheets of photo etch. There are dozens upon dozens of replacement brass gun barrels. A bag full of resin parts, and all the wood deck pieces. Contact me soonest before this thing hits Ebay if you want it.
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I was an operations chief who worked under the direct command of a US Army Major General for the last 10 years of my career. Rest assured, it would be a very bad day (maybe the worst) of your entire life if he found your area of responsibility did not meet standards. Everything, and I mean everything, must meet a standard, and there will be hell to pay when standards are not met.
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Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. MtDoraMike. That's quite a nice accomplishment and a true sign of love, devotion, and dedication. You have my admiration. Best wishes for an even long(er) life full of love and togetherness. I'll be attending my brother's and his wife's 50th anniversary celebration tomorrow evening. Their son is holding the event as a surprise for them. Wow, it seems like such a short time ago when they married. Time just flies past us, does it not?
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That wife of yours is a keeper!
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That brass rudder is far better than the kit material. Big upgrade there, and all you had to do was find some scrap you already had. I like it. Were the 1:1 Army Tugs steel hull ships?
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I rummaged through the boxes of kits I have stashed out in my garage, and found my old copy of the Sox and Martin GTX. The kit was never started, but it's so old, the decals are shot from being stored in a non climate controlled building. I think there are some aftermarket ones available for it. If not, will just do it as a street muscle car.
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You've been a busy modeler, Denis. Lookin' good! On the subject of trains...my daughter and son-in-law are taking us for that 5+ hour train ride through the mountains in New Hampshire when we come up later this month. Can't hardly wait for that. The photos of it look spectacular. Disney invented "Flubber", not 'rubber'. 😄
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I have an old, unstarted, Aeropiccola Serapis kit that I probably will not get around to building. When I got the kit, the blister card that held all the wooden fittings such as blocks and belaying pins had come open, blocks and pins were scattered loose inside the kit box. So I am going to assume that some of those could be missing. I see no evidence whatsoever that anything else is missing, though the rubber bands that held groups of parts together disintegrated over time. I am now in the process to carefully sorting and bundling it all back into their groups as I write this. Upon request, I will take photos of everything that's included in the box (a lot of stuff, and heavy). I looked the kit up, and cannot find where one sold anytime recently. However, I did find a build thread here on MSW and the fellow in the thread mentions what he paid for his kit long ago. If anyone has a serious interest in this kit, make me a fair offer for it. Shipping outside the USA will probably be cost prohibitive. If I don't hear anything from members here in the next couple of days, will put it up for sale on Ebay.
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Yeah, I grow tired of seeing the same old things over and over again. It's refreshing to sometimes see a different color scheme, a different theme on an old familiar subject. That's what made custom cars, motorcycles and street rods so popular (and still are to me). It's that creativity aspect that makes it interesting...like science fiction. On the other hand, there's a time and place for true fidelity to scale and appearance. A royalty model for example, or a museum replica of any given subject. I often prefer a "what if" scheme far more so than an historically correct one. To be totally honest, I often find the rivet counting and meticulous research "requirement" to be a hindrance to my own productivity rather than a help.
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My grandfathers (great greats of course) made that sacrifice and fought the British for our freedom. More fought and died since then for our freedoms, here as well as on foreign shores. As long as I draw breath, I swear to never surrender our freedoms to any enemy foreign or domestic so that my children and grandchildren may remain free.
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Absolutely love the detail, though I feel for you knowing the strain it takes to meticulously go through all those tiny photo etch pieces. Just cutting them out and filing away the nubs is a challenge before you even get started folding, bending, gluing, and cussing. And the extra cussing when something as small as a photo etch fly's elbow falls off the table and onto the floor.
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All my rowdy friends have settled down. Most are gone now, but never forgotten. I wouldn't trade those days for nothing, but I wouldn't want to relive them either.
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Does the kit come with everything you need to make the pipe? Never seen a do it yourself pipe kit before this one. Pipes used to be popular, now I never see anyone smoking a pipe around here. I think pipes are cool, and if I smoked again, might try a pipe. Been a lot of years.
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Great start Mike
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