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  1. CDW
    Some of the prices on Model Monkey stuff is just way over the top. For example, $268.11 for a 1:200 Arizona bridge? That's more than the cost of the entire model. But he does have some interesting and beautiful things, that's for sure.
  2. CDW
    If you google it, they even have them at WalMart. Cheap, too.
  3. CDW
    Thank you, Piet. It means a lot to me to have you here and for your kind words.
  4. CDW
    I'm so old, my breath is dusty. Blowing off the dust doesn't work for me. 🤐
  5. CDW
    Thanks for that photo, Lou. Your coal shuttle looks very similar to the photo etch pieces on my gun deck. Not much point in detailing the ones on the gun deck, because you'll never see them. The following photos illustrate that once the upper deck is placed over the gun deck, it obliterates all the detail underneath except for what can be seen looking from the outside (gun ports) in. Can't really see anything looking from the inside out.
  6. CDW
    Painted and mounted. Next, we will cover them up with a deck.
  7. CDW
    She's talking now. Those big guns mean business. Looks real good OC.
  8. CDW
    I know this will be hard to believe, but I lost one of these 3" guns in my shop area. Completely lost the whole thing. Not a piece of it, or a few pieces, but the whole thing is gone. Was trying to cut a locating pin off the bottom of the pedestal using my dremel with a cut-off wheel while holding it with a set of tweezers. That thing flew out of the tweezers and I could hear it hit (something) but couldn't find that thing anywhere. Then I realized I have enough parts left over to build another complete gun and called off the search. It will cost me less time building another than it will hunting for the one that flew away. And that's under the presumption I would find it intact, which it probably won't be intact IF I found it. Thank goodness Pontos gave extras in this set. That doesn't usually happen (extras).
  9. CDW
    Painted
  10. CDW
    Amazing the details they capture in resin. Whoever does their masters is a, Master. 🙂 Shading looks great.
  11. CDW
    Once the 3" guns are glued in place, a deck will cover the guns so the only way one will see them is by looking inside the gun ports. No top view, and a very limited view from inside the ship looking out. Would you paint the guns or leave them natural brass?
  12. CDW
    Are there red bugs out west? Here in Florida, if you lay down in the woods near any pine straw, you will get a case of itchy red bugs that will drive you nuts, scratching and scratching. Man, those things are WAY worse than mosquitoes.
  13. CDW
    Believe it or not, mosquito's don't fly far from where they hatched...I think no more than about 500 feet if memory serves correctly. Maybe less. So whether in Florida or anywhere else, the secret to staying free of mosquito's is to keep any standing water from collecting around your abode. Besides pots, pans, or other obvious things that can collect and retain stagnant water, certain plants also serve as a breeding ground because of their propensity to collect standing water. Elephant Ear plants come to mind...very bad for breeding mosquito's.
  14. CDW
    It's WAY off topic but I just have to mention this because of my last post. When I was a kid, my dad was a politician. He and I were traveling to our weekend home in the country one Saturday evening right at dusk. My dad's car overheated (a chronic problem) and we pulled off the road to let the engine cool down before dad added some water to the radiator. While we were waiting, we saw a UFO. My dad told me not to tell anyone about it because he didn't want the media to get a hold of the story at print it because it would make him (dad) look nutty. Well, the story got out there anyway and it got printed in the local newspaper. My dad was so pissed off. As years go by, that incident makes me laugh every time I think about it.
  15. CDW
    In 1905, they were firing at UFO's...but nobody told about it in fear they would be thought of as lunatics. 🤐
  16. CDW
    Hey Cog, that is amazing. Very nice.
  17. CDW
    Nice work, Lou. Love your wooden ship model.
  18. CDW
    She's looking mighty fine, Denis.
  19. CDW
    Just for grins and giggles... Here are the photo etch and turned brass parts for assembling 2 ea, 3" guns. This is before filing, folding, gluing, and mutilating. And then some paint.
  20. CDW
    So that's how it's done. I always wondered, now I know. Thanks for sharing that video, Jim Rogers.
  21. CDW
    I just realized the gun in this picture is in the wrong place. This is a 47mm gun, and a 3" gun like I'm building now should be in it's place. I'll need to switch them out when time allows.
  22. CDW
    I know, Sam. I was thinking the very same thing about painting them. A lot of this photo etch is that way. It would almost look as good unpainted rather than painted. Maybe even "blued" or "blackened" would look better than paint as well.
  23. CDW
    I am so glad Pontos saw fit to include some extra photo etch parts in reference to the parts necessary to build the guns. There are some very small and delicate pieces that require folding...and there's only a small chance the modeler won't either break or lose a couple of them in the process of building 16 guns. Without those extra parts, one would be "screwed" as they say here in Ybor City. I don't know if it's strictly an American thing or not, but as kids we had this little game we played called Tiddly Winks. The game had a bunch of small plastic disks and a cup. The object was to scatter the disks on the floor, then using one little disk in your hand, squeeze the edge of the disk against one of the disks on the floor and cause the disk on the floor to "plink" - fly off and into the cup. Well putting these parts together reminds me of playing tiddly winks. You'll sometimes hear that dreadful sound of "plink", and you know you've lost another part. They are WAY too small to find once they go "plink" unless it's just your lucky day.
  24. CDW
    My speed picked up a bit on these last two guns...got two done in an hour. But I doubt I'll get much faster than that. This leaves me with a solid six or seven hours to do the remainder of the 3" guns. And it says nothing of how long it will take to do the dozen or so remaining 47mm guns that need to be built. Stay tuned for more guns...🤐
  25. CDW
    And I almost need an atomic microscope to see it, Sam. No joke, these macro photos are the best look I've had at what I actually built. I didn't even see those 'glue strings' until I saw my own pictures. 😄

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