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  • Birthday 12/28/1930

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    Models, designing homes, reading, pistol shooting

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  1.    Landlubber Mike reacted to a post in a topic: The 2 1869 Loco's that met at Promontory Utah
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  9. gene1
    I know you all know how to mask , but I did it this way to paint my inside green & leave the parts that get glued free of paint. I mixed the green a little light & when I was done I scraped the window frame edges free of paint so my outside paint would cover better, especially red. Them I masked the inside windows to spray outside. Worked great.
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    Love your posts denis & after my wife saw my last post to you, she is now an Admiral. Either that or I visit you for food & lodging. Tough little woman. By the way Nino , on this forum, sent me the picture to make the decals. They came, I believe, from Frank Leidek's post. It was tough to get them sized right, but with nino's help we did it . nino is a true computer expert from IBM. Gene
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    egilman, That is a Walker replica. Back in the late 1950's &60's I had a big collection of Civil War guns, all types Carbines & revolvers. That was when you could buy a walker for 2500 & a colt 44 Army fo 90 & up. I had a chance at a mint 51 Navy for 200. I sold them back then .
  15. gene1
    Popeye, denis, I have some advice for you. #1 you made your wife an Admiral, after over 50 years my wife is an ensign & she had to earn it. She will be 84 in a month & I think thats high enough. Now show these to your Admiral & tell her you are going to dress up your home a bit. The Ferraris are in the foyer, the big case of fighters are in the Living Roomthe Robt. E Lee & Ferraris in Living room, the wall of cars downstairs hall .then downstair to my big den with at least 20 big sailing ships, my trains & 1/72 planes. The Kingfisher is at Dulles & is hanging over the Enola Gay & is the EXACT same plane my brother flew in off the Indiana. It was from the Indiana. He got a kick out of that. Now I hope this straightens your Admiral out. If not I have a spare bedroom. Gene
  16. gene1
    Yves, thanks a lot, I was just getting ready to put on some more Pictures. Thee first ones are of my General I built with a lot of help from denis. The second batch are my building of the 2 1869 locos. I used a piece of 3/64 brass wire & some plastic tube & some brass eyebolts that fit the brass rail. I then used the kit parts that hold the wire rail. It worked well. On the tender a made a pattern of the tender lnside & cut a light piece of plastic sheet to build up the tender floor so it would not need so much wood or coal. I used HO coal & sticks of wood from my oak trees. These were super fun to build & at 90 my language changed describing things. I also showed how I redid the front of the smoke box on the U.P. coal burner. I had to cut off the 2 General name plate raised section on the boiler sides. Then fill them in. I also always put spme wood in all my models for weight & this time to be able to nail the bottom ends of the brass strips on the boilers. They are 1/64 x 1/8" brass strips ,polished & lacquered. I had to get them from England. The front wheels were spoked on the kit & I filled them in like the real loco's. I also used some paint pens on a lot of fine lines' My hands shake quite a bit from nearly 80 years of model building . Not the building , but the years. I will add some more later. Gene
  17. gene1
    When I first saw Popeyes Civil War General engine, I knew I had to build it. He did such a beautiful job on it & gave me a lot of Pointers I talked to him a lot & avoided a lot of problems & got a lot of ideas. My General turned out nice & I was very happy with it. I have built every kind of static model made I think & I will be 90 this year & still love building models. Then I saw another train article on building the 2 locomotives that met at Promontory, Utah in 1869. They are real beauties & can be built from the MPC 1/25 General kit. There are a lot of changes, but not too hard. I will show a bunch of finished pictures of them first & then some building pictures. It took me less than 4 months to do them both. I will also put some of my General in too. More to follow as I am just relearning how to post pictures again.
  18. gene1
    Denis, (Popeye) You gave me a lot of help & the best building post ever on building the General, Now I would like to give you some ideas to get back on the General kit again. Old Model Kits has a small forum & a good post on building the 2 Loco's that met in Utah in 1869. It was by a man ,I believe named Frank Leidek & he did a super job. I did them both & had a super fun 4 months doing both. I learned a lot & added even more than he did ,I will do a post after this on this Forum today or tomorrow. Here are a couple pictures. I will have to relearn how to post pictures. Gene
  19. gene1
    Javlin, I bet you are really proud of him. Fighter planes are really fun to be around. We went to the Titusville Fla. Warbirds show every year & it was great. We saw some really great flying of every kindof planes. Even a P 38 flew. We got to meet & talk to a lot of WW2 pilots, a bunch of Flying Tigers , including R T Smith who had 10 kills. We talked to George Gay, who had a book for sale & Gen. Boots Blesse 10 kills in Korea, even Gabreski was there. I see you live in Biloxi, my brother in law, ages ago, was base commander there.
  20. gene1
    Javlin, That is a great story. Your planes are beautiful. I go back & forth between everything. I was on HO train layouts for over 40 years, but love everything to build. There are some great builders on this site. I graduated from high school with a kid who was flying F86E's over t he Yalu river & caught fire & tried to make the yellow sea & disappeared in a cloud rom his wingman. No Javlin , I wasn't flying P51's, I had a chance at cadets, but didn't take it. When I got out I went right into construction & spent 40 years designing & building. I am 89 in 2 days & still love to build models. I enjoyed the Air Force & met some really great WW2 pilots that stayed in.
  21. gene1
    Thanks Jim & you & denis have been a great help & both of you are fun to read. denis, is this the big Revell kit you were asking about. I had the sails all painted, weathered & decaled & they looked good, but seemed to hide too much, so I sixxed them. It is getting harder for me to rig, so I do make it easy as possible. I even used Imai's plastic shrouds on their Spanish Galleon. They are so good that the ones I make did not seem worth doing. Imai's are the only ones I will use sometimes. I do use the rigging tool a lot & I have mastered it. I might be one of the few that have. I even used it on my big 1/100 Victory.
  22. gene1
    Javlin, That is a great story. Your planes are beautiful. I go back & forth between everything. I was on HO train layouts for over 40 years, but love everything to build. There are some great builders on this site. A kid I graduated high school with flew F 86E's in Korea & was the last 86 lost in the war in summer 1953. I was just starting my building business then. He caught fire over the Yalu river & tried to make the yellow sea & disappeared in a cloud rom his wingman.
  23. gene1
    denis, This is the big Revell Spanish Galleon & it is big, as big as the big Constitution. It makes a pretty model d Merry Christmas Gene
  24. gene1
    CDW, I'm like Popeye, waiting to see you build your Enzo. I love Ferraris & watched Phil Hill & Pedro Rodriquez drive at Daytona & Sebring back in 1962 or so. I must have at least 60 Ferrari models built. Mine would have to be red. My wife & I would stop at the Ferrari dealer over in Greensboro NC & photograph everything they had. Even tho I drove up in a Subaru, they were real nice & let me have fun. They had Porsche & Ferrari & Maserati Bentley & Aston Martin, nothing cheap. Needless to say, I didn't trade my Subaru. I took this of Lorenzo Bandini at Daytona in 1967, he won. Gene
  25. gene1
    Javlin, beautiful model & really great weathering. I have always loved P-51's & we had 4 or so in our squadron for mostly towing targets. That was back in the late 1940's & we had Col. Glenn Eagleston as our C.O. He was a great guy & the top ace in the 9th AF during WW2. I have his P-51 D in 1/32 & 1/48. I love fighters & have over 150 from 1910 to modern. Have you done any 1930's fighters like the P-26?
  26.    gene1 reacted to a post in a topic: Revell P-51"Flying Dutchman" 1/32 by Javlin- Finished
  27. gene1
    I want to thank all you guys for all the nice things you said about my General. I want to thank Popeye again for all the help he was on the build. His log was beyond super.All I prove with one of my models is that you can keep building way into the future & still have fun doing it. I have all kinds of problems, but they don't seem to matter, just slows me down. My right hand shakes bad, but I just hold it on the desk & do fine painting. I fell backwards down the hill when a rock slipped under my foot & broke my left wrist 6 weeks ago.I finished the General with a wrist brace & a shaky right hand. Still lots of fun & always has been. denis, I want to do another log on one of my favorite plastic ship kits. It is a 1/100 Imai/ Ertl Spanish Galleon. Merry Christmas to all you guys & Happy New Year too. Gene

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