lmagna
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I did do some. I drilled out the 800+ portholes on the Titanic but then I needed some kind of place to set up and work at assembly. I can't sit at a chair for long periods of time or my foot ends up about the size of a football. (Even in it's low state it is still about twice the size as the other one most of the time). Today I tried something for the first time and wore a sock all day. My socks are fairly thick hiking socks and relatively tight so I'm hoping that they start to reduce the swelling a little more. Here is is right not just after taking the sock off and having one of my fairly normal slothy days with the foot elevated for much of the time. Maybe a few more days of doing this and the sizes will start looking more the same. If that works then possibly I can start sitting up or sitting in a regular chair and start working on something. Maybe Denis is right and it is time to take a stab at my Huey. (I was going to wait until you started your CH-53) That would be about the only thing I can think of that I could build while sitting in a chair without a work surface. I'll have to give that a little thought.
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One must HAVE a mind to be bored out of it! I have been doing a lot of reading and filling in with trying to do the exercises the Physical Terrorist wants me to do and of course trying to keep up with what you and the other more talented people here are getting done. Another 16 days and I get to go to the surgeon and see if #1 I get to start using the foot a little and #2 see what the plan is for the next phase! Who knows I may even get out somewhere this summer! Meanwhile you and the others will just have to build more to keep me entertained!
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Super glue that has turned into super goo? Have you tried gluing some spare stuff, (Not on the ship) and used accelerator?
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Possibly I could donate mine to the build when I am done with it! Good catch Carl, I didn't see the resemblance.
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Is it possible the box on the light goes on top Jan? Either way it still looks good though, can't wait to see what is next.
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Great to see you and Daria able to make progress again. The ship is looking fantastic. I also like the view from your windows. I looks like you have found a very nice place to live.
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There may be a bent railing or leaning stanchion here and there if you look hard enough but I wonder how the real ship looked after a few fast turnaround winter Russian convoys, getting beat by waves higher than the ship and beating ice off of the upper superstructure with axes and hammers! That's to say nothing of coming along side a tanker and refueling and the possible damage inflicted to more delicate parts of the ship. I still say she is looking as she should and that is good!
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I would like to see that much extra as well. BUT $200,000 can go all to quickly also! I do admit it would be fun for at least a little while though.
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Nice to see you were able to do the work you hoped to get to Carl. Looks like you haven't lost your touch, the railings are all nice and straight and the jackstaff and flagstaff are just right.
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I agree. Is that considered scratch building in the card kit world?
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But you may have a dull person like me stop by now and then.
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In addition to the number of rafts needed for possible use by the massively over crowded ship there is that fact that if sinking it is possible that more than half of them would never be deployed by passengers or crew. In early 1942 the USS Houston was struck by gunfire and multiple torpedoes. While she was sinking she did not go down extremely fast yet time and time again the accounts state that the crew jumped overboard with nothing more than what they were wearing witch in some cases were not even life jackets. Some rafts were launched, and others attempted to get more over the side but if you notice they tend to be a bit large. more than just a few can handle. It appears that many of the people who were able to get onto rafts did so after the raft was already in the water and they swam to it or were dragged by others. I think many of the rafts just floated off as the ship sank.
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You mean you don't have a hole mobilizer in your tool set? What kind of modeler are you?
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All those details make one wonder what it was like being stationed on the Graf. She only had a custodial crew of forty according to some information. One would think it would be like wandering a ghost ship.
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Kind of like camels in a way. Modern "Ships of the Desert". I have not really read any accounts of modern tank engagements but many of the WWII tank battles between Rommel and Montgomery read much like actions between ships at sea. If you saw "The Key" in the theaters you must be even older than I am, or had a very mature movie interest at a young age. I was 9 when it came out!
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Great picture as always Jim. I have always liked the Assurance class tugs. You could have also painted the mad dash by the Dexterous to rejoin her convoy while engaged in a running gun battle with U-403! That would make a different but absolutely authentic painting also I think. For another source of what being on board a Deep Ocean Rescue Tug in the North Atlantic was like, there are some scenes in the 1958 movie "The Key" some where about midway through the movie there is a series of shots of the tug maneuvering in reasonably heavy seas and it is some pretty impressive footage. They used the HMS. Restive (W-39) for filming. The story is OK with William Holden acting like himself, and Sophia Loren doing much the same and can drag at times, but I personally thought the first time I saw it on late night TV that it was over all a good movie. I eventually found it on DVD for just a few dollars and added it to my collection of old, (1950s-60s) British war movies.
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Can't speak for others but I always find your builds interesting and well executed. For some reason there are a number of older posts on this build that have not shown to me when I look in. I don't know why this happens but I have noticed it with other postings that I may have followed if I had seen them.
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Happy dance time Steve. I was hoping that you would get good news on this!
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No missing pictures here either, but like Denis and Jan I had no idea it was being built as no updates showed up until today when the entire build appeared out of nowhere as finished! I have no experience with card models but this one looks very clean without some of the squared off edges so many card kits seem to have. I am pretty much certain that is as much a result of the skill used in building it as in the model design. Great work Dan
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Reading Carl's reply to your railing methods on using the double stanchions made me think of another possible method, assuming that you wanted to really punish yourself. You could remove the vertical arms of the second stanchion and just use the remaining "washers" as a surface to glue against the stanchion that has already been positioned. That way only the ball section of the joining areas are double thickness. I'll go back into my corner now!
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I said pretty much the same thing when my son from my prior marriage whom I had not seen in years showed up at the door with a three year old boy and asked if we wanted another kid! That was nine years ago now. Hard to believe. Today I would not change anything. They are all special to me, the kids who are now grown and the grand kids I'm still raising.
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Nice work and results for both your build and especially your wife.
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Wow! Five all at one time! I can match you at five, (All boys in my case) but we spread them out over 50 years and never had more than two at the same time! I always thought my way was kind of dumb, but I don't have any idea how I would have survived doing it your way! Great looking family though. How many years ago was that picture taken?
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That is one way to hide a Walrus scout plane. They will NEVER look for it there! It is interesting, and kind of sad, that they didn't include more below decks detailing in the kit to work with.
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