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I'm not THAT old! Besides you didn't ASK for gloss red!!

Just a big "Bird Farm"

It looks a little bigger than the table to me Denis! Yves may have to put an extra leaf in! And paint purchased by the gallon!

I think you were just looking for a way that you could keep your middle finger extended and not be held responsible for it Dave! It's funny, (possibly not the best word) how every time we do these stupid kinds of self damaging activities we keep saying that we will use the scar as a reminder not to do it again, yet, at least in my case, always seem to sooner or later find another, or in some cases the same, way to inflict yet another wound or injury on ones self. Hope you heal soon and don't have to wave that stiff middle finger around too long.

Sand blasting sand should do a great job even though it may be a little harsh on your polisher as well. An extra pIus is that you can get it from work! I kind of wonder how Kitty litter, or what ever you may call it where you live, would do?

I don't know if your tumbler system is the same as mine Sam, but mine not only cleans the brass but coats it with a lube to assist in resizing when you get to the reload stage. I think I would be more inclined to clean them with a chemical. If you don't want them to be black and still don't want to paint them you may want to try this formula: https://www.sciencecompany.com/Patina-Formulas-for-Brass-Bronze-and-Copper.aspx#1 With some practice it may give you the brown color you are used to with the wooden pins.

The 12mm look fine to me. (For what that is worth) It is about the same size as the wooden pins.

Those are great looking davits Steve. I think I would have preferred davits made from brass with a one piece deck shoe that could be pined to the deck, but like you said 32 is a daunting number. As for the awnings, I think that you will find that almost any materiel other than tissue will hold up OK under normal pond conditions if your frame is solid. Painted silk span or hankie weight Nylon will also do just fine. Now all you need to do is locate a dozen enjoyable looking women dressed like Rosie the Riveter!

Great work and another milestone reached!

Sorry to hear about your wife's latest tests. My wife also has had kind of the same thing. Lost one kidney then three years latter part of the other to cancer. All has been well as far as the cancer issues until last Christmas when on her annual checkup they found two growths. One on her remaining kidney and the other next to her spine behind her heart in a hard to get to location. Several MRIs, CAT scans and a bunch of stuff later and they determined that the one on her kidney was just a cyst, but were unable to determine what the other was without a biopsy that was a little touchy because of the location. They were able to do the biopsy successfully and the day after I shattered my ankle two weeks ago, in fact at the same time I was in surgery getting it repaired, she got the answer that the other growth is not cancer! It is actually even stranger, but that is a story for another time. She was there when I woke up with good news and I wish the same for you, without the broken ankle!

No.......... You just voluntarily lock, (Commit) yourself away in the "work room"!

Just think Dan !4000 people is probably ten times the number of bodies the ship was designed/certified to carry. Plus you need to add the number of crew to that and I believe you said something about enlarged power requirements in one of your earlier posts. At any rate in bodies alone 14000 98.6 degrees makes a lot of heat that needs to be carried off! On the other hand in the case of influenza, I am pretty sure the fans carrying all that air around added to the higher relative humidly that is also caused by all those extra people breathing was nothing but a almost perfect breading ground for the Flu.

Agreed But then you have to be careful with photo, (Zerox) copies of color photos these days as well. Unless the lens has been treated for the color shift red will look just as dark as black and blue will sometimes hardly be visible. Yellow usually comes out OK as a lighter gray. I once saw a copy a guy did where he took a felt pen and wrote on red paper. When he photo copied it, the whole paper came out pretty much black with no visible writing.

Morning Craig I hesitate to enter any opinion at all as #1 I am no great artist at weathering or camouflage at all, and #2 Lord knows I have NEVER built any kind of WWI aircraft at all. Please take that into consideration. I looked up the color scheme you listed and came up with this: If this is correct and I am not having any color issues with my computer it would seem that the speckling is much finer and the overall coverage much browner than what you have in the pictures above except on the nose cowling, wheels, and rudder surface where it looks like there is no camouflage at all. Would it be possible that you may need to use a finer, (Scaled down) sponge or possibly a large artist style brush with small bristles to get the proper coverage and effect you are looking for? I normally wouldn't say anything as you are a true master at this kind of stuff, and I really know nothing, but this time you seemed a bit dissatisfied with the above results.

I hate to admit it but think I may have the same or more. I may only have 75-80 cars but I also have many duplicates bringing that number up to something over 100, so I could make a different car or year by just changing the color and decals. Then I would need to add aircraft, a few armored vehicles, a bunch of steel ships and a few more wooden ships, both in plastic and wood. Then I could add my Sci-Fi kits, and X-Plane models. I also have a few figures in 1/8th or 1/12 scale or something like that. I have a full box filled with ship plans. Warships, sailing ships and working ships. I have no idea when it happened or for that matter how! I just went into my storage one day and realized it resembled a well stocked hobby shop!

Glad you like the idea. Makes me feel at least a little useful, instead of only being useful as a bad example as my wife likes to remind me! Still having the vision at all after 10 years is an accomplishment all by its self.

Hi Sam Great looking work. If they are too small for your already drilled holes you can always fill the original holes back in using toothpicks tree nail style Then you should be able to re-drill new holes at the size and spacing you want. After you drape the excess rigging over the pins you will never know where the original holes were let alone how big they were.

Send them to Patrick.

Not really trying to compare, at least not in my case. Other than to say that our "new" system is not really any good for the majority of people, especially those at the lower income level that it is supposedly designed for. Now days instead of not being covered, all to much of the coverage offered is ineffective as it does not cover the things it should. This is especially true with the dental coverage available both through Government and private sources.

WOW, that was fast. I think I will get a Kindle copy. Not only do I find electronic books easier to read sometimes these days, but my 1918 print is getting a little brittle and I am a little afraid to use it to refresh my memory. Much of my WWI reading dates back over 30 years ago and I tend to forget some details, without some memory refreshment. Thanks for the link.

I agree with Mark Either that or International Orange. Either way I like the color. Is the larger CID engine a flathead as well? Taking up my seat, I see that you left my drink and nameplate right where it was when I sat here for your last build.

Oh I have no shortage of excuses! The latest is a doozie, I will probably be able to milk it for a few months at least. But then if I was making headway on my own builds then I would have less time to follow the fantastic builds you guys are doing and I am so jealous of. Right now I am content on watching my betters produce works of quality that I am following in spirit rather than trying to match in person. Hopefully things will settle down by the end of summer or sooner and some other crisis will not appear from nowhere and distract my building desires further.

You are probably right. Instead of the crashing and booming it was probably more of a flushing sound! In the case of the the 5th battle squadron it is interesting to see the different inputs about their placement and effectiveness in the line of battle. One might also consider the state of the Queen Elizabeth class of battleships at the time of Jutland. They were a new ship in design with a new gun and system. (15"/42) Even though they were called "Fast Battleships" they were only faster by a couple of knots than the standard line Dreadnought, and still much slower than the Battlecruisers. Even though their guns were the largest, and possibly the most accurate present at Jutland, as already stated the shells were brittle and tended to break up rather than explode when hitting armored targets. Not a good thing when using AP rounds. This deficiency was discovered at Jutland and corrected by 1918. At the same time they also were able to out range many of the German guns during much of the battle. A wonderful book called "Naval Power In The War (1914-1917)" By Lieutenant Commander Charles Clifford Gill USN, was written in 1918 but according to the forward contains material that was published in 1917 and used in the US Naval Academy as early as 1915-16. I have no idea if this book can even be found, but I have found it to be an excellent assessment of the guns, tactics, and results of the British naval battles of WWI, written by someone who was there, but had little or no ax to grind in the political upheaval that followed, as he was not even British. Even though it was written from notes made at the time and was finished pretty much before the American entry into the war and therefore kind of hard to call a history it is a fantastic addition to books that came later and may have had the advantage of more hindsight but were further removed from the actual incidents.

If unfinished projects is now the gauge for longevity, then I am pretty certain I am destined to live forever! Add the taxes they charge me each year that they would miss if I'm gone and I am almost certain the Government will keep my body functioning as long as it is less expensive than letting me die, even if I only exist as a vegetable. I am almost certain that I am the sole source of revenue for some program or another out there!

Nice organization sheet Ron I did the same for my Sports Racing/ Can Am cars, except I have a lot more of them!