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YOU GET TO have fun for doing the dishes!!!!!! I have been doing the morning dishes for years now, along with getting the kids breakfast, and off to school. Plus I took her morning coffee up to the bedroom in a cup and thermos so she can watch TV until 9 or 10 while sitting in bed! I don't get any offers at all! Well maybe after all this is over there might be a silver lining and when I pick up my duties again she will think more of me. She already had a short dose of having to get the bills out on time. I think she was able to do about two of them before I got back home. She actually said something to the effect that I wasn't quite as useless as she thought I was. I almost fell over!

Yelp they look like a neighborhood mob with their colored spiky hairdos looking for someone to mug! I have no idea what size the cranes are but if the skull is left over from your last siege and is anywhere close to life size they are pretty large, (And like all your work impressive) I bet they look like landing trees to the Couch Back Gang.

You got that part right! I am a prisoner of my own habitat! I hope it is not like the Roach hotel. "They check in but don't check out"!

I think I am starting to worry about the medications I'm taking. Take a step out for a short time and the build goes from a chassis and box and then starts looking like a Batmobile then suddenly morphs into a full blown Coke mobile, all red and fast looking! People are still saying that the frame is going to rust out though in less than 100,000 miles! I will wait to see what's next but meanwhile I will return to my drug induced stupor! Great work Denis, At least I think it is still Denis.

Nice progress and workmanship OC. I step out for a few and you just keep moving on down the line on things that need doing.

Stop reading for a few days to handle a few things outside of MSW and you have the ship half done! Great work Peter

It's really just a conspiracy by your parents to get you over little more often................ and to clean up after the birds! Maybe things will change and you will be able to try the home thing again down the road.

So it is true that an old dog can at least learn new information. I had no idea that model railroading had reached that level. I knew that some people had installed VR cameras in their trains, (Something I always wanted to do on my RC ships.) But I had no idea of the DCC system. Makes sense though. Just send the digital signal down the track and each loco has it's own decoder. The only part I wonder about is accidents where trains get into conflicts in complex layouts like the one at your club.

It's nice to at last see some of your cars Ken. Do you have a layout as well?

At the price they charge for these sets of PE the lack of basic instructions seems almost criminal.

Well some would possibly say that the CVE could be considered as the tin clads of WWII.

I believe it is still an active facility used by Goodyear Aerospace. My info may be like me though, a little dated.

Nice start Jim One thing is for certain if you continue painting from this era and location there is an almost endless supply of subject material just in the "Tin clad" ships. It seems that every one of them was unique in some way or another.

Hi J Another nice build. I have a question on the headlights though. I am pretty much clueless when it comes to anything dragster beyond the fact that the driver hits the GO button and pretty much keeps it there until the car appears at the other end. Are the red headlights some requirement for the class, or just decoration? Either way they kind of add evil intent with the black paint job.

AT least you have a degree! I have one of those things they call an AA degree. Basically that and $2.50 or so will get me a cup of coffee. I just put it away along with all of my other unmarketable skills many years ago. I think the worst offenders are those people with MD at the end of their names! When my son was going through Med school he was constantly throwing unpronounceable, and unspellable words out there just to prove he was smarter than the rest of us common people. Why use "Flu" when "Influenza" or even better "an acute febrile illness" is available?

Hi Tim I have been using these: https://www.amazon.com/American-Fishing-Wire-Diameter-100-Pieces/dp/B003GYMERY/ref=asc_df_B003GYMERY/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312061152211&hvpos=1o4&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11767427002966322518&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033346&hvtargid=pla-492350125199&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=62138615036&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312061152211&hvpos=1o4&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11767427002966322518&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033346&hvtargid=pla-492350125199 for years. They come in assorted sizes and if necessary you can make even the smallest even shorter by cutting it in half or shorter prior to crimping.

So how do we deal with "gluing" and 'glueing"?

I agree with Patrick, that your planking looks fine for the stage you are at this point. It will look much better when you have sanded it down. If you are going to add a second planking it will look even better. I think you are being far to critical of your own work much too soon.

No I'm pretty sure it was original poor building. Each time plastic broke it was replaced with brass, each time a glue joint failed it was either bolted or soldered. In my last move about nine years ago I built a shelf about five feet from the floor of the basement. The design was weaker than I thought it would be and came down along with all the ships! When I saw what had happened I thought all I would have left was trash. But surprisingly all of them survived with really little damage considering what had happened. Given a few weeks work all of them could be made at least as good as they had been before the fall.

Hope this translates well for you! The house looks like it might have a shaky foundation! Fun looking kit.

What you my discover Steve, is that an RC ship is NEVER finished! Any and all weak areas will soon make themselves apparent, some possibly more than once! You will have plenty of opportunity to do things different. Or possibly I'm just a lousy builder and navigator and it was just my ships that needed constant updates, improvements, and repairs.

I have of course no idea of your age Jim, but I think your work is plenty good enough to make up a 81/2 X 11 portfolio, and I know for certain I would be buying at least one copy!

So it appears that we probably won't be seeing a 1/32 Akron, Macon, or Los Angeles coming from your shipyard any time soon have you kept the Sparrowhawk out? We don't see too many 1930s Naval fighter builds. I agree the prewar colors are kind of neat. I have a 1/72 Sikorsky S-43 (JRS-1) that could be done in the same colors. Or as a Pan Clipper, or................?????

The Lakehurst hanger was used for building and later housing the Shenandoah and later the Los Angeles. The Los Angeles was of course sister ship to the Graff Zeppelin and was built in Germany. As LTA hangers go it is dated and a bit old and really not well suited to the larger Akron/Macon or even larger Hindenburg airships, but all of the US ships used it at one point or another, as it was really all that was available on the east coast. The hangers in Santa Anna never housed the larger rigid airships to my knowledge, but could and did house multiple smaller blimps during WWII. The Goodyear Airdock in Akron Ohio was built to house the Akron and Macon while they were built. The picture above has to be one of them being built in that hanger. It is larger than the other hangers listed and is one of the two hangers build with the unique rounded ends that made them larger and at the same time reduced wind velocity around the ends of the buildings. I don't believe the Akron hanger was ever used as an operational base for the rigid airships but I could be wrong. The main west coast base/hanger was Hanger One in Mountain View, CA. (Moffitt Field). It was built too late to ever be used by the Akron but was the primary base for the Macon. It is said to be the largest open supported building in the world and is large enough to house not only the almost 800' long Macon but another just like her at the same time. I think I have a picture in one of my airship books that shows the Macon and Los Angeles inside at the same time. This is the Macon. I think the smaller blimp looking item floating further forward on the left is a Helium surge/fill tank not a blimp. I could be wrong though. As you can see it makes the Goodyear Airdock building in the above picture look small! Oh yeah, as a by-the-way the aircraft hanger on the Akron was mis-designed and structural frames interfered with the use of the two rear storage locations, so she could only carry three aircraft at one time. Two stored and one on the trapeze in the middle.

I think I would have had to at least had to pretend interest long enough for a "Test" flight. To say that I had actually done it would be a bucket list kind of event. Most of the time they fly those "small" model airships or blimps indoors. The largest airship model I have presently is the Hawk Graf Zeppelin that I would modify as the Los Angeles. I would LOVE to have a Macon in the same or even larger size.