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Lets see................. about 25' long by 4' wide in 1/32 scale! As for parts...........? And that's only part of the ship! You have to remember that the Akron an Macon were almost the same length as the Bismarck battleship!

That would be even cooler! The work to build the "landing" trapeze would be a pretty involved scratch build though.

Building the Sparrowhawk would give you a lot of options. They were chosen to be used on the airships because they were so small and light compared to the other choices the navy had. The Sparrowhawk pilots were responsible for developing the scout pattern that was used throughout the rest of the years where ships carried fixed wing scout planes that allowed them to fly out beyond the horizon on each side of the ships baseline course and find their way back to the ship. While they were carried on board the airships, (Except the Los Angeles) the crews started removing the landing gear at the fuselage and stowing them for the remainder of the time the aircraft was on board. this made them lighter and faster but also allowed the installation of a teardrop fuel tank where the gear had been for increased range. Gives you another option since yours has the trapeze installed. What is the decal in the sun trick? I am not familiar with that.

Like everything else for Ford that year it was not supposed to have happened. Ken Miles, Ford's leading test driver in the GT40 program had won the Daytona 24 hours in a GT MKII, placing Ford as the first three cars and Gurney as one of the drivers in the second place car. For Sebring he was put into a modified GT40 roadster called the X-1. Ford didn't want the roadster to win as he had no interest in promoting that style of car and Shelby didn't want his two lead cars destroying each other by constantly competing for the lead early in the race. Miles was told to do nothing more than keep up. And keep up he did. At the end of the 12 hours it was Gurney, Miles, and Donahue in the Holman Moody MKII entry in 1, 2, and 3 position. Donahue was several laps behind, Miles was not! Then Gurneys engine failed, Some say gas, others give other reasons, but the net result was the same, Gurney found himself in the lead coasting toward the finish line with no power! If he had done like he did in winning the 1962 Daytona Continental and used the starter motor to pull the car over the finish he probably would have been #2 car. But instead he got out and started pushing. This act disqualified him. Miles was shocked when he came around the corner in the last lap and all of the sudden was #1 again for the second major endurance race of the year. The third time for Miles should have been in the 1966 LeMans where he had been leading for most of the race, again in a MKII. If he had won he would have been the first driver in history, (and only one) to have won all three races in the same year. But again he was told to slow down. This time to allow Bruce McLaren in the #2 car and the Holman Moody car to catch up and make it a "Photo finish" 1, 2, 3 for Ford. So in the last lap Miles and McLaren were neck in neck on the same lap and the Holman Moody car was just behind. At the last second McLaren could contain himself no longer and punched it going over the finish line just in front of Miles. Additionally The rules people said that his car had traveled 22 feet further than Miles car as it had started further down in the #2 spot in the starting line. (LeMans start). Miles died in testing the "J" car, the predecessor to the first American made Ford GT the MK IV, a few months later so he never had a chance at winning all three again. Gurney went on to win LeMans with a record distance covered the next year in a MKIV.

If they are in dust proof plastic boxes then they are not "Dusty Relics" Still could be shown as "Older PRIVILEGED models though.

I could be wrong, not that uncommon, but it looks a little more like the Hornet to me. Doesn't seem to have the right looks for the Yorktown. Admittedly the stack of the forward destroyer is blocking the bow so it could be possible either way. Greg knows where he got the picture possibly they identify it there.

I suppose it is only a matter of time before someone takes an engine like this and develops a PE set that has push rods, rocker arms, cams and crankshaft, along with all the other stuff needed to make the internal working of the engine. After all it is 1/24th or even larger scale not 1/350th! At that point it would be a crime to hide it under a hood in a assembled state!

PM sent This should be interesting. It will be a little like being a ghost wandering the dark hulk of a sunken ship. Like I already said this amount of detail in a set of plans is not required for building but is almost as interesting as the build itself. At least to me.

I think there may be a lot of drawing that we have not seen yet. The expansion tanks may be located much closer to the actual boilers further forward, under stacks one and two. The only drawings that I ever got that were this detailed was the set I got from the Smithsonian for the USS Panay years ago. Made building the Oahu, (Sister ship) much more enjoyable when you knew what the different structures contained.

It's almost a shame to have to assemble that engine and hide all that internal detail. I'm almost surprised that it didn't come with a PE head and manifold gasket set!

You should start a new section Jack. Call it the "Show us your old dusty relics". Even after thirty years yours are looking pretty good. I would be worried that the string you are using to hold them up would fail over time and they would be coming down to certain destruction!

Thanks The only problem is the word "BUILD"! I have been a bit preoccupied with some news we received over the holidays and even though I am certain that I have had the time to work on it I have not been in the right frame of mind. I have to satisfy my building desire with the work of others such as yours. Kind of building in spirit so to speak. Hopefully soon things will settle down and all will change and I will make all of you suffer through my measly attempts, instead of being a pest with my comments in your builds.

After you clean them use some of the Future you bought and spray them then cover while they dry. Should end up crystal clear.

Hi Rodger While it seems to me that you are describing a heat well, where the used condensed steam and water from the boilers is reheated and recycled back into the boilers, isn't the forward fresh water system in the plans pretty much a duplicate of the after fresh water system where they condense fresh water from sea water for replacement of water lost in the almost closed system of the ship's power? Sorry Dan not trying to high jack your build.

Same here, just looking at pictures and speculating!

Another nice job Jack even if it was done under a "Need-to-know" clearance level! I think it looks even better in the gray than it would have in the black.

Yeah there is that. Oh well just consider where the idea came from!

Hi Dan It looks like there are a number of vents that all terminate in or close to the after stack. The drawings are a little cut off, but it appears that the after pipe that runs externally up the after portion of the stack is primarily for the ventilation of the after desalinization machinery for drinking water. I think the forward one may terminate at the forward boiler makeup fresh water desalinization equipment room. Most of the smaller pipes seem to be for bathrooms and washrooms and possibly kitchens, along with smoking room and battery room, where there will be toilets, sinks, and showers or baths along with other vapors that one would want to vent from the ship. in the case of the water fixtures, just like in any home, all of these fixtures would need vents to prevent being sucked dry when draining and allowing fumes to back up into the various rooms involved. No fun in a home or a ship! The tanks in the stack probably supplied great pressure by the time the water got back down to the lower decks. Do the plans show any more in other locations on the ship? It would seem that the small tank shown would not supply enough fresh water for drinking and washing etc. Flushing was probably saltwater. Interesting view into the inner working and requirements of the common ship that we never really address or even get to view. Thanks for the look.

So now we know where you have been hiding Jack. Turn our back for a few minutes and you are not only building a new model but you are finished with it! The dauntless was one of my first endeavors into model aircraft as a kid. It was the old 1.48th Monogram 1/48th series and had folding landing gear and bomb release along with movable dive brakes. Of course at that age I built it and then played with it as well. Probably even made aircraft engine noises while building it. At any rate it has been one of my favorite aircraft ever since and it is nice seeing yours. I especially like the extra weathering between the cowl and the cockpit. Looks very realistic for a plane heavily used from carriers and island runways, hopping across the Pacific, island to island. Congratulations

Heck I could have saved you a lot of trouble. I have a pill that I have to take that looks exactly like that. Have a ton of them in fact! Great looking anchors. I especially like the ring, turned out quite nice.

There you go Carl! Using high end Dutch words that none of the rest of us can understand!

I am sure you are right, as you have done the research and I have not. Maybe it is some kind of small auxiliary steam engine(s). I know that many ships had them for powering electricity running some pumps, distilling salt water, and things of that nature. Normally they were four to six feet tall double acting piston engines. Most of those I have seen were strictly single piston, (Recovered from scrapped Liberty ships) but they could have been almost any type of engine.

Hi Dan Your work as always has been impeccable to say the least. I suspect that with the pictures you have supplied and the shape/vents of the superstructure, that only the first two funnels were actually functional as such. The third, like the last funnel on the Titanic, was added for status and only housed piping and stuff like that In the last picture it even shows a ladder and hatchway entering into the funnel just above the air circulation openings.

Here are a few more in the same series as CDW posted on. https://www.toysoldiersdepot.com/store.php?seller=thedustyloft&Tsearch=1/72 pirates&per=6&pd=8245937&num= https://www.toysoldiersdepot.com/store.php?seller=thedustyloft&Tsearch=1/72 pirates&per=6&pd=8245937&num= https://www.toysoldiersdepot.com/store.php?seller=thedustyloft&Tsearch=1/72 pirates&per=6&pd=8245854&num=6 All in 1/72, you could mix and match the normal guys and the zombie guys. For that matter you could add the Warhammer figures Carl shows and make it a really mixed crew. Did you paint those figured Carl? They were really well done. I did some similar figures when the kids were into board games about 1.5 million years ago and I don't think any of them were as nice as that set.

Could you say that out loud where my wife can hear? She is totally convinced that I am pretty much useless except as a bad example! The ship is starting to look much more populated, with doors, portholes, railings and all that kind of stuff everywhere you look!