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Great work as always, The darkened brass seemed to work out for the best. That Jedi mind trick you used on your wife seems to be working quite well. She is seeing them everywhere. Now all you need to do is when you drop one get HER to find it!- 449 replies
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Phantom Henry J Gasser by jct - FINISHED - 1/24 scale - PLASTIC
lmagna replied to jct's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I almost hit the like button, but that didn't seem the right response. So just let me say my heart is out to you and I hope you can get it back to where it needs to be. -
Just find some old foam packing from the last electronic gadget you unboxed and stick them into that to hold them while painting. You can also do like some here do and use putty or clay and do the same thing. If you don't have foam available, my last laptop came with no foam packing at all! just shrink wrap and cardboard, then go to your nearest house construction or similar location and pick up a small scrap of preferably the blue foam they use in house insulation. The pink works as well bit is not quite as dense it seems. As a last resort you can buy a sheet at your local home store or go around back and pick up scrap white foam that hey are throwing away. A little dumpster diving at some locations but they normally have a BUNCH to get rid of. I have built entire hulls that way in the past so picking up what you need should not be much of a problem. I think that after I got the foam, I would just throw the railings in solvent and strip off what is there and after sticking them in the foam just spray them with a rattle can. You can even pick that up at the home store when you are getting the foam. You don't really need model paint at the scale you are working at.
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I have that same kit only without the added PE. It looks like it is a really nice looking model right out of the box. I bought it as a companion for my type IX, (That I like better than the type VII) and my Trumpeter Gato's. I agree, it will make a killer diorama even though if you make the seas as rough as in the picture I doubt you will want to have the hull open loading torpedoes! Have you considered an underwater diorama with the snorkel and periscopes up?
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Phantom Henry J Gasser by jct - FINISHED - 1/24 scale - PLASTIC
lmagna replied to jct's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
It's always interesting when you get to read "the rules" that the owners were always trying to get around. In the Sports prototype cars of the 60s it was stuff like having to have two seats, dated back to the cars carrying a mechanic, having to carry a spare tire. The only person allowed to touch the car on the open track was the driver. It was up to him to dig it out if it went off the track, or pick up lost body parts and get them back to the pits for the mechanics to fix, (See Bruce Mclaren 1967 Le Mans) Flying body parts,flat tires, coil falling of causing the engine to stop mid lap. and that was only part of his day! Chaparral having to drive two extra laps without engine coolant so they could get enough laps in to allow them to put coolant in the broken radiator. And best of all, (Not at LeMans) Dan Gurney having to push his car over the finish line when he had been running well out in 1st place. He still ended up with a DNF as the car has to cross over the finish line under it's own power! They had much better rules in the beginning of the CamAm series of racing. Pretty much no rules! -
Inquiring minds are anxiously awaiting! Whatever it is it will be a challenge to beat this one! Great job.
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It would seem that Trumpeter is doing that with the new 1/200 Titanic they are reportedly releasing this year. People who have seen it say it will be the most accurate Titanic ever released. CDW is probably also right in that the plastic companies trade all kinds of stuff back and forth and Revell has been selling kits mad by others for years. Look at the Black Pearl that OC is building.
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Looking really nice Denis. Have you started looking for a 1/25th scale Delorean for it to push yet? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Aoshima-Back-to-the-Future-Delorean-with-Marty-Figure-1-24-Model-kit/132983834258?hash=item1ef6744692:g:DygAAOSwAdhca1Tn https://www.ebay.com/itm/Model-kits-Aoshima-Back-to-the-Future-Part-3-Delorean-with-Railraod-1-24-SB/273311694136?epid=1637572011&hash=item3fa2a57d38:g:ZoEAAOSwqm1bKxx7
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Wow John! I knew of the hit and damage from books but I have never seen it pointed out. Your post made me look for more and instead I found this: The Imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S Sussex. 1945. Thanks.
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I think you will find the warm white is best anyway. Almost all lights look yellow when viewed from a distance and the warm white mimic that color. The short battery operated lights with 10 or 20 lights only cost a couple of dollars or so. They all seem to come from China though so you may have to wait for a couple of weeks. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=fairy+lights+battery+operated&_sacat=0&_sop=15&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1 Having said that, you may want to buy a set or two of the battery operated white strings. I bought a couple of strings of 20 light warm and white to use as test light on the 1/350 Titanic I am working on for my wife. I discovered that in the case of the over 800 portholes of two sizes in the hull it will take more light to get it out than I anticipated. I think I will need to do a little reaming on the inside and then either paint the inside white or even possibly silver. For Nav lights I thought I might be able to paint or in some way color the bulb with red or blue to make green and hopefully a reasonable red color. an alternative would be to replace individual lights in the string by soldering replacement colors where needed. Red for the bridge interior would also be appropriate I think.
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The least expensive option is the Christmas or Fairy lights that are available all over the place. https://www.ebay.com/itm/YIHONG-2-Set-String-Lights-8-Modes-50LED-Fairy-Lights-Battery-Operated-16-4FT/264238952018?epid=20027810493&hash=item3d85de6e52:g:EEsAAOSwoG1cimdq They come in a number of colors, some are remote controlled, and some also have an AC converter if you don't want to rely on batteries, and they fit almost anywhere.
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I had forgotten about that battle. I always thought it was convenient that they keep a museum ship fueled with a few live 16" rounds laying around like a floating minuteman. Oh well it was still fun to watch.
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I think I agree with you. I always wondered what would have happened at the battle of Samar, (Battle of Leyte Gulf), if Halsey had not fallen for the Japanese ruse and rushed off in a wild goose chase and had in fact met up with the Yamato. I know that the Missouri had better gun control and radar but the Yamato had those huge guns. One can not help but remember though that the Missouri was hit in the side by a Kamikaze and it barley scratched the paint! (No really, they say that she still carries the dent). A more contemporary adversary for the Bismark or Tirpitz would have been the USS Washington or North Carolina. To be honest even though the battle may have been more equal I think the Washington would have still won.
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Really not trying to hijack the build but while it may not be on your list of loved planes, and speaking of faster than a bullet, here is an interesting story. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a27967/the-fighter-plane-that-shot-itself-down/
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I have also always had a love for the YF/SR along with the U-2. There is something about a jet powered glider and a plane that is faster than a bullet in level flight. As a by-the-way, my ex-brother in law used to work on the SRs and had a few stories. I suspect you may have little idea of just how fast they really were. A number of years ago here in Everett where they restore the aircraft used at the Boeing Museum, they used to have, (and may still have for all I know) a nose section of a SR that had crashed. It was just the cockpit and nose, no wings or engines. They had it mounted on a scaffolding and said that they took it around to different shows and allowed kids and others to sit in it and take pictures and stuff. As back then the tours of the restoration hanger was a one-on-one experience, my kids and I got to sit in it and somewhere around here I have the pictures, (No digital back then). They also have a YF12A in the Seattle location, almost the same.
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That will make a pretty interesting model. No one hears much of step hulled hydroplanes any more. They were pretty much just non flying seaplane hulls, or floats without the aircraft. Not as fast or stable as three point hydroplanes but FAR more classic and probably better in rough water.
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Just stay out of the way of the geese when the goslings are young. We once had a guy who used to chase the ducks with his 40 pound RC tug. Got a real kick out of it. He would even occasionally chase the two mated pair of geese as well. But one day he chose to chase the geese after their goslings had hatched. The geese went NUTS! They not only pecked his boat but raised up on the water until their legs were just touching the water and beat the boat to death with their wings. They ended up breaking the mast and some of the railings, almost knocked the main cabin off and there was a bunch of water inside by the time he got it in. Much more than a turkey baster worth! We gave him a bad time about the "Battle of Goose Island" for years but he never tried chasing them again.
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I think you MAY actually have a larger, if not stranger hoard of models than I do!
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It would seem that it would depend on where the ship was located and how active she was. Warmer waters should make marine growth a bigger problem. Sitting at anchor or at a dock rather than being underway would also promote a better marine growth environment I would think.
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I will PM you the list so you can compare it with what you have available. You may not have access to the higher abrasion formulas where you live. The list is a bit long.
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Phantom Henry J Gasser by jct - FINISHED - 1/24 scale - PLASTIC
lmagna replied to jct's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
If I remember correctly that is pretty much what they had to do. The only problem with that was that until until 1967 with the MK IV, the GT 40 was English designed and made with American engines. They were a direct descendant of Eric Broadley's Lola MK 6, a 1963 design. As the MK 6 was equipped with a 289, Ford hired Broadley and bought his Lola to design the GT40. Broadley was never really happy working for Ford and did not agree with the concept of the GT 40 so when his contract ran out he designed the Lola T 70 and later the T 70 MK III. Most people say that the MK III was the car Broadley felt the GT 40 should have been. There is no doubt in my mind that if Broadley had the same money and support that Ford had his MK III would have cleaned the field for at least the next few years before engine size limits were imposed and the Porsche 917 K came into it's own.
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