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  1. lmagna
    So now it makes sense! When you told me about this model I thought that you were talking about another car model build! The "Dukes Of Hazard General". Now I know it is a locomotive. Time for me to stock up on some hot chocolate and enjoy the ride.
  2. lmagna
    Great work Craig Just a couple of notes if I may. The normal prop for most tugs of this type would be a four blade prop not a three like supplied in the kit if I remember correctly. Also while the main deck and sides/bulwark are often worn and even dented in the case of the bulwarks especially around the stern where they are quite often very close to ships and barges and such. The upper works on virtually all tugs are kept pretty pristine as a matter of company pride.
  3. lmagna
    Well I have to categorize myself as an idiot again. Picture #3 kept bothering me as what ship class/gun was being shown behind the 50 cal mount. The one four stack WWI/WWII ship that had open mount guns mounted on the deck edge with triple torpedo tubes mounted a deck lower that I did not consider was the obvious one! The good old WWI four stack destroyer! The large gun is a 4"/50cal and is located on a raised deck area amidships between stacks two and three. That makes the torpedo tubes look like they are located a deck lower but they are really located on the main deck. In addition the searchlight platform is a open framework, again matching the destroyer. The boat davits also are in the proper location. All was not lost though I also found these additional pictures of the watercooled 50: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/theovervalwagenforum/photoessay-on-clemson-class-dd-armament-t1514-s40.html Scroll down a little and there are a number of pictures including #3. If you want I can delete all of my other meanderings from your build log Tim so it will not be as cluttered with all my drivel.
  4. lmagna
    Thanks semore Mark Do you think that coating with glue/water softens the flag enough so that it is not as stiff as semore's method of folding the dry flag over the glue/foil?
  5. lmagna
    Protecting intellectual property is common in industry but I am not certain that five years would be enforceable. A couple of courts have even balked at two years.
  6. lmagna
    That is a new use to me.
  7. lmagna
    ????????????? Are they good? Always looking for new menus! We pretty much use the words spud and potato interchangeably here in the US. Or at least I do.
  8. lmagna
    They may have both been staged #3 almost certainly so as the torpedo tubes are also deployed on the deck below indicating that the ship is a cruiser. If it was a heavy cruiser then all of the torpedos were removed on US heavy cruisers in the early 30s, Much regretted by some crews in the early stages of WWII when coming up against Japanese cruisers that not only had torpedos but reloads for them as well. The three stacks also visible in the picture also indicate that the ship might be an earlier design possibly even a protected or armored cruiser or other pre Washington treaty light cruiser. The crew uniforms could also support this. If it is a 5" gun it appears to be a 5"/51cal open mount and that again would support an earlier design even though the outboard open deck location would support a later non-casement style of vessel. Hate to bounce around so much but on closer examination it could be a 3"/50, ( which would in some ways make more sense both in placement of the .50cal mount and the style of ship. The blast from a 3" would be considerably less than a 5". As an example the light cruiser Marblehead was armed with 3" guns, had triple torpedo tubes, and several water cooled .50s. The stacks are not quite right as her stacks were two stacks, space, and two stacks but everything else matches. MUCH more pertinent to your build is that in the same picture the .50 mount seems to have shoulder rests like on a 20mm rather than the handlebars like on yours.
  9. lmagna
    Great look. Question though. If you had only put the foil on one half of the flag decal and folded the other side onto the back side of the foil would it have been too thin to hold the wave shape after molding?
  10. lmagna
    I knew there had to be a name for that! I suspect that it is more like "Military, (Insert language of choice) to Civilian, (Again language of choice)". At least I hope guys all over the world are not better behaved than us more primitive Colonials! I also prefer massed potatoes! Piled high with LOTS of butter, possibly some gravy as well.
  11. lmagna
    I was once told by someone, I don't remember who, that the use of cuss words is just a sign of someone who is uneducated and does not have enough command of their native language to properly express themselves. I have struggled with my language attempts ever since. My eventual goal is to vent for at least two minutes without ever saying a cuss word. I had a drill sergeant who could almost do it. He had the ability to belittle you for it seemed an eternity without ever saying a swear word. To top it off he only stood about five feet tall!
  12. lmagna
    My wife wouldn't even notice it if all I said was "Block It". I have lived most of my adult life in much more crude environments than you I suppose and if I bother at all, (Which is somewhat seldom) my choice of words tends to be a little more descriptive. Your choice of words reminds me of Winnie The Pooh and his "Oh Bother". It does remind me of the first month or so after I came back from a year overseas with no women in sight and found I could no longer talk at all in mixed company!
  13. lmagna
    Nice work Tim. I personally think your .50s are better than the cast 20s anyway. Not really related to your build but I can't help but wonder about your picture #3 where the poor fifty operator is working so close to the 5" 25 AA guns on a cruiser! Those guns on many occasions were noted for ripping off the fabric skin on the SOC float planes that were located much further away just from the gunblast if the planes were not launched before opening fire! One can only guess what it was like standing that close to the business end of 5" gun firing every few seconds!
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    I'm kind of the same way. But on the other hand it will kind of be a shame hiding all that interior and framework. I have kind of the same issue if I was to build my Sikorsky S-43. It has a full cockpit and passenger interior but once you put the fuselage halves together you will never see it again.
  15. lmagna
    Just the hazards of battle OC. Just consider that she took a round through the rigging and they had to quickly splice a replacement and tension it into place to give the mast proper support. Tell your Sailing Master job well done!
  16. lmagna
    So are you going for clear or opaque?
  17. lmagna
    That is funny, (But I must admit a little confusing) You are not only building the same ship and are almost at the same stage of your builds but now you are sharing build logs!
  18. lmagna
    Here are some pictures of the Long Beach taken a few years ago. You need to scroll down the page a little. https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?1555616-WTco-s-Philip-W
  19. lmagna
    I am of course not Kurt, (He is better looking and obviously smarter than me) but the part you are pointing out in your picture is a vent I believe.
  20. lmagna
    That's the one. The Long Beach! Itt had been so long I forgot what the name was! I didn't do much more than replace the rudder with a Kort nozzle made from a slice of white plastic plumbing. That made it manuver better than it would have with a rudder. I even kept the plastic prop, but I did glue it to a piece of brass rod for a shaft. Then I disassembled one servo and used the motor as the drive motor and the remainder of the servo electronics as the speed controller. The other servo was just a standard servo and four AA batteries for power. It was pretty simple really. Oh I did make a plastic combing around the inside of the opening where the cabin sat as there wasn't much freeboard as is typical of tugs. You are right, using micro servos for at least the rudder would make things a little easier weight wise. Either way you need to replace the bow bumper with something other than that plastic thing in the kit!
  21. lmagna
    Kind of upsetting in away. Close examination of many of the details on this model shows that the Minicraft Titanic that I am building now for my wife is of course inaccurate! After drilling about 800 portholes I am relatively familiar with how the Minicraft kit is set up. This model, and the color film that follows, show that the older 1/350 kit has MANY accuracy issues that at least in my case will just have to be lived with! There is NO WAY I am going to back track at this point and alter 100s of portholes to make it right! It does look that it will truly have the potential of being a magnificent model though!
  22. lmagna
    It's been doing well enough to get a bunch of oohs and aahs from everyone who has been looking in! Just another example of how good your model is. It stands proud even when using a poor camera!
  23. lmagna
    Nice to see you taking on this kit. The last time I built it was about twenty five or so years ago as a 2 channel RC boat. Had a lot of fun with it for a couple of years pushing larger models around on the pond and towing small barges. Then one day a guy was hot rodding around the pond and ran right over it and down it went in about fifteen feet of very murky water! Bought another kit to make a replacement but never got around to building it. I do think that the new decals are way wrong though. This tug design is VERY American, even possibly very east coast American and I don't think there would be much chance of seeing that design in London. Someone from the other side of the pond may have better information than I do though.
  24. lmagna
    I'll just wait to congratulate you for when you post all of your trophies!
  25. lmagna
    Truly a build to be proud of. I really enjoyed following along and looked forward to the next installment. I will probably now be going through withdrawal!

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